[Xevo]

Not possible.

WordPress and bbPress are two seperate things even if you could widgetize your bbpress, it would take time to let the wordpress plugins work as widgets in your bbPress.

[truthlighthouse]

Hello,

I am currently working on figuring out BBPress and one thing I was wondering about is if it was possible to add sidebars similar to wordpress where I can drop a widget in there and put an add in that widget. Also I could put other things in there such as maybe a links section (like blog roll) or Nextgen gallery. I guess what I am really wanting is to be able to have the forum look similar to my wordpress site. Any ideas or know how to do something like that. I know practically no PHP so it would likely have to come in the form of a plugin or theme that requires a drag and drop mechanism similar to wordpress if possible.

Thanks

[truthlighthouse]

Scratch my last part about the admin panel not looking like wordpress. It does. It just had a weird login screen at the initial part. But now it looks like the good ole wordpress dashboard….even on the free server.

[chrishajer]

Ah yeah, good point. I saw the #wcsf code sprint, but figured it was WordPress only. I saw in Matt’s state of the Word that he was sort of burned out on bbPress. Nice to see someone interested in it again.

[truthlighthouse]

It took way too long to find the necessary instructions on how to install on Godaddy. The instructions listed with the download of this software was not sufficient. When people asked questions, it had an issue resolved there, one resolved here, but nothing complete. Finally I got it to run so I thought I would share a complete instruction manual on how to do this.

First, I would like to point out that I installed it on their free hosting service if you buy a domain name through them. However you can install it on their paid hosting service the same way I am pretty sure. In fact, I installed it on their free service for now while I test things and will install it on their paid hosting service in a bit so I can edit this if it turns out to be different.

1) download BBPress. Unzip it.

2) Log in to Godaddy services. Click on the Home tab at the top left -> the sub-tab hosting -> then click on hosting under the “my products section” on the left. If you have already bought hosting or had the free version set up, you should see a list of your domain names that are set up for hosting.

3) Click on manage account next to the domain name you wish to install this bad boy on.

4) The first thing you need to do is create a database. So click on databases at the top and then mysql.

5) The click on create database on the upper center right.

6) Type in a description name (maybe forum or blah or whatever)

7) Type in the same thing in mysql database user name box

Type in a password that you can remember and then retype it in in the next box. Skip the last three boxes and click ok.

9) It will take forever and a day for the database to set up. Not really but maybe 20 minutes. In the meantime, lets go ahead and load the files onto your godaddy server. So click on the content tab at the top next to the databases tab you just selected and then click on FTP client.

10) Scroll down a bit and you will see two side by side panels. On the left is your desktop. On the right is the files on your domain name. Even if you just set up the hosting service, there will be files already on there.

11) Now you have two options. Do you want to install it at http://www.yourdomain.com/bbpress or do you want to install it directly on your main domain name http://www.yourdomain.com? If you want it directly on your domain name, then you need to transfer all the files within the downloaded folder from BBPress and not the actual folder with all the files in it. So in the left panel, you will navigate to your BBPress folder and double click it to view the contents. When you see all the files within that folder, hold the control key down and select all the files and folders within that folder. Then hit the little arrow in the center that points to the right which should move those files to the right panel and onto your domain name. If you wanted it at the http://www.yourdomain.com/bbpress, then just upload the actual folder with all the files in it versus opening up that folder and moving each file over individually. Also, you can rename the folder BBPress to something different and it will give it a different extension on your domain. For example if you renamed it Forums and loaded the entire folder onto the server, then you would have http://www.yourdomain.com/Forums.

12) Now we need to change some information in there. But first we need some information from the database you set up early. Probably it is still not set up yet and is pending setup. To check, click on databases tab at the top and then mysql. It will be listed as “setup” or “pending setup” under the status column. If it is pending setup, then grab some popcorn. Once it is ready, click on the pencil icon under the action column and you will then see the host name. It will likely start with yourdomain and then some numbers and dots and other stuff. Copy it.

13) Now click the home tab at the top.

14) Then click on the big button called “your files” under the tabs at the top.

15) Now locate the file that is called bb-config-sample.php. Check the box next to it. Then click edit at the top. A new window should pop up.

16) Scroll down and change BBDB NAME to the name you gave your database earlier. Change BBDB user to the same thing. Change mysql password to the password you set up earlier (if you used caps, you must use it here too). Then change mysql hostname (which is probably currently listed as local host) to the name you copied just a bit ago from the database pencil menu that had numbers and dots and other stuff. Then hit the save button at the top left.

17) Now this step, I forgot to do and it still works. I was just building a test site anyways so I will fix it when I attempt to load it to my real site. But you need to change the name of the file you were just editing. You should still have bb-config-sample.php still checked. Up at the top, click rename. Rename the file to bb-config.php. Essentially you are just dropping the -sample part.

18) Now navigate to your domain name where you installed the BBPress.

19) It will prompt you with the installation (or should). It will tell you that it recognizes that it is the first time and needs to be installed and then ask you to proceed. You will then enter all your information including database name, mysql user name (which was the same as the database name), and the password (with the necessary caps if you used them). But ONE PART THAT IS HIDDEN AND NEEDS to be adjusted is in the advanced section. So click the little check box. Now paste that host name you copied earlier with numbers and dots and other stuff. Now proceed onwards.

One thing I noticed is that I would proceed through the installation process at that last part and it would revert to the beginning again. I think this was because I was hosting it on Godaddy’s free server and they put ads at the top which was causing it to loop. After several times (probably 5) of clicking the buttons over and over again and retyping the information, it finally worked. Also the login screen is very basic on the free server. I don’t know if this is normal but I will let you know when I try on my paid server. But it was my understanding that the dashboard of the forum should be similar to wordpress. Maybe that is after integration between the two. Not sure.

Anyways, hope that helped. Thanks

[Mark McWilliams]

Yeah, cool, somethings happening!

Could it be Matt himself, I read we could be looking at bbPress 1.1 RC very soon!

[Geekaholic]

Thx, hab das gemacht und es hat funktioniert

[Samara]

I just applied the fix listed above (here: http://bestservedcold.com/news/bbpress-and-wordpress-magic-quotes/comment-page-1 ) on line 632 of wp-settings.php hash out $_POST = add_magic_quotes($_POST ); and it works on all new posts. I am wondering though if this will cause issues with any of the other plugins or the way wordpress itself functions.

[vanesta]

I saw from wordpress showcase (http://wordpress.org/showcase/slashgear/) slashgear.com is using wp+bbpress. can anyone tell me which theme they are based on?

http://discuss.slashgear.com/

[Anonymous User]

Hi Geekaholic,

you moved the phpbb user to the bbPress user table (e.g. bb_users). The users are still there. After the user integration you must copy the users from bbPress user table to the WordPress user table – and also copy the user_meta information.

If you had some WordPress users before the transfer form phpbb to bbPress/WordPress – it is possible to merge the users by hand. I do this within the phpMyAdmin.

Markus

[Geekaholic]

Hi,

I’m using phpbb3 right now but want to move to bbpress. So I installed bbpress on my server and was able to import all the posts and users from the phpbb3 to the new bbpress forum. Everything worked great. But now I would like to integreate the wordpress user database with the bbpress database. When I’m using this build in integration method, all the users I transfered from phpbb3 to bbpress disapear…

does anyone know how to fix that or is the bbpress user databye deleted by integreating it to wordpress?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Sandar,

If you’re using StationPro, a premium theme, then I’d suggest asking in their forum’s first. BaseStation, the company behind StationPro, claim that all their themese are bbPress compatible, and indeed sell bbPress themes which should work with the WordPress theme.

BaseStation also, out of the kindess of their hearts, will sell you a bbPress component to make it all work (side effects include: it still may not work as you’d hoped and loss of $50).

Either way though, bbPress is not a WordPress theme nor a Plugin, and should not be placed in the WordPress theme nor plugin directory. Hopefully it’ll all work for you after that.

Take Care,

Kev

[kikko088]

U found this topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/load-bbpress-into-wordpress it can be a solution but when I put require_once(‘/bbpress/bb-config.php’ ); i recive a blank page…

any solution?

kikko088

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

[logart]

@Xevo Hi, Thanks.

Here is that info:

wordpress: 2.9.2

bbPress: 1.0.2

bbPress Plugin for WP: 1.0

Here are the keys that are the same in wp/bp:

BB_AUTH_KEY = AUTH_KEY

BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY = SECURE_AUTH_KEY

BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY = LOGGED_IN_KEY

BB_NONCE_KEY = NONCE_KEY

In PB’s settings I also have:

* WP’s auth_salt

* WP’s logged_in_salt

Both set to the WP values.

[ghiboz]

Hi, in my server I have wordpress installed with the permalink active and works fine,

I tried to do the same thing with bbpress but after the server returns a permission error…

maybe due that bbpress is installed on the same website that wordpress and wordpress consider /forum as a page and this crashes?

thanks in advance

[michaelmongeau]

@ashfame: Thanks for the fix. That did the trick.

[foxchx]

no i mean adding multiple forum “main theme”

sp far all i have as the ability to ad topics…. which is very weird as that’s exactly what wordpress is create topic (post) and discuss them…

i am just trying to figure out what’s the use of such setup… if i can’t add forum, it’s kinda usless to have just a bunch of topics that can’t be sorted…

check out the pick (how do you post a picure in bbpress??)

http://yfrog.com/10111111ohj

[Terranb]

Yep, I have it integrated with wordpress. I’ll give those fixes a shot.

Is there anyway I could add them without hacking core? Maybe as a plugin? This post (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/slashes-being-added-in-front-of-apostrophes#post-12563) suggests adding this:

if (function_exists('wp_head')) {

// or another check to see if WordPress has been included

add_filter('get_topic_title', 'stripslashes');

add_filter('get_post_text', 'stripslashes');

}

to the “WordPress Integration” plugin. Since that plugin is in wordpress, not bbpress it didn’t seem like it would work, but I tried anyway and nothing. One person said it worked. Where might they have been adding it?

Then there is hacking core files, which I’d rather not do since it makes updating more difficult.

[kikko088]

ok but I want that the user put also other information…

I don’t like the wordpress profile manager, i prefer the profile manger of bbpress than i want that all user access only to bbpress profile manager.

[kikko088]

my bbpress and wordpress ara just integrating, if i’m login with wp i’m login also with bbpress, but while the registration with bbpress the user must insert name, email, site with wordpress the user must insert only a nickname and email…I want to menage the registration only with bbpress….I try to put the html code for login but there is a little problem, until the user isn’t logged in the sidebar there is the login form, but when the user login in the sidebar remains the login form instead “Welcome, user, ecc…..”

There is another way for put login form in the sidebar?

thank you

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

You should consider integrating both WordPress and bbPress to have login synchronization (loggin into one will make you login for the other too and the same goes with logout)

[gerikg]

You should have 8 keys total. Replace whatever you have with the keys from the “https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt”

[kikko088]

can I put bbpress login function on the sidebar of wp?so the user can be login on bbpress profile from a wordpress page…

kikko088?

[rich777]

just going through this.

“Go to your wp-config.php file and highlight line 45 (it starts with define(‘AUTH_KEY’)) to line 48 (starts with define(‘NONCE_KEY’)) and PASTE the new keys. You basically change your 4 keys to 8 keys.”

my wp-config file in the wordpress directory already has 8 keys here, so following your instructions means there is now 12, with some of them appearing twice. that can’t be right? i’ve just pasted the 8 keys from the wordpres site over the 8 keys listed in wp-config file.

went through everything to the T… i run the forum and get this:

Warning: Division by zero in /home/mysite/public_html/members/forum/bb-config.php on line 77

Warning: Division by zero in /home/mysite/public_html/members/forum/bb-config.php on line 77

Warning: Division by zero in /home/mysite/public_html/members/forum/bb-config.php on line 77

Warning: Division by zero in /home/mysite/public_html/members/forum/bb-config.php on line 77

Warning: include_once() [function.include-once]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/mysite/public_html/members/forum/bb-config.php on line 77

Warning: include_once() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/mysite/public_html/members/forum/bb-config.php on line 77

Any ideas?