[Transmutator]

Folks, I have been trying to get bbPress to fully integrate into my WordPress site for like weeks. I happened up a gentleman who had it figured out. He sent me his notes and I am giving them to you here. One word of caution, even though I followed the instructions carefully, I still don’t have it working – this doesn’t mean his instructions are incorrect … just that I am not skilled enough to figure out all the elements.

His name is Adam Kayce of Bright Coconut. I hope you enjoy his instructions and they speed you toward full integration (and then if you have time, come help me!).

Integrating the Theme:

I have a link to my forum in my global nav by creating an empty page with a slug that is the same as the directory name as where I have bbpress installed.

But I also load the wp-load.php file in my bb-config.php file

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

if ( !defined(‘DB_NAME’) ) {

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wordpress/wp-config.php’);

}

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // your wordpress db prefix is

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.trashfilmorgy.com/wordpress <http://www.trashfilmorgy.com/wordpress&gt; ‘;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.trashfilmorgy.com <http://www.trashfilmorgy.com/&gt; ‘;

Then I went into my bbpress theme and changed every instance of bb_get_header() with get_header(), and bb_get_footer() with get_footer().

Since I want to have my wordpress sidebars show up in the forum, too, I also added get_sidebar() right above the call to get_footer().

I could also add other sidebars, too – the theme I use adds two columns below the main content area and uses the dynamic sidebar functionality to add them in to each page. I could see how adding other or more sidebars and going in to the templates could be really useful.

From : http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-ican-i-integrate-my-bbpress-forum-into-my-wordpress-layout

AND

to remove the ‘Log Out’ link: kakumei/logged-in.php – delete the function

if using bbPM: go into Admin area, copy function, uncheck box, and paste function in logged-in.php where you deleted the old function from

AND

to get the backslashes out of apostrophes:

1) open up /bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php

2) replace line 1074 with:

return stripslashes(apply_filters( ‘get_topic_title’, $topic->topic_title, $id ));

3) and line 1782:

return stripslashes(apply_filters( ‘get_post_text’, $bb_post->post_text, $bb_post->post_id ));

[Transmutator]

Question – Why not simply make bbPress themes/templates function like WordPress themes?

I have been trying my darnedest to “integrate” bbPress into my client’s site (www.awaketeahouse.com -ask and I’ll give you a membership) but the sidebar won’t go where its supposed to go and, though I have managed to get the theme ported over it won’t collect or remember user login information. (I know this is cookie stuff but I’m currently burned out.

So, rather than going through all this rigamarole to fully integrate it with my main site, if I could simply add my main site’s theme to bbPress then, at least it would easily look the same. Then there’d only need to be a plugin in bbPress/WordPress that connects the users from WP to bbP.

[gerikg]

Sometimes it’s a plugin in bbpress or wordpress that causes that. usually a cache program

[chrishajer]

If it’s returning a blank page, I think that means you’re getting a Internal Server Error code 500. If you take that line out, can you use bbPress?

[zaerl]

wp-load.php is just a file that contains WordPress code and doesn’t echo anything.

[jakshi]

I created my wp-config.php and bb-config.php with examples from wp-config-sample.php and bb-config-sample.php .

After every upgrade I check for changes in wp-config-sample.php and bb-config-sample.php .

So, as I understand, AUTH_SALT and others *_SALT don’t needed anymore.

[kikko088]

hi at all, i want to integrate bbpress and wordpress, i put “require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-load.php’);” in my bb-config.php but the retrn is a blank page, bbpress is in a folder inside wp folder.

where is the problem?

thank at all

kikko088

[evilgeek23]

kevin , i said i will use that DOMAIN , not that website …. i use that website for testing any php scripts i code… my wordpress blog is local currently ….

and btw , signatures aint workin in 1.0.2

[Anonymous User]

Hi together,

in my working integration between WordPress and bbPress I’ve the following cookie keys matched:

WordPress:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’,’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

bbPress:

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

Evtl. you need the Salt Keys too?

Without the Salt Keys my old installation doesn’t work, in my new (fresh) installation it worked without the Salt Keys.

Markus

http://www.bbp-forever.de (beta)

[ekitel]

My cookie keys match between the 2 configs. I didn’t have the COOKIEPATH definition in bbpress, only in wp, so I put that in but still no luck.

I have wp installed in a sub-directory so my statement is: define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/blogs/’);

I just tried another test install without sub-directory and that won’t work either!

[jakshi]

Check wp-config.php and bb-config.php closely. May be you forget something to do.

Did you cut to 32 chars BB_AUTH_KEY = AUTH_KEY, BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY=SECURE_AUTH_KEY in wp-config.php and bb-config.php?

I have working cookie integration now.

My wp-config.php (without comments and passwords)

<?php

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’);

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘wpuser’);

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘StrongPassword’);

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ‘utf8_general_ci’);

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’);

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

define (‘WPLANG’, ‘ru_RU’);

if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )

define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);

require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

?>

My bb-config.php (without comments and passwords)

<?php

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’ );

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘wpuser’ );

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘StrongPassword’ );

define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’ );

define( ‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’ );

define( ‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ‘utf8_general_ci’ );

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ’32charsalphanumerickeys’ );

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

define( ‘BB_LANG’, ‘ru_RU’ );

?>

There are a lot mention about problem with cookie integration wordpress 2.9.2 and bbpress 1.0.2 .

So you are one of the many

[chrishajer]

WordPress mentions creating the database first, in (2) here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Install

Their docs are a lot more comprehensive than those for bbPress.

[chrishajer]

The version is in the admin back-end in the footer. Are you looking to find it somewhere before you install it? When you download it, you select with version you download, correct? How did it come up that you needed to know the version and did not?

Good point on noting the need to set up the database first. I wonder if WordPress overlooks the same thing?

[chrishajer]

No one knows at this point.

[honestscott]

Hi,

How hard will it be to upgrade to the WP bbpress plug-in (when it’s ready) from the standalone bbpress 1.0.2 installation?

[ekitel]

I have a wp/bbp integration where I recently upgraded both from previous versions to wp 2.9.2 and bbp 1.0.2. I was able to get them to share accounts so you can login to both with the same passwords but I can’t get the cookie integration working at all. Logging into one doesn’t automatically log you into the other.

I decided to do a fresh install of the latest versions of both to see if that would work but I’m having the exact same issue. I tried cutting the salts down to 32 characters as suggested above but still no luck.

I installed the bbpress integration plugin in wp but that’s not helping either.

I’m wondering if there is some incompatibility between wp 2.9.2 and bbp 1.0.2?

This is on a dreamhost server, and it all worked well before I tried to upgrade.

[zaerl]

Actually I use bbPress and WordPress on the same database on two of mine BBSs and one in separate databases. I found that the first solution is way better.

1) you can backup easily, as you said

2) you can access everything with just one phpmyadmin session

3) moving and restoring is simpler

4) using automatic db tools is simpler

5) import/export is simpler

6) database-wide operations (table analyze/control/optimization/repair) is simpler

[Milan Dinić]

I need to make bbPress forum to one WordPress installation and I want to ask other users what is in their opinion better solution for bbPress’ database: should it have separate database or to use existing database of WordPress?

Untill now, I used separate databases, but I found one reason for using only one database: WP plugins for automatic backup of database could then backup bbPress’ tables too. I don’t know for any similar plugin for bbPress.

Your experiences?

[brandongroce]

Great! Thank you. I had included the load file previously when I was attempting integration and having issues w/ cookies. I have since found a plugin that handled the change in cookie format with my later version of wordpress and the inclusion of the load file now works great. Thanks again for the help!

~Brandon

[chrishajer]

You can include bbPress (bb-load.php specifically) in your WordPress config so you will have access to bbPress functions there.

Or, if you just need access to that one function, you can try something like this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration

[brandongroce]

I really need my forum tag cloud visible when my users are on the wordpress side. I need to call bb_get_tag_heat_map( $tags, $args ) specifically. Anyone have any suggestions on how I might achieve this?

Thanks in advance –

[chrishajer]

Some good discussion of the various forum packages and solutions for WordPress

http://dougal.gunters.org/blog/2010/04/21/wordpress-as-a-forum

http://themehybrid.com/community/topic/a-forum-that-runs-off-wordpress

[chrishajer]

I don’t think so. Simple:Press is definitely a WordPress plugin. I suspect it’s due to licensing issues.

But, Simple:Press is a WordPress plugin. bbPress is not.

[chrishajer]

That’s the plan, but that’s a long way off. For the foreseeable future, bbPress needs to be installed separately from WordPress.

[chrishajer]

What are you trying to get a link to? There are topics, then there are posts (replies actually) which are just anchor links in a topic. There’s no such concept as a single post in bbPress that I know of (unlike WordPress where you can display a single post with single.php)

What are you trying to do? Maybe post an example of something here that you’re trying to link to.