I’m not an authority figure, but I can tell you that bbPress is turning into a WP plugin.
So bbPress does have a future; steps have been made to do this. Release date is uncertain though.
Not sure what is going to happen when bbPress turns into a WP plugin in BuddyPress.
I think BP will adapt to fit this new incarnation of bbPress when it comes out.
What is uncertain is the people who use bbPress w/o WordPress. Is there going to be a standalone version of bbPress in the future? That’s the question.
I’ve built a website using wordpress and want to add a discussion forum. Looks like bbpress will do it, but I’m new to building websites and could use any help I could get. Are there spelled out instructions anywhere??
Here is my bbPress resource page 
http://blog.ashfame.com/bbpress
does the admin link show up when you login?
if no, try this http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/09/fix-lost-admin-access-bbpress/
and if yes, then try loggin in from bbPress and not from WordPress
I crated a mobile plugin for BBPress but have not had the time to release it as a standalone plugin. You can see it at:
http://www.berryreview.com/forums/index.php?ak_action=accept_mobile
It is totally based on Alex Kings Mobile Plugin for WordPress so I am not sure if I am allowed to release it. Let me check.
When I do have a chance to release it you will have to edit the theme to fit your site. Let me know if there is any interest.
I dont know why, but I’m not able to access the Admin panel. My bbpress is integrated with wordpress and it worked after installation. I haven’t modified the bb-config file either. Yesterday, I was able to get to the admin panel by clicking on the IP address in a post. Now that doesn’t even work. What do I do?
That’s cool, Gerikg, thanks for contributing.. I personally did not need to change any of the bb_auth_key etc, just copied the settings from wp-config.php to bb-config.php (forget about trying to input them in the bbpress install, it’s hopeless), plus the bbpress integration plugin for wordpress, and it worked right away…
It’s hard to tell with your path removed there, but assuming bbPress was installed properly (it’s not a plugin for WordPress) it seems to me that something was not uploaded completely. This is the first time I’ve heard about this problem.
Presumably if I changed (or removed) the spelling of the codes in the names (not that I will), it would break and any info people had put in previously would be lost.
Only if you changed the name of the value. i.e.
'first_name' => array(0, __('What do they call you?')),
should be fine, as long as the first_name stays intact.
And I’ve increased the number parameter at the end of your add_action(‘extra_profile_info’, ‘add_descriptions’,15); – even I could work out that was important.
That number is the priority that the function should get in relation to everything else that’s loading on the page. Read about that here: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action
My code, btw, was at point got from this forum somewhere, so I can’t take credit for it. But it shows that anything in the functions.bb-pluggable.php file is easily replaced or manipulated.
We’ve got Super Search (http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/super-search/) running on our forums, and it locks up the database when a few people are using it, and particularly if they’re doing an “all time” search.
On the http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/04/talkpress-and-bbpress/ page it states “The architecture behind WordPress.com demanded that we make bbPress play nice with the HyperDB extension for WordPress. This neat database load-balancing and redundancy tool is now fully compatible with bbPress. So if you want to run your bbPress site with redundant MySQL databases in multiple datacenters then that’s possible now too. bbPress now has a pretty enviable set of advanced options for MySQL connectivity.”
So we’re looking at running HyperDB to offload the search to another database. And I presume future version of BBp will support hyperdb. Has anyone got this up and running, was it easy to set up? Were there any problems I should know about?
It was in the Step 2 while I’m installing bbpress
Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Auth’ not found in /home/’my-path’/bb-settings.php on line 970
FYI. it’s in a sub directory of wordpress2.8.4
How could it happened?
What part of _ck_’s post did you not understand? That was the post I was going to point you to.
How do I display bbpress topics from a specific category in wordpress?
I read over _ck_’s method, but still have no idea: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration
I just want someone authorative to tell us what the hell is going on. I don’t care about these community outreach or involvement discussion. Just tell me if BBpress has a future in any form or not. All I want is a open source forum that integrates easily with WordPress.
I don’t care about the development direction BBpress is going to go. I just want to see movement.
Matt needs to just ignore the entrenched, political, and vocal community members; make his own decision what is going to happen; and let us know. We’ve wasted months of development time with IRC and forum discussion that go nowhere.
If BBpress is dead just let me know so I can move on.
Your server is running out of memory. That doesn’t normally happen on a default installation. What plugins or modifications have you added, if any?
You can request more RAM from the server (or host) but it would be good to see why this is happening.
Also, did you integrate with WordPress? That’s an error from WordPress. Additionally, did you install bbPress as a WordPress plugin? It’s not a plugin for WordPress.
Need more information about your setup please.
I’m not clear on how buddyPress’s progress impacts the bbPress project? I use bbPress for its message boards functionality, and don’t really want all the social functionality of buddyPress. So whether or not they use the latest bbPress doesn’t really affect me.
From what I understand, bbPress is moving in the same direction as buddyPress – it is becoming a WordPress plugin and will use the same theme as WordPress. So in that sense, buddyPress’ efforts here are a proof-of-concept for bbPress’ path?
Trying to understand how this development means any of us are wasting our time here!
I find your main article on bbPress + WordPress integration seriously lacking (it cost me an hour of puzzling and experimentation). Once I got it, it was a 10 minute job. Suggest you update with this article:
http://wordpressacademy.biz/2009/12/installingintegrating-bbpress-and-a-script-install-of-wordpress-into-the-same-database-for-sharing-users/
Jane@wordpress (who i love) has just written a new blog:
http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/buddypress-for-one-and-all-3/
buddyPress now works with singe installations of WordPress (rather than MU), and has most of the backPress nonsense taken out. It now also fits into your theme automatically, AND can be administered from the WordPress admin panel.
I don’t know about you, but i think that sovles the 3 most common issues people ask about on this board.
Given all the hacks that Andy and the buddyPress team had to make to get bbPress1.0 into buddyPress, and given that they’re unlikely to do it again for 1.1 (as the functionality added is already in buddyPress thanks to WP functions), does anyone else feel like they’re wasting their time here?
Hello,
I’ve recently installed bbPress and followed all the instructions during the installation to allow bbPress to work alongside of our WordPress website. My concern is that it does not seem to have successfully integrated as I cannot access bbPress admin area, neither by the link on the forum or by the WordPress admin area in settings, there seems to be no type of connection between the two. Also when I tried to delete a post, it actually doesn’t, it just stays there.
Did I do something wrong? Help is appreciated.
paulhawke, that sounds like a bug if true (WordPress warns you when you try to reuse an email). Please file a ticket at trac.
Hello friends.
is there a way to disable the wordpress integration but keep the bbpress users?
now bbpress users are coming from WP DB and are not stored in BBpress DB.
I want that all the users from WP DB will be imported to BBpress DB.
is it possible?
I agree but it doesn’t happen to serve out that small glitch of dashboard access.
Will get back on the subject after this weekend vacation.
Either way, don’t think it really matters.
Personally i’ve found that pointing my post form towards WP is better because if something is going to change/break in a future version it will happen in WordPress long before bbPress. People are patching/plugins/writing-guides on how ot make bbPress work with WordPress not the other way around, so i stick with the strongest/most stable software as my login base. But really, thats just me being careful; i shouldn’t matter 
Why would we want to redirect everything to WordPress, its bbPress’s dashboard which becomes unaccessible when we login from WordPress side?
If we would want to redirect everything to bbPress, then it could be avoided else the small glitch will continue.
Any thoughts?
