“My concern is that by making bbPress a plugin of WordPress, it’s DRASTICALLY moves bbPress away from the original goals because we already know that 1) bbPress would be *more* code, 2) much more complicated, 3) definitely slower given you have to load now WordPress and 4) fundamentally, this is not putting the user first.
Just my 2 cents … also, thanks in advance for answering my questions above “
I agree, making bbpress a plugin to WP is not in the best interest of bbpress. If this happens, our existence and success would be contingent on wordpress. The moment bbpress becomes a wp plugin, we are no longer a forum solution but rather a wordpress forum solution and we limit ourselves to just that.
Works! Had the same problem of WP & bbPress login knocking each other out but followed the steps of gerikg in this post and somehow overlooked (or wasn’t clear enough to me) these:
1. (re. step 4) make sure you prefix the KEY variables with “BB_” when copying to bb_config.php (AUTH_KEY => BB_AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY => BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY=> BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY …)
2. in bbPress WordPress Integration (under bbPress Settings) copy in the values into 3 fields of Cookies directly from the keys that were generated for you (WordPress “auth” cookie salt = AUTH_SALT, WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt = SECURE_AUTH_SALT, WordPress “logged in” cookie salt = LOGGED_IN_SALT) (do not get the values from clicking on the link WordPress admin page, where I couldn’t find all the values anyway)
bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. It’s a standalone software package that you need to install, separately from WordPress.
WPMU is a little different
Try these steps.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/login-integration-issues-bbpress-and-wordpress-mu#post-62274
Someone I was helping said that php5 must be used.
I would like to start discussion regarding a single sign on feature, and developing integration for other platforms other than just wordpress “joomla, drupal, etc” in order to open up the usability of bbpress and be less restrictive than just supporting WP.
conversion methods and tools for both CMS platforms and forum software conversion “preferably from “phpbb, smf, vb, vanilla” to bbpress of course ..
any ideas and suggestions are welcome
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Hi all,
my first test shows that the trunk version of bbPress breaks ‘BB Anonymous Posting’, ‘Post Meta for bbPress’, ‘Human Test for bbPress’ and ‘bbPress-WordPress syncronization’.
And the new “Login-Less Posting” doen’t work in my installation.
So I will do more testing tomorrow … 
I added that bit to .htaccess and it doesn’t seem to have changed anything. Perhaps it takes time to take effect? Here’s what my .htaccess looks like:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.:]+.)*chengduliving.com/bbpress.?(:[0-9]*)?$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.chengduliving.com/forum/$1 [R=301,L]
# END WordPress
What did you do to integrate, which instructions?
Gautam, does this plugin still work by any chance?
It has a reference to “ed_toolbar” in the comments which makes me think it might be what they are using on the wordpress forums:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quicktags-4-bbpress/#post-36
I have been using WordPress for a long time and I finally decided to integrate BBPress into my WordPress blog. The integration worked very well and I was able to get the cookies to work correctly to avoid folks from having to log in twice.
The problem I am having has to do with the fact that I can no longer log out of WordPress. I have tried every combination of things I can think of and nothing has worked. This only started AFTER I modified the wp-config & bb-config to include the cookie information. If I remove that info from my wp-config file, I am able to logout fine but it obviously breaks the integration. No plugins are affecting this as I have already tried playing with disable/enable to solve the issue and it did not help. It definitely seems to be related to the cookie modifications.
Has anyone else had this same issue?
I need an SQL Query that will give me the user ID and email address of all the users who are in the following groups: –
Memeber
Modorator
Administrator
Key master
I have this query that gives me all my user (including user of my WordPress site that don’t have access to my forum)
‘
$all_users = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT ID, user_email FROM $bbdb->users WHERE user_status=0”);
‘
Oh.. also the USER name would be really good as well.. (sorry I forgot to add that to my original post)
Any help here would be awesome!
might i add, that the wordpress community would be extremely interested in bbpress integration, but we as the bbpress community should be weary of developing integration for one specific platform which will limit our abilities and success.
we should be focused on “as far as integration is concerned” single sign on, conversion tools to convert from other forum solutions, multiple authentication methods/ integration paths … for multiple platforms like
joomla, drupal, etc etc
granted there are more important things at hand to focus on so that list isnt in any way in any form of order.
1. Single Signon
2. Single Theme
3. Admin panel they recognize
single signon im fine with, but integration doesnt mean just with wordpress and it doesnt mean make bbpress a plugin
the bbpress community doesnt strive to be wordpress, we strive to create and use bbpress
making bbpress a wordpress plugin limits our success to wordpress
If a user of wordpress wants their wordpress theme to match bbpress, than that is up to the user to make that happen. If wordpress wants this to happen, then they can require that theme mods/devs include a bbpress theme so cross integration can occur, or there can be a wordpress bbpress theme converter that happens in the backend so installation can still be smooth with nothing hard to due but click install. But you should be asking yourself if its the goal of bbpress to look like and function like wordpress. If you look at any online software, usually the most asked for features are single sign on, bridges, and authentication integration “as far as forums go”
when bbpress is made a wordpress plugin, we are no longer a forum solution but a wordpress forum solution, and the development and success of bbpress would be contingent on wordpress.
“There are already so many standalone forums out there for non wp users, so it just makes sense to go this route.”
integration is key, making bbpress a plugin doesnt make sense for bbpress.. it makes sense for wordpress. The moment bbpress becomes a wordpress plugin, we are no longer a forum solution but a wordpress forum solution and we limit ourselves to that.
“When you go down this road you eventually get to the point of Drupal – amazingly vague and configurable database, slow because it’s got to be all-things-to-all-people and … well … yeah. I would rather not see either WordPress or bbPress end up there.”
i agree 100 % .. if i may give a few points of interest
the future of bbpress shouldn’t be contingent on wordpress
Im all for integration, but integration doesn’t have to be just for wordpress and integration doesn’t mean plugin
If bbpress is made a plugin to WP, then that will bring stipulations of future development which isnt good for the community
The bbpress community doesn’t strive to be wordpress, we strive to create and use bbpress.
solution, integration can still occur, by having a wordpress plugin for a “bbpress install” which will help to install bbpress alongside and integrate certain things “these are yet to be agreed apon”
integration with other platforms are just as important, bbpress should not be focusing in on one platform “wordpress” but instead be focusing on integration for multiple platforms “joomla, droopla, openid support, changing database authentication methods, etc etc.”
Making bbpress a wordpress plugin makes our success directly tied to wordpress and will cause conflict with development with wordpress integration taking precedence.. which is great for wordpress, horrible for bbpress.
also, IMO a plugin that uses plugins “bbpress as a plugin for wordpress that also uses plugins” seems weird to me.
When users register on my bbPress installation, they receive a URL to login. Except the URL to login is the bbPress install location, not the URL of the bbPress install as it sits inside my WordPress site design. How can I change the URL in that e-mail?
If that wasn’t clear, here’s what I mean. The registration e-mail is forwarding users to http://www.chengduliving.com/bbpress but where I want them to go is http://www.chengduliving.com/forum
Thanks!
It’s definitely going to be a trade-off to go from a standalone software to a wordpress plugin, but I don’t think there’s very much choice. There are already so many standalone forums out there for non wp users, so it just makes sense to go this route. Connect blog comments to forum threads, and you got yourself the next evolution of the blogging community.
My experience of the WordPress codebase extends to version 2.9.1, I cannot speak to what is going on with version 3.0. Matt said something about bbPress being hosted on a page using a WP short-code at one point. As far as I know, there is no facility for page slugs to handle wildcards (from what I have seen). If you wanted to host bbPress as a plugin using a short-code on a WordPress page, it’s my guess that you would need to have different short-codes for the front page, topics page, views page, single topic, etc. Either that, or you recode the entire bbPress GUI to be Ajax based and run on a single page in-place. Somehow you need to extend the WordPress roles to encompass the bbPress side of the house.
When you go down this road you eventually get to the point of Drupal – amazingly vague and configurable database, slow because it’s got to be all-things-to-all-people and … well … yeah. I would rather not see either WordPress or bbPress end up there.
It it’s favour we can strip out a large portion of the codebase that deals with preferences, users, filters, plugins, themes, sidebar widgets and so on. We gain a lot from the main WordPress codebase but its worrying the “bloat” that comes with that approach.
Liz, I deleted your post here since you have another in the other thread which I replied to. Tony has long left the building.
As a newbie to BBpress I have only one thing to say: I sure hope this project get’s some devoted people behind it! I really like the software and would love to see it become just as populair as wordpress is!
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@Olaf
That would pile up even more work. I would probably go forward and extract the code in bp-forums of BuddyPress and make a WordPress plugin to integrate bbPress forums.
There is so much work to create a full featured forum from bbpress and maybe it’s better to make it a WP plugin…
