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Hi to all,
I think that Automattic works increasingly on BuddyPress before developing on bbPress at the moment – yesterday has appeared the Second Release Candidate of BuddyPress 1.2.
The Trac shows BuddyPress 1.2 no longer in the originally planned schedule, but the official release will be soon. 
I can imagine that after publication of BuddyPress 1.2 the work will be focused at bbPress again. Automattic hopes for the big success of a Single Installation of WordPress (2.9.1/3.0) together with BudyPress as social network module.
Then – as we can hope – bbPress is the third component that will be integrated.
Greetings
Markus
BuddyPress is a series of plugins on top of WordPress MU… I don’t think that’s going to change. In fact, that sounds like the new plan for bbPress: to become a plugin on top of WordPress MU.
In terms of BuddyPress versus bbPress: BuddyPress actually uses bbPress code to power its forums. So using BuddyPress isn’t exactly walking away from bbPress… bbPress comes standard with a BuddyPress install!
In terms of what you use to power your sites, it’s probably best to choose your software solution based on your needs. If you want a social network with blogs thrown on top, BuddyPress is a good bet. If you want forum software with a plugin architecture, bbPress is currently the only game in town.
@tonicarr:
Haha, we must have been separated at birth!
RE: development activity and attention, your twitter remarks say it all. I know bbPress isn’t going to ‘die’ but it’s just so stagnant right now compared to BuddyPress and WordPress. It’s night and day.
Yeah, they are merging WP and WPMU. Smart idea in my humble opinion.
Hi,
I have a small problem 
Situation: I have a WordPress 2.9.1 installed / and bbPress 1.0.2 installed /forums/ of my website.
Problem: When I’m logging on the WP Admin and I go after to bbPress admin I’m redirected to /forums and not /forums/bb-admin/ but I’m connected to bbPress…
But if I do the opposite: I’m logging to the bbPress admin and go to the WP Admin all it’s work.
Have you an idea?
Thanks a lot for your help
Now, for something really cool…is there some magic php code that will let us test for whether we’re executing bbpress or wordpress, and make this function call conditional? Like:
if (we’re under the wordpress directory)
get_bloginfo(etc)
else if (we’re under the bbpress directory)
bb_get_option(etc)
end if
This would be extremely helpful in developing robust modules that are used by both wp and bbpress.
Thanks!
I have resolved it . My client upload two copies of one plugin that the plugins conflicts with itself .
Any way , Thanks for your help
“gives the assumption that popular WordPress Plugins that don’t work will in time”
You know what they say about Assumption…
I have tried to access the log and there is no error log on this issue .
The programm exit noramlly ,just output nothing
I have tried to echo chars at the botom of the bb-config.php and the chars has been output with out any problem
Thank you , any help is apprecitated
I have tried to add the require at the second right afer <?php
here it is
<?php
require(‘../wp/wp-blog-header.php’);
/**
* The base configurations of bbPress.
*
* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,
* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your
* web host.
*
* This file is used by the installer during installation.
*
* @package bbPress
*/
I also tried the last line , neither of them works
I think the only reason people are hanging on is because the vast majority of us are aware of the beauty of WordPress, and we’re convinced that bbPress can become a similar product – unfortunately there isn’t an existing piece of software that’s like the WordPress of forums. There isn’t a piece of software that has a simple core, that allows you to write an index.php file with ‘if has threads while has threads the thread’, and that is exactly what bbPress needs to become. I’m not bothered if it becomes a WordPress plugin, because WordPress isn’t really a lot of hassle to install, and I already know how to make a WordPress theme. I just want it to hurry up. I’m tired of working with phpBB3.
Bump: To add support to an important issue by bringing it to the front of the discussion forum and reiterating the comments above with no added value.
Deep integration with WordPress may not have been the intention of the BBpress developers but there is demand for it, and that will only continue to grow as the WordPress userbase grows. The fact that “most” deep integration works – be that intentionally through the efforts of the BBpress team or unintentionally by luck of BBpress’s coding structure – gives the assumption that popular WordPress Plugins that don’t work will in time… PageMash is an example of a bread and butter Plugin for commercial/professional WordPress sites.
Out of curiosity how many users in this community have been introduced to BBpress through WordPress, I’m sure it would be available through a poll or in the referral logs for this site.
(I hope you liked my personal definition of bump, I’m a kitten killer)
bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress, so it should not be in wp-content/plugins and needs to be installed all on it’s own. It’s a separate software package.
If you’re getting a blank screen, it’s likely a 500 Internal Server Error. If you have access to logs you will be able to resolve this.
Where did you put that code? It should start at the 2nd line of bb-config.php, right after the opening <?php. If not, use a syntax highlighting editor to see what’s going on with the bb-config.php file.
I have search the forum and find there is a slolution like this
put following code in to bb-config.php
Code:
require_once(‘path/wp/wp-blog-header.php’);
that I can call wordpress functions in bbpress template
but once I add the line to bb-config.php . The homepage of the forum became a blank page. no html , no error hints, just a blank page
I am sure the path to wp-blog-header.php is correct . I do not know what happend and how to fix .
The wordpress version is 2.91 and the bbpress is 1.02 .
Thank you for your help
gerikg, thanks so much for clearing things.
there is 1 problem though, when you login/logout with bbpress everything works, you automatically logged in/logged out to wordpress too.
but when you login or loggout from wordpress it does no effect on bbpress.
Do you have any idea with this issue?
I have also written a short tutorial here on how to do this – http://gaut.am/translating-wordpress-or-bbpress-plugins/
Paul,
I know this may be really obvious, and apologies if it is, but PHP’s built in functions for handling json are very much release dependant. There was a large change from php5 to php5.2 as i recall.
It’s 5.36am here, so you’ll have to forgive me for the lack of links, but i’d do a little googling into that. At the end of the day you either stats a minimum PHP version, or test for the php version and do and if/else.
There is nothing like that that I know of for bbPress. You’d have to port that over to bbPress to get identical functionality.
There are a couple Adsense type plugins for bbPress, but they’re not the same.
Thanks for the update Paul, I’m up for some beta testing when your ready
It is an admanagement script.
There is not a way to do that, I don’t think. Typically, people will create a bbPress plugin that does the same thing as the WordPress plugin.
What feature are you looking for?
kevinjohngallagher – Thank you very much for your help. I understand you caution completely, however given the nature of my community I am sure that this will be appreciated.
Can you confirm that the following will only select users who are bbpress members and above, and not all users in my WordPress users table.
$bbdb->users WHERE user_status=0"
Hi there,
After a couple of hours googeling my question stays not resolved, here is my question:
Is there a way to integrate a wordpress plugin into my BBPress forum? My forum uses the same DB as my WordPress.
Thanks in advance.
I need to implement the Auto Login to BBPress. I have the steps of Auto Login to WordPress and here are the steps:
require_once (‘blog/wp-blog-header.php’);
$user_login = ‘screen_name’;
$user = get_userdatabylogin($user_login);
$user_id = $user->ID;
wp_set_current_user($user_id, $user_login);
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id);
do_action(‘wp_login’, $user_login);
Could you please help me to change this code for BBPress Login?
Thank You.