Hallo everybody,
It’s still in development but I am ready with the layout and it works very well.
http://www.jeansbox.nl/forum/
The site has been made without deep integration. I have just used the tutorial of _CK_
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration
What do you think about it?
HSeatSleeper
it’s a great idea but you miss something: there are a lot of duplicate IDs and users 
agl666 I’m no whiz but i would export both databases and merge them into an sql file, then dump back into your wpmu install. This will be a tricky operation, but unless someone else has a better idea I see no other way to do it.
Hi!
I have a forum running on bbPress and a WordPress MU, which I installed later. Both have users, some of them is present in both bases.
So, we have two bases with some duplicate IDs and users. How can I integrate bbPress users into a WPMU database with less price?
Thanks
Two options :-
1. Load WordPress header and footer with deep integration (not recommended)
2. Design the same theme for bbPress (way to go)
So I have already created bbpress forum called http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forums and the blog is http://www.justinbieberzone.com
What next step?
I dont worry about cookie and those stuff, I just want the forum look like the blog.
Now How do i combine the two? I want the forum embedded inside the wordpress. I don’t like it looks like completely different forum.
Thanks.
Hi I’m trying to integrate bbpress a little more with my wordpress theme and I need some help to see if some things are possible.
First I would like to display the total amount of posts made in my bbpress forums on my wordpress mainpage, not sure how I can call that info though. example “there are a total of 125 posts on the forums”.
Also, is it possible to have the amount of posts a user has made in bbpress on their author.php in wordpress, example: “user had made 50 posts on the forums”.
Thanks for your time.
i am using wordpress , and i custom made both the themes for wordpress and bbpress they are seperated
Thanks, it works!
Now, how do I blend my wordpress site with the default bbpress theme?
are you using wordpress? can you help me how did you blend bbpress and wordpress theme?
I’m having a similiar problem. I’m using bbpress integrated with our WordPress site. On the front-page.php page, in the “Latest Discussions” I’m using this bit of code:
<?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a><?php topic_page_links(); ?> by <a href="/wedding-chat/profile/<?php topic_author(); ?>" ><?php topic_author(); ?></a>
Which gives me the users name, and a link to their profile page. The problem is that the link is using their username, which if the user has spaces or dashes, poses problems. I need to get the user_nicename or display_name value from that users record. How do I do this in bbPress? I’ve dug around, but I don’t see any information on the topic.
Thanks!
Chris, many thanks, that is sure simple.
Actually, I am trying to develop a site based on wordpress and bbpress that is friendly for senior citizens. The wordpress side will have useful information for the audience, that I and others can contribute to, and the bbpress side will have the forum where if a viewer chooses, they can register and enter into a discussion. I have looked at buddypress, but I think it has a lot of features that are not useful, much less at all understood by a senior citizen audience. Social networking is not their thing.
So I guess I was looking for a WP theme where I can display an intro, and the blog and forum clickable areas, and maybe just another couple of items. Anything more will confuse, and be a turn off, for many who don’t know what a browser is.
A huge and fast growing market is the aging population, and those that design interfaces for these users will have great success.
Thanks again,
Roger
Can someone explain how I can pull the total number of bbpress posts made and display them in wordpress theme, and also a harder one to solve, how do I get the total number of posts for a user in bbpress and display that in the users wordpress author.php?
I’ve got intergration happening with shared login/registrations, tables in same DB.
Thanks for any help
John, sure there is no guarantee, but the bbpress development over the last 2 years was never so active as for wordpress.
My Forum is ~ 2years old and I updated only once (to 1.02) 
and at the end we have to trust Matt 
Yeah – not much has been decided upon yet, but, by the looks of things, we may see WordPress/BuddyPress/bbPress/ being a fully integrated package, where BuddyPress and bbPress stand as plugins for WordPress.
I think first and foremost, bbPress needs to do what ever it’s going to do with WordPress, and move on from that. Whether it remains as a standalone solution and has a solid integration facility, or becomes integrated with WordPress. I don’t really care which, as either way bbPress will be working side-by-side with WordPress, which is all that I require right now.
Sounds like you’re not the keymaster at the forums, so you won’t have an Admin link and won’t be able to access bb-admin.
Try clearing all your cookies or a totally new browser, and just log in to bbPress, not WordPress, and see if it works.
gerikg,
I saw that post and (foolishly) hoped for a different answer. However, i did follow your advice in the linked post (‘go look in the BuddyPress docs’) and found this answer:
You cannot use the admin panel of bbPress if you use the one/two click BuddyPress installation. If you want a bbPress admin panel and want to install bbPress plugins, you need to install bbPress externally, then use the WordPress integration plugin, then you go to BuddyPress Forum component and click on “I want to use exisiting bbPress forum”
in the BuddyPress forums where i probably should have looked in the first place.
bakercad, another issue I ran into last few days was when you choose subdomain as a MU options.
site.com/blog1 works well
blog1.site.com sometimes does not work
I haven’t found a solution that works so far.
@dailytalk – thanks for posting your real world experiences. I would like to ask that you also include the version of bbpress that you are using?
@all –
I am under the impression that most of the plugins do not work properly with the current version, so a fresh install today is even MUCH further away from the basic functionality of smforums, phpbb, vbulletin, etc.
A serious problem that plagues wordpress, bbpress, and I should mention similar projects including phpfox, is companies that develop new releases often leave lots of broken plugins and themes – most users get so frustrated not knowing to upgrade and lose functionality – or stay downgraded and have possible security issues. This is a major problem that has me admiring the way vbulletin posts whether or not plugins / extensions will be supported by the core company.
The main thing that keeps me using bbpress in a few sites is the price, along with the glimmer of hope that since it is integrated into buddypress. Certainly at some point there will be functioning photo, attachment, moderation and other functions, that the WP / BP /BB community will have to have – even if new versions of one break the other. – Unfortunately it’s tough to hold one’s breath with these projects, and seeing the nightmares of bugs, lost functionality, and the time it takes to get back to square 2 after one of the other projects has been upgraded to square three – it’s devastating.
I for one would love to see image and file attachments, along with something like tinymce incorporated into the core of BBpress – but even if they are not, I would like to see important plugins like these and moderation, etc, all be maintained and tested and upgraded along with any new releases by the bbpress developers.
It is supported, and will continue to grow. It will eventually become a canonical plugin for WordPress.
I also thought so at first, but I really love this software – so I’m sticking with it, no matter what.
Hi Michael, Thanks I will check out the link. I hate to spend a lot of time developing a forum that is not supported. That would be sad because I am a real big fan of WordPress.
Toni
Hi,
I’ve got a site I created with html. I’d like to add a bulletin board to it without redesigning the site using WordPress. How do I do this?
Thanks,
Brettha
