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After wrestling with integration between WP 2.8 and bbPress 1.0.2 for the last day and a half, I gave up and started thinking of ways I could do this a little more straightforwardly.
My problem was I didn’t need any sort of database or user sharing between the sites. I simply wanted a way to display certain parts of my WordPress theme on my bbPress page. Things like a list of the WP categories, a menu being built from categories, a blogroll, etc.
Here’s what I did:
Instead of fully integrating WP, what is usually called “deep integration” so as to gain access to WordPress functions (wp_list_categories, etc.), I simply created a few functions in my WordPress theme’s function.php file that automatically generate the HTML for the items I wanted, and then saved it to a file that I could then call in my bbPress theme.
Part 1: WordPress Theme
Open up your functions.php file in your WordPress theme’s folder (/wp-content/themes/yourtheme/).
Scroll down to the bottom and create your new function. For this example, I’ll use adding a list of categories from your WP blog to your bbPress forum:
function make_cats () {
$output = NULL;
$output = wp_list_categories('echo=0&orderby=ID&hide_empty=0&title_li=<h3>categories</h3>');
$fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-content/themes/your-theme/ext/cats.html', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $output);
fclose($fp);
}
add_action('edit_category_form', 'make_cats');To explain this a bit, basically:
We create a variable called $output, NULL it (make sure it’s empty), and then load the category info into it. The wp_list_categories() function creates an unordered list of the categories with a heading (h3) saying “Categories”. We also use the echo=0 bit to make sure it don’t print the HTML it is generating to the screen, but rather just puts it in $output.
Then we open a file called cats.html in a new folder called ext that we’ve previously created (via FTP or whatever) in your theme directory (/wp-content/themes/your-theme). If the file doesn’t exists, the function will create it, however, the “ext” folder needs to already exist. The file is then fill it with $output. All these files and folders are completely up to you — you can save the file anywhere on your server, I just chose to stick it somewhere easy to remember and that wouldn’t clutter anything up.
The final step is:
add_action(‘edit_category_form’, ‘make_cats’);
This tells WordPress to run this function (make_cats) every time the edit_category_form action is triggered, basically any time you load your “Categories” page in the wp-admin area. There are lots of different actions for virtually anything you can think of. Find the one suitable for your customization here.
Part 2: bbPress Theme
The second part is to load the contents of your newly created HTML file in your bbPress theme. To do this only requires a single line of code inserted into the appropriate place in your theme. Wherever you want the list of categories (or whatever you’re wanting to display), simply add this line:
<?php include $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-content/themes/your-theme/ext/cats.html'; ?>That should do it.
Here are a couple more function examples, both use the “save_post” action, so every time you save (new or edit) a post, it fires and updates (or creates) the HTML files:
Tag Cloud
function make_tags () {
$output = NULL;
$output = wp_tag_cloud('echo=0&smallest=8&largest=22&number=30&orderby=count&order=RAND');
$fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-content/themes/your-theme/ext/tags.html', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $output);
fclose($fp);
}
add_action('save_post', 'make_tags');Recent Blog Posts
function make_posts () {
$output = NULL;
$getsomeposts = new WP_Query('numberposts=10');
$output = '<ul>';
while ($getsomeposts->have_posts()) : $getsomeposts->the_post();
$output .= '<li><a href="'. get_permalink() . '" title="' . the_title('','',FALSE) . '">' . the_title('','',FALSE) . '</a></li>';
endwhile;
$output .= '</ul>';
$fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-content/themes/your-theme/ext/posts.html', 'w');
fwrite($fp, $output);
fclose($fp);
}
add_action('save_post', 'make_posts');Hope that helps someone who is as frustrated with the WP<–>bbP integration as I was. If you have any questions about this, feel free to post ’em here. I’ll do my best to check back.
Hi, I’m using WP2.8 and bbP1.0.2. I’m looking to have access to WordPress’ functions, but do not need any cross-user abilities, so don’t need to wrestle with getting the cookies to jive or the user tables to sync.
Is this possible?
Currently I have:
if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {
include_once( '/pathtowp/wp-blog-header.php' );
}Where, obviously, ‘pathtowp’ is the proper path.
This work great and I have full access to WP’s functions for loading sidebars, categories, etc. However there seems to be something strange going on with the login.
If I am logged in before I enable the line above in my config file, everything is fine. If I am logged out, enable the above line and then try to log in, I get no joy. The page simply reloads as if I had never logged in (no password error or anything like that — just again displays the login box).
I am **guessing** this has something to do with some sort of conflict between bbPress’ login, and the login for WordPress? Maybe something goofy is happening with authentication? But I really don’t know.
If anyone has experienced this and could offer their advice, it would be much appreciated.
WordPress info:
I have wordpress Version 2.8.4 set up following these directions:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
…so the wordpress folder is located here: http://www.example.com/cms/
…but the world sees the blog here: http://www.example.com/
I have permalinks set up with Day and name (a.k.a.: /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/)
bbPress info:
I installed bbPress 1.0.2 here: http://www.example.com/forums/
The problem:
I’m having some problems with this setup which I think are being caused by mod_rewrite.
I try to login at https://www.example.com/forums/ (using the login and password emailed to me after installation) and it seems to accept my login, but then tries to take me to this url: https://www.example.com/forums/forums/ and then shows a wordpress 404 not found page.
Any ideas?
Thanks very much in advance for any help!
Hi,
I want to attempt a deep integration with my wordpress theme and I’m just wondering if there is a definitive set of instructions or thread on here that goes over what to do. I’ve seen a few, but they were started over 2 years ago.
Are those still the best/most relevant?
Thanks for your time. I know some people here have been on this journey with bbpress for the 2 years so they would know the answer to this question the best.
Bob
Topic: Blank page on plugins.php
I installed bbpress 1.02 on a shared database with wordpress everything is ok except the plugins page that shows blank, What can i do to solve it. Thank you.
Regards, Sadnem.
I worked with wordpress for a while, but I’m really new to BBpress. I can’t find detail documents for BBpress like wordpress does.
If I want to use different templates for different categories in wordpress, I can use the following script.
<?php
$post = $wp_query->post;
if ( in_category(‘1) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single-1.php’);
}
elseif ( in_category(‘2’) ) {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single-2.php’);
}
else {
include(TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/single-3.php’);
}
?>
But I don’t know how to make it in BBpress, could anyone help me out? Thanks a lot!
Here’s a list of bbPress professionals, although I don’t know how many of them have done development:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-professionals-advertise-in-this-topic
The most prolific developers are _ck_ and Nightgunner5.
Nightgunner5 has written 9 plugins that I’m aware of (I use two of them, and they are excellent):
https://bbpress.org/plugins/profile/nightgunner5
_ck_ is by far the most prolific developer, with 60 plugins:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/profile/_ck_
But according to that link above on bbshowcase (her site), she’s not available right now. If you have a larger budget though, it might be worth dropping her a line and seeing if she’s open to it.
You might also try Ivan here:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/
If there are active plugin developers that I’ve missed, please let cupra know in the comments!
Good luck! And if you’re open to contributing any custom plugins to the plugin section when you’re done, that’d be great! I’d be glad to help test the plugin…
