[Raize]

Simple Press Sucks

BBPress is too young at this point for it to be a permanent solution

Vanilla is too unstable to be a permanent solution

VBulletin is too clunky

Esotalk got abandoned.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE WORDPRESS FOR FORUMS…YET

[batrachoid]

While I haven’t integrated WordPress and bbPress yet, this topic looks helpful:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/easy-way-to-integrate-bbpress-wordpress-themes

If you’re concerned about bells and whistles, your best bet might be to stick with version 9.0, since there are many more plugins that are known to be compatible. Right now, trying to use the older plugins on 1.0.1 might get you a lot of honks and farts instead.

[djboddington]

wow thats good! Thanks for this

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’m going to put in a standard disclaimer here: iframes are dangerous.

Example: If someone manages to put in malicious code in a bbPress post and you edit it via the admin side using this plugin, it is possible you could bugger your WP install. Now it’s a slim possibility, but iframes are bad, evil and annoying and should be avoided if possible.

Great idea for a plugin, use it responsibly, folks.

[andywilliams244]

I’m not sure how I’d go about that, could somebody post a step by step tutorial? I’ve never dove this far into bbpress before.

Thanks guys, I’d owe you one

[DennisH]

….anyone?

[Ryan Hellyer]

Thanks. I was considering making this exact plugin myself. Glad to see I don’t need to now

[Ryan Hellyer]

If you are going to resort to iframe’ing it then you may as well use some sort of hosted solution.

[Rohan Kapoor]

I guess, but you would assume he would have copied and pasted that in if he followed the plugins directons.

[Rohan Kapoor]

(not recommended) Remove the bbpress header.php and replace it with a symlink to the wordpress header.php

(recommended) Deep Integrate WordPress and bbPress and have bbpress call the wordpress header not the bbpress header.

[kevmartin]

I found some older posts about similar problems to this, but nothign that really helped, plus they were all for the 0.x versions and I am using 1.x which I am guessing may be different.

I have combined bbpress and wordpress databases (WP 2. and all members have been set to inactive status. But I can’t find anything in Mysql to cause this, so can’t globally change them all to member status. They all seem to have the same bb_capabilities value as the couple of members who I have manually made to ‘member’ status, so that doesn’t help.

And I have thousands of members so manually changing them all through the admin interface seems to be a nightmare.

Can someone tell me what database fields to change to make a member to be a ‘member’ status please?

Thanks.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

The plugin doesn’t add define('WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION', 1); to your bb-config.php file. It’s very easy to miss that

[rtmsf]

Total newbie here, but I’m a blogger using WordPress 2.8.x who is thinking of adding a discussion forum to my site.

I am NOT a coder whatsoever, so please keep that in mind when answering, although I do have a friend who is one but I would need to be conscientous about using his time.

My question is whether bbPress 1.0 will easily integrate with WP 2.8.x as I have it currently configured. Obviously I’d want it to look similar to my site and have all the standard forum bells/whistles.

If not, does anyone have any other suggestions? I just began researching forums today. I’ve come across IPB and phpBB as other options, but again, I have no idea how easy it would be to integrate those.

Any help you can give would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks.

[jimouest2005]

Hi !

First, I’m verry sorry for my english, but I’m a french user of bbpress

So.

I have a wordpress website, and I delete the username restrictions ( no : @ ect on the username ).

But, when a user who has a username with special characters ( like : ) tries to login on bbpress, bbpress says that the user doesn’t exist.

How to delete this restriction and resolve this problem ?

Thanks !

[andywilliams244]

Anybody?

[Rohan Kapoor]

He also said:

I have already installed the plugin bbPress Integration for WordPress.

which implies that he already added the code,

[Rohan Kapoor]

I wouldn’t use this. I’m deep integrating myself but for beginners, it will work.

[Raize]

Unfortunately that plugin doesn’t work with WordPress 2.8…few things are broken

[Raize]

It’s not an ideal solution, but good enough for beginners who just want to embed a forum into their blog. Thanks for posting

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

And he said:

I have already installed the plugin bbPress Integration for WordPress. I can’t find anything wrong during my installation. I think maybe I need to upgrade my WPMU to 2.8.

Which implies that he’s on 2.7.x

[Rohan Kapoor]

Only needed if you are running 2.7.1

[Rohan Kapoor]

This plugin was created to allow bbPress to be administered from the WordPress and WordPress MU Administration Panels. It is a very basic plugin and uses iframes to provide access to bbPress. It is known to compatible with WordPress and WordPress 2.8.1 and bbPress 1.0.1. As it just uses iframes to connect to bbPress, ideally, it will still be compatible with all upcoming versions of bbPress and WordPress.

This plugin is created by me.

Download: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/new-bbpress-admin/

Original Announcement: http://rohan-kapoor.com/projects/plugins/bbpress-admin/

Support: http://wpmu.zyrot.com/forums/topic/announcing-new-bbpress-admin

[andywilliams244]

I’ve tried copying the coding from wordpress header into the header in bbpress.

I’m using the unstable beta bbpress and WordPress 2.7.1

[pi865]

Hi. Perhaps I’m having a mental block, but I’m unable to figure this out…

I have bbpress installed at forum.mysite.com/forum

I want the forum to be displayed when when people navigate simply to forum.mysite.com

wordpress has a way of retrieving the forum outside the root, and then setting the URL.

what do i have to put in my /index.php file to make this happen for bbpress?

Thanks,

Paris

[chrishajer]

What have you tried already?

What version of WordPress and bbPress are you using?