[Marcomail]

but you use bbpress in a subdomain ?

[Marcomail]

thanks, yes, load the environment it’s simple, but i’d bbpress quickly

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

You probably need to look into this wordpress file wp-includescapabilities.php and mimic that function in bbPress or alternatively load WP environment and use it. I would recommend avoiding the latter option due to performance issues.

Hope that helps!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

ohk! I got it now. Its called as user role.

So you want to check the user role of WP and then show content based on it or something similar. right?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Marcomail

I have successfully integrated them without a plugin as per my tutorial in the 2nd post.

[Marcomail]

i have wp 2.8 and bbP 1.0 and without cookie integration plugin on wordpress i couldn’t access to bb-admin after the login in wordpress…if you use only the bb press login it’s not necessary, but if you use login on wordpress, like me, it’s necessary

[Marcomail]

user category, for example contributor, administrator, author….bbpress have the corrispective, but i’d create a new user category in wordpress

[Arturo]

Now bbPress 1.0.1 is available for download in Italian at: http://www.wordpressmu-it.it/downloads/

There are 2 package, the only localization files and the full package with the bbPress files and the localization files.

Ora bbPress 1.0.1 e’ disponibile al download in Italiano su: http://www.wordpressmu-it.it/downloads/

Ci sono 2 pacchetti, solo i file di localizzazione e il pacchetto completo con i files di bbPress ed i files per la traduzione.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Then what do ya mean by checking if the user is in a particular WP category? An example would be great!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

No plugin is needed for integrating WP2.8 with bbP1.0 and no need of playing with COOKIES setting too if you have bbP in a sub-directory.

[Marcomail]

no, i’m not loading bbpress on a wordpress page…i’ve created an identical theme for bbpress

[Marcomail]

have you intasllaed the plugin in wordpress for cookie integration ? And after this, have you modify the wp-config.php in the wordpress root folder with the COOKIE_DOMAIN and COOKIEPATH ?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I didn’t get it. Are you loading bbPress on a WordPress page? In any case, WP functions can be accessed on WP pages. Please elaborate.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I didn’t get it. If you are not using the same databases, then how come the users are being shared? Are you sure on this?

[double_d]

Ashfame,

Thanks for replying. Here’s some more details that might resolve the problem after reading your tutorial.

I have WordPress and bbPress installed on separate databases. I know bbPress is connecting to the WP user tables because when I add a user I see it added on the bbPress side.

I did not change the default table prefixs for WordPress or bbPress per your tutorial.

On the bbPress WordPress Integration page I have all the fields filled out except the following:

– secure auth cookie salt

– WP MU Primary blog ID

– User database “user” table

– User database “user meta” table

Let me know if think the above items maybe the cause. Thanks.

[Marcomail]

yes, but i’m not using wp-blog-header…i have integrated bbpress in the layout without using the WP environment loaded

sorry but my english is very bad

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

If you have the WP environment loaded, then you can use the regular WP functions. You need to put some more light on the subject so that we can brainstorm.

[Marcomail]

Do you know i could check in bbpress if a user is in a specific wordpress user category ? I must create a new user category in wordpress, and i’d use this in bbpress.

for example

if user_id in category=example_category

make this…

else

[tiptaptip]

I integrated my site the other day. Here’s a few things that helped me when developing my bbPress theme.

1. Point its CSS to the corresponding WP themes CSS so that there’s a common stylesheet between them. For example: http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/style.css

2. Do the same thing with images. For example in your bbPress theme use http://mysite.com/wp-content/themes/mytheme/image/image.jpg

3. As mentioned above you will need to duplicate content from WP theme. I find that if I cram everything before the forum content into header.php and everything after into footer.php it clears up the rest of the bbPress templates for me to modify as I wish.

Hope this helps.

You can see what I did for my site here: http://tiptaptip.com and http://tiptaptip.com/forum

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Its always hard to track what you missed as compared to a fresh procedure. If you are doing fresh installations of both then I would want you to take a look at my tutorial that I wrote yesterday : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/

and if they already hold data, then we will try to trace the cause and get it fixed.

Hope that helps!

[double_d]

I’m having login problems with my WordPress and bbPress integration. I have to login to both programs. However, when I log out of either program, I log the other program out.

I have WordPress 2.8.1 and bbPress 1.0 installed.

WordPress is installed on the main directory (i.e., my-site-url)

bbpress is installed as a subdirectory (i.e., my-site-url/bbpress)

I’ve checked to make sure the four keys in the wp-config and bb-config files match up.

I’ve checked to make sure the auth_salt and logged_in_salt keys match up between WordPress and bbPress

The cookies generated seem to be correct.

It creates a wordpress logged in cookie (e.g., wordpress_logged_in_f1f3…a00a)

with a path of /

It creates five wordpress cookies (e.g., wordpress_f1f3…a00a)

with the following paths

/wp-content/plugins

/wp-admin

/bbpress/my-plugins

/bbpress/bb-plugins

/bbpress/bb-admin

Since I’m setting up my site, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the programs with the same problem. Perhaps, there is a step I’m missing. Any ideas to correct this would be appreciated!

[Gautam]

If you have wordpress installed in the same database with wp_ as prefix, then use bb_ as prefix for bbpress, else it would conflict with wordpress.

[DKB]

Is it possible to remove “topic” in the URL.

I have now http://www.site.com/forum/topic/example, so is is possible to get:

http://www.site.com/forum//example

Just like in wordpress, i can remove the “category” slug.

[crios]

I integrated 2.8 & 1.0.1 and it seems to be working beautifully.

I created a walk through for myself (based off of the screencast), you can see it here. I thought I would post it here for anybody else that might want a set of typed instructions. Maybe this topic should be sticky or put a similar set of instructions on the documentation page?

1. Install WP 2.8 on domain, in this case http://example.com (I’m going to skip the WP install. I know how to do this.)

* database: exampledb

2. Open wp-config.php in a text editor.

3. Go to https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/ and copy the provided keys (the entire text).

4. Paste the copied keys into wp-config.php above the text “/* Stop editing */.”

5. Save wp-config.php to web host.

6. Install bbPress files into a subdirectory. In this case http://example.com/forum. (I’m going to skip the bbPress install. I know how to do this.)

7. Fill in step 1 of bbPress setup.

* database: exampledb (use same database as WP install.)

8. Step 2 of the bbPress install.

9. Check “Add integration settings.”

10. Check “Add cookie integration settings.”

11. Open wp-config.php again and copy and paste “AUTH_KEY” , “SECURE_AUTH_KEY” and “LOGGED_IN_KEY” (just the long string of letter, numbers and symbols in between the quotes) into the appropriate fields in the bbPress Step 2 page.

12. Go to http://example.com/wp-admin/options.php (there should be a link in the ? section of the salt fields)

13. Find the appropriate salts and copy and paste them into the appropriate fields in the bbPress Step 2 page.

* If there is no secure_auth_salt leave it blank.

14. Check “Add user database integration settings.”

15. Look in wp-config.php again and copy the “table_prefix” into the appropriate field on the integration page. (in my case it was not just wp_ , it was wp_xxxxxx_ (the x being other numbers and letters.).)

16. Click the save button and you should see “Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. etc…”

17. Click the Step 3 button.

18. Fill in the Site name: Example Forum.

19. Check the URL (should be http://example.com/forum/).

20. Select a Key Master (if integration was successful the WP admin should show up here and can be selected).

21. Fill “First forum name” (First Forum).

22. Click “Save.”

23. Click “Complete Installation.”

24. Go to the brand new forum.

25. I was already logged in to WP so when I went to bbPress, again I was already logged in.

26. Click on “Admin”

* It shouldn’t work.

27. Click “Log Out.”

28. Log back in to bbPress as the admin.

29. Click on “Admin.”

30. You should be able to enter the Admin page of bbPress now.

31. Go to “Settings” / “WordPress Integration.”

32. Setup the “User Role Map”.

* WP Admin: Keymaster

* WP Editor: Moderator

* Everybody else is a member.

33. Click Save.

34. Go to the WP install (http://example.com)

35. Install bbPress Integration (WP Plugin): 1.0

36. Activate the integration plugin.

37. Go to “Settings” / “bbPress Integration.”

38. Check the “bbPress URL.”

39. Leave “plugins URL” alone.

40. Check WordPress type.

41. Click Save.

42. Scroll down to “Manual Cookie Settings” and copy the code in the grey box.

43. Open wp-config.php and paste the copied code above the text “/* Stop editing */.”

44. Save wp-config.php to the web host.

45. Voila everything should be set up!

46. log in and log out of WP and bbPress and move back and forth between the two to make sure that the integration is working.

[Marcomail]

i’d check in bbpress if a user is in a specific wordpress category or not