[berberama]

If you’re not coding bbPress to work nicely with WordPress, then it’s not going to become a well known and widely used platform. The statement “…I won’t be writing support for this into bbPress at all, even if someone patches it to work. I gotta draw the line on integration somewhere…” come across as hostile and petty – Potentially giving bbPress bad PR.

I’ve had nothing but hell trying to get this to work properly and when talking to PHP coders, every single one of them has told me not to use it (these are guys that code for a living). They’ve given me alternatives, when I asked why, they said there’s not a lot of support (that there should be more) and the fact that it does not play well with WordPress (when they suggest, given the origins of bbPress, it should).

This is unfortunate; and sad.

[Tim]

Another heads up here to say no issues integrating WordPress 2.8 with bbPress 1.0 RC3, both on subdomains and www domain.

Installation process much clearer, and asks for the right info, meaning no need to edit config files after.

To anyone having issues with integration – as obvious as it sounds, clear all of your cookies once you’ve installed. I had a couple kicking around from bbPress 0.9, but once cleared and logged in on either the WordPress or bbPress side, everything was fine.

[Sam Bauers]

WordPress is not designed to play nice with bbPress loaded inside it in this fashion. It will probably break things (not just visual things). I won’t be writing support for this into bbPress at all, even if someone patches it to work. I gotta draw the line on integration somewhere. Try the bbPress Live plugin for WordPress and see if it doesn’t give you what you need.

[johnhiler]

If you’d like to integrate the cookies across different domains, definitely install bbPress .9 and not 1.0! That Cross Cookie plugin doesn’t work with v 1.0…

Good luck!

[arthaseo]

this sounds great thanks John.

I am installing on a new domain, so i will be installing latest releases.

I have integrated WP + BBPress in past but for same domain.

any more suggestions ?

[johnhiler]

If you are on bbPress v.9, then you just got very lucky – this plugin by _ck_ just came out that does exactly that, if both installs are using the same users table:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/cross-cookie/

[arthaseo]

want to Integration WordPress and BBPress

but they will be on Different Domain names

same hosting space …

[mrhtn]

I created a new forum dedicated to home theater networks at HTNforum.com. It lets users ask questions and comment on how to set up a home theater network and different devices such as HDTVs, HTPCs, speakers, receivers, Blu-ray, game consoles, amps, home networking, home automation and more.

I have a WordPress site that goes along with HTNforum at YourHTN.com and it’s designed to let people post pictures and talk about their home theater networks. I made it so users can vote and rank each other’s home theaters.  I found wordpress to not be the best tool for asking and answering questions so BBpress was perfect as it let me add a forum without my hundreds of users having to create a new account.

My forum site has been up for a few weeks now and I haven’t noticed any major bugs. I would appreciate any comments/suggestions on how to improve the forum. Thanks and keep up the good work with BBpress!

[synth01]

I have wordpress and bbpress integrated. I deleted the admin user after creating a new admin user (per http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/ recommendations). Now when I log in to bbpress as the new admin user I am unable to administer the forum site. What can I do?

[akalix]

Hi,

I’ve the same problem with Hosteurope and the solution posted by possessed works fine, but is it possible to fix this by a plugin? So that I don’t have to change the source (each update). On WordPress I’m using this http://forum.wordpress-deutschland.org/konfiguration/18650-php-mail-und-hosteurope.html#post118619 for example.

Alex

[leggo-my-eggo]

Well, OK, this is pretty strange. I’ve added require_once(ABSPATH . 'forums/bb-load.php'); to the bottom of my wp-config.php file, and it all seems to work fine. Except, my admin interface for WordPress has lost all its colors and images. I have run a diff on the two resulting wp-admin interface’s code, and it looks like the act of loading bbPress is taking over the loading of styles at the top of the WordPress admin interface, which doesn’t really make much sense to me. Anybody understand what’s going on here? I’m using bbPress 1.0-rc-3 and WordPress 2.8.

[nedsferatu]

I wrote up a quick outline of the screencast that may be helpful:

http://1isa2isb.com/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration

I found that I would forget some of the non-intuitive steps but not want to re-watch the whole screencast.

[johnhiler]

1. Yup, there’s something similar in bbPress! Both versions are listed here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-faster-than-wordpress#post-20920

2. This plugin should do the trick:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/edit-history/

3. That’s a tough one! I don’t know how to do it. Are you going to be changing X a lot? If not, maybe it’s a pain but you could hardwire X into the template…

[cheinyeanlim]

The plugin was designed to stop hackers from gaining access to your blog via trial and error, something which is quite common with WordPress blogs since most people use the default username login ‘admin’….

http://www.pupuweb.com/blog/protect-blog-with-login-lockdown/

[jimgroom]

Hey everyone,

Testing out RC3, and it works in terms of bbPress/BuddyPress/WPMu 2.7.1 integration far better than RC2, which had me stumped. I do have one lingering issue with the integrated signon between WPMu and bbPress for anyone who might have a lead. When I login to either WPMu or bbPress it logs me into both applications, however, if I try and logout of bbPress when I originally logged in to WPMu, for example, it won’t log me out. I have to actually go and logout of WPMu to be logged out of bbPress. This was a similar/common issue in a version that was in the 0.7.x or 0.8.x series. And I have the sneaky suspicion there is something in my config files that is baling it. Anyone having a similar issue? Anyone know of a fix? Below are my config files for both wp and bbPress.

Right now I have this in my wp-config:

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.umwblogs.org’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘#################’ );

And this in my bb-config:

// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://umwblogs.org’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://umwblogs.org’;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_###################’;

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_###################’;

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_###################’;

$bb->admin_cookie_path = ‘/forums/bb-admin’;

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forums/bb-plugins’;

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forums/my-plugins’;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = ‘/wp-admin’;

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/wp-content/plugins’;

// End integration speedups

define( ‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 1 );

[dss]

• bb latest discussions wordpress plugin now reports an error.

This was not actually true… Seems I only needed to remove the trailing slash on my bbpress URL and voila! It works fine.

• No more images… bbpress just eats the code. allow images plugin installed, and activated.

This, however, is still true. Has anyone else encountered this trouble?

Trying to determine if it’s a plugin in need of update, or if it’s an error on my part, or an actual issue in RC3

However, it looks like integration actually works (for the very first time ever!)

This remains true. So happy about that!

[dss]

Just updated to RC3 with WP2.8

• No more images… bbpress just eats the code. allow images plugin installed, and activated.

• bb latest discussions wordpress plugin now reports an error.

However, it looks like integration actually works (for the very first time ever!)

[Marcomail]

Johnjamesjacoby could you give us some more information ? Thanks

[aditya2311]

Thanks for your reply.

I have installed WordPress 2.8. and bbpress 0.9.0.5. I have used the same database named “wordpress” for both. Please check http://bits-oasis.org/blog and http://bits-oasis.org/forum

[yakusha]

ı downloaded old database

after deleted old tables like bb_ on database, using phpmyadmin tools.

after re-installed bbpress and integreted to wordpress

after opened downloaded sql file and re uploaded 3 tables:

bb_post

bb_forum

bb_topic

forum is fasted

yes, bbpress rc3 faster older versions…

[rich! @ etiviti]

@nuprn1

Are you integrating with WordPress there?

No, straight install on MySQL 5.0.67

I believe everything is working correctly, I can log in with the keymaster and setup forums and general settings.

[johnhiler]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using? And what was your method for integrating the two?

[aditya2311]

I have installed both wordpress blog and bbpress forums. But on integrating them, i am facing a problem of login into my account while using firefox. Although it is working properly in other browsers. Please check http://bits-oasis.org/blog and http://bits-oasis.org/forum

[Sam Bauers]

@nuprn1

Are you integrating with WordPress there?

[Sam Bauers]

They have to be changed separately. You might be able to write a plugin for WordPress that syncs them up or even deletes the bbPress role for recreation (based on the role map) when the user next visits bbPress.