Warren – Thank you for bumping multiple posts.
What version of WP and BB are you using? There is a plugin for WP that should ‘fix’ this for you on WP 2.7 and BB 1.0-alpha-5
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/
Again, look at when this was posted. 4 months ago. How long is it going to take bbpress to get the user roles intregated? I would suggest somebody write a plugin or better yet, update the core to match the same user roles in wordpress 2.7 or bbpress is going to lose alot of users.
bbpress 0.9.0.4 and wordpress 2.7 intregrate but bbpress doesn’t hanlde the roles at all. If a user gegisters through wordpress, all is good but if they register through bbpress, they get an “you don’t have permission to view this page” when they try to login to wordpress.
I think this should be addressed asap, but as I’m ready through the forums, I see Sam or any other developer has addressed this issue at all. There are some .htaccess 301 redirects and a small code change you can make to redirect users from the bbpress registration page to the wordpress registration page, but in my humble opinion, one should not have to do this because the whole reason to use bbpress with wordpress was the fact that they intregrate.
Bottom line…bbpress needs to update the user roles to that of wordpress user roles period.
I have the exact same problem but even when they login to wordpress 2.7 they are shown “You don’t have permission to view this page”.
I have to manually change their role to subscriber which is not ideal at all. It seems to me that bbPress should make a user who registers through the forum a “subscriber” in wordpress but it’s not. I think bbpress should have the same roles as wordpress to cut the confusion down. The whole purpose of using bbpress was because it intregated with wordpress but if it doen’t habdle the roles automatically, I may as well install phpbb or vbulletin.
I love bbpress, but if I have to perform task manually, what is the benefit of using bbpress?
Same problem here. The bbpress roles need to match those of wordpress roles. I played with this for hours to the point I’m ready to ditch bbpress and just install vbulletin or phpbb. I love the intregration though. Everything else works great except when user register through bbpress.
So, I finally got the revamp of my site launch completed on January 1st. The “News” portion of the site is driven by wordpress, and the “Messageboard” portion is bbpress with some marriage between the two.
We migrated from a phpbb2 install that was using phpbbfetchall for pulling “News” to the front page. I think the new set up is much better. 
I’m still ironing out glitches and adding features, but I thought I’d share it here to show it off so far. We get between 10,000-12,000 unique visitors to the site per day, and bbpress is handling that traffic beautifully.
http://www.columbusunderground.com/forums/
Hello.
WordPress version 2.7 and use same user table width WordPress for bbPress version 1.0 Alpha 5. (Integrated wordpress bbpress) If user name all characters number then cant login bbpress else login.
For Example:
user name “admin” then login.
user name “123abc” then login.
user name “123456” then cant login bbPress. Error “User does not exist”.
No one else can answer what is best for you.
It takes ten to twenty minutes tops to install bbPress.
Install both, play with both for a weekend, delete the one you don’t want.
Here is someone who tried six different forums and went with bbPress:
http://www.beholdgenealogy.com/blog/?p=591
http://themehybrid.com/support/topic/best-wordpress-forum
Which is better bbpress or wp-forum plugin ?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-alpha#post-18532
Matching the bbPress theme to your WordPress theme isn’t trivial… at first it really bothered me. But once I realized how different blogs and forums were, it made a lot more sense to me.
The initial conversion was the hardest part. After that, little tweaks to my blog theme didn’t take that long to incorporate into my bbPress theme. But I’m getting ready to do a redesign of the blog, and am dreading converting it into a bbPress theme again. It probably won’t be that bad; it’s just inconvenient.
Overall though, it’s been definitely worth it 
. Frankly I am liking bbPress much more than I ever liked WordPress!
Hello all,
I run a small website called the Youth Bloggers Network (http://youthbloggers.net/) which is currently using WordPress and the Simple:Press forum plugin to run the forum. I’ve received some advice to switch to a “dedicated” forum software such as bbPress or phpBB to increase loading time and optimize the site structure (splitting up the forum and cms backend). If I were to switch, bbPress is the definite option for me seeing as I need my WordPress users to be members of the forum as well. I was able to install the latest bbPress version (1.0 alpha I believe) and integrate it perfectly with my WordPress install (cookies, users and everything). That was wonderful. The only two things holding me back from making the switch are:
1) Simple:Press is so easy to integrate into any page, just plug and play
2) I need a bbPress theme that matches my current WordPress theme
The problem is that I would like my forum to look and feel like just another page on the site. With Simple:Press this is easy (even when switching themes). With bbPress I need a new theme.
So here is what I would like to know:
Is it worth switching to bbPress even if it means a little extra work and designing?
And where can I find someone who could create a bbPress theme for me that fits my current design for a *low* price?
Please visit the site: http://youthbloggers.net/ and give me your advice and suggestions.
Thanks very much,
Patrick
Ressurecting the dead.
I want to call the BB login_form function into WP (to use that as my login, register, etc link). But. I also use a static homepage and I get this problem too.
bbPress is in /forums
WordPress is in /blog (with the ‘give WordPress it’s own directory’ tweak so it pretends to be in root)
I am using PermaLinks and have .htaccess
I have my wordpress and bbpress databases integrated, but cannot seem to set it up so that a user who signs up via bbpress is assigned a role on wordpress. I’ve played around with the User Role Map found in Settings – wordpress integration, but nothing seems to help. It does work the other way though – if a user signs up via wordpress, they are assigned the role in bbpress as I indicated via the role map.
Honestly, I don’t even understand how it’s supposed to work. It seems very one way. At no point does the map even ask what role I would like to assign someone in wordpress if they have a particular role in bbpress.
What I’d like to do is have everyone who signs up be given the role of Author. If this is possible, I’d really appreciate any tips on how to accomplish it. Thanks!
chrishajer, I have no idea if RSS change between things, but y’know, it’s habit. I don’t like to spend time debugging something that’s doesn’t mesh. There are a lot of possibilities to miss-match.
And pulk, either you have bbpress 0.9.x or you have bbpress 1.0-alpha-x. The plugin is not the same as using bbPress core 1.0-alpha. In your bb-config.php, what is your BBDB_CHARSET defined as?
and I already use 1.0-alpha-4.1 of the bbPress Integration plugin.
Speaking of reintroduced, I’m logged into my forum and WordPress, but for some reason I am listed as Inactive on my posts when viewing a topic. I thought this was fixed in alpha2?
Why do I get the feeling that alpha5 was bolted on top of an outdated 1.0 version and things went cross eyed?
Personally, I would start a trac ticket. They can determine there if the issue is valid or not, and how to fix it. There have been problems with the WordPress API-generated keys in bbPress before, maybe something was reintroduced.
hello..
i already recognized that there are many posts about the problems of permalinks. but nobody have the same issue. i created htaccess and tried both modes (Multiview and manual copy from bbpress). I have no wordpress installation, but guess that is no problem. My permalinks does not work.
site url: http://bauklimatik-dresden.de/forum/
but the permalinks are like this: http://bauklimatik-dresden.de/forum/forum/climatic-data
i saw a lot of posts which have instead of forum forums? however i am not able to get it work…
thanks for any help!
i would like to have an automatic sitemap generator for my website, the idea would be to have
1 page where all topics are there, sorted alphabetically and per forum, like this plug in i use for one
of my wordpress blogs http://www.dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress/
thanks!
OK, so you can’t use the WordPress user management functions. With MySQL 4.1.* you can use subqueries. Are you comfortable making a database backup, and then are you comfortable with a tool like phpMyAdmin? I ask because I will explain how I would do it to take care of the problem one time. I wouldn’t necessarily call it the best way or the only way, just the way I would do it with things I would check beforehand.
Might as well make a backup of the bbPress database now.
Hopefully, you’ve added the Human Test plugin to prevent spam registrations.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
I don’t know of a way to mass moderate users in bbPress. If you’re integrated with WordPress, I believe there is a mass edit for users available there.
If you’re not integrated, I think you need to use some SQL with the database directly. If you need that, please post the MySQL version you are using (since subqueries were added in MySQL 4.1, and the solution would be different if you’re using MySQL prior to 4.1)
I’ve been playing with the SQL to do this, but my MySQL version is 4.0.27, which does not support subqueries.
Hey Ipstenu,
The plugin you suggested seems to work after a wp-bbpress integration! thanks a lot
In my case, I’m forcing registration and login through wp. I tried registration through bbpress before, and I think you run into a lot of problems.
The sanitize_user() function is the same in bbPress as it is in WordPress. Even the filter names are the same. Still, WordPress plugins don’t generally work in bbPress without some modification.
If it is the same function, in my opinion this feature should be in the core of both, wb and bbpress. It has no sense to allow double registrations like “John” and “john”, don’t you think so?
wordpressfan, have you added the line above inside the <?php … ?> tag ? If you have added it at the beginning or the end of the file, then it’s normal if you get header related warnings .
@wordpressfan
I got the same error Warning: cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode()! in …/bb-includes/wp-functions.php on line 113
I switch from php4 to php5 and it works fine now. I’m hosted on MT GS.
my Wodpress version 2.7
my bbPress version 1.0 Alpha 5
Integrated wordpress. Use wordpress user table.
Example:
User Name : admin then login bbPress.
User Name : hasan then login bbPress.
but
User Name : 123456 then cant login bbpress.
Help me..!
The sanitize_user() function is the same in bbPress as it is in WordPress. Even the filter names are the same. Still, WordPress plugins don’t generally work in bbPress without some modification.
