Well, but it’s not ok. I have the same database for wp and bbpress, I’ve done also the config wrote in the tutorial, but the script doesn’t function… 
I have wordpress 2.5 and bbpress 0.9.0.2
Do you know what can i do?? Thx
I agree on the registration process which can be done by forcing the links on one side to the other but I could not disagree more with “Editing a wordpress post that didn’t exist on the bbpress side would still create a post on bbpress, but it’d date it for when the wordpress post was created, not when the edit took place.”
I can’t fathom people who do that. WordPress is for One-To-Many posting and bbPress is for Many-To-Many posting.
What bbPress needs instead is a “promote-to-front-page” option where the front page becomes a descriptive list of topics with summaries that have been marked by admin as worthy for the front page. It’s yet another plugin that I want to write but don’t have time for right now.
ok — I’m a newbie to bbpress, and a relative newbie to wordpress, so please bear with me.
I have wordpress installed in my site’s root directory. I installed bbpress into root/bbpress. I made all the needed settings to changes to call the wp headers from my bb-config file, and vice versa.
Then, I made a newbie mistake of trying to rename my bbpress folder to root/forums, and also changed the setting in my bbpress admin > settings of my bbpress directory to “root/forums.” (thinking this would somehow magically just work) Now, when I try to access my bbpress admin page, I simply get redirected to my wordpress homepage. It seems that the header information is screwed up now, I suspect it has something to do with the filenames and absolute paths, but I have no idea how to fix it or to begin diagnosing it.
Please help!
If you want to call bbPress functions from WordPress, you need to include bbPress in WordPress. It’s described here for including WordPress inside bbPress. You would do the opposite to include bbPress in WordPress (make the changes to wp-config.php and require_once('path/to/bb-load.php')
bbPress is not currently compatible with WordPress 2.6 for integrated installations:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409
I updated WordPress to 2.6 and now the config file doesn’t have a SECRET_KEY for me to match when integrating bbpress. Instead I have these fields:
AUTH_KEY
SECURE_AUTH_KEY
LOGGED_IN_KEY
How does this work now?
By that definition, the categories and tags would also be matching/transparent and the back-end UI (where visible) would match. Editing a wordpress post that didn’t exist on the bbpress side would still create a post on bbpress, but it’d date it for when the wordpress post was created, not when the edit took place. They’d use identical login pages and registration pages out of the box instead of forcing me to spend hours hacking together a template, or better yet would find a way to leverage the templates (especially the CSS tags) so that the UI would look closer to transparent, and the “comments count” on the wordpress side would work.
So like said, dual log-in is the least of my integration problems.
I’m still learning PHP but plan to at some point down the road dip in to the dev side to try to help, so these aren’t criticisms so much as “kirabug’s someday to-do list”.
On the plugin page there is this script to view new messages
<?php if (bb_current_user_can(‘write_posts’)) : ?>
<?php pm_fp_link(); ?>
<?php endif; ?>
In bbpress is all ok. But what can i do to view new messages also in wordpress? Anyone can help me? Thank u all!!
Well the definition of integration is that the two softwares operate as one. If a user has to log in twice, then they do not perceive the website operating as one big system but two different programs.
Oh, OK, yeah, that makes sense. I am using BBPress and I’ve got it set up so that my two installs share the same user table, so I’ve got the same users and the same posts on both sides of the wall. As far as I was thinking, that *is* integration.
If users have to log in and “remember me” on both sides, well, that’s the least of my problems. 
If you read the levels of integration I posted in the beginning here you will see that even the most simple level of integration requires cookie sync. It is impossible to sync the cookies between bbPress 0.9 and WordPress 2.6 because they literally use different cookies. A user cannot stay logged in between both. They will have to login twice. Log out twice. The db may be similar and the user table may be used by both but the login cookies are different.
I don’t know how to state it more clearly than that.
The problem I think is with integrated logins. You can’t log in on the bbPress side and be logged in on the WordPress side, or vice versa. If your experience is different, please tell about it.
Sounds like you are using bbSync which is for something totally different: no cookies required to accomplish that.
Thanks
Let me repeat and clarify – it’s IMPOSSIBLE to integrate bbPress 0.9.x with WordPress 2.6 – the cookie methods are now completely different. You must use 2.5.1
I was running BBPress 0.9.0.2 when I upgraded to WordPress 2.6, and, well, it’s still working. I post to WordPress, it appears on BBPress no problem. I post a comment on BBPress and it appears on WordPress no problem.
So is the problem that it’s impossible to integrate a NEW installation? Or is there some other sort of background mess going on that I don’t know about that’s making my installation insecure or something? My site’s here and there’s a link to the bbpress install in the top right corner if you want to check it out.
The wp-pro list might be a good place to ask:
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I think you asked this on the IRC channel but I will also answer here to help others.
PHP is not processed in style.css (unless you force your server to, and that’s not recommended)
However you can edit your theme’s header.php and create an additional “inline” stylesheet like so:
<style>
body {background: url("<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>/wp-content/themes/default/images/background.gif") repeat-x top;}
</style>
</head>
(note that </head> at the end, it’s meant to indicate you should put that code at the end of the <head></head> section)
Also, more importantly, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] is not going to be the variable you want. Probably more like $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] and you’ll have to add the path to wordpress too.
It occurs to me that while the for-hire market is very small on the bbPress side, it’s much more likely you might find someone on the WordPress side who does it for a living. You then might be able to convince them to give bbPress themes a try since they are so similar.
In any case, you’ve posted your email which is what the “rules” here require and then I guess I’m supposed to close the thread, so good luck and best wishes.
This is the problem: $bb->query_vars, what is the proper bb code?
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I guess it’s a problem with the install wizard. I was able to get cookie-based cross-platform login going by performing a clean install without running the integration during install.
1. Perform a clean, standalone install and log in with the provided admin login.
2. Go to Settings . WordPress Integration – Input the blog URL twice, enter the blog ‘secret’ from [blog_url]/wp-admin/options.php, and enter the blog prefix.
3. Update the blog wp-config.php with the two lines suggested by WordPress Integration Settings page, and you should be in business.
Hope this helps someone else out there.
Used WP 2.5 & 2.5.1 – bbPress 0.9.0.2
Well… apparently, the hangup is in using the “wizard” installation (which results in some silly “duplicate table” error regarding wp_users – users_nicename).
My fix was to perform a clean install, without checking the option for integration during the install ‘wizard.’ Once I was in with a standalone version, I went to the Forum admin page – wordpress integration settings. I input the WP URL twice, the secret from WP and the user table prefix. Added the two lines suggested for wp-config.php and bada-bing… that did it.
Hope this helps someone else out there. 
Used WP 2.5 & 2.5.1 – bbPress 0.9.0.2
We have WordPress acting as a CMS and we’re using bbPress for the forums:
http://www.wvko1580.com/forums/
I wish I understood more about why it actually happens on integrated installs. Is it when you include bbPress in WordPress, or the other way around?
FYI…
If you are integrated with WordPress, you can use the Maintenance Mode plugin for WP and it will work with bbPress.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/maintenance-mode/
I’ve decided that I’m happy with the way my forum and blog are set up. Users can use the same username and password for both my forum and blog. But, they can not log into one and automatically be logged into the other (cookie issues).
The main problem is the way I integrated my bbpress and wordpress. I already had bbpress installed, then later I installed wordpress. I then integrated the two and they share the same database. I hear from many that this is NOT the recommended way to integrate and that you shouldn’t use the same database, but, the bottom line is, everything works fine, but users can’t log in at one and then automatically be logged in at the other, they just have to log in twice if they are using both my blog and forum.
Can anyone provide instructions/tips on how to set up the cookies for bbpress and wordpress if they were integrated backwards and are sharing one database?
Ok, I followed the steps. It’s still not working for me. I log in at my forum, then go to my blog, and it will say “please log in again” so it’s like it recognizes that I logged in at the forum, because it’s saying please log in again, meaning, we know you were logged in, but, now you’re not anymore so log in again.
Having said all of that… I also did the backwards integration. I had the bbpress forum, then later got wordpress. I also did the “full” integration method which you (_ck_) do not recommend. But, the damage is done. I’m not going to uninstall and re-install anything… it is what it is.
My members will just have to log in at my forum, and if they want to log into my blog, they’ll just have to enter in their username and password again, it’s not going to kill them, it takes an extra 5 seconds. So, I’m not worried about it anymore. At least my members can use the same username and password.
I’m going to call this topic resolved. Because I got my answer. Since I did the backwards full integration method, the ability to stay logged in, isn’t going to work, unless I pay a professional to fix it.
