[ironbound]

1. I have a wordpress blog and a bbpress forum. Independent of eachother (different directories).

2. How do I integrate the two? By integrate I mean: Have bbpress be a page within the blog. (chickspeak.com style)

3. It would be cool to integrate the blog comments into forum posts too but lets just work and word this out one at a time.

Thank you in advance for clearing this up.

[Beau Lebens]

Actually I’m not using any plugins for the integration process, as bbPress and MU seem to handle it reasonably well “out of the box”.

I’m running r1197 of WPMU and 0.8.3.1 of bbPress.

Here’s some of the things that are modified/running though:

config changes in bbPress:

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home         = 'http://url.to.wordpress.install.com/';

$bb->wp_siteurl      = 'http://url.to.wordpress.install.com/';



// Integrating with mu

$bb->cookiepath      = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain    = '.domainname.com';  // leading . allows subdomain sharing

$bb->usercookie      = 'wordpressuser';  // WPMU doesn't hash cookies

$bb->passcookie      = 'wordpresspass';  // WPMU doesn't hash cookies



// Load WordPress so we can use the same templates.

define('WP_BB', 'true');

require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-blog-header.php';

config changes for WPMU

// Adding custom settings to force cookies to be shared with/accessible to bbPress

define('USER_COOKIE', 'wordpressuser');

define('PASS_COOKIE', 'wordpresspass');

define('COOKIEPATH', $base);

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domainname.com'); // same as bbPress

Plugins in bbPress

– A custom one I call “NoLogin” that just attempts to remove all reference that’s built into bbPress (and block actual attempts) at logging in via bbPress (rather than via MU)

– MD5 insecurity for bbPress by Sam Bauers

– A quick fix called “MainDomain” that redirects requests to a subdomain instance of the forums to the canonical version which is hosted from mybabyourbaby.com (rather than babyname.mybabyourbaby.com)

– A quick and dirty “FixKSES” which allows the left/center/justify/right paragraph buttons to work in TinyMCE, because I’m using that for post formatting.

– Display Names by Michael Adams et al to show the MU display_name, rather than the bbPress username

WPMU plugins/hacks

Because I load the WP engine in addition to the bbPress engine (not very performance-friendly, but makes life easier for sharing code etc), I have access to a lot of the functionality I rely on in the rest of the site – grabbing friendly usernames, user icons/avatars, links to profiles (which are handled completely outside bbPress and WP functionality), etc etc.

I use the TinyMCE editor bundled with WP in bbPress for posting, which is surprisingly easy to add – just load the JS file and add a class to the TEXTAREA. The only thing I haven’t fixed just yet on this is that if you edit an existing post with multiple paragraphs in it then TinyMCE seems to squash it all back down to one.

I also found that I had to add a quick function to stripslashes() onto the hooks “pre_post” and “pre_topic_title” to prevent annoying slashes appearing in them.

One last thing that I discovered was that because the WP engine is being loaded to display bbPress pages, but it doesn’t really “know about” those pages (they’re not internal WP pages), it technically triggers a 404, even though it displays just find. I explained this a bit here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load including a way around it.

Templates

I’m actually using the same templates for bbPress as I am for MU. I accomplish this by symlinking those files directly from the place they normally live, into my-templates/mbob/header.php and footer.php, then make custom files for all the internal bits.

HTH someone

Beau

[horrorshow]

Funny that my settings are screwy and there are better ways at accomplishing single sign on?

Or funny: “yes, this is the closest that I am able to get to single sign-on, and I get the same results”?

If it’s the first case, then please enlighten me.

If it’s the second case, then this link might help you.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookies-subtle-bug-single-sign-on-bbpress-and-wordpress

[harryworld]

horrowshow,

I tried your settings, and it’s funny that if you login on either on side, you cannot log out on the other side.

If I login WPMU first, I can only logout through WPMU.

[horrorshow]

nolageek,

In WPMU, did you put the bbpress-integration.php in the “mu-plugins” directory or the “plugins” directory?

I want only the site admin to be able to activate the “bbpress Integration” plugin, but it shows up for all users giving them an option to activate the plugin. That’s not good.

On the bbPress side, I found that the wordpress-integration is not necessary (I’ve asked about this, but no replies so far), and display name plugin requires some code changes to the BBPress code for it to work properly. It causes permission problems, and I had to dig around the forum where it shows you which code to change.. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t worth the trouble. (Gurus, please correct me if I am wrong, as I am new to BBpress)

If you want me to look for that thread again, let me know.

To get single sign-on working properly, you need to make code changes on the bbPress side to bb_cookie() and bb_logout() in pluggable.php along with the config changes I mentioned (which you’ve done already).

function bb_cookie( $name, $value, $expires = 0 ) {

if ( bb_get_option( 'cookiedomain' ) ){

setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, bb_get_option( 'cookiepath' ), bb_get_option( 'cookiedomain' ) );

}else{

setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, bb_get_option( 'cookiepath' ) );

}

}



function bb_login($login, $password) {

if ( $user = bb_check_login( $login, $password ) ) {

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'usercookie' ), $user->user_login );

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'passcookie' ), md5( $user->user_pass ) );

do_action('bb_user_login', (int) $user->ID );

}

return $user;

}

I hope this helps, and please let me know how it works out.

[Nola1974]

I’m not able to get this working in WPMU/bbpress:

Using newest versions of both (fresh install 3 days ago)

Site: http://geekdc.com

bbpress: http://geekdc.com/forum

bbpress config.php :

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';  // WordPress table prefix.  Example: 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://geekdc.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://geekdc.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'



//if ( isset( $bb->wp_table_prefix ) ){

$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser’;

$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass’;

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.geekdc.com';

$bb->path='/forum/';

//}

/* Stop editing */

Stock WPMU wp-config.php

Using the following plugins on WPMU:

bbpress-integration.php

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress-integration.0.74.zip

Using the following plugins on bbpress:

wordpress-integration

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-integration/

display name

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/display-name/

Is there anything else I need to do?

When I first log in to WPMU I get the following cookies:

geekdc.com wordpress_test_cookie (content:’ WP+Cookie+check’)

geekdc.com wordpressuser (content username)

geekdc.com wordpresspass (content: hash)

I go to the forum, and I’m not logged in.

I log into bbpress and I get two more cookies, exactly the same execept for the expiration dates. The WPMU expires at the end of session. The wordpress expires in one week. I do not get another wordpress_test_cookie.

[Craig]

Thanks!

[howtogeek]

That latest discussions plugin is for wordpress… I’ve been talking about the latest discussions view in bbpress that is part of the My Views plugin.

[itissue]

Thanks. Would you need to have WordPress in order to use the Latest Discussions plugin? You have WordPress and bbPress integrated together, and the plugin’s page said that the plugin will generates Latest Discussion list from your bbpress forum into your WordPress. I’m not using WordPress on my forum.

[howtogeek]

For my site, I’m using the bbpress login as the site-wide login… so when I put a login link on the wordpress side of the site the user would be redirected to the forum every time after login… kinda annoying.

With this new knowledge I should be able to fix it so they are redirected back, even to a non-bbpress page.

[chrishajer]

How about bbSync?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync?replies=214#post-7922

[Craig]

Hello,

I’m currently in developement of a gaming website over at http://www.hooligans-gaming.net

I’ll be using WordPress along with bbPress to bring out the site to it’s full beauty as soon as time grants it.

I wanted to know if there is a plugin out there or a way I can make it so when I post a news post on the front page that it will also post in a forum I will have created called “News & Updates” to serve as an archive of sorts.

The forum would be locked except for those posts.

Any ideas?

[horrorshow]

Hi beaulebens,

I like your site!

Which version of wpmu and bbpress are you running? Which plugins are you using for the integration. (I had to modify some cookie setting code in bbpress to get the single signon working properly: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookies-subtle-bug-single-sign-on-bbpress-and-wordpress)

BBsync doesn’t work with WPMU, btw.

What other things have you customized? Thanks for sharing!

[horrorshow]

I am a bit confused about the wordpress and bbpress integration plugins.

Is WordPress Integration(0.7) plugin necessary? it was last updated a year ago, and I now have single signon between the two apps without the WordPress Integration plugin. Does it do something else that I am not aware of?

thanks

[horrorshow]

I fixed the problem by making changes to the bb_cookie() and bb_logout() since wpmu and bbpress set cookies differently: (the expire times are different). If anyone wants to me to post the code, please let me know.

Also, I added the “cookiedomain” to the config.php

Here’s the full list relevant to the integration.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.achillesblog.com';

$bb->path='/forum/';

[_ck_]

By the way, since the registration and login/out process in wordpress is a bit more advanced than bbPress, many people just change all the bbpress links for such actions to use the WordPress links. WordPress can even redirect back to the point of logout/login.

[horrorshow]

_ck_, I cleared all the cookies for this domain when doing the test. I also closed all open pages, and started fresh.

The three cookies that I see generated when doing this test on both BBPress and WPMU are:

wordpressuser

wordpresspass

wordpress_test_cookie

I’ll look at the code for logging out of wpmu, and also see if anything gets changed in the database. I’ll then compare that to how BBPress logs out and see if it makes any changes in the database too.

Thanks for the link, but he basically added:

‘

$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser’;

$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass’;

‘

And I’ve already done that.

[kernpunt]

Hopefully you folks can help me. I have a few questions about integration and bbPress. What I have right now is a custom built populated member database with passwords, usernames, emails, etc.

What I would like to do is get bbPress to “hook” into this database instead of having to have two member/user tables to keep synchronized. Is there a certain way you’d go about doing this, that perhaps isn’t too messy? Or will it require rewriting a lot of code?

I’ve found a lot of WordPress integration help here, but really not much on integrating with other types of websites (aside from template editing). So any help would be great, even if you just give me a little push in the right direction. Thanks.

[_ck_]

You have the right approach if you find that log-outs are out of sync.

You need to watch the cookie names and paths.

MAKE SURE you clear ALL cookies while you are experimenting with paths and names. If you leave left overs, you are going to get strange behaviors.

If you leave the page open, even after clearing cookies you may have form post data or session data in there. Close page, clear cookies, THEN confirm behavior.

If you find that path names and cookie names are absolutely identical, it’s possible that the logout process for WPMU is not robust enough in the way it resets cookies. ie. doesn’t set the date far enough in the past.

Following the WPMU tag will probably help you bunches. ie. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-hell-wpmu-bbpress-bloodshot-eye-balls

[horrorshow]

Hi,

I don’t mean to post twice, but I realized that I replied this to a thread that had already been resolved.. so I am posting a new topic.

I am trying to integrate bbpress(0.8.3.1) with wordpress mu (1.3.3), and I am having some issues with cookies for login/logout.

I’ve tried setting this: (“MD5hash” replaced with my MD5)

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser_MD5hash';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass_MD5hash';

However, that didn’t seem to allow single sign-on login(meaning, if I am log into wp, go to bbpress and find myself already logged and vice versa)

Watching the cookies during the login/out process on WP MU, I found that the cookie names that WP MU uses are: “wordpresspass” and “wordpressuser”

So in config.php for bbpress, I used:

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

This works somewhat, let me explain:

This scenario works:

Log into WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself already logged into bbpress.

Log out of WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself logged out of bbpress.

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU, I find myself logged into WPMU

This doesn’t work:

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU (I find myself logged into WPMU) AND THEN when I try to log out from WPMU, I can’t log out.

I refresh BBpress page, and I am not logged out either.

If I log out from BBpress at this point, then I am logged out of WPMU as well.

I have a feeling it might be something with WPMU, but I thought I’d post here first since this is where I found all the information about the integration. Thanks for your help. I am appending my config.php relevant to the integration part.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

thanks for your help.

[_ck_]

It’s a formal plugin now:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/new-user-notification/

There’s probably only a handful of bbPress sites in existence that get more than a dozen registrations per day right now but they don’t want to put it in the core, so that’s fine. Simply deactivate it if getting too many emails. Then there’s gmail which can keep track of all of the registration threads as a single thread.

(When the backpress integration is more complete I suspect this will then be in the core with the WordPress functions which has had it for years now, even on the biggest sites)

[horrorshow]

themebyc,

Just curious, have you been able to get single sign-on between phpbb and wordpress?

thanks.

[horrorshow]

Hi,

I am trying to integrate bbpress(0.8.3.1) with wordpress mu (1.3.3), and I am having some issues with cookies for login/logout.

I’ve tried setting this: (“MD5hash” replaced with my MD5)

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser_MD5hash';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass_MD5hash';

However, that didn’t seem to synchronize login(meaning, if I am log into wp, go to bbpress and find myself already logged and vice versa)

Watching the cookies during the login/out process on WP MU, I found that the cookie names that WP MU uses are: “wordpresspass” and “wordpressuser”

So in config.php for bbpress, I used:

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

This works somewhat, let me explain:

This scenario works:

Log into WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself already logged into bbpress.

Log out of WPMU, refresh bbpress page, I find myself logged out of bbpress.

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU, I find myself logged into WPMU

This doesn’t work:

Log into BBpress, refresh WPMU (I find myself logged into WPMU) AND THEN when I try to log out from WPMU, I can’t log out.

I refresh BBpress page, and I am not logged out either.

If I log out from BBpress at this point, then I am logged out of WPMU as well.

I have a feeling it might be something with WPMU, but I thought I’d post here first since this is where I found all the information about the integration. Thanks for your help. I am appending my config.php relevant to the integration part.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

thanks for your help.

[helpy]

Thank you all for your work!

I just started with bbpress in one project … and I use some plugins for WordPress … so I have to wait some time, before I can update WP to version 2.5

cu, guido

[Sam Bauers]

Also, the cookies have changed structure.

I’ll have to re-check the password hashing plugin too.

We’ll do our best to make sure it is simple enough to integrate with older WordPress installs too.