[Sam Bauers]

Repost from the dev mailing list:

As of the last commit at this time (revision 1076), trunk is in an experimental and unreliable state. We are attempting to abstract some functions and classes for easier sharing of code between WordPress and bbPress. This shared code is called “BackPress”, and we’ll probably be mentioning it a few times here and there in Trac and other dev discussions.

[Andrew]

Works like a charm. Thanks fel, you do yeoman’s work here.

[fel64]

global $bb;

if( isset( $bb ) ) {

//...

}

[Andrew]

I’m hoping this is straightforward. I’ve integrated BBpress and WordPress at a theme level – ie reusing header and footer. What I would like to do is display different information (such as a link to a user profile) in the header only when a bbpress page is being displayed. Is there a conditional variable I can check with php that would allow me to do this? Which global variable? Thanks.

[d00d13]

“I guess I will go with one of these: https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Forums”

Where’s the beef?

[d00d13]

I put require_once(‘/home/domain/public_html/gypsylablue/wp-blog-header.php’);

in bbpress’ config, but it isn’t displaying wordpress’ header in bbpress. Is there anything elso one should do?

[d00d13]

“I was able to modify the source coding for bbPress to display within a page of WordPress”

How did you do that??

[chrishajer]

Not possible or at least not easy to do (I don’t think I’ve seen any one do it.) See here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unable-to-log-in-in-iframes?replies=9#post-11051

[dag-henning]

I managed to install bbpress, and its all working well, getting the data from the wpbase. but what i wis to do is to integrate bbpress as a part of my wp site, it should load in the main content frame. is this possible?

ex: http://www.indexhibit.org/forum/

here the skeleton of the cms remains after going to the forum.

help is much appreciated

[fel64]

Not sure who reads the WP feeds, so here’s an interesting snippet:

Mullenweg says he’ll use the new cash to fund more projects, including a new forums product. Called TalkPress, he said it will be “smaller, lighter, with fewer features but a richer customization API.”

In other words, it will work a lot like WordPress, which is a basic framework upon which users add the features they really need. Mullenweg some time ago created a forum program, BBPress, and the TalkPress service will be built on that.

“I spend a lot of time on forums, and they drive me crazy,” he said. “They haven’t changed in 10 years.”

http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2008/01/the_importance_of_being_matt.html

[Beau Lebens]

@starnet – The best way is to have it in an auto-load WPMU plugin, which means stick it in a file called “no-404s.php” or something in wp-content/mu-plugins/.

[rslater]

I am trying to think if there is a work around // using what works .. I.E wordpress. Since the passwords would be the same for both.. Maybe there is an angle I can take there.. Sign them up in wordpress and dump the new users into bbpress to edit profile/ or add the additional bbpress profile fieldsto wordpress profile edit.. Just thinking out loud..

[rslater]

I have tried all different ways of entering email addresses. I am baffled. The only thing I can think is the following:

bbpress resides in folder one up from Word press. I am wondering if there is a file permission issue for that folder. But again the odd thing is.. the favorites notification works just fine and it is in the same plugin folder as the plugin Sam had me upload. I do not know. I hope Sam may have more ideas.

None of this makes sense. It has to be a BBpress email php coding issue.. But why is it so different from wordpress and the bpress plugin “favorites notification” that work fine.

[fel64]

You need to have wordpress and bbpress more fully integrated, that is, require wordpress before bbpress is run in bb’s config.php file. I think all that is in that link, under the last section.

[tomimaila]

This is a feature I’d need as well. If someone is interested in writing such an extension, I suggest starting with WordPress wp-admin/upload.php as the basis for the extension. This file is resposible for the file attachment uploads in WordPress administrator intefrace and I don’t see any reason reinventing the wheel. It used for example by WordPress wp-admin/post-new.php as an Iframe inclusion.

[Trent Adams]

The spam post isn’t under moderation, but spam posts that are well written in WP are not either as they display immediately. I can tell you this though, on wordpress.com support forums there are very few “spambot” posts that make it past akismet. I have a couple small forums myself, but I have never had a post get past akismet except posts that don’t have any bad words or links which really “could be” real user posts. Even that number is pretty low. I have more problems with spam registrations, but livibetter’s “enhanced registration” plugin took care of that

Trent

[Göran]

I inserted your code:

Code:

include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . ‘streams.php’);
include_once(BBPATH . BBINC . ‘gettext.php’);

in ‘bb-settings.php’ but it did not quite work. My blog http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/ is slower and website adm disappeared. And my forum http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/

still do not show the posts from the blog which was planned. I use bbSync to try to get that, but no success so far.

[Trent Adams]

I have found that as long as you change your Site Admin => Options and tell WPMU not to use the blog name of your forum in the signup process, you can use the normal bbPress .htaccess method. It works fine for me on http://onvertigo.com anyways.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

In addition, did you fill out all the fields in config.php with the URL of your wordpress install and database prefix? They are in the same database right?

Trent

[Trent Adams]

If you search in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ there is actually a plugin to do this for wordpress if I am not mistaken as well, but I use the way that chrishajer suggests myself as RSS feeds are easy to change and doesn’t require bbPress be in the same database

Trent

[Göran]

I seems to have the same problem. I get

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class streamreader in /mnt/home/_g/goranlin/www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/streams.php on line 26

I want both wp and bbpress to be translate so maybe I can put your code into ‘bb-settings.php’. Would that work?

[chrishajer]

How about using a WordPress plugin to display items from the Latest Discussion RSS feed from your forum?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/syndication

or

http://wp-plugins.net/category/Feed_Syndication/

[Göran]

Thanks for help. I am moving forward. I deleted both WP and bbPress and started again and made progress. The blog and the forum are integrated but I cannot get bbSync to work. Both work by temselves and I can log in with same id and password but cannot get posts into forum.

Installation:

Blog at http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/

Forum at http://www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/

WordPress 2.3.2 installed 22 january 2008

theme WordPress Default 1.6 changed colors in head with panel

bbPress 0.8.3.1 installed 22 january 2008

sv_SE.mo for WP installed 22 january 2008

sv_SE.mo for bbPress installed 22 january 2008

bbSync version 0.94 installed 22 january 2008

bbSync gave message “It needs your config!“

I did that! succesfully I thought.

But when trying to write new post in blog:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class streamreader in /mnt/home/_g/goranlin/www.goranlin.se/blogg/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/streams.php on line 26

but going back to blog the new post is there but still not in Forum

line 24-26 in streams.php is:

// Simple class to wrap file streams, string streams, etc.

// seek is essential, and it should be byte stream

class StreamReader {

// should return a string [FIXME: perhaps return array of bytes?]

function read($bytes) {

return false;

I have no clue how to do anything about this! All help is welcome!

[Olaf Lederer]

I have more than 1000 registrations now, I’m not sure what happens if some but will start to register fake accounts. If this becomes a problem you need to something else.

bbpress works with akismet and this works fine on wordpress

[fel64]

You do need a localisation file, but if one doesn’t come with the topic it’s typically the sort of thing you can do for yourself.

Some wp themes let you set the colour scheme in the admin panel (Mandigo for one), but it’s a fairly simple task to open the style.css file and change the hex colour-codes (once you understand what they are).

Having bb as a subdirectory of wp is a good start but it’s not necessary as far as I know. My wp install is in a folder /wordpress/, while bb is in the forums subdomain. This should be everything you need to know on integration: https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/