Hey.
I solved it myself.
As a matter of fact it was a http://www./no-www issue.
In WordPress my Blog-URL was http://cmscentral.de and after I changed it to http://www.cmscentral.de everything worked just fine.
There is a plugin for WordPress but I haven’t seen one for bbPress.
In header.php, in the header div (where the login_form() is) put this:
<img id=”headerlogo” src=”http://www.theangrywaiter.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/awbanner.jpg” alt=”The Angry Waiter” />
Right now though, the image is taller than the header div (the header is 106px, the image is 131px, I think.)
So, to make it all work, you’ll need to make the header div taller, or the image less tall. Then you’ll need to apply some styling to the image you just placed in the header. Something like this:
#header img {
whatever: here;
}
That just gets the image into the header. Then you need to wrap an <a href="http://www.theangrywaiter.com/" alt="go home"></a> around that image tag you just added, to link the image to the destination.
Just grab the links to the individual forum pages then, and insert them into a WordPress page. You’ll have to maintain it manually, so if you add a new city you would need to add a new link to that WordPress page. I imagine there is probably a way with integration to use the bbPress functions in a WordPress page but I think that’s more work than it’s worth, especially if your list of cities is pretty much set.
Your WordPress page would be titled “Forum” then, and in that page would be the links to the individual forums. Then you might not even need front-page.php since you’d be navigating directly to the parent forums for each city. I think you would probably leave it there so if anyone navigated in the breadcrumbs to the next level ‘up’ they would still get a list of all cities, either links to the parents, or the way you had it set up initially with the long front page.
I have installed bbPress using the same DB as WordPress so they can both share user details. This works great. Although I have not put bbPress in a sub-dir of WordPress to share cookies.
However, when I log in as the Key Master (who is also the administrator in WordPress) I cannot create new Forums. It says I don;t have permission to do that! When I use the exact same set up with a dedicated bbPress DB it all works ok.
Is this a bug? I think it must be…
@fel64:
My Blog’s address is: http://www.cmscentral.de/index.php
Installed in subfolder /content/
My forum’s address is: http://www.cmscentral.de/content/forum
I installed bbpress in my Blog’s/WP’s subfolder, because that supposedly should automatically have the right cookie settings.
Could this be a www/no-www issue?
Did anyone find that you could piggyback onto the WordPress integration/authentication when using the OpenID plugin? It didn’t work for me. I had the plugin activated on my WordPress site and was able to login and create users just fine, but bbPress didn’t know about the credentials and wouldn’t login.
I need to get more familiar with how the integration is working – I thought it would work fine since it created a normal WordPress user record. But it kept saying the userid was unknown… Will probably dig into it later. The WP plugin is great – the persona fill in stuff is very cool. Only quirk was my ‘Display As’ defaulted to the userid even though a name was included. But I digress.
electroniques: what are the urls of your installs? You probably need to set the cookie domains explicitly.
joeby: I’d love to, but advice to electroniques is going to help you too. If you want to reward the help anyway, that’d be awesome.
Yep, I have the same issue. Haven’t come across the answer yet, but waiting (im)patiently so I can get my bb up and running… As near as I can tell it’s a cookie issue, but I don’t know how to fix it…
Anybody wanna make $20 to get my installs working?
Hey.
I just setup bbpress and integrated it into my WordPress blog.
The good news is that when I signup a new user in my WordPress blog I can also log into my bbpress forum using the same username and password.
But I would like the user to remain logged in. For example if I login to my WP blog and then click a link that takes me to a post in my bbpress forum, I have to login again.
I thought I did everything necessary in order to synchonize WP and bbpress.
Does anybody have any clues what could be wrong?
Thanks a lot in advance already!!
Now .. ive managed to make WP and bbp share same theme. Dont know if its god but it works.. im running right now.
wp-content/theme/header.php
<?php
include(ROOT . '/theme/header-start.php');
?>
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?> - <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<?php
wp_head();
include(ROOT . '/theme/header-end.php');
?>
<body>
<?php
wp_head();
include(ROOT. '/theme/body-start.php');
?>
my-themes/theme/header.php
<?php
include(ROOT . '/theme/header-start.php');
?>
<title>MyWebsite - <?php bb_title() ?></title>
<?php
bb_feed_head();
if ( is_topic() && bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
var lastMod = <?php topic_time( 'timestamp' ); ?>;
var page = <?php global $page; echo $page; ?>;
var currentUserId = <?php bb_current_user_info( 'id' ); ?>;
var topicId = <?php topic_id(); ?>;
var uriBase = '<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>';
var tagLinkBase = '<?php bb_tag_link_base(); ?>';
var favoritesLink = '<?php favorites_link(); ?>';
var isFav = <?php if ( false === $is_fav = is_user_favorite( bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) ) ) echo "'no'"; else echo $is_fav; ?>;
</script>
<?php
bb_enqueue_script('topic');
endif;
bb_head();
include(ROOT. '/theme/header-end.php');
?>
<body id="<?php bb_location(); ?>">
<?php
include(ROOT . '/theme/body-start.php');
if ( is_bb_profile() ) profile_menu();
?>
my-themes/theme/footer.php
<?php
do_action('bb_foot', '');
include(ROOT . '/theme/body-end.php');
?>
wp-content/theme/footer.php
<?php
include(ROOT . '/theme/body-end.php');
?>
theme/header-start.php
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
theme/header-end.php
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo URL; ?>/theme/default.css" type="text/css" title="Default style" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" href="<?php echo URL; ?>/?feed=rss2" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS Feed" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php echo URL; ?>/xmlrpc.php" />
<link rel="EditURI" href="<?php echo URL; ?>/xmlrpc.php?rsd" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" />
<link rel="wlwmanifest" href="<?php echo URL; ?>/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.3.1" />
</head>
theme/body-start.php
<div id="wrapper">
<?php
get_sidebar();
// Etc...
?>
theme/body-end.php
<?php
// Etc...
wp_footer();
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hope its all there.. 
URL and ROOT is defined in wp-config.php
Edit: you can of course cut BODY to include different sidebar wp / bbp 
I don’t think they handle plugins at trac. At least there is no component for “plugins.”
I see you already posted in the plugin forum:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/2?replies=13#post-2
You could try contacting the author of the plugin:
Michael D Adams
mda TA blog NOSPACE waffe TOD com (from his blog, and there’s also a wordpress email address for him as well if you look around…)
Are you thinking this should be handled in the template files, and thus should be submitted to trac, or should someone just update the plugin?
I do have it installed on the WordPress side of the site.
Ok, I’ve disabled it.
Let’s see what happens now!
Thanks for the reply.
Ah, great! I’ve been translating bbPress to portuguese to use on my WPMU+bbPress project and when I try to set the language I get the error as well….
Anyways, I guess I’ll have to try merging the two PO files.
@ganzua, I don’t think you really need to define BBLANGDIR – it works because you have already defined the .mo file in WP config file. You get the error *if* you try to define BBLANG. However, if you leave BBLANG as ”, you won’t get the error.
I actually haven’t tried yet, but I think it make sense.
ok – i’m the keymaster. the username is for example AndyBB.
if i put the var’s to the right thing:
$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’;
$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.XYZ.de’; //
$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.XYZ.de’; //
i use the folowing plugin in wp:
bbPress Integration 0.74 -> Michael Adams.
Synchronizes registrations on your bbPress installation with your WordPress blog
in bb:
WordPress Integration 0.7 -> Tightly integrates user accounts between WordPress and bbPress
if i now login into wp, i can use my forum with the same username as i login and this user stands in wp userdatabase NOT in bbpress users.
if i log out, use AndyBB + password – can’t login !!!
if i delete the var’s in config.php, i can login! i see the little admin link.
so – i make a misstake. but i don’t know what it’s wrong.
Seeking a simple solution that allows logged in users to upload and include images in their posts.
All I’ve come up with is the Allow Images plugin, which adds a button to the editing form that helps paste an IMG tag so you can link to an external image.
I was told in another thread that it’s far from trivial to create a file attachments plugin for bbPress: “A major problem right now is lack of per-post metadata. Even if that were present, this would not be a trivial task.” I’m not sure of the terminology here, but if “attachment” means embedding an image in a post, that’s what I want to do.
ImageShack was suggested, a web service that lets people upload images which they serve for free. You can embed their upload form in your site, upload, then grab the preformatted image URL and paste it into your bbPress post. This kinda works, but it’s distracting because you get an ImageShack mini-ad, and have to go to their site to copy the link (cool service, though)…
I thought of trying a simple uploader script that would upload files completely outside of bbPress and present the URL for cutting and pasting into the post. Kinda like the ImageShack procedure minus…ImageShack. Dunno, this is probably beyond me, though I may try with a canned script…
I’m using 2.3.1 integrated with 0.8.3 via bbSync and WordPress integration. It works great!
Any ideas?
(I noticed that Allow Images is the #1 most downloaded plugin, 7x more popular than #2, WordPress Integration, so I imagine the MASSES are craving simple image upload…
Thanks!
I have this weird issue. I have enabled permalink in my config.php. Initially I had the .htaccess with option +multiview in the /bbpress folder. Then I read that it would be good to have just one .htaccess in the wordpress folder. I did this and also tried to have the other option as documented in the site (using a generated list as content for .htaccess).
Permalinks worked when I am not logged in. The moment I log in as admin, I see the address is of the form ?/topic=1 etc.
I try clearing cookies, tried to delete the whole forum but still am able to reproduce the issue.
What am I doing wrong?
Are you using any custom role plugins with WordPress or anything that changes the display name? I think those things mess with the integrated logins.
Your setup is fine. The URLs are supposed to be the same in config.php. And once you have it working you can log in in WordPress and still be logged in in bbPress. It’s just an issue of getting it right.
I think you will be redirected from bb-admin if you’re not logged in or if you’re logged in as someone other than keymaster. Can you take a screenshot showing who you’re logged in as?
Sounds like you don’t have a link to Admin either. That makes me think you’re not the keymaster. Can you confirm with direct access to the database that you are in fact the key master? I think that’s the source of your problem.
There was also a plugin that I thought could do this. Are you using any plugins? I would tell you to disable them one by one, but since you can’t access the admin section, that would be hard. I think right now you are going to need direct access to your database tables with a tool like phpMyAdmin or whatever your host provides.
Regarding the WordPress error, that’s a WordPress issue and I think you will find help over at the WordPress forums, for example:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/134771
(From the looks of it, there is no more post2cat table in WP 2.3, but not all the plugins have caught up, so some of them are causing this error. Or possibly you just need to upgrade the database schema to match your WordPress installation? In either case, that’s a WordPress issue and totally unrelated to bbPress.)
I’m integrated on http://www.rabies-ls.com – though I think I’m a bit late for your weekend conference!
so – tested a lot.
my blog has now an error:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘summerdb.wp_post2cat’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT p2c.category_id AS cat_id, COUNT(p2c.rel_id) AS numposts, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(max(posts.post_date_gmt)) + ‘1’ AS last_post_date, UNIX_TIMESTAMP(max(posts.post_date_gmt)) AS last_post_date_gmt FROM wp_post2cat p2c INNER JOIN wp_posts posts ON p2c.post_id=posts.id WHERE 1 = 1 AND posts.post_type = ‘post’ AND posts.post_status = ‘publish’ AND posts.post_date_gmt <= ‘2007-11-18 15:26:18’ GROUP BY p2c.category_id ORDER BY numposts DESC
if i try to login in bb-admin like: http://www.summer-breeze-fanatics.de/forum/bb-admin/admin-base.php
i was redirectet to http://www.summer-breeze-fanatics.de/forum/
i can login with all my users from wordpress into bbpress.
i have all things done that was sayed in zhe docu and in this forum.
in my config.php under bbpress and in the wp-config.php.
but it doesn’t work very well and i don’t know how to figure out what i do wrong.
anyone has a tip or a little workaround?
thanks
Andy
OK… I’m trying to integrate bbpress (whatever the current version as of 11/17/07 is) with wordpress, hosted on my site.
It’s a train wreck.
In no particular order, but all of equal importance…
bbpress recognizes all the usernames from wp, however my admin account doesn’t give me access to anything. When it was first installed I was able to log in with admin and the random password and get to the dashboard.
Actions are all met with “No Input File Specified”. In other words, Can’t read posts, can’t read can’t enter forums, can’t view profile.
I saw the plugins to integrate, and downloaded the WP plugin, which says is activated (although I’m not sure how to edit it appropriately with the prefixes), and apparently there’s a plugin for bbpress but I can only find the “trac” version of it, not the original, and anyway can’t get to the dashboard to do anything with it. When I could, the trac version didn’t show up, even though I had uploaded that to the my-plugins directory as instructed in the integrating section…
Here’s the url for the WP site and the bbpress site…
wp: http://www.seekgoddaily.com
bbp: http://www.seekgoddaily.com/bbpress/
Does anyone have time to help me out?
Whatever file your wp-config.php is in is where you normally want your bbpress folder. That would give you one of two things:
http://www.site.com/ (where this is actually WordPress for your site)
http://www.site.com/bbpress (bbPress forum)
OR
http://www.site.com/ (website)
http://www.site.com/wordpress (WordPress blog)
http://www.site.com/wordpress/bbpress (bbPress forum)
Lots of people use WordPress alone for their website. If you are using it for your site, and your site is at http://www.site.com, and you want bbpress in a folder called bbpress, then drop the bbpress folder into the root folder for your site (wherever wp-config.php is.)
IF you don’t need integration, and you have a website, a blog (WordPress) and want a forum (bbPress) just put the bbpress folder at the same level as the wordpress folder. So you would have this:
http://www.site.com/
http://www.site.com/wordpress/
http://www.site.com/bbpress/
If you are not concerned with integration, and you have a website AND a WordPress install, then I would do the option directly above (with bbpress and wordpress directories at the same level.)
Hope that makes sense.
Well, guess what? I just went and deleted all of the bbpress database tables and deleted the forums sub-directory.
I’m going to do a fresh install. I think I should have installed bbPress inside the WP subdirectory and I think you and I have discussed this before.
But, I’m an idiot today I guess. So, if you don’t mind, this time when I install I should ftp bbPress to wordpress correct? WP is the main page (top level domain).
So the url would be what? http://www.my_site.com/wordpress/bbpress?
Or, am I totally off base here. Once again, I’m hosted by Yahoo and cannot make a .htaccess file and I will leave my mod_rewrite = false if that makes a difference.
BTW, I’m not going to register users on the main site, so there’s no need to integrate WP with bbPress.
Thanks
I just finished installing bbPress with WordPress MU and did the integration on install. Problem is, I can’t find the bbPress admin panel. Can anyone help me out? Thanks!
