[Zambu]

Looks very good. I like the sports theme and especially the way you executed it in a simple but memorable manner. This approach perfectly matches the “simple but elegant” slogan of bbPress.

I am not as good as you are at coming up with a nice looking theme (plus mine is a business site, so slightly more serious topic), so I just modified the standard header and colors a bit. But I still like my new bbPress forum much better than my former YABB forum system. YABB was somewhat slow for me, but the biggest problem was that it was nearly ignored by every search engine. On the other hand, my WordPress blog is very well indexed by the main search engines and I am hoping that bbPress will have the same results.

thomas at innovatize dot com slash forum

[ear1grey]

Quick Version:

Is it feasible internally, to have a user post a comment to the forum and register at the same time?

Detail:

Something that’s been mentioned already by a regular reader of my blog is that he’d be far less inclined to leave a comment anywhere that he had to register first.

The BBPress registration process is mind-numbingly simple, but users first have to get over the two-step-hurdle of registering and then leaving their comment.

So it strikes me that, since the registration details are the same as you have to provide when blog-commenting some middle ground might be beneficial.

I imagine it working such that when the user submits their comment (topic) their confirmation message is along the lines of:

Thanks! We’ve sent you an email to confirm your address. Please return here using the link we’ve sent you to make your comment visible.

From here it becomes a small step to replace the wordpress comment mechanism with bbpress, which is somehting I’d like to do.

[hoosierplew]

Awesome, that worked! Thanks for the assist.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Try require_once('/path/to/wp-blog-header.php'); instead of wp-config.php.

[hoosierplew]

I’ve just upgraded bbpress and am running into this error when I use the WP function get_footer():

Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in /home/drills/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2139

The forum in question is located at http://43drills.com/forum/

The error can be found just above the gigantic RSS button in the footer in the above link.

[Atsutane]

Thanks It work now

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

What you’re trying to do should be done in bbPress’ config.php file, but you’re really close

Put your index.php back the way it was. In bbPress’ config.php file, put the following two lines right after the <?php line.

require_once('/path/to/wp-blog-header.php');

define('WP_BB', true);

It seems you’ve found the correct path to use in you system: /home/myusername/public_html/blog/wp-blog-header.php

So it should now look like:

<?php

require_once('/home/myusername/public_html/blog/wp-blog-header.php');

define('WP_BB', true);

Then, copy your bb-templates/ directory to my-templates/ this is so you can modify the template files without editing the original ones; bbPress will use the files in that directory automatically instead of the original ones.

In my-templates/front-page.php (and any of your other template iles), you can now call any WordPress template function, even get_header().

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

You should be able to use any bbPress functions you like in WordPress as long as you

require_once('path/to/bbpress/config.php');

[Atsutane]

When u load wordpress function inside bbpress. U already integrate both design point and database point. You only need to add WP template tags inside bbpress template.

[cmcraft]

Nope. Here is my index.php file from the bbpress directory. What am I doing wrong?

‘<?php

require(‘./bb-load.php’);

//the next two lines are my attempts to load it myself

require_once(‘/home/myusername/public_html/blog/wp-config.php/’);

require_once(‘/home/myusername/public_html/blog/wp-blog-header.php’);

$bb_db_override = false;

do_action( ‘bb_index.php_pre_db’, ” );

if ( isset($_GET) && ‘1’ == $_GET ) :

$forums = false;

elseif ( !$bb_db_override ) :

$forums = get_forums(); // Comment to hide forums

$topics = get_latest_topics();

$super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();

endif;

do_action( ‘bb_index.php’, ” );

if (file_exists( BBPATH . ‘my-templates/front-page.php’ ))

require( BBPATH . ‘my-templates/front-page.php’ );

else require( BBPATH . ‘bb-templates/front-page.php’ );

//then i tried the include header call to no avail so i tried this

<?php include (/home/myusername/public_html/blog . ‘/wp-blog-header.php’); ?>

?>

‘

[cmcraft]

I am going to try this, thanks to the page you referenced above.

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/header2.php’); ?>

[cmcraft]

Ok, now I am beginning to understand. I assume from looking around that I need to add that code (such as ‘<?php get_header(); ?>’) into the bbpress/index.php file.

Naturally bbpress won’t know to look in the /blog/ folder (bbpress is in the /blog/bbpress/ folder) so how do I set the path?

Would that be another require( etc code?

Thanks for all the help, I am learning so much!

[Atsutane]

The only way available right now is to load wordpress into bbpress. I like to load some bbpress function into wordpress.

Anyone know how to do it?

[ear1grey]

I’ve modified my Google Analytics Plugin for WordPress and it appears to be working in BBPress (albeit without the UI for configuring the “uastring”).

Testers welcome; get it here…

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

The best resource for that is https://codex.wordpress.org/Include_Tags

and https://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags .

[larmir]

Found my solution here….

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/17?replies=26

Thanks astereo:

Solved my problem. It was coming from

#

$bb->wp_table_prefix = false; // ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix.

#

$bb->wp_home = false; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

#

$bb->wp_siteurl = false; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

I had set the urls only to domain.com/directory, when I added the http and www it worked fine.

[larmir]

I’m digging the idea of bb inside wordpress. thanks

installed bb following integration with wordpress. installed fine. however, none of my logins work for bbpress. if i try to write a post, i’m asked to login. i do so, and the login doesn’t allow me to post or comment on threads. nor can i get into the admin area.

i know the login is correct because when i use a false login, i get an error message – which doesn’t happen when i use the correct login. all that happens when i login with the correct info is i end up being told i need to login again. it’s as though i’m stuck in some loop.

not sure what to do next. any help?

[cmcraft]

ok, can you tell me how?

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

cmcraft, you need to call WordPress’ template functions yourself. bbPress doesn’t do that for you.

[dawudm]

Integrated WordPress with bbPress. I’ve added the integration plugins. But can’t get logins to work in bbPress.

I pre-registered a few new users in WordPress. Can login fine in WP. But I can’t even seem to login as admin in bbPress even to write/comment on a post – regardless of admin or other users. Can see an admin screen, but not allowed to do anything there without login – which I can’t do.

No error message comes up. I login, checks the database and returns to the screen. Doesn’t matter which login link I’m using in bbPress, I can’t create/edit a thread, nor can I gain admin access.

Any ideas?

[minnellium]

I’m interested in this too… but I understand it might sound a bit odd to some people, depending on how they use WP.

[dawudm]

A little more detail…

I’ve installed bbPress in a folder inside WordPress (I want to integrate them). I’ve followed the instructions for integration. I think everything’s right – but, obviously not if it’s not working.

I love WordPress and was stoked to hear about bbPress. So any help getting this started would be greatly appreciated.

[cmcraft]

Ok so I got it to work without error, but it still does not load my blog site on top of the forum. Maybe I misunderstood, I need more than just username and password integration. I need it to show my blog.

[ear1grey]

Perhaps this should go in the plugins forum but something I’m instantly realizing is that not everybody tags things the same, and so not everybody finds the same documents when using the tags.

It would be nice to have the capability to have tag synonyms (so for a very simple example) if someone adds a “WP” tag, then future readers would also see the article when looking for “WordPress”.

This could be achieved at a number of points (a) by adding an extra tag when the post is written, or (b) replacing the “WP” tag with “wordpress”, or (c) when a user searches for a tag.

It strikes me that “a” is best options because with there is a better chance that search engines will find the post.

[ear1grey]

Has anyone considered what might be required to migrate existing WordPress comments into BBPress?

I’m imagining a script that would examine the comments DB, move comments storing them in an article-specific topic (which might be easier if themes could be nested, like categories), tagging them with their previous article’s categories.

One nicety: perhaps each former comment URL could be added to htaccess, redirecting to it’s new location.