[John James Jacoby]

Hey Matt!

Without too much detail, I’ve been neck deep in theme development, bug patching, code re-factoring and clean-up since the Windows 3.11 and Visual Basic 3.0 days. I’ve been interested in making bbPress be better integrated with WordPress for probably a year or so now? I was a long time phpBB2.0 junkie, and moved to WordPress because I was frustrated at how forcibly linear typical forum software is. When I fell in love with the WordPress way, I quickly found bbPress, and expected it to include all of the features that BuddyPress now does, hence my shift in that direction.

I’d like to help restyle bbpress.org, maybe bring it a little more in line with the other Automattic websites. There’s no doubt that bbPress needs some TLC in the codex and source-code documentation areas too, and I have recent experience absorbing the WP Code Standards from working under Andy with BuddyPress.

Right now my focus is 100% BuddyPress, but since you asked… I’d love to be more involved in all of the WP projects and communities if there’s opportunity.

[chrishajer]

The cookies that are sent to your browser by bbPress and WordPress.

I’ve lost track of the number of topics that describe how to do this. Can someone please post the best one for synchronizing the cookie settings? Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Thanks hatter for posting that. I hadn’t heard about that plugin before.

[hatter]

You can use the bbPress-Wordpress Syncronization plugin for this, found at http://bobrik.name/code/wordpress/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/. We are currently running bbPress 1.0.2 and WordPress 2.8.5 and have no issues.

[hatter]

Make sure your cookies are set properly and match between bbPress and WordPress. Usually, if you have to login when going between the two, the cookies don’t match. Also, when testing this, make sure you delete old cookies from your system as they may be causing a conflict.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

There’s one for WordPress: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wats/

[chrishajer]

Read this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration

The plugins that used to allow this, bbPress Live (for newer bbPress) and bbSync (for older bbPress) are both broken, I believe.

You can also parse the RSS feed, going either way, but that’s a lot of work to do what you want.

[tdh11]

Would anybody know how to display parts of bbpress in wordpress? My wordpress category pages are the same as my bbpress forums. Would it be possible to include latest 10 posts from bbpress forum ‘apple ipod’ on an apple ipod category page in wordpress?

..

Further thought, possibly the other way around? Display wordpress posts from ‘apple ipod’ category above the bbpress forum ‘apple ipod’?

[vanbroeK]

Well first of all I am really happy with bbPress, it’s great for my simple site.

My problem is the integration between my wordpress blog an my forum. When i log in to the forum i get logged out of wordpress and visa versa. Just wondering whether or not this is supposed to happen? What can i do if its not?

Help would be great.

[buddha-trance]

@ fifthhouse – Yes, chrishajer and I were talking about the same file! Great that you got that to work.

Regarding integration, yes, by “normal” I mean just sharing the users tables in the database and cookies. Deep integration loads WP into bbPress. It is better explained here, under “Functions” https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

The plugin seems to work even if there is no integration, though. From the description page:

“Even if your bbpress is not integrated with your wordpress. U still can use this plugin with a little change on the option page.”

[jackie911hk]

bb-config.php.

<?php

/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your

* web host.

*

* This file is used by the installer during installation.

*

* @package bbPress

*/

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for bbPress */

define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘blah’ );

/** MySQL database username */

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘blah’ );

/** MySQL database password */

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘blah’ );

/** MySQL hostname */

define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’ );

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define( ‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’ );

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */

define( ‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ” );

/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys.

*

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ WordPress.org secret-key service}

*

* @since 1.0

*/

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

/**#@-*/

/**

* bbPress Database Table prefix.

*

* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique

* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

*/

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

/**

* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.

*

* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen

* language must be installed to a directory called “my-languages” in the root

* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to “my-languages” and set

* BB_LANG to ‘de’ to enable German language support.

*/

define( ‘BB_LANG’, ” );

?>

mySQL

http://www.jackie.net/mySQL-1.jpg

http://www.jackie.net/mySQL-2.jpg

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

How about just sending all request for the bbPress registration over to WordPress:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-bbpress-register-plusgtgtgtgt#post-18352

[DavyB]

What mods to this would you need to do, to instead of killing registration, diverting the registration to your integrated wordpress registration, I’m using bbp 1.0.2 and wp 2.8.5

[chrishajer]

A table prefix is just one way of having lots of different software packages use one database. Since they might use similarly named tables, like user or post, the table prefix allows multiple packages to use the same database and table name, it just gets this prefix added to the table. So, the posts table becomes bb_posts, or wp_posts in the case of WordPress.

You could change it to chevycamaro_ and then you’d get chevycamaro_post as a table name.

Just don’t use the same prefix for two different software packages. That has a tendency to wipe things out. (The second package you install with a similarly named table will overwrite the first table, if you use the same prefix. Always use a unique prefix. It’s a non-issue for you now with only one software package installed using that database.)

[chrishajer]

Heh, completely misread that one. It’s even easier to put a link to the WordPress site in your bbPress header. Just modify the template file to put the link where you want it.

[chrishajer]

You do not need integration at all to put a link to your forum in your top menu.

How to put a link to forums on my WordPress navigation menu

But it’s even simpler than that. If you put your bbPress installation in a folder (subdirectory of where WordPress is) called “kitty-cat-talk” and you create a WordPress page called “Kitty Cat Talk” with a slug of “kitty-cat-talk” – the link will be in the menu, and clicking the link will send visitors to your forum. The way WordPress .htaccess and mod_rewrite works with pretty permalinks is that it looks for a folder first (or a file) and if a folder with that name exists, serve that. So that is what happens with a page like this. Your WordPress page will have no content, it will just send people to your forums, assuming the Page slug and the folder you installed into are the same.

There also also ways to call the page whatever you want, and do a custom redirect to your forum. That is detailed in the link I sent. There are a couple plugins that can do that for you.

http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/page-links-to/

http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/custom-field-redirect/

And then there is the template way someone linked to in that thread.

It’s pretty easy and you do not need integration at all to just have a link in your WordPress menu to your forum installation.

[fifthhouse]

I am going to install a bbpress forums with my wordpress blog. I am trying to understand something.

I want to have the menu from my blog appear in my bbpress forums. My question is: Does this mean I have to do “deep integration” as described in the documentation on integration where it says:

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. This integration step is also known as “deep” integration, “

Does my wanting to have the top menu from my blog appear on my bbpress forums fit into the category of “WordPress’ functions?” as described above?

[chrishajer]

http://valadilene.org/projects/wordbb/

WordBB is an integration between the blogging platform WordPress and the bulletin board system MyBB.

It is composed of two parts: a plugin for WordPress and a plugin for MyBB.

[circuit]

it was resolved by logging out and logging in to bbpress (not wordpress).

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forumsbb-admin-just-redirects-me-to-forums

[deuts]

Ahhh, I’m having the same issues. I guess this is inherent to the BbPress and WordPress integration. So that’s why. I’m wondering if there have been any solution for this.

[Justin Tadlock]

Codex. Codex. Codex.

Open up a BB Codex like we have with WP. How are we going to get more devs to start hopping on the bbPress bandwagon? While many of us enjoy sifting through code when we get the extra time, good documentation is always helpful to get people started. Heck, even some better inline documentation would do wonders right now.

Seriously, when was the last time this page and its subpages have been updated?

https://bbpress.org/documentation/

I’ve got more work than I can possibly handle, but I’d be willing to develop things for the bbPress community. I just don’t have time to spend reading through all the code, line by line, to see how things work.

Give developers a chance to make the platform shine.

The success of WordPress comes from the vast number of add-ons (themes and plugins) for the system. Without them, WordPress probably would’ve died a long while ago.

The lack of documentation is probably turning a good number of developers away from the system, developers that could be creating plugins for many of the features that users want.

This is the area that needs the most improvement. Let’s work on documentation first. Then, we can start thinking about other things bbPress needs.

Themes

I’ve seen a handful of decent themes I’d use, but (as far as I know) there are no major theme developers in the bbPress community. Documentation would go a long way in helping here. This is especially true for designers that don’t know all the ins and outs of the platform’s PHP code.

I’d personally start coding bbPress themes if it supported the same type of parent/child theme setup that WordPress has. I’d be happy to port all of my WP themes like this.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Thank DKB. To disable that line, go to line 1017 in the WordPress-side plugin file wpbb-sync.php and comment out (put \ before each line):

$comments[count($comments)-1]->comment_content .= '<br/><p class="wpbb_continue_discussion">'.

__('Please continue discussion on the forum: ', 'wpbb-sync')."<a href='$link'> link</a></p>";

You can also just change the text there too. Someone tell these guys about array_push() ?

[DKB]

Its coming from the plugin WordPress-bbPress syncronization

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

[chrishajer]

How about a little more information?

URL?

What happens when they try?

What happens when you try?

Any error messages?

What version bbPress?

Integrated with WordPress? If so, what version WordPress?

Stock theme or custom?

Any plugins active?

Has it ever worked or never worked since installation?

What host are you on?

You never know which of these items will be important, but starting with a little information is better than nothing.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

bbPress doesn’t touch WordPress by default, so you must be running some plugin that adds that