[lionbeat]

I spent a whole day today reading the documentation/forums/blog posts on integrating bbpress with wordpress and didn’t achieved much yet. No deep integration, just the basic database/cookies sharing, but I’m stuck at finding a good tutorial/explanation on how to export my existing wordpress theme’s header and footer into bbpress. Any suggestions?

And I’m really disappointed that the themes that used to be neatly presented here are now gone.

@ gofastbargains: What is the bbpress theme you used for your project? Perhaps you can provide the link too.

[veroonica]

Hello.

make the integration of bb-press, wordpress,successfully, but

I miss the last step is the activation of the plugin in bbPress integration “, I can not!.

Is it because I have the version bbpress 1.0.2? and the plugin works with the integration bbpress vercion 1.0 alpha 4.?

bbpress 1.02 “is before or after bbPress 1.0 alpha 4?.

When installing “bbpress integration”. Na window appears that asks for my password (the wp-config file. Php), put it, but I also wonder if I have FTP connection, I have not, and will not let me install the plugin.

What do I do?

actualiso my wordpress , with that version?, or is related to that I have no FTP connection?

help

[josh16]

Okay, so I’ve successfully integrated both WordPress and bbPress and combined the themes into one. I wanted to try this since no one else has. So, I used the bbPress Kakumei theme because styling from a WP theme was much to hard at this point given that the whole bbPress template would’ve needed to be redone. Anyways, the header was probably the easiest since I simply copied and pasted the code.

It’ll sone be up for grabs if I can get all the other template files together. I’m wondering, though, if I should give credit to Bryon Veloso since it was based off of his theme(?)

Here is my demo site (the site I designed it on): http://thevaultonline.megabyet.net

Comments/Critiques?

[Jim R]

I posted as an Admin just fine, starting a new topic and posting a reply, but my users have to post via the comments section of my blog. They are unable to post replies in the forum, and they are unable to start topics. I have nothing set up in my WordPress discussion settings keeping them from posting other than they must be logged in.

[chrishajer]

I believe those my- folders are still needed. What makes you think they’re not?

1.0.2 was creating the folders with the wrong permissions, 0750, instead of 0755, but that bug was fixed I believe, just not packaged and released yet. https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1139

[petroski]

Yes, same here and same result – and I redid it over again with no satisfaction.

A couple of things to note.

When you create the bbpress sub-folder within the wordpress folder, one needs to make the bbpress (or forum, etc.) folder writable so that the install can write the bb-config.php file.

I also note that the install (v. 1.02) created the no-longer-used folders my-plugins and my-templates, which I believe is a remnant from older versions, with apache permissions – meaning that I’ll need to telnet in and remove these from the command-line – something that the average wordpress user would like to avoid.

In looking around at what’s going on with BBPress and WordPress integration; my comment is that I primarily deploy WordPress as a CMS solution so my vote is for integration as a short code plug-in for WordPress. I also see the need for BBPress as a stand alone application – perhaps a fork in the road is the best solution?

[gofastbargains]

we actually followed that guideline word for word, lol. I guess we have to go back and redo it. thanks!

[chrishajer]

If you are not already logged in to the forum when you come from being logged in to WordPress, the integration is not complete. Try this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-coockie-does-not-work#post-61969

[gofastbargains]

It took me and my brother the majority of the day on saturday to figure it out…all I can say is Finally! I do have one question, when I am logged into my wordpress site, and I go to the forum, it remembers my user id but does not fill in the password. Is that how its suppose to work, or did we do something wrong? Here it is..www.gofastbargains.com

-please give me feedback on the site, thanks!

[hurburghwhite]

Hi, Just downloaded and installed wordpress and bbpress with the intention of integrating them. Having gone through the three steps I got a minor error – it couldn’t create the first forum – but completed the installation. When I put in the URL address of bbpress it simply told me that ‘bbPress is already installed’. i noticed it defaults to ‘http://tokrates.net/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php’

Any ideas?

Chris

[Pomy]

Dear buddies,

there is a problem with my permalinks, When i go to my bbpress admin then permalinks .. there i can see the permalinks looks like

1. None : http://www.example.com/forums/forums.php?id=1

2. Numeric : http://www.example.com/forums/forums/1

3. Name based : http://www.example.com/forums/forums/first-forum

Note: “There is only one directory in my site not two forums/forums directories”

when i select first type of permalinks then site works fine… but when i select second or 3rd option then all goes correct except my page title.. my page title display like ( page not found – then WordPress site title ) .. it not shows the bbpress own title bcoz of wrong permalinks…

so I want to remove one forums words from the permalinks

I want to see it like

1. None : http://www.example.com/forums.php?id=1

2. Numeric : http://www.example.com/forums/1

3. Name based : http://www.example.com/forums/first-forum

Hope you can understand my question n problem !! And will give me solution… thanks

Regards

[grassrootspa]

@Maurice:

lol, have been pondering the same thing. The decision to require WordPress to run bbPress is also making me rethink my various bbPress project ideas…

[san100]

We have installed wordpress 2.9.1 and BBpress 1.0.2. We mapped the user roles but it looks like the user roles on BBpress are all “admin” roles. The application ignores the mapping completely so now every user on WP is an Admin on BBpress and can edit any post. Any idea why?

Thanks

San

[chrishajer]

Don’t change the table prefix from bb_ to wp_ – that will overwrite wp_tables. Leave the bb_ prefix for the tables, and use the same database, and the bb_tables will be installed into the same database your WordPress installation is using.

[Maurice]

Thanks for the great replies.

At the moment, I am kinda in doubt if I should continue developing this plugin or not. Since bbPress is going to be a WordPress plugin, it would make this plugin kinda useless? Or not?

[Jim R]

So are we saying the bbPress as a WP plugin is close at hand?

And if that is the case, is THIS an example of it or close to it?

[onthebeach96]

I’m currently using PHPBB for my forum software but I get SO MUCH spam. I’m considering either putting a recaptcha code on there for each post, or I’m looking into other software like bbPress. I love WordPress and so I would really like to use bbPress but I see there is no code that must be entered before posting so I wonder if spam will again be a problem.

What are your thoughts people? How do you control spam in your forums? I’ve had to lock my forums until I get a good solution.

[jcharles]

Tonight I tried to install bbPress, following the detailed instructions from the following screencast: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast. I’m running the newest version of wordpress and downloaded the newest version of bbpress as well.

I set all the database options based on the settings in my wp-config file and then ran into a snag. I couldn’t figure out if I needed to rename the default “bb_” database prefix to what my database prefix was “wp_” or leave it as the default “bb_”. I was planning to complete the integration route, so I changed the prefix to “wp_” thinking it would just add a few tables to my current SQL datbase. I also had a weird hostname, ” $_ENV{DATABASE_SERVER}” so I added that in the bbPress config hostname space.

I then went through all the other screens and bbpress said it installed with a “minor errors.” message. Unfortunately, I closed the screen in error and didn’t note the specific error.

Once I closed, I went to the site and while the article names we there, clicking on them resulted in a 404 error. In addition, I couldn’t log-in to my admin (said I didn’t have permission.) At this point, I assumed I did something wrong and deleted the “forums” folder, and restored my database.

I’d really like to use bbPress instead of Simple:Press because I heard it’s faster and fairly easy to customize. Any ideas on what went wrong? Is there a better set of instructions someplace?

Also, should I keep the prefix bb_ or change it to wp_?

Any help is appreciated. I’m pretty new at all this!

Jerry

[grassrootspa]

bbPress is currently not a WordPress plugin (you don’t access it on the WordPress plugins page, etc)

You need to download it here and follow those instructions:

https://bbpress.org/download/

[bingsterloot]

Sounds great paulhawke. I would very much like to beta test if possible ;O)

Keep up the good work

[chrishajer]

This was the solution for letting WordPress know about your bbPress installation to prevent 404s:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

I didn’t even get that though: I was getting a 302. That specific solution was for a 404 header being returned but the forum content still being showed.

[paulhawke]

There are plenty of 3rd party libraries that deal with the feed reading. Thus far I have a working admin screen that relies on AJAX services to validate a given feed URL. Combination of a GOOD rss library on the backend, and the encode_json() method from PHP means I’m golden for right now.

Milestone 1 of the plugin is complete – administration page to handle a single feed. Milestone 2 is starting – using that data to actually monitor the single feed. When Milestone 2 is completed I’ll grab a couple of people to beta test.

[kevinjohngallagher]

hi bb-lover,

1) Google is not indexing your “http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forums/” because your wordpress sitemap is telling it to look at “http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forum/” which exists, works, and is not using BBpress.

Also the spam at the bottom of each page to ‘improve’ your search ranking is probably hurting it.

2) itt appears to me that you’re attempting to run BBpress with “deep integration” (i.e. inside wordpress), and to do that you’re running the wordpress header. As wordpress doesnt know about “/forums/” its throwing a page not found error in the title.

Good Luck,

Kev

P.S. Please don’t bump topics because you’ve not had an answer in two hours.

[Gautam]

Nico!

[Ryan Hellyer]

Hi everyone,

I’ve written a WordPress plugin which allows you to integrate your WordPress theme, widgets and many plugins into your bbPress theme. This is an alpha launch, so it’s probably buggy. Please file bug reports in the comments of the blog post please.

http://pixopoint.com/theme-integrator-alpha-launch/

This system DOES NOT require deep integration and does not suffer the performance hits that deep integration normally applies. This simply copies your HTML markup over after you set a bunch of things in each theme. If you don’t know how to do a 100% perfect integration of your theme already the old fashioned way (copying HTML and CSS across), this new system will not help you at all as you need to set that up already. Once it is setup however, the changes you make in your WordPress theme will be automagically applied to your bbPress site, along with changes such as plugins, widgets etc.

I’m not providing free support for this. Doing these types of integrations is very time consuming and I can’t afford to spare that much time to help you all integrate your themes sorry. I am keen to see bug reports etc though and will try to get them sorted as soon as possible.

The system works across a range of different softwares, not just bbPress. You can see a demo of it in my own support forum which uses SMF … http://pixopoint.com/forum/index.php?topic=1385.0