I’m sorry to say this, but integrating your 25 installs is probably going to require more work than filling in a setting page. 
A few questions for you:
1) You have 25 bbPress installs, and they are currently not sharing a user table… is that right? As in, if I sign up as “john” on one install… can I sign in with that username and password on another one of your bbPress installs?
2) If your bbPress installs are not sharing a user table… do you know if all of the user tables are in the same database?
3) Finally, what versions of WordPress and bbPress are you using?
Dear sir….
I think you are not complete understand my question….. rethink about it…. when i complete successful integration of wp-bb and finally go to the admin panel of wp after activation of bbpress integration plugin then it is asking me to give bbpress url of one of my forums like bbpress01-of-25…
click following linkh to see screenshot:
http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2820/wpadmin.gif
so, where i put my other 24 bbpress forums url in this field? I’ve bit knowledge of coding .. so tell me how can i integrate these 25 forums with one wordpress.. provide me simple and clear solution.
another question……
tell me clearly about user shared login…… i want to share user logins between my 25 forums…… when one user register to my first forum i.e. bbpress01 then he can also use this id on my other 25 forums where he no need more registration for other 24 forums.
I’ll very thankful to you if you solve this problem… i really love you 😡
Why BBpress should integrates with WordPress?
I think we can make bbpress – standalone CMS with only key features.
Who will be in charge now with this project?
This is absolutely possible. I wrote a bit about it here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/create-multiple-forums
I now have about 10 bbPress installs all working, and they’re both integrated with two separate WordPress installs. So this is definitely possible. 
You just need to make sure that all the installs are using the same users table.
The bigger issue is: do any of your installs share usernames? For example, a “John” registered on one site and on another one? That will be tricky to manage – a path is described nicely here… look for the section on “user_id” conflicts:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integration-of-established-wp-and-bbpress-installations#post-28701
Good luck!
dear all coders,
I’m lover of bbpress so I was working on 25 different bbpress forums and one wordpress. Now i want to integrate theses stuff to each other. but i think one wordpress only can integrate with one bbpress forum. but i can’t face this situation because i’m working on my forums preceding 4 months. if i fail to integration these 25 forum with one wordpress then all my effort will go to the hell. it’s humble request to all developers to solve this situation and save my work and give me the smart solution.
Note: I don’t want to install 25 wordpress to integrate 25 forums.
Remember: 25 forums integration with one wordpress
Please Please Help me
It is very crucial situation for me … tell me how to handle it.
“I’d like to add the same tool bar in all my web forms (by the way, it is up with bbpress)”
Me too, but I would prefer wysiwyg editor.
You want to show most recent replies from bbPress on your blog? Is your blog WordPress?
Here’s how to show bbPress info inside WordPress without full integration
There were a couple posts from sambauers about it too, but I can’t find them right now.
There was also the bbPress live plugin, but it’s broken right now:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/
Hello,
Can someone please tell me how I can show a list of new posts on my blog, similar to the recent posts plugin for WordPress. Thanks for your help!
Taku
I’ve seen a plugin for a wysiwyg editor. Unortunately it’s not new and the toolbar may not work with the newest bbpress version.
I am currently running a wordpress blog in combination with a Simple Machine Forum (SMF). I would prefer bbpress because it is easier to integrate in wordpress and buddypress. That’s the advantage of bbpress.
The advantage ob SMF is that they offer much more features. You habe a tinymce editor, you can post pictures, upload images and post clips from youtube, googlevideo and similiar services.
It would be excellent if there were a way to integrate wordpress-plugins into bbpress.
Further please have a look on pretty-urls.
This is too long:
http://xxx.com/groups/movie-friends/forum/topic/blabla/
This would be much better:
http://xxx.com/forum/politics/obamas_health_care_reform/
Just website/forum/category-name/topic_title
@Olaf: I’m in the same standalone boat, but really wish there was some sort of “bbPress MU” so I didn’t need different installations for different forums. There was word of a bbPress plugin that would handle this but its been a while. And with Sam leaving, ugh, not expecting it anytime soon…
Wondering what will happen re this discussed “bbPress MU” plugin with the news that WordPress and WPMU are merging.
I’d like to have the same standard editor as wordpress offers for writing articles.
Further I would like to use the pluging Video Quicktags for bbpress as well.
How can I install this for bbpress?
@Kawauso
1. SimplePress looks better than BuddyPress did before Automattic has acquired it. I intent to emphasize rather business aspect, than technology one. It would be better for WordPress community if the resources will concentrated, not dispersed.
2. Try vBulletin4.0(beta). It’s “light, adaptable, etc”…
3. My company develops 4-6 [WP-based] sites (not blogs) a month. God bless WordPress!
CMS=ContentManagementSystem, isn’t blogging about content management?
And you’re right, hopefully, it’s CURRENT shortcomings will be overcame in 3.0
I have to agree it’d be good for bbPress to add support for more basic forum functions like merging topics. As it stands, it’s rather silly to need plugins for such basic things. The majority of use does seem to be with bbPress as part of a community package with buddyPress and WordPress though.
It’d be nice too if WordPress (plugin) support could be implemented through an interface layer or something similar that could be added as a plugin or similar to bbPress when it was installed via WordPress, so keeping the core codebase as clean as possible.
bbPress 1.0 was already written to use BackPress functions (WordPress essentially) so I’d imagine it’d just be a case of changing how it outputs content and handles URLs when under WordPress.
michayu:
1. SimplePress looks horrible, and the cleaner bbPress codebase is, the better. It also implements a lot of what in bbPress mentality would be plugin-based.
2. vBulletin is clunky and the opposite of what bbPress aims to be (light, adaptable, etc.)
3. WordPress IS a blogging platform. It has supplementary CMS features such as pages, and can be adapted into a CMS, but it’s primary focus and purpose is blogging. I pray it never gets turned into yet another CMS (and look on discussions on the WordPress support forums about its current shortcomings when used as a CMS if you want proof it’s not one).
I hear only wordpress integration and buddypress etc.
I use bbpress as standalone because it’s fast and easy to modify (just like WP)
Why should I use a forum together with a blog? both applications are very similar.
make bbpress better with features like merging topics or other forum typical functions
Matt,
1. Automattic should to acquire SimplePress and to merge it with bbPress (just as you did with Buddypress – smart move).
2. The best forum software is vBulletin (and now they have a full-featured CMS). Look at vB, and you’ll see the roadmap of all the forum software.
3. Stop calling WordPress “blogging platform”. It’s a CMS, FYI! I even hope WP3.0 will become a CMF.
Wow, I can’t believe the “Matt” actually wrote back to me.
One of the reasons why I went with WordPress is the strength of the plugins and community. I toyed a bit with Joomla but the interface stinks, and it’s too difficult to use and not pretty behind the scenes. People say that it’s stronger than WordPress and more adaptable but I think WordPress is quickly surpassing it as the defacto blogging/CMS building tool. New users like me can get up and running quickly and it’s fun to use!!! Joomla was nothing but a nightmare, ugly and not enjoyable at all. The people in their community are ok to deal with but many are tech-snobs. Thank you WordPress!!!
Any other information on BBpress is appreciated, including a timeline of features to come and integration. Please give us a peek to what the future holds…
talgalili, we’ll probably leave external authentication to plugins just like with regular WordPress.
johnhiler, Sam did have some cool designs and ideas for the site, I’ll try to track that down and see if we can get a refresh going.
rvlawrence, PickledPC, totally agreed. It’s way too hard to use and integrate right now.
Finally I married the two and now they are seamless…Please check it out.
Design in the Raw
I agree making it integrated part of wordpress, or a plugin that is easily installed would help me and many others use bbpress. I am trying to theme it now and it’s not playing very nice. I do like the simple nature of bbpress, the light install and how the user integration but could like to see it implemented into wordpress, instead of a separate entity that works with wordpress. But those are just my thoughts.
As soon as BBpress is integrated into the control panel of WordPress as a plugin or built in option, then everyone will start using it. The increased activity will mean more people and more developers and more plugins and MORE VALUE FOR US ALL. The secret to unlocking BBpress is to make it dead simple to install, integrate and use.
Simplepressforum.com has a HUGE advantage and head start over BBpress, but the admin interface is a bit clumsy and not easy to use nor very pretty. They also only have a handful of people developing it. Imagine how much farther it would be along, if hundreds of BBpress people went over to help polish up Simplepressforum.
I am hopeful that BBpress will take off, but an idea of future features and a roadmap would be helpful.
Hi Matt, I think you could learn a lot from simplepressforum.com
If you could make BBpress as easy to use as that, everyone would use it. Make BBpress a plugin with full integration into the control panel and 1 click installation.
Right now, it’s like frankencoding trying to get all these things, BBpress, WordPress MU and Buddypress to all work together.
Make BBpress and Buddypress an already built-in option in the wordpress control panel that we simply have to check off to activate and everyone would use it.
Also, when is buddypress coming to single member wordpress installations?
Yeah don’t want to use an iFrame. I can get it to call the header but nothing else. It’s not calling my stylesheet. I’m only using header, footer, front-page, style.css. WordPress theme wasn’t that bad as i have good knowledge of html and css but no php knowledge until now. BBpress is giving me a fit and I want it to work because I like it, don’t want to revert to a forum plugin….All the info I read is changing the default theme or using these simple files from the wordpress theme to start. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Best place to start:
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/integration
You will be copying the WordPress styles and using them in your bbPress theme to approximate the look of your WordPress site in bbPress.
Some people have also put bbPress in a iFrame inside a WordPress page (which I think is a horrible solution):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/easy-way-to-integrate-bbpress-wordpress-themes
