[nickf1195]

Hi.

I am in the process of integrating bbPress with only my WordPress theme, not login or cookies. I have placed this in bb-config.php:

<br />

if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {<br />

include_once( '../wp-config.php' );<br />

}<br />

and this in bbpressbb-templateskakumeiheader.php:

<br />

get_header();<br />

echo_css(); // function from WP theme's functions.php<br />

The WordPress header loads, but some of the CSS isn’t present from the WordPress theme when I don’t have echo_css(); in the code. The CSS is produced by the WordPress theme’s functions.php, which doesn’t appear to be loading. I can call functions from functions.php inside bbPress, including the one that outputs the CSS, but it is placed at the wrong point in the code (inside the body tag instead of head,) even though I run it immediately after get_header();. I would also like it to be flexible in the event I change the theme.

So my question is: Is there a function inside WordPress to process the functions.php? Should I be in the WordPress forum?

Thanks a lot for your time and help!

Nick

[frooyo]

@_ck_

I’m not saying that I like/dislike Vanilla more than bbPress.

Just watching that video on ReadWriteWeb, Mark makes some pretty big claims about Vanilla and it’s use.

My original post is simply trying to understand *what* makes one of these forums systems better than another (pro/cons).

I’m particular integrued as to Vanilla claims that they are the “WordPress.com of forums systems” and how they integrate soooooo easily with WordPress.

Mark, Vanilla founder, talks as though bbPress doesn’t even exist.

[frooyo]

@_ck_

According to this video interview by RedWriteWeb, Mozilla.com, OReilly.com and others use Vanilla

http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/06/vanilla-forums.php

What’s interesting is the founder, Mark, goes on to call Vanilla the “WordPress of forums”

[OKTeaRoom]

Same problem!

WordPress 2.8.x

BBpress 1.0.2

Just did a completely clean install. No plugins even, yet…and the theme thumbnails aren’t available and when i activate any of them i just get a generic page with no css or layout of any kind.

What gives?

http://www.oktearoom.com/forum

[gerikg]

at WPMU told me to check the error log, how do I do that on BBpress?

[chrishajer]

@gerikg – there’s no prohibition so far as I know about putting a link to another software package. I can’t speak officially, but I’ve never seen one removed. We’re all just looking for the right tool for the job.

[blah]

Sorry.

I meant I wanted to pull the latest replies for topics (bbpress, not wordpress) into my sidebar.

[Marius-]

Nah, I’ve been sitting up all day long the last few days, editing the look of bbpress. I’m gonna use it.

[batrachoid]

Can you be more specific? Do you want to pull the latest comments from your wordpress site into your forums?

[gerikg]

It can be frustrating, I would recommend another forum product (I don’t know if it’s okay to put the URL here????? can someone give me the okay?) which is a plugin. the only problem with this product is that they don’t have widgets to show on WP.

[gerikg]

Whatever variation of requiring wp-blog-header.php makes the whole screen blank.

I guess no one here supports WPMU & BBpress theme integration?

All the sites I seen that has the integration the top is just HTML, no login form/status etc etc.

[Archie Webmaker]

@Ipstenu,

I know it is standalone app. but can’t there be a bbpress forum plugin version for wordpress users?

[Archie Webmaker]

I follow the http://labs.b5media.com/ and I leaved the buddybar portion.

I successfully install and place the wordpress header and footer in bbpress theme. Than I copy rename bbpress theme style.css to forum.css and place it on wordpress theme directory and put an import function in wordpress style.css. The forum frontpage looks fine but not the others pages/post.

How do you guys do it to look exactly like the wordpress theme eg buddypress site?

I want to place the buddypress nav bars in bbpress forum theme. How do I do it?

[Sam Bauers]

Make sure you update the settings in the bbPress Integration plugin as well and then copy the new code it produces into wp-config.php

[Marius-]

Thats too complicated for me. I’m not an expert coder at all.

I barely manage to change colors and sizes in the CSS. Just moving the search-bar is a several hour project for me lol.

I was hoping there was an easy way out, just to make the forum load in the normal page-window, like a normal post would have. Give it the value of a post or something. But recreating a brand new template, and all that stuff, is way too hard for me.

[qayqay12]

Hi,

I had the exact same problem and found a solution after investigations:

Bbpress knows it is integrated to wordpress so it set both its own cookies and the WP cookies. But on the other side, WP does not know bbpress is integrated so it only set its own cookies and forget to set BBpress cookies as well.

How to fix it will you ask…

Well, install this plugin in WP:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

And voilà ! Just logout and re-login after the plugin installation to make it work.

[buddha-trance]

When I edited the Kakumei files, I recreated a sidebar to match the look of the blog with the forum tags and other stuff (blog latest posts, etc.), but without the widgets. The look still matches the blog, though the content of the sidebar is different. Whatever you have as text widgets in the blog you can always hard code in the forum sidebar.

The “sidebar” is in front-page.php, under

<div id=”hottags” role=”main”>

hard code any sidebar content there, then match the css in the stylesheet. You can even float the div to the right, rather than the left, depending on your blog’s theme.

[Marius-]

I just created a page called Forum, and indeed it redirected me to the forum.

But, I can’t make a theme that fits into my website. I use two columns, with one being the sidebar with widgets. It’s not possible having the forum appear like a normal page, with the sidebar intact is it?

[buddha-trance]

@ Marius – If you create a wordpress page with the same name of the directory where the forum is, it will automatically take you there, because the directory overrides the page.

If the forum is in a directory called “forums”, just create a page called “forums” and publish. The tab will appear in the blog menu as a new page and when you click on it, it will take you straight to the forums. I have done it this way too.

Theme the forums like your wordpress template, like Ipstenu and gerikg have suggested and it will look perfectly integrated. To do this, you can use the Kakumei default theme, edit the header and footer files to look like the blog header and footer (background image, etc.), and match the css in the stylesheet where needed.

Hope this helps.

[gerikg]

When I do the:

// Include WordPress functionality

$currDir = dirname(getcwd());

// Make sure this isn’t install or admin (go up if it is)

if(!file_exists(“$currDir/wp-blog-header.php”))

$currDir = dirname($currDir);

if(!file_exists(“$currDir/wp-blog-header.php”))

die(“Cannot find WordPress integration files.”);

require_once(“$currDir/wp-blog-header.php”);

my forum disappears…. This goes into the bb-config.php file right?

[Archie Webmaker]

Sorry, Everything is running fine. “the page not found” was simply because of the wordpress custom code in the title. I just type in title name and it run fine.

[gerikg]

THANK YOU, i was going insane trying to wait for someone to reply!

[gerikg]

you make the forum template look like the wordpress one. Then you add a link on the header.php file in wordpress to your forum. if it’s the same page as your profile it shouldn’t be too hard since your login is just a link.

[Archie Webmaker]

Mine show show up the header and the footer but the page is displayed on the browser bar as “Page not found” and the page screen is darkened ( not as on my homepage http://nagapress.com) You will see what i am talking about when you see my page- http://nagapress.com/community/

I followed this tutorial http://labs.b5media.com/

[Marius-]

How can I turn a page into a redirection?

And is it possible to remove the header completely, and just have the forum posts appear? With nothing else? Or else, it will look like I have two headers below each other.