Ok. You need to use FPT to go to the location where you have wordpress installed. There you upload the files and rename the folder bbpress to whatever you want to call it.
If you are having trouble with this. Please email me, rohan [at] rohan-kapoor.com and I shall help you by installing it for you.
Well, I’d like to install this in a directory rather than a subdomain. The installation says I need to upload the files to my server but where do I upload them to on the server? It says that once I do, I should enter the URL of the intended space and the installation should proceed.
Being a self-hosted WordPress site, I created a new page and that’s in it’s own directory, so where would i go from here to upload the files to that particular directory?
Okay I’m pretty sure there are some fundamental misunderstandings I seem to have developed. I’m very new to hosting my own website so please be a little patient.
Let’s say I have a WordPress site. I don’t want it to be http://www.example.com/wordpress/ – maybe I want it at http://www.example.com or maybe http://www.example.com/blog/. Making WordPress the root of your site is easy, and I think you’ve already done that.
To mask bbpress, just rename the folder to something other than the default when it’s unzipped of bbpress. Call it ‘forums’ or ‘discussions’. If you rename the bbpress folder before you start, you don’t need to change anything later. If you’ve already installed it, then there are a couple config hoops to jump through to move it.
You could also do a subdomain installation, like forums.example.com and not even show that it’s in a subdirectory at all. Then just map that subdomain to the directory where you’ve installed bbPress on the server. No need for directories at all in the URI/URL.
Masking is pretty silly, since one look at the source (if you even need to go that far, for WordPress and bbPress) will give away the secret (wp- and bb- anyone?) If you’re just trying to remain application-neutral, then I agree that this is worth doing (i.e. let’s say you want to use punBB or something later. If you used /forums for your bbPress installation, you can retain /forums and just install punBB in there.)
QuickD – what version of bbPress are you using, and are you integrated with WordPress?
I used smi1ey method worked nice,thanks for explanation buddy
What plugin are you talking about and is it a WordPress or bbPress plugin? Are you integrated with WordPress or WPMU? Maybe you are using an incompatible or unnecessary plugin.
> I’m sorry mate but deep integration doesn’t slow anything down.
I think there would be many here who disagree with you. What sort of empirical evidence do you have that it does NOT slow anything down? Loading all of WordPress has to take some amount of time.
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func
Doing this will add quite a lot of weight to your bbPress installation as it will cause WordPress to load in it’s entirety. Your best option is to try to emulate the functionality you require inside a bbPress plugin.
Tony did this the right way to get the functionality he needed.
Hi,
I’m an old school computer person and feel it is very sloppy to display application subdirectories on your host site.
I’ve succesfully masked the URI of my WordPress 2.2 site to remove the ./wordpress/ subdirectory. I would like to be able to do the same thing with bbPress.
Is there a way to mask the bbpress subdirectory?
Thanks,
Amy
Hi,
I’m looking for a way to prevent direct access to the bbPress system from the outside. I have some user communities and I would like to have the users sign onto the WordPress site, then access the BBS only from there. This way, the users would be forced to undergo SSL authentication and then access the BBS as a new window from a Page entry at the top of the site. (PS. I’m trying to do the same thing with phpFreeChat as well.)
Once they are logged on, they don’t need to keep their WP session alive (at least for now).
Is this something that is possible?
Thanks,
Amy
I agree. Deep Integration is the way to go. See my site: http://wpmu.zyrot.com/forums/
Gravitydk: If you want some help you can take a look at my site http://wpmu.zyrot.com/forums/ and if you like what you see I can help you. Email me: rohan [at] rohan-kapoor.com
Hi smf, I tested Simple forums (I also tested Joomla with Kunena and ccborad, and phbb, and Vanilla).
In the end, I am settling for bbPress for forums because I need single-user sign on with my content system, and I settled on wordpress for that (Joomla was too slow and I wanted a very fast, responsive site).
So if you need forum integration with something, you have more factors to consider than just the forum software itself.
Simple Forums does provide single-user signon with WordPress, but it’s UGLY and there are no good-looking themes. That said, simpleForums is a highly functional forum system and seamless integration with both user and menu-system.
Just found this thread, and wanted to say I am using WP 2.8x and bbPress 1.01 succesfully together now; user integration is just what I wanted. Only catch remains the style (user interface) integration, which I’m hoping to sort out eventually (hard when I don’t know CSS at all).
You got the integration plugin installed? It specifically fixes cookies both ways.
Hey.
I was clearing my test forums on my bbPress install, I deleted all forums and when I try to load my forums I get this message;
Oh dear!
Please complete your installation before attempting to include WordPress within bbPress
bbPress is already installed.
Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?
What on earth has gone wrong? All I have done is deleted forums?
Thanks.
Hi all,
I followed all directions I have been able to find on the web but I still have a problem: logging in to bbPress logs me out of WordPress and vice versa. All settings and config files look ok.
The site is at http://www.stereostokey.com, and the forums are at http://www.stereostokey.com/forums
Any ideas? Could it have to do with the theme modifications I have made?
Cheers,
Tom
Hi all,
I followed all directions I have been able to find on the web but I still have a problem… logging in to BBPress logs me out of WordPress and vice versa. All settings and config files look ok.
The site is at http://www.stereostokey.com, and the forums are at http://www.stereostokey.com/forums
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Tom
I have written a function I call bb_list_pages() and I’ve added it & some support code to a functions.php file in my bbPress theme’s folder. This does NOT work using the WordPress wp_list_pages() logic. Rather, it attempts to output the same results as that function. There are things that wp_list_pages() does that this function can’t do, but it works for my site. If folks are interested, I’ll post the functions.php file after I finish getting it debugged.
I just have one question. How can I determine what the current page’s URI is? I need this to highlight the page on the menu.
Thanks
Tony
Did you install WordPress and bbPress in the same directory? You shouldn’t have any problem like this just from installing or integrating bbPress.
Has anything changed with with the steps for setting up Pretty Permalinks on bbPress 1.0.1?
I have tried the methods in the FAQ, without success, on two different webhosts (Media Temple & Bluehost).
Adding a .htaccess file with “Options +MultiViews” results in an error message when I try to load any page in the forum. When I try to visit “/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php”, it redirects to the permalink settings page, and I do not see any code being generated that I could add to my .htaccess file instead.
I have bbPress installed in a subdirectory with WordPress in the root directory. I have Pretty Permalinks functioning just fine in WordPress.
Have I missed anything obvious here?
I have used PHPBB and that is a pretty robust service. But I liked having something integrated. BBPress works okay for now.
I am looking for a plugin that will allow someone to share posts on my forum via social networking sites. WordPress has tons of them. Anyone found one for BBPress yet?
А, сега се сетих – в някои проекти за превод на свободен софтуер са приели като правило да не се използва заповедна форма. Например вместо “Добави” -> “Добавяне”, вместо “Изтрий” -> “Изтриване” и тъй нататък.
Но пък наистина скоро не съм ползвал превода на WordPress и не зная какъв е стила … пък и да се мъчиш да преправяш сега за тая версия не си е работа. 
I am using bbpress 1.0 and wordpress 2.8.2. After the bbpress installation, I went back into wordpress and came to the site where all the pages were missing showing “Not Found. Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”
When I try to login in to the site admin, “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
I can login to bbpress, but not to wordpress. Any ideas? I went into the mysql and data is still there.
Hi,
I’m running a heavy metal forum, which has band sections, event sections etc. I would love to know if there is a way to link certain words with their destined pages.
e.g.:
I have a band page about “Linkin Park” on page x. So whenever someone mentions Linkin park, it should be auto-linked to page x.
Is this doable? And how? Any ideas?
Here you have a similar for WordPress-plugin for that:
http://seoroi.com/specialty-services/new-seo-plugin-for-wordpress-internal-link-building/
Thank you/
I recently tried the different Bb quote Plugins that exists but neither of them fit my taste in a WYSIWYG environment.
I wanted a plugin with javascript that can multiquote, and quote small parts without reload, and insert to a Wysiwyg environment.
Then I remembered that the “quote-comments” plugin in WordPress works even with TinyMCE,
so I copied it over to bbpress and modified it so it would call the bbpress functions instead of wordpress.
Needed to change some calls to the post_content instead of comments too..
It works fine for me now, but the only problem is that I can’t use the quote link from another page than the form itself. So If Im in a thread with 2 pages, the first page won’t redirect me to the form of the last page.
Somehow I need to make a link with the quote info to get saved (somehow?) and then called into the javascript function.
As im not the best at PhP / javascript maybe some of you here can help me.
I managed so the PHP outputs the necessary info for the javascript to grab. But problem is how to call it from another page with a link to the last page with the form.
1. First I need to make a Php function that outputs a different link if im not on the same page as the form. Alright but how do I send it to the last page and how do I call the javascript from the last page?
I put the files into the my-plugins folder with a folder called quote-comments
Here is the PHP file (It gets outputed below the post) :
quote-comments.php
http://pastebin.com/f6743a79c
2. As you can see the javascript gets called from the Link, so I need to call it in another way when it’s redirected to the last page.
Here is the JS file:
quote-comments.js
http://pastebin.com/f74d57ac5
Mark that the addQuote function ISNT used if you use TinyMCE and I set to use TinyMCE = true in the php file.
As im not so good at php im kind of lost here. But it would be nice to make it all work and clean it up and make a plugin out of it.