WP 2.8 (not MU), been integrated since 2.7 without issue once I re-set my secret keys. The only hard time I had was sorting out my cookie paths, since I have my blog at domain.org/blog, but it’s ACCESSED at domain.org, and the forums are domain.org/forums.
This has been working like a champ:
// WordPress cookie integration speedup
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.net/blog';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.net';
$bb->cookiedomain = '.domain.net';
$bb->cookiepath = '/';
$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_COOKIE';
$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_COOKIE';
$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_COOKIE';
$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-admin';
$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-plugins';
$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/my-plugins';
$bb->sitecookiepath = '/blog/';
$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/blog/wp-admin';
$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/blog/wp-content/plugins';
Also I kick all http://www.domain.net traffic back to straight domain.net to force things to be in order, which may be useful to someone.
Put this in your .htaccess file at the public_html level:
# Getting rid of the WWW in front
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.investorsbuzz.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://investorsbuzz.com/$1 [L,R=301]
If you have wordpress info in that file, put this BEFORE the WP stuff.
Ugh and there’s a bug in put $1 right after the / in http://investorsbuzz.com/
I don’t know why that’s happening. See http://yfrog.com/eahtaccessg
I tried integrating WordPress 2.8 with bbPress 0.9.0.5 today but I found out that it can’t be done as per my tutorial because WP 2.8 has added one more function by which they change how they handle login so “Freshly baked cookies” plugin is broken for WP 2.8 at the moment. I would suggest integrating WP 2.7.1 with bbPress 0.9.0.5
Apart from new Widgets functionality, theme installing capability and some back-end performance improvement, you won’t miss much 
Or you can wait for a few days for bbPress 1.0 which will integrate with WP 2.8 without any pain.
Hi Massbase…
I’m super-new to all the *press stuff… so I’m not sure what you’re talking about… BBpress can replace WordPress and Buddypress and WPMU?
dude, you hardly need WordPress for anything anymore…
bbpress can replace, WordPress, BuddyPress and WPMU..
check my site out. http://www.massbase.com
*Just* started using bbpress for a forum… have been using blogger for my blog, but the ease of bbpress is making me seriously consider wordpress for the blog. 
Looking forward to more bbpress developments.
Forum at http://www.bikingtoronto.com/forum
Thanks, ashfame, I’ll be looking for that.
Its just code that works. Real power is the pluggable nature of bbPress & WordPress which lets you add almost any functionality without bloating the code for mass consumption.
I have already tested the integration of WP 2.7.1 and bbPress 0.9.0.5 here : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/05/integrate-bbpress-forum-with-your-wordpress-setup/
Although WordPress 2.8 should work fine (theoretically) by following that integration tutorial but I havn’t tried it yet. I will let you know if I face any issue and will update the tutorial.
Hope that helps!
> Can I use the latest production/stable releases of WordPress (2.
> and bbPress (0.9.0.5) together?
You can if you use something to make the cookies compatible:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/
or
http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
Those were using bbPress 0.9.0.4 and WordPress 2.7, and there has been some additional talk about adding a line to (or was it removing a line from??) your bb-config.php to make the 0.9.0.* cookies work with WordPress 2.8:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1#post-30330
> Is that the best combination?
Best is up to you to decide. I think you will find you can integrate logins and also have the greatest number of bbPress plugins available with 0.9.0.5.
> Will most of the plug-ins or extensions for bbPress be available with those versions?
The majority of the plugins were designed to work for 0.9 and below. There are significant changes to the 1.0 RC that some plugin authors are not updating their plugins until 1.0 becomes finalized.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-plugins-that-work-on-rc1#post-37033
bbPress 1.0 incorporates the shortcode API from WordPress, so most shortcode based video insertion plugins for WordPress will work with only minor modification.
Can I use the latest production/stable releases of WordPress (2. and bbPress (0.9.0.5) together? Is that the best combination? Will most of the plug-ins or extensions for bbPress be available with those versions?
I like the look of a lot of the plugins and just wanted to make sure that they will work. Thanks!
@johnbillion
You might want to upgrade that further to the latest trunk, RC2 has some issues.
Thanks for the compliments!
@sambauers: I’ve fixed the login integration by updating bbPress to RC2 (it was still on an alpha) and all is well again. Thanks for all your hard work on bbPress. Much appreciated.
Inching forward.
When I share tables, the default role of the admin of forums has a subscriber role in capabilities, thats why the admin access is lost.
Right, but WHY does that happen to you when it doesn’t to everyone else (that I’ve heard of) who sets up bbPress/WordPress the way you described It’s weird and I wonder what happened. It’s not the different wp_/bb_ prefixes, I’ve tested that.
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Hi onelove,
i think this must be the right “startingpoint” for you:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release
I’ve converted a phpBB 2 to phpBB 3 to bbPress 0.9.4 Forum three weeks ago. The converter works great for me. But the best way is on a local pc (XAMPP, WAMP, LAMP) which some backups.
A colleague from me wrote a little script with some regular expressions to clean up the topics and posts. eg. for the old phpBB <quote>-Tag and the smilies. Maybe I can upload this script temporary.
Also i hope i have some time to write an “how to” for the user reverse user integration in WordPress after the conversion from phpBB3. On Mysteria3000 (http://www.mysteria3000.de) we have 50 authors and about 150 users in the forum.
ash, I was talking about the exact same plugin you were. Read the very first post on the plugin page.
This plugin is only meant as a simple way to fix roles for users doing reverse integration of bbPress with WordPress without having to resort to using phpMyAdmin but it may have other uses if a primary admin role gets corrupted or wiped out for some reason.
So really, unless your admin role is being wiped out somehow, this shouldn’t be needed in the situation you describe.
We can see out of the box integration in upcoming releases but that can be done even now although it requires much of manual work.
You can integrate WP + bbPress as per my guide : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/05/integrate-bbpress-forum-with-your-wordpress-setup/
and using both the registration page wont be a problem but you can redirect it to one if you want. There was a plugin for it, I guess else it can be done manually too.
@john well now i’m curious 
Hey, that’s very nice indeed!
There is a possibility to do this now. Something is in the works to do this even more neatly eventually.
Nice, if you need help fixing your integration just let me know.
I thought I would show off my first completed bbPress project:
dinetoread.ie
dinetoread.ie/forums
(Note: currently the forum login integration is actually broken (see this thread) due to my hastiness to upgrade WordPress to 2.8 without finishing checking everything first.)
User registration and logging in/out is all handled through bbPress. Integration worked perfectly first time when following the invaluable basic integration screencast by sambauers.
Customisations include:
- A bbPress theme written from the ground up, to match the rest of the site.
- Extended user profiles showing “Currently reading” and favourite books (example of a full profile).
- Private profile fields for private information needed when signing up for events.
- Additional meta information on topics to optionally display the book being discussed (example on this topic).
- Reverse thread ordering option, to allow visitors and users to reverse the order of posts in a thread (persistent).
- Custom avatar uploading functionality (defaults to Gravatar).
- Basic but surprisingly effective protection against spam user registrations in the form of blocking any registration which includes a value in the URL profile field (this field is not used on the site nor shown on the registration form). It works on the premise that any registration submission that includes a value in the URL field must be an automated spam bot registration and can simply be blocked.
- A second level of spam registration protection using the StopForumSpam.com API.
All the customisations have been achieved through custom plugins, the core hasn’t been touched. All the book images and links are automatically pulled in from the Amazon Web Services API.
I’m planning on releasing a couple of the plugins I wrote for the site once I’ve tidied them up and added some comments. I’ll probably wait until bbPress 1.0 though.
Any feedback appreciated!
ITguy, did you remember to do the user-role mapping in your bbPress WordPress integration after you had everything all lined up? I read through your above steps twice and didn’t see it there except for in step 3 before everything was working, but I did also just wake up from a pretty epic nap.
