I think the problem is with the secret key from WordPress. There have been problems in the past with characters that are allowed by WordPress causing problems in bbPress. If you can change it in both places, I would do that.
Hi,
New WP install 2.7.1 at /.
Working just fine.
Downloaded bbpress and uploaded to /bbpress
Went to /bbpress in my browser and went through the install screens.
wp-config.php did not have a secret key, so generated one, inserted, and FTPd over.
Completed the installation.
But now I can’t see my wordpress at http://www.atcv.net, but get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/philipsh/public_html/wp-blog-header.php on line 14
Can’t access wp-admin either, get this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home/philipsh/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php on line 21
Any and all help gratefully received.
This is my first jump into bbPress and to be honest, I like the included template. So, I went ahead and used the included and am in the process of modifying it so it fits my needs.
Grayline bbPress Forum is for my automotive blog The-Grayline.com, so the theme is slightly modified to mimic my wordpress blog.
Mods:
Integrated Google Search
CARP Feed Parser for Updates on Blog in Lower Corner
Swapped Latest Posts w/ Forum Sections
The RSS feed for the blog in the bottom right has been floated to the right, so that when logged in the visitors information is displayed to the left and it all looks pretty. Please let me know what you guys think.
sorry… the widget link thing sould be something like:
<a href="http://www.youdomain.com/forumpath/" target="_self">Visit my forums</a>
ok that avatar thing is an other concern. I think you should ask that question in the comments of the plugin itself or the plugin homepage or an extra topic in the plugins support forums.
To the theme thing.
Yes it’s my theme. I forgot to say: the navigation thing i mentioned is only usefull, when you use a self-made navigation like i do. If you use the wordpress sidebar to navigate through your site, you should use also the sidebar to link to your forums. E.g. you can do the following:
Go to you widget options in wp-admin, add a text-widget to you sidebar and write something like:
Visit my Forums
in the widget. Save and you’ll get a forum link in you sidebar.
I don’t know how to display the hole wp-sidebar in bbpress. I think thats a little bit more difficult. But you could write in your bbpress theme a link above the forums itself that links back to you wordpress.
In my opinion the easiest way to “integrate” the themes is, to use a self-made navigation.
Many wordpress themes use self-made navigations also.
Oh and i almost forgot. Do you know how to get the avatar uploader plugin to work? I can install it, but when i upload an image the image isn’t displayed. No matter which browser i use. I’ve tried to CMOD the “avatars” folder to both 666 and 777, but it still doesn’t work. And all the files are where they should be.
And is it possible to transfer avatar images from bbPress to WordPress, if so, how?
Any ideas? 
Thanks.
So there is no way at all to make a plugin or something do it for you? That’s bad, but i’ll have to try 
How do i do with the menu? I can’t link the menu to another page in wordpress. I can only link to pages in wordpress… how do i link it to the forum page, which doesn’t belong to wordpress..?
I must say you’ve (if its yours) done a very good job with your theme, and no i can’t see any difference between your blog and your forum, exept that the forum is moved like 5 more px to the left. Awesome job!
-Nike
hi
of course it is. But not the way you think. You have to work around a little. I’ll explain:
check http://www.sumit-online.de/forum/
fully integrated with a navigation that links to my wordpress sites.
BUT:
This is not the wordpress theme! Maybe you can see a little difference in my head-picture between the forums page and the others.
You have to copy/recreate your wordpress theme in bbpress. bbpress uses the same theme system than wordpress. so you do a theme for bbpress that looks exactly like the wp ones. you also use the same navigation. Then i looks fully integrated like my bbpress. But it isnt really THAT integrated. it does the job…
and if you e.g. want to change a navigation menu or something other in you theme, you have to do it in BOTH! WP and bbPress theme.
hope you can figure it out now
This solution for integration worked for me!
Using:
WPMU 2.7
BBpress 1 alpha 6
buddpress 1 rc1
Netcomp, looks like I owe you a beer!
K
Did anyone can help me to resolve this problem.
I suspect that the problem is in cookies, because the problem appears in two days, after user is registered on forum.
Now I installed __ck__ plugin “Year Long Cookies – Remember Me”, but this is not resolve my problem.
I can not tell to all my users what browser they must to use. Only one reason to use bbPress is integration with WordPress database.
Did anyone develop the stable version of bbPress?
Sorry for my bad English, and for emotions.
Of course If you have experience with WordPress theming, it’s even easier. Took me a couple hours to make my forum match my site.
Thanks. I’ll give it a try on a test installation.
You’re welcome, krischan68! You should be able to upgrade all the way to the current WP 2.7.1 as far as integration is concerned; I’ve tested this method on another site and have gotten it working.
I highly doubt the plugin will break with minor point releases; it wouldn’t make much sense for the dev team to make such drastic changes unnecessarily.
First post updated to reflect the two new plugins available to allow WP 2.6, 2.7 or 2.8 to work with bbPress 0.9
I just wanted to share the experience I have gathered while working, designing and pushing bbPress so as to not look like a generic bbPress instance. My latest work are these forums (the rest of the site is WordPress), and if you have the time please consider registering to be able to play a bit with the design from a member-perspective (enjoyed better in Safari). I would appreciate your feedback.
I am really captivated by the possibilities bbPress offers; but I also feel the obscurity of these possibilities are somehow hindering proper development in the design department. The lack of a proper and exhaustive codex, readable for theme authors —without having to dig into core files—, remains as the biggest obstacle. I am all for contributing, should it be possible, in this way or another.
I’ve installed bbPress 1.0.6. alpha and integrate it with WordPress 2.7.1. Everything is fine.
But there is one big problem:
When user with IE is registered, he can use forum for 2 or 3 days, after that he cannot open no one topic. After User is log in and click on topic link page loads and there is error pop-up, that says (translated to English):
Can not load page –there is url to topic page–
Operation aborted
With “OK” button.
After clicking “OK” there is IE page, that says “Internet Explorer can not view this page”.
In Firefox, Chrome, K-Meleon and Opera everything is fine.
You can test it on: http://oakdaily.ru/forum
Sorry for my English.
Same here. I’m stuck with WP 2.5.1 at the moment because of the single login I need for WP and BB.
I will definitely try superann’s plugin – thanks a lot for that.
As a rather nontechnical user, I would like to know if you expect the plugin to break with minor 2.7 updates. Maybe it’s a stupid question, but I can’t evaluate that myself.
Same here. I’m stuck with WP 2.5.1 at the moment because of the single login I need for WP and BB.
I will definitely try superann’s plugin – thanks a lot for that.
As a rather nontechnical user, I would like to know if you expect the plugin to break with minor 2.7 updates. Maybe it’s a stupid question, but I can’t evaluate that myself.
Thanks johnmc! I worked hard on the site; haven’t spent nearly as much time with bbPress as I have with WP so I kind of did the absolute minimum to start and was lazy about the cookie integration that didn’t work out of the box… until someone else on my forums complained…
WP and bbPress are running side by side off the same user database, same process to set up as described in the integration thread here. No deep integration, just customized the templates to match. Registrations are routed to WP via a direct link to it in the login-form.php template, which is cool as I use the Register Plus plugin there to customize things a bit. Logins (and outs) are integrated via cookies using the plugin which you can grab here:
http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
Also, thanks for the welcome, ck! I do more theme customizations for WP but usually do it all the quick and dirty way, cramming things into function.php file rather than packaging it up nicely, and I often just hack features into other plugins to get it all working the way I want. Right now as far as bbPress is concerned on my to-do list is to find a good solution for manually marking spam posts, work email notification into the pm plugin, and set up the post notification to send email by default. Just haven’t had time to look into all that yet… if there are any existing solutions/patches, please let me know! Otherwise I’ll probably look into it at some point and contribute what I can (if anyone else is interested).
Your plugin will have a far longer useful life than you’d might think.
I’d estimate at least six months. I wish I thought of it six months ago.
But at least people have two ways to avoid 1.0 alpha 7 which will break my plugins.
Yep, cleared all my cookies and it appears that things work as they should. I haven’t pored over the source too considerably but from what I saw it looks like there are very few dependencies, which makes sense as I’m guessing WP wants you to be able to integrate sign on systems without jumping through hoops.
My sites aren’t “deeply” integrated, so it would be great to get some feedback from anyone who tries this on a deep integration.
Plugin here:
http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
In retrospect I shouldn’t have put this at v1.0, but I expect its useful life might be short anyway once bbPress 1.0 is released…
It’s strange that I didn’t think to downgrade WP 2.7 to match bbPress 0.9 but I guess I overthought the process and figured the new “auth” cookie method would be required in the admin area on WP so it would break. I assume you have tested your admin access in WordPress after your changes?
WordPress 2.7 added three new kinds of cookies, surprised it doesn’t break anything when you force it backwards. Did you delete all of your old cookies on your browser to make sure it wasn’t “cheating” ?
In any case, my new plugin is here and should be downloadable for testing shortly:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/
One plus to the WP downgrade method is it might work with deep integration where mine will definitely not work and should not even be tried that way.
Hey _ck_… that’s great news! It’s probably better to do it your way but I did it this way as I was lazy… I didn’t have to write a single line of code and it was literally just copy and paste from WP 2.5 pluggable functions. And yep, I did override the salt with the old function too.
