I am having (probably) the same problem as techlover. I can integrate the user database and user accounts work in both WordPress and bbPress. I can even allow people to register in either since they both use the same user database.
However, I have to login / out of each one seperately. That’s almost what I want. I integrated with the same versions mentioned above and it went farily smooth. Now, I would just like the login cookies to log me in and out of both sites.
Yikes, really sorry if I offended anyone above. I haven’t looked into the project so much that I’m aware of the employment/progress etc. and was honestly just delighted to find ck’s post as it thoroughly explained everything I was looking for.
ganzua – While documenting the unstable may appear useful, it’s a stone cold mother to realize, six months later, that all your work was for nothing, because things were re-written. In order to discourage burnout, never have the tech writers start until you have it baked.
I have BBpress running on one site too, but I really want it to become as good as WordPress, because BBpress already rocks (even though it’s in Alpha)! I just want to say, keep up the good work!
I wonder if anyone can help, I have set up a bbPress forum within my WP installation. I have user accounts synced as described and have had good success pulling in topics into my WP homepage, and customising the theme.
I wondered if someone could point me in the right direction for my main problem though. I would like each new post that is made in WordPress to be copied and started also as a new topic in the bbPress forum. Going further than this, having WP comments act as replies to the bbPress topic would be great, but in the first instance I really just need a post to be duplicated as a new topic in bbPress.
Many thanks in advance.
You can’t document something until it’s in a stable state.
we could call it “document of the unstable” 
I have a suggestion for chapter two; a juicy thread on producing custom loops.
I am on the verge of writing something about my experience of creating a bbPress plugin as a set of guideposts for others to make use of
I’m pretty sure your guide will be very welcome 
What part isn’t working?
If you login to bbPress, what happens on WordPress? What happens when you log out?
Please be descriptive. “It doesn’t work” is near impossible to debug 
(I spent my day arguing that there is a difference between ‘The page gave me a 404 error’ and ‘your webserver is broken!’ and the latter was nearly useless to me)
You can either use this wp plugin;
http://www.atsutane.net/2006/11/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wordpress/
or you can follow the guidelines provided here;
Here’s how to show bbPress info inside WordPress without full integration
sorry for the triple post! I have no idea what happened
triple-response available upon request if needed
johnjamesjacoby – This is my second attempt. First time His Majesty didn’t answer me. Next time I will ask Matt.
Or may be Wikipedia 
You wrote
WordPress didn’t have decent documentation until many years after it was around, don’t expect bbPress to be any different
I am on the verge of writing something about my experience of creating a bbPress plugin as a set of guideposts for others to make use of. Not sure how much it would count as “documentation” so much as a quick-start to get someone rolling.
You can’t document something until it’s in a stable state.
bbPress 1.0 is twice the size of bbPress 0.9 and constantly changing, even in the alpha.
Database functions have been mostly the same except the entire meta changed.
But the fundamentals are identical to how WordPress works so you can use the WP codex for that.
Oh and WordPress didn’t have decent documentation until many years after it was around, don’t expect bbPress to be any different. Unless someone volunteers for free, Matt is unlikely to waste paid employee time on documentation.
@ganzua: I predict that you are integrated with WordPress, and that your jQuery isn’t being loaded correctly.
I will prove this theory by asking for you to add a topic to your favorites on your forum, and report back and let me know if it works.
a nice substitute for some weighty bbPress documentation in the meantime
Actually some of us are looking forward the next chapter This one should go to the “documentation” section as an entry or something like this.
Can you get to it if you go directly to the admin site?
http://yourdomain.com/bbpress/bb-admin
It’s possible that you didn’t set up user integration correctly, and you are no longer the admin of your bbPress site.
Got everything to Integrate with no errors and everything seem to of went fine.
When someone registers, the username and password is good in both the forum and wordpress.
But is the integration supposed to work for login and logout, I mean if a person logs into WordPress are they supposed to be logged into bbpress at the same time.
If they are it seems to not be working for me, I can log into the forums and still have to log into WordPress same thing logging out am I missing something.
I know it was a clean and no error install and followed the tutorial completely.
Thanks for all your hard work man.
Chris
I think a plugin that puts the bbpress admin panel in the WordPress one would be nice.
Speaking of admin panels…
hi,
I’m running the latest WordPress MU version and also running the latest BBPress version on 1 MySQL Db.
I integrated wordpress via the wordpress integration setting from within bbpress, but now when I login as admin do to the imported users of wordpress, I cannot see a site admin link from within bbpress anymore to administer BBPress.
What shouldI do now?
Sorry I missed the earlier questions.
And to post code, make sure you put it between backticks `
Many many thanks for this post, exactly what I was looking for, and a nice substitute for some weighty bbPress documentation in the meantime.
figured this out!
but can’t get the damn code to post right. if anyone is interested let me know how to post a code snipplet without the forum eating it… it outputs like this:
*post title*
Posted by: *user* in *forum*.
@ck – when i try to call the get_forum_name in a wordpress widget it doesnt work. i believe because this is a bbpress function? How would I pull the forum name without using this funtion?
Did a workaround which seems to work for every 5th new member. (How can that even be possible?) Using the md5-plugin (uh oh) for bb-press and rerouting all logins through WordPress login system. This means users don’t get gallery access upon registration but rather the first time they log in…. which makes no difference in reality…
But then again, it only works for every fifth user… or something like that… randomish. The alternative would be to bypass validation in Gallery2 and just copy the user info regardless. But that’s a lot of work…
I wanted to use absolute time instead of relative also, but I noticed the UTC offset doesn’t have any effect on any timestamps. Is this still the only solution or have there been any new workarounds invented? I’m using bbPress 0.9.0.2 and WordPress 2.5.1
Hi guys, for some reason my Roaccutane forum is not being indexed as thoroughly as my main wordpress site. To cut a long story short, some pages are being indexed but they are way down the rankings.
To try and rectify this I added a BBpress map and altered some keywords around 3 months ago – i’m also using permalinks, but still no luck.
Can anyone suggest any other tips to get more coverage to the forums?
Thanks
I’ve tried the last few versions, and always get the following errors:
Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 377 along with:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) etc.
This happens between doing an upgrade or a clean install, no plugins. Any ideas?
