I’ve made a few long overdue adjustments to the layout on this site. There are still some bits that could be better, but I only wanted to alleviate some of the long standing complaints people had about the layout. I’m planning a more thorough overhaul as we approach bbPress 1.0
You’ll notice I’ve turned on Gravatars, if you want to add or change your Gravatar then you need to do so through http://gravatar.com/
I’m also trying on a new logo to see how it fits (top left corner), it’s closely modelled on the current WordPress logo and is designed to compliment it better than the old logo.
All feedback welcome.
Currently I have a website, let’s say mydomain.com which is currently a WordPress site (for now, more on that in a sec). I have successfully installed and been running bbPress at a subdomain: forums.mydomain.com. So far everything is hunky dory. Except that now I want to dump the WP part of the site and replace it with something homegrown (I no longer have a need for a blog-based website). The website is going to be for a streaming radio station. What I would like to be able to do is integrate bbPress to leverage the users/logins, so that those who are registered can login and make requests.
Building the PHP/templates for the site isn’t the problem, but what would be the best way to get to the necessary bbPress objects/database/”stuff” so that I can 1) tell if the user is logged in and 2) who they are (so that I can track for request reasons). If I was integrating with WP, I’d use one the WP-integration options, but since I’m not, I’m not sure how to go about performing this. Actually that’s not entirely true… I guess what I really want to ask is, if my bbPress is in one folder linked to a subdomain, what do I need to include from another folder to get to bbPress user info from the main domain.
I hope this made sense.
-tg
I’m now going through the WP and BB integration FAQ and it seems there is no option for BB in webroot and WP in a subdir listed there: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17412
Could this be wrong? Something to do with cookies? But then the BB homepage gives these errors, so I’m not even trying to log in…
Oh, so true! So true! That’s what she keeps me around for 
nice new Gravatar, BTW.
I’m afraid I do qualify for too many of the “Granny” points – large fonts, too many cats, health problems, etc. LOL!
But I bet your granny can’t write PHP or javascript so that makes me feel better somehow…
Changes are in trunk of WPMU to help sort out the cookie sharing problem there.
https://trac.mu.wordpress.org/ticket/809
A lot of the use of config settings in all these solutions are a bit heavy handed, most of these settings are done automatically and you only need to copy them to your bb-config file once you are happy with them.
Oh, eh, that’d do it! I flipped mine to Granny Mode (sorry, _ck_, it’s what I use for my gran with glaucoma) and I reproduced it. Huh. Better check my layout for that too!
Maybe it’s because I use the “large fonts” setting in Windows.
That makes my fonts like 10-20% bigger.
Deadpan110, your procedure worked perfectly for me. I have WordPress 2.6.5 and bbpress 1 alpha 2.
I didn’t know what to put into Secret_Key and Secret_Salt.. I assumed they referred to: Secret and Auth_Salt in WP 2.6.5
And it works great! Now let’s see what happens with 2.7!
I don’t see any ads (and I block them too).
Immelody, I would suggest making the border around the login info boxes (for name and password) darker. I almost missed where they were and wondered how people logged in 
Are there ads or something like that holding the column in place? Because I block most ads and that might be it.
FF3 on XP looks perfectly fine for me too.
The state the trunk is in right now needs a great deal more bug reports – I find at least one new problem every time I try it because they keep changing chunks of code that are critical with backwards compatibility.
You don’t want to unleash it as a regular release in that state, even as an alpha, because despite my constant warnings and explanations, people use the alpha on live, active sites, usually because they absolutely have to use the very newest WordPress despite it’s bloat and bugs.
I’m fairly certain there will be another alpha release before the end of the year though.
If you know how to use SVN then you can help contribute with quality bug reports on TRAC.
In FF3 or IE7 it does not look like _ck_ saw at all. Looks fine to me.
@Nipon: I had that plug-in installed at one point also, but I’m not sure if it is the culprit or not. I actually installed it hoping that it would pick up on the bbPress roles but it didn’t.
If you integrate by modifying the config.php files, you won’t be able to access the bbPress admin regardless of where you login from.
If you don’t integrate the config.php files, you can access the bbPress admin by logging in ONLY through the forum/bb-login.php.
WordPress just isn’t aware of how to assign your session/role the forum admin rights. I am convinced this isn’t a cookie issue because all of us seem to have them pretty well synced up, and we’re able to login and stay logged in.
Are you using FF2 or 3? I’m on Flock, and my husband on FF3 and we’re not getting that. Also, what is your desktop resolution? I’ll try to recreate what you’re getting.
Edit: Actually, what is it that you’re seeing as floating? I’m confused.. I thought you were talking about the tags, but those don’t float in IE or Flock for me.
Have you tested it in Firefox on Windows?
The column float is not working correctly and pushes the middle down below the left.
I tweaked two similiar themes to create one that looks nearly identical. I wanted to post them here. If anyone would like me to zip the themes up, I would be willing to.
I do want to give credit to the person who created the themes in the first place. I’m not great with coming up with raw code so really all the credit is theirs.
bbPress original theme – http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=MistyMorning-bbpress
WordPress original theme – http://themeterminal.com/demo/index.php?wptheme=Ad+Clerum
My merged theme – http://www.asparenting.com
I’m wondering how come the developers haven’t given us a real honest-to-goodness integration yet. It obviously works over at wordpress.org, and one has to assume they are using the newest most stable versions.
The wp.org forums use the same template as the rest of the site, so it is obviously integrated with the theme and everything. Curious how THEY did it, because what we’re doing isn’t working.
I think what CK is saying, is that the developers of WP and BBP have lots on their desk right now, and before we put more pressure on them to produce more results, we should let them finish the work they’ve got.
bbPress doesn’t quite have the panache of WordPress yet. It doesn’t have the user-base or the following or the demand. I think all of us share your enthusiasm for wanting a new version, but I also think that once bbPress gains momentum there will be no shortage of upgrades and new versions, especially if WordPress is any indication of their intent to produce new versions.
I know what is SVN, man And use it every day, for bbpress tests too. But alphas are good for bug reports, help others and wordpress integration testing. We sould discuss one named pie of code. I love digits (rev numbers are digits too), it’s my job, but the people is normal guys collection.
Oh and by the way, you don’t have to wait for official releases, simply install a SVN client and you can keep in sync with the very newest trunk copy (or any other release) any time you’d like.
It’s the same technique as for WordPress so use these instructions
https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing/Updating_WordPress_with_Subversion
also see this topic for more details/ideas
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/svn-procedure-for-checking-out-bbpress
and if your server is on apache, here’s how to easily install SVN as a client instead of the full package:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/svn-procedure-for-checking-out-bbpress#post-18739
Haven’t made it yet, still pondering the best way to do it (I tend to think about the more complex ones for awhile).
Wow this topic was from last year? I must be slacking. I know I posted another message about it a week or two ago somewhere around here.
Currently working on Super-Search which is badly needed.
ps. ah here’s my more recent comments on this idea: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/to-bbpress-or-to-wordpress#post-21148
