First time I installed BBPress it didn’t work, for some odd reason there was no way to login.
So I wiped away and re-installed and now it’s all working. At the moment I’m using a downloadable theme and integrating the forum into my WordPress just by using an iFrame on a page.
It’s a bit of a naff way of doing it but the style of the forum actually works well enough with my WordPress theme that I’m contemplating keeping it and not really making any changes.
Anyway, I literally just did this an hour or so ago and I think everything’s working, feel free to take a look and tell me what you think!
http://www.maxumi.co.uk/maxumiforum/
The title is “I want to fork bbPress”, but it’s really “I want to manage a bbPress fork. Here’s my feature wishlist. Who wants to code it?”
Kevinjohn, one of your 4 “Key Points For Discussion” is a matter you want to draw a line under (which was covered by the word “fork” anyway), and the other three are the areas that need the least discussion and the text itself explains why they don’t need discussing.
Indeed, a number of the points you make are a natural consequence of forking (eg ‘have a new website’) followed by some adjectives (‘have a better website’). However some of the ideas point towards a more substantial rewrite – rethinking categories and changing the database schema. The “blue sky” metaphor doesn’t exactly chime with a continuation of existing code either.
You prefer to fork 0.9 rather than 1.0 but you’re open to decisions from others.
You deride duplication of effort, yet you intend to fork bbPress.
You have “Focussing development efforts on the administration of the software, over front-end user needs” as a goal, which appears to mean that having a nice admin interface without any need to edit text files is more important than having a forum that people can use.
You may possibly have meant “needs” over and above basic functionality but if there are no fancy features on the front-end, how will the support forum “show-off”?
What sort of timeline are you attaching to this project?
I’ve documented how I got the theme integration to work for me. My thanks again to those here and elsewhere who helped. Twentyten and Kakumei Theme Integration
Hi Ash. I know it. My plugin doesn’t work in some cases. But I will not change anything cause my work will quickly become completely useless when bbPress will become a plugin.
If you find the source of the problem feel free to fork it.
So finally we are rolling. I am with the fork definitely and I totally agree that _ck_’s involvement is crucial.
Its true that both of you are on a fork and has custom core by now but hey its certainly possible to bridge them up slowly and efforts from both of your side will emerge as one, a strong one infact.
And regarding collecting bbPress ideas, we need something on board, on the web live where everyone can see it and interact with it.
– Voting system on ideas
And we will surely need to keep it tightly integrated with WordPress to market it and make it a success. Else the WP community will not gain interest in it.
I am also in favor of a fork of bbPress 0.9
Dashboard theming can be done.
But I think there are going to be issues in different view of how you have divided things to be Core plugins and like because everyone will have a different opinion and not managing this thing can make those people turn away which is something we can’t afford. Not every one but big players. You know what I mean.
Kevin, I’ve eagerly read your pdf and I promise you’ll hear from me soon, though my upcoming degree is sucking me all my free time…
Your idea definitely deserves more attention, man!
Release of the first draft of my proposal for the forking of the bbPress software into a separate and well managed community project.
http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/i-want-to-fork-bbpress/
Contact me – ashishsainiashfameatgmaildotcom
I want to hire an expert to import my PhpBB forum and other contents from a PHP/MS SQL based website into bbPress and integrate with WordPress.
If you are interested please respond to this thread.
Thanks in advance.
I don’t know what’s the policies of Automattic regarding usernames like facebook
http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=15109
So, can I get a username which is already registered in bbPress user database?
Someone register this username 2 years back, but he/she did not active since then, not even make a single post in bbpress or wordPress suppport or blog ( like desired-username.wordpress.com)
@Moderators / @Admin
So can I get this inactive/useless username.
I don’t want to disclose this username right now. First I want to know its feasibility.
Is it possible or not? Thanks,
With Regards
Pagal
Bump to remind people with larger bbPress forums to always back up first.
bbPress’s routine to merge are badly designed (so are the recount functions).
And never use the move feature to just rename a forum, you risk losing all posts in the original forum.
You didn’t have a clue what I was talking about. Leave it. Have fun on your ride.
I’m on bbpress 1.1-r2537 and adding tags in topics displays this error:
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in [path]/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-taxonomy.php on line 1789
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in [path]/bb-includes/functions.bb-formatting.php on line 241
Please note I’ve substituted the actual file path with [path].
Sometimes only the 2nd error is displayed, sometimes both. I believe this problem was introduced in 1.1-r2530 because that revision changed class.wp-taxonomy.php.
The tags don’t update through AJAX, but after refreshing the page, the new tag does show.
Yes I’ve followed that but I still am unable to get the title, the header menus or even the footer to appear on the page. You can check it out here. If you look at the main website you will see the header menu that should appear. I’ve made the adjustments to header.php as well as footer.php and the theme does change, it simply doesn’t add the title or the menu.
In the end we’re all “end users”. It all depends on where you start and where you want to finish. As good as it is and as grateful as I am for it, your tutorial did not tell me exactly what I needed to know in a way that I could understand so that bbPress and WordPress worked in my situation. If it had I would not have come here. We’re all getting and giving “techhow” with some end in view.
This is a good place and time to give my thanks to the developers of WordPress and bbPress! I’m really amazed at their “techhow” and grateful for their willingness to share it.
By the way, I found the tutorial at wpbbpthemes very helpful as well. (I actually started with it.) Thanks to the author!
But it’s a lot more easy, when you add a page in WP will it automatically appear in the header of bbPress…
But on slower hosts will it slow down a lot your site.
You will need to do some stuff in the WordPress header.php file.
Take a look here – http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/ (last section – WordPress theme editing)
You can do that with deep integration by what MathiasB suggested or how your theme handles it. wp_page_menu or wp_list_pages()
Pros & Cons – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/02/bbpress-deep-integration-advantages-disadvantages/
Deep integration – http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/
Better one – Copy over the html of navigation to bbPress side. Its not worth using deep integration just for this alone.
Its very much similar to a WordPress plugin. Get started with those. Hope that helps 
obviously you would need to deep integrate it with WordPress to use a WordPress function on bbPress side.
Deep integration – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/02/deep-integration-bbpress-wordpress/
Its better if you just copy the menu html over to bbPress theme. How much do you edit navigation anyway.
Advantage & Disadvantage of deep integration – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/02/bbpress-deep-integration-advantages-disadvantages/
subj, some simple about “creating first plugin”
etc making new field on topic post screen or something
Ok so I’ve got my instance running on Deep Integration but I’ve got a few errors. For one, the headers call but no title displays. Also, I am unable to set how the sidebar is registered. Any thoughts or any help?
Just enable WordPress functions in bbPress and paste this in your header:
<?php wp_page_menu(); ?>
If you wanna have a homelink:
<?php wp_page_menu('show_home=Home'); ?>
