[kevinjohngallagher]

WordPress, then bbPress in a sub folder.

http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thanks Raize,

I’ve not had a good laugh on these forums in months

VanillaForums (v1) was a good effort, for a small few it matched their needs well, and certainly had a community that wanted to drive it on. v2 though, and it’s 2.5 year development cycle, has been quite disasterous with some brilliant spin.

The plan to move to a custom built platform “Garden” (their equivalent of backPress) was re-written twice over 2 years, and just 3 months ago they also changed how all v2 forums are themed – by using an external templating system called Smarty instead of PHP.

That said, it’s not like bbPress is without it’s issues either (people in glass houses etc…), but given the poor state of a just released and not brilliantly tested software thats taken over 2 years to throw together… I’d probably not make too many assumptions that it’s going to impact other software in the same vertical, ha, and I’d sure as heck not tell people to pack their bags

[VirtualityStudio]

For anybody else out there that is having this problem, this worked for me:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

still needs some tweaking, but overall… total match!!!! yay!

[kurmujjin]

I have the same interest. Can you point to a how-to article that shows how to integrate the two to have the same theme, headers, menu, etc. The featured site I saw that did this was SlashGear.

There is only one theme listed in the cpanel for bbPress, Kakumei. I do want the WPress and BBPress themes to be consistent.

[minervaa]

Where would you paste the code? on the post.php file?

[ffleader]

I have a WordPress website and want to add a forum (message board). If I wanted to use bbPress do I setup a bbPress forum first and then integrate it into WordPress or can I install bbPress in WordPress and then set up the forum?

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/configphp

[chrishajer]

You need to temporarily rename that config.php file to something else to allow the installer to continue, then change the name back. Or find the code that prevents bbPress from installing when it finds a config.php, and disable that so the installation can continue. I would just rename the file for a minute or two while you install bbPress, then change it back.

[johnjos]

I want to add a forum to this site and as i run the installer i get this message “An old config.php file has been detected in your installation. You should remove it and run the installer again. You can use the same database connection details if you do.”

BBpress has been added in the forum folder in the root where the config.php file for the existing site to which i want to add a forum for. e.g mysite.com/forum(bbpress). It is asking me to remove the config file and if i remove the config file than the site won’t work. Has anyone got any suggestions, i have read through that some people managed to install bbpress with existing non-wordpress sites.

thanks in advance.

[johnjos]

I came to bbpress in the hope that forum would be as great as wordpress. I hope i am right and can get the installation done.

[johnjos]

Is that a BBpress forum on your site?. Did you manage to integrate with your forum with non-wordpress site?. thanks.

[johnjos]

I am glad i read this post while waiting for upload of bbpress to finish. I am new to this game, do i have to create a database for a forum or it creates itself?.

[Rich Pedley]

Well bbPress as a plugin is progressing, and last official word was that there would be a testable version in a few weeks.

[VirtualityStudio]

it strikes again…

put require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/wp-load.php’); into bb-config to get my functions to load and it gave me this error:

Warning: require_once(/home/xxxx/public_html/forum/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/wp-load.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/xxxx/public_html/forum/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/wp-load.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

also tried with:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../../blog/wp-load.php’);

and it did the same thing, just with the dots after forum/

any ideas?????

[e-motion]

I am having this problem too. You can check it at:

http://e-motion.lt/bbpress/topic/12/page/3

Go to page 4. The thread has one post deleted – #24.

I am using bbPress 1.0.2.

[VirtualityStudio]

I tried that and it would stack it on the end anyway… so i would get for example

home/user/directory/forum/home/user/directory/blog/file.php

out of desperation i tried the absolute path

just tried something else… I took the important parts out of the header and footer files and put them into the bbpress template files. it is loading now… sort of.

now onto the game of figuring out how to get some wordpress functions to work. I have the sliding door theme in wordpress, so ugghhh……..

thanks for your help!

[chrishajer]

When you are doing “require_once” you need to give it a filesystem path, not a URL.

So what is the full path to the file you want to include? That’s what your should use if you cannot figure out the relative path.

[VirtualityStudio]

tried doing an absolute path and got this error:

Warning: require_once() [function.require-once]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Warning: require_once(http://www.xxxx.com/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘http://www.xxxx.com/home/xxxx/public_html/blog/header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

[VirtualityStudio]

trying to integrate bbpress to use my wordpress theme… but running into problems. when i put the code into the bb.config file

require_once(‘../blog/header.php’);

if (file_exists(‘../blog/header.php’))

require_once(‘../blog/header.php’);

else

if (file_exists(‘../../blog/header.php’))

require_once(‘../../blog/header.php’);

it stacks the path on top of the forum path instead of where it belongs… giving me the error:

Warning: require_once(../blog/header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../blog/header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/xxxx/public_html/forum/bb-config.php on line 70

has anyone else had this problem… and can you share how to fix it?

I’m using the method of replacing the header.php file content with <?php get_header(); ?> and the footer with <?php get_footer(); ?> if there is a better way of going about this, I’m open so please share

thanks!

[chrishajer]

You need to use a table prefix for the database for integration between WordPress and bbPress to work. I’m not sure how to get around that now that you are already using WordPress without a table prefix.

One question per topic please.

[frooyo]

@Rich Pedley

Nonetheless, I hope this causes action on Matt/Auttomatic to take bbPress more seriously.

[ratracegrad]

I am helping a friend get bbpress installed with his wordpress site at http://www.sealgrinderpt.com and http://www.sealgrinderpt.com/forums.

I have it installed. I have added a link on home page to get to the forums.

My wordpress integration seems to not be working. He has an admin account on wpress that is not recognized on the forums. I created an default admin account in the bbpress installation. That account is not recognized when logon to wpress. The wp_config file does not have a $table entry so wondering if that is my downfall on the integration.

Next question is how to get the header and look and feel of wpress site to carry over to the forum? I want at least the logo at top and the navigation menus.

Thanks for help on these 2 issues. I am sure I will have more as I work on this site for my friend. Thanks in advance for all of the assistance.

Jennifer

[frooyo]

Everyone knows that the forums at WordPress are powered by bbPress.

And for any technology, the ultimate insult that your software has died is when someone comes in behind you to create a new system to replace your failing system.

Well, that just happened with bbPress !!!

Joel Spolsky has released StackOverflow to replace the current WordPress forums (powered by bbPress)

http://joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/08/31.html

I hope MATT and others take notice and get serious about bbPress. It’s embarrassing that Joel has to call out all of the missing features and functionality and support of bbPress in his article (even though he doesn’t call out bbPress directly).

MATT, please take this as a major cause of action to improve bbPress.

[zaerl]

So maybe BuddyPress has done something weird with your DB. BuddyPress + bbPress = bad.

[zaerl]

wp_ = wordpress

wp_bb_ = bbpress

admin ID = 1

wp_usermeta:

1 wp_capabilities = a:1:{s:13:"administrator";b:1;}

1 wp_bb_capabilities = a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}

logout, login.