hmmm ! actually this SEO plugin blocks the forum.
Thanks for the plugin. But how would you set it up? it is not giving any options on the admin side.
thanks for the info can you tell me i wan to add in bbpress forums user’s signature feature how can i add it or is it built in with it or i need to add some extra plugin for it?
There are only two themes that come with bbPress (Kakumei and Kakumei Blue), and you’re actually using a 3rd one (Genealogies). So what is not working for you?
I installed two new themes, and none of them are showing up. I changed the permissions on the my-templates folder and each of the theme folders to 755, but they’re still not showing up.
Any idea why? I’ll I’m seeing on the “appearance” page is the 3 themes that come with bbpress
I only realized about an hour ago that there is a Show Avatar option under bbPress Settings – > Discussions…
well as you might have guessed that was disabled!
i hope this never happens to anyone, i wasted 5 hours for this
I have the same problem, I just haven’t used BuddyPress. Fresh WP 3.0.1 multisite and bbPress installed from svn trunk (as suggested by friend). I’ve integrated bbPress with WP and since then I can’t go to /bb-admin/ (being redirected to the root of the forum) nor I can reply on default topic (created by installer). I’ve checked with other users and everyone can log in but noone can reply or create new topic.
I’ve checked the database and wp_roles_map in bbPress db is:
array (
‘administrator’ => ‘keymaster’,
‘editor’ => ‘moderator’,
‘author’ => ‘member’,
‘contributor’ => ‘member’,
‘subscriber’ => ‘member’,
)
In WP database (table wp_usermeta) wp_capabilities for my user:
array (
‘administrator’ => ‘1’,
)
There is also wp_2_capabilities field which contains same serialized array.
WordPress, then bbPress in a sub folder.
http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/
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 
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!
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.
Where would you paste the code? on the post.php file?
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?
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.
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.
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.
Is that a BBpress forum on your site?. Did you manage to integrate with your forum with non-wordpress site?. thanks.
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?.
Well bbPress as a plugin is progressing, and last official word was that there would be a testable version in a few weeks.
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?????
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.
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!
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.
