And sadly, I don’t know my way around querying tables, but I’ll figure it out. Quite simply I want any s2M role to be mapped to a general member role (in bbPress) as I’ve set the forum up to only be different if you’re a logged-in member or not. Currently all s2M roles come in to bbPress as Inactive (no role).
Thanks again for your input. I’ll post a solution here if/when I find it.
I’ve sadly none. You’re the first person to ask about this.
You’d basically need to set up a s2M roles to Forums relationship in a table somewhere, and then query it.
It would greatly depend on how you wanted to run it.
i.e. Would different levels see different forums? Or would they just not see the topics in forums but know they are there, or would they just not see the answers to topics in certain forums etc etc.
I’m guessing a little, but the easiest way to make it work with bbPress would be to write into the actual theme files testing against the s2Mrole. Shouldn’t be too horrible if you know your way around.
Do you guys have any recommendations?!
This isn’t a good place for asking this kind of questions. It’s like if you enter in a bar and say: “your bar sucks. Do you know where I can find another bar?”
In theory, you’d need either:
1) Deep Integration with WordPress, so you could query the WP DB on forum load
or
2) Write some custom code for the s2Member callback API (which it supports) to add a field to the bbPress database.
Shouldn’t be horribly difficult; but so far, no-ones asked about it here so I can’t point you towards any examples.
Has anyone had success in integrating the s2Member plugin into a WordPress site with a bbPress forum?
There has got to be a way to map the custom 2sM roles (ie. s2Member Level 4) to the standard WP “Subscriber” role for purposes of the bbPress platform, but I certainly haven’t figured it out yet.
I’m going to do something strange here AmplifiedShock, I’m going to ask you NOT to do that.
The “bbPress” that BuddyPress uses is not the same as this “bbPress”. It is heavily heavily modified. Basically the whole of BackPress is removed and replaced by custom functions, and then some of the middle tiering has been rewritten, and a little bit of the front end output and default theme.
A large chunk of the support requests we deal with each day/week is people coming here because BuddyPress calls their forums “bbPress”. We need to be able to tell people honestly and without looking like we’re being difficult, that if they use BuddyPress we can’t help them.
I’m sure it’s technically possible to do anything. I’m sure once it’s technically possible, it’s easier to write a guide for people to follow. You seem to be good enough to do that 
But with bbPress being turned into a WP plugin and Matt publicly telling people not to use this software; inviting more support queries that end in “we simply can’t help you” isn’t going to help us at all.
Now if you felt like writing more tutorials on converting from other forums to bbPress, I’m sure there would be a good market in that for you!
And, as always, thanks for your time
“plz” give us some more information.
What version of bbPress?
What theme are you using?
What error?
Does all content get sqeezed to the left or the right?
Do you have any screenshots?
etc. etc.
Lets pretend that we are not mind readers so we can help you…
That sucks, Seems like I have to find another simple forum script.
Do you guys have any recommendations?!!
Thanks guys!
I’m currently working on integrating WordPress 3 (WMPU), bbPress, and BuddyPress so that they all use the same database. I’ll post the results and a guide when I get it to work!
Thanks for the writeup!
To those reading, the “limitations of converting” section is key. Read that section before starting with the guide.
If by “bbPress 2.0” you mean this theme, the answer is never.
If you mean the next release of bbPress (which is either 1.0.3 or 1.1 – they haven’t decided yet and thankfully we’ve people working on different versions) then it’s a wait and see situation. I’d suggest August seems one of the earlist likely dates.
New features? Matt is scapping bbPress and making it a wordPress plugin, so there are no new features going to be added. Plus last time we were asked what we wanted in bbPress the results of the poll got ignored and the needs of WordPress.org was chosen.
What is the estimated time for bbPress 2.0 to be officially out?
Also, Is there a thread that I can use to ask for new features? Like easier quoting as it is in other forum scripts.
Mamikaze,
What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?
Did you install and use the WP/bbP integration plugin?
Have you tried logging in from both sides?
Have you checked to see if you’re using the same user tables?
Have you checked roles in your database?
Basically, give us as much information as possible, and we’ll try and help
I have all my integration, cookie and auth keys matching but I cannot login to bbpress admin if I am in wp-admin and vice versa.
Yes I know. But I thought that it was problem only related to upgrade and not to new uploads.
@zaerl: plugins section does not update since bbPress “new look”, actually… 
I have added two new plugins but the plugin section doesn’t refresh.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-url-preview
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-post-permalink
so I suppose that it’s a problem that affects all new uploads.
I suppose you’ll need to define “a bit less basic”. Everyone’s opinion of the way things look is different.
And bbPress will not change theme automatically I’m afraid. You’ll have to theme it yourself or use an exisiting one
ok i have looked at some sites in the presentation section and i can see that BB press can be changed to look like it fits into place.
Does anyone know how a theme will change the look of bbpress? will bb press automatically change to look like the new theme?
Is the way this forum works the way BBpress actually looks? Can it be modified to look a bit less basic?
I have found simple press and quite like how this looks. However, it doesn’t have an integration facility for php forums like this one.
I thought it was an excellent guide. Truly awesome.
I have created a plugin that expose permalinks to posts. But I’m not very sure that it’s what you want. I have uploaded it five minutes ago. Grab it (if it’s what you need) when the SVN refresh:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-post-permalink/
It exports a function:
za_post_permalink($id = 0)
which returns a link in the form:
http://domain.com/post/number if mod_rewrite is used
http://domain.com/?post=number otherwise
if you pass 0 or nothing to the function it takes the current post ID (if any).
Have a nice day.
Zaerl’s link is a good one, but I want to adda word of caution.
bbPress is not a WordPress plugin, and its definately not “WPBB”. if you’re not a programmer then you will find integrating the two of them a bit of a pain.
I’m sorry, but We can’t help with any issue regarding BuddyPress. You’ll have to ask on the BuddyPress forums (which are awesome).
The “bbPress” that BuddyPress uses is not anywher enear the same as this bbPress. I don’t know why the continue to not tell people that, as we get alot of support questions here about it, we simply can’t help with.
Sorry, and good luck
Could you provide us with some more details please?
Like what version of bbPress you’re using?
Are you using BuddyPress?
Are you integrated with WordPress? and if so what version?
