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?
Nice work man. Nice work.
Hi,
I have a problem; I use buddypress 1.2.3 and I installed bbpress directly from buddypress and I traslate buddypress in italian whit file .po and .mo but phrases of bbpress remain in english.
Any idea?
Thk
Guide to WordPress integration is now up. Ah, that was a good day and a half of playing around in phpMyAdmin, bbPress, and WordPress!
I am finishing up a plugin that will do this, probably within the next week or so. It’s very usable now, but still need some functionality added in. I was hoping to get it hosted in the plugin directory, but the form to add it seems broken. I can post a link to download here if you’d like.
Hello everyone,
I just wrote a guide to basically achieve what the title says. Two reasons:
(1) There isn’t a vb4-to-bbPress converter out there making the process more difficult then it should be
(2) The answers are out there if you’re willing to search for hours like I did I decided to piece together all my research into a single guide
Credit, of course, goes to the generous souls who created the vB-to-phpBB and the phpBB-to-bbPress converters, which are both required.
I’m still working on the integration with WordPress part which should be up soon. If you guys see any errors, please let me know.
Hope this helps!
Edit: Forgot the link! http://www.ericm.ca/2010/articles/vbulletin-4-to-bbpress-and-wordpress-integration
