[gerikg]

This might help you with your journey: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration#post-38090

[chrishajer]

@PubDirLtd – there’s no need to say anyone here is unconcerned or has forgotten anything. Everyone knows what a pain in the butt it is to integrate WordPress and bbPress for logins, functions or theme integration.

Since you’re new here you might want to read up a bit on the discussion of making bbPress a WordPress plugin. With custom post types in WordPress 3.0, it looks like it will be even easier to make bbPress into a WordPress plugin. I’m all for that.

The discussion started here with making bbPress a WordPress plugin:

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-09-meetup/

There was relevant discussion about it in the forums too:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/future-of-bbpress

> if the developers of BBPress can’t make it that simple

Right now, there are no developers.

The man in charge of the project is Matt Mullenweg and you might be better served addressing him directly with your concerns, to ensure they’re heard: http://ma.tt/contact/

[johnhiler]

@PubDirLtd – I don’t have the links handy, but you may want to read up on some of the earlier discussions around the future of bbPress… it’s moving in the direction you mentioned.

[dangerbronco]

Hi. I have read the posts saying that deep integration has issues with cookies and authentication when logging in through the wordpress login, on wp versions 2.7 and higher (I am using 2.9). I am wondering if anyone has been able to do this, and what steps were taken. I can’t just “login through the bbpress side” because the wp-authenticate hook in my auth plugin won’t run. I’ve been racking my brain on this one and any help would be appreciated.

[dangerbronco]

Does anyone know a workaround for this? I have a wordpress plugin that syncs user data from an external user database when on the wp-authenticate hook. Unfortunately, this hook isn’t called when I login through the bbpress side.

[zaerl]

Modify #header and eliminate the background property. Then on bb-templates/kakumei/header.php put your code at line 30. If you don’t want that h1 points to the forum change <?php bb_uri(); ?> with your link.

This is a HTML/CSS question and not a bbPress one.

[zaerl]

I am new to BBPress, and I have to say that compared with BuddyPress installation/integration, which is that simple WordPress plugin, BBPress has a long way to go.

Whereas, it might surprise you to know, most people (WAY more people) in the world just want WordPress to load a plugin right into their existing theme and off they go.

bbPress isn’t a WordPress plugin. It uses the WordPress core functions but it’s a separate project. You can’t compare the installation of a WordPress plugin with the installation of bbPress. Also you can’t compare the communities cause the two software are completely different. One is a blog engine. One is a BBS engine.

[Terence Milbourn]

@chrishajer – I thought some more about what you wrote regarding the WordPress plugin idea.

I imagine, having worked with BBPress for so long, you guys are no longer concerned or have forgotten just what a royal pain in the butt it is to set up. Most of the pain could be avoided if it had been scripted and become a simple CPanel/Softaculous install, for example, but it hasn’t.

I am new to BBPress, and I have to say that my first impression is, compared with BuddyPress installation/integration (which is already that simple WordPress plugin), BBPress has a looooong way to go.

And I suspect, one of the reasons why there is such a big difference in the size of the respective communities, is that most of you guys don’t mind/quite like to fiddle with the technical stuff.

Haven’t you got the engine room steering the ship? Where are the ‘marketing guys’ out there finding out what the people really want, and steering the development, rather than what interests the coders?

It might surprise you to know (well I know it would surprise the coders), most people (WAY more people in the world), just want THEIR WordPress to load a plugin right into THEIR existing theme, and off they go.

Badabing badaboom!

I can’t see how, if the developers of BBPress can’t make it that simple, and also a darn site more compatible with WordPress itself, how its ever going to survive. Really.

And with the release of the merged v3.0 not far away, is that opportunity going to be grabbed or lost?

[Positics]

I have a similar challenge to the earlier topic “Linking back to main website”. It is for a site I have configured for someone, who has asked for the same ability for their logo to have a link associated to it, that will take the user back to the home page of site that pointed them to the blog / forum.

I have installed bbpress 1.02

You suggested the following;

in header.php where the body tag starts.

===========================

<body id=”<?php bb_location(); ?>”>

<div id=”wrapper”>

How do I locate this logo in the top right hand corner of the header where the default bb_emblem was located?

“<a’x’ href=”http://www.reflexology-uk.net/site”><img src=”images/iior.jpg” alt=”ITEC” /><‘x’/a>”

===Note===== ‘x’ === added in string above to break code so it will print =====

At presentI have a logo situated in the CSS file as a background, which you suggest is not the right way to go about achieving this.

Any pointers will be useful. Thanks.

[mr_pelle]

dogeil, try these plugins:

• Force Login by Michael D Adams plus the *voodoo code from Trent Adams and Sam Bauers*.
• Disable Registrations by Simon Wheatley

I had a similar need and I modified the former, ending up with a new (yet-to-be-released) plugin which redirect every non-logged-in user to a custom page.

[damiencaselli]

I just happened to stumble upon this problem using both codeigniter and bbpress, and the solution was to plain remove all variables settings by references, and let the plain old “=” do the job (thanks @ Cyril Janssens).

For some reason it doesn’t work if you let those references.

Edit: You also need to specify global $bbdb, global $whateverVar in your controller, or you’ll get the same errors.

Cheers!

[psycheangels]

hmm i never use thesis but that link i gave you have tutorial about how to use wp function in bbpress so all you need to do is costumize little bit in bbpress header and footer template.

[psycheangels]

you can start by reading this topic i guess

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

[Terence Milbourn]

A “Thesis page” is just like any other html/php/css WP page except that it uses Thesis Hooks, which is the framework Chris Pearson created to sit on top of WP and is far more efficient than the underlying WP code. It looks like this…

<?php



// Using hooks is absolutely the smartest, most bulletproof way to implement things like plugins,

// custom design elements, and ads. You can add your hook calls below, and they should take the

// following form:

// add_action('thesis_hook_name', 'function_name');

// The function you name above will run at the location of the specified hook. The example

// hook below demonstrates how you can insert Thesis' default recent posts widget above

// the content in Sidebar 1:

// add_action('thesis_hook_before_sidebar_1', 'thesis_widget_recent_posts');



/**

* function custom_bookmark_links() - outputs an HTML list of bookmarking links

* NOTE: This only works when called from inside the WordPress loop!

* SECOND NOTE: This is really just a sample function to show you how to use custom functions!

*

* @since 1.0

* @global object $post

*/



function custom_bookmark_links() {

global $post;

?>

<ul class="bookmark_links">



<li><a rel="nofollow">&title=<?php urlencode(the_title()); ?>" onclick="window.open('http://delicious.com/save?v=5&noui&jump=close&url=<?php urlencode(the_permalink()); ?>&title=<?php urlencode(the_title()); ?>', 'delicious', 'toolbar=no,width=550,height=550'); return false;" title="Bookmark this post on del.icio.us">Bookmark this article on Delicious</a></li>

<?php

}

Thesis is on one level, just an additional library of high level functions, and at another, its an incredibly easy way to design and manipulate your theme/template. The structure of the framework and the finished theme it provides also happen to be presented in a very SEO conscious way, which is obviously a big selling point.

What I would really like to see is a BBPress Template written for Thesis. Hmmm. I wonder. How hard can that be?

[chrishajer]

A thesis page would just be a WordPress page in the Thesis Theme by Chris Pearson, I think.

What you’re asking for, PubDirLtd is the reason that they are considering making bbPress a WordPress plugin, to do exactly that. Right now, it does not. It’s not a plugin for WordPress.

Some people have had success with putting their forum inside an iframe in a WordPress page, but that’s just an ugly hack and has its own problems.

[chrishajer]

On a dedicated server, how about logging slow queries with MySQL, or finding the MySQL bottlenecks and tuning the config? With a forum that large, you’re beyond what most people are running with bbPress and it will take some work to fine tune.

[psycheangels]

http://www.adityanaik.com/projects/themes/

http://www.awesomestyles.com/bbpress-themes

and others in google

[johnhiler]

Version 1.1 alpha? I’m not familiar with that version… is there a later version than the ones here?

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/tags/

[Terence Milbourn]

There were only two templates I could find there in the three threads you pointed to.

And when I upload their folders to my my-templates folder, I see their thumbnails are missing the graphic image in the Manage Themes window, and BBPress is now text only all ranged left.

Is there some bug that would stop v1. 1 alpha from ‘seeing’ the graphics and the basic display settings?

[Terence Milbourn]

Why do you think it is that BBPress is still a small community?

After all, many of the WP installations badly need an integrated forum and installing PHPForum or whatever and then trying to link them together is not much of a solution.

I very much like the idea of BBPress. I just hope it grows and survives to achieve its potential.

When I see the opportunity, I will volunteer to do anything I can to help.

[gerikg]

What is a Thesis Page?

johnhiler, I’ve been converting WP theme into bbPress themes. Just need more people to ask for the free help.

[johnhiler]

WordPress and bbPress don’t have “theme integration” – so that sort of seamless integration isn’t going to be easy, as far as I’m aware.

If you can make a “Thesis compatible” HTML template that’s supported in bbPress, you could then use the WordPress Thesis plugin to generate a CSS file… then drop that into the bbPress style.css file. That should do the trick.

[Terence Milbourn]

Can anyone give me a nice easy way to pull BBPress into a Thesis page?

Or come to that, a nice easy way to pull BBPress into any WP page?

I may have missed it but what I am looking for is something as simple as this…

1. Create a WP/Thesis page, with no sidebars, called “whatever”

2. Go to Page > Edit and edit the page you created, select HTML and insert “[BBPress]”

3. Create a menu item which opens the page.

That would do nicely.

[johnhiler]

bbPress is still a small community… we’re not as big as say, the WordPress community, and we don’t get the sort of corporate commitment and support that they do. So what you’re left with is mostly us volunteers, trying to help each other get the most out of free software that we all use and enjoy.

There are a couple 1.0 compatible themes on the forums… try some of these links maybe?

http://www.google.com/search?q=theme+site:bbpress.org/forums

Here are a few of the ones that support 1.0+:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-vanilla-2-inspired-theme

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-carrington-blog-for-bbpress

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-superbold-revisited-for-bbpress

[Terence Milbourn]

Is it me or are there really NO templates out there for BBPress 1.x out there?

I must say that, as a newcomer to BBPress, I find it very disappointing to find out that template developers not updating their products and leaving cryptic messages on their sites about how BBPress has no cogent leadership. Sorry, can’t remember where I read that or I WOULD leave the URL.

Code underneath and they way it works looks pretty neat though.

Oh well, I guess things can only get better… 8^)