[Terence Milbourn]

Well I can see there’s no shortage of advice and help wanted by folks at the sharp end. All good stuff.

But it strikes me that one thing that is missing, so far, is the ability to simply import databases from other forums like PHPBB etc. Haven’t done exhaustive research but that’s my impression.

The one plugin that *I* would want is the plugin that installs BBPress in the first place. And by the way, it should install it right into my existing WP theme.

[Terence Milbourn]

@johnhiller — I just read that back in December “Matt Mullenweg dropped the bombshell yesterday in IRC: bbPress, the often forgotten forum option, could become a WordPress plugin in the near future”. I’ll have to get myself an IRC client and start participating. Any idea of timescales?

@chrishajer — I didn’t mean to come off too strong on that but on re-reading what I wrote, it does read that way. I apologize for that. And if its Matt Mullenweg that needs to have the benefit of my help and guidance I will be sure to let him have it… 8^) In the meantime, while I wait for commonsense to prevail, which I now know ‘appears’ to be happening (see comment above), I’ll content myself with creating my own template to match my current Thesis/WP theme. What joy.

[PokerForum]

Hi, I just installed BBPress, which was an easy thing to do.

Now I would like to ged rid of the sidebar “Popular Tags” to the left of the starting page of the forum. I’m using the Kakumei Blue 1.0 theme.

Any hint, which file I have to edit? Thank you!

[Kevin Ryman]

I’m actually looking for something like this. I mean I don’t want to use BuddyPress just because you can add friends. I rather have a bbPress plugin for that purpose.

[miruru]

Hi there, I think it is similar to what I have set up.

For Example, the Welcome/Support/Main Theme are the Forum tables with subforums underneath?

Take a look at this https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/displaying-sub-sub-forums you can remove the subforum bit from this as well.

[gerikg]

Coffee4cr https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/

[chrishajer]

Did you check this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/solution-for-facebook-connect#post-65159

Or follow the discussions for this tag:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/facebook-connect

[kingscast]

Any luck incorporating Facebook Connect (and others) with bbPress? I’m finding that users don’t want to create a separate account on bbPress in my situation. Offering them an alternative would be huge.

[gerikg]

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/topic-icons/

Can anyone create an admin section for this?

Where you can upload images and assign it to the forum title and you do all the settings through the dashboard not the php file.

[dangerbronco]

Woohoo! This plugin works! https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

Anyone who is having trouble with single sign-on, deep integration and cookies w/ wp2.9 and bb1.0. Here is your answer. Make sure you configure it in the settings. Thanks for the help.

[gerikg]

Are you using bbpress 0.9?

[dangerbronco]

Also, I have tried this plugin, which, hasn’t worked for me either. I’m guessing its not compatible with 2.9. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-26-and-bbpress-09-integration/

[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