For question two there is a plugin for that:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/
Also, subscribe to topic is coming. It’s already in the latest development release.
@Maurice: I’m with you. Very disappointed to hear bbPress will become a WordPress plugin. Grrr, I do not want to have to install WordPress every single time I want to install bbPress!
@chrishajer: Yeah, read that a while back. I really hope this will be reconsidered.
@nerieru: I’m with you, would be much more in favor of an integration plugin than making bbPress itself a plugin. The thing that puzzles me is this sudden decision that bbPress MUST be a plugin. Why not polish up and release 1.1 and 1.2, 1.3, etc first an then reevaluate? Why a final roadmap decision right now?
@chris, I think that’s still faaaaaaaaaar off tbh, and I do hope he reconsiders as well. As a plugin would be bloody slow compared to dedicated software. My honest opinion is it should be 2, standalone and there should be a plugin to make that standalone integrated with wordpress! So people will have a choice. Personally I think this is one of the fastest/most secure forum software out there. It would be as silly as making a wp plugin for bbpress. They should be separate and linkable through plugins. (1 at the wp side, 1 at the bbpress side)
@HSeatSleeper, I hope you will still continue this, because even if it’s gonna happen it’ll still take a long time till it reaches the stage of WP plugin. Your theme could still be used for the standalone version, even if it becomes obsolete.
Thinking about this some more, it might be a while before bbpress becomes a plugin. I’ll start on a sandbox theme regardless. Even if it only gets used for a few months (?), this would help move bbpress forward and get serious themers/skinners seeing it as a viable platform.
You can always check all the logs here before they’re posted on the blog:
https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=bbpress
Cool I din’t know that. It seems bbPress will NOT stay standalone and will be a plugin after 1.2, shame.
If you only want it on the front page, then frontpage.php is fine. You can put it in a separate file and include it in frontpage.php too, if you might want to use it on other pages. But there’s no harm in adding it there. Go for it.
More reading:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/best-practices-for-adding-a-sidebar-to-bbpress
I don’t think there’s any question at this point. Here’s what Matt said on Dec 30 ’09:
“[21:26 GMT] <photomatt> bbPress will definitely be a WP plugin”
https://bbpress.org/blog/2010/01/2009-12-30-meetup/
I also think the serious lack of a good codex is killing potential enthusiasts/contributors. So I don’t mind building the codex for bbpress. It’s a needed feature. And should be like WP’s.
I’ll see you in the meet Wednesday.
@Kamil_D, can u tell me how did you do that? 
i wanna talk to you, please add me on yahoo or msn messenger ipunkbali [at] yahoo.com thx
I see. There is a thread somewhere here about that. They tried to get this result:
your.domain.com/<forum-name>/<topic-name>
I’m sure this will surface one day – it would be nice if it were a plugin that adds to the list of permalink types in the admin panel. I too will be implementing something like this. Nice thing about it is that Google will filter your result into a hierarchical display (breadcrumbs).
That type of thing will also increase crawling speeds.
Thinking about this a bit more, eventually bbpress will be a plugin, no? So we won’t even need themes at all.
So creating a Sandbox theme would be a lot of work for something that would eventually be phased out.
Yes, I know about it.
What I mean is that this kind of link: _http://www.example.com/forum/forum_name/topic_name/ is a little bit better for seo en much more beautiful than this one: _http://www.example.com/forum/topic/topic_name
And therefore this: _http://www.example.com/forum/forum_name/ instead of that: _http://www.example.com/forum/forum/forum_name
But my priority is to get faster indexed in Google so I do not worry much about it.
Well I don’t have this plugin installed!? is it normal!?
6 Login to your wordpress dashboard. Go to Plugins->Add New-> search for “bbPress Integration” it should be the first one. Install it and activate.
Thank you everybody. I was able to fix everything by creating a different database and just uploading bbpress again. That turned out to be the fastest and the easiest way to fix evrything.
@MrTrip:
I’m with you re: keeping bbPress standalone.
I do not want to have to install WordPress every single time I install bbPress.
It has almost been a week, this doesn’t really add to the “we-are-reviving-bbPress” feeling. How hard can it be to copy-past and post some log?
The Sandbox theme is awesome…great to see you working on this HSeatSleeper.
There was talk a while back about bundling Sandbox as a default WordPress theme. It would be great to see this happen and bbPress include a variation as well!
I agree 100% with HSeatSleeper.
Gravatars works great with bbPress. Best of all the webmaster or editor does not have to be concerned about anything being uploaded to the server, security issues, etc.
Well, I’m totally confused. I followed all the steps in gerikgs explaination. The links from my WP lead through to my forum…..but
bbpress doesn’t seem to bring the user logon details from the main site.
The bbpress is not inside the wordpress folder because wordpress is the main site.
any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.
BB Press would work better as a plugin for wordpress.just my opinion.
@angrywhiteboy: All plugins are in the official repository, that’s because I haven’t post the links (and to prevent to be threated as spammer)
Plugins
@tonicarr: I’ll have a look to the plugin. Thanks a lot 
