Are you trying to synchronize posts between the two, so that you can continue the discussion in the forum? If so, you can use the plugin found here: http://bobrik.name/code/wordpress/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/ Or are you just trying to transfer from bbPress into WordPress completely?
Has anyone been successful in transfering data/posts from BB Press to WordPress. Infact I had a PHPBB3 and wanted to convert to WordPress, and I found a script and was successful in transferring the whole to BB Press, but finally I would want it to be on Word Press. Can someone plz help me out.
Funny thing is that is what I’m planning on delving into next. I’m new to bbPress but decided to try it out because I was familiar with WordPress. I don’t have any formal training in code, I’ve pretty much just learned by piecing things together and seeing if they work.
Back to my original train of thought, I’m planning on implementing something like queries, which I think is what you mean by loop of topics. I was actually browsing around the forums looking for ways to pull related topics together not by keywords but by relation to forums. I plan on putting this within the topics template to display similar topics to members. Will definitely be looking for help on that one as I’m sure it won’t be as easy to implement as in WordPress.
I was planning on using <?php if (in_category() ): ?>, that is what I used in WordPress to pull similar posts together. However I’m wondering if this approach is possible in bbPress because I’m not sure if there is such a thing as in_category. I guess this will be another thing to get into. Will check back after I take a much needed rest. Thanks again.
You beat me to it 
Glad you figured it out. Just to clarify, what I mean was you need to pass the proper topic ID depending on what you are doing. In this case, you are using get_topic_id(), which will get the current topic ID being worked on based on the global topic object. In other cases, you may be within a loop of topics, in which case you would need to use something along the lines of $topic->topic_id, depending on your topic object name. This will start to make more sense as you progress within php and bbPress. Until then, don’t be afraid to ask questions for help, everyone has to learn somehow.
Well I am back to square 0.8. As of this morning I was on bbPress 1.0.2, but now I am back to 0.9.0.4. It is at least working again. I think it must have something to do with the bb-config.php file. If I load up 1.0.2 and keep the old config file (as instructed) it tells me that my usernames do not exist (admin, etc.). If I pull everything (including the same bb-config.php file) from my backup and switch back to 0.9.0.4 everything is fine. I did notice that everything in the newer versions of wp and bb refers to the four different keys, whereas my config file for bb has only the “SECRET” key. In the old version it talks about WP integration using just the one key.
Any ideas on how I should proceed? Also I see many mentions on clearing out the wp and bb cookies, but I don’t understand how to do that and can’t find it in the forum.
Sorry, I missed the discussion of this topic, I am not a developer and so excuse me if I have this wrong … but can I underline what seems to be a missing element across the board of WP/BB/BP products …
an integrated search facility.
so that a search at the main portal recovers searches from ALL blogs, user pages, forum posts etc.
I say ‘main portal at least’ but I would have a filtered choice at every search bar, e.g. ‘just this user’ versus ‘whole site’.
Without an integrated search facility, without being able to find related content, it is pointless and frustrating. One may as well have a series of unrelated domain names with bespoke softwares and depend on Google. If the whole WP/BB/BP thing is about building community then those communities have to be linked. Without linking there is no community.
I am a great fan of the WP conceptual approach and am desperate to use and have BBpress work. I have been wasting weeks of my life trying repeatedly to make it all work together. It does not at present and it is deeply depressing.
It looks to me that it all needs to be integrated into one single application with the choice to switch on or off parts. That would also allow for the other big omission to be more easily addressed …
multi-linguality
Let us not forget that English language users are actually a minority and help up to make our communities multi-racial.
@nickaster: A couple of questions to help out diagnose this.
When you say deactivating does nothing, does that mean that new posts after deactivating still show the slash, or are you referring to old posts? The reason I ask this is that old posts may have stored the slash in the db, in which case the plugins may not affect this. Try deactivating the plugins and creating a new post to see if the slash is still there / appears in the new post.
What version of bbPress are you using?
Are there any other plugins you are using, or only those 3?
Are your plugins up to date?
There’s no equivalent that I know of for bbPress. It would be the equivalent of a WordPress blog post page, where you want 9 posts (for example) listed as a default, but if there is a long post, some sort of limit kicks in. I don’t know of a way to do this in WordPress at all, other than limiting the number of posts on a blog page, or with a custom query. The nextpage tag only works on a single long post. It’s possible you could change the number of replies listed in bbPress when it encounters a long post with a tag like that, but I haven’t seen anyone do that yet.
It seems most of the Buddypress / WPMU / BBpress tutorial floating around the web are out of date now, e.g. they refer to separate bp-themes folders etc.
Is there any update for latest BBpress plus BP 1.1.2 …? I am most concerned about backwards recognition users that registered before BBpress was installed.
I found with BP/WPMU that there is a complete lack of backwards recognition and had to manually remake a number of blogs.
Thanks.
+1 for _ck_ to join the bbPress team.
She knows the project inside and out and is a stickler for code optimization and performance!
I had a similar problem the first time I integrated a bbPress and WordPress site. In my case, all I had to do was clear the old bbPress and WordPress cookies, and next login went fine. Maybe give that a try?
I have what I hope is a fairly easy question to answer: On the WordPress side of my site (running 2.8.5), I have a custom script that loads a small icon showing the status of users who have donated to the site, as well as for staff members. As you’ll see below, it calls the user_id and then looks for and displays an image with the matching name.
<?php $user = new WP_User( $comment->user_id );
if ( !empty( $user->roles ) && is_array( $user->roles ) ) {
foreach ( $user->roles as $role )
echo "<img src='/{$role}.gif' />";
} ?>
I’d like to introduce this to the forum side as well. I’m running bbPress 1.0.2, and it’s fully integrated, and I’m trying to add this to the standard Kakumei template in the post.php file, above the post_author_avatar_link line. It doesn’t appear to break anything, but it also doesn’t load the image, or show a broken image link that would hint that there’s no appropriate image to be found.
It also appears to recognize the WP_User term, but not BB_User (it breaks with an error when changed).
Any ideas how I can get this working for at least the staff levels (keymasters, admins, moderators)?
I’ve got a forum currently set up and running at You Suck at Craigslist using VastHTML forums, but I’m not really happy with the way that that forum software works.
Is there a way to install bbPress and import the existing users/posts/threads in? And perhaps more importantly, is it relatively easy, given that I know just enough about this stuff to hurt myself?
@circuit: i’ve looked at your website, and im genuinely impressed. the latest forum posts on the right hand side are visable on your wordpress pages. Was this achieved by calling bbpress header after wp header? Im wondering if this is an option as I have read some now about it being doable. It seems the code you have included brings in the latest posts in your forum, correct? My aim is to bring in latest posts in a specific forum on my catagory pages, with each forum included different dependent on catagory.
Does anyone know if what Im trying to do is possible with this software? Im going to be trying to do this with the header method for the next few days, so anyone who has some info on the subject would be a god send. I have a few threads from this forum that I’ve got saved, but they are very dated.
Hello-
For some reason when I add a custom theme to the “my-templates” directory it does not show up in the Manage Theme admin screen. If I move the theme into the “bb-templates” directory it shows up as I would expect, it’s just that I would like to have the theme in a folder that is not touched during an upgrade.
I have integrated bbpress with wordpress so that cookies are shared. Here is the structure that I have:
WordPress Root (directory)
– BBpress Root (directory running version 1.0.2)
— my-templates (directory 755)
— mycustomtheme (directory 755)
—- various php files (files 644)
—- style.css (file 644)
I’m fairly certain it’s not a theme issue, I’ve gone as far as moving the Kakumei theme from the “bb-templates” folder to the “my-templates” folder and that doesn’t work either. Can anyone give me some suggestions as to what to look at next?
Thanks–
I apologize if this is elsewhere, but I am in a panic and have to go do my real job for a few hours. I upgrades to the latest version of bbPress over the weekend and everything went fine. Today I got greedy and tried to create a WordPress blog and then link to it. I followed the instructions on bbPress “Settings” and also installed the plugin on WordPress. I was trying to check the four user things that had to match. I am sorry I can’t quote them, but I can’t log in to see that info again. It was in the “WordPress Integration” area. I had both config files open and found the mentions in the WP, but BB had a line about “Secret” instead. I swear I closed both without saving and bam, I was kicked out of bbpress. When I attempt to login it says, “user does not exist.” I have tried password reset and it sends a new one to my e-mail, but it still says that I don’t exist. I can still see, my forum, but cannot login.
Please help. I do not know .php, but I typically take things slow and careful and follow the directions. I am sure I boogered something up, but I am not sure what.
http://www.mocog.com
Thanks in advance,
-Shoe
ajsilvers – you might be better off with a WordPress forum plugin to achieve what you want.
Do you have a file called config.php in your bbpress directory or one level up?
there are a LOT of threads about this on the forum already. so much so that it’s becoming hard to find threads about anything else 
search the site (i recommend the ‘search google’ option) for ‘integration’ or ‘wordpress’.
what you want is possible but not without a considerable amount of time and some intricate theme modification.
you can see my wordpress(MU) + bbpress + buddypress install here:
http://www.copsandrobbers.net
the forum is actually entirely separate, apart from the wp_users table. what you are seeing is a shared header graphic and cloned stylesheet. that is probably what you need to do.
thanks everyone – this suggestion of mis-matching ‘www’s gave me the clue i needed to get my cookies working.
Were you successful in doing the same for migrating posts and forums from bbpress to word press?
Hi Matt,
I’ve been running a large bbP community for 11 months now, so I’ve come to know what users expect and the kinds of limitations we’ve had to overcome (or not). My skills lie mostly in user experience and CSS coding, but I’m also getting quite proficient in PHP. I’d be more than willing to help in any of these areas. With PHP some of the lighter side of things would be desirable.
I’d also love to help out with the codex, answer questions here, and moderate.
A great person to have on board would be CK ( https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/_ck_ ). She seems to have disappeared off the radar of late, but she wrote many plugin (for 0.9), offered much advice, and stated she’d be updating plugins for 1.0 from December onwards.
Subscribe To Topic will send updates on a particular thread/topic to subscribed users… but this should do what you’re looking for:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/moderator-new-post-notification/
Or here’s another possibility:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/xili-new-post-notification/
Good luck!
Hey Guys, these both look interesting solutions but is there a way for a relative non techie like me to achieve the following.
I am using the thesis theme on wp 2.8.4.
I have just successfully (and I surprised myself in that it only took me 30mins) installed bbpress and followed all the bbpress integration options using bbpress integration plugin for wordpress.
The challenge for me is I expected that this would lead me to have bbpress *inside* wp or atleast to be able to display the forum in a wp page.
The integration has been successful (i.e. the bbpress install is reading the users from my wp install) but it is not quite what I thought what i was expecting.
How can I achieve my goal of having the forum be (or atleast appear) to be inside wp?
The main reason for this is that I am using wp as a membership site and I want the forum inside the membership site.
Thanks, in advance,
AJ
I’m using WordPress as my CMS and decided to go with Simple Press Forum to set up a forum. However, I’ve run into a roadblock and want to find out if BBPress can meet my needs before starting over.
I have a forum with specific users who need to be notified by email whenever a new topic is started or a reply is made to an existing topic. I’ve run across a plugin called Subscribe to Topic but want to confirm this will do what I’m looking for before starting all over with new forum software.
Bottom line- I want the small set of users to automatically be subscribed to all new topics and alerted of any updates. I do not want the users to have to subscribe to each topic.
