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.
Hi Matt,
I launched the SitePoint community theme project for bbPress (work is still underway):
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/08/05/we-want-you-join-the-sitepoint-communitys-bbpress-theme-project/
My own background is in HTML/CSS coding mixed with a little WordPress.
Assuming the SitePoint project goes to plan I’ll likely be implementing it into a new version of my bbPress template generator which is currently in the works (albeit development is taking longer than I’d like) … http://pixopoint.com/products/bbpress-forum-theme-generator/
I see the key to bring bbPress to the masses is to add a lot of the standard functionality which most forums have by default directly into the theme. This keeps the core nice and light whilst offering maximum functionality to those who require it. I’d also like to make it easy as possible to have your WordPress and bbPress themes seamless integrate their designs by offering identically behaving WordPress and bbPress template generators.
Can I restrict access to WP backend?
Yes you can – I implemented this on my web – but you need to hack some wp files and it is not an esy job.
I posted about this issue in the thread that Matt opened but my post was deleted. Sometimes I think it is a taboo in the world of wp.
Can I make use of all of WP plugins and will it run harmoniously with bbPress?
Yes because after integration, wp and bbpress keep their own tables and plugin folders, the only thing that share is the users table. You can go further but it’s up to you.
I guess it’s better to explain what I’m trying to accomplish.
I chose bbPress because theming it is just like WordPress. I rolled my own theme from the ground up. During the building process I realized how I wish I could add this and that, but due to the lack of documentation it’s rather hard for someone like me who has limited php know how. So it got me looking into integration.
My original intention of using bbPress was to make it easier for members to submit content. I would have built this project on WordPress, but the WordPress backend is a bit too distracting for members. I know there are other solutions out there such as the TDO-mini-forms, but it lacks polish.
So basically what I would like to do is use bbPress’ ease of content submission and profile pages running in conjunction with WordPress’ familiarity. Also what happens with topics and single pages, categories and forums do they combine into one? Can I restrict access to WP backend? Can I make use of all of WP plugins and will it run harmoniously with bbPress?
So many questions not sure how to form them. But the basic gist is I want members to use the bbPress part of the integration for content submission and use WP to handle displaying of the data.
Hey Matt!
Without too much detail, I’ve been neck deep in theme development, bug patching, code re-factoring and clean-up since the Windows 3.11 and Visual Basic 3.0 days. I’ve been interested in making bbPress be better integrated with WordPress for probably a year or so now? I was a long time phpBB2.0 junkie, and moved to WordPress because I was frustrated at how forcibly linear typical forum software is. When I fell in love with the WordPress way, I quickly found bbPress, and expected it to include all of the features that BuddyPress now does, hence my shift in that direction.
I’d like to help restyle bbpress.org, maybe bring it a little more in line with the other Automattic websites. There’s no doubt that bbPress needs some TLC in the codex and source-code documentation areas too, and I have recent experience absorbing the WP Code Standards from working under Andy with BuddyPress.
Right now my focus is 100% BuddyPress, but since you asked… I’d love to be more involved in all of the WP projects and communities if there’s opportunity.
Integration allows bbpress to use wppress user database so whenever an user logs in any, wp or bb, he stay logged in and he can post in both, wp and bb.
I think so, but only if there are long posts. Maybe a length of XXXX number of characters of posts per page. The topics per page plugin would always display the same number of posts per page, regardless of length of those posts.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/
Interesting question.
If you’d like to influence the future of bbPress, please drop in on this thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress
If you’d like to help out with bbPress, please leave a post here with brief info about yourself, what you’re most talented at, and what part of bbPress you’d like to be a part of.
Strategically the most important thing we need to figure out is how to integrate bbPress better with WP more for people who want that — right now it’s easier to use one of the WP plugins for forums than bbPress.
You have told it yourself, just turn bbpress into a wppress plugin. Actually, you can turn wppress into a forum with plugins like tdo-mini-forms. So, you could be including a forum with the next version of wp in a matter of minutes with a couple of silly tweaks. I’ve been on the point of doing this myself several times, I don’t know why I keep on struggling with bbpress integration.
The cookies that are sent to your browser by bbPress and WordPress.
I’ve lost track of the number of topics that describe how to do this. Can someone please post the best one for synchronizing the cookie settings? Thanks.
Thanks hatter for posting that. I hadn’t heard about that plugin before.
Is it possible to break pages up if topics get too long in bbPress?
Thanks.
Hello Everybody
I’ve just updated my regular wp blog to mu and now I cannot access the bbpress backend. I also noticed that when in mu my users don’t have roles and I cannot assign roles to them. I’m wondering if this is related. Any asistance on this would be appreciated
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