http://themehybrid.com/community/topic/bbpress-theme-development
You could ask Justin Tadlock about Hybrid for bbPress.
Is the header and footer carrying over OK, except for the navigation?
Does the rest of your forum work? A database connection problem should affect the whole forum, not just the admin.
WordPress sidebar code will not work straight away.
You can find themes that use sidebars here and maybe find something you can copy from:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes
Or, you can find professional help with programming for bbPress here:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-professionals-advertise-in-this-topic
Or, anyone familiar with modifying WordPress should be able to help as well since they’re very similar.
Yes, it will work fine with many users. It’s in use at WordPress.org if you want to see lots of users and activity. https://wordpress.org/support/
You can also check the top 100 sites using bbPress here and see how they feel to you:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100
You can find forums with lots of users, lots of posts, or both.
Greenshady – here’s the author of that plugin:
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/dragly
Here’s where it came from I think:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1016
I don’t see that it was ever added as a plugin. It’s worthwhile to leave it here I think.
I was trying to figure out where I downloaded this plugin, but the author’s site isn’t really up at the moment.
http://justintadlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/inactivetomember.zip
What this does is check if the current user (once logged in) has a role. If he doesn’t, it gives them the default bbPress role.
If anyone can find the original download link, mods, feel free to remove the link to my zip file.
secure_auth_salt is only present if you’re accessing wp-admin via https protocol, otherwise it’s not needed. The bbPress installation used to have a note about that at this field.
auth_salt you can get from your WordPress installation, at this URL:
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/options.php
I thought those notes were present on the bbPress installation screen…
That should work just fine. What you want to do can be done and should be done in the stylesheet, not with a modification to the bbPress core. Did you try in a different browser to make sure your old stylesheet was not cached or something? Can you post the URL so people can check it out?
I banged my head on this issue over two clean installs. Then Gerikg suggested that you need to make sure your URL in bbPress doesn’t include the ‘www’. Check that in your General settings.
Please where Can I find : auth_salt and secure_auth_salt, Still stuck at the 2nd installation steps. Trying to integrate wordpress and bbpress
I formerly had login integration working between wordpress and bbpress, but it stopped when I upgraded to bppress 1.0. For wordpress I’m on version 2.8.3. Perhaps i did something incorrectly. These keys are not present in the bb-config.php file.
BB_AUTH_KEY
BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY
BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY
BB_NONCE_KEY
I added them to the bb-config.php file from the wp-config file. All the salt keys match the ones in wordpress, and I checked the meta table in the db to be sure.
i added the following line to wp-config and bb-config
define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/lhw/’ );
Is it possible that bbpress wasn’t installed correctly to use the new security features? Any suggestions?
Having the same issues here, saw the plugin on wpmu-enable-bbpree-capabilities but I would wait a little until some one more experienced here would say something.
Basically the issue is that after installation and synch between bbpress and wordpress I see that the new users (except admin) have their roles assigned to Inactive.
Any help please ?
The plan for a second there was to run the codex from the BuddyPress.org site (which is WPMU). It didn’t pan out for some technical reasons, but the domain is still mapped there.
Thanks for your gratitude, I have indeed left Automattic. I decided it was time to move on and pursue some of my own ideas and other interests.
I won’t have much time to contribute to bbPress now and I can’t report who is going to be taking over from me or if anyone is even being sought for the role.
It has been great being so involved in this project and I appreciate all the help that people have given in peer support on these forums and with the code itself.
@chrishajer I believe I found originally that including only wp-load.php did not register the actions and filters in WordPress and I wanted to keep those for our specific installation. But generally speaking, it would carry quite a bit less load 
@AphelionZ I am very glad you solved the problem, congratulations!
Development tends to go in bursts as described here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-facebook-page#post-21553
Sam was working insanely hard before 1.0 came out, so not at all surprised that he’s taking a break!
But definitely wanted to express thanks, if Sam has indeed moved on…
Hi everyone,
I’m seriously considering dropping FluxBB (that i’m currently using for a large messageboard) and using BBPress.
I would stop using FLuxBB for various reasons (mostly because i feel like FluxBB isn’t really alive anymore development-wise and also because i’ve been using wordpress for many many years and really digg the WP/BBpress community & coding) but… i was wondering is BBPress would do the job for a large messageboard with many users and connections everyday ?
I’ve tested BBPress many times, installed the latest version again yesterday for a test run and tested many plugins, tried customizing themes to see if it would fit my needs etc. and it looks sweet but there’s one thing i can’t tell: would BBPress work fine with many users ? Would it be just as good and even better than FluxBB once i’ve installed the plugins needed and export everything from FluxBB to BBPress ?
Do any of you use BBPress with hundreds of users on a daily basis ? It is running smoothly ? Is it responsive and fast ? It is made to work with huge amount of users and connections ?
Thanx for your feedback. I’d really appreciate any experience you have / had.
Can I get help with that? Can I get the code for the sidebar.php file in bbPress and anything else that goes with it? Will the WP sidebar code work?
Thanks.
When I try that I keep getting an error message that says “could not establish a database connection”.
Thanks.
So what I did to patch this was comment out the BPDB function on line 140 of /html-root/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bp-forums-bbpress.php
Not ideal, I know – but it allowed me to keep working. Here’s the paste. http://pastebin.ca/1574452
I’m open to suggestions
I know there are many topics out there dealing with this, but there doesn’t seem to be a set way of doing it. Right now, I have…
require('/home/jwrbloom/public_html/wp-load.php');
…in my bbconfig.php file. I have changed all of the bb_get_header to get_header in my bbPress theme, and I have done the same with my footer. What isn’t carrying over is my site’s navigation. I’m using the Hybrid News theme for WP and kakumei for bbPress.
I’d like to have full or most of my WP functionality for my bbPress, but at this point, other than maybe adding some widgets to a sidebar, I’m not sure what my plan is there. I definitely need all of my header information.
So, upon closer inspection its a buddypress + backpress compatibilty issue – they both use $bpdb as their database abstraction class… hmmm…
I too will be saddened if Sam, indeed, has moved on.
Looking more and more like things are at a standstill:
https://trac.bbpress.org/timeline
