Marius, I too would love to see widgets in bbPress!
oh heaoull…. i tried integration…… and thats where it went – at “tried”
did not turn out good
do you have any examples of how that looks like? bb press with wordpress sidebar?
also, is it possible to remove the tags bar? and possibly replace it with something else?
Thanks @johnhiler – definitely fills in the puzzle a little.
A couple questions:
- Any thoughts about using more recent builds than 2.7.1 & 0.9?
- One difference I’m seeing with my situation is that it’s WP’s users we need to bring into bbPress, not the other way around. The WP setup is a membership site, handled with the Wishlist Member plugin, so they’ll be logging in there first.
Ugh… I’m realizing I’ve got a bucket full of ugliness here… from the fact that there are going to be bbPress users (old, inactive ones) who aren’t in WP, trying to match up the WP users with the bbPress users, and the whole “logged into WP/logged out of bbPress” issue, since it looks like I may not be able to have shared cookies since I’m working with new versions of both software packages…
… this may be more than is possible right now. I’ll keep trying to figure it out, though. Thanks for your help, everyone.
If you’re running WordPress alongside bbPress, simply integrate the two and then you can call your WP sidebar from your bbPress theme. (tip: search under ‘deep integration’)
Thanks. Will try that too. It might also be an issue with bbPress 1.0 that could be the problem, compatibility issues.
gerikg –
If you want to write a post asking for plugin developers to bid on a project, you can do so here… but the forum policy is to just post your project description and your email and then a moderator will close the post:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-developers-wanted#post-39007
If you want to discuss the project in general, you can always do so… just a heads up on the forum policy around soliciting bids on a project. 
I had a custom blog made with word press and want to implement bbpress because I want to add a forum to the website. I want the same custom theme as the blog. Can someone help. I’m willing to pay. Let me know how much you want. You can view my site at http://www.phenomglobal.com
adamkayce – It’s absolutely possible. I’ve done it a few times now.
These links are hugely helpful:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integration-of-established-wp-and-bbpress-installations
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-reverse-integration-steps
The hardest part of the integration is how to handle “name collisions”… i.e. what do you do when two users share the same usernames in bbPress (from phpbb3) and WordPress. That’s discussed nicely in the above links.
Good luck!
Thanks, Kawauso… so, any guidelines/instructions about getting bbPress to use the WordPress user tables on a post-install integration? And am I right in assuming that the issues stem from having two databases (since you’ve got existing forum data, you can’t merge the two, right?) ? Sorry if these are newb questions.
Do you know if the ideas on this post would do it? https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101 — The reason I ask is because it seems like there’s a lot of info circulating about how it worked, or might work, under earlier versions of WP & bbP… but it often changes. Now that we’re up to 2.8.4 and 1.0.2, is it any different, or more viable? Is it as easy as pointing bbP at WP’s user tables, in addition to the “normal” integration steps? (I’m hoping to save myself a few hours of reading, that’s all… )
That makes sense… it’d be interesting to see if the profile info not displayed is actually retrievable anyway by adding the key from the database to the profile fields array. Displaying bbPress info in WordPress might be the same, I’ve never really looked at how it pulls it up.
Most integration issues I tend to see are related to deep integration, rather than straight forward user integration. I guess it boils down to, does bbPress transfer over existing users to WP’s user tables cleanly (or at all) if you integrate it post-install. It would be possible to do manually anyway, since their respective user tables are essentially identical in structure, but bbPress users would have no WordPress meta whatsoever.
Now, of course, the Big Question is: is it possible to take this newly-converted bbPress forum and get it to integrate nicely w/ a WordPress install? From the poking around that I’ve done, it seems that people have only had success integrating a brand-new bbPress install, not one with data/history in it.
I’d love to be proven wrong, though… any ideas?
gerikg: bbPress uses the WordPress user (profile) tables when integrated
Ashfame – This is a _ck_ plugin that lets you one-click sub to a thread:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/subscribe-to-topic/
I use it on several sites, and it’s excellent.
Is there a plugin or a way to code this? This was a feature that helped me increase the number of registered users back then when I was using SMF.
How can this be achieved with bbPress?
Hiya Quick Question,
I’m Modifying Mike Lothar’s SCOUN bbPress theme. At the very top of the page, there are 3 Links:
– Search
– Register
– Log in
I want to modify those links (and add new ones). How do I do that, I can’t find anything in the php pages nor the css. Cheers.
you’re talking about line breaks while posting to the forum?
I’m sure that bbpress removes double linebreaks, just like WP
(Tried to convert phpbb 3.0.5 to bbpress 1.0.2 and got this error:
SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]
Table ‘xxx_phpbb.bb_forums’ doesn’t exist [1146]
An SQL error occurred while fetching this page.
Any way I can fix this? Thanks in advance for any help. )
Hi all,
that’swhat i was looking,too. Thank you.
But:
I got the same error as above. I solved it.
I made a new table which i named like the missing file. So it seems to work. But the database has been deleted by half after excecuting the script. I have no idea what to do anymore. Help is needed.
Thank you
Is this possible?
I see many cool widgets from WordPress, that I would like to use in bbpress, is this possible? To have a customisable sidebar plain and simple.
Like, theres a widget that does a vertical scrolling picture gallery. That would be cool in the forum.
Can please someone give me a hint how to do line breaks in bbpress? I mean wp is already horrible but in bbpress there dont even <p>’s work!!
Would be nice is someone knows how to disable autoformatting or only tell me how to do line breaks in textareas.
I would like a shoutbox plugin for bbpress. This is nice communication tool besides all the threads.
The second thing would be an easier integration of wordpress themes.
In my experience, this is the best plugin for uploading images to your forum:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/
I don’t think that “only” some plugins will do the job, this looks to me like a custom version for bbpress. Actually it looks like a market place…
What is your budget for this job?
