I guess it depends on the structure of the theme, but essentially you need to try and match the CSS elements in the theme’s stylesheet to their bbPress counterparts. Some of it will be redundant, and personally I found it easier to just take the bulk of the general styling and then add in the rest later. Didn’t turn out perfect though. I’d recommend using Kakumei as a base as well.
I don’t think this is what you want… but the code might provide some inspiration, since it also deals with subforums. 
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/counting-forums#post-21338
Good luck!
hardly surprising, bbpress is a solid piece of a forum , and the userbase is imho allways ready to help and at least always kind.
congrats
Very impressive indeed if that equates to anything like that number of forums, that’s pretty amazing
Okay, I’ve fixed it and it’s working at the moment!
I forgot the settings in wp-admin/options.php for WordPress itself.
Would the fact that I have bbPress working in a iframe in one of the wordpress pages be causing any problems?
I have both wordpress and the bbpress (FOLDER) in the members directory. So where it asks for Blog address (URL) should it be https://my_site/members/ or should it be https://my_site/members/bbpress/
I’ve tried both ways and neither works. Just a scattered thought.
Hmmm, again. I did open up, side by side, the WordPress config file and the bbpress config file and made absolutely sure that AUTH_KEY=BB_AUTH_KEY and that SECURE_AUTH_KEY=BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY and that LOGGED_IN_KEY=BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY. So, this may not be what we are looking for.
I’m wondering about the “User Role Map” settings: (Below is how I set them)
WordPress Administrator = bbPress Administrator
WordPress Editor = bbPress Member
WordPress Author = bbPress Member
WordPress Contributor = bbPress Member
WordPress Subscriber = bbPress Member
look through your BB-press dashboard –> Settings—>wordpress intergration
Hmmm, that’s interesting. I ftp’d the options-wordpress.php file down from the site and opened it in Dreamweaver. I recognize some of the comments in this as being from the “wordpress Integration settings as found in the Settings/Wordpress Integration tab of the Admin section of bbpress. This is where I set the “User Role Map”, WordPress Address (URL), Blog Address (URL), auth cookie salt, secure auth cookie salt, and logged in cookie salt.
HOWEVER, when I look into the actual options-wordpress.php file (as ftp’d down from the site) and open it up, the php code still seems to be asking for those items??? I just copied a bit of the code from that file and pasted it below. Please advise,
<table>
<tr>
<th><?php _e(‘WordPress’); ?></th>
<td></td>
<th><?php _e(‘bbPress’); ?></th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>AUTH_KEY</td>
<td><=></td>
<td>BB_AUTH_KEY</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>SECURE_AUTH_KEY</td>
<td><=></td>
<td>BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>LOGGED_IN_KEY</td>
<td><=></td>
<td>BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY</td>
</tr>
</table>
And make sure you filled in in the BB Admin side the information under
DASHBOARD->SETTINGS->Wordpress Integration
this is a shot in the dark but JesperA move the line
define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );
BEFORE
define('DB_NAME',
I think it’s impressive there were 10,000 downloads of bbPress in August.
That’s over 300 per day.
I didn’t get the idea of remote posting in a forum. Is there any client for forums which enables the conversation without a web browser?
P.S. – I would love that 
I fixed the second & third issue but I am still stuck at the first one.
Looking at the markup I found <select name="forum_id" id="forum-id""> is being generated by bbPress codebut the same works in default theme flawlessly so this isn’t the cause. Can I have the complete lookup order for file required to generate the “Add new” page.
Hi there!
Thanks for your response. Does this also affect WordPress (no MU version)?
Sorry I was a bit unclear about the exact version.
I can try the define(‘sitecookiepath’, ‘/’); , I haven’t tried that.
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I’ve tried the above define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ ); but it didn’t work as well.
Any further ideas what I can try?
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Does anyone have a plain and simple manual how to integrate WP (no MU!) with bbPress? The manual on the site seems to fail me over and over again.
Is your theme installed correctly?
For example:
/bbpress/my-templates/themename/style.css
/bbpress/my-templates/themename/screenshot.png
Etc etc…
this is all filled out correctly? /bb-admin/options-wordpress.php
as is, as the plugin appears.
Yes, I did that and put in the line as they request on that plug-in. Still doesn’t work. But this is where I was wondering about the line: define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/members/’ );
Do I Put this in exactly as it is or do I need to change ‘COOKIEPATH’ to an actual path.
If the line is correct as is, what else could be wrong?
There’s not necessarily a ‘correct’ way to map users across, it just depends what you want your WordPress users to be capable of in bbPress.
The bbPress Key Master is the equivalent of a WordPress Admin: it gives full control over all options for bbPress.
bbPress Admins can edit forums and users, but not access options.
bbPress Moderators can see the user list and edit topics, but not mess with forums or users.
Members can post and edit their own posts.
Inactive users can view topics, but not post… and blocked users can’t do anything at all.
Thank you bbhack.
I saw https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/1181/full-rss-filters.patch
How am I supposed to use that page, please?
Is it right to open all the files involved in my actual install, delete the lines in red and add those which are in green, manually?
because every second post I read here seems to be trouble with integration not working out, and an enormous headache.
I just want it all to be easy. I want bbsync to work again, but like so many 3rd party things, it died. That’s why I’m having trouble committing to any CMS, one does XYZ but not ABC, requiring a plug in (that could die), the other does ABC but not XYZ which is again a 3rd party plug-in, which again could die.
I really want one software, a community portal. It has to have a nice home page, a nice blog, and a nice forum community side to it.
I want all the features of each to be CORE (no vital 3rd party functions dying) and already installed, “out of the box”. (EG: BBpress being “fully loaded” like SMF and phpbb3. Just click boxes for the functions you want to work!)
I want a “bbsync” styled function to be core. EG: Each blog article submitted by our expert authors would be automatically copied across to a forum and auto-linked to the forum.
EG: At the bottom it would say “If you enjoyed this article, please click HERE to leave a comment”.
As far as I know, the Kunena forum team for Joomla might be developing something like this for the Joomla core blog, but the core blog is VERY minimalist and doesn’t even seem to have an archive function! So my preference would be if WordPress made BBpress a “fully loaded plugin” (automatically integrated) with bbsync as a core option as well.
But if Kunena are bringing their own version of ‘Joomlablog sync’ to life with K1.6, then maybe I’ll just have to convert CMS’s.
You could use bbPages (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpages/) for pages. You’ll probably need to edit some code yourself though if existing plugins don’t do what you want and possibly write some of your own as well. WordPress is really more geared towards this sort of thing with regards to WYSIWIG and image management, to even allow images on bbPress you need to install a plugin and BBcode is probably the closest to WYSIWYG.
I’m sure with a lot of coding, you could get bbPress to behave like a portal, but why not just use WordPress and integrated bbPress?
