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?
Hi everyone, I’m new to bbpress and to this forum.
Is there some sort of plugin that sends alerts or email notifications to a moderator whenever there is a new post?
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Are you using 0.9 or 1.0?
1.0 added some extra tricks to make it easier to style posts based on their position:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-add-different-style-to-the-first-post
BTW, I am using “require_once(‘/path/to/wordpress/directory/wp-blog-header.php’); ” for theme integration. I think this is what’s causing the registration to not work.
I have the same issue with silu. How did you resolve it?
download and install this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/ then it will tell yo the right lines to put.
The bbPress Integration plugin doesn’t make it work. It gives you instructions on what to do next.
If you have WPMU then you’ll receive four lines from the plugin
define( 'COOKIEHASH', '????????????????????????????????????' );
define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.????????????????.com' );
define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );
define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );
Paste it in wp-config after <? then do the same in bb-config without the first line.
Hi there! 
I’ve got the same problem with a website I’m working on.
I’ve tried every option posted here, but nothing seem to work.
I am working with WordPress 2.8.4 and bbPress 1.0.2.
I can log in on the bbPress and the WordPress, but the cookie integration (so people only have to log in from 1 place, logged in into both) isn’t working, they seem to get the user information from 1 table in 1 database.
I’ve verified that the keys are the same, all the keys are defined in both wp-config.php and bb-config.php, with the same keys and the same values for the salt. I even have a define(‘cookiepath’, ‘/’);, which also doesn’t seem to work. 
I also have bbPress Integration (plugin) installed in WordPress, didn’t help as well.
Anything I may have missed?
I am looking for someone to help me with WordPress and bbPress. I have developed the wordpress site as a membership site and want to include a forum. I wasted about a month or more with SMF and couldn’t get it to work properly, so today I switched to bbPress and have it working in a iframe in one of the wordpress pages. The only problem is getting the cookies and all that to work so a person logged into the membership site can go right into the forum without having to re-log in and vice-versa.
I installed the bbpress integration plugin and went through all the set up procedures numerous times to no avail. I also went through the “WordPress Integration settings” numerous times. I have compared both the WordPress config and bbpress config files to be sure the Auth_Key, Secure_Auth_Key and Logged_In_Keys were identical and they are.
I have put the – define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/members/’ ); – line in the WPconfig file as instructed, but I just put it in exactly as shown here. I’m not sure if I should replace “cookiepath” with an actual path or if the word cookiepath is what they want.
I am not a code person, but I can get along sometimes ok. sometimes not! This is a NOT day.
Would some kind soul be able to help me with this?
If not please steer me toward someone who can help.
Output caching can be effective for parts of the page (I do it in several plugins) but caching an entire page for a forum is not as good of an experience for forums vs blogs.
Blogs are post once, read many times. Forums are post many times, read many times.
When you aren’t viewing comments, blogs barely change, on forums everything changes constantly.
Unless you don’t mind showing guests outdated info.
One day someone will port WP Super Cache or similar (but don’t look at me).
It will be effecting for showing guests outdated info.
Hey Frooyo – I think you mention output caching every change you get. Your comments about it are the first comment on this thread…
@All
There does appear to be an option that everyone is overlooking … and that’s Output Caching.
We’ve talked about memcache, optcode caching and mysql query caching … but truly the most effective is simply perform Output Caching for non-logged in users.
In case someone is not aware, Output Caching is saving to disk the generated HTML. That way, instead of memcache where you have to make a call to the memcache server, or in mysql you’re still making the database call or in optcode caching, it’s simply pre-compliling the PHP … Output Caching is by far the fastest because it essentially just serving up pre-generated HTML straight from disk.
Interesting. There actually IS an RSS built into your user ID: https://bbpress.org/forums/rss/profile/otto42
But it’s used for your favorites so not so much. You can see all your posts in your profile (recent posts) so in theory this should be ‘exportable’ to RSS.
The rss.php file has this:
// Get latest posts by default
case 'all-posts':
default:
if ( !$posts = bb_get_latest_posts( 35 ) )
die();
$title = esc_html( sprintf( __( '%1$s » Recent Posts' ), bb_get_option( 'name' ) ) );
$link = bb_get_uri();
$link_self = bb_get_posts_rss_link();
break;
Which I think you could toss an extra if if ( $user->ID == bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) ) but that would only punt out a list of the current user’s posts, and not be a way to see anyones. The structure is there, though.
_ck_ posted a fix here that you can make to your template:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/navigation-not-working-only-for-page-1
I installed her “topics per page” plugin, which fixed it nicely as well (and gave more functionality to boot).
Did you mean this:
‘/*You will also have to manually ensure that the following constants are equivalent in WordPress’ and bbPress’ respective config files.
WordPress bbPress
AUTH_KEY <=> BB_AUTH_KEY
SECURE_AUTH_KEY <=> BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY
LOGGED_IN_KEY <=> BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY */’
If so, then yes …
Very good alternative is to create a private forum section where only 1 user is allowed to post a 1 topic where he can always respond to hes created post about whatever he does at the moment. something like twitter. Then other users can RSS this topic.
Well maybe it is out of theme, but good idea for many others who wishes to alternatively socialize his bbpress.
i’m looking for a banner manager/banner rotator plugin for bbpress like “WP-BANNERIZE” (it comes with a banner impression counter and campaign manager).
is such a thing already in the pipe or should i stick with those external standalone ad-scripts for now ?
thanks
