If you integrate all the bbPress installs to use the same users table, then you can let your users sign in even if your bbPress installs are on separate domains… if you use ck’s awesome “Cross Cookie” plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/cross-cookie/
It only works in bbPress 0.9 though…
Thanks. I’ve been reading a little about deep integration & I’m not sure I want the overhead. This is a new site with only about 45 pages or so of static content, to date, and the amount of content will grow over time. Getting bbPress to load WordPress, too, sounds like it will slow everything down, especially as content grows.
As the pages are all contained in the database, and bbPress is already storing its data in the same database as WordPress, I was just looking for a function that would work like wp_list_pages() only using bbPress variables.
I guess I’m going to have to go spelunking through the WordPress & bbPress code.
Tony
Thanks Rohan. Here’s the thing, I don’t want separate blogs for each of the bbPress sites, just different domains with bbPress installs on each. Would this be possible via WPMU & bbPress?
Yes. The Idea is called Deep Integration. You’re looking for something like this: http://wpmu.zyrot.com/ and then http://wpmu.zyrot.com/forums/ right?
If so, I will help you, please email me at rohan@rohan-kapoor.com
That forum doesn’t use bbPress….it uses SMF.
What is the equivalent of <?php if ( $user_ID ) : ?> on wordpress template tag for bbpress?
I want to display text when user is logged in and something else if user is not logged in
Hi,
I had a long way to go, I migrated my forum from smf > phpbb3 > bbpress, and so far I’m very happy with it.
One of the problems I’m trying to solve is the avatar problem. Is there a way to manually upload my users avatar and activate it for them? (their avatar didn’t migrate, although avatar is working now, if you upload it again, but my users need to upload it again, I want to save them that trouble)
Thank you.
Hi folks. I’m pretty new to WordPress — I’ve only been working with it for about a month. And brand new to bbPress–I just installed it last week
I’ve got a theme installed on my WordPress MU site that I like. I want the bbPress pages to look similar. So I’m in the process of editing the bbPress template. Basically I want to use the same style sheet & just change all of the id tags to the ones that are in the stylesheet.
In addition, though, I’d like the two sites to share menus. I’ve got a nice horizontal dropdown menu that came with my theme that I’m using. The menu contains the pages in my WordPress blog.
I’ve duplicated the code for the menu in my bb-press theme’s header.php, but there is no wp_list_pages function in bbPress. Should I just write a function & add it to a functions.php file for my template? I suppose I can steal some of the wordpress code for the function & just modify the variables as necessary.
Does this sound like a good approach, or has someone else done this?
Also, I want the menu in both systems to have links to individual forums. Having a Forums link in the menu is cool, but I want 2 specific forums in other places in the menu structure. Any ideas?
Thanks
Tony
You can use CSS to do this. Simply find the class or id of the tags (view source is the quickest way), probably enclosed in <p> tags, I can’t remember, then edit the style.css file in your theme. Find the class/id and add:
‘text-transform:capitalize;’
More info can be found here: http://www.w3schools.com/Css/pr_text_text-transform.asp
I’ve been using phpBB3 up until yesterday when it decided to go crazy for no reason and die. It was a good chance to change to bbPress as I had been considering it for a while. I’m loving the idea of users tagging topics but I can’t seem to find a way to edit tags like you can in WordPress’ control panel. I’m a bit of a perfectionist and people are creating tags with wrong capitalisation so any new tags that have correct capitalisation are automatically converted to the original incorrect form. Are there any plugins out for editing bbPress tags, or any way I can quickly modify them without a plugin? 
Make sure you have inserted the code.
Refer to the installation notes you should have got with your download.
Hi,
the avatar upload works now, thanks to you,
but its not showing in my forums or profile
any ideas?
One subject per topic, please.
To create a link to the lost password page, just use this URL and put it in your template file wherever you want to see it.
<a href="http://www.example.com/bbpress/bb-login.php">Reset your password</a>
Is it more complicated than that?
On BBPress, when a user is not logged in and they click on a link that uses “?re=URL…” they are being sent directly to a 404 Error page. It works when I login to the Admin area, but not any other URL.
For example:
http://howiwascured.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=/forum/bb-admin/ works fine.
http://howiwascured.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=http://howiwascured.com/forum/?new=1 does not work
Is this a known error? I haven’t edited bb-login.php and I’ve tried both scenarios on multiple layouts with no success, so I don’t really I think I did anything to cause this problem. If it means anything, I have WordPress and BBPress integrated.
Please let me know if you all need any more information.
Thank you,
Robert
@tiptaptip you forums is smf not bbpress
It is very simple. I will explain to you how to do it. Use 1 WordPress MU site for the database and then integrate each bbpress with cookies and user database integration. It works fine. I’ve done it!
I thought the plan wasn’t to give it away? Such as with the buddpress.org?
@ipstenu: I know iframes are dangerous but it was the simplest way of getting the job done.
@everyone: thanks for your support!
A friend of mine helped me to determine this *is* being done by bbpress, most likely as some referral rule system. How do I get around this? I would like to be able to access my page from a rewritten URL.
Alright, now I am having *serious* issues getting Rewrite Rules to work.
I’ve done these dozens of times and they aren’t particular complicated, here is a brief example of what I am trying to do:
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^example/?$ /forum/bb-plugins/example/example.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>
Accessing ‘http://www.example.com/forum/bb-plugins/example/example.php’ directly works perfectly. Accessing from ‘http://www.example.com/example’ does a redirect to ‘http://www.example.com/forums’.
There are NO other rewrite rules active. I even disabled those from bbpress to try to track down what is happening. But some sort of 302 redirect keeps occurring. Is bbpress triggering this internally somehow?
Rohan is wrong.
It’s available at bbShowcase:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes
Look for the “bbOrg” theme.
There’s also a similar version called “The Hybrid / aka Kakumei Too”
They’re probably not updated for bbPress v1.01 though, but with a few adjustments you could probably get there.
I’m offering $10 to whoever can get this done for me.
Just send me an email
andywilliams244 [at] hotmail.co.uk
I did essentially add in the bbpress custom css to my wp theme’s css, too, so that they would really mesh up better, as well.
