I agree. Deep Integration is the way to go. See my site: http://wpmu.zyrot.com/forums/
I’m sorry mate but deep integration doesn’t slow anything down. It is really the best way to get it working. Email me: rohan [at] rohan-kapoor.com I can work with you over msn or something.
Just click the upgrade script and it should be fine.
Gravitydk: If you want some help you can take a look at my site http://wpmu.zyrot.com/forums/ and if you like what you see I can help you. Email me: rohan [at] rohan-kapoor.com
Hi smf, I tested Simple forums (I also tested Joomla with Kunena and ccborad, and phbb, and Vanilla).
In the end, I am settling for bbPress for forums because I need single-user sign on with my content system, and I settled on wordpress for that (Joomla was too slow and I wanted a very fast, responsive site).
So if you need forum integration with something, you have more factors to consider than just the forum software itself.
Simple Forums does provide single-user signon with WordPress, but it’s UGLY and there are no good-looking themes. That said, simpleForums is a highly functional forum system and seamless integration with both user and menu-system.
Just found this thread, and wanted to say I am using WP 2.8x and bbPress 1.01 succesfully together now; user integration is just what I wanted. Only catch remains the style (user interface) integration, which I’m hoping to sort out eventually (hard when I don’t know CSS at all).
You got the integration plugin installed? It specifically fixes cookies both ways.
Hey.
I was clearing my test forums on my bbPress install, I deleted all forums and when I try to load my forums I get this message;
Oh dear!
Please complete your installation before attempting to include WordPress within bbPress
bbPress is already installed.
Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?
What on earth has gone wrong? All I have done is deleted forums?
Thanks.
Hi all,
A little patience please. I’m trying to uninstall bb press to prepare for a fresh install to make the intigration with BuddyPress easier.
I’ve removed the bbpress folder. And now I’m ready to delete the database tables. I just need to know if I should delete ALL the tables with the “bb_” prefix, or if I should keep some in place.
I’ve read advice from a key master not to delete bb_meta and bb_posts.
I’m running WPMU 2.8.1 and the site is http://www.threesheetsnorthwest.com
Thanks for the help.
Hi all,
I followed all directions I have been able to find on the web but I still have a problem: logging in to bbPress logs me out of WordPress and vice versa. All settings and config files look ok.
The site is at http://www.stereostokey.com, and the forums are at http://www.stereostokey.com/forums
Any ideas? Could it have to do with the theme modifications I have made?
Cheers,
Tom
Hi all,
I followed all directions I have been able to find on the web but I still have a problem… logging in to BBPress logs me out of WordPress and vice versa. All settings and config files look ok.
The site is at http://www.stereostokey.com, and the forums are at http://www.stereostokey.com/forums
Any ideas?
Cheers,
Tom
@biorm I solved my problem. Who knows if its the same as yours. What occurred in my case is bbPress for some reason changed the admin role to “none”. I was able to log in with a different admin account I’d previously established and change the admin privileges back to “Administration”. Unless you have another account on your wp installation with Admin privileges, I don’t know how to advise you. In any event, that’s the issue.
I’m having the same problem. WP and BB have their own directories… not commingling files.
Fixed at last…
I digged some database tables, and deleted the bb_integration row in wp_options, and some rows that was added later in bb_meta*.
I pray that WP+BP+bbPress integration would be much simpler 
Thank you for the info, it was very helpful!
@chrishajer – I checked my .htaccess file, and the permissions were incorrect, II tweaked that, and bbPress added the rewrite rules without issue.
@incirus – Yes, my forum is converted from phpBB as well, I don’t know why I didn’t think of that before. I checked a new topic, the pretty permalink worked just fine. I checked an old topic in the database, no slug. i added a slug and it worked great.
Unfortunately I have 875 topics that I would have to edit my hand… That’s too bad, one of the draws of migrating to bbPress are the useful permalinks.
Has anyone out there come up with a handy script to solve this problem? I’d imagine the code is already there, since bbPress already converts your topic title into a slug, it would just be a matter of having it process all of the old titles. But I think that’s a bit out of my league!
Hell, I’d settle for a way to use slugs from here in out, but fall back on the default permalinks if there is no slug, but I think that would be more complicated.
I have written a function I call bb_list_pages() and I’ve added it & some support code to a functions.php file in my bbPress theme’s folder. This does NOT work using the WordPress wp_list_pages() logic. Rather, it attempts to output the same results as that function. There are things that wp_list_pages() does that this function can’t do, but it works for my site. If folks are interested, I’ll post the functions.php file after I finish getting it debugged.
I just have one question. How can I determine what the current page’s URI is? I need this to highlight the page on the menu.
Thanks
Tony
Is it possible to use XML RPC to post directly into bbPres? It would be marvelous to be able to use Windows Live Writer for that!
With 1.0.1, the rewrite rules were added to the .htaccess for me. Check your .htaccess and see if the rules are already there. If not, maybe bbPress could not write to the file.
Did you install WordPress and bbPress in the same directory? You shouldn’t have any problem like this just from installing or integrating bbPress.
Has anything changed with with the steps for setting up Pretty Permalinks on bbPress 1.0.1?
I have tried the methods in the FAQ, without success, on two different webhosts (Media Temple & Bluehost).
Adding a .htaccess file with “Options +MultiViews” results in an error message when I try to load any page in the forum. When I try to visit “/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php”, it redirects to the permalink settings page, and I do not see any code being generated that I could add to my .htaccess file instead.
I have bbPress installed in a subdirectory with WordPress in the root directory. I have Pretty Permalinks functioning just fine in WordPress.
Have I missed anything obvious here?
I have used PHPBB and that is a pretty robust service. But I liked having something integrated. BBPress works okay for now.
I am looking for a plugin that will allow someone to share posts on my forum via social networking sites. WordPress has tons of them. Anyone found one for BBPress yet?
I don’t think it’s about wrong password. I guess the bbpress isn’t looking up the name in WP users table.
I am using bbpress 1.0 and wordpress 2.8.2. After the bbpress installation, I went back into wordpress and came to the site where all the pages were missing showing “Not Found. Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”
When I try to login in to the site admin, “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”
I can login to bbpress, but not to wordpress. Any ideas? I went into the mysql and data is still there.
I noticed that the keys (auth_key, salt_key) values in the bbpress dashboard aren’t matching WP ones, so I changed it according to wp_config. After that I was logged out of bbpress, and I have this “user doesn’t exist error” when I try to login. How can I fix this ?
(Before that I installed bbpress-integration plugin for WP because since upgrading my WP to 2.8.2 some users began complaining about getting logged out automatically. So I thought the plugin would fix it.)
I’m using bbpress alpha-6.
