[johnhiler]

Hey guys – there are different levels of integration between WordPress and bbPress (these definitions are from Sam):

* User database integration – Sharing of user data tables with WordPress

* Cookie integration – Sharing of login cookies with WordPress

* Deep integration – Including the WordPress codebase (PHP) inside bbPress to allow use of WordPress functions inside bbPress

bbPress supports all of these (although cookie integration between some versions wasn’t supported until user plugins were created fairly recently).

I think what was asked was reverse deep integration, so to speak? Where instead of normal deep integration (allowing you to call WordPress from inside of bbPress), it would work the other way around (where you could call bbPress from inside of WordPress).

I think that’s where Sam is drawing the line re: integration, although I could be misunderstanding. He’s definitely said recently that he’s supporting normal deep integration (allowing users to call WordPress functions from inside of bbPress), so all deep integration isn’t off the table. My guess would be that it’s easier for Sam to program bbPress to support WordPress… than to demand that WordPress engineers program in full deep integration for bbPress.

Incidentally, I pull bbPress discussions onto my WordPress using the Latest Discussion plugins and it works great!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/

[leggo-my-eggo]

Gotta say, that was not the answer I was expecting, since there are so many posts on these forums advising exactly that solution. I also am a little confused about why you would intentionally limit the interaction between these two–obviously intended to work together–apps, but I’m sure there are complexities here that I don’t understand, and I certainly understand needing to draw the line somewhere, especially at this early stage of development.

As for using bbPress Live, that’s what I initially tried to do, but it hasn’t been updated since October of last year, and doesn’t work with WordPress 2.8, so that’s not really an option. If it did work with 2.8 I would be more than happy to use it instead of including bbPress in WordPress, as it apparently provides all the functionality I would need. Any chance an update is on its way soon?

All I really need is the ability to pull the latest discussions list and the forums list into my WordPress home page. Any other suggestions are welcome.

[xiligroup.dev]

Hello, find here (http://dev.xiligroup.com/?p=1029) in second chapter of post when I opened bbpress: a short example how to add favicon line without modifying basic header but by adding lines in functions.php of your theme.

Hope helpful…

Michel

dev.xiligroup.com

[jurasiks]

After convertation from phpBB3 to BBpress 0.9.0.5 i delete fake users and change IDs, but when somebody registers now his new ID is 140x… where i can fix this?

i mean how to say to bbpress that i have only etc. 30 users, so next ID must be 31,32,33?

[berberama]

If you’re not coding bbPress to work nicely with WordPress, then it’s not going to become a well known and widely used platform. The statement “…I won’t be writing support for this into bbPress at all, even if someone patches it to work. I gotta draw the line on integration somewhere…” come across as hostile and petty – Potentially giving bbPress bad PR.

I’ve had nothing but hell trying to get this to work properly and when talking to PHP coders, every single one of them has told me not to use it (these are guys that code for a living). They’ve given me alternatives, when I asked why, they said there’s not a lot of support (that there should be more) and the fact that it does not play well with WordPress (when they suggest, given the origins of bbPress, it should).

This is unfortunate; and sad.

[Tim Carr]

Another heads up here to say no issues integrating WordPress 2.8 with bbPress 1.0 RC3, both on subdomains and www domain.

Installation process much clearer, and asks for the right info, meaning no need to edit config files after.

To anyone having issues with integration – as obvious as it sounds, clear all of your cookies once you’ve installed. I had a couple kicking around from bbPress 0.9, but once cleared and logged in on either the WordPress or bbPress side, everything was fine.

[lstelie]

God bless Ipstenu !!

Thanks to your bit of code I ended in integrating wp and bbpress something I failed from day 1..

Thanks a lot !!!

Luc

[Sam Bauers]

WordPress is not designed to play nice with bbPress loaded inside it in this fashion. It will probably break things (not just visual things). I won’t be writing support for this into bbPress at all, even if someone patches it to work. I gotta draw the line on integration somewhere. Try the bbPress Live plugin for WordPress and see if it doesn’t give you what you need.

[johnhiler]

You might want to check out this Mass Delete Users plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/

I don’t think it supports a bozo selection, but it sure makes batch deleting users a lot easier!

[Ryan Hellyer]

Email received

[johnhiler]

You can add the search form to your frontpage using the instructions here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-search-form-or-link-to-searchphp-on-home-page

The Super Search plugin (with Advanced Search options) appears at search.php, and will be linked from your search results page – as it is at ck’s demo site:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/search.php?search=test&advanced=0&exact=1&posts=1&highlight=1&users=0&located=0&forums%5B%5D=0&maxcount=9999999&age=999999&direction=0&sort=date&order=0

Hope that helps!

[johnhiler]

If you’d like to integrate the cookies across different domains, definitely install bbPress .9 and not 1.0! That Cross Cookie plugin doesn’t work with v 1.0…

Good luck!

[vikram_gripsack]

Hi All,

I want to put an option like search text box option, like how the bb press forums has that option.

I installed this (Super search – http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/super-search/) plugin and activated as by your instructions, but I am not able to see any kind of search text box button enabled and visible on my main page of Forums.

I am intrested to see search option on my forum main page like as the bbpress forum page (http://bbpress.org/forums/).

Please help me with this. whether am I using the right plugin or do I have to do any modifications or do I need to install any other plugin.

Thanks,

-Vikram

[arthaseo]

this sounds great thanks John.

I am installing on a new domain, so i will be installing latest releases.

I have integrated WP + BBPress in past but for same domain.

any more suggestions ?

[johnhiler]

If you are on bbPress v.9, then you just got very lucky – this plugin by _ck_ just came out that does exactly that, if both installs are using the same users table:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/cross-cookie/

[arthaseo]

want to Integration WordPress and BBPress

but they will be on Different Domain names

same hosting space …

[mrhtn]

I created a new forum dedicated to home theater networks at HTNforum.com. It lets users ask questions and comment on how to set up a home theater network and different devices such as HDTVs, HTPCs, speakers, receivers, Blu-ray, game consoles, amps, home networking, home automation and more.

I have a WordPress site that goes along with HTNforum at YourHTN.com and it’s designed to let people post pictures and talk about their home theater networks. I made it so users can vote and rank each other’s home theaters.  I found wordpress to not be the best tool for asking and answering questions so BBpress was perfect as it let me add a forum without my hundreds of users having to create a new account.

My forum site has been up for a few weeks now and I haven’t noticed any major bugs. I would appreciate any comments/suggestions on how to improve the forum. Thanks and keep up the good work with BBpress!

[johnhiler]

Do you know the userid of the keymaster account you’re using now? If so, you should be able to edit this plugin to restore your access:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

[synth01]

I have wordpress and bbpress integrated. I deleted the admin user after creating a new admin user (per http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/01/26/10-steps-to-protect-the-admin-area-in-wordpress/ recommendations). Now when I log in to bbpress as the new admin user I am unable to administer the forum site. What can I do?

[Markus Pezold]

Hi… hmmm…

I’ve no idea yet, if its possible to implement this function to a bbPress Board.

If you take a look deep into http://www.streeteasy.com you can see this forum saves the input into an cookie file (discussion_category_id=3007; discussion_title=Test; comment=test;). So – there it’s possible to log in or to register – and then use your input for a new entry.

[leggo-my-eggo]

Well, OK, this is pretty strange. I’ve added require_once(ABSPATH . 'forums/bb-load.php'); to the bottom of my wp-config.php file, and it all seems to work fine. Except, my admin interface for WordPress has lost all its colors and images. I have run a diff on the two resulting wp-admin interface’s code, and it looks like the act of loading bbPress is taking over the loading of styles at the top of the WordPress admin interface, which doesn’t really make much sense to me. Anybody understand what’s going on here? I’m using bbPress 1.0-rc-3 and WordPress 2.8.

[frooyo]

@Markus Pezold

Thanks but this is not exactly what I’m looking for.

I do NOT want Anonymous posting.

What I simply want to do is display the HTML textarea field to either create a post or reply to an existing post to non-logged in users.

Then, once that user clicks submit – it then asks them to either login or create an account.

I don’t believe this is driven by bbPress but it’s a demostration of what I’m talking about.

http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk

Notice how at the bottom of the page, you can “Start New Discussion”, then once you submit the form – it prompts you to login.

[Eisregen1986]

Hello People,

I would anticipate in advance for my bad English sorry.

I have bbPresss 0.9.0.5 and want to upgrade to 1.0-rc-3 make.

I have read the upgrading instructions.

If I call the bb-admin/upgrade.php, the following error message appears:

ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

If I have a new installation of bbPress 0.9.0.5 and then upgrade it works, just not at the present, what can this be?

[llamaman]

Thanks, guys!! I will try those out!

[Detective]

I just updated this site. Now using WPMU 2.7.1, bbPress 1.0 RC3 and BuddyPress 1.0.1. I have cookie problems, but apart from that, everything works great.

There are many things to tweak, but those are small details …

http://ryuuko.cl – main site

http://foros.ryuuko.cl – forums