[lolos]

Sam,

When I tried the “deep integration,” I kept getting several errors that I would rather keep them apart for now until the operation of integrating them together is more seamless and free of bugs.

As you can tell, I am a total newbie and there are ton of information to grasp! Can you point me to the right direction on how to make bbPress theme look like wordpress theme?

Here is the one I am using:

http://www.der-prinz.com/2008/01/25/wordpress-theme-im-magazin-stil-branfordmagazine-wordpress-magazine-style-theme-branfordmagazine/

Thanks again!

[lolos]

First of all, thank you so much, especially David and Sam. I really appreciate your help and input.

David, I followed your steps and I think your explanation is very straight forward and detailed. However, it gives me this error:

“Warning: main(/wp-load.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /…/…/…/…/…/www/root folder/forum/bb-config.php on line 4.

Warning: main(/wp-blog-header.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /…/…/…/…/…/www/root folder/forum/bb-config.php on line 7.”

It gave me the error above no matter how I write down the “full path:”

if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {

include_once( '/Full/Path/To/wp-load.php' );

}



require_once('/Full/Path/To/wp-blog-header.php');

I translated the /Full/Path/To/wp-load.php –> /wp-load.php and /www/root folder/wp-load.php

[Sam Bauers]

The only forum solution that will actually reside in your WordPress installation is Simple:Press.

bbPress (the 1.0-alpha at least) uses different methods for sharing data with WordPress.

[Sam Bauers]

OK, so davidbaldwin opens a can of worms with his advice here.

I don’t recommend doing it this way, my advice is to create two separate themes for WordPress and bbPress that look alike and if you enable “deep” integration, then carefully pick the functions you want to use from WordPress and insert them into the bbPress template.

Throwing in the whole WordPress header is potentially problematic. It’s possible to do it cleanly with a lot of work, but most people won’t have the knowledge or the time to do that.

[Sam Bauers]

Just a note, the load options trick only applies to 0.9 it is default behaviour in 1.0

[Trent Adams]

I am not sure if this version works on latest release, but give it a try.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/limit-latest-discussions/

Trent

[kashbah]

I have been looking everywhere, but couldn’t find anything related.

BBpress has a standart number of 30 “Latest Discussions” topics shown in the front page. There’s also a plugin that allow admins to set this number to whatever they wish.

But I would rather have a dynamic list only with new topics or topics with new replies since a user’s last login, listed in “latest discussions”. Currently I have the “new topics” plugin, but I feel its not quite what users want.

Any ideas how this could be done or where to start coding it?

[onewake]

I have a site that I would like bbpress integrated into the current page layout, and I’m interested in

paying someone well for their time to do it. If you’re interested and have a really good working knowledge

of the program, would you email me: onewake @ gmail.com

Thanks so much!

[davidbaldwin]

lolos,

first of all, if you are doing this with WordPress 2.6 or newer, you have to run 1.0-alpha. If you are running an older version of wordpress you can use the stable version. I attempted to roll back to an older version of wordpress, but i was unsuccessful, so this method is for 1.0-alpha users.

I found the intigration information at:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/first-pass-at-a-fix-for-deep-integration-in-trunk#post-21572

you need to add the following to the bb-config.php file, after <?php

if ( !defined( 'ABSPATH' ) ) {

include_once( '/Full/Path/To/wp-load.php' );

}



require_once('/Full/Path/To/wp-blog-header.php');

the full paths have to be absolute paths on the servers, not the domain paths.

this will load wordpress when bbpress is loaded.

and then you need to add this line to the very top of every page that has this line: <?php bb_get_header(); ?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

please note that the line above has to be line #1 in every page that already calls the bb header, if it does not call the bb header, do not add this, the final result should look like this:

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

this will load the wordpress header when the bbpress header is called. you can edit the bbpress header to remove all the unnecessary code. (like the title, etc.)

and then you need to add this line to the very bottom of every page that has this line: <?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

please note that the line above has to be the last line in every page that already calls the bb footer, if it does not call the bb footer, do not add this, the final result should look like this:

<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

this will load the wordpress footer when the bbpress footer is called. you can edit the bbpress footer to remove all the unnecessary code. (like the title, etc.)

I hope this helps. if you have any questions, please feel free to ask!

david

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

tomwi – Two easy options.

1) Use the build in RSS sidebar widget in wordpress.

2) Add the PHP Widget plugin and then toss in something like this:

<?php require_once (ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss-functions.php');

$today = current_time('mysql', 1);

// insert the feed URL here

$rss = @fetch_rss('http://domain.net/forums/rss');

if ( isset($rss->items) && 0 != count($rss->items) ) {

echo '<ul>';

// set the number of items from the feed to display (5)

$rss->items = array_slice($rss->items, 0, 5);

foreach ($rss->items as $item ) {

echo '<li><a href="';

echo wp_filter_kses($item['link']);

echo '">';

echo wp_specialchars($item['title']);

echo '</a></li>';

}

echo '</ul>';

}; ?>

[tomwi]

this is great! i had downgraded to 2.5.1 for integration.

i am using bb latest discussions to show latest bbpress posts in wordpress which I could not get to work with alpha 2. i want to move back to 2.7 and alpha 4…… does anyone know of a plugin that works in bbpress alpha wp 2.7 to pull latest bbpress posts to wordpress/wordpress sidebar?

[Trent Adams]

Nice tip _ck_ that I should use myself.

Trent

[vannak]

hi _ck_ i did add this ‘$bb->load_options = true;’ into bb-config.php but i wonder that there is no functions.php in my template folder. it is strange isn’t it? anyway, thank for your help so far. maybe hostmonster is a better choice.

[lolos]

but then wont they be two separate identical themes that is not connected in anyway? I want to be able to use my wordpress theme as the parent theme, in the same time I can access the bbpress forum within wordpress parent frame.

If I duplicate the theme, how will I make wordpress links work in bbpress lookalike theme?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I concur – Can’t rename topics.

#1009 opened, I updated it.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

DP – nm

[_ck_]

vannak, did you do the changes to bbpress bb-config.php like I said?

Your pages are still using far too many queries. About twice what they should.

I wonder if bb-topic-views is causing all the extra queries.

The front-page is using 36 queries, forum pages 32 queries.

That’s about twice what it should be.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

It may not be integrated. Duplicating a theme between bbPress and WordPress is pretty simple, since it uses similar templating styles.

[_ck_]

Alicia since you keep coming back (and it’s good to see such care but I still wonder what is taking so long to get some kind of definitive answer) can you tell us in general if GoDaddy uses NFS storage (networked instead of locally attached to the server) and if GoDaddy runs PHP in safemode?

[ganzua]

Sorry, I answer to my own quistion;

After deep integration bbpress uses wp language file, I just cheked it. I think this way is better because then you don’t need to load two language files.

[ganzua]

Ok, thanks

and does bbpress use wp language file or do you need to have a separated .mo for bbpress? if so, inside what folder? bb-includes/languages?

[lolos]

davidbaldwin,

How did you change the font size and color of the bbpress in your wordpress theme? are you using two separate css style sheets or only one?

Can you give me some instructions on how did you make bbpress work within wordpress theme? i.e. when you click on forum it opens bbpress forum in the same page under word press header??

Please some one help me.. I spent over 4 days trying to understand how do just that!!

[Sam Bauers]

Just remembered, if WordPress is loaded then bbPress relies on the setting of WPLANG in WordPress to determine which language to use.

This will all probably require some more work.

[lolos]

Immeldoy, can you upload your theme and send me the link please?

I want to do the same thing and tried to do everything but I keep failing! I just want to have bbpress inside my word press theme! Is that a hard thing to accomplish?!!!

[chrishajer]

This happens if you try to delete the only reply on a topic, right, instead of deleting the whole topic?

Mentioned by someone using Alpha 2:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problem-deleting-posts