Hmm this is an interesting scenario, one that I never made it around to checking since I always do my work as an Admin or KeyMaster.
I did just check my install of 2.7rc1 and bbPress Alpha-2 and I do not experience this type of issue.
I am assuming that you’ve checked the obvious stuff from all of the other integration topics here? Making sure your SECRET_KEY’s match and cookie domains are copied over, etc?
@elwagar: Conversely, once they are registered you can assign them a role by going to the bbPress admin, WordPress Integration, and remapping. I feel like a plug-in could help this registration laziness along, but I also think this should just work correctly right away.
I actually had a similar issue years ago integrating phpBB 2.x and osCommerce together, trying to get one to work inside the other with cookies and what-not was a really big problem, one that I never really did get working 100% correctly.
I have no experience with bbPress Live, but it might be worth looking into. CK posted a really nice SQL example on how to grab information without a plug-in, so if you can’t get that to work, you could always put in a little manual labor. 
I am still kind of fighting with it…what i found was that initially new members added to bbpress via WP don´t get a role assigned…but on publishing their first post they will be assigned the proper role…
As you mentioned bbpress live above: On install it says “not implemented” on the settings screen for the post to WP section. And I can´t get it work either. Is there any secret?
Sorry,
Wordpress 2.51 installed in the root directory
bbPress 0.9.0.2 installed in /forums
I am using the same computer and logging in and out but I have been clearing all session, domain and path cookies each time.
Which versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?
Are you doing all of this logging in and out on the same computer?
Have you tried manually deleting cookies and logging in again?
What folders are WordPress and bbPress located in, relative to each other?
I just installed WordPress and bbPress on http://www.youthforwildlife.org and they are sharing a user database, which works fine. And it seems that when I login as an administrator or keymaster I can go back and forth between the bbpress and wp but when I login as a regular user, it asks me to relogin when I switch between them.
I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me!
I know, but I consider that to be a small issue. I have now integration on the user account level (cookies) and I can access the admin panel on both. I can log in on one and I am automatically logged in on both but I just have to log out of both separately to be really logged off.
Full integration messes up my bbpress completely, so I left that out. I am satisfied (for now) with what I’ve got working. I hope that integration will be working better when we get official releases on both.
Have you tried logging in and out of both your WordPress and bbPress installations and accessing both admin panels? I mean each combination each way.
- Log into WordPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of WordPress
- Log into bbPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of bbPress
- Log into WordPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of bbPress
- Log into bbPress; Check admin panel access and cookies; Log out of WordPress
That is where the problem lies, and I have been running the most updated trunks of both bbPress and WordPress the entire time. 
Hi, I just upgraded WordPress to RC1 and used the newest trunk pf bbpress yesterday, and everything worked out fine…just as described during installation.
I got it working, I will describe what I did for other users:
First I deleted the bb_meta table from my DB, and also the bb_config.php file. After this I could re-install bbpress fine, including steps 2 and 3. I followed the steps from https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integrate-wp27-and-bbp10a2 but I left out the include part for the wp file. I also did the cookie settings for both wp and bb.
Now I can use bb and wp just fine. One minor issue, I cannot log out from bb without also logging out from wp.
Have just installed bbPress: 0.9.0.2
Of the list of forums I have on the front page, I have 7 main forums and each of these forums have up to 50 child/sub forums. Can these child/sub forums be hidden on the front page meaning that if you visit one of the parent forums, it is only then that the child/sub forums are listed (underneath its parent forum).
Many thanks all. Look forward to a solution.
bbPress supports full exporting of your data into XML or other formats. Does vBulletin have robust importing tools? If so, this should be pretty straightforward!
URLs of each topic/thread may change though… unless you can get the two softwares to generate similar URLs.
There is Revolution for both bbPress and WordPress:
http://www.revolutiontheme.com/magazine/bbpress/
I think if you look around you will find people who have released bbPress themes to match WordPress themes.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-bbpress-theme-peacemaker
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/forum/bbpress-templates
Also, _ck_ can’t you accomplish much of what you need without search in bbPress? I don’t miss it. If I am looking for something that I can’t find on a forum, even this one, I just use google site:bbpress.org/forums/ $whatever.
Short term, I was able to make this work by modifying 1 core WordPress file. This only allows for integration of the theme, but still does not allow access to the bbPress admin panel without changing the bb-config.php file back to original.
It’s essentially a quick fix to get the theme working with all capabilities playing nicely.
Basically I’m hard-coding the capability check from bbPress into WordPress. There should be a filter for this, but I’m not sure how to hook into it correctly without a mod or plug-in on the WordPress side.
~My fix is in no way a permanent solution. Auto-updating your WordPress installation will overwrite this fix.~
In FILE wp-includes/capabilities.php:
In the meta_map_cap function:
Around Line 906:
AFTER break;
BEFORE default
INSERT:
/*
*/
case 'write_post':
$caps[] = 'write_posts';
break;
case 'edit_post':
// edit_posts, edit_others_posts, edit_deleted, edit_closed, ignore_edit_lock
if ( !$bb_post = bb_get_post( $args[0] ) ) {
$caps[] = 'magically_provide_data_given_bad_input';
return $caps;
}
if ( $user_id == $bb_post->poster_id )
$caps[] = 'edit_posts';
else
$caps[] = 'edit_others_posts';
if ( $bb_post->post_status == '1' )
$caps[] = 'edit_deleted';
if ( !topic_is_open( $bb_post->topic_id ) )
$caps[] = 'edit_closed';
$post_time = bb_gmtstrtotime( $bb_post->post_time );
$curr_time = time() + 1;
$edit_lock = bb_get_option( 'edit_lock' );
if ( $edit_lock >= 0 && $curr_time - $post_time > $edit_lock * 60 )
$caps[] = 'ignore_edit_lock';
break;
case 'delete_post' :
// edit_deleted, delete_posts
if ( !$bb_post = bb_get_post( $args[0] ) ) {
$caps[] = 'magically_provide_data_given_bad_input';
return $caps;
}
if ( 0 != $bb_post->post_status )
$caps[] = 'edit_deleted';
// NO BREAK
case 'manage_posts' : // back compat
$caps[] = 'delete_posts';
break;
case 'write_topic':
$caps[] = 'write_topics';
break;
case 'edit_topic':
// edit_closed, edit_deleted, edit_topics, edit_others_topics
if ( !$topic = get_topic( $args[0] ) ) {
$caps[] = 'magically_provide_data_given_bad_input';
return $caps;
}
if ( !topic_is_open( $args[0]) )
$caps[] = 'edit_closed';
if ( '1' == $topic->topic_status )
$caps[] = 'edit_deleted';
if ( $user_id == $topic->topic_poster )
$caps[] = 'edit_topics';
else
$caps[] = 'edit_others_topics';
break;
case 'move_topic' :
$caps[] = 'move_topics';
break;
case 'stick_topic' :
$caps[] = 'stick_topics';
break;
case 'close_topic' :
$caps[] = 'close_topics';
break;
case 'delete_topic' :
$caps[] = 'delete_topics';
add_filter( 'get_topic_where', 'no_where', 9999 );
if ( !$topic = get_topic( $args[0] ) ) {
$caps[] = 'magically_provide_data_given_bad_input';
return $caps;
}
if ( 0 != $topic->topic_status )
$caps[] = 'edit_deleted';
remove_filter( 'get_topic_where', 'no_where', 9999 );
break;
case 'manage_topics' :
// back compat
$caps[] = 'move_topics';
$caps[] = 'stick_topics';
$caps[] = 'close_topics';
$caps[] = 'delete_topics';
break;
case 'add_tag_to':
// edit_closed, edit_deleted, edit_tags;
if ( !$topic = get_topic( $args[0] ) ) {
$caps[] = 'magically_provide_data_given_bad_input';
return $caps;
}
if ( !topic_is_open( $topic->topic_id ) )
$caps[] = 'edit_closed';
if ( '1' == $topic->topic_status )
$caps[] = 'edit_deleted';
$caps[] = 'edit_tags';
break;
case 'edit_tag_by_on':
// edit_closed, edit_deleted, edit_tags, edit_others_tags
if ( !$topic = get_topic( $args[1] ) ) {
$caps[] = 'magically_provide_data_given_bad_input';
return $caps;
}
if ( !topic_is_open( $topic->topic_id ) )
$caps[] = 'edit_closed';
if ( '1' == $topic->topic_status )
$caps[] = 'edit_deleted';
if ( $user_id == $args[0] )
$caps[] = 'edit_tags';
else
$caps[] = 'edit_others_tags';
break;
case 'edit_user':
// edit_profile, edit_users;
if ( $user_id == $args[0] )
$caps[] = 'edit_profile';
else
$caps[] = 'edit_users';
break;
case 'edit_favorites_of':
// edit_favorites, edit_others_favorites;
if ( $user_id == $args[0] )
$caps[] = 'edit_favorites';
else
$caps[] = 'edit_others_favorites';
break;
case 'delete_forum':
$caps[] = 'delete_forums';
break;
case 'change_user_password':
// change_password, edit_users
$caps[] = 'change_password';
if ( $user_id != $args[0] )
$caps[] = 'edit_users';
break;
/*
*/
There are bbpress sites running with hundred of thousands of posts, and at least one with over a million posts. You won’t need to switch to vbulletin unless you want to for some other reason.
Hi there!
I am going to use bbpress for my websites forum. Before I do so I would like to know if it is possible to switch to vbulliten when my forum becomes huge.
Does anyone know of a designer or company that offers identical themes for both WordPress and bbPress?
I am asking this to avoid the troubles of integration.
Thanks!
Eh don’t defend bbPress – it’s the same problem with WordPress. They’ve never had a good search because writing a good search is hard and takes time from other needed things.
I haven’t released the search because after working on it for a week it became so overly complex that debugging parts of it was taking way too much time. When that happens I get mad and then usually re-write things from scratch.
I think my biggest mistake was I tried to make the layout template-able, so you could move stuff around. That added way too much code and logic problems. And then there was the wordpress awareness, more code.
I might just make a simpler version of it. I may just copy some of the vbulletion search layout since it’s very logical. Maybe I’ll have something by the end of the coming weekend if I have enough time.
In defense of bbPress, I think they went without search for a long time intentionally. It was not even included in the stock template until recently. The intention was that you could use tags to find specific content, click a member’s name to get all the replies they made and topics they started, etc.
For topics with no replies, there is a default view for that (look at the home page of this forum, near the bottom, to see it.) For other views, you probably want the My Views plugin by _ck_.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/my-views/
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/
(look at the bottom right for all the views)
If your server supports mod_rewrite and .htaccess, you can make pretty permalinks work (if they work for WordPress, they can work for bbPress). You just need to follow the instructions.
And if bbPress is in a sub-directory of WordPress (collectibles-talk), then you will have two .htaccess files, or possibly all the rules in the WordPress-level .htaccess. The .htaccess you posted is the default WordPress one. You need more rules for bbPress.
Here is something about that:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working?replies=24#post-7743
Firstly, have you checked to make sure that your site paths are correct in both bbPress and WordPress? Since you shifted directories, the paths to those new directories need to be adjusted in the database.
Secondly, are there normal user tables to go along with those weird empty ones? Part of the integration process is telling bbPress which tables to find your users in. Is it possible that you added an extra “_” on accident, and bbPress created those tables while it was looking for the real ones?
We’re all experiencing the same issue.
Integration appears to be a little broken still.
If you need to use the WP functions in your bbPress, that will break it further by not allowing you to access your bbPress admin panel at all.
The problem looks like the bb_map_meta_cap filter is ignored when the WordPress functions are loaded in place of the bbPress ones.
Some users have been able to resolve this by using a .htaccess file to redirect to the bbPress login and register page whenever an attempt to register or login is made through WordPress. That is the best fix at the moment if you do not require access to the WP functions.
If you do require that access, then you will need to wait until a fix comes out for the issue I mentioned above. That’s where I am. 
No issues so far, just wanted you to know that 
Runs fine on my (live) site!
