The Revolution themes are pretty nice and a lot of work have gone into them. I doubt you will find anything for bbPress that you can easily edit to make it look the same.
Brian Gardner has a bbPress theme for Revolution here:
http://www.briangardner.com/blog/revolution-finally-meets-bbpress.htm
Or, you can find people who are familiar with Revolution and can create a theme for you, here:
http://www.revolutiontheme.com/support/viewforum.php?f=15
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but the quality of those Revolution themes is so high, you’re going to have a hard time finding something for bbPress of similar quality.
You could also start with one of the bbPress Raw themes:
http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/
Just a question:
do you include your wp functions in bbpress? I see calls to wp functions in several bb functions (also in bb_insert_topic and bb_insert_post) and I can imagine that if you dont include wp functions in bbpress, that these statements fail.
I cannot include wp functions with the
$bb->WP_BB = true;
if (file_exists('../wp-blog-header.php'))
require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');
else
if (file_exists('../../wp-blog-header.php'))
require_once('../../wp-blog-header.php');
part because then my forums don’t work. I can’t access my bb-admin pages and bbpress doesn’t recognize my users.
ok…
http://holstein.it/bbpress/
http://holstein.it/
Now bbPress and WP are integrated…how to customize look? Is there a way to have bbPress looking like WP theme?
I don’t think any bbpress installation are compatiable with WP 2.6.5 e.g the installs are:
WP 2.5/1—- bbPress 0.9.2
WP 2.6.3 — Unstable bbPress Alpha 1.0
It takes care of the problem of bbpress users from MU being set as Inactive. It’ll make them a member instead.
I used my keymaster. I think it logged in. When I go to http://kauaihypnosis.site90.com/bbpress/bb-login.php and use my user name and the correct password, it doesn’t let me log in. Not sure what the heck is going on. Mind you I’m using the unstable version.
So I got my bbpress theme looking great. The only problem is that I can’t login to my BB Admin. I am using the latest unstable version with wp 2.6.5. I used the require_once (wp_blog_header.php) trick then added get_header/get_footer to the necessary files in my bbpress theme.
Yes, using those functions will bring the header and footer over. Whether or not they look like you want is up to you to decide. The functions will work, but your bbPress template needs to be setup to display the WordPress header/footer/sidebar properly.
As keymaster, at the bottom, you can [Close Topic] – is that what you mean?
Screenshot:
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/close-topic.png
Chrishajer, whats going on. I’m attempting to get my bbpress theme to look like my wordpress theme. I’ve done what you said above (my-templates folder with the kakumei theme). Now what do I need to do? Do I need to use wordpress functions (then get_header & get footer)?
Thanks
Antonio
Hey everyone, hows it going. I’m trying to find out how to match my current wp theme to my bbpress theme. How can I accomplish this?
Thanks
Heres my wp installation
http://kauaihypnosis.site90.com/
and bbpress
http://kauaihypnosis.site90.com/bbpress
I’ve just installed bbPress (.0.9.0.2) and tried to integrate it with my WP site (2.6.5). (I just read some of the sticky about integration and see that i shouldn’t be integrating WP 2.6 with bb 0.9, but that’s something i can look at afterwards.)
Thing is, i think i’ve put the wrong database prefix or something like that since i’m getting the following errors (i’ve substituted ‘db’ for the name of my database):
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db.dbusers’ doesn’t exist]
SET NAMES ‘utf8’
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db.dbusers’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM dbusers WHERE user_login = ‘admin’
As a result i can’t get into bbPress.
Can someone tell me how i can fix this?
I decided to give the bbPress plugin another chance. I installed it and tried creating a new topic… the browser was thinking for a looong time. I eventually stopped the process, deactivated the plugin, and created a new topic — that one was created very quickly.
It could be an issue with the permissions of my sitemap.xml, although I am pretty sure I 777’d it properly.
As for size of the forum, it’s significant but not huge. Thanks to ck’s awesome Mini Stats plugin, I can give you the exact stats: ~11k Topics and ~75k posts.
Just thought I’d share an update. 
Yah the site was still up and running that whole time. I not-so-intelligently generated the sitemap at 11 pm, when it still has a decent amount of traffic.
Personally, I would use the WordPress SiteMap generator but not the bbPress one. Or at least, use the bbPress one only until you notice that it’s starting to slow down the posting process…
> – adding a banner to bbpress like that of my WP
Not sure what you mean there. If it’s navigation you need, you probably want integration with WordPress so you can use the WordPress functions like get_header and get_sidebar. If you mean just a banner ad of some sort, you can just add that to the template file header.php
> – changing the logo (I know, this should be simple)
It is. Just look in header.php for the header div, and style.css for the corresponding css.
> – containing bb within the main area of my WP pages
Not so easy. It doesn’t work well (or at all) in a WordPress page. It’s not a plugin for WordPress, it’s a standalone forum. If you want it to look like a WordPress page, you probably want integration as explained in item one above, or here.
> – adding a navigation button to return to my WP pages
> from bb
Also easy, like changing the logo. You can do it in header.php if you want the link up top. Or you can edit another template file if you want the link somewhere else.
You probably have the path to the wp-blog-header.php wrong. You can try the full path there in the bb-config.php or you can verify that the relative path is actually correct. You may need to do something like ../wordpress/wp-blog-header.php if your WordPress installation is in a folder on the same level as bbpress. It’s easy to figure out if you have a command line. If not, if you can describe your directory structure, someone can help you with the path to wp-blog-header.php.
bbPress attempted to correct where it could some of the naming and placement issues for files and functions that persisted in WordPress because of legacy reasons. In that way and a few others it’s design is subtly superior to WordPress.
“Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forums() in public_html/bbpress/index.php on line 11”
I am new to bbPress and new to WP as well…was trying to integrate WP and bbPress. After integration everything seemed to work perfectly, than I tried to follow this…
“Functions
bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. In order to do that, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).
Doing this will add quite a lot of weight to your bbPress installation as it will cause WordPress to load in it’s entirety. Your best option is to try to emulate the functionality you require inside a bbPress plugin.”
Putting:
“require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’)
but the Fatal Error occurred.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Yah there’s a bbPress Google sitemap plugin:
* http://boakes.org/talk/topic/sitemap-plugin-for-bbpress (the original, I believe)
* https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-sitemap-generator/ (I think this is an updated version)
I tried the earlier version, and it turned out that it regenerated a sitemap on every topic created/edited/deleted. This created a lot of overhead on my server, and slowed the process of posting a topic down to a crawl.
It may work better now on that front? It’d be awesome if there was a way to have topic creation add an item to a queue somewhere, and then have the backend process the queue periodically (at a later point) to update the sitemap. That way, the process of creating a topic itself doesn’t get slowed down.
I also have this problem, but I do have a lead… What I did is the following:
Install WP 2.7 (latest build)
Install BBPress 1 Alpha 2 but it skipped steps 2 and 3, went straight to the forum index
Did all the settings manually like described in https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integrate-wp27-and-bbp10a2
Go into WP, log in with admin account
Go to BBPress
At the top I see “Welcome, admin! | Admin | Log Out”
So far so good, but when I click on “Admin” to access my admin page, nothing happens. So thats exactly the same as the others, but when I press the “Log Out” and then try to log back in with the admin account, I get a “User does not exist” message. So I guess its not reading my WP tables correctly.
Note: My database is fully up-to-date, BBPres states that there is nothing to upgrade when I go to /bb-admin/upgrade.php
That’s really interesting and definitely would be really annoying.
There’s never been an official mechanism to change slugs in bbPress but it should not touch them during upgrades.
I have to assume there was a bug in 0.8.3 where it would create bad or invalid slugs and that was some kind of attempt to fix the issue in the newer 0.9 code.
Be sure to note this in TRAC, otherwise it might not be seen by the developers.
The core developers absolutely refuse to ship bbPress with pre-made /my-plugins and /my-templates directory for reasons I cannot fathom. It’s very weird, especially since documentation to create it is very sparse and they will still work if you put items incorrectly into the bb- directories.
Will the WP plugin “Google XML Sitemaps” work with bbPress? If not, do we have an equivalent? I searched for “google” in the plugins and didn’t see anything too promising.
Thanks.
Well the money will be awarded to the needs of bbPress.org
