Viewing source was the first thing I tried. Old habits die hard 
But really, there was nothing.
I did not check the error logs, so I did that right now.
On Server:
Make sure error-log is set to verbose for now.
On bbPress:
Enable XML-RPC – YES
On WordPress:
Install plugin – Done
Activate Plugin – Done (no errors)
Configure Plugin –
URL (http://jorjafox.net/forums/)
ID/Password (Ipstenu / 555Nope!)
Caching Enabled - NO
Enable forums widget - YES
Enable Topics widget - YES
Copy new WordPress posts to bbPress (not implemented)
Then I went into widgets and picked ‘bbPress latest topics’, put it at the bottom of my sidebar. I gave it the title of ‘Latest Topics’ and saved my changes.
The header shows up on the bottom of the side bar, no content.
Error log is empty. Frustration resumed 
By the way, if the standalone function is called to be echoed like print_r($myarray);, shouldn’t that output something?
Ipstenu – do you have access to error logs? If you look at the source of the page, is there anything there to indicate that the plugin sent anything at all, maybe even just an error message?
I just wanted to announce I have a primitive prototype of OpenID working with bbPress and should have a more stable version for experimental testing within a few days (likely by the end of the weekend). The only requirement is your PHP needs CURL with https (ssl) support, which many servers have or can easily add ie. via cpanel’s rebuild PHP (check your PHPINFO to be certain).
I finally got an old openid 1.1 framework working with openid 2.0 so this makes it possible to use it with all the newest providers: aol, yahoo, microsoft and now even Google (as a “consumer”, not as a server).
The biggest problem was making it work without extra libraries like the complex math support and even DOMXML which is not available on many shared hosting PHP4 servers. But found a way around that too I’ll eventually add fsockopen support with ssl so even CURL is not a requirement.
ps. OpenID on WordPress.com needs to be fixed to offer a secure login when a cookie is not present like every other provider. This is annoying
Isn’t Sam’s plugin almost what you’re looking for:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/
It’s not a fully fledged forum plugin, but I’m guessing it’s something you could build on.
I have been getting reports that registrants on my bbpress forum aren’t receiving their auto-generated password emails from my server.
I’ve read a few threads on this forum that suggest workarounds. But I’m more interested in allowing my users to set their own passwords.
There’s a neat WordPress plugin that does exactly what I want:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-password-register/
I don’t even need the email confirmation/validation code part. I just want users to be able to specify their own passwords. If bot registrations become a problem, I’d just install a captcha plugin.
Can someone adapt that code into a bbpress plugin that allows for user-defined passwords? I’d be glad to pay $100 to anyone who can deliver a working plugin! Plus I’d be eternally grateful and would have no objections to open sourcing any code that came out of this.
Please let me know!
As I mentioned before, I have xml turned on.
And even using the widget supplied by the plugin, I see nothing. Zip. Nada.
sambauers, thank you for the example. I may try it again later.
The standalone functions in bbPress Live don’t print anything to the screen, they return an array. You need to do something like this:
<?php
$bbl_topics = bbpress_live_get_topics();
foreach ($bbl_topics as $bbl_topic) {
echo '<a href="' . $bbl_topic['topic_uri'] . '">' . $bbl_topic['topic_title'] . '</a>';
}
?>
Why? I think it’s because bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. There are already other forum plugins for WordPress. bbPress is not one of them.
I am also looking for such a thing.
I’ve been hacking on a WP plugin that will embed a forum into a page, but it’s not working yet.
I’d love to find out if someone else has already built this.
I am looking to embed a full fledged forum not just a feed. I want posting, navigation etc.
So, let’s say you had wordpress at:
http://example.com/
And you made a wordpress page call /forum/
And you wanted to embed bbPress there.
Why is not not the same as running bbPress at /forum/?
Well, I want wp to handle the rendering of the header, footer, sidebar, etc. I just want the page content to be bbPress.
How about using the 1-column fixed bbPress raw theme and customizing it to look like your blog?
http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/
I don’t think I’ve seen anything like Kubrick for bbPress at all yet.
I think the user can mark their topic as a favorite, then use this plugin to get an email when there is a reply to the topic:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/
For an alternate view on this, search this page for the word “email”:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/BuildingCommunitieswithSo.html
Thanks Deadpan11,
The core behavior of bb-settings.php is to append BB_HASH to the cookie name on line 638:
$bb->logged_in_cookie = ($bb->wp_cookies_integrated ? 'wordpress_logged_in_' : 'bbpress_logged_in_') . BB_HASH;
Even in a non-WPMU installation such as this one, I would agree that this is a good coding protocol to follow. I did try your suggestion though, because I do want to understand, but the cookie was still created as wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8.
This caught my eye over the weekend…
In bb-settings.php line 592:
$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = false;
$bb->cookiedomain = bb_get_option('cookiedomain');
if ( $bb->wp_siteurl && $bb->wp_home ) {
if ( $bb->cookiedomain ) {
$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = true;
I even tried setting $bb->cookiedomain=” to allow the code to construct the value… no joy. No problems logging into bbPress, which is just fine for the moment.
The code is alpha! Since others had had success I was trying to nail down my server environment deltas…
I’ll push on with other projects for now 
I just installed BBPress and it’s working fine with the default numerical URLs. When I change the Permalink type to the 3rd one (textula URLs) all I get are 404 errors, even in the admin backoffice. What to do?
Thanks.
Dan
Can anyone point me at some instructions on how to create a bbPress theme that loosely matches the WordPress default (Kubrick) theme, i.e. 760 px wide with rounded page corners and space for a header image with rounded corners? Looking for a quick way to integrate bbPress so that it has the same look as the rest of my WordPress site.
Technically, it’s not just about pretty links and sitemaps. BBPress can produce much cleaner, better structured page code than certain other forum software.
Meta descriptions and keywords are still used by search engines where available. Personally I take the tags associated with each topic and add them to the list of keywords. In the keywords meta:
global $tags;
if($tags) {
foreach ($tags as $t) {
echo $t->raw_tag.', ';
}
}
That said, I still believe that asking whether something is SEO-friendly is asking the wrong question. Work on making forums user-friendly, which then attracts “quality” posts, and the search engines will follow.
What I meant by that is pretty-permalinks are not turned on by default.
Just realized I can’t do it, the phpBB3 -> phpBB2 converter doesn’t bring over the users. And I don’t want to lose my userbase.
So it looks like I’ll just be waiting until a phpBB3 -> bbPress converter is finished! Whenever that’ll be!
In addition to the above, sitemaps give google an indication on how often the URL will be updated, so how often Google should send in its crawlers …
My point was that having a sitemap doesn’t make your forum more search engine friendly. I mean, if you have bad page titles, bad meta tags, poor keyword density, none of those things change by listing all your URLs in a file and submitting that to Google.
Don’t get me wrong; I think the sitemap is a good idea, but it can’t fix anything wrong with your site. It just lists all the content that is available on your site and submits that to the search engine. It’s almost a crutch for having BAD SEO:
“including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.”
If the site were optimized, Google’s normal crawl process could handle it.
Again, don’t get me wrong, I think sitemaps are a good idea. I use them. But it doesn’t *fix* any SEO problems with your site. That was my only point.
Chris, why don’t you think bbPress sitemaps would make forums more SEO friendly?
From Google:
“Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.”
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=40318&hl=en
Did the SEO-Meta plugin work? That site appears to be down so perhaps someone could be so kind as to re-up it.
CK, what are the few SEO options that you have turned on?
@ Ipstenu,
yes, now I remember. I did have the same problem, which I solved (eventually) by going to the admin of the BBpress forum, then settings, and then click the checkbox: Enable XML-RPC
That should do the trick (sorry, I forgot to mention it in my previous post).
Good luck
Yeah. I did all that, rensenieuwenhuis and got nothing. Zip.
I even activated both widgets, even though I only wanted one. It’s not that they vanished, it’s that they were blank. I’d get my custom header, but then nothing. No data. No commented out data in view source. It simply did nothing.
