The facebook connect system will be launched shortly, could we use this to login to bbpress and thus integrate with an already ‘connected’ wordpress site?
Yeah this is a good question.
It worked for us, mostly. Using BBPress 0.9.0.2 and bbSync 0.94 gave us integration, and comments and users over to the BBPress site. We just lost comments on the WP side, and didn’t get permalinks back and forth.
Would LOVE to have this working, as it was almost good enough even “broken.”
How can we help, Felix?
I have uploaded this plugin to the Plugin Repository.
I found some problems in the earlier version, but it now works 
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/user-photo-for-bbpress/
What version bbPress and WordPress are you using?
fel64 says bbSync is very, very broken right now.
Hey all!
Great plugin, awesome thread. Felix, you da man.
Quick question – is bbSync supposed to completely get rid of comments on the WP side? If I have a post that has been submitted via bbSync to the bbPress side, the comments disappear from the WP page, and only show up on the BB side.
I would love people to post on the WP side and have the comments be viewable on the WP side, as well as on bbPress. I saw the thread above about integrating the bbPress comments BACK to the WP side, but not worried about that yet.
Any thoughts? This guy:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync/page/8#post-15078
Is having a similar issue. Anyone solve the issue?
Hi there!
We just installed bbPress onto our WordPress install. We love it. ONly problem I have right now is with integration. We’re using bbSync to integrate comments and posts.
I’m able to get WP to post to the BBPress install, no problem. Comments come over, etc. When new comments are made on the WP side, they are adding just fine to the BB side.
However, the comments are not showing up on the WP side. All the posts that have been published after bbSync are showing this behavior.
Any thoughts? This might be a bbSync issue, but thought I’d post here, too.
Looks like this guy: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync/page/8#post-15078 is having the same issue.
Yeah it’s an extremely annoying issue, especially because everything else seems fine and suddenly you’re just stuck.
It’s good to see though that I’m not the only one with this problem. I have my hopes up that this will be solved with the Beta. The development hub looks very promising.
Same point here. I asked this 3 months ago (here and here) but I get no response.
I am using bbPress 1.0 alpha. Anonymous user can view vote result text only not vote bar.How to fix it?
Fresh, new copy of bbpress. installed this plugin, didn’t change settings and I’m not seeing any way to add a poll to a post. Do I need to change a template?
No, WordPress 2.6.1 and bbPress 0.92 cannot integrate logins/cookies at all. I guarantee you were missing that something was not working right.
WPMU users are pretty much on their own and have to ask the handful of other WPMU users.
Hello azsportshu,
WordPress 2.6.1 and bbPress 0.92 can integration fine?
Thanks chrishajer.. I will take a look. bbSync seems good.. i just read too many comments of people complaining about it… but maybe they don’t know how to use it
I will give it a try this next couple of weeks and let you know of results.
It was WordPress Mu 2.6.1 and BBpress Alpha…..
I have done a few re-installs since then and now am able to log in if I take out the reference to wp-config.php or wp-blog-header.php from my bb-config file.
In any event, it is odd because I had the setup of WordPress 2.6.1 and Bbpress 0.92 on my test server and that was working fine. Now integration has all gone to hell and back…
You could use bbsync as a start then, couldn’t you? If that’s the only problem with it, that would be easier than reinventing the wheel.
no.. because as far as i know.. bbsync will post everything on the forum.. i dont want to post everything to the forum.. just what is in some categories.
I just wanted to add that I am having the same issue as Nekita….I was able to get everything integrated outside of the fact that BBpress does not recognize any user other than Inactive. That seems to be the only issue at this point, but one that stops the whole integration from working…..
If you include bb-load.php in that file, you will have access to bbpress functions. Why not do something like this in that page:
require_once(/full/path/to/bbpress/bb-load.php)
I want to login function on a straight html page that is outside of the bbpress .9 standalone. Once the person logsin, then they are moved to the front-page.
I used this in the html page
<?php login_form(); ?>
and of course I get an error, Fatal error: Call to undefined function login_form()
In straight html, I would code the full url. How can I call this function from outside of its directory? What is the full function path?
If you didn’t hack the core and just templates, all they need to do is install the same version of bbPress you have installed, send them your custom theme files to install, and then send them a full export of your bbpress db to replace their default install. Then it should be identical.
Remember, the problem with MATCH AGAINST is it will not do partial words or words under 4 characters.
It’s not too hard to replace the search, you just have to decide which way you want to go. The regular expression will at least do 3 character words which I find is more common than you’d imagine.
The problem is that the time for any way without an index is going to increase dramatically once you start adding sorting and other options that cause full table scans. You can see this happen if you try to add a simple option to the regex demo like sorting by reverse post_id (which is a trick that should be a little faster than sorting by date).
SELECT * FROM bb_posts WHERE post_text LIKE '%test%' LIMIT 5 ORDER BY post_id DESC;
and
SELECT * FROM bb_posts WHERE post_text LIKE '%test%' AND REGEXP ':<:%test%:>:' LIMIT 5 ORDER BY post_id DESC;
You might want to test a worse case scenario by using three character nonsense words that will cause a cache-miss like “zzz” and “aaa”. Change them each time so mysql cannot cache the results and give you faster times.
If the above example returns in an acceptable amount of time you can just replace bbpress’s built in search with that simple method. By parsing a query you can also AND words together instead of bbPress’s default OR which to me is incredibly annoying and useless (you’ll notice no major search engine like Yahoo or Google does OR by default).
I know this has been talked about before and some people disagree… but i will ask cause i am not wanting you to work for me.. i just need some guidance…
I know some php and mysql.. i understand queries , functions.. and all that basic php/mysql implemantation… i also understand relational databases… what i dont understand is how plugin works… hooks, api…. and all that techninality people talk of at wordpress.org
Having sad that.. this is what I am trying to accomplish in order to integrate both bbpress and wordpress..
Create a forum category in wordpress, so when i post i select the regular category..(ex: news) and if I want that news to be posted in the forum i also select the “forum” category.
Then i create a relational table that contains all post ids.. and the forum posts ids… that way i can quickly pull the info in bbpress and/or wordpress..
What I dont know is how to integrate this in the Write Panel… because i don´t understand it how it works. If someone can help me to understand it.. i could create a query on the write panel to post to the forum whenever i select the “forum” category
that could also be a plugin.. but i dont kno whow to make plugins… mabe somone can point me out to a tutorial…
Anyway… bbpress is nice.. and wordpress is awesome. Thanks for working so hard to make this possible.