That looks awesome! Do you have a writeup or even some basic instructions on how you managed to get this working?
What she did is downgrade the cookie functions in WP 2.7 to the cookie functions from WP 2.5
This takes away the extra auth cookie that WP 2.6-2.8 uses but it should be okay.
There are only 4 functions that need to be replaced.
However I’ve just finished a plugin that does the opposite approach, it allows WP 2.7 to keep it’s cookies and bbPress 0.9 switches to the newer cookie method instead.
Oh and by the way Ann, welcome to bbPress (though I see you were around here a few months ago for a short bit).
Seems like you know how to code so that’s great to see, hopefully you’ll get addicted to bbPress too and churn out some plugins 
Thanks johnmc! I worked hard on the site; haven’t spent nearly as much time with bbPress as I have with WP so I kind of did the absolute minimum to start and was lazy about the cookie integration that didn’t work out of the box… until someone else on my forums complained…
WP and bbPress are running side by side off the same user database, same process to set up as described in the integration thread here. No deep integration, just customized the templates to match. Registrations are routed to WP via a direct link to it in the login-form.php template, which is cool as I use the Register Plus plugin there to customize things a bit. Logins (and outs) are integrated via cookies using the plugin which you can grab here:
http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/
Also, thanks for the welcome, ck! I do more theme customizations for WP but usually do it all the quick and dirty way, cramming things into function.php file rather than packaging it up nicely, and I often just hack features into other plugins to get it all working the way I want. Right now as far as bbPress is concerned on my to-do list is to find a good solution for manually marking spam posts, work email notification into the pm plugin, and set up the post notification to send email by default. Just haven’t had time to look into all that yet… if there are any existing solutions/patches, please let me know! Otherwise I’ll probably look into it at some point and contribute what I can (if anyone else is interested).
You can manually mark spam posts with my “Mass Edit” plugin.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-edit/
There are two email notification plugins available, one is the “post notification”
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/auto-add-favorites/
and the other is my “subscribe to topics” (which is not robust yet).
Also, thanks for the welcome, ck! I do more theme customizations for WP but usually do it all the quick and dirty way, cramming things into function.php file rather than packaging it up nicely, and I often just hack features into other plugins to get it all working the way I want. Right now as far as bbPress is concerned on my to-do list is to find a good solution for manually marking spam posts, work email notification into the pm plugin, and set up the post notification to send email by default. Just haven’t had time to look into all that yet… if there are any existing solutions/patches, please let me know! Otherwise I’ll probably look into it at some point and contribute what I can (if anyone else is interested).
Great! I was going to work on that in a few weeks 
You can manually mark spam posts with my “Mass Edit” plugin.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-edit/
There are two email notification plugins available, one is the “post notification”
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/auto-add-favorites/
and the other is my “subscribe to topics” (which is not robust yet).
Sweet! Thanks for the recommendations, ck! I think I actually found mass edit at some point and downloaded it somewhere to my desktop. Unfortunately I have hundreds of files all over my desktop and I forgot what it was called. Post notification I’m using; I think I modified it at some point to not send on your own posts.
Hey detective, are you the owner of the pm plugin? It would be great to get independent enhancements bundled into the one plugin in the repository!
No, i’m not the owner nor the original developer, i just made a few modifications i needed for my users and released it some time ago.
