Sorry to post yet another integration thread, but maybe someone can help me.

I have a forum with 5000 active users that I’m trying to integrate with my blog. What I’m trying to achieve is single sign-on, and eventually to use buddypress.

I’m using wp 2.9 and bbpress 1.1, I integrated them fine, but all the current posts on the forum were screwed up, written by “Anonymous.” I’m assuming that because there is no user data for these writers in my wp install, bbpress couldn’t figure out who was writing them.

So I undid the db integration, I was hoping for simply cookie integration. After 2 hours of salts and keys and logging in and out, I can’t get it to work. Is it even possible to work with cookies so that logging into bbpress also logs you into the blog?

And back to my original problem – would I have to import all my users from the db to my wp tables for that to work? Has anyone ever done this? It’s definitely possible, it just seems like a lot of complicated work for something that I’m sure many people are trying to do.

[@hseatsleeper Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

So I see it is possible, I just tried this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-coockie-does-not-work#post-61676

but that didn’t work either, after following all the instructions it doesn’t log me into the blog after I log into wp.

[@hseatsleeper Participant 15 years, 1 month ago]

Just to follow up, what I did was use ssh to export my bbpress users from the db, and my wp users from the db, merge the 2, and bring them back into the wp db. Then turned on integration, and it works.

This took a long time and was a little hairy, but it works nicely now.