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I’m not sure if this has been addressed elsewhere already or a plugin already exists but for novices that have even just a beginner’s knowledge of how php+mysql works I want to show you how easy it is to show bbPress info inside of WordPress and vise-versa.

You should NOT be using overly complex plugins like bbPress-Live or parsing RSS feeds if you have WordPress and bbPress sharing the same database but different tables. Instead, it’s a piece-of-cake to grab info from each other directly and display it. You don’t even need a plugin, you can code it right into your templates (as long as you know they will remain working together).

So I’ll give some examples here and then if anyone has questions feel free to ask.

I have an idea for a simple site, but I’m driving myself nuts deciding between bbPress and WordPress. On the front page of the site, I want to be able to add my own content, but also allow readers to post their own experiences and stories. I then want other users to be able to comment on those stories, and rate them. Simple idea, been done before.

Is this better done with WordPress, following this example:

http://creativebriefing.com/how-to-use-wordpress-to-build-a-website-with-user-generated-content/

or WordPress and TDO Mini Forms

or bbPress with a customized front page?

thanks for any insight.

Michael

Something I’ve noticed here for a week or two. When you reply to a thread, after hitting [Send Post] the screen refreshes, the text you entered is no longer visible in the text area, but your reply is not shown. Sometimes, since I didn’t want to lose what I wrote, I would go back with the browser controls to copy my text, then I would refresh the thread and post that reply, to make sure it goes through. Then, at some point in the near future (2 minutes, 5 minutes, something like that), I look at the thread and my reply is there twice. It’s like the reply goes into the database, but upon initial submission the topic refreshes but does not show my new reply.

Just recording it here in case someone else has a similar issue.

It seems the reply always goes through, it just isn’t shown when the topic refreshes after the initial submission.

I was wondering where in the style.css file is the settings for the width of these columns? This is for the default theme. Any help is appreciated.

Hi there! I am looking for a theme that I could easily edit to make it look like WordPress Revolution Church Theme (http://www.revolutiontwo.com/themes/church). Does anyone know of a theme?

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.

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?

Is there a plugin or method to lock the post within a forum?

TIA (Thanks In Advance)

Rex

“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