Intergrating bbPress with WordPress and Making it Work
Download, install and activate the bbPress Integration plugin for WordPress. Go to the settings pages and enter your bbPress URL and select your WordPress installation. I haven’t tested this for MU so I don’t know if it will work. Just select WordPress for now.
If you have your plugins directory in a different place that add the direct file path. Otherwise just leave it blank.
Save your settings and the Manual Cookie settings will change. Should look something like this:
define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.your-domain.com' ); define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' ); |
Copy those two lines of code and paste them into your wp-config.php file right below the define('DB_NAME'...) line. Save it.
Paste them into your bb-config.php file as well, right above the // ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** // line. Save it.
Now you should be able to log into your bbPress forum and you will automatically be logged into your WordPress install. Doing it the other way should work as well.
hey, this is really helpful. i winged it through the integration, but this will definitely be something to reference to stabilize my system.
right now, i’m frustrated with bbpress theme development. i’ve used thematic and buddymatic for wordpress, but have not found an equivalent theme framework for bbpress. i am trying hybrid (http://themehybrid.com/), but the community around that theme seems pretentious and inaccessible unless i pay up $$. my point is:
do you know of any other bbpress theme frameworks, preferably something akin to ian stewart’s thematic?
I think a lot of people have written off bbPress for now. When the plugin gets officially released I think interest will be sparked again and more people will start to develop themes and such.
The community around themeHybrid is amazing. I paid the small fee and could not be happier. Clean, concise code and amazingly fast and helpful support.
hi, it’s me again. i found a suitable theme framework for bbpress through hybrid theme club. unfortunately, i cannot wait for the bbpress plugin.
i’ve tried out these integration settings (on a local server) and it’s not working exactly right for me. right now, i have two tabs open– one for my bbpress installation and one for my wordpress installation (bbpress is in a subdirectory of wordpress). if i login as admin in wordpress and then go to my bbpress tab and refresh, i still have to login there. if i login to bbpress, i become logged out of wordpress automatically and have to login over there again. so i’m not sure what’s going on… ideas?
actually, i had a small error in my code.
this helped me:
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-coockie-does-not-work/page/2
I’ve been playing with BuddyPress v1.2.1 with the bbPress integration and it does seem to work nicely. There is no need to sync users as BuddyPress (and thus bbPress) reads directly from the WP user table. However, I have found that getting BuddyPress integrated with a custom theme is quite difficult. I’m sure the same issue exists with trying to get bbPress itself to look nice with an existing custom WP theme as well. I also have been thinking that it would be nice if WP itself had some basic member profile and directory functionality, so it would seem that the BuddyPress route is a nice way to go for both the forums and user visibility.
I think they just released a couple plugins to allow you to use your current WP theme with BuddyPress.
http://wordpress.org/development/2010/02/buddypress-for-one-and-all-3/
Wonderful tutorial.
I had this previously working and now 1 of 3 possible changes have caused it to stop working:
1. I upgraded to WordPress 3.0
2. I deep integrated with WordPress
3. I changed my theme to iBlogPro 4 (both WordPress and bbPress)
Please note, that I did make sure to go back over the files and make sure the settings were still intact.
Thanks, Bryan
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bb anonymous posting is working fine for me in 1.0.2
An attempt to make a list of working plugins has been made a month ago. Unless one of these threads becomes a sticky, it will get lost and get into oblivion in a few weeks.
this is really helpful
Informative post!! thanks.
Anyone know how to do it with WP 3.1.1?