Comments on: Seamless WordPress bbPress Integration

By: Mark Waugh

Mark Waugh — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:58:48 +0000

Nice tutorial. I think Keep in mind that a large portion of your bbPress theme is going to be stripped out, so don’t spend to much time selecting a theme. Thanks!

By: Tinsley

Tinsley — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:35:20 +0000

I haven’t checked but I assume you can just use the same solution on whatever function is used to get the post title. get_post_title perhaps?

By: Vixx

Vixx — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 14:19:08 +0000

Hey!

Thanks so much for the striplashes advice. Been struggling with this for a little while.

One quick issue: the fix you put helped with the extra slashes in the BODY of the post, but not in the post TITLE – any advice?

Thanks!

By: gary

gary — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:45:38 +0000

solution:

instead of

require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);

use

if (file_exists(‘../wp-blog-header.php’))
require_once(‘../wp-blog-header.php’);

By: gary

gary — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:17:45 +0000

this all works great till I go to access BBPress Admin, via the snippet posted above or by typing url manually:

Warning: require_once(../wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /myserverpathto/forums/bb-config.php on line 62

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /myserverpathto/forums/bb-config.php on line 62

By: Tinsley

Tinsley — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 18:49:09 +0000

The problem is the exclude filter is not being applied when wp_get_pages is called. I’m not sure if this will work, but you might want to try manually including the plugin like this:

if($is_bb) {
     include('path/to/wp-content/plugins/exclude_pages/exclude_pages.php');
     ep_init(); //manually initialize the plugin
}

Just make sure you include it prior to calling get_pages or list_pages.

By: Philip Light

Philip Light — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:53:22 +0000

Beautiful, thanks!

One problem you might have a suggestion for. I use the Exclude Pages plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/exclude-pages/) but it’s not filtering the pages on my forum page (http://www.wordpresswebkit.com/wordpress-forum). I’ve just used your $is_bb for now to create a branch in my header.php/footer.php files and hard-coded the pages I wanted to include in the nav, but would much rather have it done programmatically. Any thoughts?

Thanks again for the excellent article!

Philip Light

By: Tinsley

Tinsley — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:51:59 +0000

You’re going to have to either type the address manually or code the link into your template:

if($is_bb)
	echo 'Admin';

By: johnuk

johnuk — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:35:31 +0000

I’ve successfully integrated bbpress and wordpress.. it works fine.. but the problem is that my bb-admin not open..
what can i do? How can i go to my bb-admin?
any help?

By: Tinsley

Tinsley — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:07:02 +0000

Assuming everything is installed and configured correctly it shouldn’t matter whether it is live or local (of course that is a big assumption). Really I can’t say for sure what is happening here other than that for whatever reason the get_header() function is not being found. Normally this would me that the necessary file (wp-blog_header) is not being included.

By: liza

liza — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:39:44 +0000

yp I’ve inculde it like require_once(‘wp-blog-header.php’); but its not working. what can i do? remember i’m working on localhost not live!!!

By: Tinsley

Tinsley — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:59:47 +0000

Did you include wp-blog-header.php in your bbpress config file?

By: liza

liza — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:41:34 +0000

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in D:\xampp\htdocs\blog\bbpress\bb-templates\kakumei\front-page.php on line 1

how to fix it?

I’m using localhost

blog address

http://localhost/blog/

bbpress address

http://localhost/blog/bbpress/

thanks

By: Tinsley

Tinsley — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:29:45 +0000

The background is gone because you have conflicting style sheets. From the tutorial:
“If you look at your forum now, you’ll probably see a terrible mess. This is because your WordPress style sheets and your bbPress style sheets conflict. Make sure you remove any elements that are directly conflicting with those in your WordPress theme (ie header, sidebar, footer elements).”

The login/register button is missing it was a component of your bbpress header. Also from the tutorial:
“Most likely all of your bbPress navigation (ie login, admin panel, logout) buttons are gone. If you correctly integrated WordPress cookies login and logout shouldn’t be a problem. To replace any links that were lost, code them directly into your WordPress theme, using the $is_bb variable to only display them on the forum.”

In other words, you’ll have to hard code new login/register links into bbpress like so:


Login

By: jb

jb — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:14:47 +0000

i did but now all the background are white. different like the main blog.

the login/register button also gone. Can u make another tutorial about this. thanks