How do I see my BBPRESS forum

[bennisb]

Hi

http://www.pensionforecast.org.uk/forum/

I've followed the s2member tutorial and installed BBPRESS. I've integrated it with WORDPRESS. I followed all the steps but I have these two issues...

1. I cannot view my forum through my Wordpress site - it seems to be a standalone bbPress site.
2. When I try to login to the forum as the KEYMASTER, it does not recognise the user any longer (it was working before I installed the BBPRESS integration plugin).

How do I solve these issues?

Thanks.

Brian

[Cristián Lávaque]

Hi Brian.

Did you follow all the integration steps during bbPress installation? Here's a document that helps with WP+BP integrations http://bbpress.org/documentation/integr ... wordpress/

Regarding viewing bbPress through WordPress, what do you mean? Do you have an example of what you want to achieve that you could show us?

[Jason Caldwell]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention Cristián.

1. I cannot view my forum through my Wordpress site - it seems to be a standalone bbPress site (I hoped to see it working through the Wordpress Thesis theme).

You could certainly re-theme bbPress to match your main site, but you are correct; bbPress is a separate software installation, it is not part of WordPress in any way. So, it is possible to integrate your bbPress user database with WordPress and s2Member, but the software will remain stand-alone in all cases.

2. When I try to login to the forum as the KEYMASTER (username=admin), it does not recognise the user any longer (it was working before I installed the BBPRESS integration plugin).

Yea, I've seen this reported before, and it seems to be related to a mix-up in the bbPress -> WordPress integration on some installations. Although I'm not sure exactly what causes this, it seems to happen when the same username is used for both WordPress and bbPress administrative/keymaster access. The easiest way that I've found to resolve this, is to access your MySQL database with a tool like phpMyAdmin.

Go to phpMyAdmin, and take a look at your `wp_usermeta` table.
Add a new entry with the following data fields.

user_id = the ID of your keymaster account.
meta_key = bb_capabilities
meta_value = a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}