bbpress and wordpress...intigration

[wahmjennie]

I am setting up a blog and would like a forum as a side to it and am considering bbpress, since it is created by wordpress and I imagine would be the easiest to intigrate together...does anyone have any experience in this area?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

[TraciKnoppe]

Hi Jennie
I've not setup BBpress myself, but have used other sites that have it installed and it seems to work well. There's also Simple Forum, which I have used and is also nice.

Either would work I believe, and they're simple enough to install, so test it out and see which you prefer.

[wahmjennie]

Thanks Traci, what is Simple forum? Is it also created by the makers of wordpress?

[TraciKnoppe]

Hi Jennie
Very few plugins are actually made by the makers/creators of WordPress. Most plugins are created by other individuals, designed to be used with WordPress. Simple forum is one. Here's the page to download the Simple forum plugin: http://simplepressforum.com/

[Bina Omar]

Hi Jennie,

I've integrated BBPress and Wordpress for one of my clients. BBPress is sleek.

Anyway, I went through a couple of hickups though. Here are some tips:

- Don't do the integration DURING the installation process. Do it AFTER you've installed BBpress. It's less of a headache.

- During one of the steps, you will need to install a plugin in Wordpress that will give you a code to paste into your Wordpress wp-config file. Paste this code ABOVE all the other codes or the one time login will not work.

Let me know if you need further help with this.