Comments on: Using bbPress Forums to Community Power Your Wordpress Blog

By: mr_azri

mr_azri — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:59:37 +0000

Great site! Nice to see others sharing these ideas

By: SatNightSpecials.com

SatNightSpecials.com — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:57:58 +0000

I agree phpBB is bloated, no kidding!

I installed the bbPress alpha a few days ago (for some of the same reasons) and was able to customize it quickly. http://www.satnightspecials.com/

By: Adam Kayce

Adam Kayce — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:53:51 +0000

This is great, thanks. I found the “integrate in 3 easy steps” article on your site, first, and then this, which rounds it all out.

How awesome.

By: العاب شمس الدين

العاب شمس الدين — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:04:05 +0000

this is an excellent post , I’m grateful to you, thanks.

By: _pewter

_pewter — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:31:30 +0000

mmm…looks like a tastier solution than those other bloated pieces of junk that dominate the forum spectrum.

By: broady

broady — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:11:35 +0000

I had made very bad experiences with own forums, also standard-software-solutions, all my forums was destroyed by script-kiddies, had make a database backup but it is not possible to transfer the old database into the new forums-software, there are years of work all away:-(( so think it over, if it is a good idee to install your own forum, it many work and kids try to destroy it …

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:06:00 +0000

BBpress is a good piece of software and I started using it on my site a few weeks ago. But I'm having trouble integrating it with my Wordpress blog. If I log in on Wordpress I'm prompted to log in again for BBpress. Doing that logs me out of Wordpress. If I then log in to Wordpress again, I am logged in to both, but it would be better if I could just login to both with one click. I'm also concerned it may present an obstacle to entry for my visitors. I posted a requested for help in the BBpress support forums but so far nothing. Can anyone else help?

By: Ed Healy

Ed Healy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:10:17 +0000

@Terry: Does bbPress play well with WordPress 2.3?

I ask because I’d love to use it on my podcast site. Unfortunately, podPress doesn’t play well with the latest (2.5.1 ?) version of WordPress.

If bbPress plays well w/ WP 2.3, I can use podPress and bbPress on the same site – and be a very happy camper.

By: Terry Ng

Terry Ng — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:31:37 +0000

Thanks everyone for the kind words! :)

@ Ed: Kineda is part WordPress and part bbPress. Not quite 100% Wordpress.

@ Sangesh: bbPress can be found when you visit the Lookbook. This is the portion of Kineda that is run by bbPress and not WordPress.

By: Sangesh

Sangesh — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:53:36 +0000

Kineda is impressive. Unique design on top of that. Quite a site, a Japanese networking kinda site I believe.

But I did not find any bbPress…

By: Sarah

Sarah — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:19:02 +0000

This looks fantastic and really helpful to a new blogger like me. I’s like to put forums on my blog and didn’t know how.

I notice there are adverts on this blog – an MPU sized slot, a banner ad and a sky. I thought wordpress didn’t allow adverts. Does anyone know how come this blog has ads?

Thanks everyone, and Kineda.

By: Ed Healy

Ed Healy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:07:50 +0000

Kineda is 100% WordPress? Color me impressed.

By: stephen

stephen — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:12:30 +0000

Great article, clearly written for easy reading.
Hmmm. Will buy your book ASAP.

By: Rami

Rami — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:58:54 +0000

I was inspired by these 10 reasons to choose bbpress and this beautiful wordpress integration you describe highlights the real advantage of bbpress. The possibilities here are endless, not possible with other forum software.

By: Marie Casas

Marie Casas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:59:17 +0000

Apologies.

By: Marie Casas

Marie Casas — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:58:01 +0000

Glad to see another integrated community website. My partners did the same for our tech news blog Pinoy Web Startup. Heavy Wordpress customization for the "Companies" directory which are still normal posts and a Forum (bbpress) to encourage discussion. I should write a formal post about the new design and forums.

By: finalwebsites.com

finalwebsites.com — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:07:08 +0000

I’m a bbpress fan too because it’s very easy to modify. While it needs a lot of features it’s fast and even a developer with limited PHP skills is able to write plugins.

@darren, don’t recommend the “Allow Images”, this takes the user in trouble while using other plugins. The others are fine ;)

By: shorant

shorant — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:32:05 +0000

Does bbPress support threaded or tree view in its forum? I am looking for a forum script that offers threaded view, and so far vBulletin is the only feasible option I found.

By: Ryan Mac

Ryan Mac — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:40:08 +0000

I don’t think this would be worthwhile for me on my blog
By a great idea none the less

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:17:04 +0000

Terry, great job with Kineda. Super design. As it happens, we also have a fashion site based on Wordpress/bbPress integration ( http://www.youlookfab.com ).