Posts Tagged ‘ Forum ’

Set up bbPress as WP Plugin: Convert from bbPress standalone

2017/07/04
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Modified: 2017/06/25

We went live with new bbPress plugin on January 28, 2013.   bbPress as a plugin for WordPress I started preparing for series of upgrades to the latest WP version (3.5), and Theme and all the plugings.  It was immediately obvious that among other things, I would have to look into migrating from integrated bbPress to a bbPress as a WP plugin. So far my experience was pretty intense.  I will try to log my progress here as I am moving forward preparing a production roll-out on my test site. Migrate your bbPress data from “bb_” tables into your “wp_” database I was able to migrate all the content from old…

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Integrating bbPress Forum with WordPress Theme

2017/05/13
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Modified: 2017/04/30
WordPress-plus-bbPress

Problem When I was preparing to roll out bbPress forum as a part of  WordPress site,  I discovered that process of bbPress user and login integration has a very good coverage on the Internet. This article deals with integrating bbPress forum “look and feel” with WordPress. How to make bbPress forum look like your  regular WordPress page?  How to create a deep integration,  so users wouldn’t feel that they are leaving one site and now are in a completely different site. You can judge, how well this advice works based on how close our Forum interface integrated with WordPress theme. One should be able to tell the difference between bbPress styles and WordPress…

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