I am creating this page so as to serve it as the one resource page for using bbPress. I use it, I mod it, I love it.

bbPress Installation

• Install bbPress locally

  Tutorial for installing a local copy of bbPress on your computer or desktop for trying it out or for development reasons.

• Install bbPress via SVN

  Learn how you can fetch

• Change an existing bbPress install to SVN

Integration with WordPress

One of the most biggest advantage of using bbPress with your existing WordPress setup is that bbPress integrates very well with WordPress.

Read Advantages of integrating bbPress with WordPress.

Earlier integration was not a feature out of box and was done either by elevating bbPress login mechanism or by degrading WordPress login mechanism.

Simple Integration

Integrate bbPress 0.9 with WordPress 2.6 & WordPress 2.7

(Done with the help of a plugin)

Integrate bbPress 1.0 with WordPress 2.8 & WordPress 2.9

(Integration is now a Out of the box feature)

If you want to upgrade your installations just upgrade them normally, they should remain integrated after upgradation. And if you are upgrading from the former setup (bbPress 0.9 | WordPress 2.6 or 2.7) to later (bbPress 1.0 | WordPress 2.8 or 2.9), then you can read upgrading exiting bbPress and WordPress integrated installs.

Deep Integration

In deep integration, we tell the bbPress to load WordPress and vice versa or just one way so as that both WordPress & bbPress are loaded on each page load and there respective things can used anywhere. It do make things easy but its an serious overhead for a good traffic site as it counts for increased usage of resources on each page load.

Advantages and Disadvantages of deep integration

Deep Integration of bbPress with WordPress

In order to avoid deep integration, you can mimic the functionality needed in bbPress itself. Read Showing bbPress content inside WordPress.

Designing bbPress theme

• Showing post & topic counts of a user in bbPress on the profile page

  Ashfame
  Topics : 13
  Posts : 56

• Style first post differently or highlight it

  Useful for discussion boards where first question is generally a question

• Show content on basis of logged in status of user

  Showing different content to logged in users and guest visitors

• Change gravatar size in theme

  If you want to show bigger sized avatars

Fixing bbPress Issues

• Fixing bbPress installation problem

  If you are facing errors in installing bbPress on your latest localhost software or on a server running PHP 5.3

• Fix lost admin access

  If you can’t see the admin link when you login and can’t access the dashboard or the admin panel

• Fix my-templates & my-plugins folder

  When custom template or theme files or plugin files doesn’t work correctly

bbPress Plugins

• Disable bbPress Registration Plugin

  Either disable bbPress registrations by replacing the bbPress register.php file or by this plugin.

• Fix bb-attachments plugin for use with bbPress 1.0

  Learn how to fix the bb-attachments plugin by CK to use it on bbPress 1.0+ as the original plugin was meant for bbPress 0.9 version.

• Remove bbPress meta generator tag plugin

  Remove the meta generator tag so as not to show your bbPress version in source code for security reasons.