October 8, 2008

I am researching the integration of phpBB into Wordpress.  I will put the results of my research here as time goes on.

Wp2BB

     Wp2BB Plugin Home Page   – Wp2BB in the Wordpress plugin directory  – The homepage has phpBB set up very well stylistically – It creates a forum topic automatically for every entry in your blog if you want. 

Configuration of the plugin

You have to install your phpBB separately.  Appears that it does not integrate USER / PASSWORD authentication. What that means is to log into the blog you have one user / password pair and yet another pair for the bulletin board software. 

Wp-United

 Wp-United Home Page   this site has alot of examples of its usage in well integrated artful sites. Including this one: GardeningZone.org  

Appears that the USER / PASSWORD integration problem was solved in this case.  I have not tested this but did read on their site that it is integrated.

Forum discussion of its usage

BBPress

BBPress is not phpBB. It is by the WordPress crew. For this reason I suspect it integrates more easily.

bbPress Integration – This plugin gives the default WP role to users who registered through approved bbPress installations. It also populates things like usernicename and displayname as necessary.

Notes on bbpress installation:

I found that in spite of having the most up to date version of WordPress I needed to add the following lines to my wp-config.php file

define('AUTH_KEY', 'KeyValue1');                    
define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'KeyValue2');
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'KeyValue3');   AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY explanation here  HOWTO: Set up secret keys in WordPress 2.6
define('SECRET_KEY', 'KeyValue4');    Secret Key Explanation here

The respective key values are long strings of random characters.

 Markdown for WordPress and bbPress – Markdown syntax allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format.

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