bbPress Test

I found a Photo Gallery package that I am going to try with the new web site I building for the family. The package is called Coppermine and am looking forward to how well it works. I also have found mention of a plug-in for Coppermine that will allow me to integrate it with the WordPress database. What pointed me to the Coppermine package was a mention via a post for the WP-Andreas09 Theme being ported for Coppermine. WP-Andreas09 being the theme I am looking to use on the site. So now I have the forums integrated and looks like I’ll be able to integrate the photo gallery too. Now I just need to find a Event/Cal package that I can integrate. This is one of the things I love about WordPress, all the add-ons and integration by the community so that WordPress is greatly expanded and even more useful.

So I’m doing this a little bit out of order but I have installed bbPress and WordPress on a new site, yes I’m slowly ticking  up the AnderTek family of sites. I have them up and running with each having their own DB, but using WordPress DB for the user accounts. Just a little hint when using two Databases  make sure that you don’t have the password and host server names swapped, just does not seem to work So for those ticking off points, I’ve got the two installed (WordPress / bbPress). I still have some integration like having them use the WP Theme in bbPress and to have a link to forum (bbPress). Since this is going to require some coding I’m not going to develop on Dev-n-Progress, just not going to be stable enough to allow.

To-Do:

• Wrap WP Theme around bbPress (11/04/2006)
• Link for bbPress forums in Theme (11/06/2006
• Cross Posting
• Picture Gallery
• Calendar page and function

Tally-ho

Update - 11/04/2006:
I have wrapped the WordPress Theme around bbPress install, which just took some tweaking of the bbPress Theme and referencing the WordPress install that it was associated with it.

Update - 11/06/2006:
They didn’t take much, and was quite a simple, I now have a static page that access the access the forums. I had not updated the options permalink options to date and title. Then the setting I found on the bbPress Support Forums setting the Page’s Post Slug = Folder name of the bbPress install folder. Side note you do need to have bbPress located in a sub-folder of the WordPress you are referencing from.

Those great folks over at WordPress have released a another great product bbPress. Yet another Bix code release, having reached version 0.73. Get a look’see and see how you like it. You can download it here.