As just might be obvious, this is a new blog. I have developed and will shortly be putting up a plugin for Windows Live Photo Gallery to upload photos directly to a Gallery 3 installation. Since I am hosting my own photo gallery using the software, I decided I might as well learn and setup a WordPress install as well.
Then I decided that it might be nice to support users of my plugin with a forum. So I turned to bbPress. Yes, I’m aware that bbPress is being turned into a plugin, and yes, I’m aware that with WordPress 3.0, one might be able to easily have a forum using custom post types, a la Justin Tadlock’s preview. All that aside, I decided to go to a plain vanilla bbPress install with the theory that it will be easy at some point to transfer from bbPress stand-alone to bbPress the plugin.
Finally, I decided to go with a theme framework to style my WordPress & bbPress installations. I decided on using Hybrid, mostly because it seemed like there were more hooks & filters available, and the base style was actually something I wanted to use. I don’t particularly like the fact that you have to pay to get support, but hey, everyone needs to make a living. For the record, no I haven’t bought support, and I probably won’t if I can help it. Things seem to work pretty straightforwardly and very similarly to WordPress itself, so I’m hoping I won’t need it.
Now the issue was: how do I get all three working well together? Well, that’s the subject of the next several posts!
Did you have any luck getting Hybrid and BBpress to work together?
I am not having much luck. Thank you
Deyson,
When I had bbPress as standalone, I finally ended up just using the “deep integration” mentioned here, and then mangling the CSS on my own style to make things display kind of nicely. Over the last year, it was one of those things that I meant to get back to, but never did. So finally last month I switched to WP 3.2, bbPress plugin, and the default 2011 theme (with some of my own CSS enhancements to make bbPress play nice). I had wanted to learn a framework like hybrid, but since I don’t do it for a living, the cost/benefit was just not there.
Tomek