I’ve been using bbpress for about a month now, and I’ve been really happy with it. However, I made a mistake by trying to integrate it with WordPress.

bbpress is only compatible with certain versions of WordPress, and not realising this, I tried to make it work with version 2.7.

When you try and do this you can no longer access the bbpress admin page, which as you can imagine is a royal pain, because you can’t edit the forum settings. And to compound matters further, when you try and upgrade to the most recent version of bbpress (1.0-Alpha-6, which I was hoping would remedy the matter) it won’t work, because it requires you to access your admin page (which you can’t do).

Net result: a fresh install of bbpress and a lot of wasted time searching for a solution.

This isn’t the fault of bbpress: it’s my fault for not having read the instructions more closely. But be warned: do not make this mistake! And don’t be fooled in to thinking that integrating WordPress and BBpress is straight forward. When they get this sorted, it will be a fantastic package, and even after these troubles, I still think it’s the most elegant forum software available.