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bbPress and WordPress are both from Automattic Inc., so it’s doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that they can be integrated quite easily with each other. It’s one of the advantage of choosing bbPress over various other free and commercial forum softwares. In this guide we’ll tell you that how you can easily integrate bbPress with WordPress.

After you’ve setup bbPress on your web host, the next major step is to integrate WordPress with it. Although, it may not be necessary depending on the way you run your blog. If you are the sole writer at your blog then you may be simply leave the integration part. You can treat both sections as two different websites.

1. Doing it the manual way : I guess the best documentation is written by BBPress staff itself and that there is no simple way than that. It puts you on the driver seat and gives you more control and understanding of the things and that’s far better than anything else. The guide tells you that how you can integrate the database and how cookies will be management.

2. Plugin comes as a saviour : There is a plugin which has been developed by Michael D Adams and this plugin can save you from the manual work which you need to go through that guide.

These are so far the best known solutions for integrating WordPress with bbPress and in case you know a better way, do share it with the community.

Extra : bbPress Showcase is an amazing resource and community when it comes to finding lot of plugins for bbPress and if you are in need of the support, then feel free to bump your question in those forums.