After downloading rss2html, you’ll need to open up rss2html.php, which is a self-explanatory php file for setting location of the rss feed and the template file used to output the html. The only line you’ll really need to worry about editing is line 29, where you’ll see “sample.xml”. This is where you set your feed location, in wordpress, line 29 will look something like this:
[mysql]$XMLfilename = “http://www.yourdomain.com/bloglocation/feed”;[/mysql]
Once that’s set, save the file and upload it along with sample-template.html to a directory called “rss” inside the root of your bbpress install.
Note: If you encounter problems with getting the feed to work, go back and edit rss2html.php and set line 23 from 0 to 1.
Once you do this it’s time to use php to include the file into your forum homepage. Put this right under the h2 tags you just finished creating. The include shoud look like this (where wp is the name of the wordpress directory and bp is the name of the bbpress directory):
[php][/php]
You’re front-page.php should now look like this:
[php]
Recent Publications
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ID ) : ?>
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$title ) : ?>
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I can see this function of pulling wordpress posts onto the homepage as a plugin in the near future, and possibly even built into BBpress as an admin option as bbpress development continues and tighter integration with wordpress comes about.
Help and Support
The bbpress forums have quickly become pretty active over the last few days, so I can only stress that you go their to report any problems you may have. We will continue to update this article with a few more sections over the next few days, so be sure to bookmark it as the ultimate bbpress guide. Also, a lot of work went into writing this guide, please show us that it helped you by giving it a digg. If for some reason our guide is causing your install to fail, please let us know – we tried to be as accurate and detailed as possible, but there’s a small possibility we could have made a mistake somewhere.
