Yes, this is a much better way to do that.
And it keeps the bbpress plugin unchanged, so it can safely be updated.

Thanks !

I think the most WordPress-y way to accomplish this is to add the following to your theme's /functions.php:

add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));

This will add the featured image metabox to all forums. See here for more details:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_type_support

a custom page metabox for the post which saves the forum id after it has been created by the Posts 2 Posts plugin.

Then in your single.php file you can use the bbPress functions to retrieve the relevant topics for the forum id assigned to that post.

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'post_parent' => $postmeta["forum_id"] ) ) )
	bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );

You may want to use something like:

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => true, 'order' => 'DESC', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ) )
	bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );

How can I check what is in the post meta data ?

And would that be a template tag I put in my post.php-template like:

<? bbp_list_forums( array ('forum_id' => '') );?>

Or ?

Thanks, Jacob.

Have you seen hypercomments.com ? Another benefit is that comments can be made vailable to the public - whereas forum topics are restricted to members.

And as anpother pointer - see http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html

Which is this piece of supercool software: http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/

But thanks again Lynq.

This could also be achieved with css, by having a fixed height and width and then adding overflow hidden, but you would have a little difficulty with the ... part.

Good luck!

I would like to use BBPress topics for post plugin, but when i install it all the previous wordpress comments i had in the post are not shown anymore. Only the new comments created with the plugin are shown.

Am i using the right plugin ? another one would do what i need ?

If not, Is there a way to keep those comments in my blog posts and also a way to automatically create topics in the forum using all the old wordpress comments ?

Thx for your help.

So regarding the BBPress widget "Topic Lists" where by it lists (in my case) the 5 newest topics made on my forum. I have made a custom background image for this, but i get a problem when a topic is a long length and it carries on over to 2 lines.

Basically i need a way to limit these topic lengths just on the widget to something like 10 characters long and then "..." so they will stay on 1 line.

Is there a way to do this quickly and easily? I am very new to this, but i am picking things up fast!

Thanks in advance!

bbp_list_forums( array ('forum_id' => '') );

will return a list of the forums, you just need to specify it with a forum ID. Which you might be able to get from your post meta data?

Then styling the forum description as a full post and positioning it above the forum header. By using some clever position:relative and position:absolute you could achieve what you are looking for.

This would mean removing the base url for forums and using the forums as a way of publishing your posts.

The big issue with this is of course the compatibility with plugins that attach themselves to post actions.

Other than that I would think it requires creating a very custom plugin.

Hijacking my own thread:
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/posts-2-posts-given-a-forum-id-how-i-can-i-display-a-list-of-recent-topics

Anybody has an answer for this ?

@dannyjimmy lol, thanks! Yes I am the non upside down one :p

1. When creating a post or page I create a relation to a topic-tag, and then use that topic-tag as a "forum" and linking/fetching it on thepost or page itself. Is that what you are saying ? So how could I create a relation from post/page to topic-tag when posting ? Could there be a way to enable topic-tags for the standard post-type perhaps so a meta-box would occur beneath the standard post tag ? Or should I just create another custom taxonomy ?

It is a very good solution, Gautam. Beautiful and simple. Thank you.

@jaredatch
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-topics-for-posts-forum-for-post-in-stead-of-topic/

Yes, I know. Thanks.

@Lynq

That is an alternative solution, but as pointed out not what I am looking for.

@To the thread
Just to make it clear - I dont want an entire bbpress-installation for every post or page. But some kind of automation, so I would not have to insert a forum manually by shortcode. It is just another way of commenting more focused like in the bottom of amazon.com when you are iewing a book for example.

It is not a big problem as such. But it is obvious to replace the wordpress-comment system which is totally hopeless and lacking for a blogging platform. It is amazing that wordpress doesnt have any creative thoughts on commenting. WordPress should have invented disqus - not disqus. Disqus is really useful - but disqus takes control from you. P2 has some, sure.

Thanks for any input,

Jacob

I think you're missing his point. He wants an entire forum. Yes a FORUM, not just a topic, created for each post.

An entire bbPress forum.

So that people, within it, can create multiple topics for each blog post.

Ahem.

Although Lynq, I have to say, your profile pic is super fun/cute and romantic. (granted, I don't know which half of that you are... i'm guessing the non-upside down one.)

Style the first reply as a blog post and then have the rest of the replies inside the forum style? You could then remove the base of the forum and have the links from your root domain.

I am probably overlooking something big though.

Could you write a couple of more lines - Im not sure I understand. But actually, That would a bit like hypercomments - If one could only make topics as comments and then the topics up for discussion would be fetched back by shortcode. Are you thinking about the way wordpress supportforums are working now ?

Thanks.

Any progress on this for bbP?

I know BuddyPress has a great plugin for this:

BP Unread Posts

Thanks,

The point was more to find some kind of way between blogcommenting that many times becomes such a stupid form of intellectual exchange, because it has become custom to not really think about what you want to bring attention to. Cheering, fanclubbing, "yeah i think so too" mixed in with people trying to decipher the thoughts revealed in an article, newspost, blog post or whatever. By making them type in a title and making and independent "in its own right"-kinda-style - they will be forced to be more focused and people considering responding will have to choose which comment to comment on - which again will make it more focused - because one thinks - why would I respond to this ?

But, seriously - this is awesome: http://hypercomments.com. Note the thing with marking a part of the text and it automatically becomes a topic separate from the comments - that is seriously good !

And besides using posts 2 posts plugin by scribu you can get some of the way - by making a forum quickly when making a post - check it out: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/

It is a matter of convenience because you can just make a forum and then include by shortcode. Alternatively one could display the category-text that belongs to the forum while listing the topics belonging to it. That is using the category as an aricle in its own right and somehow displaying it when listing the topics.

But thanks.

I could see it being good for blogs who post infrequently and get tons of traffic. Every post is so monumental it gets its own FORUM... this would be like... for the UN or the White House or something.

I'm in jest -- anyone who gets more than 100 comments per thread might want this; 10-20 responding topics with 5-10 comments each...

I hear you... comments/replies can be spammy and dumb dumb... but, I mean, here's the thing:

Once a user creates a topic, then all the conversation that follows in that forum will be, likewise, comments/replies. I.e. similarly unfocused and not very constructive. So I'm not sure that what you're proposing solves the problem you're presenting.

Also, forum topics are easier to skim the entire content of, forums not so much. And people want to skim blog comments.

That being said, I'm still smiling thinking about how epic it might be to spawn entire forums from single blog posts. (though I can't claim I'd use the plugin if it were made)

:-)

I’m using the bbpress plugin with buddypress/wordpress install. I installed the bbcode plugin to let users use bbcode in the forums. Everything worked great, but now when you insert a youtube video on the forum with the bbpress post toolbar, I get this error:

YOUTUBE
Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/highhob/public_html/ridecbr/wp-content/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/class_bbpress2-bbcode.php:268) in /home/highhob/public_html/ridecbr/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866

The video DOES POST, but this error comes up first and I need to get it removed and resolved. Also, above any youtube video, the word YOUTUBE shows up.

Please let me know if you can help.

Thank you so much,
-George