Growing pains with any software are sometimes difficult, for everyone - users and developers. The process of moving bbPress into a WordPress plugin was not without its own. I am confident that the end result with today's iterations is better than the previous, and hopefully your experience coincides with that.

I'm interested if it will work with my Mingle theme and what the expected forum will look like.

Do you know of other installations using. This plugin that I can see?

The integration supports drag and drop placement, meta options, color changes and more.

Would love the feedback of the bbP community.

Info Page:
http://www.pagelines.com/store/plugins/pagelines-bbpress/

0) Pre-clarification: [???] means some number, like twenty[???] means twentyten or twentyeleven

1) Downloaded most recent WordPress, setup database and installed it.

2) Installed bbpress:
go to http://yoursite.dom/wp-admin/ > Log in to admin > Plugins > Add New > search for "bbpress" > Install Now

3) Copied contents of bbpress theme folder to wordpress theme folder:
/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???] to /wp-content/themes
(this is done ONLY so that we can select the bbforums theme and it's handy templates: Please note that you should only make modifications in the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???] folder NOT the /wp-content/themes/bbp-twenty[???] folder as the bbpress plugin will not read those)

4) Switched to the bbpress theme
Log in to admin > Appearance > Themes > under the "Available Themes" section I activated the "bbPress (Twenty [???])" Theme

5) Created my home page, login page, register page, and lost password page:
Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to "Home" | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to "bbPress - Forums (index)"
Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to "Login" | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to "bbPress - User Login"
Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to "Register" | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to "bbPress - User Register"
Log in to admin > Pages > Add New > set title to "Lost Password" | right hand column > Page Attributes > set Templates to "bbPress - User Lost Password"

6) Switched WordPress frontpage from the blog to my home/forums page:
Log in to admin > Settings > Reading > Front page displays > Clicked "a static page..." > set front page to "Home" (and left posts page blank)

7) Allowed New Users to Register
Log in to admin > Settings > General > Under Membership I checked "Anyone can register"

8) Created and Modified my header, footer, and sidebar files:
All theme modifications MUST be done within the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???] folder and not the folder you just copied to the wordpress theme folder as bbpress will only read files within in it's own local plugin (see #3).
The theme doesn't come with these files installed, so copy them from another theme like twenty[???]:
wp-content/themes/twenty[???]/header.php to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]
wp-content/themes/twenty[???]/footer.php to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]
wp-content/themes/twenty[???]/sidebar.php to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]
I then stripped them to my satisfaction making sure to keep WordPress' header action hook, wp_head();, and then styled them accordingly.
One of the things I added to the header.php was my menu and such:

<?php
$text .= '<options>';
if(is_user_logged_in()) {
global $current_user;
get_currentuserinfo();
$text .= 'You are logged in as '.$current_user->display_name.'
Your Profile | Your Topics | Your Replies | Logout';
}
else $text .= 'Login | Register | Lost Password';
$text .= "
" . get_search_form(false);
$text .= '</options>';

?>

If a visitor is not logged in the above menu will show links to the pages I just created in #5, but make sure that the page_id matches the correct page. You can do this by checking the Permalink of that page:
Log in to admin > Pages > All Pages > select the page your interested in > notice the page_id in the permalink & make sure it matches in the header file.
If a visitor is logged in, it will show who you are logged in as, give you a link to:
your profile (/wp-admin/profile.php)
your profile (/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic)
your posts (/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply)
and a link to logout ( wp_logout_url() )
This menu will then print a search form.

9) Installed Search bbPress plugin:
Log in to admin > Plugins > Add New > search for "search bbpress" > Install Now
If you don't do this, wordpress' search form won't search your forums.

10)wordpress avatars & bbPress Avatars:
As of 2012-01-19, the latest version of WordPress (and therefore bbPress) has Gravitars support built in. So, if you sign up at https://en.gravatar.com/site/signup, you can associate an email address with your avatar. And if you also use that email address as the one you used for your wordpress/bbpress account then bbpress and wordpress will automatically show that avatar associated with the email address you supplied to gravitar.

Simple Local Avatars:
If you're like me, you don't want to force your visitors to sign up with gravitar, so the simplest avatar solution I found was to install the "Simple Local Avatars" Plugin:
Log in to admin > Plugins > Add New > search for "Simple Local Avatars" > Install Now
An avatar section will now display at the bottom of your profile page at /wp-admin/profile.php

11) Consolidating bbPress profile pages
bbPress gives you the choice of editing your profile in two places, but since avatars only show up at /wp-admin/profile.php and not index.php?bbp_user=[???]&edit=1 we will consolidate the profile editing to just /wp-admin/profile.php . To do this, we add the follwoing code to the end (but before the ?> ) of the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twenty[???]/functions.php file:

add_filter('bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url', 'my_bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url', 10, 0);
function my_bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url () {
return "/wp-admin/profile.php";
}

This basically overwrites the bbp_get_user_edit_profile_url function whereever it's used.

12) I'm done! For now at least. Hope that helps. Those were the things I cared about.

You can copy your index.php as bbpress.php and make changes on it.

It sounds like maybe another plugin or a theme setting is interfering.

If it fixes the problem, then activate one plugin at a time to find the problem one..

My best guess...

Didn't make any difference to the forum page, but the topic page got worse...

When I try to go directly to topic page with the URL, I only get a white page with the following error:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in ../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in ../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ../wp-includes/class-wp.php:201) in ../wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866

I'm not really sure what those errors mean, but that is my best guess, that somehow it doesn't like the .html?

At my forums root http://klymene.net/forums/ you will see 2 forums listed - English and Hindi. You will also see that there is an indication of some content under English.

If you click on English http://klymene.net/forums/forum/english no topics are listed.

On top of page, you will see error message

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201
Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202

You can go directly to http://klymene.net/forums/topic/test and see the topic which should be under the English forum. Topic actions like Reply are absent though.

On top of page, you will see error

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201
Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in .../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202

P.S. In Settings > Permalinks, the setting is
/%postname%.html

This 'should' set the permalinks for everything so that your topics will show up. Hopefully solving the problem.

I have just installed bbPress plugin into my WordPress (with Weaver II theme - based on TwentyEleven theme).

When I go to the forums root, the layout seems acceptable.

However, when I click on a forum, I am taken to a page where I do not see any topics listed under the forum, even though I have created a topic under this forum, and this is acknowledged in the forum list (root).

If I go directly to the topic URL by typing it in address bar, I do get to the topic page, which is visible just fine (except that no reply, flag, quote etc buttons are available).

Please help!

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topics-not-showing-in-forum

If you are interested, please let me know!

Thanks,
Corey

So I have made a few posts around this forum and the wordpress forums about my technical difficulties with bbPress integrating into my theme... I've yet to figure it all out.

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this in or not, but I would like to "hire" someone to help me with my forums. I want to make them with bbPress and have them full-width, while still retaining the main menu and logo at the top of the website...

If anyone is interested in helping me out, please let me know!

http://www.critterhub.com

Thanks,
Corey

What I'm aiming for is just something like this...

http://purerover.com/forum

Maintaining my main menu and logo at the top, while having full width organized forums/subforums below.

Is there a way to do this with bbPress or phpBB3?

Any help with this is super duper appreciated! :)

Thanks,
Corey

So today I got to the point with the website where I wanted to add some decent forums to it. I got bbPress, but my theme doesnt support it out of the box. Needless to say, I've run into a few snags so far.

This is what I'm trying to get to with the forums:

- Full width individual forum categories would be great... Example: After you login from the sidebar on the main forum page, and click "Aquaria Forums", it becomes a full width forum and nixes the sidebar.

- Basically, I just want the forums to look a bit more... legit. The way they look now is very bland and white with no real organization or structure. I am so new to bbPress that I have no idea where to begin.

- Is there a way to just embed a forum into a page? That way, I could just create a page for each forum category, such as "Aquaria Forums", and then set it to full-width.

Here is where I'm at so far: http://www.critterhub.com/forums-2/

Any help in getting these forums looking good is GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Corey

FORUM NAME
topic of the forum
topic of the forum
topic of the forum

ANOTHER FORUM NAME
topic of the another forum
topic of the another forum
topic of the another forum

I will trying merge the files that u said me.
thanks!

I need the title forum and then their topics, please if u know how can i do it.