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bbPress 2.0 - FAQ

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    sorry but i dont understand a thing, template files have different name from 1.0 to 2.0?

    i've now installed the 2.0 plugin version just for test, but under the docs section of this site there are named template files which i cant find in bbp-twentyten theme.

    For example front-page.php is deprecated?
    now do we have to use page-front-forums?

    someone can help?

    p.s. sorry for my bad english
    p.s.2 i'm a good wordpress theme developer ;)

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    Hey dude. I've a question
    I use a Networked WordPress. Can I use this plugin as a forum.mysite.mydoman?
    I want be like that because my subsites are like blog.mysite.mydomain
    Can I have that? Or must use the stable bbPress?
    Please do not say use BuddyPress because I hate that!

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    Maybe it'll be different in the future, but right now you can achieve that by creating a sub-blog called forum at forum.mysite.mydomain, then you install bbPress 2.0, network enable it and enable it on the 'forum' blog. Just find/make a really minimalistic theme if you want to focus on the forum itself. With a little bit of tweaking you could pretty much do away with all the Blog/CMS elements and be left with just a clean forum.

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    This forum need a Thanks button!
    Thank you Erlend ;-)

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    Thank to Erlend but can give me some more information?
    How to make my forum to subdomain not subdirectory with bbPress plugin?
    And another question, when the alpha 2.0 release?

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    If you ask when bbPress 2.0 will be released, your post will be deleted. The answer will always be the same with every version: As soon as it's ready. :)

    From http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-updates

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    Making a subdomain is the exact same process. It has nothing to do with bbPress and everything to do with your WordPress Network configuration. It's all neatly laid out in the codex. This is for advanced users though.

    If you just want the sub-domain for cosmetic reasons (i.e. it just looks tidier) that's not really good enough reason to set up a network site. You have to realize that enabling Network comes with a lot of implications on how you can use and extend your WordPress site. For example, only a small percentage of the plugins in the WordPress repository have been tested and made to work in a Network environment.

    • Posted 7 months ago #

    Thanks Erlend...
    But I know how to make wordpress networked and my networked wordpress is sub domained and it have not a good like if my blog is http://blog.7i7griffin.info but my forum be 7i7griffin.info/forum
    Am I say something wrong?

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    "Where can I contribute translations
    http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/"

    I was willing to translate to Spansh, since is my mother language, and I need it. I translated a few things and realised that it didn't work, they need to be aproved to be downloaded. Then I saw this:
    Language % Translated Untranslated Waiting
    Spanish (Spain) 0% 0 706 818

    Almost everything has been already translated, but is not aproved. I've been reading and it might not be perfect, since some words are still in english (for instance Topic instead of "Hilo/Tema"), but it would be great to have access to that translation. There'll be time for future improvements, I am the first one interested.

    So, who's in charge of it?

    Thank you.

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    @JJJ - Will you update the "Does this integrate with BuddyPress?" paragraph in the original post?

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    Hi John,

    I hate to bother, but I really dug through everything close to a documentation (plus hundreds of forum answers) and could not find an answer to some basic questions:

    a) BuddyPress 1.5.2 beta comes with a folder
    /bp-forums/bbpress
    which is obviously a full bbpress install (standalone?).

    I run WP 3.2.1 with BP 1.5.2 beta plus bbpress plugin 2.0-rc-2 (the latter a folder with less files than the one I found in a)

    So which one to run/install, what's the difference?

    At the moment my admin panel shows a section for Forums, Topics, Replies, but they don't show in the frontend.
    In the frontend I see group forums only, but not the ones created in the admin panel.

    I am confused and I am really missing a clue (a mini docu would help), on how those parts work together (or not).

    Thankful for any hint, just point me to any place with some information so that I can find sleep and peace again - and my 11,000 club members too ;)

    BTW - I am quite experienced with WordPress after some hundred installations and modifications since 2005, but I'm new to BuddyPress and bbPress...

    Kind regards from Austria,
    eliZZZa

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    @eliZZZa
    BuddyPress does indeed include the full standalone version and doesn't (yet) fully support the plugin version. It has been announced that in a future release of BuddyPress, support for the plugin will be included though.

    What you're seeing in the Dashboard are the menu's from the plugin version. The forums have to (manually) be given pages of their own, for them to show up in the front-end of your site.
    You can create pages for the plugin's forums using the plugin's shortcodes (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes).

    I know that the interaction between BuddyPress and the bbPress plugin isn't much at the moment, but I hope that BuddyPress will try to make it easier in future releases.
    You can use them side by side pretty well though, although I do not know how things will change when the bbPress plugin version is included into BuddyPress. I imagine that it might cause some importing issues.

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    Thank you so much, Trifon,

    your information does help me a lot indeed!

    Meantime I figured out, how to show general forums (not group forums) using the bbp plugin.
    http://www.nadelspiel.com/clubneu/forums/

    If I understood some forum answers correctly, the standalone version may be deprecated in future and development of the interaction with the plugin version will be continued.

    So, while the solution is not perfect at the moment, it's promising and being a WP addict, I will stay tuned anyway with BuddyPress and bbPress as well...

    Thank you again,
    eliZZZa
    http://team.eliZZZa.net/

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    I can't wait until it integrates with BuddyPress. That will be the ultimate group of plugins. Does anyone have a timeline on when this is expected?

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    @eliZZZa
    It looks very good! I've read about a bit and it seems to be working. I haven't had much practice with reading German, but I can understand it pretty well.

    The stand-alone version will indeed not get further updates, although it has been said (somewhere) that security updates will still be released (when necessary).
    The plugin is the way the project will continue. I think because it will all be reliant on WP.org's core.

    @emanagedfutures
    It has been announced that full integration of the plugin version should happen in the next release of BP.
    As BP is currently still in 1.5 beta-2, we can't yet peek at the development versions of the next one. But I'm curious as to how much of the BP-core will change to enable the plugin version of bbP to work properly.

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    I installed RC3 and it broke!
    I get a page not found on all the entries.
    The widget still seems to work, the admin panel too but all the links to the forum are broken.

    To fix this please go into the settings at

    /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress

    and save them w/o editing something and it will work again.

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    The feeds are still not working by the way. It is not possible to get a full feed of all new posts and replies of the forum anywhere, or any subforum for that matter. even if I add /feed/ to a URL

    would be highly appreciated.

    • Posted 6 months ago #

    As for me, I'm using a custom WP theme and I have the plug-in in the specified folder, but I can't get to the bbpress configuration screen. I get 404 errors, I get nothing (just see my home page). What do I do?

    • Posted 5 months ago #

    Hello and thanks for the bbPress plugin it's working (installing) great till now.

    I only have one question and maybe it's very simple thats why i ask it in the FAQ.

    I have a local WP Multi install and i made a special (forum) network-site for showing the forum on. Only i would like to display the forum on the homepage.

    Now it's like this.

    (1) example.com (my homepage)

    (2) example.com/forum/ (homepage of the new networking site)
    (3) example.com/forum/forums/ (showing the forums)
    (4) example.com/forum/forums/forum/topic-title ( ?? very ugly)

    As you can see i don't like <strongs>forums in between, i would like to show off all forums-/category's on the homepage of my new WP network (2)

    I have searched in the settings but i don't understand the Archive slugs :(

    • Posted 5 months ago #

    @reply myself.

    I was stupid, and sleeping! (my mistake)

    Shortcodes is the solution to pull this off.

    • Posted 5 months ago #

    I'll be putting together a codex in the coming weeks. Just dropping an update that eventually we can unsticky these topics and have a real place for documentation.

    • Posted 5 months ago #

    Thanks JJJ.

    I love how easy it is to understand the WP Codex.

    At this point i'm looking at this page:
    http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/

    But it's not as easy as the WP codex.

    • Posted 4 months ago #

    Great link BJ, thanks!

    I also waiting for the upcoming codex by JJJ.

    I have manage to administrate a bbPress forum at http://themescommunity.com/ , but still lots of question in minds. I will compile it first then ask at ones.

    • Posted 4 months ago #

    Is there any word on when bbpress will support more extensive forum like features? Ex: Image posting, youtube video posting, bbcode?

    I'm sorry if this question was already covered and I missed it. Congrats on the release and the success with the plugin thus far.

    • Posted 4 months ago #

    Additional functionality will probably be left to plugins.

    • Posted 4 months ago #

    Hi!

    I want to start russian translation of bbPress 2, but there is no Russian language in list (http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/), please help me.

    • Posted 3 months ago #

    Can we post a link to a beginners' guide for creating bbPress themes at the beginning of this topic, with the rest of the FAQ links, please? It's kind of confusing as to where to find this information. Also, I would appreciate somebody replying to me as to where to find it while I wait for it to be added to this topic...

    • Posted 3 months ago #

    Hi,I have a Problem that how Create the url like

    "http://www.example.com/forums/topic/202/"

    I like number url,Please help me~

    • Posted 2 months ago #

    Can we post a link to a beginners' guide for creating bbPress themes at the beginning of this topic, with the rest of the FAQ links, please? It's kind of confusing as to where to find this information. Also, I would appreciate somebody replying to me as to where to find it while I wait for it to be added to this topic http://methoo.com

    • Posted 2 months ago #

    Congrats on the stable release! I myself have been waiting to download it until all the kinks have been worked out. Downloaded this morning, and everything is better than I expected. GREAT JOB!

    Quick question - sorry if it was already covered. I am currently using BBPress (standalone) version 1.1 and WordPress 3.2.1. I wanted to start using the BBpress plug-in. Are there any migration tools that allow an import from the standalone software to the plug-in?

    Thanks for any information!

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