bbPress 2.0 uses the same theme as the WordPress site it’s part of. You won’t find separate bbPress 2.0 themes as you would with bbPress 1.0.
Integration between bbPress and BuddyPress isn’t complete yet so there many not be a fix to your problem quite yet.
Can you use the meta widget?
Do you have registration turned on in WP?
If you have a multisite installation the registration setting is at /wp-admin/network/settings.php. I don’t remember where it is for non Multisite installations because I don’t have any of those.
Additional functionality will probably be left to plugins.
Additional functionality will probably be left to plugins.
Plugins for bbPress should start appearing now that bbPress 2.0 is fully released. I expect that you’ll soon be able to add all sorts of functionality via plugins.
@quickcat – I’m not the best one to answer your question since I haven’t looked for any plugins that will work with bbPress other than BuddyPress. Others should be able to jump in and help.
There are also other ways to get forums to display, but labeling the above as quick instructions would probably be helpful.
1. I just want to be sure we’re both referring to the forum options at /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress. Forum (and WP) roles have to be set by editing a user profile (/wp-admin/users.php). I believe there are plugins that add functionality, but I haven’t used any of them so I can’t give a recommendation. The would be in the WP plugin repository at wordpress.org/extend/plugins.
2. This isn’t an area I’m strong at, but you’d have to edit either the themes files or the css.
I don’t know the answer to your question since I did not install forums via BuddyPress, but you may want to ask your question on the BuddyPress forums since it seems more like a BuddyPress question.
You’d probably want to use one of these:
[bbp-forum-index] – Show the forum index/archive
[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Show a single forums topics
Here is the thread listing the shortcodes – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
There aren’t many plugins that work with bbPress 2.0 yet. The ones that do are WordPress plugins, which I assume you know how to install since you installed bbPress 2.0.
bbPress 1.x plugins will not work with bbPress 2.0.
1. It seems as though you are using bbPress 2.0 not the 1.x standalone version. 2.0 does not have a completely separate admin panel, that was just in 0.x and 1.x versions.
2. bbPress 2.0 uses the WordPress theme. bbPress 1.x has a separate theme. You can customize the WP to make it look better with bbPress, but the only way to give bbPress 2.0 a separate theme is to put it on a different site (which can easily be done using the Multisite features in WP).
More info on theme compatibility can be found in this topic – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility
3. I don’t think there’s a way to convert it yet, but check this topic – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x – and you may be able to talk anointed and AWJunkies into helping.
So far I’ve only set up forums using shortcodes, but I’d guess you need to change the code listed
// Setup the theme path
$this->dir = $bbp->themes_dir . ‘/bbp-twentyten’;
// Setup the theme URL
$this->url = $bbp->themes_url . ‘/bbp-twentyten’;
to
// Setup the theme path
$this->dir = $bbp->themes_dir . ‘/mytheme’;
// Setup the theme URL
$this->url = $bbp->themes_url . ‘/mytheme’;
Again, I’m guessing and haven’t attempted what you are doing.
Put [bbp-forum-index] as the content of the page if you want a list of forums displayed.
Put [bbp-topic-index] as the content of the page if you want a list of topics displayed.
Other shortcodes are listed at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes.
Assuming you are using bbPress 2.x you can accomplish something similar with shortcodes. Create a page with the shortcode and change the WP setting to showing a page instead of the blog as the homepage.
Login as an admin. Go to /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic and choose the topic you want to move. You should have a topic attributes “widget” (for lack of a better term) on the side or below the main content box. This “widget” will let you change the forum.
If you don’t see this widget click on screen options near the top right and make sure topic attributes is checked.
There are private messaging plugins that will work with bbPress, there just isn’t a separate plugin repository that lists them. Same for other types of plugins.
@agriz – Now that bbPress 2.0 has been released I’d guess people will spend a little more time on enhancements like importers and plugins.
@ed – An importer is in the works, but it didn’t make much sense to make an importer for an unfinished piece of software.
There are some importers in progress, phpbb and vanilla for sure, but the only finished one I’m aware of is from bbPress 1.x.
I’d guess people were waiting for bbPress 2.0 to be done before putting too much work into an importer.
Any chance making it so all the comment forums for a multisite installation are handled by one of the sites.
Example
1.abc.com, 2.abc.com, and 3.abc.com have their comments in the forums at forums.abc.com?
@tyskkvinna – The forum that comes with BuddyPress is 1.0ish. I don’t know exactly which version, but it’s not based on the bbPress plugin. I think that will change in the future.
@tyskkvinna – Don’t have to install the forum portion of BuddyPress. bbPress 2.0 will automatically integrate with BuddyPress 1.5. The integration is limited for now, but automatic.
