Nevermind, ignore me. Looks like some changes were made with how the plugin interacts with themes now.
But, your site is missing the forum CSS for some reason.
DA,
Looks like your missing the CSS. Check out the child theme functions.php to grab the code.
bbpress uses gravatars for forum icons. No additional plugin is needed.
Is there a way to list all users and users currently logged in?
Follow up question,
What would I be losing if I don’t include the rest of the bbpress related stuff in the child theme functions.php?
Follow up question,
What would I be losing if I don’t include the rest of the bbpress related stuff in the child theme functions.php?
Bugs, YAY!
I’m not sure if this had been brought up but the permalinks are wonky.
When the custom structures option is not checked the forum index page uses archive.php and not page-front-forums.php
As far as I could tell, all of the other pages are still working as they should be and using the correct custom page templates.
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Lock post after editing doesn’t appear to be working. With my non-admin dummy users I’m still able to edit posts after the lock time has expired.
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Allow Anonymous Posting doesn’t appear to be working either.
Sounds good.
I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.
The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.
This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.
The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.
Sounds good.
I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.
The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.
This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.
The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.
What you should do is get a meta box working with pages and posts, there are a bunch of tutorials online to get you started.
Once you have that working it’s just a matter of changing the post type so it’ll show up on the bbpress admin pages.
What you should do is get a meta box working with pages and posts, there are a bunch of tutorials online to get you started.
Once you have that working it’s just a matter of changing the post type so it’ll show up on the bbpress admin pages.
“Did you have to call any additional function to add meta boxes? Have you tried that yet?”
Nope. Using the default wordpress code should work. Just remember to set the correct page type (forum/topic) or you wont see it.
Here is part of my code so you can see where I changed the page type to the “topic” custom post type.
$meta_boxes[] = array(
‘id’ => ‘forum_options’,
‘title’ => ‘Forum Options’,
‘pages’ => array(‘topic’),
‘context’ => ‘side’,
‘priority’ => ‘core’,
“Did you have to call any additional function to add meta boxes? Have you tried that yet?”
Nope. Using the default wordpress code should work. Just remember to set the correct page type (forum/topic) or you wont see it.
Here is part of my code so you can see where I changed the page type to the “topic” custom post type.
$meta_boxes[] = array(
‘id’ => ‘forum_options’,
‘title’ => ‘Forum Options’,
‘pages’ => array(‘topic’),
‘context’ => ‘side’,
‘priority’ => ‘core’,
“Glad (sortof anyway 
to hear I’m not the only one who saw the missing Forums in the menus page.”
The quick fix is changing line 514 in bbpress.php to…
‘show_in_nav_menus’ => true,
It’s currently set to false.
It works but it might not be the ideal solution.
I’m still working my way through the core forum code to get a better understanding of how it all works.
Ideally, I’d like to be able to grab topics from specific forums along with some additional query options. Similar to what the current widgets are doing but with greater flexibility.
Digging through the bbp-includes, all of the pieces are there, I just need to figure out what does what.
It works but it might not be the ideal solution.
I’m still working my way through the core forum code to get a better understanding of how it all works.
Ideally, I’d like to be able to grab topics from specific forums along with some additional query options. Similar to what the current widgets are doing but with greater flexibility.
Digging through the bbp-includes, all of the pieces are there, I just need to figure out what does what.
Thought I’d update the fun.
Made a couple of custom loops to grab the forums and topics. Plain ‘ol wordpress custom queries, nothing new or special and added support for post thumbnails.
Working like a charm.
With the queries I’m able to list forums or topics anywhere on the blog and the thumbnails just add in some extra coolness, similar to how buddypress uses images for groups but I’ve extended it so any forum or topic can have it’s own thumbnail using default wordpress features.
Now, I need to remember how to write a filter so I can modify the custom post types through the theme functions and not mess with the core plugin code.
Thought I’d update the fun.
Made a couple of custom loops to grab the forums and topics. Plain ‘ol wordpress custom queries, nothing new or special and added support for post thumbnails.
Working like a charm.
With the queries I’m able to list forums or topics anywhere on the blog and the thumbnails just add in some extra coolness, similar to how buddypress uses images for groups but I’ve extended it so any forum or topic can have it’s own thumbnail using default wordpress features.
Now, I need to remember how to write a filter so I can modify the custom post types through the theme functions and not mess with the core plugin code.
You can find a link to the plugin in the sticky post at the top of the forum.
The bbpress plugin’s topics and replies are custom post types.
Check bbpress.php for the register_post_type functions.
I’ve only been hacking away at the plugin for a day but from what I’ve seen all of the standard custom post type features appear to be working.
Tomorrow I’m going to mess around with custom fields, custom meta boxes and adding in some additional taxonomies.
I see a lot of possibilities for blurring the lines between a blog and a forum.
If you can manipulate wordpress to do crazy stuff, you’ll love the new plugin version.
You can find a link to the plugin in the sticky post at the top of the forum.
The bbpress plugin’s topics and replies are custom post types.
Check bbpress.php for the register_post_type functions.
I’ve only been hacking away at the plugin for a day but from what I’ve seen all of the standard custom post type features appear to be working.
Tomorrow I’m going to mess around with custom fields, custom meta boxes and adding in some additional taxonomies.
I see a lot of possibilities for blurring the lines between a blog and a forum.
If you can manipulate wordpress to do crazy stuff, you’ll love the new plugin version.
A little request/suggestion, a dedicated 2.0 forum to get some conversations going.
It might get confusing mixing up topics between versions.
I’ve been playing around with the plugin for a couple of hours now and have had absolutely no problems. It’s fairly simple to customize as well. I’m already tweaking it.
Now, lets get some new plugins and really get this thing rocking.
My wish list,
TinyMCE editor
Messaging system between members
The signature plugin that was mentioned earlier in this thread is also working perfectly.
I’m liking it. 
