[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

I tried all day to get this to work on my WP blog (bbPress, I mean). No go. Sigh. I sure wish there was a step-by-step guide. I’m not at all new to WP but I (obviously) had a lot of trouble trying to get bbPress to work. And I’ve failed. For now. I know people are busy, though, so I’ll check back now and then and see if there are any “bbPRess for Dummies”-type guides.

[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

Thanks. That will really help make this plugin workable for a lot more people, I’m sure.

[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

Thank you Andre! You helped clarify, a bunch.

FYI, at this point I’m using Genesis and a customized Genesis child theme. I got the child theme to be “recognized,” via the “bbpress integration” plugin by putting in a line of code into my custom functions.php file. But now I can’t get the actual *forum* to appear in the basic “page” I created (yes, I put in shortcode: [bbp-forum-index] and published, and made “public.”) I also tried putting in shortcode for showing ONE particular forum. Nothing shows up. I only have one forum (as a test).

I think I’m missing something very obvious here, or, my overall WP 3.2.1 setup is too weirdly customized to even use bbPress at this point. Not sure.

Thanks for trying to help, though. I do appreciate it! I’m looking forward to seeing any new improved documentation they release (“step-by-step” for dummies would be GREAT! maybe a video, too?). I think that would help a LOT for people like me who have never used forum-ware at all, just regular WP plugins.

[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

I’m trying to do the same thing and I see others are too. Someday some nice person will probably write up a great step-by-step guide as to how to use this plugin (bbPress) after it’s installed and activated. If you guys ever see anything like this, come back and post a link, will you? I will, too. Right now I’m scouring the internet.

[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

I definitely do not see any area anywhere in WP that says “bbPress integration.” Hm.

[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

OK, I created a regular ole WP page and put the shortcode for showing the forum index in that regular ole WP page. Hit publish. I can see it. Great!

Is there a way to get it so it doesn’t have the WP sidebar and looks more like a forum usually looks? Not like it’s inside WordPress, in other words? I am thinking this may be where implementing “forum themes” comes in? If you have a link explaining this, I’d sure love to see it. Thank you so much, again, for taking a moment to help the clueless.

One thing I notice, too, is that there are references everywhere to the “bbPress admin” area and I only see an area in WP’s normal “settings” area and it doesn’t have anything like “bbPress integration” or any options like that. ?? I do see a message on my WP dashboard, “Theme does NOT natively support bbPress.”

[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

Thank you! I am going to try that RIGHT NOW!

Thanks so much for your reply.

[@geek9mm Participant 13 years, 5 months ago]

I second this request. Just installed bbPress 2.0 on a WP 2.3.1 site and see no clues as to how to implement it after “activating” it in the plugin area. I was able to create a new forum but how the heck do you put in into WP? on a page (create a page for it)? or?

Help? Thank you so much!