The bbPress plugin will fully integrate into any existing WordPress 3.1+ installation. Since it’s using WordPress to power the database interaction, it is immediately integrated and available in any way you need it to be, depending on your level of skill, etc…
Technically WordPress doesn’t really have conventional ‘profiles’ but they do use the exact same user account for everything. In the future bbPress profiles will be merged with BuddyPress profiles, providing a seamless experience.
You’re on your own with advertisements. 
Other things of note:
* The stand alone version of bbPress has been in a feature freeze for a majority of the past two years.
* The community surrounding bbPress isn’t as large as WordPress.
* The transition between versions (0.9, 1.0, and now the plugin) have caused some unrest for people passionate about the project.
So, that’s the cliff-notes of the story.
@miruru – You could filter
bbp_get_topic_last_active
and output your own time, or you could hook into
bbp_get_time_since
and have it return the second parameter that’s passed to it.
Decided to stick this topic to the front so it doesn’t get lost and hopefully gets more traction. Would *love* to see this get turned into a plugin on the WordPress side to help move the data around. That would also put it one step closer to inclusion into bbPress core.
Decided to stick this topic to the front so it doesn’t get lost and hopefully gets more traction. Would *love* to see this get turned into a plugin on the WordPress side to help move the data around. That would also put it one step closer to inclusion into bbPress core.
@binhdo – Viewing topics and replies of hidden and private forums was a difficult trick to pull off, and hiding them in the admin should be possible to do now. Because of the complex nature of user permissions vs hierarchical forums/topics/replies, cascading the permissions down the branch is only partially achieved at the moment. It is something on the radar though.
@tooltrainer – I don’t understand the question. It sounds like an elaborate way of asking “How do I mark topics as sticky?” If what you’re asking is how to highlight a specific post in a different way other than sticky, the only way in core is by the specific ID of that topic or reply, without writing your own code to put something else in there.
@christopher-jon – Anonymous posts are still working for me? Edit lock time fixed here: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3134/
This is all possible to do using the soon to be released plugin version of bbPress, which first requires an installation of WordPress to work within. Check the sticky topic in these forums for more info.
This is all possible to do using the soon to be released plugin version of bbPress, which first requires an installation of WordPress to work within. Check the sticky topic in these forums for more info.
@tooltrainer – There are. They are .sticky and .super-sticky respectively. You can do something like tr.type-topic.super-sticky { stuff } too, depending on the strength of the override you’re trying to achieve.
Anonymous posting is in the bbPress plugin, but not the moderation ability like you need. That would need to be built, and could be done pretty easily by intercepting new replies and switching the status to ‘pending’
Anonymous posting is in the bbPress plugin, but not the moderation ability like you need. That would need to be built, and could be done pretty easily by intercepting new replies and switching the status to ‘pending’
@padams – That gives us a feed of all topics, and all replies, but not for both topics and replies together, and not for individual forums and individual topics, like bbPress currently provides. I’ll probably end up including a custom RSS xml template with custom loop parameters in it as a quick fix.
@padams – Originally had talked about doing exactly that, but the problem will be keeping them in alignment with each other when one is trashed, deleted, private, etc…
Ultimately we went with custom post types as forums because of a lack of meta tables to allow for customization of them, keeping accurate topic/reply counts for hierarchical forums, and other odds and ends that taxonomies aren’t equipped to handle.
@christopher jon – Once you get your logic in order, hook into the ‘bbp_get_topic_class’ filter and add your custom classes to the table rows.
@christopher jon – Once you get your logic in order, hook into the ‘bbp_get_topic_class’ filter and add your custom classes to the table rows.
@padams – Feeds a must, but since we hijack the normal flow of custom post type archives, they aren’t as straight-forward easy as I wish they were. They most likely will not make it into the first round of beta testing, but will make it into the 2.0 release.
@whitehats – I cannot stress enough the importance of not modifying any core file, ever.
@whitehats – I cannot stress enough the importance of not modifying any core file, ever.
@whitehats – You should never, ever, modify any core files. The WordPress actions/filters system is in place to let you inject code and modify existing values as needed. Anywhere you feel the need to hack the core, there should be another way.
The only times when hacking core files makes sense are specifically when fixing a bug in the software or when creating new features to be inserted into core.
@whitehats – You should never, ever, modify any core files. The WordPress actions/filters system is in place to let you inject code and modify existing values as needed. Anywhere you feel the need to hack the core, there should be another way.
The only times when hacking core files makes sense are specifically when fixing a bug in the software or when creating new features to be inserted into core.
@miruru – Thanks for the kind words. Right now shortcodes are pretty limited to major template functions, like complete single forums, single topics, etc… I’m open to more shortcodes, but we should assemble and break them into template parts or functions as needed (to make overriding and customizing them easier.)
@whitehats – You can add actions to hooks in the various forum/topic/reply admin areas to assist in creating custom meta boxes.
@whitehats – You can add actions to hooks in the various forum/topic/reply admin areas to assist in creating custom meta boxes.
@tooltrainer – Looks like it’s working okay to me. Tested on 3 different installations, incuding over at testbp.org.
I did put quite a few changes through in the past 10 hours, so it’s not completely impossible that something changed and is causing this. Can you try the latest revision of the plugin and see if that fixes it?
@ricardouk – Yes but the phrases are all different since it’s a plugin now, with it’s own text domain.
