Sounds to me like you both downloaded the stand-alone version of bbPress and put it in your plugins directory.
bbPress currently is not a plugin, bit there is a version in development that is. The version of bbPress that you get by clicking “Download” in the upper right hand corner of this site is not a plugin for WordPress.
Sounds to me like you both downloaded the stand-alone version of bbPress and put it in your plugins directory.
bbPress currently is not a plugin, bit there is a version in development that is. The version of bbPress that you get by clicking “Download” in the upper right hand corner of this site is not a plugin for WordPress.
Rich is right. It ends up being a little bit chicken/egg but it should stand on its own before we open up the possibility of converting any data over.
If you feel your site is successful as it is now, and your users left because of the social network type setup that Burton moved to, it would take a custom and really muted theme to make BuddyPress a good move for you. By muted I mean you would want to keep the same kind of integration you have now, turn off BuddyPress Group Forums, and maintain the central forum setup that you have now.
If you feel your site is successful as it is now, and your users left because of the social network type setup that Burton moved to, it would take a custom and really muted theme to make BuddyPress a good move for you. By muted I mean you would want to keep the same kind of integration you have now, turn off BuddyPress Group Forums, and maintain the central forum setup that you have now.
bbPress isn’t more or less SEO friendly than any other forum software. Considering it uses almost the exact same permalink rewriting code as WordPress. The bbPress plugin for WordPress will offer custom permalink options and I’ll look into allowing for this.
bbPress isn’t more or less SEO friendly than any other forum software. Considering it uses almost the exact same permalink rewriting code as WordPress. The bbPress plugin for WordPress will offer custom permalink options and I’ll look into allowing for this.
Made some changes to sub-forum functionality and display. Using the WP_Query class it’s possible to retrieve and manipulate almost any combination of forums and subforms, so what’s currently in bbPress plugin core is going to be an iterative process that I hope some of you are able to contribute to. 
Haven’t explored the idea of include year/month/day in the topic slug, but it should be possible to do.
Right now you’ll end up with something like:
example.com/forums/forum/forum-title/
example.com/forums/topic/topic-title/
…and even…
example.com/forums/reply/reply-title/
…if you want to create a single template to show off one individual reply.
A tag cloud is just another way to categorize your topics. If the top-down forum/category layout is sufficient for you, then there’s nothing wrong with hiding tags.
A tag cloud is just another way to categorize your topics. If the top-down forum/category layout is sufficient for you, then there’s nothing wrong with hiding tags.
Just tested this with W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache, and both seem to respond really, really well to the bbPress plugin. W3 Total Cache chops off a bunch of queries and increases load times in all the same ways it does for normal WordPress blog posts and pages, and does a great job of keeping up with post_meta changes when new topics and replies happen.
If you want to optimize your bbPress plugin for WordPress installation, I’d recommend starting with either of those.
Just added page-bbp_no_replies.php to theme, which is a page template that shows topics without replies, similar to what we have here: https://bbpress.org/forums/view/no-replies
The bbp-twentyten theme is turning into a full fledged theme that includes some good tricks on how to manipulate forum, topic, and reply queries on the fly. I’ll be sure to include more documentation in the theme so that it’s easier to take snippets out and use them in cool ways.
First pass at user profiles and front-end user profile editing is now in the plugin branch. Props GautamGupta for the original patch as part of one of his Google Code-in tasks.
Please test this extensively as it was a huge changeset. You may need to deactivate/activate bbPress, and/or view your permalinks and save them to force a flush. This will not be required in the future.
r2688 brings about a few new $bbp variables; current_user and displayed_user. Those of you familiar with BuddyPress will understand how these work. Also the 3 template loop globals ($bbp_forum_template, $bbp_topic_template, and $bbp_reply_template) are now objects attached to the main $bbp global, renamed to forum_query, topic_query, and reply_query.
Searching the forums will bring up lots of discussion on this topic.
Searching the forums will bring up lots of discussion on this topic.
Do you have a separate theme to access your forums directly, or are non group members able to access those forums/topics from within BuddyPress?
Rich – I trashed all my topics and replies and started over, yes. If your posts are important for some reason and you have to save them, adding a postmeta key/value for each topic and reply of ‘_bbp_topic_last_active’ and ‘_bbp_reply_last_active’. The time should be in ‘mysql’ format in the DB.
Just pushed an update through that is a solid first pass at forum and topic freshness. Some testing would be awesome.
Things @todo on this front: sub-forum tree topic/reply walking, better hierarchical reply support (topic walker), and go get a burrito (dinner)
You can use the recount tool found in your bb-admin directory under “Tools”
You can use the recount tool found in your bb-admin directory under “Tools”
Please continue this discussion in the BuddyPress topic if you’re interested.
Please continue this discussion in the BuddyPress topic if you’re interested.
It is not currently in the plugin but is a must-have before beta.
Depending on your level of experience with writing importers and exporters, it might be a good idea to get started now and prepare for some minor changes in data storage that might happen along the way.
The plugin isn’t really meant to completely replace the stand-alone version in my eyes, since they are two totally different approaches to a similar need. So without being vague to the point if unhelpful, it really comes down to how urgently you need to make the switch and how much work you’re willing to put into getting there.
If it were me, I’d concentrate efforts towards the plugin since it could use the most eyes on the code right now, and is more likely to see advancements and enhancements in the future.
Just pushed an update through that will fix the topic freshness order when creating new topics and replying to existing ones. This fix changes the way topics are pulled from the DB, and as a result is not backwards compatible with previous versions of the plugin. (Oh the dangers of beta testing.)
This is however the way it will work going forward, so you won’t need to worry about going through this again.
Forum counts and freshness links are coming next.
