Hi there. 
Have you installed BBCode lite? you can solve that issue by adding BBCode to your forum
Michael
It seems the permissions are okay – 775 should be fine. I don’t see where the problem is coming from. Ther may be a problem with one.com.
I use 000webhost.com, and my forum works perfectly. I can’t see where the problem lies.
Sorry I can’t help.
In FileZilla, please can you tell me what it says when you go to “Change File Permissions” for the folder “BBPress”. It may have configured your folders incorrectly.
Furthermore, I must ask you: Are you using a free-hosting service, a paid hosting service, or a local file-server (eg in you house)?
Hi there.
You may have a problem with your integration. Go to the front page of your forum and add bb-admin in the address bar. For example: http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/bb-admin.
Tell me what it says there, or whether or not it comes up with the admin panel.
Hi there
Have you uploaded every single file into the folder? It seems that you do not have an install file in your bbPress folder.
Not to worry – I did some research and found what I was looking for. Simply integrated it into the existing htaccess file – all is working just fine.
About that – I’m not sure exactly how it is done.
I have two pages set up: FAQ and Rules. What do I need to add to the htaccess file, and which file do I use?
Hi there
I’m not 100% sure how it would work on a manual basis. There is a plugin called bbPages (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpages/) that will have support for “pretty permalinks” in the near future.
Some-one may have to take over the development of this plugin. It may happen in the next couple of months.
I had 6 plugins with extra spaces – some more than one space.
It seems to be working just fine now. Thank you.
Will give that a try – I can see very well how that kind of thing would happen.
Wish me luck – I have 43 plugins.
Will let you know.
I just had a look at rss2.php in my template’s directory, and the layout seems to be okay there.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
I have searched through the rss.php file – and I could not figure out how to remove that extra space.
Do you perhaps know how it can be done?
I had huge troubles changing the permissions, so I simply deleted the my-templates and my-plugins folders (as there was nothing in each one) and re-created them using the necessary permissions.
All is working fine now – thanks.
If you’re looking to have a community within your Blog, you should really be using BuddyPress. It adds a social/community layer onto your existing WordPress MU installation.
Like Chrishajer said, bbPress is not for that – it is simply forum software.
I’m using bbPress for a community – but it’s a Discussion-based community. So a forum is great for that.
Visit my forum to see what I mean: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation
There would be no point in having a bbPress installation if you were to have no forum. I’m not fully understanding what the whole scene here is. What exactly is your website?
I somehow managed to download the Read only forums plugin. Forgot how/where.
You can grab it from my server: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/bbpress/plugins/read-only-forums.zip
The only thing I found was that it didn’t remove the header (“New Topic in this Forum”) for read only forums. Oh well – it still works, which is grand.
I see – thanks for telling me that. The change is not urgent – so I’ll stick to my current bbPress installation. It seems to be doing the trick just fine. I’ll probably even land up extending it myself.
I’m not 100% sure what you’re trying to achieve here, but I’m guessing that you want to do something like this:
http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/profile/1
You say you don’t actually want the forum – what do you mean by that?
You should try Post Count Plus (search for it in the Plugin Browser). It gives you the ability to change the levels of different members, based on how long they have been registered for, and how many posts they have made.
Greetings
I am glad to hear that an effort is being made into ensuring the continuity (and maturing) of bbPress.
If I could, I would help out a lot where I could. Unfortunately, I’m still in the learning phase with PHP and MySQL. This as I learn by experience.
In the long-term however, I would like to help out as much as I can. I do have a strong taste for interface design, and new ideas.
I’ve always said to myself that forum software seems to be all the same, from brand to brand. Already, bbPress is defying that. bbPress has a lot to offer, and I’d like to extend it somewhat.
In my case, I have released a development community forum (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation) using bbPress – so that shows one thing. Many people have different purposes for using forum software. With my community (which is still small – it’s new) I wish that it would be more socially interactive. I am in the middle of writing a plugin that will make user-profiles more interactive (ie Status updates, etc). In the long term, I’d like to cater for that kind of thing. Bringing new things into bbPress that don’t seem to exist any any other forum software. Of course, in this case, my idea would only be useful for those using bbPress as a standalone package (ie without integrating it with WPMU and BuddyPress).
I can see that bbPress will ba amazing software one day – competing with the likes on vBulletin and phpBB. If anything, I’d love to be involved with getting it there.
I’m happy to hear it that way. After looking at bbShowcase, I just thought that it was done. I’d be so happy to see 1.2 come out. In fact, I can’t wait to see 2.0 – I’m sure it’ll have a stack of new features.
But you’re right, and like I said as well, there’d be no good reason to end it.
I know this is off-topic, but I’d just like to ask something. BuddyPress seems to be such a brilliant piece of software. Can it only be integrated with WordPress MU? Can it not run standalone? The whole idea for my site is to have a simple community-driven system for all areas of development. The forum seems to be doing the trick, and as good as it is, BuddyPress would cater for the concept so much better than bbPress does.
Thanks for the optimism – I wasn’t worrying, however.
Hi all
I downloaded bbPress about a week and a bit ago, and I find it extremely user-friendly. It’s such a pity it had to come to an end.
It’s also unfortunate to hear that it had ended mostly based on the fact that Sam left – a replacement could have been appointed to continue developing such great forum software.
Unlike most forum software – bbPress is extremely easy to extend. This is one of the reasons I am using it. It’s compatibility is great.
If I was able to – I would continue the development of bbPress myself – though it would not feel right as I am not part of Automattic, thus I do not have the rights to the source-code. All I can do for now is work on what I have, and continue using bbPress for as long as possible.
At present, I run a [new] development community called dev:station (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation), proudly powered by bbPress. The only reason I would switch from bbPress is to extend my concept in to a social-site, instead of a forum-based site.
I really do hope that, in the future, bbPress will be re-incarnated – maybe as something completely new. In fact, if anything, that would be a good idea: Create a new package. Start from scratch.
Furthermore, WordPress still uses bbPress for its forum – I doubt that it will be gone for too long.
@buddha trance: I completely agree with you – I think we should keep it alive and kicking. If anything, Automattic may realize that bbPress should be in continual development. It would make me very happy, if not everyone else.
Not to worry – I am simply uploading to the bb-templates instead. Works fine.
