For me, it wouldn’t be enough to simply display subforums of a category on the main page. I’d like them to actually display the same way they would if they were parent forums.
@Chrisdfr: It sounds like you’re installing the plugin to integrate bbPress standalone with WordPress, not the forum itself. bbPress-as-plugin is only a beta right now, so despite what kai says I don’t know if it can be installed from within WordPress.
The name of the plugin should be just “bbPress”.
It sounds like the first post isn’t being recognized as the start of the thread for some reason. Which might be because “the first posts weren’t cached properly” – ie, they were cached as ordinary posts, not as thread-starting posts.
Presumably the importer is finding all the requisite information to create the thread, but it isn’t finding anything that would be content for the thread-starting post, so it creates the thread-starting post as blank.
Did that make sense?
This is a problem with the “oh, we can make it a plugin” approach used for bbPress standalone: a good chunk of the userbase won’t upgrade until the plugins are upgraded too. I was going to start a bbPress 1.0 forum but I was dependent on so many _ck_ plugins that I basically decided to wait for 2.0 (though inability to make the theme match my site and getting too busy to even work on my blog were also contributing factors). Luckily WordPress has taken steps to prevent this (though I have a plugin that’s been basically abandoned that’s been keeping me on the 2.9 series, but it’s not a particularly popular plugin, as evidenced by the fact that it’s gone through at least three different incarnations as developers have stopped working on it).
On that note, my bbPress standalone installation was formally integrated with my WordPress installation in every way, but because I never really “launched” the forum I’d like to completely uninstall it and start over when 2.0 comes out of beta. However, I’m a little concerned that bbPress may have left some clutter in my WordPress database that I’d like to completely get rid of. How easy would that be? I’m the only user account on my site and I cut off any registrations on my bbPress installation so I’m the only account there too.
Is it possible that DanielJuhl’s browser isn’t working with the importer, or (more likely) that his server’s permissions or other settings are interfering?
Do I have to make everything absolutely positioned or somesuch? Because a lot of the stuff in my style.css doesn’t seem to be being applied as I intend, or at all, and I can’t figure out why. That would make it MUCH more difficult to port a WordPress theme where everything is positioned with only “clear” and margins. I’ve made another thread about this.
