Hey Tanya, I fully understand your personal consideration and it’s not meant as an attack. At all!
And to be honest, I don’t even mind to pay (or get payed) for functionality (I’m a webdeveloper myself :)), I’m just thinking out loud. About how stuff like this impacts the future of bbPress.
I might be overthinking things, I just wanted to put that thought out there.
How does JJJ feels about this? Isn’t it a bit of a slap in the face if he (and others) put a lot of work into creating bbPress and then someone adds a tiny part and gets money for it?
Aside from that it would be a shame if functionality like that is going to be ‘pay only’.
Maybe I’m the only person thinking like that, but I just wanted to put it out there.
Registration and login are build in. It’s using the WordPress functions for that.
Useless is kinda harsh. It might be needing some (user friendly) polish here and there but it’s working perfectly fine on the site I’m running.
You can always create your own theme of course and add those options you’re talking about.
I use your plugin and bbPress, but I’m not using the bbPress profiles, so I hope I don’t have to write around this functionality you’re adding 😉
Ok, a litle more info:
I run a bbPress + BuddyPress installation. And I put that function in the functions.php file of my WordPress theme.
It would remove the widgets inside. If needed you could remove the rest of the / entire sidebar with CSS. The advantage over a simple CSS hide is the fact that less code gets written to the browser / less code to download for the user.
Aside from that I use it to put the login widget at the top of the forums (with CSS) and remove all the other widgets.
Thanks for including SWNK in the examples list!
Makes me want to look into making a custom theme and improve it. All the changes made at the moment are through CSS and functions.php 😉
I posted this in another topic, this works for me:
function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {
if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') ) {
if (is_bbpress()) {
$sidebars_widgets = array(false);
remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');
unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );
}
}
return $sidebars_widgets;
}
add_filter('sidebars_widgets', 'disable_all_widgets', 1, 1);
But that’s because I haven’t looked into custom themes yet. Did everything with functions and CSS at the moment.
You could try something like this (for an install that also has BuddyPress):
function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {
if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') ) {
if (is_bbpress()) {
$sidebars_widgets = array(false);
remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');
unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );
}
}
return $sidebars_widgets;
}
add_filter('sidebars_widgets', 'disable_all_widgets', 1, 1);
As for those CSS buttons, some of them could use a cursor:pointer, search button on the left for instance. Minor stuff, but still 😉
Small bug: The links to Simple Setup / Fully Integrated / Multisite Forums on the frontpage seem to be pointing to the wrong place.
bbPress uses the default WordPress registration page.
DOMAIN/wp-login.php?action=register probably works.
@softechnos : Main theme.
No problem whatsoever. Glad you got it working!
I don’t know if this is of any help but to get what I did at SWNK (http://www.swnk.org/forums/) I added the following code to my functions.php:
function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {
// if ( bbp_is_forum() ) {
if (is_bbpress()) {
$sidebars_widgets = array(false);
remove_all_actions(‘bp_register_widgets’);
unregister_sidebar( ‘bp_core_widgets’ );
}
return $sidebars_widgets;
}
add_filter(‘sidebars_widgets’, ‘disable_all_widgets’, 1, 1);
Then I added some CSS to put the login widget above the forum.
If you know your way around Javascript / jQuery: You could do a workaround with that to tick that box automatically upon page load and hide it immediately… It’s a dirty fix though 
What works for me (I’ve had my share of spammers, but they’re no problem whatsoever anymore):
Only do this if you know what you’re doing.
1) Put the following blacklist thing in your htaccess:
http://perishablepress.com/5g-blacklist-2012/
2) Put a question in the registration process with BuddyPress Humanity (I’m sure something like this exists for WordPress too).
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress-humanity/
3) Install the Bad Behaviour plugin :
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bad-behavior/
4) Install the Ban Hammer plugin :
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ban-hammer/
Works like a charm. For me at least.
I don’t know if it’s a “great” example, but http://www.swnk.org/ is running on WordPress + BuddyPress + bbPress.
As for the original post in this topic. You can simply hide them with CSS. Something like this should work:
.bbPress #bbp_topic_tags, .bbPress label[for="bbp_topic_tags"], .bbPress .bbp-topic-tags, .bbPress label[for="bbp_forum_id"] {
display:none !important;
}
Did you fix this already? Because I don’t see the problem (in Chrome).
What I did on http://www.swnk.org is use a plugin called Redirection to simply re-direct the WordPress profile to the buddyPress. I’m pretty sure you can do the same for bbPress -> WordPress. That works.
Since bbPress is part of WordPress you should be fine using Yoast WordPress SEO. Great plugin.
