[LevyImage]

I’ve been a MyBB forum owner/administrator for 2+ years now and really want to convert to BBpress because of it’s easy wordpress integration/compatibility. It seems there’s not been any updates on this for a little bit. MyBB is a huge community but the software is still in the stone ages.. even with the current conversion to jquery and html free core.
Would really love to jump ship asap and move to BBpress on all my MyBB forums. What solutions are out there right now as I’m not a database tech… not incompetent.. but by no means an expert.

[dice2dice]

Hi guys,

Firstly my site is http://www.whichinvestmenttrust.com
I have the latest version of both WordPress & BBPress.

I have set up BBPress on my website but it’s not quite right. I haven’t set it up in a way that is good enough and I need to do more.
I have spent the last hour reading through forums on this site but I can’t find the answers to my questions and problems. Granted I am probably a bit thick, I’m certainly nowhere near as smart as some of you guys on here, judging from the responses I’ve read in other comments.
So what is wrong with my set up? Well the forum is separate from posts. Users or members can also comment in posts and the comment function comes from Jetpack. The Jetpack comments doesn’t show up on the BBPress forum member activity and I don’t even get notification of comments, I just find them if I’m lucky.
It is obviously silly to have two systems and I need to switch off the Jetpack comment feature but I don’t know what BBPress add-on or Pluggin I should use. Can you help?
Also, I think I’d like people to have the option of registering with their social media login (Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn), is that possible?
I have a BBPress Member login Widget which handily goes in a sidebar but it doesn’t allow users to register instead of logging in and I kind of think it should because they usually do. Is there a solution to this?
Lastly, I think I should have a separate page on my WordPress site for Forums. That just makes sense to me, is this feasible?
I know I’ve raised too many points here I think. If you have any suggestions on any of them, doenst need to be all I’d very gratefully love to read them.
To recap my queries are:
– BBPress Pluggin for posts to replace Jetpack
– Social Media Login – Is this possible?
– BBPress Member login widget – can it include register?
– Forum Page – Can I set one up?
If you have suggestion for any of these issues, doesn’t have to be all of them I’d love to get your feedback.
Many thanks, Dice

[Ricardo]

in case anyone is interested you can disable bbpress plugins/jquery from loading on wordpress blog pages by using “plugin organizer ”

https://wordpress.org/plugins/plugin-organizer/

[Schaum]

Do you try to exclude the code in WordPress Minify 1.2.2?

[Rachel Biel]

Well, when you have a forum that is image based, it is a pain to have to use image urls only. We are an art group and showing images is necessary for everything we do. It seems to me like the administrators of each forum should have the ability to decide whether to trust their users or not. I really wish that we could have the TinyMCE for all participants. I tried a couple of different plugins and some could see the editor and others couldn’t. Then, I tried RT-Media’s plugin and test each update of theirs, but it doesn’t work.

A big problem with using image urls (if you can’t load them into wordpress as the admin) is that that image could disappear if the hosting post is deleted or if the site goes down. We are using the GD BBPress Attachments plugin for attachments, which is a nice thing to have, but it does not do well if you are explaining something and showing several images which would be best embedded inside of the text.

I looked everywhere for an explanation of what the symbols mean in this bbpress editor and couldn’t find anything, so I did a demo for our members: http://www.tafaforum.com/user-groups/tafa-forum-help/forum/topic/text-editor-or-wysiwyg/

It’s not intuitive and a couple of the buttons seem to be useless. Most of our members will have no clue as to what they mean and using symbols that are commonly around on text editors would have been helpful.

Things are finally working pretty well, but it’s been quite the long road in getting this set up. I think there should be a warning in documentation on bbpress: “Non-coders beware! You will need coding experience to make this work!”

[ozgurpolat]

I installed bbpress on a default wordpress theme, and it works fine, I have a feeling that this an issue with my theme. But I don’t know where to even start to solve the problem.

[John James Jacoby]

These symbols come with WordPress. We could include our own and override these, but I’m not totally sure that’s the best solution for everyone.

There’s also nothing wrong with enabling TinyMCE; it’s just, a bit much for these lightweight forums in my opinion.

[wpmhweb]

Hello,

As much as I like bbPress, a forum isn’t what I need at this moment. I need know who to uninstall bbPress completely from my WordPress and database, but I want to keep old posts as archives, so people can still read them.

Is there a way to do this? THanks,

[Steve]

This is an odd one – I’m getting spam in my bbPress installation. That’s not the odd thing, what is odd is that these are WordPress Comment spams (picked up by Akismet).

So how can people, who are not registered, post comment spam against bbPress topics and posts?

[Owen]

Hi,
I recently installed bbPress Version 2.3.2 on WordPress 3.5.2 and made two topics. However I can’t see a page where my users can see them. I cannot see an option in the ‘Forums’ section in settings on my site so how do I do this?

[lutechi]

I have been with bbPress before it was a plugin for WordPress and have to thank all for the efforts and congratulate how far it has gone.
I decided to stick with bbPress after researching many other forums software because of how easy it was to integrate with WordPress.

Since I had some time off from college for the summer I decided to make my own customized theme for the whole site based on what I had. After several days playing with the CSS and a few functions/filters the whole site finally came together.

http://wowlazymacros.com/forums

There is still a few things that I would like to implement, like posts count (which I did but it did not update the numbers, I have to manually repair the forums to keep them updated?) and being able to assign more title ranks (I was able to with Cubepoints but that project seems dead).

Just have a peek at my forums and let me know what you guys think. 🙂

[blg002]

@thesnowjunkies @johnjamesjacoby @undyingearth @olivier-lettinga So here’s what I did, it looks to work but I haven’t fully put it through its paces. I’m also kind of a n00b with this PHP WordPress thing so hopefully this isn’t a terrible idea. I basically used an add filter on bbp_get_time_since and did a regex string replacement on the output removing anything from the first comma up to ‘ago’.

function short_freshness_time( $output, $older_date, $newer_date ) {
  $output = preg_replace( '/, .*[^ago]/', ' ', $output );
  return $output;
}
add_filter( 'bbp_get_time_since', 'short_freshness_time' );

[ianhaycox]

As the author of the bbPress Moderation plugin (http://wordpress.org/plugins/bbpressmoderation/) I am unable to continue maintaining the plugin or add any new features. I no longer use bbPress or the plugin.

If anyone would like to take over maintenance/ownership of the plugin, then please let me know and I’ll add access to the WordPress repo.

Thanks.

Ian.

[Unsal Korkmaz]

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[Jason]

I’ve got a couple thousand users that I’ve signed up as WordPress subscribers using Gravity Forms User Registration addon. So none of these users have an actual “Forum Role” assigned.

I’ve been using bbPress 2.2.4 for awhile now and after updating to bbPress 2.3.4, any of these users trying to view a forum get the 404 error page. I can fix the issue for an individual user by manually giving them a “Participant” Forum Role. Or if I put my site back to bbPress 2.2.4, forums come back for everyone.

Also, what’s interesting is that forums come up fine if a user isn’t logged in at all. But after they login, 404 errors.

Is this some sort of bug in the updated version, or did something change in this regard I should be aware of?

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And I’m not sure if this is relevant, but this is on a multisite network using Multisite User Management plugin.

[fmpweb]

Hi – I’m having the same problem on a fresh install using Headway Themes: public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php on line 308

I created a new parent so that group forums aren’t added to the Forum Root.

This is using bbPress 2.3.2, Buddypress 1.8, Headway 3.5.5 and WordPress 3.5.2.

Thanks.

[Rachel Biel]

@dani-girl, I got it to work! Whew!

I did a lot of different things, including installing an older version of bbPress, but I don’t know if that matters. Actually, it probably does, because I was then able to see the forums on the backend again.

What did seem to make a difference was downloading the Members Plugin and changing the roles for Administrator. A bunch of them were not checked, including the role of a Participant. I checked everything and was able to post again.

https://wordpress.org/plugins/members/

I hope that it doesn’t do this again. A major pain!

[Tecca]

At the moment, the only way to get a hierarchy is to do it with template edits. I haven’t gotten there since I’m working on WordPress, bbPress and BuddyPress all at once, so I can’t help you out there. There is a trac about it here, though: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1958

Looks like it’s coming in bbPress 2.5, if there’s time.

How did you go about getting the title for the freshness link? I was actually going to do that last night, but I haven’t gotten around to it — so a quick heads up there would be awesome.

Oh, and a couple of examples of bbPress forums I’ve seen with a hierarchy (in case you’d like to see it live):

http://tamrielfoundry.com/forums/
http://www.dev4press.com/forums/

[gezginrocker]

I know this is an old topic, but here is my recent solution to this problem. You can see it live here.

First install Collapse-O-Matic plugin.

Then create a new page/post. And add the code below & save. I hope this helps.

[expand title=”Add New Topic”][bbp-topic-form][/expand]
[bbp-topic-index]

[stuudio]

This is actually a bbPress bug 🙂
Please see http://bpsocialnetwork.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/spun-theme-compatibility/

[mkocher]

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/buddypress.1.7.3.zip

Glad it helped! 🙂

[craig]

found it: https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/download/

[Techknowledgic]

Hey

I am looking for forum to install on my wordpress CMS website and was wondering if I install bbpress plugin will it look like this forum ( bbpress.org) on my website or what?

and what’s the difference between bbpress and buddypress?

ty

[dcleeds]

Hi,

I have searched but cannot find a plugin that works as a widget – it lists your latest topics, along with a thumbnail of the featured image you’ve added to the topic. The widget can be used in your main WordPress powered blog to promote the forum.

Does anyone know if there’s such a plugin out there?

Darren

[isparchitecture]

Hi. I’ve recently installed the bbpress plugin on my WordPress site along with BuddyPress. I’ve managed to setup groups and forums as well as topics, but when you click on a topic (as a normal web user) you are directed to a blank white page with <br> in the browser’s tab. Anyone have any ideas about what the error is and how to resolve it? Any help is much appreciated!

Website is here – isparchitecture.com – if you care to take a look.