[echoman]

Nevermind i had conflicting pages that i had to delete. Although that was weird seeing my media on my site.

[darinb]

I’ve googled and browsed through the forums and finally decided just to ask the experts: Is bbPress right for me?

I’m running a WordPress site and want to start a forum. Simplicity and clean design are important to me. I dislike most of the forum offerings because it seems like you are looking at a database more than a conversation, if you know what I mean.

Here are a few things I’m looking for:

1) Works great on iOS devices.
2) Clean, non-category-oriented design. (e.g. maybe looks like Vanilla?).
3) Has a plug-in that not only shows the title of the recent post but shows a bit of the text. Again, a focus on the conversation, not the database.
4) Not buggy, not a spam magnet.
5) Easy to use for non-techie readers.

For some reason #3 seem to be a difficult hurdle for most forums. Instead they like to show the category, the post title, the author, the time–everything but teasing the reader with what is actually being said!

I did see a bbPress demo somewhere–here, I thought but I can’t find it now–that had a nice-looking theme. It was called (O)x or something like that. The “Theme” section seems to be down these past few days, maybe it was there.

–Darin

[FiveOneDigital]

Is there a way to use the bbPress forum list (parents & children) in a widget? Basically I need to create a WordPress Custom Menu with the list, but I have way too many forums to list them all out. Did I just miss something?

NOTE: I know about the bbPress Forum List widget. I need that list but for use in another widget.

Thanks!

[echoman]

Now i have an even worse problem all my media pics etc are showing on that page!!

[waynewundr]

Hi all,

Just wondering about the pro’s and con’s of using this type of site. I’m new to any sorts of forums so please be patient.

Thanks

[echoman]

Now i get a a blank page with no forum but on the backend everything is fine. Last time this happened i had a page not found then received an update. I’m just about to release one of my sites but i can’t do it if i have no forum. What do i do? 🙁

[John James Jacoby]

You’ll want to use WordPress’s actions to manipulate the output of the form. There are also actions on the submission side you can hook into to verify the form data.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like you’re running out of memory, or some plugin conflict. bbPress is also only really intended to work with current WordPress versions; once you start mixing and matching versions, you’re on your own to troubleshoot.

[bryanforst]

I have set the forum to “Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies”

However when a guest attempts to post they get the “Are you sure you wanted to do that?” nonce error.

We are using 2.1.2 bbpress and 3.4.1 WordPress

[tulisan]

I’m planning to integrate BBPress to my WordPress site and I was informed that it already allows single login integration.

Does it also allow single registration? I mean, when a user registers on my WP site, does he automatically have access to bbpress? How about when a user registers on the bbpress forum, does that user get a WP user account as well?

If not, is there already a way to do this and can someone point me to the right resource?

Thanks!

[golomon]

I am trying to integrate my WordPress template with Buddypress (with integrated bbPress 2.1).

I was wondering if it was possible to make a popular forum entry (ex: most clicked on, most replied to, etc) into a post automatically so it would show on my main page.

Thank you!

[golomon]

I am trying to integrate my WordPress template with Buddypress (with integrated bbPress 2.1).

I was wondering if it there was a plugin that would make a popular forum entry (ex: most clicked on, most replied to, etc) into a post automatically so it would show on my main page.

Thank you!

[lucabarbetti]

Hello,
in my test website I use WordPress 3.4.1, bbPress 2.1.2, permalink set to /%postname%/ and a handful of plugins which I have deactivated to avoid conflicts.
Basically when I try to submit a topic or a reply from the frontend, as a subscriber, I get the ‘white page’. The topic/reply is created, as admin I can edit it from the backend, but it doesn’t have the permalink and the edit permalink button. Also, the topic/reply is counted but it is shown in the corresponding frontend lists (obviously clicking on it gives a 404-page not found) only if I’m NOT logged in as admin.
If I write a topic/reply from the frontend while logged in as admin, I don’t get the white screen but still the topic/reply is created whithout permalink.
If I add as admin a topic/reply from the backend then the permalink is created and everything works. Also the topics/replies added from the backend are the only topics/replies that are shown in the frontend list while logged in as admin.
Thanks a lot!
Best regards

[Gaston]

You should eveluate Simple Local Avatar:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-simple-local-avatars-adding-upload-option-to-bbpress-20

I’did, and it is working ok.

[bryanforst]

Hi Lynq
Yes we have a link on our website that takes the user to our forum installed at
http://www.s4ndb0x.com/forums/forum/b3tz-issues/

that link includes parameters to send a userid, password, email, first and last name. If the user is in the wordpress DB then we log them in. (if not we register them using insert_new_user) this all works and the user shows up as being logged in, they can reply to the current topic if they wish

The problem is that when they click on another topic bbpress does not see them as logged in any longer.

thanks
bryan

[David Decker]

@Lynq:
Thanks for the tip!
Never saw the “Forum Search” here – nice but not what I really want.

That would mean 6 searches (because we have 6 forums here currently) plus using the additional “Reply Search” if I am in a long (single) topic thread…

Also, both search boxes are only visible at second or third sight, better would be the occasional search box at the top or so…

And if we are already on topic: just implement a proper search in bbPress core, that’s what the users want. Every user that asked me for any bbPress 2.x help wanted a proper forum search. Everyone. Period. So there’s really a need for that. (I’d love to drop my search widget plugin ASAP!!!)

One could find some information, yes, but it’s really ineffective and NOT how it should be as an native implementation.

A proper full text search over the complete forum – and an extra search over the Codex here – or both combined would be of greatest usefulness for all users here I guess!

If it’s not possible just implement a proper Google Custom Search (already on WordPress.org…) — maybe I am doing just that for myself: setting up another Google Custom Search because the current situation does just not satisfy me (and don’t fits to this community here IMHO).

Thanks, Dave 🙂

[David Decker]

What version of bbPress do you use?
If you have 2.0.x then Genesis compatibility is included already.

But with newest versions 2.1+ you also need the Genesis Connect plugin called “bbPress Genesis Extend” to be installed which can be downloaded here:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

Hope that helps, Dave 🙂

[myballard]

I installed 2.1 and I’m trying to preserve as many customizations (style and pages) from my older version BBpress forum. But this looks like an entirely new scheme? I can see it wants to try to inherit my WordPress style, but I want it to look like the older BBpress style that I created. Is this possible or do I have to recreate the wheel?

Deeply frustrating and terribly little documentation, any help appreciated.

[bryanforst]

Hey all,

I had a previous post where i logged a user into bbpress by passing credentials from our site in the url. that worked fine but we were not using bbpress embedded in wordpress at the time.

Now we have changed the configuration by setting up a full WP site with bbpress as a plugin.

the goal is still the same: Send a user to our bbpress forum and automatically log them in.

We are using a single forum so i have made changes to

bbpress\bbp-theme-compat\bbpress\content-single-forum.php

Currently the user is logged in correctly. However when any topic link is pressed the “You must log in….” message is shown. Apparently is_user_logged_in returns false.

Any help on how to make the logged in user persist to more than the first page would be greatly appreciated.

We are using bbpress 2.1.2 and wp 3.4.1

My code for logging in a user is:

<br />
$loginCreds = array();<br />
$loginCreds['user_login'] = $user_login;<br />
$loginCreds['user_password'] = $_GET['password'] ;<br />
$loginCreds['remember'] = true ;<br />
$user = wp_signon( $loginCreds, false );<br />
if ( is_wp_error($user) ){<br />
echo $user-&gt;get_error_message();<br />
echo $_GET['password'] ;<br />
} else {<br />
$user_id = $user-&gt;ID;<br />
wp_set_current_user($user_id);<br />
wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id, true);<br />
}

[CraigIW]

I am using wordpress 3.4.1

I installed bbpress and the bbpress menu shortcuts plugin, then deactivated them again. I am now left with a non-functional and only partialy rendered widgets.php

As you can see, the page stops during rendering information about the bbPress:Topic Views widget.

How can I fix this? Can I remove these widgets manually? Should they not have been removed when I deactivated bbpress?

Thanks.

[YanBrillYan]

Daripada pusing instal manual, gue pake aja wordpress autoinstaller.
beres, tinggal klik edit content n template plus widget tentunya.

[Tanya]

Try this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gd-bbpress-attachments/

[tarciso_melo]

I have just make a fresh install of wordpress 3.4.1 + buddypress 1.6.1 + bbpress 2.1.2 — multisite using subdomains.

Same problem. Same conflict.

[tarciso_melo]

I have just make a fresh install of wordpress 3.4.1 + buddypress 1.6.1 + bbpress 2.1.2 — multisite using subdomains.

Same problem. Same conflict.

[tarciso_melo]

“2. Registered users can’t write reply’s or new topics, the following message appears: “You cannot create new topics at this time.”

Same problem for me too (just item nº2), but all my sub-blogs are in subdomains. I tried to activate/deactivate all plugins, and I found the conflict is with BuddyPress.

wordpress 3.4.1 + buddypress 1.6.1 + bbpress 2.1.2 — multisite using subdomains

I just want that every blog of my network have its own forum