[Jared Atchison]

FYI about Genesis theme compatibility.

When you do decide to upgrade to bbPress 2.1 you will need to use a plugin.

Genesis compatibility was removed from bbPress 2.1 and is now wrapped in a plugin (below). The plugin also provides some other fixes the 2.0.x compatibility doesn’t.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-genesis-extend/

[wpmhweb]

Hello,

I installed bbPress no admin in a WordPress 3.4 site, I created a test user (Subscriber) and still does take the user to WordPress backend. There is anyway to troubleshoot this plugin?

Thanks,

[MTPrower]

After screwing around with various options for permalinks and for the location and links for my forums, I have decided, once again, that it is best to hack up the archive-forum.php. In fact, I think this very page should be completely changed to allow you to choose whether you want to display the forums archive there, or if you want to use the wordPress page editor to display shortcodes or whatnot. This should be an option in the bbPress settings.

This would solve pretty much everyone’s problems with permalinks and breadcrumbs, and I think it would be easy to do.

[MTPrower]

The problem I had before is still here, and so I still need to change what the Archive Page shows. Changing the settings as said above worked at first, but now bbPress reverted back to showing the forum Archives on http://mysite.net/forums/ instead of what I put on my WordPress page at that location.

In my site’s main menu, I have a link called “Forums” that leads to “http://mysite.net/community/forums/”. This page is the custom page I made, to show the forum_id’s of my two forum categories, rather than showing the forum Archives.

My WordPress theme has a breadcrumbs system, as does bbPress. On the page that I created, WordPress says my breadcrumb path is:

Home » Community » Forums

While bbPress says it’s:

Home › Forums › Community › Forums

bbPress has this annoying thing about insisting that if you are inside the forums, it will add extra “sub-menus”, or path items, or whatever you call them, to your breadcrumbs.

In the bbPress settings page, I set my “Archive Slugs > Forums base” to “archives”, rather than the default “forums”. For “Single Slugs > Forum prefix”, I unchecked the box “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)”.

bbPress seems to hate playing nicely with your site’s permalinks and breadcrumbs. I’ve always had this problem, ever since I started using bbPress.

I would be more than happy to hack up bbPress a bit so that I can fix the breadcrumbs and permalinks myself. I consider this a very persistent issue, as I see many people to this day wondering how on earth to get their forums to display at the proper location.

If there’s anything I can do to help get this problem fixed more permanently, I’d be more than happy to help.

[Jared Atchison]

If 3.4 + bbPress is causing you get an error saying “bytes exhausted” I recommend either installing this plugin

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/memory-bump/

or bumping the memory manually through the wp-config.php

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

[MTPrower]

I can’t think of much, except for adding a warning stating that if the Forums base is “forums”, then the forums archive is going to override the page http://www.mysite.com/forums if the person chooses to make a forums page at that location.

On the opposite end, it should be noted that IF they want to put a forums page in that location, then they can’t use “forums” as their archive base.

Sometimes there is a warning that certain pages conflict with each other or with pages in the WordPress installation. I think that if both a WordPress page/post and a forums base/slug are the same “word”, that the error should say more than just “possible conflict”. I think it should say that the slugs or bases will override your WordPress page or post, and explicitly state that those pages or posts won’t show the WordPress page or post content as intended.

Helpful and informative warning messages are indispensable. Vague ones aren’t understood and are soon ignored…

[John James Jacoby]

Yeah; the way WordPress handles archives automatically for us makes it a bit strange to figure out at first. Once you get it, it makes perfect sense though.

Any suggestions on how to better label the fields that would have made it easier to understand?

[MTPrower]

That was the problem. You see, under the Settings page for bbPress, there is the Archive Slugs section. Under this is two settings: “Forums base” and “Topics base”. Due to the wording, I never knew that having the “Forums base” setting at its default, which is “forums”, I would never be able to use my WordPress-made custom forums page at http://www.mysite.com/forums , always getting the archives page instead of what I put in shortcodes on my custom page.

Maybe the labels for those settings should be clarified, and the default setting changed. I see lots of people having trouble with this part, and I’ve been using bbPress for a year and just discovered the answer.

Thanks for replying. I appreciate it. If I knew some PHP, and my site was done and I could spare some time, I’d help you with bbPress a bit. I know it must suck not having very many people helping out…

[John James Jacoby]

Can’t speak for the others; if scalability into the billions of posts is really your concern: at volume, the platform matters significantly less than the operators and system administrators keeping up with the growth. Most of your static content will be served directly from the cache, and there’s not much you can do about database writes; they have to happen anyways.

If what you’re looking for is for someone to tell you that bbPress will out-perform some other platform is some specific way, I think you’re on your own. What I can tell you is that bbPress very much is in active development, and is optimized to use all of WordPress’s cacheing API’s, with constant efforts specifically going into further optimization in future versions.

[John James Jacoby]

You figuring it out doesn’t usually involve others handing you an answer.

I think you might be over-thinking things. Rather than trying to overload the WordPress template loader with a new archive-forum.php and trying to run something through a shortcode, why not just use a WordPress page, set the slug to /forums, and put the shortcodes and div’s in there instead?

[zuckerbaby]

I “solved” this by using this plugin.

It automatically reversed the reply order for me – although the topic description also gets pushed to the bottom. Whatever you do, don’t use this plugin to reorder topics, or you will get an error and will not be able to recover your topic list.

http://www.nsp-code.com/wordpress-plugins/post-types-order/

[Hwyatbig]

I just installed the bbpress plugin on my wordpress site but I’m dealing with a problem I don’t understand…

When reading the codex, I see it should be very simple, and I think I’m doing what’s explained to create my forum.

for the example I just created a forum named “exemple” (and let the attributes as they were) and then when I have a look at the address which has been created I have nothing but the name “Exemple”, and the description I gave. But no way to create a post or anything.

(you can have access to the page in question in my profile)

Did I miss something ?

[enderandrew]

I ended up installing the CK Editor for WordPress plugin. It can be configured for comments as well, and it worked for bbPress out of the box. I can also theme it with CSS.

However, I’m sure someone else may need to theme the tinymce as well.

[craftcore]

Mindsink, thank you so much! That’s perfect!

[mindsink-web]

Hope this helps:

Add this to the bottom of your theme’s functions.php file. For example wp-content/themes/mycurrenttheme/functions.php

function add_my_new_theme_caps() {

$role = get_role( ‘editor’ ); // gets the editor role

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘manage_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘assign_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘moderate’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘throttle’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘view_trash’ );

}

add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_my_new_theme_caps’);

function add_my_new_theme_caps2() {

$role = get_role( ‘author’ ); // gets the editor role

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘manage_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘assign_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘moderate’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘throttle’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘view_trash’ );

}

add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_my_new_theme_caps2’);

[kshengelia]

Thanks for answers guys.

@enderandrew Yes that’s the problem for me – I am going to have some other large WordPress project which I’d like to be integrated with this new forum very closely. That’s why I think about bbPress.

@John Yes WordPress itself is very scalable to start with Mashable and with itself WP.COM and it’s really all about optimization, traffic handling, hardware, etc. But which one will need more working on all these options – professional forum such as IPB ro vBulletin or bbPress?

[Aadhaar Card]

I’m getting a 500 error. Just can’t understand what to do to resolve this.

[John James Jacoby]

Looks like she doesn’t have the proper capabilities.

* Is she marked as a spammer?

* Is this a multisite installation of WordPress?

* If so, is she a user of that site, or do you have those forums set to be global?

[John James Jacoby]

When you start storing that much data, it becomes less about volume and more about server setup and performance. MySQL databases can hold billions or records efficiently, WordPress can read and write to that database easily, too. What will matter is how you spread the pain of your traffic and volume around.

[Reflecting]

On my part is simply was a memory issue and resolved completely once I allocated more memory. Talk to your web host if you are unsure about this or do not have permission to modify the correct files yourself.

[enderandrew]

WordPress handles this natively. Configure WP to allow registration and then use the Meta widget.

There are other WP plugins to enhance registration, such as Buddypress, Theme My Logic, WP reCaptcha, Facebook integration, etc.

[enderandrew]

WordPress itself can handle load fairly well, and is fairly optimized. The question is how well does bbPress handle millions of posts.

Any DB can struggle with a table with millions of rows, depending on the hardware you throw at it. My main concern with bbPress in such an environment is that all WordPress posts themselves share the same table as bbPress 2.x, since it uses custom posts types.

You might be better off using a separate forum on a separate DB from a performance impact, but you lose the integration of WordPress user accounts that you get with bbPress.

The other point to consider is that since bbPress is relatively simplistic forum software (that’s not meant as a slam, it just isn’t as feature rich as IPB, phpbb, etc), there may be fewer SQL queries per page load with bbPress.

[kshengelia]

Hello people,

I am going to open general discussion LOCAL forum with many categories. I am looking at IPB right now but I am starting to think about WordPress & bbPress (with much customization if needed) powered forum.

All I am worried about is how optimized it will be. I think it will need fewer resources than IPB because of it’s simpler functionality, but I need an advice from bbPress “Pro” – local forum, which I should compete with has millions of posts and hundreds of thousands topics (posts for WordPress). So is bbPress right choise for this?

Thanks,

Kote

[Lynq]

You could add a new role for your site: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_role

[Lynq]

Inside wordpress, go to pages and then locate the page you are using as your homepage content. (It is probably called sample page?)

Rename the title in this page and change the url just below the title by clicking edit.

This should resolve that first issue.

I have noticed that you have resolved the other issue.

Good luck!