[SK]

If you use bbPress plugin for WordPress and your theme is based on TwentyTen or TwentyEleven then chances are that it will run out of the box…

With bbPress 2.1 version plugin, the chances of running out of the box will increase multifold.

[SK]

If you are used to WordPress, just install bbPress plugin into your WordPress just like you would install any other plugin…

[SK]

Too complicated.

Here’s the Cliff’s Notes version:

1. Login to your WordPress installation.

2. Hover on Plugins. Click Add New.

3. Search bbPress.

4. On results page, click Install Now link under bbPress

5. Click Activate

Done!

[SK]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?group=status&milestone=2.1

[silverkm]

Hey,

I tried this a few weeks ago, couldn’t get it to work and ended up using mingle.

Now for round 2, since my wordpress knowledge has increased I have decided to give buddypress / bbpress another shot.

My problem: I am using a purchased theme. WHen I install bbpress /forums/forum gives a 404 error. I create this page and insert the short code for index, it shows up. But if you click on a category, it goes to a blank page just showing the category (nothing below)

This is all in a child theme of my page

I have resaved my permalinks (currently set to %postname%).

I installed 2.1 same behaviour

I’m not sure if I had to create it, but I created a blank page “forums” then a child page “forum” where I’ve put [bbp-topic-index]

When I navigate to this page I can see the forum. I have a forum “general” with a post in it called “welcome” if I click on general I would think that it would likst the posts, but instead I just get a page titled general with no content.

Edit: Resolved – not sure why, but when I create a new forum or topic, if I don’t put some content in it, it won’t display the page. Maybe a theme thing

[AnnaInxa]

Hi,

I installed bbPress via BlueHost for my website and realized some things are missing. The version I installed was 1.1 and there is no way to add plugins or edit the CSS. I am used to WordPress and have the WordPress platform for my website. I can’t even install the newest version 2.0.2. with the bbPress version I have installed.

At BlueHost,the newest version 2.0.2 is not an option for update.

Any suggestions?

Thank you,

Anna

[magonano]

Hi! I’m new in this bbpress world and i’m trying to start my first bbforum. I have not understand how bbpress works with themes. I have buyed a theme for wordpress

http://www.elegantthemes.com/gallery/theprofessional/

So, i want to use bbpress as a part of my web blog (as in this same site) using The Professional Theme. How can i do (exactly)?

I supose i need to recreate a theme but i can’t understand how use it. The theme is the same of the blog? Need i to recreate a “the professional” theme adding some coding and choose it from general theme choice in wp? Is there a setting in bbpress to chose his theme (i ‘ve not find it) and wp has another setting theme?

Please clarify me how to move in this new word of bbpress. Many thanks.

Francesco

[varsitysmack]

What’s not working? You’ll need to describe the problem so the pros here on the forum can help you.

[sarah]

12+ hrs i cannot get this to work help plz

[LIB53]

Users do not have the capability unfiltered_html

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#unfiltered_html

User a role editing plugin to enable that capabilty

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#Resources

This is unsafe, because users can write malicious code. I wrote a post asking about more details on modifying the capability at its core here:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modify-unfiltered_html-to-allow-more-tags?replies=1

Hopefully I can get some attention so there’s a safe halfway point where we can allow more html tags without rendering our sites insecure…

[pparson]

Dear bbPress-Team and community,

I’ve been trying to install the bbPress Plugin to my WP. I tried to do so on my local machine first, and all went fine. When I tried on my web server, everything went fine until I activated the bbPress-plugin in the wp-admin plugin section. WordPress responded with a blank (white) page, and afterwards, I could not even access /wp-admin/ (also responding with a blank screen). When removing the bbPress directory from the plugins directory, everything is fine again. /forums/ responds with the usual 404 in either case.

Unfortunately, I do not have access to my server’s error logs. Do you have any ideas what could be the problem here? The major difference between my local machine and the web server is that the latter cannot connect to the outside world via http – maybe this is mandatory?

Btw: I have double-checked the requirements, my webserver configuration seems to be okay for bbPress:

Wordpress 3.3.1

PHP 5.3.2

MySQL 5.0

I’d be happy about any hints which might help to trace down the problem.

Thanks, best regards,

Peter

[Ben Hayes]

Invalid header issues indicate you’ve installed the plugin incorrectly, or have an incomplete download.

Hmm, OK. I downloaded the zip file from the bottom of https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin and used that for the plugin, which gave me the error. Maybe Trac is not working how it should, or maybe I’ve not understood something. I’m more of a designer than a coder I will see if I can get my head around using Subversion to get the code instead.

It’s possible to use the core templates, but it won’t really work the way you want it to. Why? Because when you view a single forum, you also want to view that forum’s topics. When you view a single topic, you also want to view that topic’s replies. A single flat loop isn’t enough to handle this behavior, no matter what you do.

Right, OK. That makes sense. I hadn’t thought of that.

I still think the whole setup is potentially quite confusing though – mainly having 2 theme locations I think is what throws me. Actually I noticed that in plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/ it says in index.php “Do not put custom themes here or they will be overwritten”. So I know we’re not supposed to edit the theme in there. But it is still quite confusing that I can activate that theme from within the WP dashboard. This is quite unintuitive, in my view. Because we are encouraged to activate a theme that we are told we should not edit.

[varsitysmack]

I’m working on a site that has an issue with the bbPress forums in internet explorer. What is happening is the text area for both replies and topics is not showing up when using internet explorer.

The link to the forums is here: http://www. silverdoctors. com/sd-reader-forum/ (minus the spaces I purposefully put in, obviously).

I think this is a javascript issue, but I’m not certain. I also don’t understand why it’s only occurring in IE and not in Firefox.

I’m using WordPress 3.1.1 and bbPress Version 2.0.2.

I have no other plugins other than bbPress activated.

I did revert the theme back to 2012 and the issue was no longer present. If this is an issue with my theme, I understand this might not be the forum to ask the question if someone could delve into it to try to find the problem, but I’m stumped with the issue and am hoping some of the great bbPress minds can help me resolve the issue.

Thanks for any advice anyone can give.

[John James Jacoby]

Time to dig in the code and look around. The /bbp-includes/bbp-template* files are a good place to start.

bbPress’s template logic works almost identically to the way WordPress’s works, it just needs to do all the same things that WordPress does for specialized content. Just like WordPress has queries and conditions for posts, pages, categories, and tags, bbPress has them for forums, topics, replies, users, topic views, and front end posting and editing.

In many ways, bbPress feels more complex because it is more complex. But, I can assure you, it’s built to the same standard and uses the same conventions as WordPress does.

[John James Jacoby]

Fixed in: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3841

Thanks for reporting!

[jaredvd]

I’ve installed bbPress on my wordpress-buddypress site.

The forum base is: Forums

when I install just bbPress, and use this as a base, I can navigate to http://www.url.com/forums and it displays the forums properly

I also would like to add it to my navigation. I add a page titled “Forums” at http://www.url.com/forums and add it to my navigation menu list.

then when I navigate to this page, it displays it as a default buddypress page, without the forums, it highlights it in my menu when it is the current page.

I then add the shortcode: [bbp-forum-index] to the page.

It still shows up in my navigation, and goes to the correct page when clicked, which now shows the bbPress forums. However it now does not highlight the “Forums” tab when it is on the “Forums” page.

Is there an easier way to associate bbPress’s “Forums” with WordPress’s “Forums” so that it will display properly in the navigation menu?

Thanks.

Also when on my “Forums” page, the breadcrumb reads “homepage title>forums” I would like it to ready “Blog title>forums”. Any ideas how to do this?

Edit: Turns out the “Forums” page only works properly in the navigation as soon as bbPress is deactivated. With bbPress activated, the “Forums” item in the navigation is not highlighted when the page is being viewed. Shortcode in or not.

Edit: I’ve fixed the problem by making a custom template which adds the shortcode via <?php echo do_shortcode(“[bbp-forum-index]“); ?>

Any ideas on the base slug modification?

[Ben Hayes]

Just realised I probably need to try the 2.1 beta version.

I went to the URL suggested above https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin and downloaded the zip file. However, WP gives me an error saying “invalid plugin header”. Anyone know how to fix this?

[Jord5i]

So I just started working with bbpress, and wordpress for that matter. Now I find the profile page not great, it shows stuff like subscribed topics / favorites topics / created topics. I don’t really want any of that.

I have been digging through the files, but I am unable to find out what file actually outputs this, I have a understanding level of php, so I should be able to edit it, if I could just find it.

Thanks

[webismuk]

Hi All,

I have set up bbpress through wordpress and it is working.

I cannot see anyway to manage bbpress but that is on another thread, and the answer to that may solve this.

The bbpress only comes with a Title, Comments and Tags

I want to be able to add at least one other field for a Post

URL for example

Is this possible?

Thanks

D

[tomerus]

Hi guys,

Have a question. Im a NOOB so please dont shoot me.

Ive set up a forum and its working so far. But when a new user registers it also gives the access to the wordpress front-end (dashboard) Even so when I set it up that new users have the role of “forum participant” the still can get to the wordpress dashboard. Not having al the functions ofcourse but still.

Is there a way to NOT show them the wordpress front-end?

Thank you so much

[AAShepAA]

Where does it get put. I would like to offer that RSS feed to my users also.

[mike-acs-it]

Glad that you got it resolved. My problem was different as it happened just after install. Unfortunately, I got 0 help at all and could not find the answer myself, so I just decided to use Vanilla, which went much more smoothly and works very will with the embed WordPress plugin. Oh well…

[rexgoode]

I am running bbPress 2.0.2 as a plugin on a WordPress 3.3.1 site. I have one forum. It all works great.

I have a plug for WordPress that I created that adds certain meta boxes to blog posts. My plugin uses add_meta_box hook to accomplish this. The theme handles formatting the information at the end of the blog post.

I would like to do the same for bbPress forums on the same site. The plugin doesn’t accomplish it. I would like to be able to add meta boxes on the New Topic form for the bbPress forum, preferably after the Topic Description box but would settle for at the end of the form.

Ideally, I would like to just modify my plugin so that it works for blog and forums on the same site.

Do you think it can be done?

In case there are other alternatives than this approach, my goal is that for certain forums, I want users to supply certain information for each new topic. I would prefer to add form controls to the new topic form that would be required to complete the new topic.

For example, I will have a forum where members can post information about upcoming events. I want them to be required to include in the new topic a date, time, location, etc. I would like to not leave it to them to remember to put these essential bits of information in. I want to make it so that if they forget, their topic will be rejected until they supply that information.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[MommyAndretti2]

Another detail – to get started creating your forum.php file, make a copy of for example your page.php or single.php file and rename it. Then style it however you want.

Just don’t touch ‘the loop’ itself and especially the <?php the_content(); ?> query. Essentially your forums are just wordpress pages of a special post type and they will need to be called with those elements in the template just like any other post / page.

[MommyAndretti2]

When you say ‘create a forums page in wordpress’ do you mean you go to Posts or Pages within wordpress to create a page titled “forum”?

You will have much more control over the look if you create a custom template page that sits in your theme folder, called, “forum.php”.

This post helped me 2 weeks ago when I was tearing at my hair over this problem:

Understanding templating.

In that template, you can add bbpress’ sidebar bits by grabbing the php from the bbpress templates and inserting them into your own.

Hope that helps – let me know how it goes…