[lyradmil]

This is the current situation: I currently have running several wordpress/buddypress sites across individual independent servers and am still in the planning phase of hooking them all up using the wordpress multisite strategy. One parent site -> multiple children sites. The immediate issue lies in having a sole and central forum space for this network of sites, provided by the parent site. I need all members of the children sites to automatically be members of the parent site in order to participate in the sole and central forum. One way to automatically add members has been provided.

I also need to be able to create:

Individual forum themes – Depending on where you are accessing the forum from, the displayed forum should adopt the theme from the child or parent site, e.g. when a member accesses the forum through a link found on child_site_A, the displayed forum should be skinned with child_site_A’s theme, and if the forum is accessed on child_site_B, it should be skinned with child_site_B’s theme. One way I can see this being done is to use php include and adopt the specific style sheets accordingly from the child’s site.

I’m certain I am not the only person experiencing an issue like this, since it seems like a potentially common problem but I have not found any such solutions around. Any help/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[spiritfly]

Hello to all

I have multiple WP blogs on different domains. I would like to unite all of them in one WP MU installation. I know it’s possible and I think I can manage to pull that of.

After that, I would like to install bbPress on another X.com domain. Is it possible to connect all of the WP MU domains users with the users at bbPress? So if someone registers at bbPress can log in at any WP MU domain, and vice versa.

Actually I’m pretty sure that can be done, but I need to know how and if there would be any drawbacks to that solution? Will it remain stable and so on?

Thanks

[tgiokdi]

I was going through my mental checklist of possible problems, and I realized that I’m sharing the user table with two or three subdomains that are using separate installations of wordpress. I’m assuming that your code has no way to see if there’s comments or posts on those other wp-posts tables?

[Snat]

bbPress is no longer used on that website (would edit the link if I could) after I handed the site over to be ran by the community so what you are likely looking at now is the theme I designed for the new forum script they use.

Also I see you have the lates posts showin instead of just the forum.

How did you do that?

If that is the bit I am thinking you are looking at, that is simply just the build in WordPress feature that pulls from a RSS feed.

[Snat]

bbPress is no longer used on that website (would edit the link if I could) after I handed the site over to be ran by the community so what you are likely looking at now is the theme I designed for the new forum script they use.

Also I see you have the lates posts showin instead of just the forum.

How did you do that?

If that is the bit I am thinking you are looking at, that is simply just the build in WordPress feature that pulls from a RSS feed.

[maxfaction]

@tony lies… sorry for sounding so medieval lol, but i installed it on a non-twenty ten theme and it works just fine.

mind you, it took jackie chan style css kungfu to make it look right, but its doable

[laneuio]

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[marius2z]

Hi,

On my website I have in root folder of the domain (www.example.com/) all html static pages. Some time ago I installed on that website the WordPress package, for blogging. As it was allowed in standard setup, WordPress files are located in http://www.example.com/wp/ folder and blog is accessible via http://www.example.com/blog/.

Recently I decided to add forum to the site, using existing WordPress installation. After bbress plugin installation, when I configure the forum, it is by default appended to blog – current WordPress starting folder and addressed as http://www.example.com/blog/forum/, which is messy and confusing.

How to setup bbpress in this environment to have forum root separated and directed to http://www.example.com/forum/ in parallel to blog http://www.example.com/blog/?

Any help would be really appreciated.

[flatworld.jp]

I have install wordpress and bbpress seperately.

http://www.sscn.jp

http://bbs.sscn.jp

but the database name is the same.

I find twitter tool for wp.

>Frankly it should not be that difficult to modify a number of the twitter posting plugins to work with >bbPress as bbPress uses WordPress standards 100%.

But I do not konw programmin.

I am wondering why nobody make such plugin for bbpress.

I think many bbpress users are searching for it.

[Anointed]

Nothing specific to bbPress, however topics are nothing more than a custom post-type for WordPress.

That means if you can find a twitter plugin for WordPress where the plugin author set it up to work with custom post-types, then you are set. Frankly it should not be that difficult to modify a number of the twitter posting plugins to work with bbPress as bbPress uses WordPress standards 100%.

[John James Jacoby]

There are bound to be other forum themes and plugins for WordPress, and they are welcomed; variety is the spice of life and all that.

It’d be great if their time was instead spent on improving bbPress, but I understand that contributing to another project outside of their control isn’t what a lot of people want to do. bbPress is the best opportunity of all the .org projects; the audience is small so the ability to shine is huge. Big fish, small pond.

I’ll add that if it’s bbPress or anything else, you’re still placing your trust in someone to do something that you aren’t. I work closely with the WordPress core team on almost a daily basis to ensure that both BuddyPress and bbPress are as secure and functional as possible, push updates out quickly when needed, and manage the support forums and sites as well.

Anointed is correct that WordPress 3.3 addresses any performance issues with permalinks in WordPress. I’d go as far as to say that you DON’T want your forum area to use a date-based structure because the date would be based on the topic creation date and not the most recent replies. You risk your topics being intermingled with your blog, which will be confusing to most users.

[Jaja..]

Thanks for the help..

Nope totally not, just found that board system by accident..

I think bbPress is a great product and it works fine.

The few problems i face are based on WPMU install and testing it locally most of them are my own fault..

I’m trying to make a homepage (WP-website1) with only my blog onto it and a second page (WP-website2) called members with a few forums and some posts on helping very new WordPress users with just some easy steps, as i’m not a professional myself.

Nothing to difficult but the theme i’m using is this one and it’s a little bit old.

http://store.informationarchitects.net/product/ia³-template

It’s a great theme, and i only bought it because of it’s Responsive design. The double drop-down select menu’s when viewing on mobile device is just great.

After installing i started to delete almost every feature because i don’t need them, i Love to keep everything as simple and clean as possible. Less is more..

Because i’m not a Pro, and don’t know anything about PHP i just have to do everything by searching online, looking inside the WordPress Codex and copy-/pasting everything i see and what i think i can read-/understand.. (i do have HTML-/CSS knowledge)

So till now and still working on it i came up with this:

A custom made Widget that i have dropped on the homepage between the blog lay-out to let people know there is a support forum.

http://i56.tinypic.com/25gcb36.png

A tabbed forums view with different options.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2vjel3q.png

Latest topics view.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2rcydra.png

And i customized the Post Toolbar plugin from Master5o1

http://i52.tinypic.com/2zxxqbm.png

As you can see there is still lot to work on, the single pages , replies, edit pages and others.

Lucky it’s just a hobby and i have time.

** O there is one thing i would really love to see inside bbPRess and thats comments-/reply counts.

Just an option to view how many replies a user has given and maybe a user level attached to it.

Like less than 50 posts = New

50 to 100 = Average

250+ = Pro user.

That would be cool to have.

[Anointed]

@BJ

WordPress 3.3 completely solves that problem with performance. It’s a huge under the hood addition that most people will never even notice, but none the less very important.

You can now use %post_name% and have the exact same performance as any other structure. Not to mention his article is dealing with pages and not posts so it is in no way relevant to bbPress. (Yeah I was confused by that as well but JJ set me straight on that months ago)

Also keep in mind, topics and replies are exactly the same thing as posts. There is absolutely nothing to gain by using a system like the other software does.

*Is there something you are seeing in that plugin that you wish bbPress was doing? just curious….

[Jaja..]

True i also looked at it and it’s not great from what i can tell as a rookie.

bbPress code looks much better and also the handling of the template files is done better.

Only one little thing i like better of this Board system:

It still uses the real Posts and Permalinks structure of WP instead of Forums and Topics.

As WordPress and (Otto’s Blog) stated for larger sites it’s important to start your Blog Posts on a Permalinks structure by a number and not by Category of post_name. Just like this: example.com/2011/11/%post_name%

For WordPress performance reasons it would be better to start of by a number first because numbers are found first inside the Database. something like that i think it was.

[Jaja..]

Hello guys,

I found this forum running on a single WP install and it’s very cheap.

http://dolcepixel.com/discussion-board-wordpress-theme/

It probably isn’t the best coded product in the world but what it does (i think) is it transforms your single WordPress installation into a forum (board) software.

Categories become forums, posts become topics and comments become replies.

Nothing wrong with that i think and if you’re smart enough to work with Custom Post Types you can still create your own Blog Posts on the side but for most people a Blog isn’t needed on a Board system.

Whats your idea of this?

I’m just a Rookie.

Problem i face with bbPress is that it’s too much on JJJ shoulders and only on his shoulders.

This guy is working his *** off all day and bbPress doesn’t seem to get picked up by the average WordPress user.

bbPress doesn’t get enough FEED and traffic from the WordPress.org website and everyday it’s getting spammed from every corner of the world..

I really love the way and idea behind bbPress as a plugin but it needs more professionals to take it of JJJ shoulders and bring it to the next level..

[iftomkins]

Hi. I’m trying to create a bbPress shortcode so that I can display topics that have a certain meta_key value. I’ve been trying to piece it together from the global bbpress shortcodes and wordpress shortcode tutorials.

I’m using a Dev4Press premium plugin to create the custom fields for each bbpress topic. (http://www.dev4press.com/download/plugin-gd-taxonomies-tools) Now I just have to figure out how to filter based on the custom data.

Here’s what I have. It isn’t going so well, and I’d love a tip.

<?php function FilterTopics($topics_query = array()) {

'meta_key' => 'ride_destination',

'post_type' => 'topic',

'posts_per_page' => -1

);

}



if ( bbp_has_topics( $topics_query ) ) {

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/pagination', 'topics'    );

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop',       'topics'    );

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/pagination', 'topics'    );



// No topics

} else {

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/feedback',   'no-topics' );

}



add_shortcode('sitemap', 'GenerateSitemap');  ?>

[Trobee]

Hi everyone.

I am currently looking into migrating one of my bbpress forums to a qusetion2answers installation on a wordpress site and was wondering if anyone know if this was possible or not?

Thanks

[Anointed]

I mentioned in some of your other posts that the docs you are following are for the old 1x bbPress plugin. There is not a theme manager for the new bbPress.

Right now there is just the one theme available which I see is running correctly on your site. I’m sure more themes are in the pipeline.

[insaan]

Plz guide me the procedure of installing BB Press 2.1 on my main Domain.

As i know that its Plugin of WordPress…I installed WP on my site and activated the Plugin BBPress2.1 it works but i want to install BB Press 2.1 on my domain name.

e.g

http://www.mydomain.com/bbpress

---

it works—Dont want it here

but i wanna to install & run BB Press 2.1on My main Domain…ie.it should run on.

http://www.mydomain.com

[3hreedee]

Hi,

Can you install Facebook connect to a bbpress forum that is embedded within a wordpress site?

I have downloaded the following plugin – http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/simple-facebook-connect/

However when I uploaded it to the plugins directory within my wordpress site, it does not appear in the plugins admin menu. I cannot locate the bbpress plugins area within my WordPress site either?

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards

Dan

[3hreedee]

Hi,

I have installed BBPress into my wordpress site – http://www.3hreedee.com

However at the moment it looks pretty blank, is there anyway of installing a theme to bbpress even though it is within a wordpress site? I have tried uploading themes into the FTP themes folder however cannot find anywhere within bbadmin that would allow me to install these?

My test link is here:http://www.3hreedee.com/forums/

Thanks for your help.

Regards

Dan

[Andre]

bbPress 2.x will work with any WordPress theme, some better than others.

[tony webb]

I’ve watched the video. I see what the problem is now;

I started at the forum level because I thought category was specific to wordpress. I need to move everything up one level.

[Anointed]

OK, I had no problem registering for your site and creating a topic and a reply to my topic.

http://what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/forums/topic/looks-like-a-nice-forum-setup/#post-594

also created a topic and reply via the top wp admin bar:

http://what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/forums/topic/testing-topic-entered-in-top-admin-bar/

*Hope you don’t mind my creating the topic, but seemed best way to test it out.

As far as I can see everything is working perfectly.

*

One thing I would consider adding is a plugin by JJ

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-no-admin/

This will remove the ability to create topics and replies via the top wp admin bar for all users except the super admin.

I am guessing that you are using the wordpress backend to create topics and replies (the screen that looks like the create posts).

Really even though you can do it that way, you are more supposed to create topics and replies on the front end of the website. It is confusing to users to click on the top admin bar and go to the wordpress backend to create topics and replies. That little plugin removes that.

Finally:

I can say that your forums are working correctly. To make things easier to understand install that plugin I listed so that your users can’t see the top admin bar to create topics and replies. They will then see the forums as more what they would expect.

Hope the info helps and best of luck

****Please delete my account on your site, go in and delete user****

thanks

[tony webb]

Hi,

The forum is instalation

The topic is titled

Unable to display bbpress forum in wordpress

It says that it was posted 2 days ago. it was longer than that. I have resolved that problem.