[paulmarshall]

Hi

I’ve recently installed bbPress plugin to my WordPress blog and am having a few problems. Wondered if somebody could help me please.

The forum index is fine – added using shortcode to a page on the website:

http://bristolornithologicalclub.co.uk/?page_id=926

But viewing the forum and it seems to use a page template with a sidebar. I would like it full width.

http://bristolornithologicalclub.co.uk/?forum=2011-sightings

As my php skills are non existent I asked the theme developer for help and he came back with the following:

“Yesterday I installed the plugin and checked things. The plugin has many template files and it is difficult to figure out which template is ‘exactly’ used for the forum page. May be they are custom post types/taxonomies.

Further, we will need to implement the full width for topics, forum, author and other such pages. If you could ask the plugin authors about any specific hook, I can help you out further. You just need to ask them how to detect whether the current page is from bbPress plugin. (Any post type or page type hook).”

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Best wishes

Paul

[ryanmurray]

I can’t find any options to change the theme from the default. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Ryan

[ryanmurray]

I’m using the bbPress WordPress plugin version 2.0. Does that mean I treat bbPress plugins like any other WordPress plugin?

Thanks for you reply.

[Brullworfel]

Hi!

I want to start russian translation of bbPress 2, but there is no Russian language in list (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/), please help me.

[Brullworfel]

Hi!

I want to start russian translation of bbPress 2, but there is no Russian language in list (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/), please help me.

[Andre]

What version of bbPress are you using. If’s it’s 2.x it uses WordPress plugins so you don’t need to create a my-plugins folder.

[Kimb Jones]

Hey guys, been using:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-new-topic-notifications/

Which is great for me as the site owner but I’d like my sub-forums to have their own notifications to specific users.

Possible at all?

[phantom.omaga]

Google XML Sitemaps plugins works best with the new bbpress 2 as the new bbpress 2 uses custom post types the plugin recognizes the bbpress forum and add its constant to the xml sitemap and it is also the best wp sitemap plugin there is so just go for it and don’t waste your time with any other.

you can get it at

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

[ryanmurray]

Hi,

I’ve installed bbPress on my WordPress site and to get the functionality I want I need to add a couple of plugins to bbPress. I created the ‘my-plugins’ folder and put them in there but now what do I do? I’ve had a look through the documentation and it doesn’t mention where in the admin I can activate them?

Any help is much appreciated.

Ryan

[Anointed]

As bbPress follows all WordPress code standards, I am going to assume it is something to do with thesis.

Chris is a great coder so I am certain that he would have no problem coming up with a fix for thesis.

[Gautam Gupta]

You can view how I added settings for my plugin, within the bbPress options page here (without tabbing, just appends to the options page): https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/bbp-topic-views/trunk/bbp-topic-views.php?rev=449878#L215

[Anointed]

The theme on this website is custom and is not yet running the 2x plugin, so no, there is nothing ‘out of the box’ that will look like it does here.

It is however more than possible to build your own custom theme that looks and behaves like this site does. Not easy but possible. Gotta remember, bbPress uses templates in the same was as WordPress does.

[John James Jacoby]

The WordPress core tab UI is built into the header area of the settings page, and consequentially does not have an API to go along with it. The other issue with using tabs instead of new settings pages, the navigation doesn’t appear anywhere else and requires more clicks to get to secondary tabs.

I’m not a fan of nesting options inside so many tabs. bbPress core settings aren’t the place to put theme options. You can use the WordPress settings API if you want to add additional settings that fit side-by-side with bbPress core features. Anything else probably deserves it’s own unique UI and page.

[antonchanz]

Well I can confirm that the latest and compatible versions of both these plugins are now definitely available on wordpress.org

I’ve set up a test forum with pretty much just these two plugins active and you can see the results here:

http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/forums/topic/testing-shortcode-whitelist/

[Unsal Korkmaz]

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-posts-2-posts-bbpress-and-custom-post-type-relationships-didnt-work

When i try to publish that, website not showing half of site.

Can you check what is problem?

[sjd4]

The change for bbp-common-template.php worked for the logout, but for the login for the widget I had to comment out lines 938 and 939:

//$redirect_to = apply_filters( ‘bbp_user_login_redirect_to’, ” );

//bbp_redirect_to_field( $redirect_to );

I still have problems using the the WordPress meta for log out. Has anyone figured anymore of this out?

[Good in Today]

Well, not really. See there’s smart people here and I was merely using the Welcome Pack as an example. I want to know how to insert the users name into the URL path, that’s actually the question. And since there’s just a few folks here who use WordPress, BuddyPress, and yes bbPress, I really think I’m in the right place to ask smart people questions.

[antonchanz]

Oops!

Embarrassing user error with svn. Checked the project in without adding the files! Then assumed wordpress was being slow updating the plugin page like it was when I checked in the first version of bbpress2-bbcode.

I have checked it in successfully now. It still isn’t showing up, but I suspect it will now shortly…

[John James Jacoby]

Regarding setting bbPress up and changing the “Forums” title to “Discussion” simply make a page in WordPress titled Discussion with the slug as ‘discussion’ and make sure your forum index is set to ‘discussion’ in your forum settings. Done.

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress 2.0 uses the same database and tables as your WordPress blog. Do not scale to plan, plan to scale. I.E. don’t worry about how big you think your forums will be, worry about how big they need to be. 1gig is plenty huge for a DB, and will be difficult to manage without a dedicated sysadmin. At which point, it’s no longer your issue to labor over.

[John James Jacoby]

Negatively criticizing the development team isn’t the way to get help with things that are specific to your opinions and forum needs. bbPress has historically never been a “full width” forum, and since most WordPress themes aren’t, why would it?

I understand that you are striving for a particular look. If you’d rather spend your time writing content, there are an infinite number of developers in the WordPress community that could probably save you time and headaches. In almost any theme under your control, it shouldn’t take more than 5 minutes to make a full width forum.

[Darren_Mooney]

Yeah I tried that after my last post, both the default BP theme and a basic wordpress theme, both stock, and the problem was still there.

This is what has made me believe its not a BBP problem. Because of this I’ve marked this topic as resolved and posted a support topic on wordpress.org:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/author-username-not-displaying?replies=1

This one is really bothering me, I’m not sure what could be causing it.

Thank you for all of your help, Andre.

[thetbasket]

Hi Travis,

Thanks for the response. My theme was different, as you had suggested, and I am working on it. Although I’m now in a little bit more of a complicated predicament because I am trying to use bbpress through buddypress, and on the buddypress install the forums options is not pointing the indicated page to the bbpress forums.

Anyway, I did misread or misunderstand your first suggestion – sorry about that. As far as creating a full-width template, I am nearly positive I did so (I created a template specifically for that page to be full width), but nevertheless I will double check next time.

I don’t want to get too deeply into this, but the fact that we use the word “blog” and “forum” already indicates that they are different even though they are both CMS’s. The issue is not that one is a CMS and the other is not, it is a matter of how the content is managed and it’s purpose.

A blog is a blog because, generally, one user is contributing the content that a multiplicity of users is commenting on. So a standard blog Write-and-Respond system works nicely, and works nicely even in a narrow space because it usually contains one article with comments on the article.

A forum, on the other hand, is a multiplicity of users creating multiple threads all scaffolded by an overarching structure of the forum and subforums. The way forums have been built thus far has been usually in a wide content format so users can see 1) The Thread title 2) The amount of replies 3) The last user that replied etc. etc. In other words, it is build upon a more horizontal management format, whereas the blog can get away with a more vertical format.

Of course now and into the future there will be all sorts of variations on this. But for the end user, I want a forum that is a forum, not a forum that is a blog. In other words, wide-formatted with the expected information that forums have traditionally contained up to this point.

The strong point of bbpress is its integration and especially it’s style integration. Anyone who has attempted to create themes for phpBB knows what a nightmare it can be. However, if you try to smush a phpBB forum in-between two or even besides one sidebar, see what happens. Not only that, but those sidebars from the blog are almost inherently irrelevant to the function of the forum. In other words — useless screen real estate being taken from what otherwise would be a smoothly functioning, articulated forum.

And I can understand that WordPress vanilla functions fine, and being opensource one could reprogram it into Duke-Nukem 3D, almost. As a user of wordpress, the most frustrating thing consistently is that I feel like I am hacking CSS and PHP files more than I am creating content, and perhaps this is because I am a bit persnickety and want a particular look, but a full width forum from a forum plugin? To me things like this (and there are enough) are just plain flaws in development. I shouldn’t need to hack anything to get a forum to operate in full width because that is how forums best operate according to contemporary standards. Perhaps you should need to hack to get something to operate somehow unique and fascinating, but hacking code to get something to perform as you would expect it to – from your hours and hours and hours of forum experience? To me this is on the development teams shoulders.

Again, thank you so much for taking the time to reply. I may be back after I have a chance to try what you had suggested.

By the way, after installing buddypress all of the groups, member pages, activity pages, etc. were ALL operating on full width. The only part of the entire install that persists in operating between my sidebars is bbpress, and it is the only one I am dissatisfied with. So now I have to go through hours of who knows what to get something working the way it always has worked.

Again, bravo for bbpress, it’s a great project with a great future, and there is a lot to be said for it. But that doesn’t excuse it from what needs work, and for those of us who want to deliver content, we would much rather spend our time on managing the delivery of content than on managing the content management system.

I’d rather be spending this time developing the forum, not on developing the forum development software.

[Darren_Mooney]

I’ve actually just noticed that if I changed the author tag on blog posts on wordpress to:

<?php the_author() ?>

It doesn’t display there either. I guess its not a BBP problem after all, but leaves me even more confused.

[antonchanz]

I’ve noticed a lot of people looking for plugins that add bbcode to the forum in the new bbPress 2.0 version. I was also interested so I paid attention. I think someone mentioned that the way to do it would be to use wordpress shortcodes, but that before enabling these in forum topics and replies it might be best to create a whitelist of safe shortcodes that you want to allow.

Well I waited and no-one developed this, and so I looked into doing it myself. I have now done this and added my first ever wordpress plugins into the repository! These being:

bbpress2-shortcode-whitelist

and bbpress2-bbcode

Using these two together creates a safer way of including bbcode in your forum. I will expand the whitelist to include other cool but safe shortcode plugins as I become aware of them. I also plan to add an admin page that allows manual addition of shortcodes you wish to allow.