[andrei.oniga]

Hi folks,

Yesterday I’ve installed bbPress on a WordPress-driven website (I’ve only just started using WP as well, just about a week ago, so bear with me please) and immediately afterward I noticed some strange strings here and there, both on the front-end and the back-end too. Apparently, the dates+time and some author information doesn’t get rendered correctly.

e.g. %A %B %e%q, %Y at %I:%M %p (you can see it here)

What can I do about this?

[lsatwin]

Thanks bunches!

It worked! The theme 2011 does actually support what you’re talking about.

You DO need to choose a custom menu – at first I tried it without selecting a custom menu. That does not work.

But if you select a custom menu, then paste in the URL under custom links on the left hand side of the Menus page, and give your page a name – then it becomes a direct link from the main page.

Thanks Lindsay!

[lindsaymcghee]

Your theme first of all has to have custom menus as an option such that you can create pages and they won’t all publish to your top menu. There is a custom link section in the menu sections of those themes that have custom menus activated. The theme you are currently using is 2011 I believe and it doesn’t have custom menus installed.

If you are lost google it… there are a lot of tutorials out there.

[lsatwin]

Thanks Lindsay

How do you create a custom link to a permalink location?

[keeptrestles]

Apologies for the post, but we really need a talented WordPress developer needed to do two primary tasks to an existing WordPress site using a template:

1) bbpress Forum Implementation

-Customize bbPress forum to improve look and feel

-Enable registration/login/lost password functionality

-If possible, extend password protection from login to two private pages on the site.

2) Implement PayPal Payments Standard

-Customize Paypal page to fit within the look and feel of the parent site (to the extent that is possible)

If you are interested, please send an email to keeptrestles@gmail.com

Thanks!

[mccawphoto2]

I forgot to mention I am using WordPress 3.3.1 and the plugin bbpress 2.0.

[thedonald]

Actually I think it is more than volunteers. I’m not a newbie/rookie and I have had my share of problems just trying to install bbpress properly. There is a misconception that, as a plugin, you just install and the script is meant to integrate into stock wordpress. That’s what it should do.

Now while volunteering would be good, I think that someone has to kickstart this a little more than it already has been. If just the basic install and setup is a chore, then this project is a long way from being honey with which to attract flies. I’d like to be involved but not sure what that even means other than just answering the same questions about things that need to be taken care of at the top level down like the above need.

Again, I truly respect the effort here. It’s just a question of how much is needed to get over that “hump.” Since I’m not in charge, I figured I’d mention what it feels like on this side.

[SK]

That worked! Thanks!

[lindsaymcghee]

I figured it out…

Don’t create a page. The files are set up through the WordPress hierarchy system using permalinks. Without changing the settings in the BBPress system, your forum will be placed at forums/forum/title where title is the title of the first forum you create.

If you need to get it in your menu system use menus and create a custom link to the correct permalink location.

Hope this helps,

Lindsay

[lsatwin]

Nope.. pure silence

[lindsaymcghee]

Was this ever solved? I am having the same problem.

hmmm…

I have tried making the permalink forum and forums. I think it registers with forums but no topics are showing up.

Thanks

[KaitlinB]

Hi, I’m having this issue too.

I originally installed this plugin in September 2011 and it was all working fine.

Today I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, and also BBPress, and now only admins can view the topics, everyone else gets the ‘Oh bother!’ alert.

I had an old backup of the old BBPress plugin so I replaced the new with the old, but no change.

The site I’m using is a staging site, ie it’s not ‘in use’, and I’ve not touched it or tested it since September, so I can’t be certain that the error is due to the WordPress upgrade…though as I mentioned nothing has happened on the site since then so it’s surely not a coincidence.

[Anointed]

Yeah I would try the 2.1 beta and also you HAVE to be running WordPress 3.3 as that is where the new editor function was introduced.

[Chantal Coolsma]

I have added .avatar-14 to style css now with display:none; This removes the small avatars but leaves the big ones.

If you turn them off in WordPress, everything is gone.

[veppa]

bbpress is worpdress plugin. you should copy bbpress folder to wp-contentplugins folder.

if you have problem installing wordpress plugin then read detailed instructions here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins

[lalong]

Fresh website.

Installed WordPress 3.3 into website’s root dir

Downloaded bbpress (2.0.2)

ftp’ed files into ftp . mysite . combbpress (wordpress root dir)

renamed ftp . mysite . combbpress to ftp:mysite.comforum

went to http:\www.mysite.comforum

and nothing but a blank page shows…

Any ideaa?

[SK]

I respectfully disagree on the point that it would be harder to build a bbPress community at WP.

If anything, a more vibrant discussion at https://wordpress.org/tags/bbpress will encourage more WordPress users to use bbPress.

I don’t need to see thousands of unrelated posts to what I am actually interested in.

That’s baffling. I would have imagined that every bbPress user is interested in WordPress, considering bbPress is a plugin for WordPress.

[Anointed]

Sure, in settings -> forums check the last option.

http://screensnapr.com/v/FinWe0.png

Does require WordPress 3.3 and latest bbPress for this option to show up.

[Anointed]

Given the choice, I do my best to stay away from the wordpress.org forums.

When I am at a forum, I am there to learn from or help with a particular script or plugin. I don’t need to see thousands of unrelated posts to what I am actually interested in. That’s why for me at least, I prefer separate forums for each product.

As hard as it is to build a community here around bbPress, imagine having to do it when mixed in with tens of thousands of other products. arghhh

[Anointed]

Every plugin hosted on WordPress.org automatically has a built in forum. You will find a lot of people that answer questions over there pretty much handle everything WordPress related. This forum here is more for us who are more dedicated to supporting bbPress directly. This is more of a community of users of a specific product, bbPress.

[dosch]

thnx for the response.

And indeed you are right; i found a theme that was close enough and worked from there.

It is gonna be a nice website that show affiliation with bbPress and WordPress but is also clearly different to prevent any confusion.

[Anointed]

If you are using WordPress 3.3 and the latest bbPress (I use the nightly download), then you can turn on the tinymce editor instead of the standard textfield input for creating topics and replies.

You would then need to grant permission to the different roles that you want to allow to insert images, either via links or the upload system.

There are user role plugins that can help with this which are actually built for WordPress, but work for bbPress just fine.

Keep in mind that it’s not usually good practice to allow regular users to upload whatever they want into your media system.

[Anointed]

The themes used on these sites are not available. However there are literally hundreds of themes available that simply use a top logo area with the tabbed menu’s. Dig around a bit and I’m sure you will find one.

[Anointed]

Keep in mind, bbPress is at its core simply a WordPress plugin. bbPress does not take away from anything WordPress is capable of doing.

To try and answer your questions.

1. Yes. You pretty much have full control over the registration system just like you do with a standard WordPress install.

Want it open to everyone with no info collected? Sure it can be done.

Want it open but require some info collected? Sure it can be done.

want it open but require double opt in? That’s pretty much standard behavior.

2. If using a subfolder install of multisite then this is pretty much standard behavior. If using subdomain install, then yes there are workarounds. If using subdomain install with domain mapping… well that is a can of worms but possible.

3. Yes but requires some custom code. Not to difficult.

4. Nope, but keep in mind that topics and replies are simply custom post-types. Hence you can add in custom metadata or custom fields to each topic. Then add in the front end metabox inputs and your 90% there.

5. I personally have a bbPress forum with 300k posts, 45k members on dedicated server and have no issues. This would NOT work on a shared server. bbPress is a ‘heavy’ plugin using a lot of resources, but compared to just about any other forum system, including commercial products, it holds its own.

6. plugin territory – I believe Paul Gibbs has a rewards system for buddypress which could probably be reused for bbPress, though I have not tried it.

Remember that bbPress is just a plugin which follows all the WordPress coding standards. It is simple code to understand, clearly labeled and well thought out. Not to mention JJ is a coding ninja.

[thedonald]

Looks like a good start but my hestitation to use bbpress is that these forums look like a ghost town. I see a post or two every day, very few responses, a theme system that is undocumented and people having a whale of a time trying to look decent just in the WordPress stock theme! As a result, I went from thinking “that seems like a good potential solution” to “anything more than the barest of forums is probably asking for trouble.”

This is a free forum – hard to complain about anything that actually works that doesn’t cost anything. However, if someone wants this project to go somewhere, I think it needs a little bit more fuel. I’m hoping that it will and figured I would give you my feedback.