[WhiteRau]

as you like. my blogs and forums are all working. no need to be offended! i just found that after reading this thread *most* people’s questions came from not reading the sticky all the way through. and you are correct: the sticky doesn’t mention merging files. i read that elsewhere (i’ll try and recall where). does it matter? regardless: what i outlined works.

as for duplicates, they override eachother. there’s duplication, overriding and modifying all over the place in WordPress and bbPress. this is nothing new. all that matters is precedence at the end of the day.

nitpicking is pointless and unhelpful. take it or leave it. don’t really care. all i’m interested in is helping people sort this out. my way works. end of story. if you can indeed write a new plugin, then by all means give ‘er! yours might be the halcyon we’ve all been hoping for! that’s the beauty of all this stuff!

WR!

[WhiteRau]

i got mine working almost without effort. i literally read the sticky at the top of this thread and it worked.

a couple of things to note, that people are stumbling over:

1) READ THE STICKY. don’t peruse it. READ IT.

2) the sticky actually says the same thing twice. COPY the CONTENTS of wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten to YOUR theme’s folder, whether it be a child theme or not. in my case the path was wp-contentthemesSuperTurboTheme.

3) it’ll ask it you want to overwrite ‘style.css’. don’t. just let the OS rename it to ‘style(2).css’.

4) ditto for the ‘functions.php’ file. it should, temporarily, be ‘functions(2).php.

5) MERGE the two functions.php files. i just copy/pasted everything from ‘functions(2).php’ to the bottom of the ‘functions.php’ file. just like in the sticky. i didn’t merge the ‘style.css’ and ‘style(2).css’ files. but i DID make sure the ‘Tags:’ line in my ‘style.css’ file included ‘bbPress’ as the first item, just to be sure. it was an old requirement that doesn’t seem to have been deprecated anywhere and i’m a belt-n-suspenders boy…

6) at the very top of your newly expanded ‘functions.php’ file, add the line ‘add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );’ to the very top. just like in the sticky. EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A SIMILAR LINE IN the bbPress’ functions.php file, YOUR functions.php file MUST HAVE THIS LINE as well. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MERGED.

7) reload.

don’t get clever. don’t reinvent. don’t assume anything. just follow the steps and you should be fine.

your only challenge now is figuring out how to do your CSS. the ‘style.css’ will control the WordPress portion of the site. it CAN handle the bbPress styling as well, but i prefer to leave it to bbPress.css (located in the ‘css’ folder you copied over) to handle the forum styles. its a bit of a headache sorting out the bevy of tags that get generates, but hey, it works. and i DO mean headache.

not to beat a dead horse, but the real challenge IS sorting out the secondary CSS. i recommend Firebug to help you drill down the the styles. the byzantine class structure can make your head spin. try using the elements that are relatively easy to spot. and REMEMBER THIS: NOT ALL CLASSES ARE IN THE STYLESHEET. this can really toss a wrench into things. they are added for future slice-n-dice, but seems overkill to me. low-order CSS has proved easier for me. i can’t foresee a reason to slice the site up so finely…but it’s futureproofed to the wheel-wells!

good luck. hope this was useful. i apologize if i missed anything. i tried to be thorough AND simple.

feel free to correct me if i stepped wrong somewhere. this is what worked to me.

WR!

[labas]

Hello, I am using latest BBpress as a plugin for WordPress 3.2.1.
I want to enable lithuanian language for BBpress, created necessary folder and uploaded language file, but i can’t find bb-config.php file. There is no such file at all… What should I do? Thank you.

[John James Jacoby]

@thecolab – A lot of the things you mention are more functions of a complete site than they are functions of only a forum. As such, bbPress can only predict so much of how any theme is setup, and sticks hard to the WordPress conventions of shortcodes, widgets, and theme hierarchy.

Since WordPress doesn’t have ‘section specific widgets’ neither does bbPress. Some people want full-width forums, others do not. bbPress comes with some examples on how you can make some of these things happen, but it doesn’t yet work for 100% of all themes and sites all the time.

Really what bbPress needs is for someone (other than me) to start developing themes and widgets for it. Until that happens, some things will remain balkanized my design to appeal to the greater 80% of WordPress users.

In addition, having someone contributing code patches and new features is also helpful. For a while Gautam was able to consistently help, and Jared helped with Genesis integration. If someone wants to dream up new features and code them under my tutelage, I’m happy to help someone else get things done.

[mesayre]

Hey folks. Got back up and running again. It is a load order issue. WP was attempting to load my theme files before it loaded the bbp core files. Since the class BBP_Theme_Compat is referenced in core, this makes wordpress asplode.

I disabled the theme via FTP to get access to WP admin, then disabled bbpress. Then re-enabled bbpress and lastly re-enabled the theme. Seems to have solved it for now. If I had better WP/php chops I’d know how to write some code that ensures BBP core always loads before any themes. But I don’t. Maybe that can go on the list for next release?

Have a good one.

[redcocker]

I am using bbpress2.0 (bbress 2.0.1 plugin) on WordPress 3.2.1 and want to allow “pre” tag and “class” attribute for non-admin users.

I modified /includes/kses.php in the WordPress.

I placed fllowing code in the definition of $allowedtags.

'pre' => array(

'class' => array ()),

Nevertheless, “class” attribute was removed.

So, <pre class="value">my code</pre> was replaced with <pre>my code</pre>.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

[Jim S.]

The admin panel for bbPress 2.0 is built right into the WordPress dashboard now.

[nolactose]

Hello,

I just installed wordpress and bbpress in their last versions. I must have missed something because i see no link to a “bbpress administration panel”.

I’ve read http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-install-but-where-is-the-administration-area but there is no “Admin” link.

The forum is here: http://www.nolactose.fr/forums/

Any help is very welcome.

Regards

[gourou]

The error when I tried to update to 2.0.1 was “Cannot remove old plugin” or similar.

The result was the same as above

Fatal error: Class 'BBP_Theme_Compat' not found in /var/www/karting/www/wp-content/themes/karting2011/functions.php on line 46

I deleted the bbpress folder from wp-content/plugins and then uploaded version 2.0.1 from here:

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

To the same place as the old folder. The template for bbpress in my theme were untouched.

This got the site working again.

[woodwardmatt]

Hey All,

I have installed the bbPress plugin on a few wordpress instances and tend to favour a vanilla install coupled with CSS overrides to provide the look & feel I need.

On a recent install I have spotted an issue with user profiles. When I try and navigate to the user’s profile (typically yoursite.com/users/<username>) I am receiving a 404 page from WordPress.

I can browse to another users profile and it resolves fine. The only difference I can see is that the profile which is not working has a username which has spaces e.g. FirstName LastName as opposed to FirstNameLastName.

Has anyone else had this issue and know if its a genuine bug or a “feature”?

Cheers, Matt

[varsitysmack]

I should add that all was working just fine until I updated BBPress to 2.0.1. The only reason I updated it was because a wordpress update said there was a new version to download and I downloaded it. Got the error when the auto install tried to reactive the plugin.

[iftomkins]

Yes! I very much want to use bbpress template tags within wordpress theme files. I tried it and get an error. I know the bbpress 2.0 codex will come out soon, and maybe that will help. But in the meantime? Thanks!

[Andre]

It sounds like you have tried to install bbpress 2.0 using bbpress 1.0 instructions. bbPress 2.0 is a WordPress plugin and should be installed and activated accordingly. If you are going to FTP upload it, place it in /wp-content/plugins.

[tony webb]

I am trying to integrate my forum into my wordpress forum but the integrated forum is off set.

It shows to the right of the page and the right hand side of the topic headings is cut off. The theme that I am using in wordpress is twent eleven 1.2.

I can’t access my bbpress admin page as I keep getting unregistered user messages. I have submitted another post about this.

the url to see how my blog appears is here

http://what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/bbpress/

[tony webb]

I recently tried to integrate my bbpress forum (what do Chrisrtians believe) with my wordpress blog (food for thought. Somehow the end result what do christians believe being integrated with chrisrtiansbelieve.

Christiansbeleive is a wordpress that i tried to create a long time ago and had forgotten about it.

The consequence of this is that I don’t have access to my bbpress forum (what do christians beleive?). I keep getting unregistered user messages. I can’t even reset the password.

Is it possible to delete this integration link and to give me access to my forum?

[L Croonquist]

Let’s say I have a fresh WP 3.2.1 and NO plugins installed.

In fact, everything is default from a fresh installation.

I am lead to understand that bbPress is an enhanced version of the built in forums in BuddyPress. In order to have a web2.0 type forum with sharing and favoriting and comment-post-topic interaction you need to add bbPress.

First I install BuddyPress 1.5.1.

Then I install BuddyPress Template Pack 1.2 to assist in moving over the BuddyPress pages to my site.

Then I go to WP settings and allow users to register. There are some new additions to the drop down menu here so I select the default user role and set it to “member” this should be sufficient to allow users to post new topics.

Next I run though the BuddyPress Template Pack wizard (with all defaults) and end up with a working BuddyPress site that is integrated into my theme.

Works good.

There are no groups or forums yet, and one member ‘admin’.

I now have a basic forum where a user can register and create a topic, reply to topics etc.

My aim here is to have ONE forum (one) that has user-created posts that are also integrated into the forum for discussion as topics, the user created topics are actually posts with full text and featured image and all that jazz.

So on the front end I now have a menu with the default BuddyPress pages (they have been created by BuddyPress) activity — members — groups — forums — register

Now what I want to do is add the ability for a registered and logged in user to create a post that becomes a topic in the forum. Sounds simple right?

So to add this functionality, I download and install bbPress 2.0.

All it seems to have done is add three new areas to my WP Admin left margin:

forums — topics — replies

Moving on I want to install bbPress Topics for Posts 0.6

According to this plugin creator, this plugin is supposed to Add an option to the Discussion meta box to use a bbPress topic instead of WordPress comments, and displays that topic beneath the post on your site.

So as of right now I have 4 (four) plugins installed, and I need another plugin for users to be able to add posts, then they can see the bbpress post to topic option and integrate it into the forum themselves.

Once I find this plugin, I will continue this thread.

RTBOP

[ohmydarling]

This sounds exactly like my problem. Is there a way to resolve without re-installing wordpress. That sounds like it has the potential to wind up being a ton of work to my existing WP site. Help appreciated!

[surrealalien]

Doesn’t matter now. Its actually WordPress itself that handles this, not bbpress.

[WhiteRau]

i’m adding bbPress to our WP blog, followed the instructions in the Theme Compatibility sticky and appended all the functions from bbPress/functions.php into myTheme/functions.php. as soon as i reloaded the page, i got a critical fault error. can’t find the required class. since i copied all the files across as instructed, shouldn’t the file be locatable? i’m not sure where to even begin with this. i thought integration would be relatively simple, i’m sure its something simple i’m overlooking.

please help me out so i can get cranking. i’ve already blown away the theme i built because i didn’t know bbPress’ cute little update ‘feature’, so i’m anxious to get back on track.

should mention, using latest of WordPress and bbPress.

thank you very much

WR!

[Linesh Jose]

@anointed Thanks dude

[Secrets of Safety]

I personally find it ridiculous that someone would suggest that the developer shouldn’t have to do the documentation. Or at least that is what it sounded like when I read these comments.

If the dev doesn’t completely supply documentation, how is anyone else going to know what the heck to do with this plugin?

If this is such a great plugin, then make it easier to integrate into the themes.

It is difficult enough getting our websites up and functioning without having to pull our hair out trying to figure out how to use a plugin that is supposed to be so great.

I have noticed that there are a lot of dev’s who don’t contribute much documentation for wordpress. How unfortunate they assume everyone can read their minds.

This topic has been up for months and still having no clear directions. Hope everyone else figures it out. I’m not going to bother with this.. If the dev doesn’t care, I sure don’t.

[master5o1]

All plugins to bbPress 2.0 are in fact plugins to WordPress. So look for the plugins here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Quick look found this as a signature plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-signature/

[tony webb]

I am trying to integrate my forum into wordpress so that the forum shows on a page in my blog, there are 3 problems;

1. your set up documentation says that I need to cut and paste information from the following fields into your integration page; secure_auth and wordpress mu primary log ID. I can’t find them in document used in your hyperlink.

2. I have used a wordpress plug in to import my bbpress forum but there doesn’t seem to be a way to set up the widgets as they don’t show on a newly created page. They clash with wordpress set up as their widgets show on every page. They are not needed for the forum but the forums are and I can’t show them.

Also it seems that the only place to show my topics are in the wordpress blog margin as there is no facility to drag and drop the widget into the page content .

3. I have designed a forum in bbpress but the forums show tight to the right hand margin with the right hand end of the topic details cut off. There seems to be a hot tags widget preventing the topics from appearing in the centre of the page. How can I change the settings?

[ianstalbert]

I’ve been using bbPress as a WordPress Plug-in for a few weeks now and I’ve got it looking pretty spiffy for my site. My problem is, there are some bbPress plug-ins (for signatures and post counting) that I’d like to implement into the forums, but as far as I see, this is impossible. Enabling the plug-ins in wordpress’ plug-in folder does nothing. I’ve tried doing MySQL query’s and that doesn’t work. I’m lost, is there anybody with some insight on this situation? I’m starting to think I should of went with the stand-alone or another forum system, but I liked the integration of the plug-in with existing users and all. Thanks in advance

[OPI Axxium]

I used a hack to the wordpress code. It was some basic php. If you want the code, just let me know.