[PureRover]

I have tested several forums with WordPress. Both as separate program and as integrated program/plugin. Every forum we tested had major issues that would prevent being used on our site.

We have installed bbpress plugin and found it very flexible with the exception of being able to hide the sidebars.

Why can’t the whole forum be put into a short-code so it can be applied inside a full-width page?

This forum is full of questions and requests for ppPress to be imbedded via short-code right into a full-width page. Why is it so hard to accomplish this. Afterall, ppPress is written by the same people that created wordpress.

This is very frustrating.

-Mark

[Anointed]

I’ve been following the trac ticket http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17144 where we are now able to bring the editor to the front end of our sites. Seemed like a perfect addition to bbPress.

Has anyone come across a good tutorial on using the new api?

[antonchanz]

I think I read somewhere that the way to do this would be to extend a WordPress plugin that adds bbcode to wordpress posts, such as the bOingball BBCode plugin to also apply to bbpress posts and replies.

I also need this feature and would be willing to do the work coding it. At the moment though I’m not sure how to begin unless someone can quickly teach me the basics for making a wordpress shortcode active in bbpress forum posts… ^-^

[Andre]

You just need WordPress to do that. Create a new page for each topic and turn comments on. Just make sure only registered members can comment.

[Andre]

bbPress 2.0 uses the same theme as the WordPress site it’s part of. You won’t find separate bbPress 2.0 themes as you would with bbPress 1.0.

[ChrisEnd]

Hey!

Ive for ages trying to find a solution to my problem. I need a forum for my website and the Ive chosen BBpress. The thing is that I don’t want the bbpress theme to affect my wordpress theme. I´ve downloaded several themes, but have no idea where to install and how to activate. I also wonder if there are any place out there where I can download free or premium bbpress 2.0 themes?

I feel quiet stupid, since I look at my self as a person that usually figure things out

Thanks,

Christoffer

[David Decker]

Hi there!

Like some other users I noticed a missing search feature for the new and awesome bbPress 2.0+ plugin. So I just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

-> it’s limited to the custom post types of bbPress: forums, topics, replies

-> there’s a drop-down to select one of these (a must) – so it also helps fine tune the search for the visitor…

-> it’s fully localized so you might translate the few strings into your language – I will attach any translations which are submitted to me!

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@nathanbunn:

I noticed the same thing as you and just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@Erlend:

I know this already, but that doesn’t help here yet because the plugin developers have to implement the gettext strings first, so it actually becomes translateable.

That’s a pity with a lot of great plugins: all hard-coded text strings so nearly unuseable for international users. Since we’re two thirds of all WordPress users worldwide – and growing – localization/internationalization is a really hot and important topic. EVERY WordPress developer should consider this.

In NO way I want to disregard the awesome work of the devs of this support plugin just encourage them to make this final step

-Thanx, Dave

[John James Jacoby]

Use the WordPress one. It’s just posts and taxonomies.

[SeizedPropaganda]

Hey everyone.

We’re using the new 2.0 plugin and we’re running into a couple issues that are making it a bit difficult for us to use BBPress in the way we were intending to.

We have two separate forums right now, one for any user and a second customer only forum. Originally I set it up so that these customer-only forums were private, with read/write access restricted to a particular user-role that our customers get assigned to.

One of the things I’m struggling with the plugin is why these private forums/topics send non-customers to the 404 page instead of actually displaying that particular forum/thread with a message warning that person viewing that is it a private forum, or some other kind of message.

Seeing how integrated 2.0 is with WordPress, I’m rather surprised that there isn’t some kind of built-in association with user roles so that you can set certain forums to have restricted access based on these roles other than using a user role managing plugin.

Is there something fundamental about BBPress 2.0 that I am missing here? Is this a feature that is being planned? As it stands it is a bit difficult to do what we are trying to achieve right now.

Thank you in advance for any advice/feedback related to this matter.

[nuobodu]

Nope, im not using buddypress.

All the Forum settings are default, i didnt change anything after instalation.

Archive Slugs

Forums base forums

Topics base topics

Single Slugs

Forum Prefix checked

Forum slug forum

Topic slug topic

Topic tag slug topic-tag

Reply slug reply

User base users

View base view

I tried to access the forum via the original link http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/?p=3448. But that links changes the line in the address bar to the nice address http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/one-new-test-forum and it still gives 404 error.

regarding the other plugins, true i have 26 plugins active, which i all use.

Are there any known conflicts with other plugins? Just to know before i will make a clean install.

Thank you

[Anointed]

@eraleks

Let’s assume that you created a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’ via your functions file. This means that when you go to the sidebar manager, that you can see one called bbpress.

Next, take the sidebar.php file from your theme and make a copy. Name it bbpress-sidebar.php.

Here is an example of my bbpress-sidebar.php code.

<div id="sidebar" role="complementary">



<?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('bbpress') ) : ?>

<?php endif; ?>



</div>

Finally there are a number of bbpress templates that call the sidebar. Replace those calls with:

<?php get_sidebar( 'bbpress' ); ?>

Wrapping up:

1. You registered a new sidebar called ‘bbpress’

2. You created a new template file called bbpress-sidebar.php

3. You edited the bbpress-sidebar.php file to ask for the bbPress sidebar.

4. You replaced all the calls to the sidebar with the new call to the bbpress sidebar.

That’s about it. If it is still causing you problems then I suggest reading a few resources.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/register_sidebar

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/11/08/sidebars-in-wordpress

*Author avatars.

JJ already thought about this and added in a filter where you can choose to display just the username and not the avatar.

<?php bbp_topic_author_link( array( 'type' => 'name' ) ); ?>

You will see a lot of functions like the one above throughout the bbPress templates. Anywhere you find an avatar that you want to remove and just show the username, simply add the ‘type’ => ‘name’ and your good to go.

**There may be a global way of doing this, but I did not look as I didn’t need it myself.

[travis.hill]

Are you using BuddyPress? If so, are you using the forum component?

What are your settings in Dashboard > Settings > Forums for Archive Slugs & Single Slugs?

Are there any potential BuddyPress link errors (if BP is indeed installed)?

Have you (un)prefixed your forum with the forum slug/changed any settings in this area?

Have you tried accessing the forums/topics via the original fuglylink? (http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/?p=### [where ### is the ID of the forum/topic]).

Lastly, are there any other plugins activated?

[eraleks]

Hi!

I have created custom sidebars.

And I see in the .php files that there’s always the <?php get_sidebar(); ?> in the bottom. Somewhere I read that I should inside the () add the name of the forum, but where do I find this name/adress to the sidebars I have created?

Also: I have a wordpress plug-in “user image” that lets users have profile pictures. The problem is that bbpress inserts the profil picture everywhere it inserts the username which makes the forum look really messy. Any suggestions?

Best regards

Aleksander

[nuobodu]

I’m using numeric permalink structure.

Well, i installed my test environment into that subdirectory. But the links see to be created nicely and logically:

to the forum

http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/second-new-test-forum

to the topic

http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/topic/testing-topic-2

even if i add a trailing slash at the end of a link, it doesnt work anyway.

I am completely lost here. I have read every post in this forum about the similar problems, but never saw an insuring answer

[David Decker]

You can use a new plugin for that to re-store the behavior with different user profile pages for BuddyPress and bbPress:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/disable-bbpress-profile-override/

Hope this works for you, Dave

[travis.hill]

This is just a stab in the dark, but it looks like there is a URL problem.

The URL to your forums topics are missing a trailing slash /.

What permalink structure are you using? It may be because you’ve installed into a subdirectory also (8ball.lu/wordpress/).

Any further detail may help.

[nuobodu]

Lucky

And for me it didnt fix itself. I am not using Buddypress, but i still get the same error 404, when trying to open any forum or topic.

http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums

[bardo]

Also looking for the solution, I resorted to reading the code and found it. Quick version: bbPress inherits WordPress’ locale string. Suppose it’s ‘it_IT’. Then you will have to put your language file in wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-it_IT.mo

In-depth version: in bbpress.php you can find the load_textdomain() function (line 524 ATM). There you can see it gets the WordPress locale, then uses it to compose the language filename in the $mofile variable. $mofile in our example case is set to ‘bbpress-it_IT.mo’, and this filename is looked for in the ‘wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages’ directory first (which, as index.php says, should not be used), and then in the ‘wp-content/languages/bbpress/’ directory. Just put it there named like we found before and you’re done.

[0xDE1E7E]

Hello everyone!

I am new to bbPress but am pretty excited about it! I run a few gaming websites, each with its own userbase and forum. I now want to move to WordPress Multisite to create a network of my sites, merge all users into a single userbase and have a common forum for all sites. This all should not be a problem from what I have read, but I am still wondering about the multisite features of bbPress… What I’d like to do is having a forum on the main network site with one subforum for each site in the network. Now, to have a consistent user experience regarding the look of things, would it be possible to display said sub forum on a network site? If not, is it possible the other way round, i.e. displaying forums from network sites on the main network site?

[nuobodu]

Hello,

I hope i have successfully installed bbpress into wp using the child theme (BJ’s walkthrough (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility/page/3#post-92099).

I can see the title page of the forums at http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums,

but when i try to go to a particular forum or a topic, i get “Paged not found” error.

I suspect there might be a problem with the templates. Or might this be something else. I didnt change any bbpress settings.

I can see every forum or topic i create, but i cannot access their pages. Please help

[Vayu Robins]

Hi Moddey.

To download your language file from glotpress

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

You have to be logged in.

Click into your language section. At the bottom of the page you can export the language file.

[Vayu Robins]

Thanks John, but I am still not getting any translation on the bbPress forum plugin.

I have my WordPress translation files here: /wp-content/languages/ and my WP installation is translated perfectly.

I have placed my bbPress plugin language files here:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.mo

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.po

I have this in my wp-config.php:

define(‘WPLANG’, ‘da_DK’);

I have downloaded the language file from Glotpress.

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/da/default

Wonder what can be going wrong??

Thanks

Vayu

[John James Jacoby]

@highexistnence – What version of bbPress are you using? If using 2.0, put your WordPress translation files in:

/wp-content/languages/

your bbPress translation files in:

/wp-content/languages/bbpress/

and then:

define('WPLANG', 'es_ES');

in your wp-config.php, replacing es_ES with your language code.

If you’re language is English, then you don’t need to do anything.