Hi, We’re new to this, so be gentle.
We’re looking at starting an on-line mag, with plenty of pages/articles and have gone a fair way down the road to populating our site, which is run on WordPress. We’d like to have an inbuilt forum as part of the features on the site, and want to encourage people to post on the forum, as opposed to the end of our articles (or blog posts). My question is, is there a limit to the amount of total members/members on line at any given time/forum topics that bbpress can handle?
Perhaps this won’t be an issue if we fall flat on our face. But, you know, we hope to be wildly successful and popular….
Also, does anyone reading this have blog with an inbuilt forum that you could post a link to, just so I can see how it comes together?
Thanks.
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The best fix would be to use a standalone BBPRess syncing with the WordPress database, and then, somehow making it have the same theme?
alrighty, with your help, anointed, I’m getting the hang of this now. I’ve created new pages with bbpress shortcodes, and linked them accordingly. Now I am testing the registration process and I have one question.
Instead of having new users login via the WordPress Dashboard, can I make it so they stay at the frontend? Does that make sense? I do not want them logging into any kind of WordPress backend.
Thanks again buddy.
No, I’m afraid you can’t use bbPress with WordPress.com since that service doesn’t allow the user to add plugins at all and the folks at Automattic have not seen fit to add the ability to create bbPress forums to their service. You’ll need a domain name, a web host, and copy of WordPress running on it.
Apologies in advance if this has already been answered – I couldn’t find it anywhere. If I have a WordPress free blog (xxx.wordpress.com) and I want to add a bbpress forum to it – is that possible via the plugin? Or do I need my own domain name?
If it is possible, could someone give me more detailed instructions about how to do it? Where do I upload the files to?
Or of course if this has been answered, just point me to the link.
Thanks!!
Follow that function up the stack to find where the date functions are. They are most likely exact copies of the WordPress one.
Once bbPress picks up more momentum, I’ll look into getting international sub domains setup. We have two on the table right now.
Can you say I must edit the core (I mean not any version) for show jDate or something else?
Cause I say that there is nothing in the themes function like WordPress themes that call date. In bbPress themes, we saw just calls from core like profile_base_content that have the member since date.
And do you support us in Persian bbPress project? Something like the Persian WordPress page (http://fa.wordpress.org)
Thanks for your reply. I got that far, but it’s the roles issue that is bothering me.
It works the same way as making a BlogPost.
Go to NEW Forum and on the right-side is a drop down menu that says: Visibility: Public you have two other options, Private and Hidden.
And for the User roles i have no idea, i’m also still working on that. But i think they work on how they are set in WordPress.
Prob. some other User Role plugins will work perfectly together with bbPress.
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My question:
Why is it possible for a member (sigh a signed-up user) to go into the dashboard area and Edit all this posts to Private or Password protected?
I’ve tried it a few minutes ago and it will only hide or protect one post in a topic.
I don’t know if i like it or not …
I understand how to make a forum private when using the bbPress WordPress plugin, but I don’t see how to assign roles-based access. Do I need a plugin to do this?
It’s only a problem if you want it that way. 
bbPress is going to keep its core taxonomy separate from WordPress posts. If you want to merge them together, it’s completely possible to do on your own.
Ok thanks. Does the bbpress plugin use custom taxonomies for topic tags? Because if it just used good old tags (read old school taxonomy), wouldn’t my problem be solved?
Maybe a feature request/idea for future releases of bbpress.
It’s easy to combine post types and taxonomies, but it’s difficult to come up with a UI that makes sense for both. Search the WordPress codex on how to combine post types and taxonomies. There are a few good examples out there.
Those topics were created via the WordPress dashboard. The post status is hard coded into the meta box, and password protected content is only loosely supported in bbPress 2.0. Someone is currently making a plugin that blocks admin posting which will prevent this in the future.
Akismet is tweaking the heuristics for bbPress 2.0, and will continue to do so as an ongoing thing. Traditionally WordPress posts are never scanned for spam, and bbPress is using the comment API to do it, in combination with some new information by way typically of being logged in.
bbPress 1.0 has always been a little prone to false positives. Once bbPress 2 officially launches we’ll start a topic here on how to report problems.
When pressing a forum tag I would love to show regular WordPress posts that contain this tag as well. Any thoughts on an easy way to do this?
But bbPress.org.es why don’t you help with the official translation on glotpress?
You can find the Spanish one here https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/es/default
But bbPress.org.es why don’t you help with the official translation on glotpress?
You can find the Spanish one here https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/es/default
Is there any way round this problem. Because more of my good old users gets their replies marked as spam. This happens even though their comments doesn’t contain links.
Is kismet more tricker happy in bbpress, than WordPress? Because I haven’t experienced these problem to the same extend with the wp install, that I’ve had for about 6 years now.
I just installed a BBpress forum using the plugin on my new wordpress site a few days ago and today I see two strange posts claiming to be password protected????
One was clearly spam and the other weird so I deleted both users and all their posts. When I did a test post with my own test user this did not happen.
Image of the weirdness
http://bridgeteaching.com/images/password-protected-posts.gif
my BBpress forums
http://bridgeteaching.com/forums/
Any thoughts on this?
When editing a forum topic from the WordPress backend it is updated with a new timestamp (as if it was just published).
This is annoying when trying to make a bunch of SEO stuff (in this case with Yoasts SEO plugin) with existing post titles and excerpts. Are there any reason why this happens, and is there an easy way to disable it?
#1 are you running the old 1x vs. of bbpress or the new plugin?
(I would suggest the plugin for sure as it’s the most updated)
#2 if you are not then here is the page to find the download to the plugin
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin
*on the bottom of the page is the download link. Keep in mind that this is the most recent vs. and it changes almost daily until everything is finalized.
You simply click that link, save the file to your computer, and then go to your wp installation. In there you will use ftp to go into your wp-content/plugins/ folder.
#3 From there create a folder called bbpress inside the plugins directory.
#4 Upload the plugin you downloaded to your plugins folder
(browse the bbpress download and go into the folders until you see bbp-admin, bbp-includes, etc folders. You upload those into the bbpress folder that you created in your plugins folder)
Structure should look like
wp-content
–plugins
—-bbpress
bbp-admin
bbp-includes
etc….
#5 From there simply activate the plugin.
There are other steps needed to get the forums working properly in wp and your theme, but the above instructions will at least get you going.
So, I decided to work fairly hard and invest a lot of resources into creating a gaming website. I have been pretty impressed with indie games lately, and decided to start a nice area where I can highlight some of the better ones and maybe talk to developers and post things like great soundtracks and art.
*Ahem* Apparently things have changed a little since I learned HTML in…1998 lol That being said I feel pretty stupid and have some very basic questions to ask. If these answers are somewhere on the bbPress site I apologize, I did some cursory perusing of the forums and didn’t find what I needed and because I’m on a bit of a time crunch decided a post would be quicker.
From what the internet tells me WordPress is a nice content managing/blogging platform and bbPress is the way to go if I want a forum. I have downloaded and activated both the bbPress and bbPress Integration plug ins through my WordPress.
My question is…where is it? Do I have to FTP any files onto the server? Is there a link somewhere I’m missing? Any (very patient) help would be appreciated. Thank you
There are WordPress plugins to block users of certain roles from viewing your admin area.
Just curious if this is also possible by making my own templates tags.
This way i could make different loops (forums) for each section of the forum.
loop-single-forum-4.php
loop-single-forum-troubles.php
Will this only take-/run forum ID 4 or the troubles forum-/topics loop ?
Same as WordPress ?
single-4.php
single-troubles.php
