[enderandrew]

1. Install Buddypress 1.5 beta.

2. Turn off the built-in forums in Buddypress or the two will fight over the “forums” slug.

3. Turn on Buddypress Site Tracking component. This is specifically how Buddypress sees bbPress posts.

4. Install bbpress 2.0

That should be it.

[Benjamin Allison]

So what does one doofo make Buddypress and bbpress 2 speak to each other?

Let’s assume were using Buddypress’s default theme.

[enderandrew]

@woodwardmatt At the moment, I’m primarily interested in color changes, so that would work. However, with all the plugins I’m using in WordPress and Buddypress, each page load is calling tons of CSS files. I’m trying to cut down on page loading time and all the http get requests. I’d prefer not to load one CSS file, just to load another to overwrite it.

[woodwardmatt]

@enderandrew – If it helps at all, all I did was leave the default setup in place, having installed the bbpress 2.0 plugin. Then include a new custom css file (in the directory of my wordpress theme) and link to this beneath the call to the wp_head() function in the wordpress theme (e.g. in my header.php) – to ensure the custom css file overrides the css included by bbpress.

I simply them overrode any of the styles that I wanted to change from the default. This is a fairly old-school approach to re-branding, but is perhaps one of the least invasive. This wont allow you to change very much of the layout but will allow you to change some of the styling to more closely match your brand and will give you a certain amount of protection against change as the plugin gets updated.

Hope that helps

[John James Jacoby]

Would not be difficult to turn on WordPress’s existing oEmbed functionality.

[jabbamonkey]

I did a search in PLUGINS on this site, and didn’t see a BuddyPress plugin. So, I did a web search for it. Is BuddyPress the social networking WordPress plugin? Does it tie in to BBPress 2.0 easily? Or is it something extremely difficult to do? Do the bbpress short codes (for creating a register page) still work with BuddyPress?

Also, the required or optional option is good. Is there a way to make fields that are HIDDEN from the public?

[jabbamonkey]

I just installed 2.0. Where are the register and login links for the forum? I saw the page for shortcode (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes) and created a page for registration and login.

Does the regular template not add these links to the pages? Do we need to add them on our own? Do we add them to our bbpress theme, or our wordpress theme?

[netlogged]

I have installed bbpress as a plugin.

How can i switch to different theme. Right now bbpress is using my wordpress active theme.

i have also downloaded and put a theme in my-templates directory but cant activate it

any suggestions?

[Jose Conti]

Hi to all,

I have a problem for reply on WangGuard plugin page: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wangguard/ and I can not answer the questions.

I’m the WangGuard Developer.

WangGuard ONLY works on bbPress 2.0+, WangGuard DO NOT work on bbPress 1.x

bbPress 2.0 is a WordPress plugin.

bbPress 2.0 is a WordPress plugin and use the WordPress registration page. That means bbPress 2.0 will fight with sploggers software. The Captchas or reCAPTCHAs not work with this splogger softwares because they jump or crack Captchas and reCAPTCHAS.

Really, only WangGuard will help you with that sploggers or unwanted users. If you don’t use WangGuard, your database will become bigger and bigger.

Now, concerning questions on the plugin page:

@miracleren : Thanks a lot

@Yosemite : You are installing WangGuard on bbPress 1.x and only works on bbPress 2.0+

@iPad 2 kopen : really low people with bbPress use WangGuard, but on WordPress there are more tha 5.000 sites with WangGuard installed. WangGuard is 5 month old and has stopped more than 740.000 (148.000/month) unwanted users. when all bbPress users will upgrade to bbPress 2.0 may use WangGuard.

@PS Vita Forum : WangGuard works like Akismet but for users. Akismet filter the comments on WordPress and the Topics on bbPress. WangGuard filter the users on the registration page. If a user is a Splogger or a unwanted user, WangGuard will block the registration. Too, with WangGuard you can look for a splogger or unwanted user on you database, if WangGuard find a splogger or unwanted user, it will be marked as splogger and spam user and you may delete from the database, that works with a wizard.

Regards

[Jose Conti]

Hi John James Jacoby,

WangGuard only works with bbPress 2.0+ (plugin) because bbPress is a WordPress Plugin.

WangGuard DO NOT work with bbPress 1.x

sutiejsk has installed WangGuard on bbPress 1.x.

On WangGuard bbPress plugin page (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wangguard/) you can read “Requires bbPress Version: 2.0 Alpha or higher”

[woodwardmatt]

That would make sense. I think the key message is for myself (or anyone else reading this afterwards) is that the templating for bbpress is not intended to follow the same structure / approach as wordpress – that’s definitely where my confusion started to creep in.

For the time being I’m likely to opt for overriding the CSS to provide the branding I require and stick with the current layouts in the default theme until the plugin’s had chance to settle in and some of the examples you mention have had chance to come about. I’d be interested to see more on the “bbPress Pack” approach in good time

Thanks for all the insight, most useful!

[John James Jacoby]

@woodwardmatt: Thanks for the kudos.

The theme layer is complicated because there is no easy way to create a new type of content in WordPress without the theme supporting it.

Originally you *had* to use a bbPress theme (bbp-twentyten) but that was only so I could build something out of nothing. Once I had a theme, I made shortcodes that use individual template parts so things could live anywhere and still look the way the theme looks. Lastly, I built the whole abstraction layer that used the shortcodes to output content where it belongs without you needing to do anything about it.

The thing is, there is only one bbPress 2.0 theme in the world right now, and it’s the one that comes with bbPress 2.0. I’m not opposed to including more theme’s in core, but I think it’s someone else’s turn to make the next one.

To your request: Currently impossible. Plugin updates delete the parent folder and recreate it with new contents. No way to avoid it getting wiped out.

To your reason: Makes sense, and if we want to make more bbPress themes for core, we can. Then you can pick which “style” of bbPress you want inside your existing theme. Advanced developers still get the flexibility they desire. Win/Win.

Payment: Delicious

[John James Jacoby]

Link me to your site. The breadcrumb is designed to avoid duplicates, so it shouldn’t be happening like that.

The permalinks are working the way that WordPress is designed to make them work. This is actually the same way that bbPress 1.0 has worked since the very beginning.

[John James Jacoby]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress

Look in the files that start with “feedback”

[woodwardmatt]

@John – First of all, can I say what an awesome move to having bbpress as a plugin is! For the average user wishing to get forums up and running, you couldn’t ask for better! Nicely done!

On more of a developer level I, the same as many of the guys posting, are probably a little thrown on the templating side of things. Just to clarify, I’ve joyfully created my fair share of wordpress themes and was looking forwarding to getting to grips with bbpress to do similar. At this point I can’t help but feel the templating side of things seems a little crazy (read awkward and unintuitive) unless i’m misunderstanding.

By means of throwing my two pence into the discussion, I’d love to see the same approach for bbpress as was undertaken for wordpress. Namely the opposite of the following:

DO NOT put any custom themes in “/bbpress/bbp-themes/” as they will get wiped out when you update bbPress.

I love that bbpress has picked up the overall theme from wordpress but having the theme for the bbpress UI elements self-contained and separate from the wordpress theme would most likely clear up a fair bit of the confusion / frustrations. I know such a comment is easily made outside of understanding the full intricacies of the platform and that making such a change would no doubt have greater implications. However and to be honest, that was the approach I was expecting – most likely given the approach I was used to with wordpress. I know a similar comment has already been made, I’d just like to tip my hat to it, and raise it again for your consideration.

Request: Custom bbpress themes to reside in “/bbpress/bbp-themes/” without risk of removal upon updates.

Reason: To retain better / cleaner organisation of theme files and reduce complexity of theme development. (The replies / questions above are testimony to this)

Payment: Pizza of your choice!

Once again awesome job, and hugely appreciate all the hard work!

[rayv]

hi there guys,

i’m using a rockettheme wordpress template and seem to be having issues with the beta 2 profile pages. whenever i click a username on the forums to visit the bbpress profile page of that user, it is a completely unformatted page consisting of:

>

Home

About Us

Page 3

Page 4

Forums

Logout

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_query_type() in /wp-content/plugins/gantry/core/gantrybodylayout.class.php on line 94

I don’t know what to do. That’s all that appears on the page. That first “>” is indicating to me that there’s something wrong in a code somewhere, maybe thats an extra “>” or there’s another missing “>” or something. im not too experienced with php or wordpress, but im comfortable editing it if given instructions. if anybody could help me on this issue, i would be extremely grateful – i’ve been trying to fix it for a few days now.

thanks, i hope somebody can lend a helping hand!

(by the way, this exact same thing happens, with the same error too, when i click ‘EDIT’ to edit a post other than the first post in a topic.)

[thomseddon]

War82, the answer depends on your theme.

Most likely, your theme will generate the links in the menu bar automatically from your pages.

In this case, the easiest solution for you would be to add a simple redirection plugin such as this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/screenshots/ (first result if you search ‘redirect’ from the ‘add new’ plugin page in your wordpress installation)

Then you would just create the page “Community Forum”, copy the URL of the page (e.g. http://www.yourblog.com/community-forum)

With the plugin installed and the page created you would just go into the redirection plugin setting menu and add a redirect from the community forum url to your forum url (www.yourblog.com/forums by default)

Good luck

[War82]

Im new to both wordpress and bbPress forum, however i got it to work and both the website and forum are up and running.

The only problem i have is: I cant seem to figure out how to link my forum to one of the menu bar buttons. Lets say i have a menu button called ” Community Forum “, when someone klicks that menu button i want the forum to show.

How do i link the forum page to the Community Forum menu bar button? Ive pulled my hair for hours trying to figure this out.

Oh, one more thing. What file should i edit to fix the background and text on the forum?

Thats all, thanks for a lovely plugin!

[webmasterfaqs]

I find it astonishing that there are a hundred template files with no explanation as to what any of them do.

I installed bbPress on top of WordPress. Can somebody help me out here? I’m trying to separate postings (space them apart so their not so close to each other) by using my CSS file, but for the life of me I can’t get it to work, although I am able to make other alterations.

Any suggestions?

Test board:

http://webmasterfaqs.org/forums/topic/another-topic/#post-159

[Gautam Gupta]

This can be easily done with plugins which do it for WordPress like this one.

[mixlplex2]

@JohnJamesJacoby – First off, excellent work. Beautiful system. However, sorry to disagree with you, but I believe Anthony is right that there’s a problem with the plugin with both logging in and logging out (particularly when using the sidebar widget). Here’s why…

I’m testing with the bbPress RC4 installed in a WP 3.2.1 Network config using sub-directory instead of sub-domain (no BuddyPress installed, just bbPress … no other plugins installed. – I have also tested with another sidebar login plugin and everything worked fine, but I’ve uninstalled it, and when I use the bbPress login widget I get problems.) If I use the bbPress login widget and enter the right credentials it logs me in and redirects me to [site]/[site]/ which obviously a problem.

When I inspect the Login button element for the bbPress login widget I see:

<div class="bbp-submit-wrapper">

<input class="user-submit" type="submit" tabindex="104" value="Log In" name="user-submit">

<input type="hidden" value="1" name="user-cookie">

<input type="hidden" value="http://[host]/[site]/[site]/" name="redirect_to">

<input id="_wpnonce" type="hidden" value="299cce3d83" name="_wpnonce">

<input type="hidden" value="/[site]/" name="_wp_http_referer">

</div>

Since the problem is with the redirect_to hidden value, my guess is that there’s a problem with either

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

or

bbp_redirect_to_field( $redirect_to );

which are called from bbp_user_login_fields() in the bbp-user-template.php file.

….

Moving on to Log out

…

If you correct the URL so that you’re back a the page for your site, you can now see the Gravitar, your name, and the log out link.

Again, inspecting the log out element we get:

<a href="http://[host]/[site]/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=c08ad91218&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F[host]%2F[site]%2F[site]%2F%3Floggedout%3Dtrue">Log Out</a>

Again, the link to the wp-login.php is fine… it’s the redirect_to afterwards that has the site name twice that’s the problem.

I’ve also noticed that if the bbPress plugins is activated the WordPress meta for log out includes the redirect_to [site]/[site]/

If the bbPress plugin is deactivated the native WordPress meta for log out reverts back to normal (without the redirect_to).

With bbPress installed:

<a href="http://[host]/[site]/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=07d2823a80&redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2F[host]%2F[site]%2F[site]%2F%3Floggedout%3Dtrue">Log out</a>

Without bbPress installed:

<a href="http://[host]/[site]/wp-login.php?action=logout&_wpnonce=07d2823a80">Log out</a>

[quitter]

I just added a “Register” link in the login widget and a page for registering/lost pass but I didn’t realize this is an issue.

Some plugin like this one might work but it is just the first I looked at and didn’t try it yet. You are right though, some non-trivial amount of people will never come back because they can’t remember the password they use everywhere.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/change-password-e-mail/

[enderandrew]

BuddyPress 1.5 asks if you’d like to point to an existing stand-alone bbPress install. Should I point it at the bbPress 2.0 install, or disable forums via BuddyPress as suggested above?

And I’m assuming you’d want to turn on the BuddyPress component of: “Site Tracking: Make BuddyPress aware of new posts and new comments from your site.”

bbPress posts are basically WordPress posts (using custom post types). I’m assuming this Site Tracking feature is how bbPress posts show up in the BuddyPress activity stream.

[John James Jacoby]

You’ll want to contact WangGuard’s plugin author here:

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

Seems the problem is unrelated to bbPress. There are several other users with issues too.

https://wordpress.org/tags/wangguard

[primehifi]

I wasn’t so concerned about fixing it as I was about getting access to to the general settings again.

here’s the fix on this website I found, http://tadej.eu/wordpress-timezone-exception-fix-hack