[master5o1]

This works well for me, and plays nice with bbPress 2.0 also: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-local-avatar/

[Erlend]

Keep in mind though, that the bbPress forums will not auto update like P2 does for posts. That would be a huge custom job to accomplish.

Are you sure? I mean, for posts, sure, but if bbPress incorporated StackExchange-style threaded comments, i.e. ‘comments on replies’, I don’t see why that would be very different.

[sanguango]

For those who read in spanish, this seem to be the solution: http://giltesa.com/2011/03/19/instalacion-de-bbpress-e-integracion-con-wordpress/

a clear step by step installation

[John James Jacoby]

Sorry about that everyone. Typo in the template parts. Fixing asap.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forums' ); ?>

…should be…

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

…as seen here at the trac revision.

[littleman9]

I used my current wordpress site to install bb-press. I have the forum set up menu in the WP-admin section and it seems to be working. http://www.gadgetsandgizmos.org/forums/ but i can’t find where to login to the bb press admin section to change settings etc.

The site is using my default theme and working nicely, so great job there.

[John James Jacoby]

If you’re not a developer, the time it would take you to learn how to integrate multiple versions of bbPress/WordPress with cookie sharing would most likely not be cost effective.

[ideoplasm]

DKB, doing this across multiple domains would be even awesomer! To enable something like this, can I get freelancers to do it for me for reasonable money? Or would that be so expensive that I’d be better of doing it myself. You say consult the docs (and thanks, Gautam) but I must stress I know nothing about codey stuff! Can anyone suggest a reliable WP/bbPress freelance coder?

[Fartlek]

Also added Akismet integration to Beta 3. If you have the Akismet plugin for WordPress installed, bbPress 2.0 will now just piggy-back it, and work without any additional config.

I was just going to ask about how soon that Akismet integration would be happening. This is wonderful news. Thanks JJJ for all your hard work.

[John James Jacoby]

Also added Akismet integration to Beta 3. If you have the Akismet plugin for WordPress installed, bbPress 2.0 will now just piggy-back it, and work without any additional config.

[John James Jacoby]

Just tagged bbPress 2.0 Beta 3 in WordPress Extend.

Those of you with custom themes where you’ve moved files around may need to move files one last time, as some changes to the theme compatibility routine and template structure (based largely on user feedback) have shuffled things around a bit.

[Trevor Green]

I have the members plugin install and modified subscribers to see hidden forums.

This didn’t work.

Hidden seems more appropriate than private. Private tags a forum with Private:. Which I don’t understand at all.

It seems like you have forums that you apply access control to for different roles and they should either see them or not see them depending on the roles.

I understand that you can use the members plugin. And that you could potentially setup different roles with different access levels based upon the existing permissions.

But as I mention above setting “read_hidden_forums” on subscriber didn’t allow the subscriber to see or read a hidden forum.

I don’t have that role set to access anything private. So maybe hidden is a subset of private? I’ll try turning on private access on subscriber.

If hidden works as suspected it seems appropriate to have public be accessable by anyone on the site and hidden for everyone else.

Private would see appropriate, but if 99% of your forums are private its pretty lousy to see a “private:” tag in front of all of them. There appears to be no setting in the bbPress settings to disable that.

I’m not sure what the use case is for bbPress, but it seems pretty narrowly defined to very public forums. Not to a more layered scenario, where you can define role based access to each role for different forums and alter visibilty.

Am i missing something. Is there a forum category based access control method?

I haven’t jumping into plugins because I’m trying to use the 2.x plugin version and since its still beta I’m not confident that there is anything stable out there. There doesn’t even seem to be a way to post photos so it appears to need lots of addons.

Once I can figure out what it is supposed to do I may take the plunge to write some.

I apologize if this post is grumbly, I’m excited about bbPress as a plugin, I’m just dismayed that I’m needing it before the final release and the plugin community piles on to make it better.

[DKB]

How can i get single login for bbpress sites on different domains?

[John James Jacoby]

@Patrick – Known issue. Will be fixed in Beta 3.

@lamo21 – Doing it wrong. Check translate.wordpress.org for bbPress 2.0 translations.

[Gautam Gupta]

Yes, you can get the standalone version to use the WP user tables and then also integrated the cookies for single log-on. Please consult the docs.

[ideoplasm]

I started to use the bbPress plugin version for WordPress because i wanted by users to only have to log in once to get into both my WordPress and my associated bbPress forums.

I also liked the fact that for me behind the scenes, the bbPress plugin admin is within the WordPress admin… but this is not as important to me as the above shared login point.

Anyway, the bbPress plugin has plagued me with bugs, as it is apparently only a beta version.

So, seeing as the standalone bbPress is more developed, I am thinking of using that. I just assumed that my users would have to log in twice if implement the standalone bbPress – is this the case? If you can get the standalone to share user login with WordPress, then i will use that!!

Thanks.

[ideoplasm]

@ PS Vita Games

I meant ‘solved’ as in ‘answered’ – the answer being, that as yet, there is no bbpress vote software…. but then Janoochen made his suggestion. Thanks Janoochen, I shall try that this weekend.

[Anointed]

It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish with your website. If you are already running wordpress and eventually want to have everything linked together between forums, blog posts, users etc, then bbPress is definitely the way to go.

If your primary focus of the website is forums only then I ‘may’ suggest vbulletin. I have no experience with phpbb, but have run very large vb forums for years now.

As to whether or not it is worth the money, well that’s different for everyone. I personally am going to transfer my larger forums over to bbPress as I much prefer the wordpress environment to vb.

At the moment vb can do a lot more out of the box than just about any other forum software, but I believe that bbPress is going to close this gap very quickly. Vbulletin is really bloated with a ton of features that really are not needed but some people just seem to like all the extra junk.

It really is a personal call. I can say though bbPress is progressing very nicely. It is a very solid foundation that can easily be built upon.

[Anointed]

Try this:

Go into the wp-admin, then under the settings button is a link called permalinks. Go there and click save changes. (Even though you have not made changes to your permalinks, it is worth trying as many times this gets things back to normal when you add new post-types etc)

[janoochen]

The “Registration complete. Please check your e-mail.” message (after filling the front-end registration page) is being displayed in the WordPress login page (back-end).

Is there any other way of redirecting this to a template?

[Andre]

An importer is being made, but isn’t done yet. You can follow the progress of it here, https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1547.

Which one is better depends on your needs. I plan on switching my phpBB forum to bbPress because I think it better suites my needs.

The bbpress plugin will work with Akismet so spam shouldn’t be a problem.

[Paulzxz]

With bbpress installed, my WordPress permalinks now throw 404 errors!

What is that all about?!

How do I overcome this?

Surely this is a very basic requirment of such a plugin!?

Any idea?

Paul

[Sithu Thwin]

I got a hack for it if you are using MySql 5.5.

It reported on trac at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1486

Change TYPE = MYISAM to ENGINE = MYISAM in your bbPress installation’s bb-admin/includes/defaults.bb-schema.php

[janoochen]

@ideoplasm Adding a voting or rating system into bbPress 2.0 is extremely easy.

You can use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings

or this one: http://www.gdstarrating.com/

Then just add the rating function in loop-topics.php (inside the loop).

You can do the same for loop-replies.php

I’m working in a voting forum myself.

This is an example:

<div class="topic-rating-count">

<h4><?php if(function_exists('the_ratings')) { the_ratings(); } ?></h4>

<span><?php _e( 'rating' ); ?></span>

</div>

<div class="topic-reply-count">

<h4><?php bbp_topic_reply_count(); ?></h4>

<span><?php _e( 'replies' ); ?></span>

</div>

<div class="topic-freshness">

<h4><?php bbp_topic_freshness_link(); ?></h4>

<span>									  <?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?>

</span>

</div>

[dpwolfe]

Hi,

Today, I installed bbPress on my WordPress blog site and most things are working. The install log said “>>> Key master email not sent!” but all else went fine including WordPress integration as I can see my forum user names (I created two) replicate in my WordPress Dashboard Users area.

As the Key Master of bbPress, I have also successfully created two forum categories and several sub-forums (children) where members can post messages…theoretically.

But, I’m experiencing the following issues that I have no clue how to resolve:

1. Signed in as the Key Master, I don’t see where I can create a new post

2. As part of registering as a forum user using a different user name, I did not receive an e-mail containing my password. So, I signed into my WordPress Dashboard Users area and assigned my second user name one so I could access my forum with my non-Key Master user name. Not having this forum registration process work without having to sign into WordPress is a problem.

3. No matter which user name I sign into the forum with, when I click on any listing in the Forum Main Theme’s area, I get the “The page cannot be found” error message. See: http://wolfetracksproductions.com/fresh_tracks/forum/

4. When I get the “The page cannot be found” error message, the URL repeats the directory where I installed the bbPress software and I’m not clear as to why this is happening: http://wolfetracksproductions.com/fresh_tracks/forum/forum/production

I did install the bbPress software in a folder called “forum” which is a subfolder of my WordPress.org blogging software.

Please help!

Thank you in advance for your kindness.

Deb

[cdecar1]

Hi, I also have a wordpress blog site. I’d like to put a “message board”-style Forums page on the site. Is this possible with bbPress? If so, how do I do it? I’m unclear how you get from the Installation to use on a WordPress page.

Thanks in advance for your help with this!

Cara