You really shouldn’t have one WordPress installation inside another. That’s a recipe for exactly the kind of disaster you’re experiencing, since it’s most likely conflicting .htaccess files trumping each other.
“Running nested WP installs” is different than “Running WP in a subdirectory” because of exactly what I mentioned above. If you install WP in a subdirectory, it won’t care where it is (or what its path is) as long as you install WP correctly. Once you nest several installations on top of each other, you’re setting yourself up for headaches unless you’re able to fluently track down and alleviate the rewrite issues you’ll run into.
An important piece of missing information, do both of the WordPress installs work independently without bbPress activated on either of them? Pretty permalinks turned on, on both, etc… Once you get that to behave first, then it’s time to try adding things into them.
But the plugin will? That’s impressive! I can’t wait until the plugin comes out. I just installed a test bbpress on a dummy site to see how it looks. It’s pretty smooth. I really think bbpress has the potential to dominate the forum industry if people get behind it like they do WordPress.
You’re running the alpha version now, correct? Then comes the Beta and then the stable?
But the plugin will? That’s impressive! I can’t wait until the plugin comes out. I just installed a test bbpress on a dummy site to see how it looks. It’s pretty smooth. I really think bbpress has the potential to dominate the forum industry if people get behind it like they do WordPress.
You’re running the alpha version now, correct? Then comes the Beta and then the stable?
The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work. 
For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…
So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.
The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work.
For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…
So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.
The regular bbpress installation won’t do that, you think? I should wait for the plugin?
The regular bbpress installation won’t do that, you think? I should wait for the plugin?
You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible.
You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible.
@tooltrainer – seems to be working on a shared hosting server:
http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/?forum=abc
vanilla WP 3.1.2 installed to an empty folder, and there’s nothing in the root.
set theme to: bbPress (Twenty Ten) 1.1 by WordPress and bbPress teams
unzipped branches_plugin-3138 and uploaded to:
/public_html/inadir/newdir/wp-content/plugins/bbpress
added a couple of emtpy forums, added ‘bbPress forum list’ widget
no errors, appears normal.
hope this helps.
In my wordpress website I have the mainpage(index) and several pages, all of which have the content on the left, a middle column that contains advertisements, and a right column which contains widgets.
Is it possible to install a fully integrated bbpress forum that is a page to the wordpress website? Stated differently, can I put all of the contents of the forum in the left hand column, and keep the middle column of ads and the right column of widgets?
@tooltrainer – that’s the price you pay for having something so customized. In the future any custom plugins won’t be able to drop in, and will all need customization. You’re sacrificing ease of use to have something totally unique. You need to ask yourself if you want to keep babysitting your site whenever anything outside of your control gets updated, or if you can make things work with something you have less control over.
Regarding converting from stand alone to plugin, make sure you have a solid backup and restore plan incase something goes wrong.
Regarding theme comparability, bbPress defaults to using the page.php of your theme and replacing the title and the content with what bbPress expects to be there. If your custom theme has page.php all tricked out, you’ll want to find/hire a developer to show you how to bypass it.
Eventually we’ll have a codex here with examples, similar to codex.wordpress.org, until then it’s up to you early adopters to go hunting for solutions and post them up in the forums, for everyone to learn from. I’ve tried to dream up every possible way for things to be filtered and manipulated with this version of bbPress, so you should never need change anything in the core files.
can you give me the dummy version of what I need to change in the two places you mentioned?
I thought I did it correctly and tried running the script. What I got was a page of errors and notices. Referencing a few plugins and some other WP files. Way to long to paste here and probably irrelevant to the converter itself.
Where is the file need to be saved and run from?
And then the other changes to it prior to running?
If I get this working I will write a novel on taking a vbulletin site to wordpress with bbpress. It will be long and partially a nightmare story with happy ending!
Thank you for your help.
can you give me the dummy version of what I need to change in the two places you mentioned?
I thought I did it correctly and tried running the script. What I got was a page of errors and notices. Referencing a few plugins and some other WP files. Way to long to paste here and probably irrelevant to the converter itself.
Where is the file need to be saved and run from?
And then the other changes to it prior to running?
If I get this working I will write a novel on taking a vbulletin site to wordpress with bbpress. It will be long and partially a nightmare story with happy ending!
Thank you for your help.
Hey there everyone! I am going to be installing bbPress to my WordPress blog but just have a few questions before jumping into anything straight away. I’ll list them so it makes it simpler and easier for you guys to answer and avoids any and all confusion.
1. Do you recommend that bbPress is installed in the same directory/folder as my WordPress blog? Please explain why (advantages/disadvantages, if any).
2. In order to integrate it to my blog, will my current theme (K2) work with bbPress (take a look at my blog if you don’t know what K2 is)?
3. On this page, listed under the title ‘Functions (optional)’, do you recommend that I do it or no? Again, advantages and/or disadvantages please.
That’s all the questions I’ve got at the moment. Hoping to get answers as soon as possible to get my forum set up. Thanks guys!
Hey guys,
I recently installed the plugin but i’m having a few issues.
This sites theme is based on the TwentyTen theme, so i should have all the “core” files needed to run this plugin on my customized theme?
I installed the plugin and created two forums, general and private. Here is a link to the general forum: http://stephenjohnmartin.com/spa/forums/forum/general-forum
Apart from a few styling issues, is this working correctly? I then assume that /forums/forum/ would be the forums main page, which would show both the general and private forum, but stuffs up.
I’m kinda new to WordPress so it’s confusing me a little.
Cheers.
Well the thing is, this theme is nothing like the typical WordPress theme. It’s a marketing theme specifically and can create single landing pages, squeeze pages, membership sites, minisites, sales pages, and a variety of other things. Oh yeah and it’ll make a blog too. But it’s so uber-functional that it doesn’t have any of the standard theme-fare, like a nice simple header.php, footer.php, single.php, etc. It’s something of a monster really.
I may try to add bbpress theme support to it at some point but actually I’ve spent over a month on this to get it to where it is, and just need to get my site live. Was probably slightly insane of me to choose an Alpha forum for my production site but hey… I like to live dangerously!
Thanks again, will keep poking around and trying to figure this issue out. If we were to leave it with the current “fix”, are there any dire consequences you can think of?
Jonathan
@tooltrainer – Custom theme, or using bbp-twentyten? Possible it’s a custom theme and you’re not checking caps correctly?
Check bbp-includes/bbp-caps.php. It relies on meta capabilities to match up bbPress caps with WordPress caps. If you altered the core caps for specific core WP roles, they could be all wacky. Also, caps are stored per user, and per role, so if you adjusted them in the middle of a live site, you might have some users with different caps than others.
New vanilla WordPress 3.1.2 install,
Downloaded zip from trac, branches_plugin-3138.zip
Unzipped and uploaded everything to /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/
Activated. Added a forum, added topics. No problems.
Broken Themes
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name Description
bbp-twentyten Stylesheet is missing.
Does exist: /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css
Is this a problem, or should I be moving files around?
—Also, I’m the village idiot b/c thought you meant something about testing BuddyPress. I haven’t used bbp so I’m not much help, but figured I’d install it and try anyway.
If you have an integrated wordpress blog and bbpress forum I would really like to see it. I’m really interested in seeing some working examples to better see what I’m getting into. Please link to your websites below. Thanks!
Kind of a long story, but more cliffnotes…
BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress, that actually comes bundled with bbPress inside of it to create group discussion forums.
bbPress has always been a stand-alone platform (like WordPress) but is being turned into a plugin for WordPress to make integration as seamless as possible. So right now, there are two distinctly separate versions of bbPress, stand-alone and plugin.
As far as I know there isn’t a migration script between SMF and bbPress, but I could be wrong. There most likely is not one for the bbPress plugin since it hasn’t been publicly released yet.
Documentation, is limited. There is almost none on the plugin so far, but there will be once it’s released and in the wild. We’ll put some documentation up here at bbpress.org to help answer all of these kinds of questions easier.
Kind of a long story, but more cliffnotes…
BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress, that actually comes bundled with bbPress inside of it to create group discussion forums.
bbPress has always been a stand-alone platform (like WordPress) but is being turned into a plugin for WordPress to make integration as seamless as possible. So right now, there are two distinctly separate versions of bbPress, stand-alone and plugin.
As far as I know there isn’t a migration script between SMF and bbPress, but I could be wrong. There most likely is not one for the bbPress plugin since it hasn’t been publicly released yet.
Documentation, is limited. There is almost none on the plugin so far, but there will be once it’s released and in the wild. We’ll put some documentation up here at bbpress.org to help answer all of these kinds of questions easier.
Thanks! Can you point me to any websites that are good examples of the integration between bbpress and wordpress?
