[jarledb]

Signup/start page:

Are search, login and register supposed to be on the first page of the forum (typically blog.tld/forums/ ? Neither the twentyten or the themes integration seems to give that.

Is there a widget for signup as well as login? Would be a nice way to have people sign up.

Spam?

How is spam handled? I can see no feature for blocking ip-adresses and blacklisting. Is spam handled with the Akismet plug-in I have already installed in my wordpress installation?

Documentation

Where do I find documentation for the plugin? I see it mentioned in the forum here, but have not been able to find the site.

[John James Jacoby]

A few questions have cropped up already, so lets funnel the discussion here.

bbPress 2.0 introduces a radical new approach at integrating robust new functionality into existing WordPress themes. If you’re an average user looking for a turn-key forum solution, this works out pretty awesomely – If you’re a talented developer trying to beat your own drum, it’s all probably a little bit confusing.

Theme Compatibility

bbPress comes with a child theme of TwentyTen, titled (you guessed it) bbPress – TwentyTen. This theme includes all of the custom bits that bbPress needs to function, broken up into template parts to allow them to be used in several places, like template files, shortcodes, and widgets.

1. MOST COMMON – If you’re using any other conventional WordPress theme (TwentyEleven, BP-Default) and find the default template layout of bbPress acceptable, you don’t need to do anything at all – it should just work.
2. DO NOT put any custom themes in “/bbpress/bbp-themes/” as they will get wiped out when you update bbPress.
3. CUSTOM – If you want to build your own theme or make changes to the existing template files, you’ll need to do the following:

   Copy Files

   • If this is not a custom theme under your control (meaning you are not the author) you’ll want to copy the contents of the “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder into your “wp-content/themes/%YOURTHEMENAME%” folder, where %YOURTHEMENAME% is the name of your custom Child Theme of whatever your current theme is. This is so theme updates don’t wipe out all your hard work later.
   • If you are the author of this theme, then you can copy all the files *out of* the “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder into the folder of your theme, and make your own edits from there. The files to copy include the single-*, archive-*, page-*, and anything in the subfolders.
   • In neither case should a new folder with the name “bbp-twentyten” exist. You are not copying the FOLDER, you are copying what’s IN the folder.

   Add Theme Support

   Now that you’ve got the files copied over, you’ll need to tell bbPress that you are in control of the theme situation. You do this by adding this to your functions.php file:

   add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );

   By doing this, you’re telling bbPress that your theme has its own template files to handle all of the new functionality that bbPress adds. This method gives you a single on/off switch to either use the standard theme compatibility, or use your own.

In the future, specialized template compatibility themes can be created either as plugins or child-themes to work like “add on packages” to existing themes, without requiring elaborate edits to existing themes, moving files around, etc…

Shortcodes (as of May 23, 2011)

Whether you rely on theme compatibility, or decide to go the custom route, we’ve included a few standard shortcodes to let you output specific forum content on any post or page in your forums. This is accomplished within an output buffer, so they won’t interfere with any of your existing page or post content. Note that if your theme specifically removes the shortcode functionality, these will not work, and will instead the actual text of the shortcode will appear on your site.

• [bbp-forum-index] – Show the root forums
• [bbp-single-forum id="A forum ID"] – Show a specific forum
• [bbp-topic-index] – Show all topics
• [bbp-single-topic id="A topic ID"] – Show a specific topic
• [bbp-topic-tags] – Show all topic tags
• [bbp-topic-tag] – Show topics of a specific tag
• [bbp-topic-form] – Show the new topic form
• [bbp-reply-form] – Show the new reply form (not commonly used)
• [bbp-single-view id="A view slug"] – Show the topics of a registered view

In the future, we’ll be adding more shortcodes as the needs arise.

That’s it for the first round of explanations. I’ll edit this post as more questions and answers come through.

[pachakuti73]

Hi there !

I already installed the latest version of BB and WP and the forum works.

But my questions is, how do include this forum as “page” or “article” in WordPress and the mainmenu ?

Sorry if im just blind, i searched the whole site and can`t find a step by step solution for it.

I tried to include it with WP plugin “include me” wich don`t seem to work.

Can someone tell me please where i can find it or give me a hint ?!

Thank you in advance, BBpress seems to be the forum for wich im searching for a long time. And sorry for english, i now it`s not that good.

i added the wordpress -bb plugin too and enabled it.

Seems everything fine, but still my question is:

how to include the forum into a page or a articel of WP like its here at your site. I don`t check it.

Greetings

[John James Jacoby]

You could just as easily put some code in the sidebar.php of your theme to show/hide whenever you want it to. Contextual sidebars are an oft requested WordPress core feature too.

[John James Jacoby]

You could just as easily put some code in the sidebar.php of your theme to show/hide whenever you want it to. Contextual sidebars are an oft requested WordPress core feature too.

[Gautam Gupta]

arpowers: You mean forums including forums, topics, replies, user profiles etc. or just forums? For the latter, you can use bbp_is_forum().

bbPress 2.0 plugins can be found here.

[Ricardo]

Just noticed that the pot is available so i started translating bbpress to Portuguese (Europe), if you’re interested in helping out write down your email in a comment and i’ll get in touch with you

Com o bbpress a passar de “standalone” para “plugin” e a disponibilização do respectivo pot comecei a traduzir para Português, se estiveres interessado em ajudar na tradução deixa o teu email num comentário e entrarei em contacto.

Podem seguir o trabalho em:

http://www.ricardouk.com/traducoes

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http://pt.forums.wordpress.org/topic/bbpress-em-portugues?replies=1

[Mark Barnes]

those are not core-bbpress files, those are bbpress child-theme files for twebtyten-theme.

They’re core in the sense that they’ll get overwritten when I update the bbPress plugin. That’s why I don’t want to edit them.

Because bbPress works best using its own child theme, it’s really important we have filters and actions in that theme, because we can’t use our own child theme to override it (because WordPress doesn’t support children of children).

I’ll add a ticket to trac about it.

[Mark Barnes]

those are not core-bbpress files, those are bbpress child-theme files for twebtyten-theme.

They’re core in the sense that they’ll get overwritten when I update the bbPress plugin. That’s why I don’t want to edit them.

Because bbPress works best using its own child theme, it’s really important we have filters and actions in that theme, because we can’t use our own child theme to override it (because WordPress doesn’t support children of children).

I’ll add a ticket to trac about it.

[scribu]

Just installed the latest version of the bbPress plugin.

Activated the default twentyten child theme.

I can see Settings -> Forums, but I can’t find the admin screen to create and manage forums.

I’m using WordPress 3.2-beta with no other plugins installed.

Halp?

[John James Jacoby]

The docs are just static WordPress pages for now. We’ll switch it eventually.

[John James Jacoby]

The docs are just static WordPress pages for now. We’ll switch it eventually.

[Navjot Singh]

It does not accept my WordPress.org login. How to login?

[Navjot Singh]

It does not accept my WordPress.org login. How to login?

[John James Jacoby]

@Cor – What theme are you using? Those appear to be WordPress core errors, and I’m not immediately sure how bbPress would cause those to happen.

[John James Jacoby]

Yes, you’ll want to make them as WordPress plugins that specifically hook into bbPress actions and filters.

There are tons of places where things can be overridden, and it shouldn’t take long to learn the hierarchy. Everything inside the php files is documented pretty well, and eventually that will get moved over to this site with a codex.

[John James Jacoby]

Yes, you’ll want to make them as WordPress plugins that specifically hook into bbPress actions and filters.

There are tons of places where things can be overridden, and it shouldn’t take long to learn the hierarchy. Everything inside the php files is documented pretty well, and eventually that will get moved over to this site with a codex.

[Mark Barnes]

This is slightly guesswork, but based on my understanding of the code.

(1) You should write your bbPress plugin as if it’s a WordPress plugin.

(2) Searching the bbPress folder for do_action will give you all the bbPress hooks, and searching for apply_filters will give you the list of filters (there are a LOT of them). Learning the important functions is trickier – they seem fairly spread out around the code amongst the less important functions. For that, I guess we’ll need to wait for documentation.

[Mark Barnes]

This is slightly guesswork, but based on my understanding of the code.

(1) You should write your bbPress plugin as if it’s a WordPress plugin.

(2) Searching the bbPress folder for do_action will give you all the bbPress hooks, and searching for apply_filters will give you the list of filters (there are a LOT of them). Learning the important functions is trickier – they seem fairly spread out around the code amongst the less important functions. For that, I guess we’ll need to wait for documentation.

Hello,

Not entirely sure if this would be the best topic to post this, but running WordPress in debug mode, I’m getting quite a few non-object notices.

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/design24/public_html/klanten/20/wp-includes/general-template.php on line 1477

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/design24/public_html/klanten/20/wp-includes/author-template.php on line 208

Notice: Trying to get property of non-object in /home/design24/public_html/klanten/20/wp-includes/category-template.php on line 1081

Also, when editing this post with some proper code markup there seems to be 2 Notify me of follow-up posts via email boxes available.

[Rami Yushuvaev]

Soon you will be able to translate the plugin using GlotPress at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects

http://wppolyglots.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/im-guessing-that-with-the-release-of-the/

[Rami Yushuvaev]

Soon you will be able to translate the plugin using GlotPress at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects

http://wppolyglots.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/im-guessing-that-with-the-release-of-the/

[DigitalGdn]

Hi

I’m going to look at adding a feature to bbPress (WP plugin version) and have a couple of questions.

1) Should my plugin live in /webroot/wp-content/plugins (same level as bbPress folder)? If so what differentiates this from being a WordPress plugin (or should I not worry about making this distinction?)

2) The ‘customization’ page refers to a plugin API – what’s the best way to learn this? (any particular bbPress developer reference guides or documentation I should know about?)

Obviously early days with the new version, just want to make sure I’m not missing anything.

Cheers

Ben

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress 2.0 beta 1 is now available in WordPress extend for public testing.

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

[John James Jacoby]

Where can I download it?

1. Your WordPress admin area

2. http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

Where do I report bugs?

1. http://bbpress.org/forums/ (use the tag ‘bbpress-plugin’)

2. http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

Where can I report a security vulnerability?

1. http://wordpress.org/about/contact/

2. jjj in #bbpress on freenode on IRC

Where do support questions go?

Use these forums the same as always, and use the tag ‘bbpress-plugin’

Does this integrate with BuddyPress?

bbPress 2.0 integrates with BuddyPress activity streams, profile links, and avatars. bbPress 2.0 does not yet integrate with Groups, but it also will not conflict with them. This means there are no code conflicts or errors by leaving both activated.

Forums and topics are not showing up in my theme!

Try resaving your permalinks.

Is there an importer from a 1.0 installation?

A first attempt is included, and it needs testing. That’s where you come in!

Where can I contribute translations

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

Where is the documentation?

In the code itself right now. There’s not a lot of sense in creating documentation for pre-release software, as anything is subject to change. There will be a bbPress codex coming soon after release, so sit tight.

Why can my admin post videos, and normal users can’t?

Admin accounts in WordPress are granted a specific capability that enables them to post any kind of content they choose. Normal users do not have this ability, and are restricted to a specific set of HTML tags.

What is happening to bbPress 1.x?

It will continue to be maintained into the foreseeable future but is feature frozen, meaning no new features will get put in.

Can the bbPress Plugin 2.0 Beta be installed without WordPress?

No. bbPress 2.0 is strictly a plugin for WordPress.

How can I set which users can do what things?

You’ll want to use existing WordPress plugins if you want to customize the capabilities of your users. Start with Members or User Role Editor but be careful! It’s possible to lock yourself out of your site if you remove your own capabilities, so don’t fuss about if you’re not sure what you’re doing.