You can find a link to the plugin in the sticky post at the top of the forum.
The bbpress plugin’s topics and replies are custom post types.
Check bbpress.php for the register_post_type functions.
I’ve only been hacking away at the plugin for a day but from what I’ve seen all of the standard custom post type features appear to be working.
Tomorrow I’m going to mess around with custom fields, custom meta boxes and adding in some additional taxonomies.
I see a lot of possibilities for blurring the lines between a blog and a forum.
If you can manipulate wordpress to do crazy stuff, you’ll love the new plugin version.
You can find a link to the plugin in the sticky post at the top of the forum.
The bbpress plugin’s topics and replies are custom post types.
Check bbpress.php for the register_post_type functions.
I’ve only been hacking away at the plugin for a day but from what I’ve seen all of the standard custom post type features appear to be working.
Tomorrow I’m going to mess around with custom fields, custom meta boxes and adding in some additional taxonomies.
I see a lot of possibilities for blurring the lines between a blog and a forum.
If you can manipulate wordpress to do crazy stuff, you’ll love the new plugin version.
I am sure there will be new ones but there is one out there which does work.
That can be located in the
http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/detail?name=phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter_v2.zip&can=2&q=
I found that when looking for a solution to move a vbulletin forum to bbpress beings I was in the midst of changing to wordpress for all of my sites functions.
That link is here – http://www.ericm.ca/2010/05/31/vbulletin-4-to-bbpress-and-wordpress-integration/
As long as you are doing it per the instructions, it works perfect. I have done it twice now on test sites. The only glitch I hit was on my new site the WP and BBP integration is already there so I don’t have a bb_users table which is the first thing the converter is looking for. I was going to ask for some help with that from the maker as I have by forums and users stuck now in a PHPBB forum and can not get them into WP or BBP as far as I can tell.
I have no idea how all that will play with the new plugin but I am hoping to get my site on track and then move to the plugin at some point.
Hope this helps.
I run a fairly active PHPBB3 forum. I’ve been playing with bbPress a bit, I really like it, and am looking forward to this launch of bbPress as a WordPress plugin 
(The biggest headache with a PHPBB3 forum is it’s complexity when it comes to add-ons and upgrades, which WordPress and bbPress have made simple.)
The big question on my mind, and probably many others… Will there be a plugin/tool for converting from PHPBB3 to bbPress?
Hi folks,
I want to use BBPress for a message/discussion board for doctors. However, the requirement is that every topic should start with a set of basic fields. This is because they are going to be talking about a particular condition at hand and we need that a combination of fields be selected and input to accompany the topic.
I know WordPress now offers custom post type so you can add custom fields to a post. But can something similar be done with topics in BBpress? Has anyone tried something like that before?
Thanks,
-tejas
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for the reply. I finally figured out that the forums are indeed “odd” and really not very friendly to setup or use. I was really excited when I found the WordPress, Buddypress and bbPress combination but my excitement soon turned to frustration.
I finally gave up on WP, BP and bbPress and went back to Joomla/Community Builder. While the Joomla/CB combination doesn’t have the finesse and cleanness of Buddypress they does offer a far more conventional UI on the front-end and far easier to manage back-end.
They also do a far better job of integration with other extensions.
WP, BP and bbPress feel like the Mac O.S.’s to me. Very pretty and work well… once you figure out how *they* want you to think. But they do things their OWN way and if you want to deviate, you get kicked out of the cult.
And the documentation is very Mac-like. “Do step 1 and then it works.” But they forgot about steps 2-10 as it’s assumed you already knew that.
Hi Christopher,
Thanks for the reply. I finally figured out that the forums are indeed “odd” and really not very friendly to setup or use. I was really excited when I found the WordPress, Buddypress and bbPress combination but my excitement soon turned to frustration.
I finally gave up on WP, BP and bbPress and went back to Joomla/Community Builder. While the Joomla/CB combination doesn’t have the finesse and cleanness of Buddypress they does offer a far more conventional UI on the front-end and far easier to manage back-end.
They also do a far better job of integration with other extensions.
WP, BP and bbPress feel like the Mac O.S.’s to me. Very pretty and work well… once you figure out how *they* want you to think. But they do things their OWN way and if you want to deviate, you get kicked out of the cult.
And the documentation is very Mac-like. “Do step 1 and then it works.” But they forgot about steps 2-10 as it’s assumed you already knew that.
Yes, bbPress is now being made a WordPress plugin
Yes, bbPress is now being made a WordPress plugin
Something more official will probably come down the pipe eventually. I imagine there will be a need to convert long blog comment conversations into forum topics and replies.
@christopher jon – Very good to hear!
I just put the final touches on theme compatibility for user profiles and topic/reply editing, so now they won’t look as wonky.
All that’s left to finish with theme compat are views, and I don’t expect them to be a problem at all.
We are now 8 tickets (and only a few more labor hours) away from putting this into WordPress Extend. Sadly it’s behind schedule (weird eh?) but wanted to keep everyone posted.
If there are any technical writers out there, the contextual help screens that WordPress has could use some bbPress specific content. You’d be doing me a nice favor to take a look at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1510 and drop some prose in there.
As in topic. Let’s say I have site http://the-forum.com And when I entering the-forum.com/bb-admin it points to main site even though I am logged in as key master. And because of that I can’t admin my forum. Forum is integrated with wordpress (both db integration and cookie one).
You can convert your WordPress install into bbPress standalone and then convert bbPress standalone into bbPress plugin.
Does this work with the new bbpress 2 (plugin version) or is it only for the current release?
Does this work for bbpress 2 (plugin version) or is it only for the current release?
@jaja.. – That is strange, because I’m also on MAMP on OSX.
@spiralspeaks – The permalink structure is a product of the way that WordPress handles them. Thankfully it shares this with BackPress/bbPress so it should match existing installs to new installs without skipping a beat. Custom post types, however, currently require their ‘slug’ to precede the actual post_name, which is how WordPress knows which template to serve up.
I can’t get it work locally.
I can do whatever i want but the WordPress admin doesn’t find the plugin in the plugin folder.
While if i place the bbPress plugin inside my online WP version i can activate the plugin and i will get the msg to switch to a different (twentyten theme)
Very strange this local bug.
Using MAMP on a Mac OSX.
Good Evening,
Hey there… I wanna ask how can I fix this thing…
I recently found bbPress plugin, it is great to be installed in a wordpress blog it promotes more interaction for the site. so i installed bbPress in my blog.. but my problem is…
The url for the forums is too long… when the forum base is present..
:bbpress.org/ forums/ forum/ tutorial-guide/
I want to shorten it
from :bbpress.org/ forum base/ forum/ tutorial-guide/
to :bbpress.org/forum base/ tutorial-guide/
plus my concern is if I use
:bbpress.org/ forum base/ forum/
creates duplicate content with
:bbpress.org/ forum base/
and the user profiles
How can I put Latest user post and topics in wordpress profiles??
Any help thanks… I’ll be waiting
Correction its subdomain install
The default WordPress roles/permissions are really awesome, but there’s no UI to customize them to fit your specific wants and needs. If there’s a need to change the capabilities, that can be done with relative ease with a supplemental plugin to change the defaults. bbPress is meant to be flexible, so it should adapt with whatever you throw at it too.
@JJJ
regarding the wordpress/bbpress theme compatibility… it kind of works with that code in the functions.php file, it works but only for individual pages, look forward for developments on this.
Keep up the good work guys!
I did not find any setting where I could set a required user level in order to view or post on the forum.
i think you can set up user permission for bbpress in the users section in wordpress (admin, colaborator, reader etc)
edit: JJJ explained it better
@binhdo – The login page specifically does some hi-jacking now that it shouldn’t. Regarding permissions, any registered user can view or post in the forums. Only Admins/Super Admins can create/edit/trash/delete forums. Moderators can spam/trash/edit topics and replies. New use roles can be created relatively easily, and there will be both a “Super Moderator” and a remix of the “Bozo” plugin soon after release. Some additional measures were put in place to assure that the ‘default role’ was always able to post in the forums, because in multisite installations it’s possible a registered user may not actually have a role at all.
Regarding your permalink issues earlier, last night I made sure that the WordPress rewrite rules get a hard flush when bbPress is activated, deactivated, and when the settings page is saved. In the future the bbPress ‘slugs’ will get moved to the WordPress Settings -> Permalinks page, alas at the moment there’s a core bug that doesn’t allow the settings API to insert additional fields there.
