“I’d like to add the same tool bar in all my web forms (by the way, it is up with bbpress)”
Me too, but I would prefer wysiwyg editor.
You want to show most recent replies from bbPress on your blog? Is your blog WordPress?
Here’s how to show bbPress info inside WordPress without full integration
There were a couple posts from sambauers about it too, but I can’t find them right now.
There was also the bbPress live plugin, but it’s broken right now:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/
Hello,
Can someone please tell me how I can show a list of new posts on my blog, similar to the recent posts plugin for WordPress. Thanks for your help!
Taku
I’ve seen a plugin for a wysiwyg editor. Unortunately it’s not new and the toolbar may not work with the newest bbpress version.
I am currently running a wordpress blog in combination with a Simple Machine Forum (SMF). I would prefer bbpress because it is easier to integrate in wordpress and buddypress. That’s the advantage of bbpress.
The advantage ob SMF is that they offer much more features. You habe a tinymce editor, you can post pictures, upload images and post clips from youtube, googlevideo and similiar services.
It would be excellent if there were a way to integrate wordpress-plugins into bbpress.
Further please have a look on pretty-urls.
This is too long:
http://xxx.com/groups/movie-friends/forum/topic/blabla/
This would be much better:
http://xxx.com/forum/politics/obamas_health_care_reform/
Just website/forum/category-name/topic_title
@Olaf: I’m in the same standalone boat, but really wish there was some sort of “bbPress MU” so I didn’t need different installations for different forums. There was word of a bbPress plugin that would handle this but its been a while. And with Sam leaving, ugh, not expecting it anytime soon…
Wondering what will happen re this discussed “bbPress MU” plugin with the news that WordPress and WPMU are merging.
I’d like to have the same standard editor as wordpress offers for writing articles.
Further I would like to use the pluging Video Quicktags for bbpress as well.
How can I install this for bbpress?
@Kawauso
1. SimplePress looks better than BuddyPress did before Automattic has acquired it. I intent to emphasize rather business aspect, than technology one. It would be better for WordPress community if the resources will concentrated, not dispersed.
2. Try vBulletin4.0(beta). It’s “light, adaptable, etc”…
3. My company develops 4-6 [WP-based] sites (not blogs) a month. God bless WordPress!
CMS=ContentManagementSystem, isn’t blogging about content management?
And you’re right, hopefully, it’s CURRENT shortcomings will be overcame in 3.0 
I have to agree it’d be good for bbPress to add support for more basic forum functions like merging topics. As it stands, it’s rather silly to need plugins for such basic things. The majority of use does seem to be with bbPress as part of a community package with buddyPress and WordPress though.
It’d be nice too if WordPress (plugin) support could be implemented through an interface layer or something similar that could be added as a plugin or similar to bbPress when it was installed via WordPress, so keeping the core codebase as clean as possible.
bbPress 1.0 was already written to use BackPress functions (WordPress essentially) so I’d imagine it’d just be a case of changing how it outputs content and handles URLs when under WordPress.
michayu:
1. SimplePress looks horrible, and the cleaner bbPress codebase is, the better. It also implements a lot of what in bbPress mentality would be plugin-based.
2. vBulletin is clunky and the opposite of what bbPress aims to be (light, adaptable, etc.)
3. WordPress IS a blogging platform. It has supplementary CMS features such as pages, and can be adapted into a CMS, but it’s primary focus and purpose is blogging. I pray it never gets turned into yet another CMS (and look on discussions on the WordPress support forums about its current shortcomings when used as a CMS if you want proof it’s not one).
I hear only wordpress integration and buddypress etc.
I use bbpress as standalone because it’s fast and easy to modify (just like WP)
Why should I use a forum together with a blog? both applications are very similar.
make bbpress better with features like merging topics or other forum typical functions
Matt,
1. Automattic should to acquire SimplePress and to merge it with bbPress (just as you did with Buddypress – smart move).
2. The best forum software is vBulletin (and now they have a full-featured CMS). Look at vB, and you’ll see the roadmap of all the forum software.
3. Stop calling WordPress “blogging platform”. It’s a CMS, FYI! I even hope WP3.0 will become a CMF.
Wow, I can’t believe the “Matt” actually wrote back to me.
One of the reasons why I went with WordPress is the strength of the plugins and community. I toyed a bit with Joomla but the interface stinks, and it’s too difficult to use and not pretty behind the scenes. People say that it’s stronger than WordPress and more adaptable but I think WordPress is quickly surpassing it as the defacto blogging/CMS building tool. New users like me can get up and running quickly and it’s fun to use!!! Joomla was nothing but a nightmare, ugly and not enjoyable at all. The people in their community are ok to deal with but many are tech-snobs. Thank you WordPress!!!
Any other information on BBpress is appreciated, including a timeline of features to come and integration. Please give us a peek to what the future holds…
talgalili, we’ll probably leave external authentication to plugins just like with regular WordPress.
johnhiler, Sam did have some cool designs and ideas for the site, I’ll try to track that down and see if we can get a refresh going.
rvlawrence, PickledPC, totally agreed. It’s way too hard to use and integrate right now.
Finally I married the two and now they are seamless…Please check it out.
Design in the Raw
I agree making it integrated part of wordpress, or a plugin that is easily installed would help me and many others use bbpress. I am trying to theme it now and it’s not playing very nice. I do like the simple nature of bbpress, the light install and how the user integration but could like to see it implemented into wordpress, instead of a separate entity that works with wordpress. But those are just my thoughts.
As soon as BBpress is integrated into the control panel of WordPress as a plugin or built in option, then everyone will start using it. The increased activity will mean more people and more developers and more plugins and MORE VALUE FOR US ALL. The secret to unlocking BBpress is to make it dead simple to install, integrate and use.
Simplepressforum.com has a HUGE advantage and head start over BBpress, but the admin interface is a bit clumsy and not easy to use nor very pretty. They also only have a handful of people developing it. Imagine how much farther it would be along, if hundreds of BBpress people went over to help polish up Simplepressforum.
I am hopeful that BBpress will take off, but an idea of future features and a roadmap would be helpful.
Hi Matt, I think you could learn a lot from simplepressforum.com
If you could make BBpress as easy to use as that, everyone would use it. Make BBpress a plugin with full integration into the control panel and 1 click installation.
Right now, it’s like frankencoding trying to get all these things, BBpress, WordPress MU and Buddypress to all work together.
Make BBpress and Buddypress an already built-in option in the wordpress control panel that we simply have to check off to activate and everyone would use it.
Also, when is buddypress coming to single member wordpress installations?
Yeah don’t want to use an iFrame. I can get it to call the header but nothing else. It’s not calling my stylesheet. I’m only using header, footer, front-page, style.css. WordPress theme wasn’t that bad as i have good knowledge of html and css but no php knowledge until now. BBpress is giving me a fit and I want it to work because I like it, don’t want to revert to a forum plugin….All the info I read is changing the default theme or using these simple files from the wordpress theme to start. Any suggestions?
Thanks
Best place to start:
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/integration
You will be copying the WordPress styles and using them in your bbPress theme to approximate the look of your WordPress site in bbPress.
Some people have also put bbPress in a iFrame inside a WordPress page (which I think is a horrible solution):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/easy-way-to-integrate-bbpress-wordpress-themes
Alright I have my site at pickledpc.com and the forums at pickledpc.com/forums/
I’m trying to apply my wordpress theme to the forums to make it all look the same. I haven’t the slightest idea of where to start. I have tinkered with the style.css but can’t get anywhere. Any pointers? A good place to start?
Thanks
1. If your website is in public_html, then I would put the folder inside that folder, so you would have this:
/public_html/bbpress/
or
/public_html/forums/
or
/public_html/discussions/
When you unzip bbPress, it will create a folder called bbpress. Rename that folder to whatever you want before you upload it.
Uncompress it on your desktop, then rename it, then upload the whole thing to public_html.
4. Well, if /public_html resolves to your domain at http://www.example.com/ and you renamed your bbpress folder to discussions, you would visit http://www.example.com/discussions/ and start the installation.
If you want a link to the forum in your WordPress menu, you will need to create a Page with a slug that is identical to your folder name. So, if you called your folder discussions, create a Page called Discussions with a slug of discussions and if you’re using permalinks in WordPress, that menu item will serve up the bbPress installation.
There are also plugins that will allow you to redirect a page to another URL. You might need to do something like that.
Custom Field Redirect: http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/
Page Links To: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/
There are ways to do it in a page template as well, but you might not need any of that. Create a page with the slug named the same as your forum folder, and it should ‘just work’.
Sure, and i’ll definitely use it. Im just a little scared about support or having to fix things that are beyond my reach.
So, as much as i Will test it. I don’t think im using it in production enivonment yet.
But, my concept of a forum, the way I am conceiving it, designin it, and targeting it, REQUIRES this feature. I won’t use it right now but I’m sure the lack of it will almost fully stop the growth of the site.
Simple as is, mi site “¿Cómo diablos.. ?” is targeted to solve basic questions to tech newbies in spanish, you can imagine there are a LOT of people, and grownups how are just getting to know a computer. And the process of registering, in a separate page, activating through email, and then asking some really basic question, it just really doesn’t work.
What we’ve been using until now is a WordPress site, with reply to coment mail notification enabled. So they just ask, and get the answer to their mails. It’s working ok. But we really think the right way of doing it is using a forum. Auto-creating an account when the user signs up could be incredibly useful for getting recurent visitors and building local support communities in common language.
Sorry for writing so much in such a bad english 
hope you understand.
I have two noob questions re: the installation instructions here: http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/
> 2. Upload the uncompressed files to your server
Where on the server? Do I upload the files to /public_html? to /public_html/wp-admin? etc.
I’ve read elsewhere that you should upload the uncompressed *folder* (i.e., “bbpress”) and its files. But the #2 says to upload the files? Which is it? I’ve also read elsewhere that you might want to rename the folder “bbpress” to something like “forum,” because this will determine the URL to your forum. Is that still the case? The author’s instructions don’t mention this, but it seems important.
> 4. Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site
How do I create the intended URL? Do I need to create a new WordPress page and call it something like “Forum”?
You’re in luck! Try this script to see which bbPress plugins are slow:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-benchmark/
This should do the trick on the WordPress side of things:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-queries/
Good luck!
