I have just set up an WordPress installation with bbpres 2.0. When someone registers and then writes in the forum their full name shows instead of the username. How do you do to make the username to be the deafault name to be used in the forum?
Are there any parameters for [bbp-topic-index] that can be added to this? By default it only shows 5 topics before pagination kicks in.
Ok, I think I ran into a snag.
My WordPress/BuddyPress site is HEAVILY modded with plugins. I use a RocketTheme theme that runs off of the Gantry Framework along with Gantry-BuddyPress (which allows BuddyPress to be compatible with the RocketTheme and Gantry Framework.)
The bbPress plugin worked, but only partially. The Forum page set up by bbPress is visible but instead of seeing the “directory” of forums it shows:
Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion SO? what now? 1 1 26 mins Admin
It’s all just plain text with no links. But, the forum I made for General Discussion is viewable when I go to the forum page it made.
For reference, here are the demo page links:
http://bp.daevas.com/forums/
http://bp.daevas.com/forums/discussion/na-general-discussion/
I still have to edit the .css to match the theme design, but I wanted to find out what was wrong with the default forums page and why it wasn’t showing up correctly.
Thanks and hope you can help.
hi jaredatch ,
The reason it’s not holding back Vanilla is because while Vanilla doesn’t have a good wysiwyg editor by default, it has good, working ones
which are easily installed through plugins.
BBpress 2.0 currently does not. It doesn’t even support bbcode natively.
Anyways, I do appreciate your suggestion — this functionality is very important so im willing to experiment with a pre release version of bbpress.
I’ve downloaded the bbpress plugin you pointed to and backed up my existing bbpress plugin folder.
Now, how do i install this bbpress 2.1 without breaking my existing bbpress 2.0 forums?
Ok, I think I ran into a snag.
My WordPress/BuddyPress site is HEAVILY modded with plugins. I use a RocketTheme theme that runs off of the Gantry Framework along with Gantry-BuddyPress (which allows BuddyPress to be compatible with the RocketTheme and Gantry Framework.)
The bbPress plugin worked, but only partially. The Forum page set up by bbPress is visible but instead of seeing the “directory” of forums it shows:
Home › Forums Forum Topics Posts Freshness General Discussion SO? what now? 1 1 26 mins Admin
It’s all just plain text with no links. But, the forum I made for General Discussion is viewable when I go to the forum page it made.
For reference, here are the demo page links:
http://bp.daevas.com/forums/
http://bp.daevas.com/forums/discussion/na-general-discussion/
I still have to edit the .css to match the theme design, but I wanted to find out what was wrong with the default forums page and why it wasn’t showing up correctly.
Thanks and hope you can help.
I’ve been following the development of Thematic for the last few months now, which makes it pretty lame that I’ve never checked out the forums until now. Looks like a great community/resource from what I’ve been able to tell over the last few hours.Anyways, I’ve just released my first Thematic specific Child Theme called Boumatic. My main goal with the design was to step away from the default Top Header, Left Content, Right Sidebar layout that comes as the default. Check it out and let me know what you think!
I got it working though it is not perfect. After setting up all bbp templates into my new theme and ensuring the bbpress, css, and js subfolders associated with the bbp-twentyten template where in my new theme folder properly it is working with some functionality that I can live with; however,…
The breadcrumb link and my forums menu link are not the same. Now, I use a forums page with the shortcode. Now, when someone drills down into the forums and wished to return to the main forums page via the breadcrumb they go to the default forums-archive page set by bbp. I wish it went to my custom forum page with the shortcodes, but I’m happy it is not sending people to a useless page.
So, there is still an issue, but everything is providing useful functionality at this time. I will leave this unresolved and hope the dev will fix in later versions.
OK, here’s progress. I changed the permalinks from DEFAULT to POST NAME, and using the /forums/ url brought up my forum.
So, how do I get the WP menu to have Forums in it so my users know that it is there?
I followed your instructions. Permalinks are set to Default. When I go to the /forums/ url, I get a 404 error page.
Unfortunately nothing changed, its probably “operator error” since I am pretty new to genesis and bbpress. Maybe I didnt explain myself properly either. 
Some of my site’s pages use a custom body class where I specify an alternate header. It seems like all the pages I set up in the bbpress forum and topic areas are missing the Genesis Layout Settings Metaboxes where I can specify the custom body class….
I dont know if I am making this more difficult than it is?? It seems all the deeper bbpress pages (except for the page showing the actual forum) are reverting to the default header and I would like to customize it to show the alternate one.
Thoughts??
For my website, running on Genesis framework using Minimum theme, I am using two diff custom body classes to define the header images of certain pages. The interior forum pages are only showing the default home page site header and I do not see where I can add my custom body class to those pages. Does anyone have a suggestion for how/where I can define/change the header images of the forum pages?? I would really appreciate it!
Website http://www.nurturematernity.com
It’s been a few weeks, but I think the process was:
1) add child theme declaration to your theme’s function.php file
2) Make a file called bbpress.php in your theme folder; this is the template used for the forum index (in the same way that index.php is the default for the blog in wordpress).
3) create a bbpress folder in your them folder
4) COPY any bbpress template files you want to customize into this folder from pluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentytenbbpress
SOOO easy it hurts.
Don’t forget, you might need to grab functions from the 2010 functions.php file, and you’ll also need to make sure you pay attention to styles that scripts uses (like the ajax loading style, etc).
I’m trying to find a way to style/highlight the actual question content differently from replies (in single-topic). The way it is setup by default it looks more like the question is the first reply.
Where could I add a different class for the actual question and also for the bbp-reply-header?
I would like to list comments by most recent on the Home page of my Forum.
At the moment only Topic with the latest comment entry comes up fist, but I would like to have list of comments, like here for example:
http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:UKX.L&display=discussion&it=li
i guess what I need is similar to bbpress forum where you can click to view latest topics or latest posts, but I’d like to have latest comments listed by default.
Many thanks in advance!
OK… perhaps I’m a moron but I’m just trying to figure out how to get stuff up and running. I’m currently running a WordPress blog that gets a lot of traffic, self-hosted on a dedicated server, currently running the Thesis theme.
I am not wedded to the Thesis theme.
I want to add forums to my website and a social networking aspect, and from looking around it seems like bbPress and Buddypress are the best of the best. I want the move from my blog to the forum to the member area to be as seamless as possible (and the ability to run as many ads/same sidebar widgets/etc) as possible.
Where do I start? (I’m getting quotes from $2K-$15K, which really makes me feel like I ought to learn something before I engage a third party.) Do I start by learning about bbPress? Learning about Buddypress? Switching to a new theme (such as Genesis) and learning that first? Should/can I just add bbPress first and then add Buddypress later when time/money allows?
(Currently users do not have to log in to comment, so the forum will be the first time they have to do that.)
I had bbPress running for a while and obviously spam was a problem — is there some default list of plugins you need right from the getgo?
Sorry to ask such a basic question but every time I come to this forum I’m spinning in circles.
Thank you hugely for any guidance anyone can provide.
Thanks,
K
Looking into this.
On what theme(s) does the button actually output on any of the bbPress pages? Couldn’t yet reproduce with the default theme & configs.
Hi Spence,
Thanks very much for your post. The video really helped. I still have one question though which is about the part where you modify the forums to default to full width.
1. What CSS editor are you using?
2. I installed a CSS editor plugin and when I insert the code you used I am getting the message
“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”
How can I fix this so it does what I want?
As mentioned in the 3rd post of this forum … I’ve use the order field. It sorts them correctly in wp-admin …. just not on the page.
I don’t know how to help with the categorically nested forum issue you originally posted (didn’t even know you could do that), but regarding the Order issue…I just struggled with it and found that you must Order every forum you create numerically (if you have 40, then they must all be numbered 1-40). As the default number is 0 for a new forum, it will automatically be ordered at the top (0-40) unless you designate it with another number. Hope this tedious little solution helps you in any way!
Hi, I successfully installed BBPress 2.0.2 to my wordpress site using the plugin. I got the forum to work, however, I’m trying to change the theme and I don’t know how. The default BBPress Twenty Ten theme isn’t working, it says it’s broken, maybe that’s because I’m using XAMPP and localhost? In addition, in my wordpress dashboard, it says Theme is using default bbPress styling, but there is no option THERE to change it. Rather, I was trying to change it in the Appearance tab, but no matter what I did i could not get one of the themes I wanted to show up in that tab.
I want to be able to use themes from http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes , are these outdated or can I still use them? I’m not exactly sure if my file structure is right, is the base directory for bbpress xampphtdocsmy site namewordpresswp-contentpluginsbbpress ? And do I need to learn how to make child themes? I just want to be able to use the really nice themes from the above site on mine. Thank you kindly for any help.
Hi there,
I really need a forum plugin that will work in a WP multisite environment. bbPress is one of the few that I’ve tried that works, but my Theme is not compatible.
I also need a forum that if one ‘attaches’ a post that includes a featured image, that that image appears in the forum. bbPress seems to do that.
I’m using Atahualpa from BFA which I like because there is a very good interface to customize it with many many options.
I do not have the programming skills to do a lot of changes or writing of code from scratch, but I can certainly follow clear directions.
It’s really too bad that there doesn’t seem to be a bbPress interface for changing the look … Currently it’s using the default, which divides the presentation page 50% for user info; 50% for content…. Not really work’en.
Is there a plug-in that will give me a CSS menu to edit or a way to modify the template without being a programmer?
I would also like to be able to ‘turn-off’ the bbPress profile, since I would prefer that folks simply use the WP profile and not have to do stuff over again.
Can you help??
I can give you access to: masterclasses.icp.edu if it would help.
Thanks…
I deactivated bbPress without thinking because I wanted to try something and now I can’t use my site, have a beautiful white screen of death, I’m guessing it’s due to my having the bbpress integrated theme as active without the bbpress plugin being active…
Anyone know how to fix this!?
Nevermind, I panicked. Removed all themes except default and reset itself.
@rpetersn
Thanks for your help. I gave it an earnest go yesterday and I finally got it to work for me today. I too wanted to get this working as a child theme, but ran into this issue (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-error-the-active-theme-is-broken-reverting-to-the-default-theme) since I’m developing this on xampp. I ended up just putting it together, uploading it to the live server, and luckily, it wasn’t too far off.
If you empty out the tags field, it will replace the tags of the topic. This does not happen in the default template.
Any word on this?
My assumption is that I’m doing something wrong, but it appears to happen on a fresh install with the default template.
But it isn’t happening here! I can add tags and the previous ones remain, so maybe there’s a but in the default template, but not in the core?
Just got it installed today, once I hit the activate button…bang, white screen of death. Honestly didn’t see it coming. This is the first time WSD hit me when activating the plugin.
Didn’t find any resources in source, so I posted this thread. Any idea how this happened? I’m not using WP default theme, currently using the following plugins:
– Akismet
– Breadcrumb
– Formidable
– Gravity
– Gravity Forms with Addons
– s2Member
– and WP UI
Any known conflicts?
