[katmmad]

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

[micropat]

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.

[martinclarke1]

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?

[Natalina]

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!

[Valen2258]

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.

[DavidK]

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…

[Baichi]

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.

[jloosli]

@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.

[John James Jacoby]

If you empty out the tags field, it will replace the tags of the topic. This does not happen in the default template.

[ben_allison]

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?

[Angela]

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?

[lanattractiongaming]

ok I am using WordPress with Buddypress with BBpress alongside.. I am using the Custom Community Theme for my Template and i am trying to figure out how to change my BBpress template because the default one is Ugly and i have found some bbpress templates that i would like to use but i cant figure out how to make this work. Please any help with this would be Very Much Appreciated.

[_ck_]

0.9 users should upgrade to (or start with) the 0.9 branch

which was the final version of 0.9

but 0.9.0.7 appears to simply be a copy of the final 0.9 branch

browse https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/0.9

zip https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3730/branches/0.9?old_path=%2F&format=zip

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/branches/0.9/

From what I can tell, JJJ just copied the branch over to make “0.9.0.7”

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3517

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3535

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/log/tags/0.9.0.7/bb-includes?rev=3535

That’s all he did, there were no other changes, improvements or fixes.

But there really are some fixes in the final 0.9 branch over 0.9.0.6

There were 12 files changed from 0.9.0.6 to 0.9.0.7 (aka 0.9 branch)

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.6&old=2338+&new_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.7&new=3715

bb-includes/default-filters.php (1 diff)

bb-includes/wp-functions.php (2 diffs)

bb-includes/pluggable.php (1 diff)

bb-includes/functions.php (3 diffs)

bb-includes/registration-functions.php (1 diff)

bb-includes/template-functions.php (3 diffs)

bb-includes/compat.php (1 diff)

search.php (1 diff)

bb-plugins/akismet.php (4 diffs)

bb-admin/bb-do-counts.php (3 diffs)

bb-admin/admin.php (1 diff)

bb-admin/admin-functions.php (2 diffs)

It’s hard to be 100% positive but I am pretty sure they addressed the base64 decoding bug.

Those with 0.9.0.6 can replace just these files to upgrade to 0.9.0.7

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?format=zip&new=3715&old=2338&new_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.7&old_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.6

(those running versions before 0.9.0.6 will need more files from a fuller upgrade, do not use just the above files as it will break your install)

Everyone should still use my mini-plugin to protect bbpress and wordpress for yet-unidentified security issues. It’s better than nothing. You can even remove the header and just copy the one IF block to your bb-config.php and wp-config.php

If 256 characters turns out to be too short of a URL restriction, some may need to raise it as high as 1024, for example in WordPress where it stupidly uses GET now to mass delete posts, which was a dumbfounding move on their part.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Block Long/Bad Queries (for bbPress and WordPress)

*/



if (strlen($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])>1024 ||

preg_match('@(eval|base64|unescape)[^a-zA-Z0-9]@si',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))

{

header('HTTP/1.1 414 Request-URI Too Long');

header('Status: 414 Request-URI Too Long');

header('Connection: Close');

exit;

}

[Martin]

Hi,

For the sake of consistancy, I’d like to use the WP Socializer plugin to display Social Media buttons at the top of my forum Topics.

The plugin author said this:

“Please note that WP Socializer works in all pages or places where there the <?php the_content(); ?> function is called in the theme.

Simply make sure that the theme you use or the page of the custom post has the above function mentioned.

Instead, you can also use WP Socializer’s template functions also.

Use <?php echo wp_socializer(‘template-1’); ?> anywhere in the template which is used by the custom post type.”

Since I didn’t find reference to <?php the_content(); ?>,I’ve tried inserting it into the default theme and the single-topic.php file however the buttons fail to load.

I’m presuming this is because bbPress actually isn’t recognising the php code reference – would this be the case?

Any help would be appreciated.

[SK]

One thing I missed in the long post:

Standalone bbPress

I appreciate the reason why you sought to create a standalone version of bbPress.

The plugin makes sense because it provides access to a large captive base of WordPress users. But on the other hand it ties bbpress down to WordPress, making it usable *only* with sites that use WordPress.

What if someone who doesn’t use WordPress wants a forum software?

Well, I have a suggestion. bbPress should ONLY be developed as a WordPress plugin (as I believe it is now).

However, a standalone package should be available at bbpress.org. This would basically be a bundle of WordPress and bbpress, where bbpress is active by default.

Additionally, by default, the forum root would be selected as the static page that appears as home. You will need some help from your colleagues at WordPress for this…at the moment only pages (and not custom post types) are allowed to be selected as home. (update: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19958 )

To sum up, it will still be WordPress with a bbPress plugin, but would be *sold* as forum software. The distinction being target market. bbPress plugin is targeted and marketed to people who use WordPress and are LOOKING for a forum software that integrates with it. The standalone package is targeted and marketed to people who are looking for forum software.

You might think this is a zany idea, and it probably is. It just might work, though.

[ben_allison]

I start a thread. Include tags.

The next poster’s message (regardless of user role) overwrites my tags or erases them all together.

In fact, every post overwrites the previous tags.

Que? Have I setup something wrong? This happened in a fresh install with the default template too.

[SK]

I have just installed bbPress and this plugin.

I activated the plugin and in the bbPress widget, I placed bbPress search widget.

When I go to the forums page, the bbPress-specific sidebar doesn’t seem to appear – at least I don’t see the bbPress search widget. Also, the CMS/normal sidebar doesn’t seem to be removed – the sidebar seems exactly like the sidebar for the rest of the site.

Finally, I tried selecting single.php as default forum wrapper. But this doesn’t seem to make any difference at all – I still see the *normal* 3-column/2-sidebar page when I visit forums.

Please help!

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

P.S. Searching on bbpress.org plugin browser does not show this plugin

[george123]

I’m uploading a new bbpress theme to:

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bb-templates

Now what? I go into my admin panel of the site, and go to themes, and see these errors:

1. Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

2. Broken Themes

The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.

bbPress (Twenty Ten)

The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.

Where do I go to activate the new theme? Am I putting it in the right place?

Site is running the latest wordpress and the latest bbpress plugin.

Please help.

Thanks and god bless.

[morgan-wick]

By default, the URL for a forum is:

http://www.mysite.com/forums/forum/forum-name/

I would like it to be:

http://www.mysite.com/forums/forum-name/

However, if I simply blank the forum slug in Settings > Forums, I get:

http://www.mysite.com/forums//forum-name/

The second slash gets stripped out, and I get a Not Found page.

The closest I’ve been able to find to a solution is to uncheck the “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug” box, to get the opposite effect, but that has a “recommended” next to it so I’m antsy about unchecking it.

Is the behavior I want possible in bbPress?

[Ph0eniX2018]

I found a workaround for displaying a Twitter Tweet Me button inside individual topics on bbPress 2.0 and using WP 3.x.

Open up: wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bb_user_template.php

Under // Default arguments on line 451 after: ‘after’ => ‘)<include tweet me js script here>

The above will display your twitter button directly under the topic posters name/ip address (if enabled). Use line breaks as needed.

This is likely not the best solution, but given the utter arse-circus of using bbpress plugin, and a bbpress template, and since support is very limited for bbpress, this might work for you as well.

See it in action here: http://alienlikeproductions.com/forums/topic/welcome-to-the-end-of-our-age/

[RVH]

I’m new to bbpress and I did it quite successfully in my first WP site last week. Now, I’m trying to set up a simple site for my wife using TwentyTen and bbpress is the only plugin.

When I go to create a new Forum page and I click on the Templates dropdown, only two choices exist Default and One Column.

Thanks,

Bob

[zachshallbetter]

Also, users are able to edit the admin’s profile.

I upgraded to 3690 and then back down to 2.02 with no results.

I defaulted the WordPress theme to twenty_ten no results.

Installed capability manager and verified that users were able to view forum information.

[zachshallbetter]

I’m having a problem where Admin is able to see their user information and all forum data but all other accounts are directed to a blank page.

This is the “local” address users get sent to http://pcocs/forums/users/skingsford/

This is where admins are directed. http://pcocs/forums/users/admin/

They have “gform_full_access”

I’m using the latest version of wordpress(3.3.1) and bbpress (2.02). I nuked everything related to bbpress including the db entries. reinstalled, and the same issue is occurring.

Disabled all plugins, and re-activated the plugin. Still unable to access user profile as another user. Able to access profile in dashboard.

Rebuilt the permalinks.

No themes, no plugins, just default data.

Any thoughts on what would cause this to occur?

[LabSecrets]

You can always override the default twentyten bbPress (core) theme using CSS, for most elements or their attributes.

However, to override the default markup, it would most likely require you to use an action or filter in your wp theme (or child theme) functions.php, or to modify the core plugin theme files (being aware of the fact that you would then have to protect these in the event of any plugin update). See this for a list of some 110 action hooks: https://gist.github.com/1372637

You could use body.bbPress xxxx {element:attribute;} in your css to help you restrict your css mods to only bbPress pages. I believe you can also use many bbPress specific conditional tags as well. See: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-conditional-tags

[mga2]

im using a multisite installation of wordpress… by super admin, the network administrator was meant

today made a fresh install of wordpress 3.2.1 and bbpress 2.0.2, all default settings…

i created only a forum with one topic… the userprofile(and edit) does not work…

on non multisite wordpress everything worked as expected…..

what information should i provide to help investigation?