[mike-acs-it]

Glad that you got it resolved. My problem was different as it happened just after install. Unfortunately, I got 0 help at all and could not find the answer myself, so I just decided to use Vanilla, which went much more smoothly and works very will with the embed WordPress plugin. Oh well…

[rexgoode]

I am running bbPress 2.0.2 as a plugin on a WordPress 3.3.1 site. I have one forum. It all works great.

I have a plug for WordPress that I created that adds certain meta boxes to blog posts. My plugin uses add_meta_box hook to accomplish this. The theme handles formatting the information at the end of the blog post.

I would like to do the same for bbPress forums on the same site. The plugin doesn’t accomplish it. I would like to be able to add meta boxes on the New Topic form for the bbPress forum, preferably after the Topic Description box but would settle for at the end of the form.

Ideally, I would like to just modify my plugin so that it works for blog and forums on the same site.

Do you think it can be done?

In case there are other alternatives than this approach, my goal is that for certain forums, I want users to supply certain information for each new topic. I would prefer to add form controls to the new topic form that would be required to complete the new topic.

For example, I will have a forum where members can post information about upcoming events. I want them to be required to include in the new topic a date, time, location, etc. I would like to not leave it to them to remember to put these essential bits of information in. I want to make it so that if they forget, their topic will be rejected until they supply that information.

Thanks in advance for the help.

[MommyAndretti2]

Another detail – to get started creating your forum.php file, make a copy of for example your page.php or single.php file and rename it. Then style it however you want.

Just don’t touch ‘the loop’ itself and especially the <?php the_content(); ?> query. Essentially your forums are just wordpress pages of a special post type and they will need to be called with those elements in the template just like any other post / page.

[MommyAndretti2]

When you say ‘create a forums page in wordpress’ do you mean you go to Posts or Pages within wordpress to create a page titled “forum”?

You will have much more control over the look if you create a custom template page that sits in your theme folder, called, “forum.php”.

This post helped me 2 weeks ago when I was tearing at my hair over this problem:

Understanding templating.

In that template, you can add bbpress’ sidebar bits by grabbing the php from the bbpress templates and inserting them into your own.

Hope that helps – let me know how it goes…

[macauley86]

Hey, no problem. thank you for coming to my rescue

Yes, I did create a forum

http://www.homeschoolagora.com/forums/

The forum page shows up, but it’s treated like a blog page

http://www.homeschoolagora.com/forums/forum/homeschool-legal-requirements/

and puts the blog widgets in the sidebar instead of the bbPress login and forum-related widgets.

I didn’t even have to create a Forums page in WordPress. The moment I installed bbPress, it created its own forums page, even though it did not appear in the navigation.

Actually, when I do create a forums page in wordpress, it sort of takes over the bbPress-created one and shows nothing on the page. Only when I delete, does the bbPress forums page come back.

That is why I’m not sure if I’m missing a step or two.

I just installed the bbPress plugin from within WordPress and activated it, then created a forum, and put a few bbpress widgets in the bbpress sidebar.

[MommyAndretti2]

Macauley86 – did you actually create a Forum or two in the Forums tab in WordPress? Nothing will show up till you do.

Sorry in advance if I am oversimplifying your problem.

[MommyAndretti2]

I think I’m having the same problem.

The strange thing is that it *was* working up until this morning. In our case, we moved some folders around – we had an old folder of BBPress and it’s possible when we archived it things went wacky. There’s this in the bbpress.php file:

/**

* Note to Plugin and Theme authors:

*

* Do not directly reference the variables below in your code. Their names

* and locations in the bbPress class are subject to change at any time.

*

* Most of them have reference functions located in bbp-includes. The ones

* that don’t can be accessed via their respective WordPress API’s.

*/

which might mean some strange paths were written into the core files. We deleted, and started again. I even went into the wp database to delete all the forums and topics we had made… no luck. A fresh install still turns up a blank page which makes me think there could be another old reference somewhere in the database interfering with things.

Either that, or it’s some permalink voodoo.

O mighty BBpress lords (John Jacoby?) I beseech you…. any advice for this dilemma?

[ShadowXOR]

I’m in the process of setting up a new WordPress site. There is no urgency so I can wait if necessary, I’m planning to use BuddyPress most likely and bbPress 2.1. What’s new in 2.1, and is it recommended that I wait for it before installing bbPress? I don’t want to put a bunch of time into it then need to redo a bunch of work. Thanks!

[anniepassanisi]

Hi. I run a membership site, and the forums need to be private (for members only.) Lately, posts are showing up in Google. I set all forums to private, but now my members get a 404 when trying to access the forum.

I know in previous posts plugins are alluded to to fix this. I’m a total newbie to wordpress, can you please advise which ones I need and how to implement these changes?

Thank you SO much.

[marques_uk1]

Thanks for the comments, I’d like my members to be able to upload an avatar via the profile edit option in my own BBPress forum. I don’t want them to see a WordPress profile, I’d like a simple upload section for the BBPress profile edit.

I think BBPress is an excellent plugin but I think it should provide a way members can upload avatars.

How do you upload avatars in this actual BBPress forum? Is there an option in profile edit?

Many thanks

[Mohammad Mahdi Kabir]

please help me?

thanks

[glitsch]

Hi there,

my wordpress lays here: httpdocs/mysubfolder/…

My Problem is now, that after I logged In/out bbpress puts the subfolder too much to the URL in my browser:

correct would be: http://xxx.xx/blend/forums/forum/blend/

but the incorrect bbpress way: http://xxx.xx/blend/blend/forums/forum/blend/

The “blend/” is too much!!! help me, what’s wrong with the redirection after login/logout? My Htacces in the root looks like that:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?heglandog.ch$

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/heglandog/

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /heglandog/$1

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?heglandog.ch$

RewriteRule ^(/)?$ heglandog/index.php [L]

and inside the subfolder:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /blend/

RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /blend/index.php [L]

</IfModule>

Thanks a lot for help!

regards

[devrimg7]

I’ve posted on wp forums is well but haven’t figured it out.. I’m using ‘User Avatar’ plugin on wordpress. The avatars show up on bbpress profile pages but no edit/upload fields in the profile pages.. How do we sort this out ? Thanks..

[macauley86]

Hi jaredatch,

I just did that, but to no avail. The forums page is blank.

This is my first time using bbPress with WordPress, so forgive the silly questions. is bbPress supposed to automatically show up on a page called “forums”, like YourDomain.com/forums, without me doing anything besides installing the plugin and activating it? Or is there an extra step for me to take?

Thank you

[Mohammad Mahdi Kabir]

for example in multisite(net) when bbpress plugin actived:

user1 with blog1.muwp.com

users of bbpress forum in blog1.muwp.com is all of net users(users of muwp.com or users of super admin).

I want: users of bbpress forum in blog1.muwp.com is users of user1(users of blog1.muwp.com).

please help me?

[Jared Atchison]

Did you instal bbPress 2.x from the WordPress dashboard?

If you did, go to Setting -> Permalinks page with will reset your permalinks, then try again and see if that fixes it.

[Jared Atchison]

As OC2PS mentioned, there are plugins that solve *some* of these issues.

bbPress 2.0 is the first release of the plugin addition of bbPress. As time goes on (see bbPress 2.1) some of these features will slowly start to be incorporated into bbPress core.

For now I would look through all the plugin available on WP.org for bbPress

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

[Jared Atchison]

Are you installing bbPress 2.x?

You should install bbPress 2.x – (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/)

Step 2 – Go to Settings->Permalinks (no need to change the settings, just visiting the page will reset the peralinks)

Step 3 – Go to YourDomain.com/forums/ and you should see the forum index!

[Jared Atchison]

Everything looks ok, its just your theme isn’t playing nice with TwentyTen.

Personally, since your site is under development, I’d recommend giving bbPress 2.1 a test run using the new bbP Compat theme (instead of the TwentyTen one).

bbPress 2.1 can be downloaded on this page, where it says download zip archive – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

If you do choose to try 2.1, keep in mind that it is still under development, so you should make a backup of your site before installing.

[SK]

bbPress 2.1 is coming soon. (current version is 2.0.2)

JJJ says “it’ll be ready when it’ll be ready” (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/21-release-date-1 ), which could mean “any moment now”, in that he’s probably dealing with 1 or 2 major issues (presumably BuddyPress related) and hence can’t give a timeline, but as soon as inspiration strikes down these roadblocks, we could get a taste.

I understand that JJJ expects to have closed 102 tickets for releasing 2.1 (http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1 ), and some of these are quite exciting. My favorite new features are:

– Rich editor http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1673

– Switch theme packages http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1802

What do you think are the coolest new features in 2.1?

[SK]

Jared, Thanks! I will check this solution out.

Regarding configurations: I don’t know if 347374 is an actual number or if you use it just to make a point, which I do get. If bbPress included everything in configurations, then there will be way too many configurations, and would delay next releases a lot. That’s fair enough.

But let’s look at it from the perspective of added value and break from forum convention.

bbPress is billed as a lightweight forum. Hence, when it breaks from forum convention to make it lighter (have fewer functions), that is at least understandable. e.g.

– No signatures in core (plugin exists)

– No icons (e.g. http://www.phpbb.com/community/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read_subforum.gif ) by forums and posts showing useful information (ripe for plugin)

– No emoticons in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No attachments in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No “topic started” date in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page)

– No “read count” for topics (ripe for plugin)

– No forum specific search (plugin exists)

– No post count for posters

etc

However, when bbPress breaks with forum convention to add something without evident added value, that is a bummer. e.g.

– Freshness instead of Last post in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page). I don’t understand the reasoning behind this. bbPress is making an additional calculation, bending over backwards, just to calculate how many seconds, minutes or days have passed since last post. Why? Why not simply display the date-time of last post like most major forum software do? I don’t see the reason and I don’t like it this way, but if it is like this then I assume that there are other bbPress users who do. Hence I say…perhaps this should be configurable.

– The notification This forum contains 5 topics and 7 replies, and was last updated by some-author 5 days ago. Why? What is the thinking behind this? What purpose does this serve? I mean, on the same page, topics are listed, there is pagination (and total number of topics) above and below the list of topics, the user can see which post is on top and who last updated it, so why is this notification important to have? I don’t get it. But since it’s there, I assume somebody does, and hence I request that it be a configuration.

– Similarly, I wonder if a lot is achieved performance-wise by not showing the name of OP in lists of topics, considering that date-time of original post is being retrieved anyway.

– Formatting/styling of original post and replies is different by default on the topic page. From a user perspective, I don’t see why. You don’t have different styling for original post and replies on bbpress.org or wordpress.org What makes you think that everyone else would want it? Perhaps there is not much additional work is being put into it because replies have to be assigned a formatting anyway, and this way bbPress users know that this is possible. But if so, then even if styling of replies has to be defined separately, it should be same as that of original posts by default, and users should be able to see in documentation that it is possible for them to have different styling. If, on the other hand, you have discovered that a large number of bbPress users want to have different styling for original posts and replies, then I say make it configurable.

– In freshness, the number of days/hours/minutes is linked. How does that make sense? (yes it takes to the last post, but linking hours is odd…phpBB’s approach where they have a tiny icon next to the date-time is better) If it does to a lot of bbPress users, I say make it configurable.

(Through all this, remember: There aren’t that many bbPress-supporting themes, and most of bbPress users will end up using bbPress with their generic WordPress themes)

Lots of people use WordPress despite the performance hit (as opposed to say, Drupal) because it is so easy to use and customize without having to do (or even know) any coding. All bbPress users are WordPress users and so there is a similar expectation from bbPress.

I know it’s not fair to compare bbPress to WordPress, which has so many more developers and contributors, not to mention forum moderators.

On the other hand, it is a fair expectation, for bbPress is billed as a forum software from the makers of WordPress. If Matt wants this to take on phpBB, vBulletin and SMF, he needs to put some resources behind it, instead of making JJJ toil alone.

[kommander]

Hello,

I’m using the Post Author (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-author/) plugin and it’s showing the “Written by” name and date on Sub-forums.

This only happens to sub-forums, sub-categories. Not Top level forums.

I want to get rid of the post author for the sub-forums and sub-categories whilst retaining the author for topics.

How can I do this?

[Jared Atchison]

Trunk is simply the latest development version of bbPress. So if jjj committed a patch last night, it’s not going to show up in the latest *stable* version – it will be in trunk.

You can download trunk via a zip file or through SVN – SVN is better because then you can easily sync it down the road.

Make sure you are grabbing the plugin trunk and not 1.x trunk.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

[maintenanceguy]

I need a quick, overview of how to install a WP blog with a BBPress forum on the same domain.

I found a couple of tutorials on how to do this with the legacy stand alone version of BBPress and have considered just installing the legacy version but am hoping there’s a way with the newer plugin version.

What I want to do:

(1) Run WordPress from the root directory and use it as the site blog

(2) Run a forum in a subfolder ‘/forum’ (I assume this will require a second installation of WP with BBPress plugin?)

(3) Both the forum and blog should have integrated registrations/login so if you join or log into one, you’re automatically a member of or logged into the other.

(4) Both the forum and blog should be able to share a theme or at least be able to install the same theme on both installations for website consistency.

Thank you in advance for any help.

[jmatthewgore]

Thanks again, rvencu

I do have a Linux host… a CentOS based VPS (managed). Beyond that, I’m afraid that your suggestion is Greek to me. I don’t really know anything about editing the EOL Conversion (or what it is).

However, I can safely say that I’ve experienced my fair share of php errors on this server, and previous ones have not been listed as “line 1”. Also, aside from this comment form showing up, my whole install of wordpress and buddypress/bbPress works just fine, so I’m not sure I understand why changing this line would be a particular problem anyway… maybe it’s just a syntax error?

But are you saying that you don’t see any obvious problem with the code I pasted above?

Many Thanks,

Matthew