[Zachary Russell]

Hello Everyone,

I really want to find a good theme that works with bbpress, that has a sidebar. I want to create a website that has a forum component, with a sidebar for various things. I also want to add advertising (aka Adsense) as a form of revenue, at least to make the site pay for it’s costs.

I have already created 1 website with bbpress, talkbeautyskincare.com and for some reason, sidebar displays below the main content, this is after I added the bbpress files into a child-theme. I just want to know my best bet to tackling this, because I would like to start a community that could help each other out on my ideas.

Thanks so much for your help

Zac

[applesofgold1]

I’m using the BBpress standalone software (not through WordPress blog).

Is this plugin available as a standalone and where can I download it?

I appreciate your help!

[Gautam Gupta]

You might try WordPress SEO which has some support for custom post types, a feature of WordPress that bbPress uses.

[Jared Atchison]

You need to create pages and use shortcodes.

See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

For example have a login page that contains [bbp-login] and a registration page that has [bbp-register] – this will allow you users to register for an account (which they need to post) and and area to login at.

Also there are plenty of plugins available on WordPress.org that let you put a login for into widget areas etc.

[Jared Atchison]

The bbP admin area is combined with the WordPress admin area, so you access it the same way.

Once you are on the Dashboard you will see specific menu items that have been added for bbP.

[aravoth2011]

Hey guys, I just wanted to say thanks for creating this plugin. The possibilities with it are only limited by a persons skill with php, and of course, their imagination.

Using this plugin, and attempting to build a website around it has dramatically increased my understanding of WordPress, PHP, and everything in between. Before I started tinkering around with this thing I didn’t even know what an array was, nor did I have the slightest understanding of loops, queries, actions, or functions. If I needed something on my website, I used plugins, which often slowed everything down quite a bit and created a ton of conflicts. Now I’m not only designing the website I wanted, but I’m understanding it’s architecture.

Though I am a long way from finishing it, I feel like I actually have the ability complete it on my own, which never would have happened without this plugin.

So thank you again to the creators of bbpress, you truly are the last surviving Jedi Masters of wordpress.

[Jared Atchison]

When you are looking for bbP 2 plugins, disregard the plugins on bbPress.org as they are going to be for 1.x.

All bbP 2.x plugins are being hosted on wordpress.org, so that is where you will want to start your search. Specifically you can check out

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

[bjj_pl]

I am trying to convert phpbb3 database and it goes quite smoothly BUT suddenly stops at some point when converting posts

Screen: http://forumpokerowe.com/obrazki/bbconverter_error_screen.gif

I’ve tried various ‘Rows Limit’ (50, 100, 200)

What am I doing wrong?

I use:

WordPress 3.2.1

PhpBB 3.08

BBPress plugin 2.0.2

BBConverter 1.3

[Vili]

To answer myself and help anyone else looking for a solution, it seems that the bbConverter plugin is able to do the job: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/

I still have some issues with the conversion, like the first post of every topic showing html code, but at least I’ve made progress.

[Vili]

Have you found a solution to this? There seem to be a number of people with the same issue, and no solution that I can find.

I have the issue, running a bbPress 1.x installation integrated with WordPress. I’d like to switch to the 2.x version, but the importer gives a fatal error.

[Steve]

I missed the recount – hiding it under the general WordPress Tools menu caught me out;-).

I’ve run it and it seems to be OK now when it comes to dates.

[applesofgold1]

Badly needed: A simple SEO plugin that allows me to change the Title of the home page meta tag.

Other items badly needed: SEO for keywords, description.

WordPress has a great plugin called, “All in One SEO PACK” — something like that but for bbpress.

Anyone???

My biggest challenge right now to using bbpress is difficulty finding quality plugins.

Please help!

Thank you!!!

[ace091]

I saw a thread about registration for bbPress forum plugin on WP:

These are two ways that were mentioned, but I am not sure how to do either:

1. create an .htaccess and put the following in:

Redirect 301 /yourbbpressdirectory/register.php http://yourdomain.com/yourwordpressdirectory/wp-login.php?action=register

2. <?php

header(‘Location:http://your-wordpress-url.com/wp-login.php?action=register&#8217;);

?>

Can anyone give me a step by step on how to do this? Thanks.

[lekkerduidelijk]

Wouter, I use it in WordPress as a plugin. I can not help you with a standalone version since I have no experience on that field.

Sorry for the confusion and good luck with the translations!

[zofar143x]

I don’t think you fully understand what roles and capabilities are. Furthermore, did you try the plugin I suggested? It’s quite different from the “WordPress Access Control” plugin which doesn’t provide you with the ability to modify the capabilities different roles have. The documentation is indeed outdated since the way people register has changed in bbpress 2.x.. The same functionality that the user role map appears to have had (I never used bbpress before 2.x), can now be found under General > Settings > New user default role.

[zofar143x]

It can never be full width as long as you don’t remove that sidebar. You can use Widgetlogic in order to only make your widgets disappear on your forum.

[drewdavid]

I am using a great plugin called “WordPress Access Control” right now and I really like it.

I don’t understand how to assign any particular role to being able to use the forum.

The instructions from this page seem to be outdated:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

“In the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin you will find a “User Role Map” where you can set which roles will be applied to users who register on your forums. Users who register on your WordPress blog will have the appropriate role applied to their account when they first login to bbPress.”

I didn’t notice any “User Role Map”, but I could be easily mistaken.

How are these things handled in the current version of bbpress?

This seems like a pretty fundamental thing(?)

[@ommunist]

Has the same issue. I created “my-languages” folder, but bbPress does not pick up mo and po from it. I also look to find the way to make it compatible with qTranslate.

[SteveIsaac]

I am new to WordPress and bbPress. I have a WordPress 3.3 site with bbPress installed in its own directory. I went through all the steps for WordPress Integration and all the WordPress users show up as bbPress users so that is good.

The problem is I thought that a logged in WordPress user would be logged in to the bbPress section when they go to the forums. But they are not. They have to log in again.

Is this how it works or is there another step that I need to get full integration?

[lekkerduidelijk]

Wouter:

This one does show the most recent and complete one: https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default

When you filter on ‘Untranslated’ (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default?filters%5Bstatus%5D=untranslated&sort%5Bby%5D=priority&sort%5Bhow%5D=desc) it shows no untranslated strings.

Please use the description on how to obtain the files from ‘dtwp’ in the initial post (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dutch-translation-missing-in-repository#post-90960)

[redsavior]

Is it safe to upgrade to WP 3.3 with BBPress 2.02 or should I wait for BBpress to be updated?

[hscoder]

Check this :

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-bbpress-shortcodes-in-wordpress-site/

[kahuitel]

Hi !

Sorry for being late.

The problem is the same using stock theme from wordpress.

I also tried to uninstall then reinstall BBPress : same problem.

Which info would help you for troubleshoot ?

Thanks a lot !

[iftomkins]

I’ve been using the bbPress Custom Views plugin (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-views/). I’ve been creating custom views, but I’m wondering how to create a custom view which is an AND or OR statement, so meets 2 different conditions. Here’s an example (though written incorrectly of course).

bbp_register_view( 'rides-needed', __( 'Rides Needed' ), array( 'meta_key' => 'needed_offered', 'meta_value' => 'Need a Ride' AND/OR 'meta_key' => 'ride-destination', 'meta_value' => 'Timberline'), false );

So, that is to say: display the topics WHERE:

meta_key “needed_offered” = ‘Need a Ride’

AND

meta_key “ride-destination” = ‘Timberline’.

From Gautam’s post (http://bbpep.com/2011/04/creating-custom-views-in-bbpress/) I know I can use these parameters (http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters), but I’m not sure how to translate WPQuery into the register views function. Thanks in advance!

[superhealthyme]

Where do I set the user login functions?

In the instructions it says:

..In the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin you will find a “User Role Map” where you can set which roles will be applied to users who register on your forums. Users who register on your WordPress blog will have the appropriate role applied to their account when they first login to bbPress.<<

where is the bbpress admin area? I can;t find it or any ““User Role Map.” Is it sin the same area as my blog’s dashboard? I see “forum” under settings but nothing b=about users. And up in the Forum area of sdashboard, just setting to create forums, topics, replies, ect.

I’m missing something really basic here, I’m sure.