[Anointed]

In order to add capabilities to a WordPress roll you need to use some type of capability manager plugin.

Here are a few good ones:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/role-scoper/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/capsman/

Any of the above plugins will allow you to add additional capabilities on a per role basis. All of them work well and it just comes down to which one you like the most.

[Anointed]

You actually installed the plugin correctly. The warning about your theme not being bbPress compatible is simply saying that the bbPress plugin is using the templates from the plugin and not your theme. That is the default behavior.

The top topic on the forums here about making your theme fully compatible will explain how to take it to the next level.

As for plugins:

There are a few available plugins for the bbPress plugin but nowhere near as many as with the standalone right now. So no, you don’t get all the features of the standalone, but you get close.

The new plugin is built to WordPress standards so it is quite easy to work with and building plugins is actually much easier. I am positive that we are going to see more and more plugins available shortly.

If it were me, I would not use the standalone and would go with the plugin. It is 100x better than the standalone and is progressing every day. It really is one of the best and most advanced WordPress plugins on the market.

[neanderslob]

I too have run into this problem using the Custom Community theme on wordpress. In my situation, I’m not doing a localhost install; it’s instead running off a Greengeeks server. Are there any updates with regard to this? If not, are there any quick fixes? The way my forums stand right now, the title is the same color as the background. Could you suggest a way for me to not-so-elegantly change my forum colors around just so I can just get it functional? Thanks in advance!

[selise]

justin, there is a wordpress plugin, Math Comment Spam Protection:

http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/

which i *think* might be almost reasonable for a non-programmer (like me) to extend to bbpress 2 for anonymous posters. what appears to be missing in bbpress (at least i can’t find it) is a filter hook analogous to ‘preprocess_comment’ for bbpress topics and replies.

has anyone here come up with a non-captcha based solution to allow anonymous posting without being overrun with spam?

[MT Prower]

It completely worked. Apparently, WordPress.org and bbPress forums are linked. Thanks.

[MT Prower]

I solved this. Had nothing to do with bbPress, but instead, had to do it via my WordPress theme. Thanks anyway.

[globetrotterdk]

I just created a new WordPress site (3.2.1) and installed the latest bbpress plugin (version 2). I have two questions:

1) Where can I find documentation specifically about the plugin, or does everything (plugins and widgets) that works with WordPress and bbpress also work with WordPress and the bbpress plugin?

2) I would like to be able to display not only the root forums, but also the subcategories – in order and indented. I am currently using the bbpress forum list widget, but it doesn’t appear to be able to display the root forums with subcategories indented underneath. It only show root forums, or everything all mixed together.

[MTPrower]

I agree with Crisium. There is no clear-cut documentation on how to integrate bbPress into WordPress. I myself am at a loss trying to figure out how to force bbPress to use a template that is not my default php template, and at how to create a bbPress child theme. I’ve been reading, reading, reading(!) for the past several days and it all just seems like a big confusing mess to me. If there IS any “user-friendly” and very-thorough documentation for anything in bbPress at ALL, could somebody please link me to it?

[ChrisOGwynne]

Is this possible?

I’ve got them both in the root at the moment and playing nice as far as integration goes, but not as far as the permalinks work. I can’t have both working at the same time, one works or the other doesn’t.

I want my URL structure to operate as follows

bbpress – /forums/ – /profiles/ – /topic/ etc

Wordpress – /category/ – /archives/ – /sample-page/

Is this possible? Or is it possible if I put one of them in a sub folder…

HELP

[funhomeparties.com]

The test profile that I created cannot Reply to a comment or post a new topic. However they can post a comment in WordPress. Under the User tab in the Admin panel the profile is listed as having no role. When I update the users role, click save and return to Admin user tab they still have no role. In the bbpress/wordpress intergration tab All wordpress roles are marked as member (aside from admin). What is going on?

How do I fix this?

[MT Prower]

Well, renaming and then moving or not moving the template.php sure didn’t help. See?/: http://www.vgreboot.com/forum-slug/welcome-to-vg-reboot

I made a template that has only one sidebar for the forums, rather than two. The page there uses the default template.

[John James Jacoby]

Rename your template-twocolumn.php to ‘bbpress.php’ and you’re all set.

[John James Jacoby]

Change your password over in the WordPress.org forums. Sign-up-Lost-Pass here is temporarily being worked on.

[MT Prower]

I need help performing a basic function. I have a WordPress blog with bbPress installed as a plugin. I would like all of my forums pages (ever) to show up on a custom two-column WordPress page template that I made (template-twocolumn.php) rather than the default three-column template for my site’s theme. I can put a forums shortcode on a WordPress page with a custom template, but the forums will still really just be using the three-column template, and it will show when I click any links to a new forums page. Can someone please help me make it so that the entirety of bbPress uses one particular non-default template page style?

I have WordPress 3.2.1 and bbPress 2.0. My website is at http://www.vgreboot.com/ . Thanks.

[Keith Kelly]

It seems that the bbPress 2.0 plugin is using my blog posts setup for forum topics and forums list. This is an issue to me because I do not want to have post author information or the comments section to display in the forum topics.

Here is an example: http://www.fanoop.com/forums/topic/one-more-test/

I am using Pagelines Platform Pro theme. I have also posted this topic on their forums (http://www.pagelines.com/forum/discussion/14742/bbpress-2.0), but it seems that it is an issue between the plugin and WordPress…

Is there a way to separate the forums from the blog post style? I obviously don’t want to turn off commenting site wide, but this is an issue.

[Anointed]

Short answer, no.

The new bbPress plugin uses custom post-types ‘topics/replies’ so technically topics and replies are already posts.

It’s easiest to think of forum topics as simply WordPress posts that are simply styled as forum topics by using special templates.

Of course anything is possible to build.

[David]

Thanks for the heads up, @anointed.

I’m running bbPress 2.0 with WordPress 3.2.1.

[Anointed]

There is a trac ticket already submitted with this problem.

What vs. of WordPress are you using?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1640

[Andre]

bbPress 2.0 uses the same WordPress theme your site uses. You cannot separate them on a single site, but could get creative with a multisite installation.

[alieninformer]

Thanks David! The truth is I still have some trouble copying my bbpress child theme into WordPress. Every time I do I keep getting errors but it’s only a matter of time before I get it down.

[Trobee]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-privacy-options/

You will need to have your forums on a separate site if you have a public area for your site, then you can choose your required privacy settings from settings –> Privacy

I believe there are some plug-ins that allow you to set the privacy of individual pages, which may suit you better, but I have not used them so I would not know which one to suggest

[Crisium]

@John,

I have tried to follow you procedure for getting bbPress intergrated into my current theme. After 10 hours of copying/pasting directories, files, adding code… I finally gave up.

As you said your self the bbPress as only one theme that supports it and that is the theme you have created, which is a modified twentyten. I think the bbPress fails as user friendly, because I need to manually change things on my harddrive and code to get my current theme to work.

Apparently there are not very many forum plugins for wordpress (well, not that many good ones). I would like to use yours and this is also why I invested 10 hours of my time trying to integrate it.

I’m going to try and explain what I have done, perhaps I misunderstand something with your procedure:

1. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1, theme Suffusion, forum bbPress 2.0

2. With this installment I can see I need to use your procedure description:

If this is not a custom theme under your control (meaning you are not the author) you’ll want to copy the entire “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder into your “wp-content/themes/%YOURTHEMENAME%” folder, and modify your style.css to make it a custom Child Theme of whatever your current theme is.

3. I copy my folder: C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten and paste it into C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion

4. This means I now have a folder in my suffusion directory called “bbp-twentyten”

5. I now open the style.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten” directory and add “@import url(“../style.css”);”

6. I modify the styles.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten”, so that the plugin header now says “template: suffusion”

7. I now open the functions.php file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion” directory and add: add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

As I understand your procedure that is what I’m suppose to do? Did I miss something?

regards,

Peter

[Trobee]

I don’t know if this is possible at the moment. I started writing a plugin to try and add this functionality but my knowledge of php is not good enough.

I have achieved a similar solution, though it lacks some functionality, by using a multisite wordpress install, and having each site with its own forums, and making each site only viewable to members. Then, if you want a user to be able to see a forum you make them a member of the site. The downside of this is that you have multiple forum areas.

I have created some shortcodes to allow you to list forums from multiple sites on single page, but have not got around to adding it as a plugin yet.

If you would like to try it out then you can grab the code from the pastebin link here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multisite-displaying-forum-list and just create an empty folder in your plugins directory, then copy the text from pastebin into a new php file in that folder.

The usage is a bit strange and explained in the other thread

[Trobee]

I am using bbPress 2.0 and in the end I managed to recover the posts by exporting the tables I wanted to keep from the database, nuking the database and the wordpress install and installing it again.

Still have no idea how it happened though

[Trobee]

I have some forums in a members only section of my wordpress site and I have noticed that the rss feeds are not protected and can be viewed by anyone who know the link. Is there a setting anywhere to change this or an option to turn them off?