[theurbantwist]

I like a lot of you on here obviously want bbpress to be implemented into my site.

And I like a lot of you have been having issues getting everything installed and working correctly.

I’m writing this post because I got things going finally on my site and it really isn’t as hard as I was making it and some of you are from what I’m seeing.

I just wanted to share a few simple things that I learned along my journey and hopefully this post can steer some of you in the right direction.

My forum is located at http://www.theurbantwist.com/community by the way. Ignore banner at top of page as that’s just a placeholder for when I get my official forum logo designed.

First things first…

I followed the instructions to a “t” from this post:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

I have a custom theme, so I copied all files over, created child theme and all of that jazz, and added theme support.

At this point I just knew that I was going to be finished because when I went to dashboard, it stated that my theme now had bbpress support. Everything was coming together just as how the instructions above would lead me to believe.

The feeling was brief as when I actually went to the forum page, it was completely blank other than the breadcrumb trail at the top…my header and footer was present but everything else in the middle (the content area) was gone.

So me being familiar with wordpress themes and because I’m so used to “pimping” out themes for wordpress…I tried to do the same with bbpress, so I dissected and went over the code in those files I copied over into my main theme as if it were a wordpress theme and changed some things around thinking I needed to add some template tags here and there to get forum to work.

I did all of that and guess what? Nothing changed…same blank space as before.

So I then went into the plugin file itself and tried modifying the theme from there.

Still…nothing changed.

So I went backwards through the steps and started deleting steps to get back to where I was at originally and along the way, after I removed the theme support for bbpress, the forum showed up on my page. The CSS wasn’t matching my theme, but at least I had a start.

I then modified my css file to match certain elements of the twenty-ten default bbpress theme and mow I’m making progress. The theme is pretty much right where I want it be.

The only thing that was missing was that I wanted a topic listing of all topics on forum front page.

And here is where things really got easy and I wish I would have done this from the start.

I simply created a page.

I named page “community” to match my forum settings and I added 2 lines of code.

[bbp-forum-index]

[bbp-topic-index]

And voila! Now I have forum just the way I want it barring a couple of graphical changes which I’m working on.

The reason I went in detail about how I came to a solution for myself is that sometimes we do a LOT of unecessary stuff to get to where we need to be. I’ve wasted a LOT of time trying to manipulate the plugins files and my theme’s files, when all I needed to do was to create a page.

Bottom line and this is definitely something you should try if you are having problems.

1. Install and activate plugin.

2. Add a Page

3. Add those 2 lines of code above.

4. Publish.

You then have your forum. And that’s a start.

Cheers!

[enderandrew]

Out of the 67 plugins that come up, some go back to 2009, such as this one.

So I’m not sure it is safe to assume they all are designed for bbPress 2.0.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

Since many of the plugins don’t specify, and there isn’t a list here, I guess I’m going to have to go with trial and error.

[John James Jacoby]

The WordPress plugin repository should not have any bbPress 1.x plugins in it. The ones that are there have descriptions that explain what they do. It may not be obvious at first, but with a little reading it should become clear.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like st missing files. Try reinstalling and check back.

[tomerwin]

Hello everybody, good to be here

I installed this morning bbpress plugin (used the automatic installation without downloading and uploading the plugin’s files); the minute I activated the plugin, wordpress refreshed and I can’t access my WordPress dashboard. The blog works just fine (http:/www.egyptian-gods.info) but I can’t access the dashboard at http://www.egyptian-gods.info/wp-login , I tried to log on http://www.egyptian-gods.info/wp-login.php and it opens OK asking for my username and password, but the minute I log in, it takes me to my homepage egyptian-gods.info instead of the dashboard.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Adam

[John James Jacoby]

Is there a physical WordPress page with the “forums” slug?

[John James Jacoby]

The BuddyPress plugin repo is an automated theme layer on top of the plugins in the WordPress repo that are tagged with “BuddyPress”

The bbPress plugin repo is still a dedicated repo for 1.0 version plugins.

[John James Jacoby]

BuddyPress selfishly takes over the “register” slug. If you’d rather use bbPress, you’ll need to make a WordPress page with a different slug.

[Andre]

bbpress 2.0 uses WordPress themes. bbPress 0.x and 1.x use bbPress themes.

You would add the line “add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );” to the functions.php file of a WordPress theme so it knows to play nice with bbPress 2.x.

[enderandrew]

That is a good point in that you can define other slugs to stop them from colliding. I just assumed that most people wouldn’t want two different forum implementations running at the same time with inconsistent experiences. But YMMV.

And to clarify, by Network Activated, are you referring to a multi-site install? I’m not running WordPress MU and Site Tracking is visible to me. That may be a BuddyPress bug I need to submit.

[enderandrew]

Sorry, I meant 1.0. But my point remains that if you search for bbPress in the WordPress plugin repository, there is no indication which plugins are designed for bbPress 1.0 and which are designed for 2.0.

[enderandrew]

Personally, I disabled the Forums functionality within BudddyPress, and let bbpress use the Forums slug. Then I created a blank page called Forums within the plugin “Page Links To” that redirects to the Forums slug.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/

Or you could simply use the bbpress shortcodes on the page.

[Jose Conti]

Hi @anointed,

You dont need to run the Wizard, it is optional.

The wizard is for users than want to check all the users, if you dont want to check them, you don’t need to run it.

WangGuard has 2 features:

1.- Protect the registration page. (you don’t need run the wizard)

2.- Check all users. (need the wizard)

For check the users, you need to send some information but that information never is stored on WangGuard. WangGuard Plugin ask to WangGuard server if the user is a splogger or not and the server respond to the plugin yes or no.

The server only stores the user if you report a user as splogger or spam user.

If you have 40k user, WangGuard take a lot of time to check all of them, but thats like if you want to delete 40k user from your installation, you will need hours to do that.

In the nexts WangGuard versions, WangGuard users will be able to check all users marked as spam or splogger. We will add a new section for admin users and users will be sortable by differents fields. On WordPress users, we cannot sort the WangGuard Status, or we thing that. If some one know how to do that, it will be welcome.

@John,

WangGuard is in the WordPress plugin repository -> https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wangguard/

and in BuddyPress plugin repository -> https://buddypress.org/community/groups/wangguard/

Regarts

[John James Jacoby]

See patch: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1622

[Jared Atchison]

I’ve been told all bbPress 2 plugins are hosted on WordPress.org in the plugin repository.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress

[John James Jacoby]

Regarding: 2, bbPress allows for easy customizing of its slugs, so you can prevent them from colliding. Admin > Settings > Forums

Regarding: 3, Site Tracking is only visible on Network Activated installations of BuddyPress. Otherwise it is on by default.

[John James Jacoby]

Since WangGaurd is for bbPress 2.0, it should be in the WordPress plugin repository so bbPress 2.0 users can download it via the WordPress dashboard.

[John James Jacoby]

Everything in bbPress and BuddyPress is coded using the WordPress actions API. There is absolutely no reason to modify any core files to do what you want to do. There are plenty of examples on how to accomplish what you need on the WordPress codex, and even in the bbPress code itself.

Before you start chopping out pieces of core code, try to understand why it’s there. If you have questions on a specific piece of code in bbPress, open a new topic and I’m happy to explain why it’s there.

[enderandrew]

1. Install Buddypress 1.5 beta.

2. Turn off the built-in forums in Buddypress or the two will fight over the “forums” slug.

3. Turn on Buddypress Site Tracking component. This is specifically how Buddypress sees bbPress posts.

4. Install bbpress 2.0

That should be it.

[Benjamin Allison]

So what does one doofo make Buddypress and bbpress 2 speak to each other?

Let’s assume were using Buddypress’s default theme.

[enderandrew]

@woodwardmatt At the moment, I’m primarily interested in color changes, so that would work. However, with all the plugins I’m using in WordPress and Buddypress, each page load is calling tons of CSS files. I’m trying to cut down on page loading time and all the http get requests. I’d prefer not to load one CSS file, just to load another to overwrite it.

[woodwardmatt]

@enderandrew – If it helps at all, all I did was leave the default setup in place, having installed the bbpress 2.0 plugin. Then include a new custom css file (in the directory of my wordpress theme) and link to this beneath the call to the wp_head() function in the wordpress theme (e.g. in my header.php) – to ensure the custom css file overrides the css included by bbpress.

I simply them overrode any of the styles that I wanted to change from the default. This is a fairly old-school approach to re-branding, but is perhaps one of the least invasive. This wont allow you to change very much of the layout but will allow you to change some of the styling to more closely match your brand and will give you a certain amount of protection against change as the plugin gets updated.

Hope that helps

[John James Jacoby]

Would not be difficult to turn on WordPress’s existing oEmbed functionality.

[jabbamonkey]

I did a search in PLUGINS on this site, and didn’t see a BuddyPress plugin. So, I did a web search for it. Is BuddyPress the social networking WordPress plugin? Does it tie in to BBPress 2.0 easily? Or is it something extremely difficult to do? Do the bbpress short codes (for creating a register page) still work with BuddyPress?

Also, the required or optional option is good. Is there a way to make fields that are HIDDEN from the public?

[jabbamonkey]

I just installed 2.0. Where are the register and login links for the forum? I saw the page for shortcode (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes) and created a page for registration and login.

Does the regular template not add these links to the pages? Do we need to add them on our own? Do we add them to our bbpress theme, or our wordpress theme?