[John James Jacoby]

You figuring it out doesn’t usually involve others handing you an answer.

I think you might be over-thinking things. Rather than trying to overload the WordPress template loader with a new archive-forum.php and trying to run something through a shortcode, why not just use a WordPress page, set the slug to /forums, and put the shortcodes and div’s in there instead?

[zuckerbaby]

I “solved” this by using this plugin.

It automatically reversed the reply order for me – although the topic description also gets pushed to the bottom. Whatever you do, don’t use this plugin to reorder topics, or you will get an error and will not be able to recover your topic list.

http://www.nsp-code.com/wordpress-plugins/post-types-order/

[Hwyatbig]

I just installed the bbpress plugin on my wordpress site but I’m dealing with a problem I don’t understand…

When reading the codex, I see it should be very simple, and I think I’m doing what’s explained to create my forum.

for the example I just created a forum named “exemple” (and let the attributes as they were) and then when I have a look at the address which has been created I have nothing but the name “Exemple”, and the description I gave. But no way to create a post or anything.

(you can have access to the page in question in my profile)

Did I miss something ?

[enderandrew]

I ended up installing the CK Editor for WordPress plugin. It can be configured for comments as well, and it worked for bbPress out of the box. I can also theme it with CSS.

However, I’m sure someone else may need to theme the tinymce as well.

[craftcore]

Mindsink, thank you so much! That’s perfect!

[mindsink-web]

Hope this helps:

Add this to the bottom of your theme’s functions.php file. For example wp-content/themes/mycurrenttheme/functions.php

function add_my_new_theme_caps() {

$role = get_role( ‘editor’ ); // gets the editor role

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘manage_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘assign_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘moderate’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘throttle’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘view_trash’ );

}

add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_my_new_theme_caps’);

function add_my_new_theme_caps2() {

$role = get_role( ‘author’ ); // gets the editor role

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_forums’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘publish_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_topics’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_others_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘manage_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘edit_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘delete_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘read_private_replies’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘assign_topic_tags’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘moderate’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘throttle’ );

$role->add_cap( ‘view_trash’ );

}

add_action( ‘admin_init’, ‘add_my_new_theme_caps2’);

[kshengelia]

Thanks for answers guys.

@enderandrew Yes that’s the problem for me – I am going to have some other large WordPress project which I’d like to be integrated with this new forum very closely. That’s why I think about bbPress.

@John Yes WordPress itself is very scalable to start with Mashable and with itself WP.COM and it’s really all about optimization, traffic handling, hardware, etc. But which one will need more working on all these options – professional forum such as IPB ro vBulletin or bbPress?

[Aadhaar Card]

I’m getting a 500 error. Just can’t understand what to do to resolve this.

[John James Jacoby]

Looks like she doesn’t have the proper capabilities.

* Is she marked as a spammer?

* Is this a multisite installation of WordPress?

* If so, is she a user of that site, or do you have those forums set to be global?

[John James Jacoby]

When you start storing that much data, it becomes less about volume and more about server setup and performance. MySQL databases can hold billions or records efficiently, WordPress can read and write to that database easily, too. What will matter is how you spread the pain of your traffic and volume around.

[Reflecting]

On my part is simply was a memory issue and resolved completely once I allocated more memory. Talk to your web host if you are unsure about this or do not have permission to modify the correct files yourself.

[enderandrew]

WordPress handles this natively. Configure WP to allow registration and then use the Meta widget.

There are other WP plugins to enhance registration, such as Buddypress, Theme My Logic, WP reCaptcha, Facebook integration, etc.

[enderandrew]

WordPress itself can handle load fairly well, and is fairly optimized. The question is how well does bbPress handle millions of posts.

Any DB can struggle with a table with millions of rows, depending on the hardware you throw at it. My main concern with bbPress in such an environment is that all WordPress posts themselves share the same table as bbPress 2.x, since it uses custom posts types.

You might be better off using a separate forum on a separate DB from a performance impact, but you lose the integration of WordPress user accounts that you get with bbPress.

The other point to consider is that since bbPress is relatively simplistic forum software (that’s not meant as a slam, it just isn’t as feature rich as IPB, phpbb, etc), there may be fewer SQL queries per page load with bbPress.

[kshengelia]

Hello people,

I am going to open general discussion LOCAL forum with many categories. I am looking at IPB right now but I am starting to think about WordPress & bbPress (with much customization if needed) powered forum.

All I am worried about is how optimized it will be. I think it will need fewer resources than IPB because of it’s simpler functionality, but I need an advice from bbPress “Pro” – local forum, which I should compete with has millions of posts and hundreds of thousands topics (posts for WordPress). So is bbPress right choise for this?

Thanks,

Kote

[Lynq]

You could add a new role for your site: https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_role

[Lynq]

Inside wordpress, go to pages and then locate the page you are using as your homepage content. (It is probably called sample page?)

Rename the title in this page and change the url just below the title by clicking edit.

This should resolve that first issue.

I have noticed that you have resolved the other issue.

Good luck!

[kristarella]

Ah, okay.

I guess I was looking to see if you had an idea of where I should look next for the issue given the behaviour I’ve noticed. I don’t expect you to troubleshoot my whole system, but here it is as it stands:

* WordPress 3.4

* bbPress 2.1b1

* a Thesis child theme with Thesis 1.8.5

* a bbPress-thesis plugin I wrote to apply bbPress templates in Thesis

(bbPress pages didn’t appear at all with Thesis until a recent change in 2.1)

My child theme is a BuddyPress child theme for Thesis (but I don’t have BuddyPress active right now), it can be downloaded at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/thesis-bp-child_0.3.3.zip

The only difference between that version and the one I’m using is that I’ve added a header.php file that is the same as Thesis’ index.php (which builds the whole page, including the head). I did this because it seemed that if the active theme had no header.php the bbPress template would force a default header, and therefore default page contents too.

The bbPress-Thesis plugin is at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/bbpress-thesis_122.zip

All the plugin really does is insert the template part into the middle of the page, because Thesis doesn’t use separate page templates, it has one index.php and then specifies the loop contents in a class, determining the page type from the query. So the plugin filters the loop class to add the bbPress loop content.

All of this seems to be working fine except for the visual editor, which looks like this at first:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-broken.png

Then if I make the one change of moving the files from bbp-theme-compat/extras to bbp-theme-compat, it looks like:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-working.png

I don’t know enough about the bbPress templating to know where to look next for the fix.

Thanks for your replies so far!

[SK]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1669 which was the major blocker for 2.1 has actually been punted to 2.2

So the integration originally planned for BP 1.6 / bbp 2.1 is now scheduled for BP 1.7 / bbp 2.2

Of course, a lot of work has already been done in the background.

[krason]

Thank you Spence! This link saved me. I have been trying to get my forums working again after installing BuddyPress and was about to give up. This pointed me in the right direction and taught me a little extra about the layout of pages and shortlinks for wordpress. Perfect! Thanks.

[enderandrew]

I’ve had similar issues trying to add pages or post with WP 3.4 and I’m not sure what is going on.

[enderandrew]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3989

[SK]

Really? No post on devel yet http://bbpdevel.wordpress.com/

[SK]

Yay! BP 1.6 Beta is out. https://buddypress.org/2012/06/buddypress-1-6-beta-1/

bbp 2.1 Beta can’t be far behind, considering that lots of people have been using 2.1 SVN for a while and the only major pending issue was compatibility with BP 1.6 and that BP 1.6 and bbp 2.1 are supposed to be released at the same time https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/1-6-timelines/

Also, in bbp Trac, the BP compatibility etc. tickets are closed and only 1 ticket remains

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=2.1

[George]

Hi All.

Please see: http://i47.tinypic.com/z6ays.png

I upgraded to 3.4 and now have a strange spacing in the author box.

Stock bbpress plugin with stock template.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,

-George

[Reflecting]

I thought that the latest version of bbPress resolved the issues that cropped up with the WordPress 3.4 upgrade. However, some of the admin on our site are still getting the following out of memory error message when trying to add a new post to our site http://www.optionmillionaires.com

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 15466496) (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /home/optionmi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-template.php on line 558

At first I wasn’t even able to install bbPress, but our web host increased our memory limit to 64M, and I thought everything was fine. I was able to add the forum, several related bbPress plugins, and have been adding forums and topics today. However, I just got word from two of the admin that they received the above message when attempting to post. It eventually lets them, but there’s obviously something going on. Any ideas on a fix?