May I ask:
I am looking at simple:press versus bbPress. So I am interested in: WHY would you like to go for bbPress over simple:press?
I can answer that. SimplePress have just started charging for their support! My wife was encouraged by the developers to use their new version 5 when she was looking for a forum plug-in to her WordPress blog. Just when she was up and running they started charging and coincidentally she developed a bug in her forum at the same time after an update. She did not even receive notification that this was going to happen. I’m pretty disappointed with them for not telling her this was in the pipeline because she would have taken this into account and we’d have gone for BBPress in the first place.
She is so desperate now she’s almost at the point of paying for the support to sort the problem out but I would rather manually migrate to another forum just on principle.
We have tried contacting the developers at SimplePress but they are not interested.
@jjman – you can use this plugin to add a button for emoticons to the editor.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymce-advanced/
Using wp 3.4RC opening localhost/wordpress/forums results in a fatal error: “Forums
Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded” pointing at different files/lines. Opening a specific forum through localhost/forums/forum/forumname or a topic through localhost/forums/topic/topicname seems to work properly.
Hi,
Is there a resolution to this? I’m having the same issue and I want to install a lightbox feature into the BBpress and without the /plugins/bbpress/my-plugins path I’m lost on how to make this work.
I’m using bbPress 2.0.2 with WordPress 3.3.2
I’ll keep looking at the other topics as I see that this thread is 11 months old at the time of this posting.
Thanks for any help in advance.
EJ
bbPress is now just a plugin.
Once you install the plugin and activate it, then you will see all of the forum options down the left hand side.
It adds custom post types and works inside wordpress rather than alongside it.
Good luck!
This is a bit late, but I think there’s another way to solve this.
I think the most WordPress-y way to accomplish this is to add the following to your theme’s /functions.php:
add_post_type_support('forum', array('thumbnail'));
This will add the featured image metabox to all forums. See here for more details:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_post_type_support
As long as the forum is visible, it seems to work. Once the forum is set to “private” entries are only visible to admin. Registered users can’t even see their own posts. This remains true even when the forum will be switched back to “public”. The forum is here: http://zukunft-stadtbahn.de/forums/forum/redaktionsbesprechung/
It is public and anonymous posts are allowed.The basic settings were not changed. WordPress 3.3.2 and bbPress 2.0.2. Grateful for any help.
Jörg
Hi Jaredatch,
I tried to add the code in
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/functions.php
But the message still appearing.
“Ce forum contient 5 sujets et 8 réponses, et a été mis à jour par”
(it s in french).
I added the code like that:
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_single_forum_description’, ‘ja_return_blank’ ) );
add_filter( ‘bbp_get_single_topic_description’, ‘ja_return_blank’ ) );
function ja_return_blank() {
ja_return ”;
}
?>
Just before the ?>
I’m using Genesis WordPress Theme.
I also tried to add the code there:
wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/functions.php
Same problem a white page.
Hi ! (sorry for my english…)
I would like to use BBPress topics for post plugin, but when i install it all the previous wordpress comments i had in the post are not shown anymore. Only the new comments created with the plugin are shown.
Am i using the right plugin ? another one would do what i need ?
If not, Is there a way to keep those comments in my blog posts and also a way to automatically create topics in the forum using all the old wordpress comments ?
Thx for your help.
@Gautam
1. When creating a post or page I create a relation to a topic-tag, and then use that topic-tag as a “forum” and linking/fetching it on thepost or page itself. Is that what you are saying ? So how could I create a relation from post/page to topic-tag when posting ? Could there be a way to enable topic-tags for the standard post-type perhaps so a meta-box would occur beneath the standard post tag ? Or should I just create another custom taxonomy ?
It is a very good solution, Gautam. Beautiful and simple. Thank you.
@jaredatch
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-topics-for-posts-forum-for-post-in-stead-of-topic/
Yes, I know. Thanks.
@Lynq
That is an alternative solution, but as pointed out not what I am looking for.
@To the thread
Just to make it clear – I dont want an entire bbpress-installation for every post or page. But some kind of automation, so I would not have to insert a forum manually by shortcode. It is just another way of commenting more focused like in the bottom of amazon.com when you are iewing a book for example.
It is not a big problem as such. But it is obvious to replace the wordpress-comment system which is totally hopeless and lacking for a blogging platform. It is amazing that wordpress doesnt have any creative thoughts on commenting. WordPress should have invented disqus – not disqus. Disqus is really useful – but disqus takes control from you. P2 has some, sure.
Thanks for any input,
Jacob
It should work but historically GoDaddy is not a great host for WordPress sites in general due to speed issues, so I’d use a different one.
https://wordpress.org/hosting/
Personally I’ve always had good luck with HostGator.
Hi, Gautam.
Could you write a couple of more lines – Im not sure I understand. But actually, That would a bit like hypercomments – If one could only make topics as comments and then the topics up for discussion would be fetched back by shortcode. Are you thinking about the way wordpress supportforums are working now ?
Thanks.
When I enable the wordpress plugin, I get the following warning:
Warning: Creating default object from empty value in wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-extend-akismet.php on line 693
I think it might be an Issue with PHP 5.4
I have running debian with PHP 5.4.0 an Apache Webserver
Regards, Max
I’m trying to create the author.php file inside wordpress to display user’s profile, latest blog posts and user’s forum activities. Using the snippet below just returns empty data for each user. I’m sure I’m missing something in the snippet and hopefully someone could point me to the right direction.
<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_notices' );
// Subscriptions
bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'subscriptions' );
// Favorite topics
bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'favorites' );
// Topics created
bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'topics-created' );
?>
Thanks.
You can look into something like http://pippinsplugins.com/mark-as-read-for-wordpress/ however it will require some moderate tweaks to work with bbPress I believe.
You can look into something like http://pippinsplugins.com/mark-as-read-for-wordpress/ however it will require some moderate tweaks to work with bbPress I believe.
I’ll let jjj know.
In the mean time, if you are looking for 2.x plugins you should be looking on WP.org.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress
hey everyone – i’m a newbie at wordpress, bbpress and php – but pretty decent with general html/css stuff.
i’m working on customizing a bbpress installation with the twentyten bbpress theme and want to set it up so on the main “Forums” page there is a Recent Activity column that displays information about the most recent post –
1. the topic the post was made in
2. the poster
3. the poster’s avatar
4. how long ago the post was mad
i have edited the loop-forums.php file to add the additional “Recent Activity” column to to the list of Forums – now I just need to figure out how to pull those pieces of information into the column.
i have created a placeholder column in loops-single-forum.php file where the information will be pulled, i just don’t know how to get it in there – i imagine there are existing functions i can call to pull this data, i just don’t happen to know what those are or where to find them!
any guidance you could give me would be greatly appreciated. thanks a lot!
I’m trying to implement a “Quick Post” box using the New Topic Form shortcode, [bbp-topic-form], but it seems non-admin users cannot post using the form (it says, “You cannot create new topics at this time.”). The same users can post a topic by actually going into the forums, so I’m wondering what the issue might be.
The website URL: capital.businesses.org.nz
It’s a subdomain installation of a multi-site network (businesses.org.nz), which in turn is part of a multi-network installation (using the ‘networks for wordpress’ plugin).
I have 2 bugs to report. Latest WordPress and BBpress plugin. No bbpress plugins.
1) I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this, but when I update my profile using the front-end profile editor, it resets the “disable visual editor” and “show admin bar on frontend” thingys so that I always see the visual editor (which i hate) and I don’t see the admin bar. So every time, I have to go back to backend and manually change them again!
2) I logged out, after replying to a thread, then immediately logged in on another account. Yellow text appeared above the reply box saying “you are now logged out”. Then I immediately posted a reply with apostrophies in, and instead of posting it, it reloaded the page with slashes added. I manually removed the slashes, hit the post button, and this time it worked as normal.
Anyone else got either of these?
acousticwebdesign, the “Fancy Editor” (which is using wordpress default editor) is only available in bbPress 2.1, which is still under development.
You might want to take a look
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1
For bbPress 2.02 user, I recommend you to use Rich Text Editor For Comments which is using jWYSIWYG, although it’s may be a bit hard for beginners to configure it as it lack a setting page.
You can style the editor if you hate the default styling, provided that you know some CSS stuff.
bbPress uses the default WordPress registration page.
DOMAIN/wp-login.php?action=register probably works.
hi dannyjimmy.
The point was more to find some kind of way between blogcommenting that many times becomes such a stupid form of intellectual exchange, because it has become custom to not really think about what you want to bring attention to. Cheering, fanclubbing, “yeah i think so too” mixed in with people trying to decipher the thoughts revealed in an article, newspost, blog post or whatever. By making them type in a title and making and independent “in its own right”-kinda-style – they will be forced to be more focused and people considering responding will have to choose which comment to comment on – which again will make it more focused – because one thinks – why would I respond to this ?
But, seriously – this is awesome: http://hypercomments.com. Note the thing with marking a part of the text and it automatically becomes a topic separate from the comments – that is seriously good !
And besides using posts 2 posts plugin by scribu you can get some of the way – by making a forum quickly when making a post – check it out: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-to-posts/
It is a matter of convenience because you can just make a forum and then include by shortcode. Alternatively one could display the category-text that belongs to the forum while listing the topics belonging to it. That is using the category as an aricle in its own right and somehow displaying it when listing the topics.
But thanks.
