[macauley86]

Hi jaredatch,

I just did that, but to no avail. The forums page is blank.

This is my first time using bbPress with WordPress, so forgive the silly questions. is bbPress supposed to automatically show up on a page called “forums”, like YourDomain.com/forums, without me doing anything besides installing the plugin and activating it? Or is there an extra step for me to take?

Thank you

[Mohammad Mahdi Kabir]

for example in multisite(net) when bbpress plugin actived:

user1 with blog1.muwp.com

users of bbpress forum in blog1.muwp.com is all of net users(users of muwp.com or users of super admin).

I want: users of bbpress forum in blog1.muwp.com is users of user1(users of blog1.muwp.com).

please help me?

[Jared Atchison]

Did you instal bbPress 2.x from the WordPress dashboard?

If you did, go to Setting -> Permalinks page with will reset your permalinks, then try again and see if that fixes it.

[Jared Atchison]

As OC2PS mentioned, there are plugins that solve *some* of these issues.

bbPress 2.0 is the first release of the plugin addition of bbPress. As time goes on (see bbPress 2.1) some of these features will slowly start to be incorporated into bbPress core.

For now I would look through all the plugin available on WP.org for bbPress

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

[Jared Atchison]

Are you installing bbPress 2.x?

You should install bbPress 2.x – (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/)

Step 2 – Go to Settings->Permalinks (no need to change the settings, just visiting the page will reset the peralinks)

Step 3 – Go to YourDomain.com/forums/ and you should see the forum index!

[Jared Atchison]

Everything looks ok, its just your theme isn’t playing nice with TwentyTen.

Personally, since your site is under development, I’d recommend giving bbPress 2.1 a test run using the new bbP Compat theme (instead of the TwentyTen one).

bbPress 2.1 can be downloaded on this page, where it says download zip archive – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

If you do choose to try 2.1, keep in mind that it is still under development, so you should make a backup of your site before installing.

[SK]

bbPress 2.1 is coming soon. (current version is 2.0.2)

JJJ says “it’ll be ready when it’ll be ready” (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/21-release-date-1 ), which could mean “any moment now”, in that he’s probably dealing with 1 or 2 major issues (presumably BuddyPress related) and hence can’t give a timeline, but as soon as inspiration strikes down these roadblocks, we could get a taste.

I understand that JJJ expects to have closed 102 tickets for releasing 2.1 (http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1 ), and some of these are quite exciting. My favorite new features are:

– Rich editor http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1673

– Switch theme packages http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1802

What do you think are the coolest new features in 2.1?

[SK]

Jared, Thanks! I will check this solution out.

Regarding configurations: I don’t know if 347374 is an actual number or if you use it just to make a point, which I do get. If bbPress included everything in configurations, then there will be way too many configurations, and would delay next releases a lot. That’s fair enough.

But let’s look at it from the perspective of added value and break from forum convention.

bbPress is billed as a lightweight forum. Hence, when it breaks from forum convention to make it lighter (have fewer functions), that is at least understandable. e.g.

– No signatures in core (plugin exists)

– No icons (e.g. http://www.phpbb.com/community/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read_subforum.gif ) by forums and posts showing useful information (ripe for plugin)

– No emoticons in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No attachments in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No “topic started” date in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page)

– No “read count” for topics (ripe for plugin)

– No forum specific search (plugin exists)

– No post count for posters

etc

However, when bbPress breaks with forum convention to add something without evident added value, that is a bummer. e.g.

– Freshness instead of Last post in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page). I don’t understand the reasoning behind this. bbPress is making an additional calculation, bending over backwards, just to calculate how many seconds, minutes or days have passed since last post. Why? Why not simply display the date-time of last post like most major forum software do? I don’t see the reason and I don’t like it this way, but if it is like this then I assume that there are other bbPress users who do. Hence I say…perhaps this should be configurable.

– The notification This forum contains 5 topics and 7 replies, and was last updated by some-author 5 days ago. Why? What is the thinking behind this? What purpose does this serve? I mean, on the same page, topics are listed, there is pagination (and total number of topics) above and below the list of topics, the user can see which post is on top and who last updated it, so why is this notification important to have? I don’t get it. But since it’s there, I assume somebody does, and hence I request that it be a configuration.

– Similarly, I wonder if a lot is achieved performance-wise by not showing the name of OP in lists of topics, considering that date-time of original post is being retrieved anyway.

– Formatting/styling of original post and replies is different by default on the topic page. From a user perspective, I don’t see why. You don’t have different styling for original post and replies on bbpress.org or wordpress.org What makes you think that everyone else would want it? Perhaps there is not much additional work is being put into it because replies have to be assigned a formatting anyway, and this way bbPress users know that this is possible. But if so, then even if styling of replies has to be defined separately, it should be same as that of original posts by default, and users should be able to see in documentation that it is possible for them to have different styling. If, on the other hand, you have discovered that a large number of bbPress users want to have different styling for original posts and replies, then I say make it configurable.

– In freshness, the number of days/hours/minutes is linked. How does that make sense? (yes it takes to the last post, but linking hours is odd…phpBB’s approach where they have a tiny icon next to the date-time is better) If it does to a lot of bbPress users, I say make it configurable.

(Through all this, remember: There aren’t that many bbPress-supporting themes, and most of bbPress users will end up using bbPress with their generic WordPress themes)

Lots of people use WordPress despite the performance hit (as opposed to say, Drupal) because it is so easy to use and customize without having to do (or even know) any coding. All bbPress users are WordPress users and so there is a similar expectation from bbPress.

I know it’s not fair to compare bbPress to WordPress, which has so many more developers and contributors, not to mention forum moderators.

On the other hand, it is a fair expectation, for bbPress is billed as a forum software from the makers of WordPress. If Matt wants this to take on phpBB, vBulletin and SMF, he needs to put some resources behind it, instead of making JJJ toil alone.

[kommander]

Hello,

I’m using the Post Author (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-author/) plugin and it’s showing the “Written by” name and date on Sub-forums.

This only happens to sub-forums, sub-categories. Not Top level forums.

I want to get rid of the post author for the sub-forums and sub-categories whilst retaining the author for topics.

How can I do this?

[Jared Atchison]

Trunk is simply the latest development version of bbPress. So if jjj committed a patch last night, it’s not going to show up in the latest *stable* version – it will be in trunk.

You can download trunk via a zip file or through SVN – SVN is better because then you can easily sync it down the road.

Make sure you are grabbing the plugin trunk and not 1.x trunk.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

[maintenanceguy]

I need a quick, overview of how to install a WP blog with a BBPress forum on the same domain.

I found a couple of tutorials on how to do this with the legacy stand alone version of BBPress and have considered just installing the legacy version but am hoping there’s a way with the newer plugin version.

What I want to do:

(1) Run WordPress from the root directory and use it as the site blog

(2) Run a forum in a subfolder ‘/forum’ (I assume this will require a second installation of WP with BBPress plugin?)

(3) Both the forum and blog should have integrated registrations/login so if you join or log into one, you’re automatically a member of or logged into the other.

(4) Both the forum and blog should be able to share a theme or at least be able to install the same theme on both installations for website consistency.

Thank you in advance for any help.

[jmatthewgore]

Thanks again, rvencu

I do have a Linux host… a CentOS based VPS (managed). Beyond that, I’m afraid that your suggestion is Greek to me. I don’t really know anything about editing the EOL Conversion (or what it is).

However, I can safely say that I’ve experienced my fair share of php errors on this server, and previous ones have not been listed as “line 1”. Also, aside from this comment form showing up, my whole install of wordpress and buddypress/bbPress works just fine, so I’m not sure I understand why changing this line would be a particular problem anyway… maybe it’s just a syntax error?

But are you saying that you don’t see any obvious problem with the code I pasted above?

Many Thanks,

Matthew

[SK]

#1 Would love to see that as well.

#2 Loved these little things in phpBB and missing in bbpress

#3 have you tried:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-signature/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/

bbPress.org plugin repo is useless for bbPress plugin, but you could check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress

These plugins are WP plugins for bbPress, and you can install from WP Admin just like normal WP plugins

[kommander]

Hello,

I’m using the Post Author (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-author/) plugin and it’s showing the “Written by” name and date on Sub-forums.

This only happens to sub-forums, sub-categories. Not Top level forums.

I want to get rid of the post author for the sub-forums and sub-categories whilst retaining the author for topics.

How can I do this?

[Jared Atchison]

Not sure what version of bbPress you are on, but if some change you are trying out 2.1 I’d recommend looking at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/

[Jared Atchison]

I’d recommend checking out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-local-avatars/

[marques_uk1]

I’ve found a plugin where you can do this, it works perfect. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-avatar/

Just upload profile pics via users menu.

I wanted to allow the member to do it via my webpage rather than having access to wordpress. i.e. via profile edit in BBPress.

I have found a temp solution that works for me, however I’am using eMember plugin that is integrated with Gravatar. http://en.gravatar.com/

[MTPrower]

I will do that. I’ve also been looking for a way to upload avatars through the WordPress front-end, regardless of whether bbPress is installed or not, as that will also accomplish what I think both of us are trying to accomplish. Thanks.

[marques_uk1]

Just to add to my previous post, I have created my own theme for WordPress. The forum works on it fine, it would just be nice to have the option for members to upload their own profile pictures.

Maybe this is something the BBPress team can add on their next update as I’m sure many people would like this option?

Hi MTPrower, I’m going to carry on looking for a solution, hopefully someone can help on here, but I’ll keep you updated with my progress. Could you let me know if you find a solution as well?

Many thanks

[MTPrower]

I have WordPress with bbPress 2.0 installed as a plugin. I’m looking for some basic functionality:

1. The ability to upload an avatar from the front-end, so the WordPress back-end can remain hidden

2. Topic and forums icons that can change depending on whether the user has read the topic(s) yet

3. Signature and custom bbcode support.

I can’t seem to be able to add any real functionality to bbPress simply because bbPress isn’t the stand-alone version. There is no page to activate bbPress plugins that I downloaded, so what do I do? Without plugins, bbPress is nearly useles…

[marques_uk1]

Hi everyone,

I have recently installed BBPress plugin on my website, which I use with WordPress.

I’ve been searching for a solution to allow my members to be able to upload their own avatars via the user edit section on BBPress.

At the moment the defualt WordPress avatar is used which looks rather boring. I have found two plugins that have been built for this purpose however I can’t seem to get either to work.

These are http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/ and http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bavatars/

avatar-upload plugin requires a number of changes and even when I follow these steps I can’t get it to work. Bavatars doesn’t work either when I follow the WP option.

Does anyone know of a simple solution?

Thanks in advance

marques_uk1

[Rafael Wahasugui]

Hello,

I’m using the bbPress Forum list widget and [bbp-forum-index] Shortcode.

I’ve changed these lines to list by title:

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-forum-template.php

Line #88

‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’,

changed for:

‘orderby’ => ‘title’,

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-core-widgets.php

Line #387

‘orderby’ => ‘menu_order’,

changed for:

‘orderby’ => ‘title’,

https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters

[cunparis]

Can you tell me which plugins could accomplish this? The alternative for me is vbulletin which is infinitely more complex for he simple forum I want to do.

[Jared Atchison]

Right now it’s not something that is easily done out of the box. It can definitely be done, but needs some plugins to accomplish.

It’s definitely on our radar though. See https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1805

[cunparis]

I’m looking for the exact thing and I haven’t found a way to do it. Hopefully someone will offer some suggestions.