[dosch]

thnx for the response.

And indeed you are right; i found a theme that was close enough and worked from there.

It is gonna be a nice website that show affiliation with bbPress and WordPress but is also clearly different to prevent any confusion.

[Anointed]

If you are using WordPress 3.3 and the latest bbPress (I use the nightly download), then you can turn on the tinymce editor instead of the standard textfield input for creating topics and replies.

You would then need to grant permission to the different roles that you want to allow to insert images, either via links or the upload system.

There are user role plugins that can help with this which are actually built for WordPress, but work for bbPress just fine.

Keep in mind that it’s not usually good practice to allow regular users to upload whatever they want into your media system.

[Anointed]

The themes used on these sites are not available. However there are literally hundreds of themes available that simply use a top logo area with the tabbed menu’s. Dig around a bit and I’m sure you will find one.

[Anointed]

Keep in mind, bbPress is at its core simply a WordPress plugin. bbPress does not take away from anything WordPress is capable of doing.

To try and answer your questions.

1. Yes. You pretty much have full control over the registration system just like you do with a standard WordPress install.

Want it open to everyone with no info collected? Sure it can be done.

Want it open but require some info collected? Sure it can be done.

want it open but require double opt in? That’s pretty much standard behavior.

2. If using a subfolder install of multisite then this is pretty much standard behavior. If using subdomain install, then yes there are workarounds. If using subdomain install with domain mapping… well that is a can of worms but possible.

3. Yes but requires some custom code. Not to difficult.

4. Nope, but keep in mind that topics and replies are simply custom post-types. Hence you can add in custom metadata or custom fields to each topic. Then add in the front end metabox inputs and your 90% there.

5. I personally have a bbPress forum with 300k posts, 45k members on dedicated server and have no issues. This would NOT work on a shared server. bbPress is a ‘heavy’ plugin using a lot of resources, but compared to just about any other forum system, including commercial products, it holds its own.

6. plugin territory – I believe Paul Gibbs has a rewards system for buddypress which could probably be reused for bbPress, though I have not tried it.

Remember that bbPress is just a plugin which follows all the WordPress coding standards. It is simple code to understand, clearly labeled and well thought out. Not to mention JJ is a coding ninja.

[thedonald]

Looks like a good start but my hestitation to use bbpress is that these forums look like a ghost town. I see a post or two every day, very few responses, a theme system that is undocumented and people having a whale of a time trying to look decent just in the WordPress stock theme! As a result, I went from thinking “that seems like a good potential solution” to “anything more than the barest of forums is probably asking for trouble.”

This is a free forum – hard to complain about anything that actually works that doesn’t cost anything. However, if someone wants this project to go somewhere, I think it needs a little bit more fuel. I’m hoping that it will and figured I would give you my feedback.

[dosch]

Hey,

I am making a website about bbpress and wordpress and want to have the same look and feel as these websites do (small header with name and the ‘tabbed’ menu on the right etc. etc.)

Is there a theme which comes close to this lay-out which I could build upon? Or is the theme wordpress.org or bbpress.prg uses available for download somewhere?

thnx!

[anthonytkim]

I have been looking throughout the internet for about 3 days and still haven’t found my answer. I have been checking around this forum as well os If my answer is posted here (or somewhere else for that matter, I do apologize.

I am trying to integrate bbpress into my current wordpress theme. I followed all of the steps in the bbpress 2.0 compatibility thread, but didn’t have much luck.

I added the support for bbpress in my functions file, and copied all of the content of the bbpress twenty ten child theme into my current theme, but still didn’t have any luck.

I am beyond lost as to how this works. I understand the support in the functions, and even copying over the file and the CSS, but I don’t know the specifics. for example:

can that bbpress twenty ten theme be implemented into ANY wordpress theme by copying those files over?

And what do we range in the CSS? Am I supposed to merge the CSS files from that child theme, with my current one?

I hope I’m not beating a dead horse or anything, Just looking for some help!

Thanks!

[jangles]

Hi guys. I really love what I’m seeing here and have a great feeling about potentially moving over to this system! My needs – I have a wordpress based site:

I’m trying to decide between bbpress, simplepress and another solution to move a large forum. The problem I’m having is that I’m not sure what each one is capable of exactly. I want a system similar to this one that allows the following:

1) You can immediately post a question with minimal fuss – you can create a username, collect email, password can be generated and sent to the user (or the user can add the one they want.) The registration must be able to be entered into the main wordpress database – essentially shared user table. This might require an add on but it’s “Ask a question” text field, click “submit” and it takes you to the next page with the information I see now and an area to register a username as well as the rest of the post options.

2) Logging into the system logs into an entire multisite. I don’t mind if the user goes through the front door but I need cookies to be set properly so if i go to the wp front end, going to the forum also works and is logged in. Would be nice to login everywhere but I can put the front door login in a sidebar and problem solved methinks.

3) User profile integration. This is the one where I’m not sure happens here or how easy it is to do. For example, if I have a site at wp_4, can I have the forum profile list sync with that so I can have a link that goes to that site for the author’s profile. In theory this should work with a shared user table. I see you have forum profiles here as well as an additional link. If I have a shared user table it’s just a matter of creating a link and substitution username or userid where it belongs.

4) Is there a thread prefix system here, e.g. “question, comment, other” – or will I need to create one? Not a problem, just want to know. I see one here – is it built in or did you guys customize it?

5) Scalability issues. I’ve seen bbpress running quickly, perhaps because it’s also pretty sparse but getting better. simplepress, however, has always crawled on virtually any site I’ve seen of any size. Could it be due to shared hosting? Maybe but it always crawled on every site. You guys would have a bit more experience as to the post numbers where things start to change (I’m thinking of 70,000 threads, 210,000 posts or so I’d like to import.) Looks like others are using it with large numbers.

6) Badge rewards – addons. This is not totally essentially and I can create this with my team. Wondering what kind of a repository already exists and extensibility.

PS – originally I wouldn’t have considered bbpress but this new version is a major step up from what it used to be. Well done!

[Satish]

help..anyone ??

[Chantal Coolsma]

I knew bbPress for a while, but didn’t do anything with it until a few weeks ago. I needed bbPress for some projects to embed it in already running WordPress installations. At first I installed bbPress from the WordPress plugin repository and activated it. So far easy as every other plugin.

But how do I show this thing a WordPress site? I created a page called ‘Forum’ and inserted the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into it. Published the page and everything was visible. But now? Why do I need more shortcodes if this is working?

You can copy bbPress template files into your own custom theme folder. This is a way to change some look and feel together with CSS changes. My first question was ‘why are there so many template files?’ As an experienced WordPress theme developer I would say you only need a few. Like forums.php, topics.php and replies.php. I lost my way. Which template is used for which page?

As long as everything works, it’s okay. But then I ran into problems. I am totally lost. I don’t know what is the right way to embed bbPress into WordPress. Just by creating a page? Or add the template files to my custom theme? Both ways got me into the same problems.

I love WordPress, I love to be active in translating and contributing to various projects, I love to help organizing my local WordCamp, but I don’t love to be lost. In my opinion bbPress should work as easy as any other theme file in WordPress. Where you can construct your own page using functions, which are available in a Codex.

[curtismchale]

Have you tried saving the permalinks again? Is debugging turned on for the whole WordPress install? Is there any debug output?

[cruthas]

I should also add that I have deactivated all my plugins and switched to the default wordpress theme, still no luck.

[cruthas]

Using bbpress 2.0 and the current plugin

using current version of wordpress

I am sure it is something simple, but I can’t figure it out and after hours of banging my head I am posting for some help.

Not sure why, but every forum leads to a blank page.

http://www.climberism.com/forums

click on any of the forum and it leads to a blank page.

Any guidance would be great!

[SK]

Yup, it worked.

The problem is the plugin is not very tolerant (version numbers had to be added to make it work) and not very communicative (doesn’t show a message when import is completed). But it worked.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-forumconverter-conversion-failed

2 files need to edited.

[jangles]

I’m curious to know how well bbpress scales. As it stands right now, I’m beginning to think that WordPress is a bit of a dog despite being good for a number of things, relatively speaking. I haven’t seen many using bbpress other for simple support type sites – does anyone use it on a larger scale?

[Jose Conti]

Hi @pkiula,

How Sean_A say, WangGuard is a WordPress Plugin but works with bbPress 2.x

Install WangGuard is as simple as going to Plugins tab -> Add New -> search for WangGuard and install it.

Ones you install WangGuard, you will need an API Key.

Regards

[Sean_A]

Hi Pkiula,

WangGuard actually will ONLY work with 2.x versions of bbPress, so you’ll be fine to use it. It won’t work with the standalone versions.

To install it you would just install it as though you were doing any other WordPress plugins, go to your admin panel, plugins section, and install.

[Sean_A]

Hi Crisium,

What version of bbPress? If it’s 2.x then what you need is this plugin for wordpress:

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2009/09/17/members-wordpress-plugin

I currently have it installed on WordPress 3.3.1 and bbPress 2.0.2 with no problems.

[pkiula]

Thanks so much! These look pretty good. Will give them a try..

[Chantal Coolsma]

The plugin directory overhere is pretty much outdated. They were made for the original version of bbPress.

Newer plugins can be found in the WordPress plugin directory:

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

[pkiula]

Will WangGuard work with the “BB WordPress Plugin” version? (Not the standalone version of BBPress). I am using 2.0.2 Plugin.

If yes, then where should I install this plugin? Which folder?

[pkiula]

Hi. I have downloaded the BBpress plugin for WP. In this version how do I install plugins for BB? There is no “my-plugins” folder.

Thanks!

[ernohannink]

Even changing the roles to “Forum moderator” and installing the “Members” plugin (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/) did not change anything (working on the same issue)

[ernohannink]

BTW when you are looking for this plugin https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

Installed it, but still doesn’t work for me. As admin I have created Topics in the forum and as a Forum Participant I get “Oh bother! No topics were found here!” and do not see any topics.

[Chantal Coolsma]

Hi,

I installed bbPress 2.0.2 on WordPress 3.3.1. Embedded it in the site of a customer. There are some forums created. All are Forum, Open and Public. Some topics are added by an Administrator. So far everything ok.

When a user with role Forum Participant logs in, it can access the forum, but no topics are shown:

This forum contains 4 topics and 0 replies, and was last updated by xxx 1 min ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

Administrators do see the topics. What is happening here?