[mesayre]

I’ve now submitted this on trac. Here’s the ticket:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1709

[Anointed]

bbPress 2x REQUIRES WordPress as bbPress is now a true WordPress plugin. There is no way at all to run bbPress without WordPress.

You could always install WordPress in a subdirectory ‘community’ and then have the plugin base as forums, so you end up with site/community/forums/forum….

You may then be able to do some crazy fancy url rewrites to remove the community from the url, though that is also an area I am not familiar enough with to help out.

I’m not sure though if you run into other issues with installing WordPress in a subdirectory as I have never tried it before. I do seem to remember reading somewhere that people were having issues with subdirectory installs, though I could be wrong.

[zborg]

Hi there,

I want to add a forum to a existing (non wordpress site), so I want to have http://www.example.com/forum/ which would default to the forum ‘homepage’ (or better still to an actual forum as there would only be one forum as it were).

However when I install it as a plugin, I don’t seem to see how I can get this to work? as it appears that the base ‘/’ is the wordpress site (which I do not want to exist) then you specify a ‘forums base’ so say /forum/… but that would leave at the bear minimum /forum/forum/forum-name/… if that makes sense? assuming I need to have the wordpress running on the /forum/ dir (and cannot disable it(

I’m possibly making a easy problem seem complicated but have no idea of a good solution?

Any ideas appreciated

ZB

[Hedgehog84]

Hello guys,

I’ve tried to search the forum, but i couldn’t find a similar question. I’m sorry if this is a double post anyway.

At the moment i’m having a website that runs WordPress with a mingle forum. I’m no longer happy with this forum, so my decision was to make use of bbPress and I’m checking this out now.

The problem i run into, is that i cannot have the same slug for pages, as I use for forums. Let’s say the slug i want to use is called ‘gaming’. The permalink displayed here is http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. Now i want to add a page to WordPress about gaming. In this case it will rename the slug to gaming-2, as if the slug was already used by another page.

When i enter the URL http://www.domain.com/gaming/ it does redirect me to http://www.domain.com/forums/forum/gaming/. But I want the WordPress page to show up on the first URL and this specific forum only on the later.

I tried to look some further and found out both WP pages as BBP forums were saved in the ‘wp_posts‘ table. Editing the ‘post_name‘ column here solves my problem, but it would be nice if other administrators, without database permissions could get this done too.

I hope I just miss something obvious here, would be great if someone can help me out!

Cheers,

Hedgehog

[techguard00]

hi, what version of PHP is that wordpress using?

[Anointed]

@tnwinn

The numbers represent topics/replies for each forum so if it says (3,4) that means there are 3 topics and 4 replies in that forum.

Also, I would suggest maybe upgrading bbPress to the latest nightly vs. as it does not use tables.

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

download link is on the bottom of the page.

***BACKUP YOUR SITE***

The nightly beta has been just fine for me and others, but as always backup first.

Your right, your forums look horrible. I’m kinda hoping that the new theme built into the new vs. of bbPress might help you out.

Also, your theme is from a decent company, I’d also go over there and ask them for a little bit of help with the styles. There is nothing conflicting that I see, but for some reason your tables are all evenly spaced which is why the homepage looks so bad. The new theme does not use tables, so it might help.

[Tammy Hart]

Neolo7, try setting your permalinks to something other than default. You should at least have %postname%.

To add /forums/ to your menu, use the custom links option. Or create a page and use the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode, then add that page to the menu.

There is a glitch that is not bbpress related, but rather it’s custom post types related. If you theme relies on the class “current_page_parent” to highlight the current page, WordPress things any post type should keep your blog page highlighted, if you have one. Here’s a piece of code you can drop in functions.php to help:

// fix menus

function support_menu_item($menu){

global $post;

if (get_post_type($post->ID) == 'forum' || get_post_type($post->ID) == 'topic' || get_post_type($post_id) == 'reply')

{

$menu = str_replace( 'current_page_parent', '', $menu ); // remove all current_page_parent classes

$menu = str_replace( 'menu-item-169', 'menu-item-169 current_page_parent', $menu ); // add the current_page_parent class to the page you want

}

return $menu;

}

add_filter( 'nav_menu_css_class', 'support_menu_item', 0 );

Be sure to change “169” to the id of your menu item.

[Themes Support]

I just installed fresh latest WordPress + latest bbPress + several plugins (I have deactivated now) + Members plugin (a role manager plugin).

Create new roles of

– Forum Newbie

– Forum Member

The problem is when I trying to manage limit access to specific forum / post’s content it not work.

As sample for Forum A I limit access only to Admin, but others still can get it. Anyone have this problem before? I still trying some possible solutions.

[Andre]

bbPress 2.x doesn’t use the my-templates folder. 2.x uses the same theme your WordPress installation uses.

[phrough]

Is there a function (or other method) available to determine if the current page is a bbpress related page (forum, topic, reply or other)? Something along the lines of the wordpress function is_page()

It would seem that bbPress uses custom post types, and I’ve tried this with no luck:

if(get_post_type() == ‘forum’ OR get_post_type() == ‘topic’ OR get_post_type() == ‘reply’)

Thanks

[Neolo7]

Hi. I’m trying to install this super awesome forum, but I think installation tutorial too short for me.

OMG1# Plugin activated, where is forum located??? http://mysite.com/forum http://mysite.com/forums – 404! Test forum been created in settings. Wtf?

OMG2# Found only this link working for just created forum http://mysite.com/?forum=test-1 But where is general page? Where is promised installer written in docs?

OMG3# NGINX on server, what next? Guess this is a main problem. And this: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mu-wordpress-bbpress-integration-with-nginx-rewrites#post-11686 seems not what should be because forum in /wp-content/pluging and this

“

location /forums/ {

root /home/YOURDIRECTORY/public_html/forums;

index index.php;

“

for what?

At this moment my forum is completely unuseable.

Thank you.

[bjj_pl]

@shooo, that was my solution. “^?” means any one character in a string. I had to repair the database sql file. One bbcode tag after another. Well, It works and looks ok now but it’s a lot of work.

Some bbcode tags had to be replaced with <span>. I don’t know if it is possible to define custom bbcode tags in wordpress. So I had to replace all with “<span class=”size150″>”, etc.

Rest of the tags work fine thanks to “bbPress2 BBCode” plugin.

I’ve got another question,

How to change parent forum for many topics ??? It would take ages to move topics one by one when there are hundreds and thousands of them.

[Crisium]

I’ve been battling with wordpress to get bbPress and buddypress to work on them by wordpress bbpress team…

and nothing works as you would expect.

I’m using the BuddyPress Default 1.5.2 theme which gets the most part of BuddyPress working.. them I try to install the site wide forum option (inside the BuddyPress Menu) and nothing works.

I get a messages that your current them doesn’t support the templates needed by bbPress… so I install the BuddyPress Template Pack and do the manual movement of files because it can’t copy them.

I still get the message “Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

only problem is that nothing is shown in the forums.

see for yourself at http://www.powertumbling.dk

can anyone “clearly tell me what I should do”… I’m amazed that the people that create wordpress can mess up so much with bbPress and BuddyPress

Peter

[Satish]

waiting for JJ to reply..

[amax2222]

Hi please can you assist. For some of my users the default edit profile link in BBpress does not work. It simply refreshes to the same page without going to the user/edit link. Yet for some of my users it works fine. I don’t see any relationship between those that can and those that can’t, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I am using the plugin version of 2.02 with latest wordpress in MU.

[upacific1862]

Hi all

I´m Alex and I try to set up a new forum in my webpage. Now is “hiden” to people but you can see at… http://www.mundoferroviario.com/forums/

I installed the spanish language in the bbp-languages and works correctly as you can see in the web.

But I try to install a new theme but not running. I created my-templates folder and uploaded it but I can see the option to activate it.

And occurs the same with the plugins. I uploaded to my-plugins and I cannot activate it.

I´m using last version of bbPress, 2.0.2 and Atahualpa theme for WordPress.

Thanks a lot and Happy New Year for everybody,

Alex

[Erlend]

I could swear I saw John write somewhere that bbPress 2.0 was successfully working with W3 Total Cache, but don’t take my word for it.

[SK]

Thanks, anointed! That helps.

Can someone please chime in on the caching aspect?

[Themes Support]

I just started this community driven support project and still ironing it mostly ion localhost. It will be a themes support for any premium gpl WordPress themes.

Here the forum:

http://themessupport.com/forums/

*I still trying to remove the “/forums/” and just be http://themessupport.com/

[bjj_pl]

How to change parent forum / category for many posts in bbpress plugin for wordpress? I’ve got much too mmany posts to do the change posts one by one.

Wordpress:3.2, BBpress 2

[Martin]

Hey Anointed.

Thanks for your nice reply and offer to help out if you’re able.

Here’s a list of what I find lacking as far as theming goes in my current them.

– the forum descriptions are missing, other than the first one.

– there’s no borders defining the layout of forums and sub-forums

– the styling of the avatars isn’t carried over from the main them

– indented comment threading (though this might be a shortcoming of bbPress itself)

– I’d personally like to get rid of that ‘Freshness’ column too. Reasoning: when you’re trying to get increased activity in a forum that has a lack, seeing a bold indicator that it’s slow has a tendency to keep people away (that’s just a marketing point of view)

– the fonts, Title styling, icons and shadows

– check out the same theme’s style for BuddyPress here – http://para.llel.us/themes/mingle-wp/groups/web-design/forum/

– you can see that’s simply beautiful.

– it’s a great pity there’s so much confusion around BuddyPress, bbPress and how it’s made out that they’re integrated with WordPress until you come to discovering there’s so much that isn’t transferred from WP into a plugin like bbPress.

Anyway, ideally it would have been fantastic if the theme creator had done bbPress as well as BuddyPress however that isn’t going to happen as he says it’s too much work. As a relative newbie to WordPress, I simply wasn’t aware there were these sorts of pitfalls – I naively thought theming was a global site thing [groan]

Thanks

Martin

[bjj_pl]

Hi there,

I’ve got a problem with custom page templates and wordpress pages with bbcode shortcodes.

I’ve created a page “Forum “with shortcode [bbp-forum-index] and made it main Forum Page. Since most of my pages use sidebar, the one with forum index was meant to be fullwidth. I tried to set a custom page template but with no effect. The Twenty One template uses only default theme template and keep displaying sidebar.

I do know how to create custom page templates for wordpress but they just don’t work with bbpress plugin Anyway, I don;t know how to make bbpress work with my custom templates.

Any ideas?

[Anointed]

NO, bbPress really shouldn’t slow your site down any more than adding in the same amount of pages to your site as the amount of topics and replies you have in your forums.

That is the nice part about bbPress. It basically used custom post-types and is totally native WordPress code.

There is no extra code loaded that I am aware of, other than a small javascript file, which is only loaded on bbPress pages anyhow.

No idea on the cache part, so can’t help there as I don’t use cache plugins.

[Martin]

Yes, I’m in the same situation with the Mingle theme from ThemeForest, for my site at http://www.geekandjock.com

Great theme and styling which looks like cr*p when viewed with the bbPress plugin. Seems like the forum capability for WordPress is still in the dark ages, in my opinion.

I’ve migrated from Drupal to WordPress recently. I’d have thought that plugins would respect and act like child components of any theme being used for WordPress. Sadly, this sort of logic isn’t the case.

I’ve scoured the bbPress forums and styling seems to be the major problem as well as requiring a whole lot of work and effort, not to mention it also appears (to me) to be a convoluted exercise. This is my major regreat in migrating from Drupal to WordPress.

[Suzanne2012]

Hi, call me a noob but I am running BBPress Integration plugin version 1.0 and a few weeks ago, people cannot upload images, it just says: Attachments

[jpg] [denied mime] bird-collage.jpg (86.2 KB)

when I try to upload a picture in a post. Any solutions? I’m running WordPress 3.3.