[MT Prower]

I need help performing a basic function. I have a WordPress blog with bbPress installed as a plugin. I would like all of my forums pages (ever) to show up on a custom two-column WordPress page template that I made (template-twocolumn.php) rather than the default three-column template for my site’s theme. I can put a forums shortcode on a WordPress page with a custom template, but the forums will still really just be using the three-column template, and it will show when I click any links to a new forums page. Can someone please help me make it so that the entirety of bbPress uses one particular non-default template page style?

I have WordPress 3.2.1 and bbPress 2.0. My website is at http://www.vgreboot.com/ . Thanks.

[Keith Kelly]

It seems that the bbPress 2.0 plugin is using my blog posts setup for forum topics and forums list. This is an issue to me because I do not want to have post author information or the comments section to display in the forum topics.

Here is an example: http://www.fanoop.com/forums/topic/one-more-test/

I am using Pagelines Platform Pro theme. I have also posted this topic on their forums (http://www.pagelines.com/forum/discussion/14742/bbpress-2.0), but it seems that it is an issue between the plugin and WordPress…

Is there a way to separate the forums from the blog post style? I obviously don’t want to turn off commenting site wide, but this is an issue.

[Anointed]

Short answer, no.

The new bbPress plugin uses custom post-types ‘topics/replies’ so technically topics and replies are already posts.

It’s easiest to think of forum topics as simply WordPress posts that are simply styled as forum topics by using special templates.

Of course anything is possible to build.

[David]

Thanks for the heads up, @anointed.

I’m running bbPress 2.0 with WordPress 3.2.1.

[Anointed]

There is a trac ticket already submitted with this problem.

What vs. of WordPress are you using?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1640

[Andre]

bbPress 2.0 uses the same WordPress theme your site uses. You cannot separate them on a single site, but could get creative with a multisite installation.

[alieninformer]

Thanks David! The truth is I still have some trouble copying my bbpress child theme into WordPress. Every time I do I keep getting errors but it’s only a matter of time before I get it down.

[Trobee]

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/more-privacy-options/

You will need to have your forums on a separate site if you have a public area for your site, then you can choose your required privacy settings from settings –> Privacy

I believe there are some plug-ins that allow you to set the privacy of individual pages, which may suit you better, but I have not used them so I would not know which one to suggest

[Crisium]

@John,

I have tried to follow you procedure for getting bbPress intergrated into my current theme. After 10 hours of copying/pasting directories, files, adding code… I finally gave up.

As you said your self the bbPress as only one theme that supports it and that is the theme you have created, which is a modified twentyten. I think the bbPress fails as user friendly, because I need to manually change things on my harddrive and code to get my current theme to work.

Apparently there are not very many forum plugins for wordpress (well, not that many good ones). I would like to use yours and this is also why I invested 10 hours of my time trying to integrate it.

I’m going to try and explain what I have done, perhaps I misunderstand something with your procedure:

1. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1, theme Suffusion, forum bbPress 2.0

2. With this installment I can see I need to use your procedure description:

If this is not a custom theme under your control (meaning you are not the author) you’ll want to copy the entire “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder into your “wp-content/themes/%YOURTHEMENAME%” folder, and modify your style.css to make it a custom Child Theme of whatever your current theme is.

3. I copy my folder: C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten and paste it into C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion

4. This means I now have a folder in my suffusion directory called “bbp-twentyten”

5. I now open the style.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten” directory and add “@import url(“../style.css”);”

6. I modify the styles.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten”, so that the plugin header now says “template: suffusion”

7. I now open the functions.php file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion” directory and add: add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

As I understand your procedure that is what I’m suppose to do? Did I miss something?

regards,

Peter

[Trobee]

I don’t know if this is possible at the moment. I started writing a plugin to try and add this functionality but my knowledge of php is not good enough.

I have achieved a similar solution, though it lacks some functionality, by using a multisite wordpress install, and having each site with its own forums, and making each site only viewable to members. Then, if you want a user to be able to see a forum you make them a member of the site. The downside of this is that you have multiple forum areas.

I have created some shortcodes to allow you to list forums from multiple sites on single page, but have not got around to adding it as a plugin yet.

If you would like to try it out then you can grab the code from the pastebin link here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multisite-displaying-forum-list and just create an empty folder in your plugins directory, then copy the text from pastebin into a new php file in that folder.

The usage is a bit strange and explained in the other thread

[Trobee]

I am using bbPress 2.0 and in the end I managed to recover the posts by exporting the tables I wanted to keep from the database, nuking the database and the wordpress install and installing it again.

Still have no idea how it happened though

[Trobee]

I have some forums in a members only section of my wordpress site and I have noticed that the rss feeds are not protected and can be viewed by anyone who know the link. Is there a setting anywhere to change this or an option to turn them off?

[Crisium]

Hi bbPress,

I’m fairly new to wordpress and bbpress, so some of my points might just be invalid and based on “I did it wrong”… either way.. please help.

I have installed:

wordpress Version 3.2.1

bbpress 2.0

I have create one forum and one topic.

I added the widget “List Forums bbPress” and the widget showed the forum correctly, but the link was bad. I found out refreshing my permalinks fixed this problem.

When I got to my forum I am expecting to see the text I wrote about the forum and all topics associated with the forum. I do see all topics (in my case the one), but the text I wrote about the forum is not visible?

the forum can be seen here: http://cl204.exaweb.dk/TumblingDrills/forums/forum/new-skills

I hope someone can help me,

regards,

Peter

[cliff1976]

I am enthusiastic about bbPress 2.0, but I am severely missing the ability to restrict access to specific, named forums.

Public / Private / Hidden separation of access is not sufficient for my purposes. I need to have the ability to grant different users access to several distinct hidden forums.

I’ve been scouring this board and the WordPress plugins section for something that is bbPress 2.0 compatible and so far had no luck.

Is there something obvious I’m missing? Any core functionality in the works to make this happen? Any plugins doing that already?

In a nutshell, this is what I need:

Users A,B,C can see Hidden Forum #1.

Users C,D,E can see Hidden Forum #2.

Users A,B cannot see Hidden Forum #2.

Users D,E cannot see Hidden Forum #1.

User C can see both hidden forums.

Administrators can, of course, see any hidden forum.

[sxalexander]

So, Intense Debate has a plugin that works/syncs with WordPress comments. Would something like this ever work with bbPress?

http://intensedebate.com/wordpress

A key feature of it is “reply-to-thread by email” which would be killer for bbPress

[djoep]

Just curious… since bbpress 2.0 uses wordpress custom posts rather than it’s own dB tables, what would you be expecting of such a skeleton plugin? As far as I have seen, normal WP plugins appear to apply to bbpress 2.0, though one could take advantage of the new post types like forum, topic, etc.

joe

[jabre]

Is there a way to protect, hide or remove the RSS-Feeds of topics and replies?

I’m using bbpress 2.0 and Buddypress for a protected community. Thanks to “private buddypress” everything is protected, even the feeds require a login. Only the BBPress 2.0 Feeds aren’t protected.

I’m using the solution in this thread:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/combining-bbpress-rss-feed-with-wordpress-rss-feed-possible

to combine the feeds into one, which is successfully protectet by the private-buddypress-plugin.

Using this code

remove_filter( 'request', 'bbp_request_feed_trap' );

I can force the forumfeeds to be protected but if I enter username and password I get a weird feed.

Is there a more “elegant” solution to this problem? It would be great if I can protect the original forum-feeds but removing them completly would do the trick too.

[paulmarshall]

Hi

I’ve recently installed bbPress plugin to my WordPress blog and am having a few problems. Wondered if somebody could help me please.

The forum index is fine – added using shortcode to a page on the website:

http://bristolornithologicalclub.co.uk/?page_id=926

But viewing the forum and it seems to use a page template with a sidebar. I would like it full width.

http://bristolornithologicalclub.co.uk/?forum=2011-sightings

As my php skills are non existent I asked the theme developer for help and he came back with the following:

“Yesterday I installed the plugin and checked things. The plugin has many template files and it is difficult to figure out which template is ‘exactly’ used for the forum page. May be they are custom post types/taxonomies.

Further, we will need to implement the full width for topics, forum, author and other such pages. If you could ask the plugin authors about any specific hook, I can help you out further. You just need to ask them how to detect whether the current page is from bbPress plugin. (Any post type or page type hook).”

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Best wishes

Paul

[ryanmurray]

I can’t find any options to change the theme from the default. Can anyone help?

Thanks,

Ryan

[ryanmurray]

I’m using the bbPress WordPress plugin version 2.0. Does that mean I treat bbPress plugins like any other WordPress plugin?

Thanks for you reply.

[Brullworfel]

Hi!

I want to start russian translation of bbPress 2, but there is no Russian language in list (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/), please help me.

[Brullworfel]

Hi!

I want to start russian translation of bbPress 2, but there is no Russian language in list (https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/), please help me.

[Andre]

What version of bbPress are you using. If’s it’s 2.x it uses WordPress plugins so you don’t need to create a my-plugins folder.

[Kimb Jones]

Hey guys, been using:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-new-topic-notifications/

Which is great for me as the site owner but I’d like my sub-forums to have their own notifications to specific users.

Possible at all?

[phantom.omaga]

Google XML Sitemaps plugins works best with the new bbpress 2 as the new bbpress 2 uses custom post types the plugin recognizes the bbpress forum and add its constant to the xml sitemap and it is also the best wp sitemap plugin there is so just go for it and don’t waste your time with any other.

you can get it at

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/