I need this translation but the problem is that I am unable to login there with my WordPress account. I can login here no problem but as soon as I go to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default I am unable to login 
//anointed, I must say sorry if I bothered you.
You might see the ‘bbPress Topics list’ widget, in wordpress widgets. I meant I want to use the widget ‘outside the loop’.
That must be done the code like below:
<?php
if ( bbp_has_topics( array( ‘author’ => 0, ‘show_stickies’ => false, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘post_parent’ => ‘any’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5 ) ) )
bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/loop’, ‘title’ );
?>
Ok, ive been testing these things out for the past 2 weeks. Buddypress and BBpress communicate, however their actual integration as 2 separate plugins is kinda light. They do/can send info back and forth, and BBPress will publish to the activity stream, and things like that.
TO answer the question asked…
When you install Buddypress and use the group forums, it says “Sync with existing bbpress install”. This means an existing version of the built-in BUDDYPRESS BBPress, not the BBPress Plugin.
You can have Buddypress and the BBPress Plugin (from wordpress), but you install them as 2 seperate plugins and they pretty much operate that way, other than some communication.
As far as integrating BBPress into the Buddypress theme. You can use the built in Buddypress version, which uses the same themes and etc. But for the separate plugin version, I havent found a way to do it, other than that they are both built into the same wordpress theme (unless you find/make a BBPress theme thats similar.
Hope that helps.
I registered here just to help you, because i was having this same issue.
I was frustrated as well… BUT the solution is so simple. Too bad theres no documention to tell everyone.
Whatever u changed the BBPress “Forums base” name to, make a wordpress page with that permalink. And then put in the short code [bbp-forum-index] (or any BBPress shortcode u like).
If you changed the BBPress Forums base name to “theboards”, then make a new wordpress page with the same permalink “theboards”. So your forum will be located at mywebsite.com/theboards, regardless of if you create new forums or topics, theres nothing there. Create a page, pop in that shortcode or any of the ones at the link below and ZAP BOOM POW, go to mywebsite.com/theboards and its there! lol
BBPress Shortcodes- https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes.
Hope that helps.
As a forum Vbulletin is miles ahead of BBPress at the moment. There is no comparing the two systems due to the shear number of plugins and addons available right now for vb.
However, BBPress has built everything around true WordPress standards which I am intimately familiar with. This makes building a custom forum solution much easier for me than what vb offers.
I was running a custom bridge setup to ‘hook’ together WordPress and Vbulletin. While this works great syncing users registration/login/etc there is no deep integration with the data side and frankly I didn’t feel like writing it.
Because BBPress stores everything in the WP db and standard formats, it makes it much easier to pull forum data into other templates than it is with vb.
(say I want a user profile page showing all users posts/topics/replies/custom post-types/etc.. very easy with BBPress)
Given enough time and energy, I don’t believe there is anything that vb does which wp can’t do better.
The german language file for bbPress 1.1 is now available as informal version.
1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal
1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress) formal and informal
2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress) formal
Have fun!
Die deutschen Sprachdateien für bbPress 1.1 sind jetzt auch als informelle Version (Du-Anrede) verfügbar.
1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell
1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version), formell und informell
2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress), formell
Viel Spaß!
The german language file for bbPress 1.1 is now available as informal version.
1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal
1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress) formal and informal
2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress) formal
Have fun!
Die deutschen Sprachdateien für bbPress 1.1 sind jetzt auch als informelle Version (Du-Anrede) verfügbar.
1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell
1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version), formell und informell
2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress), formell
Viel Spaß!
EdParticipant
thanks for the reply. I’ve been messing with the one i’ve found here:
ForumConverter
but I’ve not been able to get it working yet. it imports most of the data, but some fields are broken.
I hope either the owner of that, or someone else will come out with a full release soon. BBv2 looks great – but without data to import, I can’t play 
The problem is not about the updating and how should I update the BP. Right now I have a clean WordPress install without any plugins and I just add these two plugins from the plugin directory and do the instruction. But still, there is no activity stream. I’m wondering how it works at the first place for me.
John could you please tell me with clean install and without updating what would be the reason to having this problem?
thanks
I think those are the directions for the 1x system, not the 2x plugin.
Follow these instructions:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility
You don’t create subdirectories in the plugin folder etc.. It is now a totally compliant wordpress way of doing things now. Basically, you don’t ‘have to’ copy any files to your theme, but you can if you want to make changes to bbpress.
I am using bbpress 2.0, but when I try to login to the forums with user names that were created in the blog, it doesn’t work.
I have a folder named “forums” (mysite.com/forums/) in my directory that has wordpress installed in it. That’s where I have bbpress installed also. So “mysite.com/forums/” is the URL to my bbpress forums.
I have a blog on my site at “mysite.com”. WordPress is also installed in that directory (mysite.com/). So I have two wordpress installs. One in the “forums” folder and one in the root directory (mysite.com/).
One wordpress install is meant to manage and run the blog, the other wordpress install is meant to run and manage the forums.
I would need to do two things. I would need wordpress with bbpress to communicate with the database that the wordpress with blog uses so that the users are shared between the blog and the forums. I would also need the forums breadcrumb directory to be in this format: “Index/Forum Name/Topic Name”. For some reason, regardless of what I’ve tried so far, the breadcrumbs still show “Index/Forums/Forum Name/Topic Name”. The “Forums” link in the breadcrumbs doesn’t link to anything. Also, “Index” is a page that I created to be the main page for the forums. It lists the index of the categories and forums.
Can you confirm that you went through the BuddyPress update wizard and did not only update the plugins files through WordPress?
If you are using bbPress 2.0, your users are already integrated with WordPress. I’m now a little confused about what you’re trying to do.
I have today installed bbPress, activated it in the plugins menu and created a new forum. When I press “view forum” i get to a page where my phpBB forume is included into the wordpress theme!? Why is it like this? My phpBB installation should not have anything to do with bbPress. I have installed the DB for phpBB togheter with WP, due to that I have the “WordPress to phpBB 3.0.x Bridge” plugin installed.
Someone with the same problem?
== Installation ==
1. Place the ‘bbpress’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
2. Activate bbPress.
3. Visit ‘Settings > Forums’ and adjust your configuration.
4. Create some forums.
5. View your site.
6. Adjust the CSS of your theme as needed, to make everything pretty.
You have to do plenty more than these steps if you want to install and have some forums up and running on your blog.
I think it’s a bit of a cheat to suggest this is so easy to complete. Absolutely hellish in my experience. 2 days in and still nothing.
You make no mention of setting up pages with the shortcode tags, no mention about issues with sign up conflicts and documentation is non existent if you want to add it to wordpress.
Is this another case of tech people making a great system and then just forgetting that people have to use it?
Where are the wordpress installation instructions?
Please someone just tell me if any exist as I’ll go for another system if not.
Bob
Hi
Just starting out with bbpress and wanted to check my steps are right.
I have wordpress site (well my sons) and I have installed the bbpress 2 plugin.
Activated it
Created a forum
Added a topic
I then created a new used set as a Forum Participant.
I then login in with this user on another machine.
went to website.com/forums/ and I can see the summary with forum name, topics, replies etc
When I click on the forum name it states Oh bother! no topics were found.
If I give this user moderator role I can then see the posts.
The forum is set to public.
Am I missing someting so obvious it will hurt.
I would like to eventually use the forum for a small group to be able to discuss without the whole world being able to see it unless they have a username and password. The users can read topics add topics and reply to them, but not be able to delete them via dashboard.
I absolutly love WordPress nad this hopefully will do the job.
Any advice and help very much appreciated
Thcnks
Richard
I’ve installed a spoiler plugin which uses html tags as bbpress does not accept shortcodes within posts. The spoiler plugin is called enhanced-ss.
The plugin works fine within WordPress Posts but does not seem to work within bbpress posts. I am using the latest wordpress version, buddypress version and bbpress 2.0.
The code is available here –> http://pastebin.com/AkH7eNJ4
Is there a reason why it does not display within a bbpress post?
I don’t appear to be able to share user profiles between my wordpress blog and my bbpress forums with my current setup either. I tried installing the bbpress integration tool. In the instructions it mentions that I need to point to the blog’s database in the bbpress admin panel, but I don’t have an option to get to the bbpress admin panel.
Thanks John for reply,
Yesterday I saw there is an available update for both bbpress and Buddypress. I updated both of them and still can’t see anything in my activity stream.
The wiret part is, I’ve done 10 clean installations with both single and multisite wordpress since yesterday. In Windows and Linux. Everything is working except activity stream still not showing from bbpress.
With new BP1.5 that released yesterday there is no doubt in order to installing these to plugins. First BP and after that we should instal bbpress from the BP settings.
Am I right? No changes any where? any tricks?
Template files prefixed with ‘page-‘ are for WordPress pages, and also reserved for actual Page Template designs. It’s a bit confusing, but you quickly adapt.
WordPress custom post types use the ‘archive-‘ prefix to denote the default fallback template file if you have not created a WordPress page using the page template in its place.
You could also create a WordPress page with the slug ‘forums’ and make a template called ‘page-forums.php’ and bbPress would default to that too. There are several ways to skin this cat, and bbPress comes with the ones that are tho most flexible.
I’ll be on a work related trip through October 1, so my availability to help will be diminished. In the meantime be sure to keep your eyes out for plugin conflicts, and please document any duplicatable bugs you find at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org.
Moderators, the power is yours.
@Andre – you’d need to do some switch_to_blog() action to pull it off, but it’s doable.
I have been able to install it, no problem. I just wanted to keep my blog theme and to also build a new theme from the ground up for my forum. So two separate themes for the blog and the forum. That’s why I wanted to install bbpress as part of a second wordpress install in a different directory. This way I could set one active theme for the forums that would be independent of the blog’s theme.
Actually, I was able to accomplish this. My blog is installed in “mywebsite.com”. Then I also installed wordpress in “mywebsite.com/forums”. The problem with this method is that bbpress adds a “forums” base to the URL. So the forums index ends up being ” “mywebsite.com/forums/forums”. The solution was to create a new index page and make it the static home page in wordpress. The index page that I created was called “index”. So the home page/ index page of the forums ended up being “mywebsite.com/forums/index”, this is more presentable, and I was happy with that, but there was still a problem. When ever you would click on a forum in the index… the breadcrumbs at the top of the page would still show the “forums” base that bbpress adds to the directory. So if you visit a forum called “chat”, the breadcrumbs at the top of the forum would still read “index/forums/chat”. So I was able to solve the problem with the home page, but the “forums” base is still part of the actual directory, which ends up being a problem in this case.
Like you said though, I should just install the plugin as part of my blog, and that would eliminate these problems, except that then the forums would be constricted by the blog’s theme, and I really don’t want that.
Thanks for the reply. I thought I read somewhere that bbpress can be integrated with another wordpress database as long as they are both under the same domain name. Oh well, I’ll just stick with a different bb program. This doesn’t seem worth the trouble.
