You really don’t want to do it this way. The whole point of bbPress is to have an easy way to integrate your forum software with your main WordPress install’s theme and userbase.
I run a fairly large site with a standard integrated bbPress forum, categorized by groups. I’ve been able to successfully update to version 1.5. However my attempts at migrating to bbPress 2.0 have so far been unsuccessful.
All I’ve tried so far is the default process:
Tools -> Import -> bbPress Standalone
I’m given a path to bb-config.php, at the root of my WordPress install, which seems to be correct. Going by these default settings has worked just fine on a much smaller test site. On this big one however, no such luck.
We have ~20’000 threads and ~15’000 users. If you’ve attempted to migrate a fairly large website to bbPress 2.0 from the legacy BuddyPress forum, kindly share your findings.
We are creating a custom theme and have been trying to activate “hot tags” like those being used on wordpress.org/forums and other boards. I’ve searched around the board and found threads that are pretty dated and the code isnt working. BBPress has probably moved past most of the old suggestions.
What do I need to do to add the tag heat map to an area on my custom theme on mysite.com/discuss?
I am using bbpress 2.0 plugin for WordPress. I am trying to have all the forums listed, subforums/categories, on the first page. Much like how the forums are displayed in the Dashboard. Is this possible ? If not, how do I go about making it possible.
I found that bumping the memory limit up in my php.ini wasn’t enough. If I’m reading the WordPress admin code right, it sets a memory limit which may actually be lower than what you’re trying to use and it overrides your settings.
I added the following overrides to my wp-config.php file and that allowed me to complete the import. This was on a local machine with a large forum so you would probably want to try it with a lower limit to start.
define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '2048M');<br />
define('WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '2048M');
The way that I have my wordpress directory setup is “mywebsite.com/forums”. That’s where I have wordpress installed. When I installed bbpress, I got “mywebsite.com/forums/forums” as the URL to the forums index.
Is there anyway to change this so that I can keep wordpress in the “mywebsite.com/forums” directory on my server and still make “mywebsite.com/forums” as the URL to the forums index?
I already have a wordpress theme installed in my home directory, so I thought it would be easier to manage the forums in its own admin control panel. That’s why I installed it in a different directory.
Something else that I was wondering though… in the case where bbpress is intalled alongside the main wordpress site (blog, news page, homepage, etc.), is it separately customizable? Can bbpress have its own theme?
I looked at “http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks”, it reads: “For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields.”
I can’t seem to be able to use the recommended link structures with bbpress forums and topics such as /%post_id%/%postname%/.
Will the permalink structure greatly affect the loading time of my different pages or has this issue been resolved with the latest version of WordPress?
Any chance making it so all the comment forums for a multisite installation are handled by one of the sites.
Example
1.abc.com, 2.abc.com, and 3.abc.com have their comments in the forums at forums.abc.com?
Yay, there is! And it’s actually so obvious I should be ashamed for posting this question.
is_bbpress
More info in bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php
Is there a conditional tag I can use in WordPress that will allow me to say “if is any BBPress page”?
This is for the BBPress Plugin specifically.
I’ve updated all my language files to the latest stable versions. You can download them on my page and use them freely wherever you want.
At the moment there are language files available for the following versions of bbPress:
1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal
1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress, released today) formal
2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress, released today) formal
Please report any errors, missing or faulty translations! Thanks!
Ich habe alle Sprachdateien für bbPress an die letzten Stable-Versionen angepasst. Du kannst sie auf meiner Seite herunterladen und sie frei verwenden, wo immer Du willst.
Derzeit sind Sprachdateien für folgende Versionen von bbPress verfügbar:
1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell
1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version, heute veröffentlicht), formell
2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress, ebenfalls heute veröffentlicht), formell
Bitte melde mir alle Fehler oder fehlende Übersetzungen, damit ich die Dateien anpassen kann. Vielen Dank!
I’ve updated all my language files to the latest stable versions. You can download them on my page and use them freely wherever you want.
At the moment there are language files available for the following versions of bbPress:
1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal
1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress, released today) formal
2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress, released today) formal
Please report any errors, missing or faulty translations! Thanks!
Ich habe alle Sprachdateien für bbPress an die letzten Stable-Versionen angepasst. Du kannst sie auf meiner Seite herunterladen und sie frei verwenden, wo immer Du willst.
Derzeit sind Sprachdateien für folgende Versionen von bbPress verfügbar:
1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell
1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version, heute veröffentlicht), formell
2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress, ebenfalls heute veröffentlicht), formell
Bitte melde mir alle Fehler oder fehlende Übersetzungen, damit ich die Dateien anpassen kann. Vielen Dank!
Hi all!
I’m using this WordPress theme called “Ari” and I’d really love to add bbPress to my blog. However, the styling on the topic page is completely off and I just can’t put my finger on what’s causing the problem. If anyone could have a look and help me out on this one, I’d be thoroughly grateful for your help!
Here’s an example of the issue: http://www.kahvel.ee/forums/topic/ios-5/
For those interested, a plugin is in development that automates the functionality described in Erlend’s link:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/
This is now possible:
http://testbp.org/2011/08/forum-shortcode-as-comments/
Though it’s still unclear to me whether or not this relies on BuddyPress 1.5, the environment in which this functionality is showcased. It would be a very odd dependency though, so I’m hoping this would also be possible with WP + BBP alone.
Users are not actually logging in through the dashboard, but rather the default wordpress login/logout page.
In order to change that, you would probably need to use a custom plugin.
There are plugins available that will allow you to style that page differently.
‘techy’ fix: (requires php experience)
the bbp_has_topics() function appears to function almost exactly like the wordpress loop.
In the bbpress plugin folder /bbp-includes/bbp-topic-template.php line 68 is the bbp_has_topics function.
It takes the parameter post_parent which you can assign as the id of the forum you are trying to pull posts from. There are also a number of other parameters you can set as well.
‘non-techy’ fix: someday I am guessing there will be a widget available which will let you make the filters with a gui.
The forum software has been through several years of development. I’ve seen earlier versions of it used on high(er) traffic websites and it seems to do quite well.
The issue I’m running into is the lack of current version plugins for basic features, such as reply with quotes which seems to have last been updated like 4 years ago. I’m sure with BB2.0 and the integration between WP/BP/BB we should start to see some real life in this community. Vbulletin is great as a standalone board, but does not tie in well with wordpress.
Rule of thumb; Be sure to do lots of trial and error to make sure your plugins are working without issue before you go live on a production site.
hi
i have searched the forums for a solution, but havent found anything relevant.
anyway, i am developing a custom theme for WordPress + buddyPress. lets call it My Awesome Template.
all the theme’s files are in wp-content/themes/awesome.
there, ive got my own style.css and functions.css. in style.css i have defined Template: bp-default, and as i am creating a child theme for buddyPress with a few overrides.
now, i want to work the same way with bbPress. i cant copy over the contents of bbp-twentyten into My Awesome Template folder (wp-content/awesome/), because this overwrites my own functions.php and style.css.
i want to overwrite only certain files, so for example i want to change the main forums index and topics list.
in my perfect world i would do it like this:
add_theme_support (bbpress)
and then i would just create two files: bbpress-forums.php and bbpress-topics.php and then id put there my own html.
is this possible? if im not able to choose my own filenames, then please tell me which files to copy where EXACTLY.
thanks.
Hi, We’re new to this, so be gentle.
We’re looking at starting an on-line mag, with plenty of pages/articles and have gone a fair way down the road to populating our site, which is run on WordPress. We’d like to have an inbuilt forum as part of the features on the site, and want to encourage people to post on the forum, as opposed to the end of our articles (or blog posts). My question is, is there a limit to the amount of total members/members on line at any given time/forum topics that bbpress can handle?
Perhaps this won’t be an issue if we fall flat on our face. But, you know, we hope to be wildly successful and popular….
Also, does anyone reading this have blog with an inbuilt forum that you could post a link to, just so I can see how it comes together?
Thanks.
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The best fix would be to use a standalone BBPRess syncing with the WordPress database, and then, somehow making it have the same theme?
alrighty, with your help, anointed, I’m getting the hang of this now. I’ve created new pages with bbpress shortcodes, and linked them accordingly. Now I am testing the registration process and I have one question.
Instead of having new users login via the WordPress Dashboard, can I make it so they stay at the frontend? Does that make sense? I do not want them logging into any kind of WordPress backend.
Thanks again buddy.
No, I’m afraid you can’t use bbPress with WordPress.com since that service doesn’t allow the user to add plugins at all and the folks at Automattic have not seen fit to add the ability to create bbPress forums to their service. You’ll need a domain name, a web host, and copy of WordPress running on it.
Apologies in advance if this has already been answered – I couldn’t find it anywhere. If I have a WordPress free blog (xxx.wordpress.com) and I want to add a bbpress forum to it – is that possible via the plugin? Or do I need my own domain name?
If it is possible, could someone give me more detailed instructions about how to do it? Where do I upload the files to?
Or of course if this has been answered, just point me to the link.
Thanks!!
Follow that function up the stack to find where the date functions are. They are most likely exact copies of the WordPress one.
Once bbPress picks up more momentum, I’ll look into getting international sub domains setup. We have two on the table right now.
