[AaronRighter]

So, I decided to work fairly hard and invest a lot of resources into creating a gaming website. I have been pretty impressed with indie games lately, and decided to start a nice area where I can highlight some of the better ones and maybe talk to developers and post things like great soundtracks and art.

*Ahem* Apparently things have changed a little since I learned HTML in…1998 lol That being said I feel pretty stupid and have some very basic questions to ask. If these answers are somewhere on the bbPress site I apologize, I did some cursory perusing of the forums and didn’t find what I needed and because I’m on a bit of a time crunch decided a post would be quicker.

From what the internet tells me WordPress is a nice content managing/blogging platform and bbPress is the way to go if I want a forum. I have downloaded and activated both the bbPress and bbPress Integration plug ins through my WordPress.

My question is…where is it? Do I have to FTP any files onto the server? Is there a link somewhere I’m missing? Any (very patient) help would be appreciated. Thank you

[John James Jacoby]

There are WordPress plugins to block users of certain roles from viewing your admin area.

[Jaja..]

Just curious if this is also possible by making my own templates tags.

This way i could make different loops (forums) for each section of the forum.

loop-single-forum-4.php

loop-single-forum-troubles.php

Will this only take-/run forum ID 4 or the troubles forum-/topics loop ?

Same as WordPress ?

single-4.php

single-troubles.php

[Jaja..]

I found a problem,

I have a WP Multisite installation and when i log-in and log-out the redirect ends up on a 404 page. (only on WP multi sites)

http://localhost.sites/example.nl/members/example.nl/members/?loggedout=true

I’m just testing offline at the moment.

http://localhost.sites/example.nl/ <– WordPress homepage

http://localhost.sites/example.nl/members/ <– 2nd WordPress site (WPMU) with bbPress forum.

[Jaja..]

This is what i did and worked for me.

I do have a WP Multi-site installation but i don’t think it’s different on a normal WP install.

*My root

wp-content > themes > <first theme> <second theme> <twenty ten> <twenty eleven>

First theme is the theme i was using on my WordPress website.

After that i created an empty folder called second theme

I copy-/pasted all files from the bbPress plugin folder into the empty second theme folder i just created.

From:

*plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes > bbp-twetyten > All files and folders from here (without the bolded bbp-twentyten folder)

Now if you go into your style.css in the second theme folder you see that this one is empty and it says it will call the css > bbpress.css from the functions.php file. <– now also inside that second theme folder.

But at the top of this style.css file you see some theme info it just looks like some regular junk-talk (theme info) but it really isn’t junk-talk but very important, at the last line of code it says template name: (twenty ten) (if i remember correct) If you change that to (first theme) in my case and save it you’re done.

Now it will load first theme as a main theme and second theme as your child theme (with your bbPress files inside)

It’s very cool because if you add a new page from your admin you can also pick different bbPress page templates.

Example, you can create a new page and add from the template drop down menu (right-side sidebar) the login bbPress page template and you will get a login-page.

This is all i did and it worked out for me, the add theme support function i never added because it’s also inside the functions.php file in your second theme folder.

Hope this will help somebody here.

[mickh]

Hello, i’m french boy

I have installed plugin Forum bbpress in my WordPress website

and i have created more than 50 Forums, 79 forums

but i see in my page forum 50 forums ?

how i can do for to see more than 50 forums ?

Thanks

[Jaja..]

Thank you…

So it’s a hook for WordPress and other plugins to work into this bbPress form..

[master5o1]

Also, add_action and do_action are in wp-includes/plugin.php.

[master5o1]

Adding an action is add_action(‘bbp_template_notices’, ‘funciton_name’);

I used this bbp_template_notices action hook to print my post toolbar in earlier versions of the plugin. This is because I noticed that the do_action(‘bbp_template_notices’); was (in bbp-twentyten) near the post form, so each time the post form is displayed, the template notices action is run and the post toolbar is displayed.

[Jaja..]

I found something..

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_action

Only trying to find where those functions are.. they aren’t in my functions.php

??

So they call a function by the plugin DO_ACTION PHP code but i can’t find the template that lists all those actions-/functions.

[Jaja..]

Just wondering

If i want to add bbPress to my own theme, this topic tells me to add the add_theme_support( 'bbpress' ); to my functions.php <– the functions of my own WordPress theme.

Because if you copy-/paste the files from the bbPress plugins folder to my wp-content > themes > theme folder it also has a functions.php file.

What about two functions.php ?

[nikoza]

Hello there,

I think my question will be very easy for most people here but I am really having a hard time to make it work. I read your post about theme compatibility many times but I am still missing something.

I installed the bbpress 2.0 rc plugin in my wordpress 3.2.1 and I also looked over the internet for a bbpress theme (not sure if it is compatible with bbpress 2.0 though). What I did was:

First Time:

A) I uploaded the custom theme I found over the internet.

I copyied all the files from bbp-twentyten into the custom theme folder

The result is that I cannot find my theme in the theme directory in order to activate it.

Second Time:

A) I uploaded the custom theme I found over the internet.

I copyied the folder bbp-twentyten from “/bbpress/bbp-themes/” into the wp-content/themes. My custom theme was also the wp-content/themes

The result is that I cannot find my theme in the theme directory in order to activate it.

In both case I added the add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

Can you please give some me some help cause I feel very stupid.

N.

[anamariav]

bbpress: 2.0-rc-5

wordpress: 3.2.1

theme: woothemes canvas 4.4.0

I think I have not understood how to add bbpress to my site correctly.

Thusfar:

1. Installed bbpress plugin and in forum settings, set Archives Slug > Forums base to “community”.

2. Created a page with slug “community” and added [bbp-forum-index] shortcode.

3. Using widget logic plugin, added some sidebar widgets to display on this page.

4. Visited /community page. My sidebars are not showing and looking at source code reveals page is using a forum archive template and not a page template.

5. Changed page slug to something other than “community”. The page then displays the sidebars I have set. However, the breadcrumb navigation still links back to the /community forum archive page without my sidebars.

How can I set things up so that the forum index appear on the page where I placed the shortcode and not on a different forum archive template page, and also have the breadcrumb navigation work correctly?

Thanks to anyone for any suggestions.

[Steveorevo]

Just tested bbPress 2.0-rc-5 on WordPress 3.2.1. I assume this feature is to send emails to user that have subscribed or checked the “Notify me…” checkbox in a forum topic? I’ll try running a trace.

On another note: GREAT JOB bbPress!!! I’m liking the cleaner integration, and simple plugin installation of bbPress inside WordPress. WordPress is very refined and launching/integrating (read: seamless login/logout) with WP is fantastic. Thanks for working on this project!

[aberrantphoto]

Hello,

I’ve installed the plugin on my site, which has a custom theme, but after following the installation instructions found here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility, all I get is a blank page if I view the forum. So, I deactivated the plugin, deleted, and reinstalled. This time I DID NOT copy any files into my theme directory, just left it as is.

Now, If I place some shortcode such as [bbp-forum-index] on one of my current wordpress pages, it will show, but once I click on one of the topics, it brings me to the blank page again! I’m tearing my hair out here trying to figure this out..I thought it would be a lot easier as I work on WP sites all the time.

Here is the link to the forum that is blank:

http://foreverathletes.com/forums/forum/community-2/

Can somebody help me out? Again, I tried this route:

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. This is so theme updates don’t wipe out all your hard work later.

…But couldn’t figure out how to make the style.css work…I modified the style.css inside of the bbp-twentyten so that the Template name matched my theme name, but this did not work. Am I missing something here?

Thanks for the help.

[Anointed]

@Dan

For inline editing have you taken a look at:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/front-end-editor/

Scribu’s a master at this stuff and code is rock solid.

[Anointed]

You can always check the file dates to see what files changed at:

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

[John James Jacoby]

Best way is to try out the bbPress plugin for WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

It tries really hard to make creating a forum as easy as possible. Depending on your theme, it should integrate into your existing site without any issues. You will need to configure a few things, so read some of the sticky topics here and post up new topics if you have questions.

[malmmort]

Hi guys,

I’ve already got a website which is going to have around 100+ pages when complete and I’m looking to add a forum. It’s a wordpress website. I was wondering whether I have to register a new url and link from my main website to a specific solo bbpress forum website… or can i just create it as an extension of my current website (that would be most preferrable).

this may be a stupid question but I am completely inexperienced with forums so I’ve decided the best way for a quick and efficient resolution was to ask

help would be sincerely appreicated

jb

[Justin Mason]

Install wordpress.

Search plugins for buddypress, install.

Search plugins for bbpress 2.0, install.

On the left hand panel under buddypress there will be an option for forums. Sync with existing bbpress install.

[Adam]

The only modifications I made was following your instructions in terms of copying everything from the bbpress default theme over to the WordPress theme folder. Then all I was editing was the css…

Where in the css would be the paragraph tags for users reply box?

Also the HTML Tags that users can use don’t function either >_>

[nelson.menezes]

Hi; just checked the translation of bbPress 2 over at http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/ and it’s seemingly lacking these two strings:

“This category contains %1$s and %2$s, and was last updated by %3$s %4$s ago.”

“This category contains %1$s and %2$s.”

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Adam – You can use a plugin for that with MultiSite.

* https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/multisite-user-management/

That will let you set up a new user to be a specific role per site. As for EXTRA roles, you need another plugin, like https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members to handle that.

[Adam]

create a login/register form for users who go to site 2. I dont want them using wp-admin as that takes them to the admin dash board when they sign in and unlike on a single (non multi site) installation of wordpress I dont know how to change the user settings when a user logs in or signs up as we discussed in: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-give-users-who-sign-up-forum-participant.

So I need something like buddy press where they sign in and are taken back to the forums and never see the admin pannel.

in a single (non multi site)install of wordpress I can go to settings and say any user who signs up is signed up as a forum participant and when they sign in using wp-admin all they see is dash board, forums and topics. which is ideally what I want…..

I really hope that made sense…..

[John James Jacoby]

testbp.org is a standalone installation not connected to anything. We use it to test BuddyPress, WordPress, and bbPress together in a typical hosting environment.