[Gortan]

Hey, I’m looking to put a forum in my wordpress blog for my Minecraft server, and the step is “upload bbForum to your server.” How exactly do I do this? It provides no further instructions on how to do this.

Sorry if this is a newbie question, thanks for any help.

[Alessio Lo Vecchio]

sorry but i dont understand a thing, template files have different name from 1.0 to 2.0?

i’ve now installed the 2.0 plugin version just for test, but under the docs section of this site there are named template files which i cant find in bbp-twentyten theme.

For example front-page.php is deprecated?

now do we have to use page-front-forums?

someone can help?

p.s. sorry for my bad english

p.s.2 i’m a good wordpress theme developer

[Alessio Lo Vecchio]

sorry but i dont understand a thing, template files have different name from 1.0 to 2.0?

i’ve now installed the 2.0 plugin version just for test, but under the docs section of this site there are named template files which i cant find in bbp-twentyten theme.

For example front-page.php is deprecated?

now do we have to use page-front-forums?

someone can help?

p.s. sorry for my bad english

p.s.2 i’m a good wordpress theme developer

[Lars]

Hello,

I’m adding bbPress 2.0 beta 3 to a WordPress site. It seems to work pretty well, except that it says on my profile “You are not currently subscribed to any topics.” even though I am subscribed to two topics. The same goes for Favorite forums and Topics Created.

I checked the code and it seems that bbp_get_user_topics_started(), bbp_get_user_subscriptions() and bbp_get_user_favorites() are all returning false. I’m logged in as the user with ID 2 and these rows are in the usermeta table:

37 2 _bbp_favorites 54,56

41 2 _bbp_subscriptions 56,61

That suggests that favorizing and subscribing works, but there seems to be a bug in bbp_get_user_subscriptions(), bbp_get_user_topics_started() and bbp_get_user_favorites().

In the file bbp-user-functions.php the function bbp_get_user_favorites on line 193 return array(2) { [0]=> string(2) “54” [1]=> string(2) “56” } but bbp_has_topics() on line 197 return false. I guess the same happens in bbp_get_user_subscriptions() so the problem should be in the function bbp_has_topics().

I’m not enough of a WP-expert to dive into bbp_has_topics(), which is why I’m posting here. Do you know what the problem could be?

Thanks in advance.

[sithinquisitor]

Hi,

I have installed bbpress on my wordpress site:

http://www.sithinquisitors.com/sith-inquisitor-forums/

The problem I have is that my sites theme has 3 columns meaning the forum is squashed, I was wondering if there was a way to stop the 2 columns on the right (that contain showing whilst viewing the forum.

Thanks in advance.

[Andre]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1547?format=rss

[Andre]

A converter for phpbb3 is in progress. Here’s a link to the ticket for it. https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1547

[Nate]

So it’s kinda odd but on BBpress pages only, WordPress is loading 2 style sheets. I have my normal style.css and then it loads this below.

‘http://localhost/moos-wp/wp-content/themes/cost/style.css?ver=20100503’

Both are the same style sheet. It wouldn’t matter all that much but I think it’s causing an error where I can’t target any HTML element with a style.

Has anyone else run across this error?

[sithinquisitor]

Hi There,

I have just installed the latest BBPress Beta, I have activated it with no problems and added new forums without any errors. When I go to look at my forums by following any links to them I get a URL such as http://www.sithinquisitors.com/forums/forum/sith-inquisitor-news-and-announcements/

Which in turn gives me a 404 error page. Is there something that I am missing here? I havetn changed anything within the settings or anywhere else in the WordPress/bbPress admin panel.

Regards and thanks in advance.

[John James Jacoby]

This should be fixed in RC. If you’d like to test it and see, you can download it from trac.

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

See the download link at the bottom.

[John James Jacoby]

Seems to be part of the same issue others are experiencing. I’m on it.

Moving discussion here going forward.

[toedter_k]

Hi All,

I have a fresh multisite WordPress 3.1.4 with bbPress plugin 2.0-beta-3b. I can run bbPress both in network-activate mode or per site-activate. As network-admin I can create forums, post and reply to posts. But if I configure that new WordPress users can register themselves, they are not allowed to create forum topics or reply.

What extra configurations do I have to do to configure that all new registered WordPress users can create topics and reply to them?

Thanks

Kai

[toedter_k]

I have similar issues with bbpress and multisite wordpress. When a new user registers himself, this user is not allowed to create a new topic.

I am using ppbress Version 2.0-beta-3b. Do I have to make extra manual configurations?

Thanx

Kai

[alanchrishughes]

I have been having the same problem, tags don’t do anything. Using either the beta version of WordPress or stable version, and current plugin verion of bbPress, everything straight out of the box.

[hrclinic]

Hi, Ive just installed the bbpress plug in into my WordPress installation and I get an error.

I’m guessing its a template issue but wondered if anyone could suggest a fix.

If I add the short code for the forum index it works fine, but if you click a link to the forum itself I get the following:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in PATHTOTHEFOLDER/wp-content/themes/rttheme7/functions.php on line 290

Can anyone recommend anything to fix this?

Regards

David

[John James Jacoby]

@nate – Seems you’re only following some of the steps outlined above. To start you’ll want to research WordPress child themes and how to make one. If you decide to go that route, then your new theme doesn’t go inside the old one, it goes in the /themes/bbp-empt/ folder that you create. It kinda sounds like you figured that out, but it’s hard to tell from your comment if it’s working for you.

[Lionell]

Hello. I’ve integrated bbpress and bbpress post toolbar to a page on this website:

http://underwaterpeoples.com/wordpress/?forum=hi

(i know its boring..)

The post toolbar seems to be on the top of every page. Does anyone know how i can get rid of the top toolbar and keep the ones by the comment forms? I’m guessing i have to reconfigure the bbpress-post-toolbar.php file but I’m not sure how.

Please help. Thanks :0)

[Nate]

I’m new to this plugin and to bbpress in general though I do work with WordPress on a regular basis. The forums load fine. I would like to copy the default theme and customize my own based on the original.

The problem is, I don’t see a place where I can choose a template for BBPress to use. Is there a place in the WP admin panel I’m overlooking or do I need a custom function to load a specific theme?

Any help would be appreciated.

[Treebeard]

I’ve been researching for hours, trying to find a way to import bbpress standalone to bbpress 2.0 in wordpress. First I imported posts from phpBB to bbPress standalone, looks like it worked, then I installed the WP plugin.

I came across this topic but it was closed so I can’t post a question there:

bbPress Standalone to Plugin Converter Beta 2

In the last post you said:

Closing this topic, as the importer is now bundled with bbPress 2.0

I can’t seem to find an importer there anywhere, I checked the Settings under the Settings > Forums menu, and all I can see are the main forum settings. Checked the Readme file with the plugin, there’s no mention of it.

Can you tell me where to find the Importer? I need to get this huge site up and running by 7/1 and I don’t want to use the Standalone version because that means 2 admin pages.

Thanks!!!

[funnycat777]

Hello,

The search field in the twentyten theme does not search for terms inside the forum, but only inside wordpress.

Please let me know how to enable searching within the forum.

[Nate]

I copied the bbp-twentyten template and renamed it. It’s in the same plugin folder. How do I get wordpress to recognize that I copied the template and I want to use the newly named one?

[John James Jacoby]

@bradsucks – So, I’ve put some thought into the situation that you’re in, and RC1 will include some tweaks to how this works which will hopefully help.

The issue, is that we want to make it easy to get forums up and running, without a bunch of configuration, and the easiest way to do that is let WordPress handle things naturally, and display the forum archives when you navigate to:

domain.com/%forum_slug%/

But… everyone wants to customize the way their forums look and work (even me) so that isn’t always optimal, and there is only so much you can do before the real answer involves creating your row custom theme.

Anyways, before the archive templates were created in bbp-twentyten, a page-template was used to let you put your forums anywhere in the page hierarchy of your site that you want, but that wasn’t obvious enough and not everyone wants to use the hardcoded template file either.

So then I introduced shortcodes, which allow you to put your forums and topics in any post or page you choose, but if you do that, there’s no real way for bbPress to *know* where you put your forum root in the breadcrumb without you manually telling it in the forum settings.

As you can see, it’s gotten complicated to try to satisfy the golden 80%, including myself.

Part of the change that is coming in RC1 is a check to see if a WordPress page exists where you have configured your forum index to be. Normally WordPress would override and show the forums archive, but I make it dump out your page instead. This way you’re able to setup a WP page with whatever you want in it, and have it do whatever you tell it to. The potential caveat here is when people try outsmart the software, create a page with the ‘forums’ slug, and wonder why bbPress doesn’t automatically make forums appear there.

Hopefully RC1 and beyond will satisfy the needs of 80% of users. If so, I’m satisfied supporting the other 20% that want something more tricked out.

[Erlend]

You might be interested in my suggestion for distributed conversations.

[Erlend]

I think one of bbPress’ biggest strengths is its potential to extend upon and empower WordPress’ commenting system. Another side of this is the P2 theme used to enable real-time conversations, but that’s a different topic.

‘Distributed conversations’ should facilitate persistent on-topic discussion.

The basis of this idea has already been put to the test on the TED.com website. For an example, follow this link to the Beware online “filter bubbles” video and scroll down to see the “TED CONVERSATIONS”. That is, in essence, what I’m proposing here, along with a new idea (comment conversion).

How would this work?

A) Create conversation directly from a blog post. (TED way)

Create conversation from a blog post’s comment(s). (new way)

See mockup:

https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#tcky31h/qjXSc0

http://i.imgur.com/fS4Yo.png

A:

Every blog post should come with a “start a new topic” link. Clicking this link would start a standard ‘new post’ prompt. The only difference would be the link to the discussed blog post, which could be incorporated in a number odd ways. The easiest way I can think of would be a shortlink with blog post ID. (Although it’s outside of the initial scope, this should also be compatible with forum posts).

B:

Comments can be converted to forum threads. A conversion would:

1) Lock the thread of comments

2) Create a new forum thread with the comments.

3) Link to the new forum thread from the locked comment thread.

This option would only be available to moderators and above.

Maybe not in core, but I could see this being a super handy plugin.

[Lange]

I see, thanks for the reply.