[John James Jacoby]

@Paul – once again you’re right on target. Originally bbPress hijacked the WordPress login URL function, which proved problematic as there was no settting to to say WHERE that page lived. Same with the sign-up page. These functions of WordPress are not easily extended, but they can be completely replaced. Sadly, replacing them means recoding a great deal of them, which starts to take a great deal of time on something that does already exist and already has pluggable solutions in the form of WordPress plugins.

[Daaaaaave]

Sorry if this is confusing. I installed buddypress through the wordpress plugins page. I then installed bbpress through buddypress. I have since uninstalled buddypress and bbpress and i am trying to now install bbpress on my server. Once loading all the files to my directory mysite.com/forums/ i then go to load the directory. The installing instructions do not come up i come to a bbpress page which shows “page not found”.

I am guessing the old install of bbpress is interfering? maybe in the database?

Thanks in advance.

[John James Jacoby]

@Chip – That’s probably the easiest way, yes. If you’re familiar with WordPress themes (which I am fairly certain you are) this should be pretty painless.

[John James Jacoby]

@Chip – That’s probably the easiest way, yes. If you’re familiar with WordPress themes (which I am fairly certain you are) this should be pretty painless.

[John James Jacoby]

Nope. Both sound like plugin territory to me.

[ideoplasm]

Thanks guys, the ‘Members’ plugin has done more than the minimum that I wanted!

However, it’s now got me thinking of other things!…

Whilst most of my animations/art projects will be for a family audience (Rating ‘U’ or ‘PG’), the main one I am working on right now is more for adults (16 or 18 years-old plus). For this reason, it would be really nice if ‘Categories’ and ‘Forums’ could be have restricted content in the same way that ‘Pages’ and ‘Posts’ currently can.

It would be even nicer if there was a way to get people to enter their age when they Subscribe so that will automatically place them into the user-role with to which the above would be revealed or hidden according to their age. I realise people lie abou their age, but at least I can say I tried my best to provide adult filtering.

Are there any plans to build in the above features I mention any time soon?

[Anointed]

@lykketrollet

No, there is no way to manually change user permissions within the bbPress core. Well more specifically, not without a ton of hacking of the code.

Someday, I am guessing there may be a bbPress plugin built for this purpose.

I know I keep talking about the members plugin, and I do so because it is the perfect tool for the job at the moment. It really is built so well that you can set it once and ignore it.

Who knows, maybe after seeing just how powerful and simple it is, you may just end up finding other great reasons to use it as well.

*The real problem with having this in core would be group permission collisions. Meaning, if I use members to set permissions for a specific group and also have bbPress doing it then there can be problems if the permissions are not exactly matched up.

**The opinions of this commentator do not necessarily reflect the views of the network

[Anointed]

@Lykkotrollet

There are a number of really great member management plugins available. Justin’s is one of the best out there and does a great job for bbpress.

IMHO this type of functionality best remains outside the core of bbpress. Say bbpress did have this in the core, then users who utilize plugins like members could run into conflicts and collisions.

JJ has built in the needed hooks for members management to easily plug into, as evidenced by seeing how easy it is to get the members plugin working.

[Spiralspeaks]

@JJJ I installed it on a test site.. with 2 forum categories.. General Talk and Talk Happiness

found a bug got

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

but it gives in title tag the archive mode and shows like this

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

supposed to be this one:

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

and this “Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename” should be only shown at

site com/forums/forum/talk-happiness/

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

Archive Slugs

Forums Base forums

Topics Base topics

Single Slugs

Forum Prefix Yes Incude the Forum Base slug in single forum item links

Forum slug: forum

Topic slug: topic

Topic tag slug: topic_tag

Reply slug : topic_tag

Reply slug:reply

User base: user

View base : view

Permalink Settings

Custom Structure: /post/%postname%/

Another one…

Case 1 If Forum Prefix is set to yes (this is ok)

site//forums/forum/happy-talk/

site/forums/topic/topicpost/

site/forums/users/name/

Case 2 If Forum Prefix is set to no (this is not ok)

site/forum/happy-talk/

site/topic/topicpost/

site/users/name/

when people directly go to site/forum/ they will be lost… 404notfound

and I want to recommend this… its better to have this for forums links pages

Forums Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: forum base, the forum board, the topic)

not this one loosing forums base page.

Website Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: website base, the forum board, the topic)

bug in topic_tag

site/forums/topic_tag/talk

<br />

<div id="topic-tag" class="bbp-topic-tag"><br />

<h1 class="entry-title">Topic Tag: <span>talk</span></h1></p>

<p>					<div class="entry-content"></p>

<p>						<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://bbpress.org/">Home</a> › <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/">Support Forums</a> › <span class="bbp-breadcrumb-current">Why choose happiness with bbPress?</span></p></div><br />

it gives the latest topic on it..

[edited:added this one bug in topic_tag]

my next question is…

is there a way to change all the head title tag to this formats to improve user experience… for wordpress and bbPress plugin:

For Main Forum Base

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

For forum categories

<br />

<title> Talk Happiness (Forum for single/Board for forum category)| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

For forum post

<br />

<title> Why choose happiness with bbPress? |page#| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

it is sometimes annoying to have the word “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” all the head title tag before every forum pages.

Removing this “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” could help to market wordpress and combination of bbPress plugin… to be fantastic combination of blog&forum software..

I found that vBulletin sites head title tag structure for forums gives more emphasis on why people will read it, why people should comment to it (# pages = means hot topic), and the brand for the website/forum site [when people search via google, yahoo or any search engine people sees good head title tag structure, more often people will click it and read it]

Negosyo para sa mga “busy at mahiyain” – Page 31 – PinoyExchange

why/why not go to Accenture? – PinoyExchange

benefits and perks in accenture? – PinoyExchange

sorry, asked questions… and i have to comment on how to improve bbpress plugin

[Malfunction]

Slightly offtopic, but the title fits the following question though:

Maybe a bit early, but is there a listing of 2.x plugins somewhere?

If not, maybe a sticky topic on here with a first post that gets updated when someone adds a new plugin or something would do? People can post their contributions in the topic then.

I search for them in this way at the moment: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress&sort=new

but I don’t know if there are more? A list would be nice?

[John James Jacoby]

I will +1 the members plugin. It does exactly what you need it do.

[morgan-wick]

@Chrisdfr: It sounds like you’re installing the plugin to integrate bbPress standalone with WordPress, not the forum itself. bbPress-as-plugin is only a beta right now, so despite what kai says I don’t know if it can be installed from within WordPress.

The name of the plugin should be just “bbPress”.

[Ramiuz]

So if you use another theme for your blog, you have to edit two themes?

The normal WordPress theme – AND the BBpress plugin theme?

[Ramiuz]

So if you use another theme for your blog, you have to edit two themes?

The normal WordPress theme – AND the BBpress plugin theme?

[Anointed]

@ramiuz

Install the plugin just like any other wordpress plugin by adding it to the plugins folder and activating it.

It does not appear as a page as this is a complete system. The theme comes bundled with the twentyten theme and all the needed templates for it to work in that theme.

It uses the same db as wp. Basically beta2 uses custom post-types for wp, so it is about as native wp as you could ask for.

There is some type of importer script to ‘upgrade’ from the old forum system to the new one. Sorry, I am not familiar with it as I have not used it.

I do know that JJ is working on the import system to make it as user friendly as possible. Documentation will probably proceed the stable release.

[Anointed]

@ramiuz

Install the plugin just like any other wordpress plugin by adding it to the plugins folder and activating it.

It does not appear as a page as this is a complete system. The theme comes bundled with the twentyten theme and all the needed templates for it to work in that theme.

It uses the same db as wp. Basically beta2 uses custom post-types for wp, so it is about as native wp as you could ask for.

There is some type of importer script to ‘upgrade’ from the old forum system to the new one. Sorry, I am not familiar with it as I have not used it.

I do know that JJ is working on the import system to make it as user friendly as possible. Documentation will probably proceed the stable release.

[Anointed]

The easiest solution is to install a members management plugin. One of the best out there is:

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

To use it, install the plugin, and then in the settings choose to edit the roles of a subscriber. You can then add the ability to create/read/edit posts in private forums.

Alternately you could also create a new group and give that group extended permissions to use the hidden forums.

[randiabe]

Will existing WordPress plugins work with bbPress 2.x? For instance, I’m looking for a rating plugin for bbPress 2.x. Can I use an existing WordPress plugin or a bbPress 1.x plugin? Or do I need to create a completely new one?

[ideoplasm]

Hello,

I have the BBpress WordPress Plugin version installed on my WordPress site, and have found that from installation defaults, the lowest ranking user-role that can view the private forums is ‘Moderator’. The trouble with this, is that Moderators can edit other people’s posts, and I do not want all Users that can read and post in the private forums to be able to edit each other’s posts! Is there an easy way to change this? Ideally I’d want WordPress ‘Contributor’-level users and above to be able to view the private forums. I’d also like WordPress ‘Subscriber’-level users to be able to read the public forums but not post to them, but his is not as important, so no real problem if it cannot be done.

Sorry if this has been asked many times before, but I’ve read a bit about user-maps etc, but the discussions tend to be quite old and talking about the BBpress standalone, not the BBpress WordPress Plugin, so I am not sure if it works for the BBpress WordPress Plugin version(?). Just so you know, I am no kind of Coder – just an Animator – so am struggling with terminology etc. here.

I hope someone can help!

Thanks!

[Ramiuz]

Wowow, major surprise here. Suddenly I feel like you´re talking about version two as something everyone is familiar with. And I struggle a bit to find out where I´m supposed to start.

First of all I think I will wait for the completed version, and skip the betas.

Heres my question:

How do you install it?

-Does it appear as a “page” in WordPress?

-Does it use the same database as WordPress?

-Can it use my old separate forum database, and automatically detect the users there?

-If it does, will this be the way to upgrade from “old” bbpress to the new?

[Ramiuz]

Wowow, major surprise here. Suddenly I feel like you´re talking about version two as something everyone is familiar with. And I struggle a bit to find out where I´m supposed to start.

First of all I think I will wait for the completed version, and skip the betas.

Heres my question:

How do you install it?

-Does it appear as a “page” in WordPress?

-Does it use the same database as WordPress?

-Can it use my old separate forum database, and automatically detect the users there?

-If it does, will this be the way to upgrade from “old” bbpress to the new?

[Fartlek]

Giulio, these 2 links might help you: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/the-no-widgets-paradox/

http://www.everparent.com/lunaticfred/2011/05/05/how-to-remove-default-sidebar-widgets-in-wordpress/

[Chrisdfr]

@kai920 – I’m using the bbPress plugin, directly from WordPress. Anyway, guess the plugin is only a integration interface and not the Forum itself. I was not sure where the forum should be installed. Inside the wordpress directory or outside ? It was not a question about the plugin, but the forum.

[John James Jacoby]

Nice catch. Fixed in https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3277/

[John James Jacoby]

Are you using the plugin version for WordPress, or did you install it as a stand-alone piece of software?