bakercad, another issue I ran into last few days was when you choose subdomain as a MU options.
site.com/blog1 works well
blog1.site.com sometimes does not work
I haven’t found a solution that works so far.
@dailytalk – thanks for posting your real world experiences. I would like to ask that you also include the version of bbpress that you are using?
@all –
I am under the impression that most of the plugins do not work properly with the current version, so a fresh install today is even MUCH further away from the basic functionality of smforums, phpbb, vbulletin, etc.
A serious problem that plagues wordpress, bbpress, and I should mention similar projects including phpfox, is companies that develop new releases often leave lots of broken plugins and themes – most users get so frustrated not knowing to upgrade and lose functionality – or stay downgraded and have possible security issues. This is a major problem that has me admiring the way vbulletin posts whether or not plugins / extensions will be supported by the core company.
The main thing that keeps me using bbpress in a few sites is the price, along with the glimmer of hope that since it is integrated into buddypress. Certainly at some point there will be functioning photo, attachment, moderation and other functions, that the WP / BP /BB community will have to have – even if new versions of one break the other. – Unfortunately it’s tough to hold one’s breath with these projects, and seeing the nightmares of bugs, lost functionality, and the time it takes to get back to square 2 after one of the other projects has been upgraded to square three – it’s devastating.
I for one would love to see image and file attachments, along with something like tinymce incorporated into the core of BBpress – but even if they are not, I would like to see important plugins like these and moderation, etc, all be maintained and tested and upgraded along with any new releases by the bbpress developers.
It is supported, and will continue to grow. It will eventually become a canonical plugin for WordPress. 
I also thought so at first, but I really love this software – so I’m sticking with it, no matter what.
Hi Michael, Thanks I will check out the link. I hate to spend a lot of time developing a forum that is not supported. That would be sad because I am a real big fan of WordPress.
Toni
Hi,
I’ve got a site I created with html. I’d like to add a bulletin board to it without redesigning the site using WordPress. How do I do this?
Thanks,
Brettha
I followed gerikg’s instructions & all seems well, except, when I log into bbPress, then go to WPMU it appears as if I’m logged in. Until I try to admin the site, then & have to log in again. Seems to be that a cookie is not being set.
XAMPP on local machine, here is one line of several that appear at top of bbpress login page after installation was apparently completed successfully.
Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:xampphtdocsbbpressbbpressbb-settings.php on line 186
and when I try to log in a bunch more error messages. XAMPP works fine with wordpress by the way.
Thanks, Roger
You set WordPress Administrator to bbPress Administrator instead of bbPress Key Master.
Run this on your database: DELETE FROM bb_meta WHERE meta_key='wp_table_prefix'
That should allow you to log in with your bbPress account and fix the setting.
Hello
I installed bbPress ok and had admin rights under a user named admin. Then I finished integrating with my wordpress site. It logged me out as the admin and now when I access with my WordPress admin account I cannot see any settings to change.
When I try and log in with the bbPress admin it says there is no admin user. Basically I have no way of changing settings.
Please could someone help with my problems?
Thanks
No, I was just pointing out what the lead developer of BuddyPress said about it. I don’t believe it’s in a packaged release, it’s in ‘trunk’ which is sometimes unstable. It would be worth watching the BuddyPress releases to see when it’s available for single WordPress in a stable form. It’s coming.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for jumping in, are you / twitter link telling me that BuddyPress is now available for WordPress single? Would I just download the latest version of BuddyPress even if it is MU? Is this it? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/
Thanks for clarifying _ck_ is a female. So am I!
Toni
You can’t call a WordPress function (or even a function in a WordPress plugin) without doing deep integration between WordPress and bbPress. Normally, someone would create similar functionality in a bbPress plugin so you can use that instead of trying to call the WordPress plugin:
How about this bbPress plugin from Gautam Gupta:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/social-it/
It’s a WP plugin that works for posts and pages, but not for anything else, so I want to put it directly into the BBpress template – not sure where. Here’s the plugin:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/add-to-any/
And my site: http://www.selfpublishingreview.com
tonicarr, have you seen this re: WordPress single and BuddyPress?
Single WordPress support in BuddyPress trunk is already quite stable. Who’s tried the latest?
Also, _ck_ is female.
There won’t be anything in your WordPress dashboard about bbPress. What happens when you try to access the forum URL? (and what is the forum URL?)
Hi community,
Happy new year everybody
Just installed bbPress 1.0.2 to complete a WordPress 2.9 installation. I’m trying to add custom themes, as indicated in all tutorials i could find. This is what i did :
– created a my-templates directory at the root of the forum (same level than b-templates)
– uploaded the custom themes into this directory – themes coming from several repository on the Web, none that i did myself.
Then I cannot see any of my themes on the “appearance” tab in the admin. I tried to upload raw zip files or extracted directory but nothing is detected.
Any help is greatly appreciated !
Thanks,
Jeremy
How? there is nothing about bbpress on my WordPress dashboard, and when i visit the subdomain it just says bbpress is already installed
Plans for 1.1 have not been finalized by Matt – so there is no date of when it will be released. A lot of features are still being considered – many of them coming from the IRC chats that happen every Wednesday.
Not sure about BuddyPress for WordPress – though if they say it will happen, then it will happen. It is a very popular package, so they would probably want to integrate it with normal WordPress.
thierryyyyyyy:
About the Canonical plugin story, you may want to read this: https://wordpress.org/development/2009/12/canonical-plugins/
Like I said, I don’t think it will be a standalone package as, just like other Automattic products, it will need to be a part of WordPress. Look at BuddyPress, for example.
I’ve hit yet another snag.
Apparently, I have bbpress installed on my site and integrated with WordPress. NOW HOW THE HECK DO I MAKE A FREAKIN FORUM AND PUT IT ON MY SITE??!!!!!
I’m just really looking forward to the development and progression of bbPress, regardless of the direction it takes. I think one of the things I’m most keen to see is for the masses to take it under their wing in much the same way millions have with WordPress, so that we have a plethora of innovative developers providing additional functionality and solutions through these forums and their own personal websites.
Maybe it’s me, but I have no clue what I’m supposed to put for my database title in the very first step – as in what is hte database file usually called by default and where would I find it?
I’m running wordpress 1.9.
I’ve installed the bbpress folder renamed as “forums” in my root because if I put it under /blog/forums I get a 404 and the rss list of posts from wp
I have the database host set as the default “localhost” per suggestion
I assume ‘databse user’ and ‘database password’ are not pre-existing UN & PW but the same ones used to access the admin of WP, but if they are a way of setting new UN and PW then I’d be using the same for both BB and WP.
I’m using Yahoo as my web host
The thing is, I converted my Phpbb3 into bbpress sucssefuly and the I integrate it with wordpress. Shoul i try the other way? Integrate WP with BBpress, and the convert my phpbb3 to BBpress?
A few months ago I had problem with reCaptcha activated on both “software” try deactivating bbpress’ one then try it after chrishajer’s link.
