[Scott]

WordPress 3.6
bbPress 2.3.2

I have bbPress and BuddyPress setup on a multisite network with sitewide and group forums. Is it possible to integrate the group forum with a multisite site?

ie.-
XYZ BuddyPress Group = http://mainsite.com/groups/xyz/forum
XYZ Blog = http://xyz.mainsite.com

Can the group forums integrate to the site? So if a post is made on the site it will show back on the group page or if on the group page it will go back to the site?

If that is not possible, is it possible to at least display the group forum data on the subsite with a shortcode or something?

Thanks for any help!

[JosiahW]

I am having the same problem. I get this error while creating a group from website admin area. When I create group from there it takes me to the front end of website. I gives the error on “Step 3 Forum”.

Here is my setup:
Wordpress 3.6
BuddyPress 1.8
bbPress 2.3.2
BuddyPress Docs 1.4.5
BuddyPress Links 0.8.2
BuddyPress Social 2.0
BuddyPress Wall 0.8.2

Error Source Details:
Type Plugin
Name bbPress
Version 2.3.2
Author The bbPress Community
Path /wp-content/plugins/bbpress
File includes/extend/buddypress/group.php

Full Error Details
Type Fatal Error (E_ERROR)
Message Using $this when not in object context
File /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/includes/extend/buddypress/group.php
Line 461
Type Description This type of error indicates that PHP cannot continue to run the code. Typical causes of this type of error are code bugs that have typos, missing or incomplete files (such as a file that was only partially uploaded), and the code using more memory than it is allowed.

[kannued]

Did you follow these directions?

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x

or tiny url
http://tinyurl.com/kaw5pjp

[kannued]

You don’t need to use the blog of WP. Just use the bbpress plugin. The current BBPress version is not standalone.

[Ipanema]

Thank you Kannued. I’m going to try that.

I accidentally deleted my question which was:

Hi,

I just intalled bbPress, but there is a new line now on top of the website. It’s like it increased the top margin of the Website. Does anybody know how to fix this? Thank you!

[amitlin96]

I do want a user system, just not that of a blog, i need that of a forum.

I just dont want a blog, im not going to use it, and also, arnt there anti spam plugins for bbpress alone?

[kannued]

Follow this directions

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

[kannued]

Using wordpress is not overkill. Think of wordpress as an overall operating system where you have registration and login abilities, different roles for different users, spam filters like Wangguard. Then you use bbpress as a plugin for your forum.

How can you not want the user system if you have a forum?

WP is not overkill.

[amitlin96]

Hi there!

I’m in a bit of a dilemma, here are my circumstances:

1. I want to use bbPress, but as a forum alone – My website is going to be a static homepage and a forum, no more and no less, and i would really hate to use a wordpress to accomplish such a simple task, it would really be an overkill, im not going to use ANY forum of cms, so id really hate to install wordpress ONLY so i can use bbPress, is there any way to get bbPress as a forum alone, not as a plugin?

2. In the homepage, i want there to be two boxes:
Box1 – shows the latest topic from a certain forum(the announcement forum), including the title, and content, number of comments and user that posted it.

Box2 – shows a featured topic. I know there is a plugin for this, im just curios if i could use functions from bbPress, outside of bbPress, as in, in the homepage page, which is not a wordpress page.

So these are my circumstances. What do you think? should i install wordpress JUST so i could use the forum(if so, is there any way to really trim it down? i dont need the users system, comments, pages, posts, etc. Almost everything revolves around the forum)? If not, what are the alternatives?

bbPress is a really great software, and would really want to use it 🙂

[liminjun88]

Now I have installed the bbPress successfully.But I want to use it as a bbs.Because it base on the WordPress,I want to custom the style of it, so that it looks like a bbs,or it is a blog.

[liminjun88]

Good News.

[getbizsanity]

Hello, I’m using WP version 3.5.1 and bbpress version 2.3.2. My site is http://www.timemasteryblueprint.com, but you can’t see the forum page because it is a paid only membership site. The forum is part of a paid membership site. There is no way for members, once they enter the forum to get back to the main paid content area. The breadcrumbs only lead back to the home page, which is an optin page with no membership access tab. I would like to get rid of the existing breadcrumbs and provide a link back to the main paid content area (or perhaps I can substitute the existing breadcrumbs for a link back to the member content area?)
Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

[MartinS87]

Hey there!

I used PHPbb3 the last 4 years now. The Foums is grown.
But now I created a new Website with WordPress and want something what is
integrated in there. I found bbPress and bbConverter. I installed both in my
WordPress but I cant run the bbConverter. Is there anyone who could give me some Detail
Information?

Thanks.

[cappazushi]

I’ve done all of the steps required for editing bbPress’ look, but one feature that seems odd to me is that the editor can’t bring up the CSS Stylesheet; that needs to be edited from CPanel. I moved the CSS folder to my theme’s root but it can’t read it directly, I guess. This is odd because it ca. Read the PHP files in the bbpress folder. Anyway, is there a more intuitive way to edit the Stylesheet?

[Thank you]

Hi,i just installed BBpress on to my under construction site.I have WordPress 3.6 and i am using twenty thirteen theme.

whenever a new user signup for the forum,he recieve an email addressed from wordpress@my domain address.

Is it possible to change the name from wordpress to my domain name.

Thanks.

[wpobs]

Hi guys, im using the latest WP 3.6 + bbPress 2.3.2 + buddypress 1.8

All works fine until you try to either Edit a forum of an existing group (front end) or when creating a new group and then at step 3 adding a forum to this group, when then the page get broken.

The page will remain visible but the header and footer will disappear.

see image below:

I have disabled ALL plugins as well as switched theme to the WordPress / buddypress default one but still the issue remains.

Page end Source code finished without closing this are the last lines:

<form action="http://[domainname]/group1/admin/extras" name="group-settings-form" id="group-settings-form" class="standard-form" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" role="main">

Inspect Elements reports error:
Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘sortable’

This was also report on the Buddypress forum:
http://buddypress.org/support/topic/admin-bar-and-footer-broken/

Please help.
Dan

[hitkid]

Hi, I’m trying to edit the avatar size and get rid of by author in the recent topics widget without messing with core files. I’m new to messing with widgets. I’ve tried a few different methods and nothing has worked.

// Maybe get the topic author
				if ( 'on' == $settings['show_user'] ) :
					$author_link = bbp_get_topic_author_link( array( 'post_id' => $topic_id, 'type' => 'both', 'size' => 14 ) );
				endif; ?>

In wp-content>plugins>bbpress>includes>common>widgets.php

If my question is too much just please point me in the direction for what I need to learn about myself.

Thank you 🙂

[Tecca]

That’s a good way of doing things. I simply did it this way, however:

#bbpress-forums .status-closed > li.bbp-topic-title > a.bbp-topic-permalink:before {
	content: "[Locked]";
	text-shadow: 1px 1px 0 #ffffff;
	color: #ff0000;
	margin-right: 5px;
}

Adds the [Locked] tag before the topic name, in red.

[John James Jacoby]

Thanks, but not what I’m asking for. 🙂

I can predict the actual URL structure itself. What I’m looking for are where the single reply URL’s are being used in your theme, making them accessible and allowing them to be crawled.

As a better example, can you find where those single reply permalinks are exposed here on bbpress.org? If so, can you walk me through where you’re seeing them?

[John James Jacoby]

Where are the single reply URL’s being exposed? If they are, it wasn’t done intentionally. There does need to exist some single permalink for each individual reply, as it’s how editing on the theme-side works.

It may help also if you include example URL’s of how you see this happening here on bbpress.org, so I can see it in context with a relatively stock installation.

[knsheely]

I am currently doing a preliminary test import of a massive forum with 25 forums, 10K + Users, 70K + Topics and 1 Million + Replies from an ASP Playground Forum. I have successfully migrated from MS SQL to MySQL and converted the database structure into a working, mappable structure. I have started and stopped the import multiple times as I worked out the kinks in my custom ASP converter. At this point I have a few questions that I could use some help in answering.

1) There is one hashed user password field with no salt. I can’t seem to find good documentation on how the password process works. I have noticed in the bbPress1 and other converters that do not have salts that the callback_password and authenticate_password functions both just ‘return false’. What does this mean once the users are trying to login? How should I map the fields correctly and do I need an authenticate_password function?

2) With over a million replies, the import process takes a very long time (going on weeks now). When we proceed with a live conversion, we very much need to keep the forum’s downtime under a week and preferably we would keep it under 4 days. Does anyone have any tips for speeding up the conversion process?

[Michalco]

Suppose someone wrote a question X, and got reply Y. I noticed that bbPress creates one URL that includes question X+Reply Y (forum->X), and a second URL that includes reply Y only, without question X (forum->X->Y). Google indexed both urls. Its duplicate content. Is there any way to configure bbPress not to create the second URL?

[knsheely]

There is a converter that now comes packaged with bbPress. You can run the converter by visiting Tools->Forums. There is no punBB converter included, but you can modify the Example.php converter based on punBB’s database structure. The converters are located in includes/admin/converter. The converter basically is a way to specify how the fields need to be mapped.

Unfortunately the Example.php seems to be missing a few key fields, so it would be good to look at the bbPress1.php converter for an idea of all of the necessary fields (ie. the topic post_content field has no field mapped to it in Example.php).

[Tux Kapono]

Anyone? This is one of those five second answers for the bbPress team, or anyone who’s done this. Thanks!

[am71722]

Is it possible to export from Social Engine 3 to the latest version of bbPress? Is there a tool out there for it?