[AlexiousRahl]

Hello and thanks for the help!

Two questions for a noob, though: how to enable the search? Also, where is the statistics shortcode? I can’t find it here. https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

Thanks again!

[Nashwan D]

Congratulations! I used the 2.3 version since a while and it’s a masterpiece 🙂
Looking forward to 2.4 …

[JayFoster]

I’m not a website developer. I’m just a user of WP for two sites. I have a third site that I had a developer set up which is a forum and it is run with phpbb (he said this is what I should use).

What frustrates me is the huge DIFFICULTY in installing a “mod.” I don’t want to have to contact my web developer to install a mod every time I need one. That’s why ALL my websites (except this forum one) are run on wordpress – I can install/change just about anything on it myself within seconds.

What I’m wondering is, if I switch to bbpress is the installation of plugins just like wordpress? I don’t have any problem with that because it’s just click on a couple of buttons. Phpbb on the other hand, requires me to edit files and write code for a “mod” installation. It’s time-consuming and drives me nuts.

My forum is http://www.ForumJudo.com if that matters to your recommendations. I just basically want a site where users can send/receive private messages, vote on posts, post video/audio files, start topics, mods can delete posts & ban users, etc., and possibly a chat feature in the future.

I just know that phpbb is too difficult to install “mods.” I don’t want to learn code.

Thanks for any advice on this!

[themattman]

I’m getting errors on converting vBulletin to bbPress where it won’t convert tags. Once I “repair”, it says that it fails on converting users, as well as no replies have converted.

[premitheme]

I have a problem! Tested the latest official 2.3 version (and rc1) and cannot post topics or replies and always get “ERROR: Are you sure you wanted to do that?”. Creating forums is OK.

This happened on a fresh localhost installation (MAMP) of WP 3.5.1 and bbp 2.3 using TwentyTwelve theme without any other plugins or themes installed. Attached a screenshot …

The search function is great BTW, well done! Just hope to find a fix for the mentioned problem as it makes 2.3 useless.

[realhood]

🙂

[fencer_x]

Hi,

My website recently went live, and despite experiencing problems with bbpress in the past, I decided to use it to host my forums.

Everything’s working out so far (knock on wood), except that the unique post anchors (http://website.com/forums/topic/topic-title/#post-1234) that show up, for example, in the ‘recent replies’ widget are giving the following error:

`Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/74/10646774/html/index.php:1) in /home/content/74/10646774/html/renewal/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876`

Caveat: I have permalinks set to numeric and have installed WP in a subdirectory (in this case, “renewal”) which I now use as the wordpress URL while keeping the site URL as http://domain.com so that I didn’t have to move the wordpress directory.

All forums work fine, and navigating topics isn’t an issue–it’s only these unique post IDs that are throwing the error (and rendering the above-mentioned bbpress widget useless).

Any suggestions?

[John James Jacoby]

Hi Patti,

Sounds like you may be a bit confused. bbPress.org is the support forums specifically for bbPress, which is a sister project to WordPress.

Unless your sites are hosted on WordPress.com, any issues you’re having logging in are specific to your installations, and not to any central server anywhere.

[Stephen Edgar]

Congrats and Thanks to all who helped get bbPress 2.3 out the door… Yay 🙂

[John James Jacoby]

i have to pay for this?

Hopefully not. A quick Google search found this plugin, though I’m not sure how well it works.

[Pippin Williamson]

BTW: bbPress 2.3 just got released!

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress disables shortcode execution within it’s output, so that non-privileged users can’t gain access to all of the shortcodes available within WordPress. The problem is that shortcodes don’t come packaged with role/capability restrictions on their usage, allowing anyone that can create topics or replies to use any available shortcode. This is risky, so we globally disallow them.

[Pippin Williamson]

The search box is part of bbPress 2.3, which is still in development.

[WayneM1]

I’m running the latest version of everything…

bbpress 2.2.4
BuddyPress 1.7
WordPress 3.5.1.

[lasticko]

btw, the page:

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

is out of date. Step 6 doesn’t work. 🙁

[lasticko]

I went to #freenode’s IRC channel for #wordpress and I tried to find help there.

They directed me to :
https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/

But on Step 6 where it says to copy everything in wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-themes > bbp-twentyten into your child theme folder I’m stuck.

There is no wp-content\plugins\bbpress\bbp-themes directory in the latest bbpress.
Outdated instructions… 🙁

I wish someone would step in and clear things up.

This page seems a little more udpated with the correct file structure. I guess I’m going to delve into this a bit more:
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Automoglow]

I have installed bbpress, and I can use everything in the dashboard to set up the forum and create topics, etc. But when I go to forum I created there is nothing there. I am using the Mercato Premium WordPress Theme. Can you help me find out how to get the forum to show in my template.

[kafe]

And not only that, but I’ve even dropped in ready-made themes, and supposedly there’s supposed to be an option to change it from the dashboard. At this point, we may just have to have our web guy change the files from scratch, because we don’t know how to change it to a pre-existing theme.

[Tux Kapono]

Are the instructions for migrating the BP Discussion Forums content to bbPress 2.3 the same as for migrating to bbPress 2.2, as described at the following link? http://codex.buddypress.org/user/setting-up-a-new-installation/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/using-bbpress-2-2-with-buddypress/

[lasticko]

I’m with you on this — I posted the previous topic in this forum on basically the same topic (need to keep main WP theme, but just looking to make the bbpress forums cleaner looking).

All I got was a generic “here’s the bbpress page on modifying your theme” and without being a master PHP/CSS/HTML guru, that theming page is a bit intimidating and confusing.

What would be GREAT is if someone said “Here, do this ”
1) Create a directory off your Theme’s dir called “my-templates”
2) Drop these files in there for an example clean looking bbpress theme
3) You can modify THIS and THAT file in this example to suit your needs.

Maybe I’m oversimplifying, but bbpress, with all of its advancements, HAS to have some drop-in example themes… ?

Lets hope both of us get a simple example we can try out.

[Pippin Williamson]

What browser are you using and what version of bbPress? Are you able to give us a live site URL?

[sulliwane2]

Hello, I have the exact same problem :

On /forum page I put this bbpress shortcode : [bbp-topic-form]

And when non-admin user is logged-in, it displays the message “You cannot create new topics.”

Any workaround ?

Thx

[Daniel Dvorkin]

I think I know what’s going on. Created a ticket in trac https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2302

[kafe]

Yeah, but the main issue is that I can’t figure out to change the theme in the first place, and can I install two separate themes, one for the main site and one just for bbpress / buddypress?

[mtedwards]

Hi Guys,

I am moving a medium sized forum from one WordPress site to another existing site.

Everytime I use the WordPress exporter / Importer it works, but is missing the Topics. I have tried doing it on a database level but keep over writing existing data on the current site.

I’ve noticed there is a specific forum importer but doesn’t offer any import from current bbpress 2 forums.

Any advice?

Thanks