Hello. I was reviewing free php forums and came upon bbPress. I have had great experiences with WordPress, so the idea of a “wordpressy” forum got me.
However, I just want to know from you guys is it good? If I understand correctly bbPress is quite new, so can you say it can compete with, say, phpBB?
Also, I am planning to integrate a LOT of features for my forum, as I am aiming to make a roleplaying forum, with characters, and weapons and all that jazz. Would bbPress make it easy for me to do those? For any of you have created plugins for bbPress, how developer-friendly do you think it is?
Here I am, hoping for your replies. Thank you.
I just wanted to chime in and say I was hitting the exact same issue with importing a very old forum in and this got me over the hump. Thank you VERY much! I was just about to start translating out the insert queries and attacking it through mysql alone.
This forums data has been for a ride over the years and manually about half the time (starting around 2000) ubb -> phpbb -> vbulletin -> smf -> phpbb -> vanilla -> bbpress
So loving how much processes like this have improved over the years! Much appreciated!
Darren,
I have a problem with the ‘spammy’ domain you keep linking to as it is a ‘web host’ ad farm, if you don’t own that domain please stop linking to it here on bbpress.org. I have removed these links from all of your posts.
You can find some hosting providers links here https://wordpress.org/hosting/ that are well and truly under $5 a month.
To your question the most common that suits most people is ‘Post Name’ as outlined here https://codex.wordpress.org/Permalinks#Choosing_your_permalink_structure
Cheers,
Stephen
A few quick questions
How can I remove my widgets and sidebar from just my forum page. Also, how can I remove the comment section on my forum page.
What is the bbPress sidebar. I put some bbPress widgets in it but I did not see any changes.
Lastly, how can I display the bbPress Login Widget (that allows people to register, login, and find lost password) on only my forum page.
All input is appreciated.
I am having a few problems doing this. I downloaded the folder and uploaded it to my theme (catchbox) via Filezilla. However, I do not see any changes in my forum or dashboard. I have read through this forum but a lot of what has been mentioned has been beyond me. Any help is much appreciated.
Hi,
for my installation (WP 3.5.1 and bbpress 2.2.4) only forums.php is recognized by bbpress and can be used as a template.
Hi,
I am using bbpress on my wordpress site to allow users to create profiles, and not necessarily interact with the forums. That said, I’d like to remove the irrelevant links and elements in the bbpress profiles which are being shown when users view their own profile or when users are viewing each other’s profiles (highlighted below).
I believe these changes would take place in the bbpress php files, but I’m having trouble finding the correct files to edit, and which lines need revision. Also, I believe I would need a child theme to make these changes safely? I’d really appreciate you help! Thanks in advance for you guidance.
Hello,
I have problem. I download polish language for BBpress (pl_PL.mo). Where I must put this file and where I can change language from english to polish?
I make this scenarios:
– upload .mo file to wp-content/language/bbpress – not working
– upload .mo file to wp-content/plugins/bbpress/language – not working
Can someone help me ?
Forum links were not working for non admin’s (when logged in).
In my case it was caused by the ‘Better WP security’ plugin.
WP 3.5.1
Better WP Security 3.4.8
bbPress 2.2.4
Hey all,
I have a new project DELETED URL (currently only on my localhost for now).. but i will be offering digital goods / Premium Designs for a range of different platforms that’s besides the point.. my forum section will be for both webmaster forums and also for customer support.. While BBpress is free and great it does feel like it’s lacking a lot of features / just doesn’t feel like a premium forum software…
What plugins would you recommend i add to give it a little polish ? does installing heaps of BBpress plugins effect the performance ?
Thanks for any help with this one.
Regards, Darren
Hey again, Sorry 2 questions in one day 🙁
OK here is what i am thinking… Rather than using /forums/ for my main forum page i would like to create my own custom Forums page.. Now would this need to be done via a BBpress template or simply by creating a WordPress page and then using shortcodes to display specific forums..
Doing the above assuming it was possible.. i would call the WP page “Forums” but this would conflict with the BBpress Forums base which by default is “forums” so yeah i am at a little bit of a loss here.
Again as always THANKS in advance to anyone who takes the time to reply / assist me with this.
Regards, Darren
I also have the same problem!
can anybody pls. help to resolve this issue!?
Thank you very much!
@ashenkargmailcom – I did make ‘some-sort’ of progress on this today, taking a previous multisite install (wp 3.5.1) and then running the latest bp + bbp ‘trunk’ (bp 1.7 beta2 & bbp 2.3 beta1). In this test I had:
a. Buddypress network activated
b. bbPress only activated in the root (site 1 in my case of a 3 site multisite)
The inability to create group forum topics persists with the default buddypress theme, my Genesis Theme (Agency running Genesis Connect) HOWEVER, creating new topics (w/in group forums) does seem to work if I activate the twenty-twelve theme OR activating the genesis theme (agency) without Genesis Connect. I’m still not 100% sure what this means, though it leads me to think the the issue may not be in the database (which is where I previously thought the malfunction-at-the-junction happened…).
In a second test, I did this:
a. Buddypress only activated in the root (site 1 in my case of a 3 site multisite)
b. bbPress only activated in the root (site 1 in my case of a 3 site multisite)
& any theme (genesis w/ genesis connect, buddypress default) will allow the full creation of group topics. The same applies (as Fee) pointed out above if both bp & bbp are network activated. The only unworkable situation (for me) seems to be bp (network active) & bbp (single (root) site active).
Still not resolved (to my liking) but perhaps eliminating some variables…
Not want to change styling. Need complete page markup, header, footer, content sidebar… as like in page.php for example. I want userpages to have little different markup than other bbpress forum pages. Please read my post again, it is already detailed.
With anything like this I recommend just playing with it. If you can setup a local installation of wordpress and bbPress then you can mess about as much as you like, you generally find out a lot of cool stuff doing that.
Or if your site is just a test at the moment, add it and see what happens!
Good luck.
You can create a page and then add the register shortcode to it: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
Then link to it from anywhere you like, menu, page, any where.
Thanks. I’ll try that. I don’t think it’s a theme OR a plugin issue, since I deactivated (and actually ended up deleting all plugins but BBpress) and switched the the default theme.
Can you not hook into the classes provided to change the styling? Or are you looking for extra markup?
You would need to do a little custom work on switching out the freshness link inside your forum template files.
Inside loop-single-forum.php there is a function which gets all of the subforums. Inside that function is where the freshness link is. It might help to look at what I did with a starter theme for bbPress on github: https://github.com/EpicWebs/bbPress-starter-theme-epicwebs
Good luck!
Hi – we have BBPress 2.24 running on WP 3.5.1 here: http://contagiousjoy4him.com
My client noticed a week or so ago that the forums were only showing for admins after she wasn’t getting any visits/comments on the forum.
Here’s what I’ve tried to troubleshoot:
1. deactivated all plugins except for BBpress
2. switched to 2011 and 2012 theme
All to no avail. Nothing has been added, only some possible updates, and since I didn’t do them, I’m not sure what was updated by the client. Even so, deactivating plugins and clearing out cache and attempting it on a basic theme – I would think it would work.
Any ideas – your help/advice/input is greatly appreciated.
Karen L
@jeffacubed Thanks for letting me know. I’ve already tried to latest bbpress and buddypress trunk but the issue persisted. If I can be of any help with the testing – just let me know. I’m eager to get this issue resolved. Thanks
Hi.
I created a theme and I created a WordPress page which uses a specific template file on this file, which includes bbPress main page (a page with a list of topics of a specific forum).
The problem is that it seems that if user is not logged in, it goes to standard bbpress page instead of my customized page. Why does this happen and how can I solve?
I have already check that my created page is set to public page on wp-admin.
Thank you.
I would be very interested if you found a solution.
+Bump,
I’m trying to have different templates for different forum topics.
Anyone got any ideas?
