[Shane Gowland]

I can understand why you’ve chosen to preserve the old posts, but I agree with the OP that it makes finding relevant help with issues extremely difficult.

Perhaps a happy compromise could be reached, such as an option that makes the forum search exclude results dated prior to the release of 2.0. Or even a “The information in this thread may be outdated” warning message to reduce the confusion of new users.

[freax]

It’s working now ! Thank you for your help.

[Lynq]

You might find this helpful: http://www.epicwebs.co.uk/content/bbpress-theme-invision-or-phpbb-feel

[Lynq]

You need to copy it to the root theme folder and not inside a bbpress folder.

[jtole]

Hello again …
I installed bbpress 2.2.3 but I do not like the original design, I mean … if you see http://www.bitadictos.com/forums forums as you can see I created a category, and each category and there are forums.
What I would like is to see the forums arranged vertically rather than horizontally as they are now.
What I can do to see them vertically?

[jtole]

Thank you both, you have been very helpful

[M3]

Thanks for the help but still don’t understand how to change the theme. Is there any step by step and example on how to do it. Sorry I’m a plugin user and novice in coding.

[John James Jacoby]

Too late now, and lots of the old topics are still relevant, even if not exact.

[ellipszist]

Example : http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/upgrade-bbpress-1-0-2-to-2-1-2/page/2/

[thinkcrush]

Hello guys. I don’t know what i did wrong 🙁 I had the forum working a previous version of my website, but since the theme change, i can’t get it set up for my life.

It might be important to note that there was a situation during the instillation of bbpress. I was at the last step of the instillation, when my website crashed. One of my folders was duplicated or something. I removed the file from my file manager and got my site back. BBpress is now installed, alongside buddypress but when i go to my forum page there’s nothing there.

I think i need step by step instructions. When i make a page named “Forum” and assign that page to the bbpress pages tab, nothing happens. I have a code to make my forum fancy and thats not working either.

I am using the newest wordpress, and the newest bbpress.

My website is at http://www.goodpoker.ca

This is the code i need to put somewhere…

ID, ‘sidebar_value’, true);

do_action( ‘bp_before_directory_forums_page’ ); ?>

<div class="padder contentbox “>

 

<option value="”>

<input type="submit" name="submit_topic" id="submit" class="none" style="opacity:0;" value="” />

<input type="button" name="submit_topic_cancel" id="submit_topic_cancel" value="” />

<?php printf( __( "You are not a member of any groups so you don't have any group forums you can post in. To start posting, first find a group that matches the topic subject you'd like to start. If this group does not exist, why not create a new group? Once you have joined or created the group you can post your topic in that group’s forum.”, ‘buddypress’ ), site_url( bp_get_groups_root_slug() . ‘/create/’ ) ) ?>

• <a href="”><?php printf( __( 'All Topics %s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_forum_topic_count() ); ?>

• <a href="”><?php printf( __( 'My Topics %s’, ‘buddypress’ ), bp_get_forum_topic_count_for_user( bp_loggedin_user_id() ) ); ?>

[Will Brownsberger]

Just a follow up.

Here is a different plug in that does a reasonable job:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/

After installing it, go to discussion settings and then set it to create a forum topic for each post, copy tags, etc. Then you have an option to apply settings to all existing posts.

I tried this on a test site and it worked pretty well. It did not do all the bookkeeping of reply counts correctly, but it did create appropriate topics for each post and import the comments and replies to them.

It is also reversible as it does not delete either the posts or comments — if you deactivate the plug in your posts (which were unchanged anyway) and their comments are intact. You do still have a bunch of new topics in your target forum.

[Erlend]

I think you should seriously consider archiving the bulk of the legacy bbPress posts, maybe moving them to a separate forum like archive.bbpress.org.

It’s very troublesome when I’m trying to use Google or the native search to find posts with similar queries as mine, and I end up with mostly 2-4 year old posts relating to the old and abandoned standalone bbPress.

[Stephen Edgar]

There are detailed steps in the docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/

[wpmhweb]

Makes sense now!

Thanks,

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a read of the docs here https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[Stephen Edgar]

Have a look at the docs https://codex.bbpress.org/

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/

[wpmhweb]

It seems that BBPress 2.2.3 has changed a lot. I just struggling finding out how to create a child theme with this version.
Which folder is the one that I need to copy to the main themes folder?

Thanks,

[Will Brownsberger]

This is a potentially useful plugin, and makes nice use of WP functions.

However, I’ve reviewed this code and I don’t believe that it works.

Unless I’m missing something it doesn’t update the various necessary _bb_press metakeys.

It just simplistically changes the post types for the posts to “topic” and stores the comments as replies.

Possible that I’m missing something, but the documentation for the insert post function includes no indication that it will maintain the necessary bbpress fields.

See https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_insert_post

Although I haven’t run the code, I don’t actually believe that it will even insert the posts into the selected bbpress forum. It will, however, create the topics which can then be moved around manually.

Just a lay person’s read.

[M3]

hi, I’m a newbie and I really like bbPress forum but I don’t know how can I install to my wordpress. Some information give advise using FTP such as this information, but the wordpress plugin site give information that the instalation is through the plugin as a normal plugin.

So I follow the wordpress plugin way and it work, I can see th forum, modify add some forum and topics, but I haven’t had any clue on how I can change the theme or how to add the theme.

My first question is, did I installed it the right way? and secondly, how I can change the theme? I make a child theme but it didn’t work. My objective is to have my wordpress theme for the posts and as the forum for now I’m hoping to use the static bbPress forum theme.

I’m truly lost and I don’t know how I can manage to do it? Currently I’m using wordpress 3.5 with leaf theme, and latest bbPress forum bbPress 2.2.3.

My wordpress is currently in the subdirectory of my main site.

My website

My bbPress forum

Thank you in advance and sorry for my bad English.

[ellipszist]

development version
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/dev
or bbpress 2.2.x
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/2.2.x

[jtole]

Hello, I just installed the latest version of bbpress, but I would like to translate it into Spanish … How I can do?
Thank you!

[srjrol]

Thank you for taking the time to put this together Stephen. I’ve read the codex a few times over but it’s still a bit over my head. Hopefully over the weekend I will have some more time to make sense of things, but I do appreciate the prompt and very helpful response 🙂

[steilenhang]

Well I did that now. All custom roles are gone, the plugin is deleted, users have been remapped to default forum roles and bbPress still does not work as it should.

Do you have any idea of how to get this working? I have tried everything I can think of. I can’t find any leftovers from the role plugin either.

[steilenhang]

OK, but how do I make it work then? Reset and remove the User Role Editor, and then “Remap existing users to default forum roles”? I want bbPress more than custom roles to put it that way.

[knaveenchand]

Thanks for both @Lync and @netweb. I have been able to use lead topic function and it worked. I have reviewed the link you sent as an alternative to str_replace. I now have a different yet related question: Is it possible to have different headers for different forums. For instance, can I have one template for Q and A forum and another template for Jobs forum, and so on…? In each of the forum, I would prefer a different header. Is it possible to get this done through PO MO files or str_replace or any other functions? Thanks for your help.