I’m new to bbPress, using WordPress 3.4.2 and bbPress 2.1.2. What I’d like to know is how I can add metadata to each forum. For example, I want to show a description for a forum in the forums list. Is there a way to enable this with bbPress, or a plugin that does it?
Has anyone found a working solution to this? I’m considering migrating my WordPress plugin support from comments on a WP post / page onto a bbPress forum (so the history is searchable). If such a thing doesn’t exist, I’d need to create it, because the history is what’s really valuable.
I had a quick look at the basic format and it doesn’t look all that complicated. Each forum, topic, or reply becomes a new entry in wp_posts with some extra metadata stored in wp_postmeta for things like the commenter’s name, email, url, and IP. I reckon the core logic would be pretty straightforward, my biggest question is how to kick off the import process.
Anyone with development experience interested in collaborating? Or got any existing code to share?
This might be relevant, although it’s really about converting an entire WP blog into a bbPress site I think?:
Any Way to Convert WordPress Comments to BBPress
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Any luck finding a solution for this? It’s something that I’d probably need before switching to bbPress from existing WordPress comments.
It uses a custom built theme. The theme will be released to the public at some point in the future.
Any idea when the theme directory might be back in business?
In the meantime, is there somewhere one can search for such things? I tried bbpress in the wordpress.org theme directory but that didn’t throw up very much.
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Tell me please https://bbpress.org/forums dont use theme ?
I can’t load your site at all.
The theme that runs this site is going to be released at sometime in the future. Once it is, you’ll be able to simply activate the theme.
Because it is specific to your theme, probably the best thing you can do is contact Jason (your theme’s developer) and see if he can provide specific directions. He has worked with bbPress quite a bit recently so I expect he’ll be able to at least help with that part: http://support.themeblvd.com/
Hello friends,
My name is Celal From Turkey.i want to use bbpress forum on the my website.i am beginner for the bbpress.How can make mysite that bbpress.org/forums ? just like same. Help me please.thank you
Hi Lynq, thank you for this code! I would have never figured this out on my own.
I have a question. I’ve pasted these functions into my bbpress-functions.php and called the custom forum list function in my single-loop-forum.php file but for some reason I keep getting a parse error telling me that there was an unexpected T_Public. Do you know how I would fix this? Is there a certain place in the bbpress-functions.php file I’m supposed to paste that code?
Thanks for the help!
Update- I just added: add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); to my functions.php page in the child theme and it didn’t make any difference, I’m still looking for a fix… any advice would be appreciated.
I converted my Xenforo forums (no mods in the xenforo) to Invision Power Board, then tried to convert them to bbPress but I’m getting an error while converting and it stops. Anyone have any idea how I can fix this?
WordPress database error: [Unknown column ‘posts.post_title’ in ‘field list’]
SELECT convert(posts.pid USING “utf8”) AS pid,convert(posts.topic_id USING “utf8”) AS topic_id,convert(posts.ip_address USING “utf8”) AS ip_address,convert(posts.author_id USING “utf8”) AS author_id,convert(posts.post_title USING “utf8”) AS post_title,convert(posts.post USING “utf8”) AS post,convert(posts.post_date USING “utf8”) AS post_date,convert(posts.edit_time USING “utf8”) AS edit_time FROM ib_posts AS posts WHERE posts.new_topic = 0 LIMIT 0, 80
Update- I deleted and reinstalled the child theme and copied back over the bbp-twentyten files into the child folder as according to these directions: https://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ however I’m still having issues with the theme working with bbP… for some reason my password field turned white on all my pages from an original dark theme setting (though the login field stayed the same), and I can’t figure out how to format the colors and background to my forum page to stay with the original theme settings: http://ouyagamingsource.com/forums/ including maintaining the tables, sidebars and colors of the other pages. I’m wondering if it can be done by bypassing some of the twenty-ten commands on the bbpress-functions.php file I copied to the child? I’m not much of a PHP expert so this is a little complicated.
Is this still being developed? It’s been a while since any updates or responses. I’d like to use this rather than pay someone to convert Xenforo.
Hi, Can you help? In bbpress my favorites link returns page not found. http://www.thsotestsite.dev/members/admin/forums/favorites/ the rest of forum works fine.
The favorites in BuddyPress work fine http://www.thsotestsite.dev/members/admin/activity/favorites/
And Yes running both Group and site wide forums and are playing nice together for the most part:)
WordPress: Current version
BuddyPress: Current version
bbPress: Current version
Theme: Frisco and BuddyPress Default Both have same results
all running on my dev. server (DesktopServer)
Is this a bug or config problem?
can anyone give clue how to fix this?
Thanks
James
I attempted the import but I keep getting the error saying I have no forums to import:
WordPress database error: [Table ‘motionworks_wp2.forums’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(forums.forum_id USING “utf8”) AS forum_id,convert(forums.forum_parent USING “utf8”) AS forum_parent,convert(forums.topics USING “utf8”) AS topics,convert(forums.posts USING “utf8”) AS posts,convert(forums.forum_name USING “utf8”) AS forum_name,convert(forums.forum_slug USING “utf8”) AS forum_slug,convert(forums.forum_desc USING “utf8”) AS forum_desc,convert(forums.forum_order USING “utf8”) AS forum_order FROM forums AS forums LIMIT 0, 100No forums to convert
Any ideas? All help greatly appreciated.
John.
If you use the bbp-theme-compat theme you can copy some template files from the plugin directory to your theme directory.
This way bbPress can get updates in the future while your custom edits will not disappear because of the updates to the plugin.
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/
(read the last part.)
Only thing is, there is a template file that’s named like this: page-front-forums.php everybody thinks this is the default template that will be shown when you have an url like this.
http://example.com/forums/
But that’s not true, this template is only used when you use bbPress (the forum index page) as a homepage for your WordPress site.
If you use the forums (index) page as a separated page like my ‘example.com’ url above bbPress uses the archive-forum.php template.
What you can do very easy is copy-/paste the archive-forum.php template from the wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-theme-compat > extras > directory to your theme’s directory.
wp-content > themes > your-theme-name > and edit that template file.
Now bbPress wil not use page.php but the archive-forum.php template instead and you can edit this page to all your needs.
I’ve got the same issue. Topics are showing up in all forums.
Website is http://www.walkaboutwellington.com/forums.
BBPress version is 2.1.2
Wordpress version is 3.4.1.
Any ideas?
Hello BBP Forum,
I got nearly everything set up with the BuddyPress and bbPress forum plugins, however there’s a few tweaks I need to finish it off and I’m trying to figure out which files I need to adjust the html settings to match my custom theme of my other pages.
Going from these directions: http://codex.bbpress.org/legacy/step-by-step-guide-to-creating-a-custom-bbpress-theme/ I created a child from my Alyeska theme and copied the Default bbPress Theme to the child theme folder. This helped get the forum page a little closer to my custom theme style, but still not there yet; the sidebars are missing, the forum BG is white, amongst a few other issues, but it’s getting closer. I’m just not sure where the CSS master file for this page is, I tried editing the two files in the child_theme/bbp/CSS folder but it didn’t make any change: http://ouyagamingsource.com/forums/, any ideas?
Thanks ahead of time!
–Bryan
I also just noticed that over at http://testbp.org/discussion/ the “Forums” sidebar widget there has an additional 2 columns, “Posts” and “Freshness”. How on Earth does one get these fancier widgets?
Just as the title says, I’m curious to know how the current main page at bbpress.org/forums/ is set up. Ideally, I’d like to have my forums main page set up in exactly the same fashion.
Am I correct in assumming that it’s done as a Page (“forums” being the slug) with the bbPress shortcode “[bbp-topic-index]” as its content?
I notice for Latest Topics it lists 28 topics, however in the bbPress Codex listing of shortcodes, it says that particular shortcode only lists 15 of the most recent topics. How does one go about configuring it to show more (or less) than the default of 15?
The other thing I’m curious about is how one gets the nicer “Forums” sidebar widget. The one on bbpress.org/forums/ is styled with a header containing “Forum” and “Topics” column headers, and then a striped list of the Forums with the associated topic counts. In the current public version of bbPress (2.1.2), the “Forums” widget only shows a straight, plain list of the Forums — no header/columns, and no topic counts. Is the widget used on bbpress.org/forums/ from the current SVN of bbPress, or was it customized specifically for bbPress?
Have you looked at these two docs to help get you started?
https://codex.bbpress.org/theme-compatibility/ and https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/
(The thread that you linked to above is out of date as it is only relevenet to the old stand alone bbPress and not the current plugin bbPress 2.x )
