[Anonymous User 5853594]

You could create a page and use the shortcodes to display the forum there. You can then set the page as home, instead of the blog (under Settings > Reading).

From there you’ve got the forum index on the frontpage. You could create other pages to handle registration and other account related things.

You’ll want to read through https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ for the shortcodes.

[Starejosel]

Can you tell me how to install your tweak? I am using just the standard Admin tools, and there seems to be no automatic way to reinstall a plugin that isn’t updated.

Sorry for being such a newbie.

Martin

[tamilcselvan]

Thanks…..

• This reply was modified 13 years, 9 months ago by tamilcselvan.

[chintan1205]

Great work James ! one more small thing would like to bring to your notice, Under Admin page of user having capability as Forum moderator (twenty Eleven theme 1.4) no topics or replies are shown, though one test topic is created count for All(1) Published(1). Once again Great Job.

[auco]

I found the culprit: it’s bbpress-antispam:
bbpress-antispam 0.7 not compatible to bbpress 2.1

https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bbpress-antispam

When I deactivate it, it’ll work fine.

[mastermre]

Hi,

I seem to have successfully migrated my bbpress database (1.1) into the latest (2.11) wordpress plugin version. The problem is I dont want the wordpress “site” at all – just the forum (as it used to be in its standalone version – accessed via a link from my main site menu).

In addition I can only access the forum at present via the dashboard and ‘view’. It does not appear as a menu command on the wordpress “site” or anywhere else on that page. How does one find the forums at all on that “home” page?

What I am trying to do is recreate what I had before (with custom template too) under this new setup. I would not have moved to Wpress but was forced to as the bbpress 1 forum is getting chinese spammers every day and the registration approval plugin doesnt work at all.

I hope this is clear enough for some good help/advice! I cannot find any good simple steps to convert the one into the other. Do I have to base my entire site on WordPress now (will have to junk wpress if I am forced to do that!) or can I recreate what I had before when bbpress was a standalone forum?

Thanks

Patrick

[keith.sykes@telecomsense.co.uk]

Hi I have had exactly the same problem, I updated this morning and the Widget has appeared, many thanks Guys for your efforts.

[John James Jacoby]

Asking “where are the shortcodes” would have probably helped us help you.

Asking Google for “bbPress Shortcodes” would have eventually gotten you there, too. 🙂

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m pretty sure this is what your looking for https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Stephen Edgar]

@Siobhan I like the idea of using bbPress for a docs task list

@labsecrets Thats some pretty impressive stuff you got there

[John James Jacoby]

I don’t understand.

bbPress doesn’t have any reason to use brackets in URLs. Slugs are parts of a URL.

Example: http://domain.com/forums/ <–‘forums’ is the root slug of your forums

[heyw00d]

Hi there

Picked bbpress as it looks nice & is also linked with wp. Not the first time i used a forum plugin (simple:press years ago) but after installing…….nada, niente, nothing. The back end features are visible from the dashboard but nothing else, it act’s like it created a new page titled “forum” but it didn’t. Even if i create a new page titled “forum” still nothing. I was assuming I’d have to place some snippet on the page (like the way you’d put [nggallery-1] if you wanted a next gen gallery to appear) but if there is some code snippet to place i find no mention of it. Even this site only offers under “Simple Installation”

Simple Setup
Coming soon, I promise!

Any opinions ? did i omit something upon installation, is some documentation lacking ?

Thank you

[viktora]

One more strange observation. In admin area I have modified the Forum base slug to different than /forums/, te us say to /discussion/. What is the bbpress doing?

If the old (and theoretically not existing) page /forums/ is called, the customized file page-front-forums.php is shown OK.

But if you call the new /discussion/, page-front-forums.php is ignored.

Really strange. Isnt it a bug?

[viktora]

Hi John, this is what I did when using the shortcode in my page created with slug /forums-test/. It worked well. But what if I do not want to use the shortcodes? The /forums/ page is ignoring my customized page-front-forums.php. I tried to edit the page slug from /forums-test/ to /forums/ but the system is insisting on slug /forums-2/ (created automatically by the system). How should I make the bbpress to use my customized page-front-forums.php file on /forums/? Ideally without shortcodes?

I tried to change the slug for

[John James Jacoby]

I forgot to include that revision in 2.1.1. It will be in 2.1.2 later this week. 🙁

[John James Jacoby]

I tweaked the widget code for what will be 2.1.2. If you can report back if it fixes your issues would be great.

[viktora]

Dear all, thanks a lot for all your effort and great piece of work!

I am stuck in trouble… I am still trying hard to create my own custom template and I am observing strange bbpress behaviour. In order to customize my bbpress template I have copied all “extras” files from bbpress plugin to my custom template. When edited, the public outcome is as expected… I am able to modify the copied “extras” files and all the changes are visible. So everything seems to be OK.

BUT… The “page-front-forums.php” index file is ignored by my wordpress site. When edited, no changes are visible on the front end. I have tried to call the index file page-front-forums.php using shortcode. It is working fine, all changes in page-front-forums.php working as expected. Strange, isnt is?:-) Why?

All other “extras” files/pages seem to be sent to front end visible with customizations and working as expected.

Thanks for your advice!

[nick_w]

Thanks guys. I’ve updated the phpBB.php file as suggested, wiped out the Forums again, did the conversion from phpBB3 – it went through beautifully – and promptly received the same error when trying to login as a non-admin user that got ported from phpBB, only now it complained about phpBB.php vs. Phpbb.php.

So still no-go for me. 🙁

nick

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Warning: require_once(converters/phpBB.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/[ … ]/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-functions.php on line 1467

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘converters/phpBB.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in
/home/[ … ]/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-functions.php on line 1467

[LabSecrets]

Hi Guys,
we would be able to launch right out of the gate with our Responsive Child Theme (based on Emil’s awesome “Responsive” Parent), specifically for bbPress. This is one of our most popular child themes right now, and I think he has more than 170,000 downloads..so maybe a good way to get bbPress “mainstream” and responsive in one swoop.

We would be also able to provide step by step videos and user-manual for the child theme(s) and support customization questions.

You can see it in action here (this is the premium version with BuddyPress and WooCommerce integration as well…the bbPress only would be free, of course)

http://labsecrets.com/demo/responsive/forums/

We also have a version that has special features for folks who want to start a video membership site. See: http://labsecrets.com/demo/responsive-labvidz-bbpress/

The child theme is ready to use now, so as soon as an organizational method is figured out, we can put it up.

All in all, we can give folks a pretty “direct to the result” way to get started…

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Spence

[masonjames]

Yeah a couple different FAQs would be really awesome.

• What do I need to get started?
• How do I set up user role permissions for adding new forums/topics, etc.
• How do bbPress and BuddyPress work together? (when to use what?)
• Where can I go for bbPress plugins?

If @labsecrets has some time to help with the theme compat stuff that would be awesome! I’ve had that on my list since one of the 2.1 betas was released but haven’t gone beyond a basic outline yet. Happy to share what I have on that as well.

Thanks!

[Starejosel]

I am happy to try to help and sort this out, but I need instructions about what I should be checking to see if this is a specific issue at my site or more general. Is there any information that I can supply?

Thanks!
Martin

[Siobhan]

Awesome! It’d be great to have a push on getting a complete bbPress Codex.

Some general thoughts:

1. Planning the architecture is really important. I get brought on board with a lot of doc projects at a late stage. When no planning has gone into it the docs end up getting unwieldy and difficult to navigate. People just randomly add docs until there is a mountain of information and no user-friendly way of navigating through it. If there is a sound structure from the start it makes sure the complete documentation holds together as it grows.

2. We should create some sort of task list of doc we would like to see and things to work on. We could use a P2 or a wordpress.com blog, or we could try using bbPress itself for management. If we had a bbPress docs forum then we could add doc suggestions as topics. When a person decides to do it, it becomes a sticky (so that no one else works on it). We could tag posts as idea, in progress, and complete – people would be able to discuss individual posts in the threads. It might be fun to try using bbPress in this way.

Okay – those are just some ideas. Feel free to disregard – just thought it would be good to get a discussion going.

[John James Jacoby]

Thanks everyone again for taking this and running with it. It’s a huge, huge help.

[LabSecrets]

Hi Siobhan, Jared… we’ve seemed to get a bunch of folks who have been helped with basic setup from using our Forum Flavors video, located here: http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Would love to help out in your documentation/tutorial project, including releasing some “ready to use” bbPress child themes that work out of the box with some of the most popular WP parents in the repository.

Cheers!
Spence
Please let me know if you are open to that?

[LabSecrets]

Shortcut to shortcodes: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/