[John James Jacoby]

Try again.

The sequence to tag bbPress to the WordPress plugins repo is a bit wonky, so you probably got an out-of-date zip.

I just tested it now, and it appears to be fine.

[Thorsten :-)]

Hi,

I updated within BuddyPress the bbpress plugin v2.0.3 to v2.1 for three times but your plugin says to update again – did you forget to update the version number?

Thanks for support, I use BB 3.4.1

[douglerner]

I was looking for some basic information about bbpress, its concepts and structure, etc. I couldn’t find anything in the docs, so if somebody could point me to something it would be great.

In the meanwhile, I have a basic question about users. Are the users regular wp users? Or are the bbpress users managed separately?

And what about email notifications for the users? Is that handled separately from other plugins which deal with email notifications and subscriber management? Is there a place to see who is subscribed to what?

Thanks,

doug

[douglerner]

At http://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/ it says:

Upon activation, bbPress will make additions to three areas of the WordPress Administration Screens:

1. bbPress creates three custom post types and adds them to the navigation menu: Forums, Topics, and Replies. Use these menu items to create and manage your forums.

2. A sub-menu found at Settings > Forum. Customize these settings for greater control over bbPress.

3. A dashboard widget – Right Now in Forums – which shows recent bbPress-related activity. Use the widget to quickly monitor your forums.

I see items 1 and 2. But where might I find item 3? I don’t see it in my dashboard anywhere. I do see a few bbpress-related widgets available though.

Thanks for any pointers here.

doug

[douglerner]

Well, it’s not quite that simple.

I installed bbpress and was pleased that it worked well with my Weaver II theme. Then I felt I wanted more of a “social network” so installed buddypress on top of that. Then I realized bbpress was included with buddypress, so I uninstalled them both and just installed buddypress. I was finding buddypress to be a bit confusing – not to mention slow – and it didn’t work well with my Weaver theme, so I uninstalled it and installed just bbpress again.

When I was done, I was left with just a white page when visiting my site.

I’m guess there are some things left in my database from the previous installation pointing to some page or something which no longer exists?

I uninstalled bbpress for now and can see my site with the Weaver II theme again. But anything I can do to get bbpress working again?

Thanks,

doug

[hlwinkler]

Hi John,

Thanks very much for the super-quick answer. Yeah, I already hedged and asked them there at the same time since I couldn’t tell whether it was the new bbpress RC or the new Canvas release. I also think Canvas is a little more likely since v5 is a big overhaul — I’ll let them know they can ping you.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like the theme just doesn’t enable bbPress to hook in and take care of things. You’ll want to talk to Woo about bbPress compatibility. Tell them to ping me (here is fine) if they have questions.

[John James Jacoby]

Not only does that not scale, it simply doesn’t work. Better to actually prevent it from getting in, which bbPress 2.1 will do.

[hlwinkler]

Hello,

I have a slightly odd issue — with both Woothemes Canvas 5.05 on and bbpress 2.1 RC4, my forum index page is displayed as a blog archive loop of excerpts (with just one excerpt):

http://www.politepix.com/forums/

There is no page or post that corresponds to this “forums” URL for me to change. How can I get this displaying as a real forum index instead of a loop of excerpts?

Thanks!

[rr03]

since i cant edit my question, is there any documentation for merging function.php and style.css?

i try things to merge but every time wordpress stops working.

[The800]

May i suggest that bbpress.org add a few moderators to the forum. Everytime i have visited this site lately, it has been a jungle of spam on the front page, instead of relevant topics.

– 800

[rr03]

i dont use buddypress but i kinda had solved the problem when i moved bbpress theme files to inside my child theme.

i still have a lot to figure out but i suggest instead of using shortcodes, move to theme files

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility in here it says how to do.

now i have access to all links.

[jmjp903]

I’m using WordPress 3.4.1. and bbPress 2.0.3. I have two small issues. The first one is when someone signs up to the forum, the link in the email is to the admin wordpress control panel and I can’t figure out how to change it. The other one is that when a user puts in the wrong username/password it redirects them to the wordpress admin control panel also, which can cause a lot of issues. I was wondering if anyone knew how to fix these problems? Thank you.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

@Jaja..

The changelog can always be found in the readme.txt file in the plugin folder.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

The easiest way is with using FTP.

-Download the RC package and unpack it locally.

-Delete the content of the /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/ folder.

-Upload the files into the /bbpress/ folder.

A regular upgrade does this automatically (or very similarly), so it shouldn’t break anything.

If all the files have been updated, you’ll be able to see in the Dashboard that you’re got the new version.

Please backup your database and remember to disable the plugin before removing and replacing the files. (Although I never do this, it is good practice…)

[AAShepAA]

It was a dumb mistake – but I thought I would post this if anyone is ever in my same spot.

This was very helpful:

http://perishablepress.com/quickly-disable-or-enable-all-wordpress-plugins-via-the-database/

However – since I had already turned all my plugins off I was out of luck for backing them up first!

What I did was phpmyadmin into one of my other sites running bbPress and copied its active_topics tab le contents – then pasted into the site that was not working. It was enough to get me back into admin and reactive my plugins.

[AAShepAA]

John – I went in and disabled plugins one-by-one to no av avail. Then I made a dumb mistake and deactivated ALL my plugind and now I can’t get back into the site. I had my forums set as the main page ;(

Can I use PHPMyAdmin to reset those or at least bbPress? If so – where?

Thanks again

[John James Jacoby]

You assumed wrong. That’s okay, because next you need to figure out which plugin isn’t working correctly by deactivating them one at a time and seeing which one stops the bad stuff from happening.

I have a hunch it’s the bbPress Admin Bar Addition one.

Ultimately, you just need to open the hood and start tinkering.

[AAShepAA]

Thanks John..

I am assuming you are referring to my bbPress plugins?? They are:

bbPress2 BBCode

bbPress Admin Bar Addition (Had to do this to even have access to admin)

bbPress Moderation

bbPress New Topic Notifications

bbPress Post Toolbar

bbPress Quotes

bbP Signatures

Again, I appreciate your help.

[AAShepAA]

Latest bbPress also and the broken links are in the left-side maim admin menu. I will need to get home to list plugins..

[John James Jacoby]

What version of bbPress? And where are these incorrect links located? What plugins other than bbPress are you running?

[John James Jacoby]

This felt like a bug to me, either in bbPress or some other thing, so I created a ticket and fixed it right away for bbPress 2.1.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1887

Users with accounts should almost always have the ‘read’ capability. If they lost it somehow, it seems like it’s because something interfered with it.

[rr03]

before your answer i just added all bbpress theme files except style.css and function.php anda also added necessary line.

it seems allright but to make it right what steps should i take?

delete current version and start to use 2.1,

re-add the files on child theme then?

[John James Jacoby]

In bbPress 2.1, functions.php is replaced with bbpress-functions.php in your theme, to avoid the conflict.

[Skyforger]

is that just a formatting issue u want it to be vertical listing instead of horizontal ?

Also check this https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-set-up-bbpress-and-buddypress?replies=12#post-92559

Dude is saying not to install bbpress throe buddypress but as separate from plugins list.