[zuckerbaby]

Wish I could do it with CSS, but I ended up just deleting the inputs from the PHP files.

Solution:

bbpress > form-reply.php form-topic.php

Delete this part in each of the above files:

<?php do_action( ‘bbp_theme_before_reply_form_tags’ ); ?>

<p>

<label for=”bbp_topic_tags”><?php _e( ‘Tags:’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?></label>

<input type=”text” value=”<?php bbp_form_topic_tags(); ?>” tabindex=”<?php bbp_tab_index(); ?>” size=”40″ name=”bbp_topic_tags” id=”bbp_topic_tags” <?php disabled( bbp_is_topic_spam() ); ?> />

</p>

[zuckerbaby]

That didn’t work, Nuldi.

Am I even editing the right file?

wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-twentyten > css > bbpress.css

[devpaq]

For anyone else interested, I placed it in the main WP theme header and just wrapped it with is_bbpress()

That allowed me to check if they were on bbpress and not logged in to display the login screen, otherwise continue as it should.

[Hwyatbig]

I just installed the bbpress plugin on my wordpress site but I’m dealing with a problem I don’t understand…

When reading the codex, I see it should be very simple, and I think I’m doing what’s explained to create my forum.

for the example I just created a forum named “exemple” (and let the attributes as they were) and then when I have a look at the address which has been created I have nothing but the name “Exemple”, and the description I gave. But no way to create a post or anything.

(you can have access to the page in question in my profile)

Did I miss something ?

[maf2874b]

My new forum is not showing a sidebar as the other pages in my network blog install is doing, correctly. Any tip on how to remedy this?

I also get this but not sure if it has anything to do with the sidebar not showing.

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

Thanks.

[enderandrew]

Personally, I don’t turn on the Forums component in BuddyPress. I just use bbPress, which is a site-wide forum, but also allows for the group forums.

Technically the integration was pushed back a release, but it is working well for me.

[zuckerbaby]

I’ve found 3 different fixes here for hiding the topic tags input field, but nothing works for me.

____________________________

Here is the input on the page:

<p>

<label for=”bbp_topic_tags”>Topic Tags:</label>

<input type=”text” value=”” tabindex=”103″ size=”40″ name=”bbp_topic_tags” id=”bbp_topic_tags” />

</p>

____________________________

Is this the CSS file I edit?

wp-content > plugins > bbpress > bbp-twentyten > css > bbpress.css

____________________________

Here is the tags area there:

div.bbp-breadcrumb,

div.bbp-topic-tags {

font-size: 12px;

}

#content div.bbp-breadcrumb p,

#content div.bbp-topic-tags p {

margin-bottom: 10px;

}

div.bbp-topic-tags {

float: right;

}

____________________________

Although on the web page, as you can see, there are underscores, not hyphens.

I’ve tried div.bbp_topic_tags {display: none;} etc. to no avail.

Please explain clearly for this non-coder how to hide the input.

Thanks!

[enderandrew]

I ended up installing the CK Editor for WordPress plugin. It can be configured for comments as well, and it worked for bbPress out of the box. I can also theme it with CSS.

However, I’m sure someone else may need to theme the tinymce as well.

[Jared Atchison]

As I’m sure many of you have noticed, bbPress is often the subject of spam attacks. Usually these attacks are done by humans so it’s hard catch them automatically.

However, you can help us!

When you see a topic or reply that is spam, please tag it spammer. This will make it easier for us locate and nuke the spam instead of combing through everything manually like we do now.

[shanebp]

Anyone have any ideas?

Same post is here…

http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/1-6-beta-forums-setup/

Anyone else confused by the 1.6 beta – forums setup ?

Using WP 3.4, BP 1.6 beta

I’m trying to get sitewide forums working.

In wp-admin: Settings-BuddyPress-Forums

I see buttons to install: Group Forums and SiteWide Forums.

I have installed SiteWide Forums and activated it.

So why does Settings-BuddyPress-Forums still have an install button ?

And do we really need a separate bbPress plugin for site-wide forums?

I can create a new forum in wp-admin

I created a page “…com/forums”

I’ve assigned it to Discussion Forums in bp-settings – Pages

If I go to that page, I get this

“The forums component has not been set up yet.”

And the Forums link does not show up in the main nav.

In Settings- Forum -Archive Slugs – Forums base is set to ‘forums’ shows this warning:

“Possible BuddyPress conflict: Forums page”

If I set it to ‘forumsbb’ – the warning goes away.

If I go to Forums in wp-admin and view the forum, it takes me to

“…com/forumsbb/forum//test-forum/”

But the Forums link is still not in the main nav.

And goes to /forums still gives me

“The forums component has not been set up yet.”

How to correct those issues ?

[cmarie84]

Same problem here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topic-title-links-to-wrong-topic?replies=3#post-104317

[RT77]

The problem that I am having is that once you make a forum post from the frontend and you decide you want to edit that post, the title/permalink of the post will not update/change for some reason.. I am pretty sure this is a long term bug in bbPress that no one has yet fixed/patched because I could not imagine this being by design as it makes it very difficult for the admin if users want to change the titles/permalinks of their posts because they would need to be edited via the backend. The title of the post changes but not the permalink.

[TFUME]

Ah topic views, that points me in the right direction thanks. For reference then if anyone needs it that means you can do stuff like this:

add_action('bbp_register_views', 'view_popular_topics');

function view_popular_topics() {

bbp_register_view('popular-topics', __('Popular Topics'), array('meta_key' => '_bbp_reply_count', 'orderby' => 'meta_value_num'), false );

}

Then link to the view with:

<a href="<?php bbp_view_url('popular-topics'); ?>"><?php bbp_view_title('popular-topics'); ?></a>

There’s a couple of informative posts re this here:

http://internet-alacarte.com/adding-custom-fields-to-bbpress-topics-then-filtering-topics-by-custom-fields-using-views/

http://bbpep.com/blog/2011/04/01/creating-custom-views-in-bbpress/

[Lynq]

I added it onto the top of loop-forums I believe, which then gets used whenever you have forums on the site.

Super easy!

[nidhig]

Hi,

Installed a bbPress the permalink is http://www.mudomain.com/topics/topctitle1 is fine but if i am changing topictitle1 : to topictitle2 url is same http://www.mudomain.com/topics/topctitle1 no change in url

I found the bug reason its taking link title of topic which is considered as revision.And title is updated as per the post id and not in the revesion.

Is any solution for this?

[kshengelia]

Thanks for answers guys.

@enderandrew Yes that’s the problem for me – I am going to have some other large WordPress project which I’d like to be integrated with this new forum very closely. That’s why I think about bbPress.

@John Yes WordPress itself is very scalable to start with Mashable and with itself WP.COM and it’s really all about optimization, traffic handling, hardware, etc. But which one will need more working on all these options – professional forum such as IPB ro vBulletin or bbPress?

[Aadhaar Card]

I’m getting a 500 error. Just can’t understand what to do to resolve this.

[enderandrew]

Can I adjust the colors for TinyMCE for bbPress?

I’ve got dark text on a dark background. I tried adding this to my child theme style.css but it doesn’t look like it has helped.

body#tinymce{height:140px;border-right-color:#aaa;border-bottom-color:#aaa;line-height:1.5em;color:#F5FAFF;border:solid 1px #555;background-color:#333;padding:5px 3px 3px 7px;}

[John James Jacoby]

Topic views are specific ways to group topics together based on any criteria. bbPress comes with 1 view: Topics with no replies. Developers are free to extend the views in bbPress, much like we have here at bbPress.org with the support plugin.

[John James Jacoby]

When you start storing that much data, it becomes less about volume and more about server setup and performance. MySQL databases can hold billions or records efficiently, WordPress can read and write to that database easily, too. What will matter is how you spread the pain of your traffic and volume around.

[enderandrew]

Which template files did you add that to?

[Reflecting]

On my part is simply was a memory issue and resolved completely once I allocated more memory. Talk to your web host if you are unsure about this or do not have permission to modify the correct files yourself.

[enderandrew]

WordPress itself can handle load fairly well, and is fairly optimized. The question is how well does bbPress handle millions of posts.

Any DB can struggle with a table with millions of rows, depending on the hardware you throw at it. My main concern with bbPress in such an environment is that all WordPress posts themselves share the same table as bbPress 2.x, since it uses custom posts types.

You might be better off using a separate forum on a separate DB from a performance impact, but you lose the integration of WordPress user accounts that you get with bbPress.

The other point to consider is that since bbPress is relatively simplistic forum software (that’s not meant as a slam, it just isn’t as feature rich as IPB, phpbb, etc), there may be fewer SQL queries per page load with bbPress.

[kshengelia]

Hello people,

I am going to open general discussion LOCAL forum with many categories. I am looking at IPB right now but I am starting to think about WordPress & bbPress (with much customization if needed) powered forum.

All I am worried about is how optimized it will be. I think it will need fewer resources than IPB because of it’s simpler functionality, but I need an advice from bbPress “Pro” – local forum, which I should compete with has millions of posts and hundreds of thousands topics (posts for WordPress). So is bbPress right choise for this?

Thanks,

Kote

[katmmad]

Amazing — that would not have occurred to me in a million years but obviously that was the area I should have been looking at first. Thank you, @Lynq! I toggled the permalinks from the Settings page, and toggled the little button in the bbPress settings page also (first unchecked it to NOT give permalinks a topic slug, then rechecked it) and that seemed to do the trick. SUPER annoying that it broke like that, though.