[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.

[maf2874b]

A newbie to bbPpress, I would like to build a stand-alone program to display/generate a list of replies to a certain topic using the WP wrapper

require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);

If I include wp-blog-header.php will that include the bbPress environment automatically or do I need to bring in other includes?

I would like something as follows but I need some help on what to include and what functions to get what I need.

global $bbp;

$myreplies = get_replies(‘123’);

foreach($myreplies as $reply) :

$field1= get_the_title();

}

Thanks!

[Se3ker]

How do you set up bbPress to show forum list when accessing url like:

http://localhost:11111/forums/ at my end this is not working, or am I missing something, do I need to create a page and put a shortcode in it??

[Lynq]

Lol yea I don’t play too much Minecraft, but it is certainly fun.

[kristarella]

Ah, okay.

I guess I was looking to see if you had an idea of where I should look next for the issue given the behaviour I’ve noticed. I don’t expect you to troubleshoot my whole system, but here it is as it stands:

* WordPress 3.4

* bbPress 2.1b1

* a Thesis child theme with Thesis 1.8.5

* a bbPress-thesis plugin I wrote to apply bbPress templates in Thesis

(bbPress pages didn’t appear at all with Thesis until a recent change in 2.1)

My child theme is a BuddyPress child theme for Thesis (but I don’t have BuddyPress active right now), it can be downloaded at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/thesis-bp-child_0.3.3.zip

The only difference between that version and the one I’m using is that I’ve added a header.php file that is the same as Thesis’ index.php (which builds the whole page, including the head). I did this because it seemed that if the active theme had no header.php the bbPress template would force a default header, and therefore default page contents too.

The bbPress-Thesis plugin is at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/bbpress-thesis_122.zip

All the plugin really does is insert the template part into the middle of the page, because Thesis doesn’t use separate page templates, it has one index.php and then specifies the loop contents in a class, determining the page type from the query. So the plugin filters the loop class to add the bbPress loop content.

All of this seems to be working fine except for the visual editor, which looks like this at first:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-broken.png

Then if I make the one change of moving the files from bbp-theme-compat/extras to bbp-theme-compat, it looks like:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-working.png

I don’t know enough about the bbPress templating to know where to look next for the fix.

Thanks for your replies so far!

[John James Jacoby]

I need more specific information to be helpful. Also, the visual editor isn’t built into the template files, so they should not directly be the cause.

I run bbPress 2.1 at testbp.org with the visual editor on; so something else must be up.

[ccolotti]

I had BBpress installed with another theme. The forums were showing using the default templates. Now this page is fine:

http://www.v-fit.us/forums/

But click on any forums and they are blank pages. Yet the topics work if you can get to one of those.

http://www.v-fit.us/forums/topic/shakeology-receipes/

So I am a little confused.

Any help would be great. I have not moved any template files or anything I just changed Themes from one to another and these stopped working.

[SK]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1669 which was the major blocker for 2.1 has actually been punted to 2.2

So the integration originally planned for BP 1.6 / bbp 2.1 is now scheduled for BP 1.7 / bbp 2.2

Of course, a lot of work has already been done in the background.