I’m the author of bbP Genesis Extend and bbP Custom CSS.
For bbP Custom CSS, you will need to create the CSS it will use.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-custom-css-file/installation/
Unfortunately re-ordering the columns would require creating a custom theme, it’s not something that can be done with a CSS solution.
bbPress is very much under active development. You can see that in the trac timeline – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline.
The spam periodically gets to a high level on the forums because
1) There are only a handful of moderators at the moment
2) The spam is human generated and most of it does not get caught by akismet
Hope that helps 
As a moderator here (and this runs pre 2.x bbPress) there is a *lot* of spam that gets through. Every morning I go through and delete everything that has popped up over night 
Hi everyone! I’m new to BBPress and I’m quite the technology newbie, so please be as simple and specific as possible when answering my question otherwise I’m liable to not get it
Here goes: I have WordPress and installed BBPress. I have the Piano Black theme. My site is called Pro Football Chick (profootballchick.com/forums if you want to see what I’m talking about). Anyhow, I want the forums to have a tab on my front page at the top — like the About, Home, and Contact pages. I also noticed that there’s no way for someone to add a topic — how can I fix that?
Thank you SO much!
@jaredatch I already have recaptcha set up on registration. I’ll check to see if there are other plugins that will assist, but SPAMMERs are actually using humans to do the registration part these days. They’re tenacious.
@John James Jacoby
It just seems very odd that I’ve had such a huge spike in missed SPAM since switching from the standalone to the plugin.
I was hoping this ticket would make it into 2.1 and help with the issue
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1623
I can see several spam messages on this forum and they stay quite a long time. This worries me about BBpress itself. Can someone shed some light if BBpress has a future? Is it actively developed?
thanks.
Actually you can edit the other role (beside admins & moderators) so that they can read, post & reply in private forums. Just add read_private_topics, read_private_replies & read_private_forum to the role you desired
I have put this in to a post.
[bbp-forum-index]<-Must be something wrong this can not be the way the forums look I am using the Twenty Eleven 1.3 and bbpress Version 2.0.2 everything is up to date what do I do to fix this forum listing so that it looks like a normal forum?
or am I doing this totally wrong…..
http://www.school.survivalbill.ca/?page_id=334
[bbp-topic-index] <-this I dont want to use just have it up to see what it looks like
I have put this in to a post.
[bbp-forum-index]<-Must be something wrong this can not be the way the forums look I am using the Twenty Eleven 1.3 and bbpress Version 2.0.2 everything is up to date what do I do to fix this forum listing so that it looks like a normal forum?
http://www.school.survivalbill.ca/?page_id=334
[bbp-topic-index] <-this I dont want just have it up to see what it looks like
What are your hosts using as web hosting control panels? cPanel, vDeck or something else?
Take me as an example (I’m using vDeck 4), in your control panel, navigate to “File Manager” (or similar name). If your install your website in root directory, then navigate to /wp-content/plugins/ and upload your bbPress zip file there. For sub-directory, navigate to /”sub-directory”/wp-content/plugins/ and upload it there. Uncompress the zip file.
In your wordpress dashboard, go to Plugin section. You should see the bbPress in your plugin list. Activate it and you’re done.
Actually there’s an easier way to do this. Navigate to Plugin > Add New. Search for bbPress and click “install now” and activate it.
You can also refer:
https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/2/#bp-sitewide-forums
Sorry, can you tell the URL where bbPress is loacted? (I can’t find it in your website and I’m not good with the language)
Anyway, you can try inspect the element of your website by using firebug and try yo change it yourself
Download firebug:
http://getfirebug.com/
Thanks, sniperkitten. I didn’t realize the bbpress developers were still active. I’ve been searching everywhere for answers and everything I read said they weren’t going to update. I’m glad to hear this isn’t the case .
As far as hidden forums, I found a work around b/c we’re going to protect our content through Wishlist Member – but what I was referring to is when you create a forum, it can either be set to “private” (which is for admins), ‘hidden’ which is supposed to be (from what I’ve read) so it’s visible to certain members and not others – like membership levels. It doesn’t seem to work though. When I set the forum to “hidden” it still shows. I looked around on various sites and the last thing I could find on it was posted 6 months ago saying it was a bug, and it would get worked out. But as far as I can tell it hasn’t.
Thanks for responding!
Do you all know that spammer like to target website with these words (or similar)?
“Proudly powered by WordPress”
“Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress”
“Proudly powered by bbPress.”
Just try this in google search: “inurl:/register/ Account Details Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress” and see it for yourself. There’s lot of it.
Yes we’re so “proud” of it until our site is flooded with spammers.
So you may want to remove those words from your footer, etc. You may also want to change the /register/ (in BuddyPress) to something like /gimmeanaccount/.
My site was once flooded by spammers especially from China with the @126.com before I make those changes and I’m pretty amazed with the result.
Do you all know that spammer like to target website with these words (or similar)?
“Proudly powered by WordPress”
“Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress”
“Proudly powered by bbPress.”
Just try this in google search: “inurl:/register/ Account Details Proudly powered by WordPress and BuddyPress” and see it for yourself. There’s lot of it.
Yes we’re so “proud” of it until our site is flooded with spammers.
So you may want to remove those words from your footer, etc. You may also want to change the /register/ (in BuddyPress) to something like /gimmeanaccount/.
My site was once flooded by spammers especially from China with the @126.com before I make those changes and I’m pretty amazed with the result.
I don’t think so. The default bbPress works differently compared to BuddyPress Group Forums, (it’s not like bbPress to SimplePress or vice versa) so it would be troublesome to migrate it from one to another one, and I don’t see a reason to create a plugin for that.
You say “hidden forums” don’t work. Can you describe it?
And it’s unfair to say that the bbPress developers stopped updating their plugins. FYI they are currently developing bbPress 2.1 which is still under development and bbPress project is still alive.
You can see it for yourself:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/timeline
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1
Hi — I’m trying to add BBPress to my WordPress blog. I’m currently running Genesis, Prose theme (although that may change soon). My BBPress version is 2.21+, and I’m also trying to use Genesis Extend (I think successfully) and, at the author’s suggestion, I am trying to use the bbPress Custom CSS File. The immediate thing that I’m trying to do is to rearrange and remove some of the forum column headings. The default is:
Topic / Voices / Posts / Freshness
I’d like to change that to
Topic / Posts / Author
And include information in the Topic column about what category it’s in, as well as include Freshness data in the Author column.
Is there an easy way to do this, or is this all CSS Styling? (Or should I try to find a bbPress theme I like?)
The NEXT question then becomes, um… does anyone know where the bbPress Custom CSS File is? I poked around a bit in FTP and couldn’t find it. Do I have to generate it myself and upload it? Do I stick the file in the Prose theme folder, the Genesis theme folder, or the bbPress folder? Or the bbPress Custom CSS File plugin folder?
Many thanks in advance!
Hi
the solution is so simple that i slapped myself for not doing it sooner because I too was having this issue.
In the group or sitewide setup page, you have to first install sitewide and then once you have that done, install group forums.
This creates a file that bbpress needs and everything works honky dory after that.
If you don’t want groups to have discussion forums, then simply disable that feature. This can be done per group or to all.
HParticipant
Will there be any solution for my problem?
no one answered, I am also waiting for the answer
Hi, has anyone migrated their forums from bbpress to buddy press? I’m wondering if this is a viable option since bbpress “hidden forums” option doesn’t seem to work and developers stopped updating their plugins since bbpress doesn’t seem to be active. Thanks!
Hi, we have a site that is public. We also have a forum for registered members only that we’d like hidden from the public, but obviously accessible only when members are logged in. From what I’ve researched online, there are no active plugins that enable the “hidden forums” option in bbpress to actually work.
Has anyone found a workaround? If not, does this mean the hidden function is broken and the only option we have for the forum is to make it public?
Thanks!!
Hello.
In my bbPress forum the username and IP is standing right for the avatar, and I want it to stand over it.
Is that possible on an easy way?
Here is an screenshot of the problem:
http://i.imgur.com/qrAw2.png
And here is how I want it to be:
http://i.imgur.com/7wVK2.png
Thanks 
Hi, when I installed my Site Wide forum I saw this, “■Place the ‘bbpress’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.”
But, have no idea how to ■Place the ‘bbpress’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory. Any advice?
I was using Human Test for 8 months on a standalone 1.0.2 forum and it worked fine for our small population (100 members). This week it suddenly stopped working and wouldn’t let anyone register.
I tried to post a comment over in the bbpress Plugin Browser forum in the Human Test section, but I can’t post any comments over there, for some reason, despite being logged in.
So I turned on Akismet which claimed it blocked 24 spams the first night, and counted 9 Hams. What the heck is Ham? And there appears to be no way to review the spams to check for false positives?
Plus, I got 60 new registrants in 8 hours, and Akismet appears to do nothing to mark the spammers. Their web site is kinda skimpy on bbpress details, though I have sent a message to Tech Support.
I don’t have an associated blog.
Will upgrading to bbpress 2 make the spam situation any better?
