[Jaja..]

Probably everything what you asked for can be done, but you need PHP skills and change the template files.

I don’t know about the online status, you probably need JavaScript for that.

I have none PHP skills so i have been looking around and testing Vanilla yesterday. From what i’ve been seeing at the start it looks very good. Not yet changed some template files so i can’t tell how easy that will be but i really like the features they have by default.

And if your community will get going you can always upgrade to the paid version and get the Badges Feature! Thats the coolest thing i’ve ever seen inside a communty.

http://vanillaforums.com/blog/news/introducing-vanilla-reactions-and-badges/

It will help your community grow faster for sure.

Everybody likes the get Awards.

[POS2012]

Hi, I am going to convert from Kunena to a WP based forum. Simple:press and bbPress are the 2 finalists.

The thing I absolutely love about bbPress is the loading time. Sooo much qucker than SP on my test server. That is a VPS. Actually Kunena is quicker loading than SP. That is when I have 1000 posts in Kunena, and only 10 in SP.

But bbPress has almost half the loading time than SP.

But there is something Iack in bbPress:

In the “Forums” layout:

– It currently says: Total topics, total posts and last refreshed for each forum

– Can I also show “Last post title” by “Author” ?

– Is it possible to show an excerpt of the last reply?

In the “Topics” layout:

– It currently says: Total topics, total posts and last refreshed for each forum

– Can I also show “Last post title” by “Author” ?

– Is it possible to show an excerpt of the last reply?

In the “Topic view” (thread):

– Can I somehow get the number of posts per user? (same place where the IP adress shows when I am logged in as admin)

You see : I like to know how many posts a user has made. That tells me of how active they are or not.

I would also like to see:

– Member Since: (date)

– Online status

PS: I have been testing bbPress 2.0.2, and have now installed 2.1 and find that even better

[SK]

@JJJ Seeing as how short you are on development resources for bbPress, I was wondering if you have considered participating in GSoC. Sure, you’ll probably need to devote a fair bit of your time mentoring instead of coding, but bbPress might gain some features or plugins, and who knows, maybe some long-term contributors…

[humanrights4tibet]

And if you have a problem turning the plugin off you can delete the plugin from the appropriate directory (in my case it was /public_html/demo/wp-content/plugins/bbpress folder) using Filezilla (or the like).

Regards…

[humanrights4tibet]

OK, I just resolved my problem….

I asked a designer friend what he thought and after I shared with him that…

In cPanel (with bbPress uninstalled) I’m using 36.2% of my allocated 524288 KB.

He suggested….

So, it seems it’s not physical memory allocation that is the problem, perhaps it’s a PHP memory limitation?

I then emailed my hosting company to ask their thoughts and their reply…

Thank you for writing in. I have increased the memory_limit for your

domain name humanrights4tibet.com from 32MB to 64MB. You can check and

confirm the same using following phpinfo URL:

This has resolved my problem and I have successfully activated bbPress Plugin – http://humanrights4tibet.com/demo/?post_type=forum&p=201&preview=true

Hope this helps you guys

[RideCBR.com]

Any help would be greatly appretiated. BBpress 2.0.2 installed.

[RideCBR.com]

Forums: ridecbr.com/forums

[RideCBR.com]

I’m running WordPress, buddypress, and the bbpress forum plugin here: http://www.ridecbr.com

How can I add breadcrumbs (links showing where you are, and how to get back to the previous page, or the main forums) as well as a title for each forum topic.

When you click into a topic, shouldn’t it show you a breadcrumb list, as well as the topic title?

Please help!! I’ve posted 2-3 times with no responses in the past.

Thanks for your help in advance.

[Jaja..]

Yeah you can do a lot.

Use the WP Template Name function.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Pages#Page_Templates

Create your own template files and build your own (bbPres) code inside them or leave them very default and use the Short Tags you’re using with ID’s right now.

If you can select the bbPress templates when adding a new page you can also make your own page templates.

Just select new page and pick a template from the right-side (template)

[pagal]

Different template design is possible with bbPress standalone (v1.1) solution, NOT sure for bbPress as plugin.

[nicolaelvin]

How can I do this? I tried editing the ones bp compatiblity copied across to my child theme I created but none of them effect the forum pages.

[humanrights4tibet]

Hi there, unfortunately I don’t have a solution for you, instead I am in the same situation….

My site is running fine until I activate BBPress Plugin version 2.0.2, then I see various memory allocation messages such as….

“Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 6310 bytes) in /home/humanrig/public_html/demo/wp-admin/menu.php on line 234”

After reading pparson’s posts I’m guessing my server is not running sufficient ram?

[SK]

At http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin there are plenty of items listed as “Waiting”

e.g. Polish, Romanian, French and Czech have 0% translation completed, but almost 100% strings in “waiting”.

So how do we move strings from “waiting” to “translated”?

[busterbox]

I really like bbpress as much forum But i would and maybe many more people will appericate if they update the 2.x into jus forum Not the plugin Because i have 4 website and i am creating all kind of cms and forum i love bbpress its really simple

[POS2012]

I have installed the latest 2.0 WP plugin, and there the feed shows a little different.

I found this code in the bbp-topic-functions.php:

(line 2994)

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-functions.php

<title><?php bloginfo_rss( ‘name’ ); ?> » <?php _e( ‘All Topics’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?></title>

If you alter that you could probably get the RSS title to say whatever you’d like.

I also found this:

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php

line 1372

<title><?php bloginfo_rss(‘name’); echo $title; ?></title>

I have ony 2 days of experience with bbPress, but this might help you…?

[Torsten Landsiedel]

The topic title in bbpress rss feeds is “(author) on (title)” which is really bad, because I can’t sort on title anymore. This is sort by author, because the author is the first string in the title.

And it is redundant, because there is a author field which I can see in my feed reader.

Maybe you can change this to “(title) – (author)” (or similar) …

I see this on http://de.forums.wordpress.com and I know this is not the latest version running there. So if this is changed in the latest version, just tell me!

Thanks in Advance!

Kind regards

Torsten / zodiac1978

(Moderator German support forums WP.com)

[Jaja..]

@Jaredatch,

What’s the best and worst difference between the two, Vanilla VS bbPress.

I have been testing and building bbPress a few times locally but it has never gave me that final push to go live with it, I just don’t trust it..

Every website i make i pick WP as my default CMS because i truly 300% believe in the product it has made my life so much easier. While 3 maybe 4 years ago i was always scared of the word CMS i loved Static content and doing lots of work.

bbPress never gave me that final push of confidence that it could be the Tool you need.

Example, i help solving a lot of questions on the Dutch WordPress forums and all new users i can tell what the power of WP is and all it’s Easy to Use features like the Menu system (my fav.) but when somebody asks me if i know a good forums software i always end up saying bbPress BUT i don’t know if it’s for everybody.

There is still that level of difference. While a user don’t understand why. a plugin = a plugin they can activate and it should work.

[Jared Atchison]

If you don’t want to use WordPress my recommendation would be to check out Vanilla

[busterbox]

i jus dont want to use wordpress but i am using wordpress in one of my site and want to create sumthing else

[Martin]

Just to chime in here, I used the gComvertor guys and the experience and assistance was great.

I migrated my Drupal based forums over to bbPress last Xmas, with their help.

Great service and fast conversion process – and you pay once it’s done and you’re satisfied too!

[SK]

You can change the look of it with CSS and by editing template files. I can’t comment much because the link you provided http://fotosputnik.com/wordpress returns 404

[POS2012]

I would suggest you talk to the people at http://gconverter.com/

I will use these next week to migrate my Joomla + Kunena to WP + (most probably) bbPress.

Price is $95 for forum to forum migrating usually.

May I ask:

I am looking at simple:press versus bbPress. So I am interested in: WHY would you like to go for bbPress over simple:press?

[PaulieP]

Has anyone successfully migrated from Simple:Press to bbPress without issues?

I need to be able to migrate all my posts / threads and the forum names. I dont need PMs migrated, I dont need stickies or flags, likes, or anything else. Just the important stuff:

Posts

Threads

What user posted

Date/time stamps and posts/threads in correct chronological order

Forum it was posted under

Forum names

From what I have seen some of the scripts out there fail at importing the poster data – i.e. the posts are not attributed to the actual poster, they are all attributed to the user running the importer plugin.

Has anyone found a clean way to do this? I’d be willing to pay for someone who has done this successfully without issues, to help me with this. THanks

[purplesea]

I’m new to wordpress and bbpress.

I’m trying to build up my company site with wordpress and I need to have two different forums with different templates.

So I installed bbpress and I created two different pages in wordpress and in each page I used shortcode “[bbp-single-forum id=$post_id]” to create a single forum page.

Each single forum page should use different template or theme, but I couldn’t find any way to use different templates for different forums simultaneously.

Does anyone know if this is possible to do with bbpress?

Thanks in advance.

[grahamgrocho]

Hm. OK.

Is there any way for me to just make the plugin bbpress look like the standalone? I really can’t stand how going to http://fotosputnik.com/wordpress is the way to browse to my forums, etc. And they look like blog posts, etc.

As opposed to my phpbb3 forum: http://fotosputnik.com/phpBB3

I much prefer a traditional message board but this wordpress/bbpress plugin does not seem like the right answer. The bbpress plugin did, and I much prefer it over phpBB3, but I can’t seem to transfer my phpBB3 database into the standalone bbpress w/o totally messing it up. Transferring to plugin version worked just fine though.