[macauley86]

Hi jaredatch,

I just did that, but to no avail. The forums page is blank.

This is my first time using bbPress with WordPress, so forgive the silly questions. is bbPress supposed to automatically show up on a page called “forums”, like YourDomain.com/forums, without me doing anything besides installing the plugin and activating it? Or is there an extra step for me to take?

Thank you

[sarahlueck]

I am not sure if you can help me, I have altered my WP theme and am hosted independently… I have installed bbPress, and can create forums and topics, however they end up just as pages with text, no forum template or ability for users to add content. It looks like this:

http://compositesandarchitecture.com/?topic=what-advice-would-you-give-to-designers-looking-to-fabricate-their-designs

Any insight to this would be great!

[Josh Leuze]

Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed for favorites in the bbPress plugin like there is in bbPress 1.0? I tried to load a feed from the user profile page, but maybe I didn’t get the feed URL right, or maybe this doesn’t exist?

If it doesn’t exist, is there a plugin for that, or do I have to roll my own to get this working again?

[mizu no oto]

Thank you. I was able to change the color of one box, now yellow,

using the following code.

#content div.bbp-template-notice.info {

background-color: #FFFFEE;

border-color: #FFFFEE;

}

But I can’t figure out the coding using Firebug for . . .

Gray topic box color . . .

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums/forum/test-forum

Gray author/post box color . . .

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums/topic/what-sustains-a-democracy

Also I am unable to double-space between paragraphs as the bbpress forum does.

Thanks for your suggestions and help . . .

[Martin]

Cool.

Do you know whether it’ll be possible to inject other code into Topics and/or Replies which other Custom Post Types allow but not yet bbPress?

This is like Advertising or Social Media icons.

As an example, I have the WP Socializer plugin installed for Social Sharing. When questioned about it working, the author replied with:

“Please note that WP Socializer works in all pages or places where there the <?php the_content(); ?> function is called in the theme.”

This seems to be the case for any other Social plugin so I’m guessing bbPress post types do not have this included.

Further, I’m using Simple Ads Manager for injecting advertising space as well as other stuff. Works fine by picking a Custom Post Type and bbPress Topics and Replies show up, except nothing is displayed so I presume these aren’t following Custom Post Type convention, in some way either.

Any ideas on these things?

[SK]

Oops…sorry, I gave link for bbPress plugin method.

[SK]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-should-i-place-the-language-files

[Mohammad Mahdi Kabir]

for example in multisite(net) when bbpress plugin actived:

user1 with blog1.muwp.com

users of bbpress forum in blog1.muwp.com is all of net users(users of muwp.com or users of super admin).

I want: users of bbpress forum in blog1.muwp.com is users of user1(users of blog1.muwp.com).

please help me?

[SK]

That’s good to know Jared.

What do you think of the 2-3 other items I’ve mentioned in my long rant at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-toastnotice#post-101301

[Jared Atchison]

Did you instal bbPress 2.x from the WordPress dashboard?

If you did, go to Setting -> Permalinks page with will reset your permalinks, then try again and see if that fixes it.

[SharonVW]

Thanks! I followed your steps but now I get this error:

Not Found

The requested URL /forum/ was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

[Jared Atchison]

As OC2PS mentioned, there are plugins that solve *some* of these issues.

bbPress 2.0 is the first release of the plugin addition of bbPress. As time goes on (see bbPress 2.1) some of these features will slowly start to be incorporated into bbPress core.

For now I would look through all the plugin available on WP.org for bbPress

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress

[Jared Atchison]

Alright, so I took a glance at http://blog.max-encumbrance.com/bbforums

What is the problem – it seems to be rendering OK.

[Jared Atchison]

Yeah, any new themes or plugins, definitely share with the bbPress community

[templs]

Hey, villagora!

Can you tell more how you did this?

I copied the bbp-twentyten theme and personnalized it.

Did you move the copy to bbp-themes or to the wp-content/themes?

Then I redefined it as the default bbpress theme

Do you mean changes in both functions.php or making changes in core?

%FUNCTIONS_PHP_OF_MY_BBPRESS_THEME%

What is that? Should I change it to path to functions.php and should this path to be absolute?

Thanks!

[Jared Atchison]

If it is strictly a BuddyPress install you should first try to ask on the BP forums as OC2PS said.

If you are dealing with bbPress, just give us some more details and we will see what we can do

[Jared Atchison]

Are you installing bbPress 2.x?

You should install bbPress 2.x – (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/)

Step 2 – Go to Settings->Permalinks (no need to change the settings, just visiting the page will reset the peralinks)

Step 3 – Go to YourDomain.com/forums/ and you should see the forum index!

[Jared Atchison]

That’s odd indeed.

The first thing I would try for debugging purposes is disabled ALL plugins except bbPress and see if there was one conflicting.

Trying that and see if by some chance that helps.

[hmcgrath]

I see other users have had this issue and I’ve attempted the fixes that have been recommended, but I cannot get the forums to actually show up on the website. I installed bbpress, created the forums, and then to be honest I got a little lost because I was unable to find guidance as to what comes next. I tried creating a page called forums but that didn’t work. I tried deleting and reinstalling bbpress and that didn’t work. I tried resetting my permalinks, and yeah, that didn’t work either.

At the moment, there are two larger forums under the forum tab that cannot be altered or deleted by me in any way. All I can do is add categories to them. In this case I added a category called consumer packaged goods:

http://www.insightalley.com/forums/forum/consumer-packaged-goods

I’m unable to reflect this link on my website as it is not allowing me to use the forums/forum thing.

Please help.

[SharonVW]

Hi

I’m running Pretty Young Thing on my site and am in the process of integrating a bbpress forum. I have installed Genesis and Pretty Young Thing into the bbpress directory, however, each time I attempt to view the page, I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_template_directory() in /home/triniqek/public_html/bbpress/bb-templates/pretty/functions.php on line 3

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

http://trinityheart.co.za/bbpress/

Thanks!

[Jared Atchison]

Everything looks ok, its just your theme isn’t playing nice with TwentyTen.

Personally, since your site is under development, I’d recommend giving bbPress 2.1 a test run using the new bbP Compat theme (instead of the TwentyTen one).

bbPress 2.1 can be downloaded on this page, where it says download zip archive – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

If you do choose to try 2.1, keep in mind that it is still under development, so you should make a backup of your site before installing.

[mrkgreene2000]

Hey,

I’m using TwentyTen theme on my own server with bbPress running. I can create forums and topics, but when I create a page, I’m not getting any of the bbPress templates in the template pull down.

Site is here: http://megasahd.com/forum

Although you won’t see much.

Why can’t I see the template options when I create a new page?

Thanks in advance.

m

[SK]

This is the job for a bbPress-specific WP plugin…you don’t want to give forum participants access to the backend of your site…

[SK]

bbPress 2.1 is coming soon. (current version is 2.0.2)

JJJ says “it’ll be ready when it’ll be ready” (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/21-release-date-1 ), which could mean “any moment now”, in that he’s probably dealing with 1 or 2 major issues (presumably BuddyPress related) and hence can’t give a timeline, but as soon as inspiration strikes down these roadblocks, we could get a taste.

I understand that JJJ expects to have closed 102 tickets for releasing 2.1 (http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1 ), and some of these are quite exciting. My favorite new features are:

– Rich editor http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1673

– Switch theme packages http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1802

What do you think are the coolest new features in 2.1?

[SK]

Jared, Thanks! I will check this solution out.

Regarding configurations: I don’t know if 347374 is an actual number or if you use it just to make a point, which I do get. If bbPress included everything in configurations, then there will be way too many configurations, and would delay next releases a lot. That’s fair enough.

But let’s look at it from the perspective of added value and break from forum convention.

bbPress is billed as a lightweight forum. Hence, when it breaks from forum convention to make it lighter (have fewer functions), that is at least understandable. e.g.

– No signatures in core (plugin exists)

– No icons (e.g. http://www.phpbb.com/community/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read_subforum.gif ) by forums and posts showing useful information (ripe for plugin)

– No emoticons in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No attachments in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No “topic started” date in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page)

– No “read count” for topics (ripe for plugin)

– No forum specific search (plugin exists)

– No post count for posters

etc

However, when bbPress breaks with forum convention to add something without evident added value, that is a bummer. e.g.

– Freshness instead of Last post in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page). I don’t understand the reasoning behind this. bbPress is making an additional calculation, bending over backwards, just to calculate how many seconds, minutes or days have passed since last post. Why? Why not simply display the date-time of last post like most major forum software do? I don’t see the reason and I don’t like it this way, but if it is like this then I assume that there are other bbPress users who do. Hence I say…perhaps this should be configurable.

– The notification This forum contains 5 topics and 7 replies, and was last updated by some-author 5 days ago. Why? What is the thinking behind this? What purpose does this serve? I mean, on the same page, topics are listed, there is pagination (and total number of topics) above and below the list of topics, the user can see which post is on top and who last updated it, so why is this notification important to have? I don’t get it. But since it’s there, I assume somebody does, and hence I request that it be a configuration.

– Similarly, I wonder if a lot is achieved performance-wise by not showing the name of OP in lists of topics, considering that date-time of original post is being retrieved anyway.

– Formatting/styling of original post and replies is different by default on the topic page. From a user perspective, I don’t see why. You don’t have different styling for original post and replies on bbpress.org or wordpress.org What makes you think that everyone else would want it? Perhaps there is not much additional work is being put into it because replies have to be assigned a formatting anyway, and this way bbPress users know that this is possible. But if so, then even if styling of replies has to be defined separately, it should be same as that of original posts by default, and users should be able to see in documentation that it is possible for them to have different styling. If, on the other hand, you have discovered that a large number of bbPress users want to have different styling for original posts and replies, then I say make it configurable.

– In freshness, the number of days/hours/minutes is linked. How does that make sense? (yes it takes to the last post, but linking hours is odd…phpBB’s approach where they have a tiny icon next to the date-time is better) If it does to a lot of bbPress users, I say make it configurable.

(Through all this, remember: There aren’t that many bbPress-supporting themes, and most of bbPress users will end up using bbPress with their generic WordPress themes)

Lots of people use WordPress despite the performance hit (as opposed to say, Drupal) because it is so easy to use and customize without having to do (or even know) any coding. All bbPress users are WordPress users and so there is a similar expectation from bbPress.

I know it’s not fair to compare bbPress to WordPress, which has so many more developers and contributors, not to mention forum moderators.

On the other hand, it is a fair expectation, for bbPress is billed as a forum software from the makers of WordPress. If Matt wants this to take on phpBB, vBulletin and SMF, he needs to put some resources behind it, instead of making JJJ toil alone.