[Laughing Cat]

Any news?

[Laughing Cat]

Anyone?

[Laughing Cat]

Any updates on this?

[C W (VYSO)]

Extremely trivial I know, but:

bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress. Create a simple and engaging community to compliment your WordPress powered website or blog.

“Compliment” fits grammatically and is even semantically sensible… but assuming the overriding purpose of bbPress is not merely to enable site visitors to shower website administrators with praise, it’s “complement” you’re after!

[Jared Atchison]

What version of bbPress are you using?

[Jared Atchison]

Hmm, that’s weird. What version of WP/bbPress are you running?

bbPress should work no matter what permalink structure you have WordPress set to use.

[Jared Atchison]

If you go into your bbPress settings, I believe if you uncheck “Allow topic and reply revision logging” that should disable it.

[Biswadip]

On this bbpress forum page of my WordPress site:

http://www.readingmarx.net/?topic=circulation

there is a a log of edits:

This reply was modified 80 days ago by Bis.

This reply was modified 80 days ago by Bis.

This reply was modified 80 days ago by Bis.

etc. etc.

How do I remove this feature from this page or from my settings for any page?

Thank you

Bis

[John James Jacoby]

Your feedback is appreciated. It’s not new information, though – and it doesn’t really help us do anything differently to improve your experience here.

Making bbPress easier to use has been the primary goal of its past 2 years of development. The number one tag on these forums is ‘integration’ and it’s because a majority of users want bbPress to work seamlessly with WordPress. Given the constraints of WordPress’s templating engine, we’ve done a great job with bbPress 2+.

Had you tried to use bbPress in 2008, you probably would have completely written it off; you *had to* go into the code and make edits to configuration files, it was part of the connection process and there was no turn-key solution.

Right now, as long as your theme is behaving:

* Install bbPress

* Make some forums

* Go to yoursite.com/forums/

* You now, have forums

* Optionally make login/register/lost-password pages, configure widgets, etc…

If you have BuddyPress installed, if your theme isn’t playing nicely, if you have a page with the slug ‘forums’ already for some reason, if you have anything more complicated you have to go hunting around for solutions. bbPress can’t predict every situation, it can only work with WordPress core files. If you’re experiencing one of these complications, it’s unique to a small subset of users and you (or someone you hire/know) is the expert in your installation.

You say you don’t want to look at code, and you’re not a developer; that’s okay. The problem is that bbPress isn’t going to be exactly what everyone wants, and why plugins exist. If you decide to dive into the code, it’s been painstakingly documented to read like a book – top down, left to right – with hints, direction, and pointers to connect things together in plain English.

In terms of staff on these forums, we are a volunteer staff of mostly Jared and myself with others that come and go as they can. When a topic goes unanswered, it’s because we just don’t have the time to take away from other things to help that day. Being disappointed is understandable; the only way that improves is by becoming familiar with the project and committing to time towards it.

bbPress, the project, has been around since 2005. bbPress, the plugin, since 2011. It’s born again, and new. No better time to get in on the ground floor of something awesome.

Sorry you’re unhappy. In the future it would be great to have more specific things we can address. General happiness isn’t really what we supply here.

[Joshua McQueen]

Hi there,

I am looking into bbPress — but we run a mult-site wordpress configuration.

Am I able to put forums on each of the sites?

-Josh

[wbbg]

Ok so I am new to BBPress. I was looking for a quick and easy solution for forums.

So far so good. Then I updated my permalinks structure in WordPress to be “post-name”

Now all the forum links come up as 404s.

Perhaps I am just having a dumb day but I have read the similar problems and cannot make head or tail of them.

I want my blog in general to use the post name permalink structure, as I like it for SEO purposes. I really could not care less for the Forum. I just want it to work.

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help!

[stargiss]

OK, I chose bbPress because the description made it sound as if it was a simple program to use. Well, maybe it is if you have a decent amount of prior knowledge with programs like this.

Thing is that many of us who decide to use web development software like WP do so because we want to put up a website but don’t want to take the time to learn HTML or CSS or any other programming language. We simply want to be able to show the world our thoughts, shops, blogs or whatever via the web and want to do so without needing to learn a 2nd language. I don’t think that’s too much to ask in the year 2012.

The problem many of us are running into with bbPress is that the developers assume too much of us. There is nothing simple about getting this thing to work correctly and that’s a shame because it really looks like something great to add to a website.

Again, I do believe that this program would be fairly simple for someone with a decent amount of understanding in web development. However, there are a large amount of WP users who have not one bit of programming knowledge or web development experience. For those of us with extremely limited knowledge in this area it would be a great help if we could get a small bit of instruction to get started.

Having a forum for getting questions answered is a fine idea and would be enough for most of us if only we could get some of the mods to actually answer our questions. I see several posts in this forum from people who are having a difficult time and the only time anyone seems to get any communication from the mods is when they finally get irritated enough to get their post shut down.

I’m not at all trying to be rude or insulting here but there really is no help at all for someone needing it. I’m just trying to offer some feedback in order to improve the product and the support for it. Something as simple as a small manual with step by step instruction describing how to get a link to bbPress forum on the WP front page once it’s set up would really go a long way toward helping those of us who are a little technically challenged.

Seriously….ignoring a plea for help until it’s elevated to the point of frustration and then shutting down the post is counter productive. I’ve searched several posts where all the poster wants is an explanation on how to access his forum from the front page and every one I’ve seen so far offers no help at all. The posters are ignored completely until they are frustrated and then told to leave or to use a different product.

Just a small bit of advice for everyone and something I learned long ago…..Be careful which toes you step on today because they may belong to the feet you have to kiss tomorrow.

[natproff]

hi,

I am currently integrating BBPress with my custom theme. All going well so far, i’ve edited all the template files so they fit with my blog but i can’t seem to find the file that controls the user profile page. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Natalie

[macauley86]

I just installed the bbpress plugin in my wordpress site. I can see the bbpress settings page. I created a Forums page on my site, and added a forum to the bbpress Dashboard forum page. Now, how do I actually see the bbpress forum in my site’s Forums page? When I go there, the page is empty? What am I missing? Do I need to add some code to the Forums page to get the bbpress forum to show up?

[TOMBSB]

Hey guys…

I did not find the translation to portuguese for BBPress 2.0. There are?

Thanks!

[mr_pilot]

Thanks John!

You´re right, that´s pretty deep in the core. Though from a SEO perspective it´s also a nightmare to start a project with URLs you have to rewrite later – Let me know if I can contribute in this special case, the project itsels made huge steps forward – thanks for your work.

[John James Jacoby]

Don’t worry about defaults.bb-htaccess.php. It’s part of the version of bbPress that you’re using.

No idea what your ‘data folder’ is, so can’t say for sure if it’s correct or not.

And no, I can’t really just fix your problem for you. You’ll have to do some digging. Searching for something like “apache htaccess redirect” should be all you need to do.

[John James Jacoby]

Anywhere it will be applied. Don’t hack the core of anything that isn’t yours – I.E. bbPress, a theme you purchased, etc…

[Jared Atchison]

If you are are running bbPress 2.x and are trying to install a theme, there is a 95% chance it is for bbPress 1.x and won’t work.

Double check that first.

[Jared Atchison]

At the moment there really aren’t any themes available for bbPress 2.x.

With the upcoming changes in bbP 2.1 on how themes are handles I expect this to change.

However, for the time being the only option is to just customize the theme that is included.

[scotty502]

Thanks for the response John – just so I am clear – should i paste the above in my main theme css? or bbpress theme css?

Sorry – bit of a css noob.

[kevindp]

Thanks, John! Will you provide instructions on changing just that page with an edit to htaccess? My googling is not working out.

I’ve got 2 htaccess files, both in my /public directory:

defaults.bb-htaccess.php

in the bbpress includes folder

.htaccess

in a data folder

Thanks for your help!

[John James Jacoby]

mr_pilot,

The BuddyPress permalink structure is hardcoded to look for specific criteria in specific positions. It doesn’t really scale well, and we’re going to change it in future versions to use proper rewrite rules, but until then it would be a huge nightmare to change; even then, your changes would end up broken when we make improvements to the API.

The rewrite rules themselves get created in register_post_type() in /wp-includes/post.php. Lots of complex logic in there, and I doubt there are many better examples on how to write your own rewrite rules completely from scratch than inside that function.

[John James Jacoby]

Safari and Chrome messed up layout

Duplicate. Closing.

[kevindp]

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

I have a website built in Ruby on Rails. My site has a webpage, located at “example.com/communityboard”, that you can use to enter a separate Community area. The community area is built with bbPress.

I want users who type in the URL “example.com/community” to be redirected to “example.com/communityboard” . It used to work this way, but for some reason, the redirect no longer works in any browser but IE.

We accomplished this redirect by placing an index.html file in the /community folder where bbPress had been installed. The entire code for the index.html file reads

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/communityboard">

Back when we built the site, I was told that a meta refresh redirect using an index.html file was the best option. The redirect had to address ONLY a single page (http://example.com/community) and not all of the sublevels of the community bb (which lives at http://example.com/community/index.php). Otherwise, the community bb and all of its sublevels would be redirected.

So… my questions:

Why is the meta refresh redirect not working anymore? How can I fix it?