@andychan
My pleasure. There is, unfortunately, no easy way to move data from the group forums to the sitewide bbPress forums, other than copy/paste or some involved database manipulation.
My suggestion, based on years of working with customers, is that you simply obfuscate the old forums from plain view in your navigation menus and pages, but then refer to them in a link or button at the top of your new forums pages for anyone who may with to refer back to them. This “human engineering” trick will likely satisfy those who seek to find the old content (like a dusty old book), but will force all new content to be added to the new sitewide forums.
This usually works like a charm, as the old content is always available (directly or in wayback machine or google cache), but people don’t add to it anymore.
Cheers!
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if I use that in bbpress templates I get:
Call to undefined function post_author_avatar_link()
<?php post_author_avatar_link(32); ?>
Are you on bbPress 2.x or 1.x?
If you are on 2.x do not use the plugins on bbPress.org, instead use WordPress.org
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress
Put this in your theme’s style.css
.bbPress #content {
width: 67%;
}
no clues? is there any filter I can use to alter the default bbPress avatar size, just like in Buddypress? or replace the function calling the avatar in my template files to use avatars of a different size?
thank you
jaredatch,
since you say this might be a known bug could you please direct me to the issue in trac where this bug was originally traced? perhaps I can give some feedback there, being a rare one, and hopefully help somehow fixing it
thanks
I’m thinking… could this be due to the fact I did import all my forums from a previous 1.x standalone installation to a 2.x installation?
The import was fine, I got all my users, topics and replies back. As well as forums. However, there might have been something there, that doesn’t allow me now to set the forum order? Eventually could I force it by looking into the database?
any hint?
thanks
At the top of the forums here you have a “start new” link. The link destination seems to be:
http://mywebsite.com/forums/?new=1
But when I use the link, in my case, href=”http://theatremusicdirectors.org/forums/?new=1″ it doesn’t work.
I want to put a “Create New Discussion” button in my sidebar – how do I do this?
I’m using bbpress 2.
Done that too, anyway there’s nothing else being loaded on forums besides forums, as I said I haven’t touched yet the template files, just copypasted into my theme. Other than the forums themselves, in the forum pages, there are being loaded just wordpress menus. As I said it looks like they are ordered in the frontend based on their ID not on the page order. Which is the function listing all the forums in the template files? Can I try perhaps forcing the order or if I know which is the function responsible for that perhaps I can throw some PHP to reorder them manually – in this case may I know how it is stored the ordering variable?
thanks
You need to look at the CSS being applied to the #content. This looks more like a theme issue, not with bbPress.
I’d use Firebug or Chrome inspector to poke around. Specifically try changing the max-width to a set width.
As time passes everything is moving in the direction of bbPress 2.x, so this site will slowly progress to that as well.
Hmm weird. Next I would deactivate all plugins except bbPress to make sure one isnt screwing with the loop or query vars.
exactly the same, I don’ think it’s a theme issue, because I haven’t touched the bbPress template files yet, as it is now it’s stock bbPress loading inside my theme – the same happens if I load another theme such as TwentyEleven
No. I am talking about this forum (bbpress.org). I think this forum is hard to navigate due to the mix of standalone and plugin topics. It should be sorted into seperate forums, so when i am browsing for topics regarding the standalone version, i dont have to browse through a bunch of topics regarding the plugin version.
Thanks for the report back 
bbPress 2 is in it’s very first release (about to be second with 2.1).
There is only so much functionality that can go in per release.
Can’t say I really understand what you are asking for, but if you are looking for shortcodes
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
I’m not sure I understand? You want to run both versions at the same time?
Temporarily switch you theme to TwentyEleven and see if that fixes the problem. That will rule out your theme being the cause.
mmm it looks like forums are being ordered in the list by their ID and not page/number order
how to enforce set page/number order to list them appropriately in the forum front page?
thank you
I’ve set in buddypress a full avatar width/height size as 150px (full sized).
My bbpress 2.x forum installation, however, has set by default 80px forum avatar images
How can I set the avatar size for the forum threads to be the same as buddypress?
thank you
Hi
I’m running WP3.3.1 and bbP 2.1
my forums are are not being listed in the front page archive or forum summary pages in the correct order; I double checked many times the ordering number, but no matter what, the forums will display in their own order which is neither alphabetical, cronological (date created/updated) or other. I can’t just figure it out. I’ve tried also re-arranging forums with simple page ordering plugin, no success.
How can I list forums correctly?
thank you
Hi. I would like to bring a suggestion to your (the admin’s) attention.
Wouldnt it be better to have one forum for bbpress (standalone) and one for the plugin? Its quite a mess having the topics mixed, makes the forum hard to navigate.
I like how the documentation page have everything sorted by version numbers, could be something to do with the forum too, maybe?
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Hi all. I’ve read that there is no way that the main page of wordpress can be the forum itself, but i wonder if I can take the code of the bbpress that hanlde all the forums and insert it as an include into the wordpress index.php. if that is posible an some one help me telling me which part of the code is the one I can copy to call the forum and topics in to the very front page.
I’ve seen i can show all that in the sidebar, but i would like to make it the main page like the forum page with the latest topics, most comented and most visited.
Thank you