How is bbPress for a forum just shy of 200,000 posts and over 16,000 members? Can bbPress handle the growth to 500k to 1 million posts? Are there any good plugins/mods that help sync user data and unify the experience?
Where can I find the development schedule for bbPress? Or more importantly, when can be expect version 2.1?
Thanks! I’ve only just finally switched over from BuddyPress group forums, and really like the format, but wish that I should use bpCKeditor or similar plugins for visual editing.
– Matthew
First, you don’t need that page with the shortcode to load bbPress.
bbPress is loaded by the forums slug you defined in its settings page.
You can easily and freely modify your menu with any link you want. Just create a custom menu entry linking to: /forums
It is long because you created a page named ‘forum’, then named your forums slug ‘forum’, then named your forum ‘forum’.
Just set your slug as forums, and your forums with category names: tennis, basketball, soccer, etc.
You are close. bbPress does not use the tag taxonomy, that is strictly for posts.
You’ll need to use tax_query as you mentioned. This is untested but should give you a general idea 
$mytopics_args = array(
'post_type' => 'topic',
'numberposts' => 15,
'tax_query' => array(
array(
'taxonomy' => bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id(),
'field' => 'slug',
'terms' => 'you-tag-slug'
)
)
);
$mytopics = new WP_Query( $mytopics_args );
There isn’t really an “easy” way to do it. What I would do:
1. Register new sidebar for this, named bbPress widget area or something similar.
2. Use bbPress hooks to place widget area in bbPress template places you desire
3. Place bbPress widget into the new widget area.
4. Enjoy.
You’ll need to have a the basic understanding of WordPress to do something like this probably, not sure how familiar you are with it.
Already did, theme author isn’t supporting bbPress. I’m more than willing to do the work myself, if I knew what bbPress needed, problem is there doesn’t seem to be any documentation on what it actually does at that point in the codebase.
Removing the sidebar on for bbPress pages is going to likely come down to editing whatever WordPress theme you are using, there’s really no way for bbPress to handle that since there are so many themes out there and they all do things differently.
No the Genesis Framework is a theme framework you build themes on top of – http://www.studiopress.com/themes/genesis
It’s the same as other theme frameworks such as Thematic, Hybrid, Canvas (WooThemes), and others.
Unfortunately it’s not something you just dop in and activate to work with your current theme. Your theme has to be built on top of the framework.
A framework typically handles all of the complex functions such as dealing with the various layouts available.
This is why layout-specific control is not a good candidate for bbPress core. How a layout works and is controlled in TwentyEleven is not going to be the same as other themes – each work in their own way – so it’s not really possible to control *all* of them with a simple option. This needs to be done on a theme-by-theme basis so the option can accommodate how the theme being used handles layouts.
SKParticipant
Jared,
What is Genesis Framework? Is it available as a WP plugin? Can I keep using my current theme and for bbPress also use Genesis Framework and bbPress Genesis Extend?
No, there is not – at least not at the moment.
You can go through the bbPress plugins on the .org repo https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress
When a new user registers, they get an email with their username, password, and a link to log in. By default, this link is /wp-login.php
I have a login form in my sidebar and I want the registration email to link to the forum homepage instead of wp-login.php. How do I do this? I noticed that bbpress.org does this as well.
Do you know if it is any plugin for this?
It can certainly be done but requires a moderate level of PHP and WordPress knowledge. It won’t be easy to do if you are not familiar with WordPress and PHP.
Is it easy to add additional fields to the existing bbPress forum? Add more than expample Tags, message, subject? Add example 5 fields extra?
Ok,thanks for all the help 
No there is no easy way to duplicate the plugin nor is that recommended at all – it would be nothing short of a nightmare to maintain.
Again, what you want to do is do-able. However you will have to get your hands dirty and do some research or hire a developer who can make the customizations for you.
Is it an easy way to duplicate the bbPress plugin so I can have to of them installed at the same time?
If you want to customize some fields on one but not the other that’s going to require you to write a custom plugin and/or a custom theme. It’s certainly do-able but isn’t going to be done without some research and elbow grease.
You would want to show the fields and then add a conditional that shows/hides based on what page/forum you are viewing.
Don’t understand that completely. Is it possible to make a new comment field and field when you post a topic with shortcodes?
I have not personally tried that, so I’m not 100% sure. However I think you best bet is going to be using shortcodes to try and do this.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
Hi
I wonder if it is possible to innstall the bbPress plugins twice on a page? Two different mainforums? I need it because I want some extra fields to one of the forums. Instead of keyword I will have Sport.
Is it a way that I can install bbPress twice on my webpage?
This is totally possible, bit you need to piggy back off a better foundation.
For example, bbPress 2.1 + Genesis Framework + bbPress Genesis Extend plugin allows exactly this.
It provides ton’s of layout options for bbPress – you can inherit the site-wide Genesis layout, set your own site-wide layout just for bbPress, or set layouts on a per forum basis – like I said, tons of options.
Bottom line is using the Genesis Framework (or anything similar) it’s really simply to provide this functionality as the foundation is already there.
Trying to tackle this – and have it work for all themes and use cases – within bbPress seems like a logistic nightmare.
Having dealt directly with tons of frameworks, I can say this with pretty good confidence
As OC2PS said, it’s definitely you there.
Unfortunately many themes out there filter the_content and do other weird (and not so correct) things that bbPress doesn’t/can’t take into account.
My recommendation would be to contact the theme author and alert him of the issues you are having.
Yep, that’s a some-what common issue.
In 2.1 table layouts have been ditched for the much preferred clean xhtml (lists, and what not) however some theme’s choke on it.
There are some wrappers in place (such as #bbpress-forums) you should be able to use to reset the styles that are needed,
Kinda what I figured… but I don’t know enough about how bbPress works to even begin troubleshooting what would be weird on the theme level.
