Anyone with knowledge of site wide forums and can provide more details?
dorsetjon,
Can you elaborate on what you did?
Ah ok, well the problem is using Cimy Extra User Fields. It’s a great plugin but if I recall correctly it doesn’t use WP’s usermeta system, so the traditional way of getting it to work with bbPress profiles might not work.
It’s not “incorrect”. Its just not “complete”. I am using Cimy Extra User Fields, I changed forum-user-edit.php to include the new field. I then set the field in the admin panel with a value which is being populated correctly however I was unable to find the function where all the information is being saved in bbPress when “Update User” is being clicked so I cant put in the code needed to save the Cimy fields.
Yes the forums show up when I change the theme to the bbPress 2010 theme.
Then why is it functioning like that on BBpress.org, but not in the plugin? Can you post that template tag?
Hello,
I’ve been following some discussions on here about some problems and my main focus was on the Cache problems.
At this moment i’ve got a Blog and would like to add a support forum.
What would be the best option to go with?
(1) Just activate the bbPress plugin on my main (blog) website.
(2) Install the bbPress plugin on a Fresh and new WP install inside a directory-/folder.
I’m running WP SuperCache on my main (blog) WP install.
(1) http://example.com/ <– WP install – my blog
(2) http://example.com/<forums>/ <– a NEW WP installation only for bbPress
The reason i would like option 2 better is that i don’t have to activate a Cache plugin for the forums. It’s mostly all text content , no images so WHY Cache a forum?
What would you do and why?
I have installed bbPress 2.02, but I do not see any difference between using this application or not. Is there something wrong when I download and use this application?
More likely it’s your theme not working with bbPress, then. Does whatever you’re trying to do, work correctly with TwentyEleven or bbPress (TwentyTen) ?
bbPress comes with a built in set of theme files to get you started. You’ll need to customize your active theme yourself if you want it to look differently. There isn’t a huge market for third party themes quite yet.
They aren’t mirrored and if the extra fields are manually added into the theme then on update they aren’t set. I have looked through a lot of the bbPress files and can’t work out where I should add some custom code so on user profile update it will also update the custom entries I added.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Howdy, again.
When I installed bbPress, I installed it as a plugin into BuddyPress/Wordpress. I really didn’t do much to edit it but I never ran across an Admin Panel for the bbPress plugin.
The only place that I see anything related to bbPress is in my WordPress Dashboard Settings > Forums.
I’m trying to set a theme for my bbPress and have no idea how to through the WordPress/BuddyPress integration.
The size of user avatar displayed in posts/replies is defined in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-template.php.
This is the piece of code:
function bbp_get_reply_author_link( $args = '' ) {
$defaults = array (
'post_id' => 0,
'link_title' => '',
'type' => 'both',
'size' => 80,
'sep' => ' '
);
Change ’80’ (is equivalent to 80px) to a number of your choice.
While it’s not suggested that you modify core bbPress files, I know no other way (I don’t know PHP).
Hope that helps!
No problem.
Go here https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/1.0.2
At the bottom you’ll see Download in other formats: Zip Archive (just click that).
You can go through all the releases at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags
I’m sure this is a stupid question, but I’ve tried and can’t seem to find an answer to is.
I have bbPress installed on a Genesis/Education theme. People can leave comments and I can moderate them. However, I can’t seem to find a list of the users anywhere.
I expected to find them under settings in the back end of the WordPress system, but they aren’t there.
Sorry to waste your time on this, but I haven’t been able to figure it out after quite a bit of research.
Did I miss something really simple in the install?
Thanks
I’m running a huge forum (65K registered users, 2.4M posts) on BBpress 1.0.2. I just posted a question related to updating to 1.1, but at the same time I’m curious about the new developments with BBP as a plugin for WP.
Is version 2.0.2 capable of handling forums the size of mine?
If you would like to take a look:
http://www.onemorething.nl/community
http://www.onemorething.nl/community/forum
Hi everybody,
Currently I’m running a forum on BBP 1.0.2, but I would like to upgrade to 1.1, because of some severe performance issues. The company that installed and configured my forum doesn’t know if they changed anything in the core. That’s why I’m trying to find a clean 1.0.2-zipfile to automatically compare the various files, before I upgrade to 1.1
On the BBpress download page version 1.0.2 isn’t to be found. Can anybody supply me with one?
Thanks in advance, help is very much appreciated!
I’m still hacking around and have just discovered shortcodes…they do some of what I wanted and, for example, can give a similar *layout* to the .org page. Still want to change some of the way the content looks, e.g. remove the navigation path above the forums and topics lists (is that possible without a theme or code change?), and I guess that may require a theme or code change but I’ll keep investigating.
Yeah, I’m getting that impression.
Can I make a theme for just bbPress without effecting my WordPress theme?
I installed bbpress for my wordpress site. (Organic Themes if it makes a difference) Then I saw this message:
Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.
I don’t even know what that means and what to do.
Secondly, while I can locate “forums” on the left side of my dashboard and even preview when I make a thread I can not locate it in my website. I even create a new page titled “forums” thinking that would do the trick, but nothing. What should i do?
Jim – Unfortunately without constructing a custom theme or going actually using bbPress 1.x there is no way to make your forum to look like bbpress.org. bbPress 2.x is 100% different than what is running here on .org.
My original question was this: I have BBP 2.x. When my users click on “Forum” on my menu, I would like it to look like THIS forum that I am on right now.
I’m not a php coder and I haven’t figuered out how to make a theme just yet. I’ve only been at this for a little while.
I’m working on it, but I’m not there yet.
I’m running twenty-eleven with my WordPress right now. Does anyone know a painless way to get my BBPress to look like bbpress.org when my users click on it?
Tanks,
JIM
Thanks guys, really appreciate you taking the time to reply. That answered the question…I wanted to know how I could make some changes to the layout to achieve things I have seen on other sites and it appears a theme is the answer.
I am more than happy to learn and get my hands dirty as suggested, but really need documentation for that because I don’t have time to work out how this all works by looking through the code. However, that’s absolutely no criticism and I am well aware of how long it takes to create documentation.
Thanks again for your replies and for creating this plugin.
It is the bbPress shotcodes I can’t get to work. I thenk that it is bbPress is not working with the Zeoal theme.
I don’t really understand the question. If you want to make a theme that looks like another theme, you make it. If you don’t know how to, you either learn how and hopefully contribute what you learn back to the community via the codex or forums, or you hire someone that already knows how to do what you do not know how to do. 
Maybe I’m missing the point. I get that the documentation isn’t great right now, but it’s exactly the same as making a WordPress theme. The template files and their locations are already in the bbp-twentyten theme as an example.
Making an entirely custom theme is *not* a step-by-step paint-by-numbers thing. It’s not something anyone can teach you how to do, you have to learn it yourself.
