[dorsetjon]

Thanks, I’ll have a look at themes.

I know my way around wordpress and was confident I could accomplish something with bbpress but am rapidly losing faith given the lack of documentation and examples for bbpress!!

Given how good the bbpress site looks, if that is done with a theme then it would be a good idea to make that theme (or similar) available. Even better if bbpress used something impressive “out of the box”.

I’m off to find some themes…

[Aahan Krish]

Yeah. Jon, I am a newbie too, but since I know my way through wordpress, I am confident that I can accomplish something with bbpress.

That’s exactly what I am talking about. Search for bbpress themes. You might end up finding something with features closer to what you mentioned or better.

Any theme that looks better than the default bbpress theme will make you happy for the time being, until you know your way around bbpress.

That’s a starting point. Enable the new theme, start changing the look with CSS, make it look your way. That’s what I was suggesting. Sorry if I didnt catch your point still.

[dorsetjon]

Thanks for that. I assumed a theme just covers the look and feel of a site but does it change the layout, etc, too?

For example, on the https://bbpress.org/forums page the layout is totally different to the default – there is a list of forums on the left, a search box and list of tags below that and on the right is a list of recent topics. The columns included in the topic and forums list are different to normal too and above the topics list there is a “start new” link. Those are the sort of changes I want to make. I know CSS but can’t see how I change all that through CSS or will a new theme do more than change CSS?

Sorry for asking such basic questions but while BBPress seems great it is a bit impenetrable for the newbie!

Thanks,

Jon

[ksmithtn]

We have bbPress 1.2 installed on our site, but it is currently being throttled by our host because of slow load time. I need a programmer to work with to optimize the site.

We are also interested in upgrading to version 2.0.

Please send your rates & availability to:

admin@raptureintheairnow.com

Thanks.

[Aahan Krish]

@thetalltree : Take a look at the forum index of bbpress.org, and you’ll notice that there are at least 2 spam posts. SPAM! And what’s even more alarming is that they are still there!

Take my advise, ask elsewhere. (Try asking on wordpress.stackexchange.com)

My $0.02!

[Aahan Krish]

I am currently modding my own bbpress installation (and I all I know is CSS).

My idea would be search Google for ‘free bbpress themes’, find the one with the functionality that you want – – in your case, something that looks like bbpress.org – – and then design it your way with custom css.

You get my idea? Good luck!

[dorsetjon]

Good question and I’m struggling with this too. The bbpress.org site looks great but the default install is very different. I don’t mind doing the work to make the changes but having looked through the forum and what documentation there is I still don’t know where to start. Can anyone give any pointers as to the sort of things used on the bbpress.org site so implementers can use this on their sites?

Jon

[Jimfire]

I downloaded bbpress because the bbpress.org looked so nice. This is exactly the look I want in my forum. When I load the bbpress that I downloaded, it doesn’t look anything like this.

I am so bummed. I’m not a great coder, so if it’s going to involve a lot of php work, I’m out of luck.

My site is running WP 3.3.1, with the Twenty Eleven theme. Is there anything I can put my hands on to get a forum that looks like this one?

Jim

[tilly2012]

I downloaded the bbpress plugin for wordpress. Now I’m receiving this message: Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

How do I fix this?

[Jared Atchison]

You can delete it and see if that helps, that will deactivate bbPress.

Right now it seems it is still active by looking at http://www.tracidmitchell.com/forums/

[tracid]

Jared,

I looked back at my ftp again. There is a secondary wp-content file that contains a secondary plugin file – and bbPress is in it. Do you suggest I delete those? Or should I rename the plugin file? It would make sense to delete it, but not sure that would remedy the problem. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Traci

[Rambomst]

I am having an issue getting custom profile fields to work.

I have used the following code as a wordpress plugin and a bbPress plugin:

function set_my_profile_info_keys($myarray) {

$myarray = array(

‘testfield’ => array(0, __(‘TestField’))

);

return $myarray;

}

add_filter(‘get_profile_info_keys’, ‘set_my_profile_info_keys’);

However this doesn’t show the field on a users profile to allow them to edit it. I have also tried other variations of this code I have found on this forum and others but to no avail.

Any help getting this working would be much appreciated.

[The Newb]

I have to agree with thruxton, this all may sound like elementary settings to you tech guys but to a newb…its wierdly complicated to set up.

I have a Themeforest template I installed my self on WP in less time LOL.

I also agree that bbpress looks like a great set up, and still very much want to run it. Im not a quitter

so far I set up a forum page, made 5 topics with test text, added a link to my menu’s and sidebars (all while signed in to my WP site) not my bbpress persay…thats my issue, I cant seem to set up this log in page, I have no clue what this URI is

instructions say “make a log in page” yet there is no such thing in BB as a “page”.

So I then made a WP page and called it forum. and the log in shortcode worked! except it would let me make a log in??

Then I wondered how the BB forum I previously made with 5 topics, was to get linked up with this new WP page called “forum”

I bin up one side and down da udder with this thing, couple hrs a night after work for the last 3 days!! geeeez I feel re taw did

There…I feel better now that I vented…wife doesn’t wanna hear it

[ExtremeSoccer]

thanks. that cleared up a lot of issues I was getting with the plugins on this stie.

[Jared Atchison]

Yes, it is still being maintained.

The plugins listed on bbpress.org are for bbPress v 1.x.

The current version of bbPress is 2.0.x and the plugins for it can be found on WordPress.org

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress

Eventually the plugins listed on bbpress.org will be archived to help avoid confusion, but the bbPress project is very much alive

[solarpower]

Has anyone tried this fix? https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/no-posts-found-out-of-nowhere-seem-to-be-gone

[Anetz]

How do i put my forum link on my buddypress menu.? I want it right after the home and before activity tab.

[Anetz]

Hi, this thread seems quite old but I cudn’t find any help elsewhere. Here am trying to setup a new site http://anetz.in

i have installed bbpress and am using buddypress with its default template or theme {disabled group forums to use bbpress as stand alone}.

I have created my forums and the bbp settings are,

*forum base:forums

*slug:forum

tried creating a page named forums bt nt working. Please help me

[mrraine]

exactly the same for me, its driving me crazy and i have put already alot of time into getting bbpress going.

Bbpress is definatly the best looking wp forum but damn its doing my head in!

[ExtremeSoccer]

I am curious because there are A LOT of plugins that have not been updated in years and no longer work with the current bbPress. Why are they still listed? There are even some plugins that go to a 404 error page? Curious if bbpress is still being maintained…

[solarpower]

Noticed something new at composthere DOT com

First tier? forum topics are visible. See About Compost Here and how it works

bbPress shows that a topic is posted in

Home › Forums › Compost Bin Available › Canada

but in

Home › Forums › Compost Bin Available › Canada › Vancouver, BC area

the error message appears.

Could that be a factor?

[solarpower]

bbPress says its there:

http://composthere.com/forums/forum/compost-bin-available/

Topic posting visible:

composthere.com/forums/forum/compost-bin-available/canada/

Not visible:

http://composthere.com/forums/forum/compost-bin-available/canada/vancouver-bc-area/

“This forum contains 1 topic and 0 replies, and was last updated by Compost Happens 32 mins ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

You must be logged in to create new topics.”

Any suggestions welcome.

CH

[solarpower]

bbPress says its there:

http://composthere.com/forums/forum/compost-bin-available/

Not visible:

http://composthere.com/forums/forum/compost-bin-available/canada/vancouver-bc-area/

“This forum contains 1 topic and 0 replies, and was last updated by Compost Happens 32 mins ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

You must be logged in to create new topics.”

Any suggestions welcome.

CH

[Satish]

thanks for the link. I understand.. will try my best to get it done myself.

I’m not used to bbpress and wordpress coding.. will get used to it.

Thanks a lot for all the help and guidelines.

[Jared Atchison]

Sorry I do not have time to provide you with the exact code.

However as jjj already said there are tons of examples on Google.

http://ottopress.com/2010/wp-quickie-kses/