[Oisn]

Hey guys, I used the bbpress plugin for my site (which I am hosting locally with Wamp), it installed so easily, looks like user-friendliness seems to be pretty important to you guys. Before I set myself up with an internet hosting client, how do I set the site up so that anybody can register and make read/contribute to my forums?

I am using project site as a forum-only website, so they will not be posting blogs or anything.

I plan to try to get second level students and teachers registering. As many as possible, so i’d like it if i didn’t have to do anything for them to register.

Thanks in advance guys, i’m a major newcomer when it comes to webdesign.

[Oisn]

Hey guys, I used the bbpress plugin for my site (which I am hosting locally with Wamp), it installed so easily, looks like user-friendliness seems to be pretty important to you guys. Before I set myself up with an internet hosting client, how do I set the site up so that anybody can register and make read/contribute to my forums?

I am using project site as a forum-only website, so they will not be posting blogs or anything.

I plan to try to get second level students and teachers registering. As many as possible, so i’d like it if i didn’t have to do anything for them to register.

Thanks in advance guys, i’m a major newcomer when it comes to webdesign.

[engin1984]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp_wp_login_action-question

[drewelcuerdas]

Good afternoon…

I have a problem with bbpress.When i see the preview page, the forum appears correctly, but when I publish the forum not appears, only a blank page.

I think the problems is about im using PDO plugin because my server havent Mysql DB.

Anyone can hel me?

[Igor Pomaranskiy]

Hello!

I want to contribute ukrainian translation. But I don’t see ukrainian language at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin, and there is no possibility to add it.

How to add Ukrainian to the list of translations?

[Igor Pomaranskiy]

Hello!

I want to contribute ukrainian translation. But I don’t see ukrainian language at https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin, and there is no possibility to add it.

How to add Ukrainian to the list of translations?

[Zachary Russell]

I am an active form user, and want to integrate bbPress with a genesis theme I developed. I am a little curious, however on what my best bet to moderate the forms would be, meaning is there spam blockers (something like akismet?) or can I assign moderators?

Thanks

Zach

[micropat]

Dug a little further on the ‘list of Forums’ page and found that bbPress implements this as an Archive page.

The next version of the plugin (.9.9.9.7) will have a new option to disable automatic output on Archive pages. Uncheck this box and you should be in good shape without the need to switch themes.

Upcoming versions of the plugin will feature direct optimizations for bbPress, i.e. automatic output where it make sense for a forum, such as Topic pages instead of the bbPress’ Archive pages.

[SK]

The only thing I have heard of is forumconverter https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forumconverter/

Not sure it works, though.

[eddiejsd]

I have WordPress 3.3.1 installed with Buddypress 1.5.4 and the BBpress plugin installed as a site-wide forum. Everything works after I save the forums settings but if I navigate to any other page in the WordPress administration area all of the rewrite rules for BBpress in the wp_options table are deleted. I can get them back by saving the forum settings again. No other plugins are having their rewrite rules deleted, just the BBpress plugin. Like I said I can get the forum working as long as I don’t use the admin area after saving the forums settings but obviously this isn’t a good solution. Any ideas? Has anybody else come across this issue?

[dianeinatlanta]

I’ve just set up a new wordpress site, created a network, added buddypress and bbpress.

The main site is my site. When I went in and created forums, everything worked well. However, when I add the forums to the community menu, none of the newly created forums display.

What am I missing?

[beowshawitz]

Nah, I dropped bbPress and went with phpBB instead.

[Shain]

Hi,

I manage a community about electric cars and we have a wordpress with buddypress. Our buddypress installation is only used for the forum (+ profiles and IM).

I’d like to move from buddypress to BBpress. Do you know if there is a easy way for me to transfer all messages from the buddypress forums to the BBpress forums ? Do you have some advices to success my transition ?

Thanks

[SK]

Just add

.bbp-forum-info .bbp-forums li {display:block;}

to your stylesheet

[Arvid]

Some pretty neat ideas! Partcular thumbs up for #3 (official migration tool) #7 (forum sidebar) #9 (custom header code) #10 (standalone package)

I just noticed that the “Docs” tab above has a different destination https://codex.bbpress.org/

On the page it says “you are welcome and invited to modify any of the pages you see here.”

Question is – how? I don’t see any “Edit” links on any of the pages…

[Aemi]

hey, so all we need is to edit bbp_list_forums function?

can someone explain what exactly to do please?

[SK]

It seems that bbPress will be using GlotPress for managing translations

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1737

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1738

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1739

Can someone please explain what it is and how it works in layman terms? Details are a bit sketchy at http://glotpress.trac.wordpress.org/

Will the translations be pulled live from a web service? Or will every update to the language push .mo .po files to the bbPress installation, and these files will continue to be stored locally? Or is it something entirely different?

Also, in what sort of timeframe/milestone is bbPress planning to make a switch to GlotPress automatic mechanism? I know that the translations are already available at http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/

[SK]

@ebiznet88:

I’m checking out another possible solution to bridge phpBB3 to WP. Its a plugin available at https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-phpbb-bridge/

Interesting.

But it sucks that in this plugin user management has been given to phpBB. WordPress has many more interesting options, like FB/Google/Twitter login, etc.

@ebiznet88: Hard Seat Sleeper is on topic and talking about bbConverter

[fpons]

Hi

A newer update for bbpress-2.0.2 has just been released.

Regards, François.

[dt10111]

Would like to do this as well, tired of massive theme/plugin incompatibilities with Simple Press, but have an active forum that needs migrated

[JimFitzsimons]

I’m also experiencing this problem. Having installed the bbPress plugin (2.02) on my WordPress site, I’ve managed to get almost everything working. However, when I try to view a User Profile (http://site_url/users/username) I get a 404 error – but only for ‘Forum Participant’ members (not admins).

I do not have any other membership plugins installed. It happens for members created without spaces in their usernames (which was one suggestion), and it happens even if I switch off the “prefix forum area with forum base slug” and recreate the forum, as suggested here.

Does anyone have any ideas?

EDIT: one other point, and it’s an odd one, even though the page shows a 404 error in the headers, it displays fine in Chrome and Opera. However, it does not initially display in Internet Explorer 9 and shows a browser 404 page, but it does show up after two refreshes (though not 1). Go figure.

[just434]

Hi All, I have installed bbpress and have managed to create forum sections and even post topics from wordpress admin page. However, when I try to access the topic both as an admin, regular user or non logged in, I receive “comments are closed”. Any ideas?

many thanks

[Everton]

Hi

I’m still playing around with bbpress/buddypress on my test site wpthemetrial.com. I know I’m doing something fundamentally wrong, so can I please get help.

I originally copied all the bbp-twentyten files into my active theme and manually edited the files like archive-forum.php, archive-topic.php to get these pages how I wanted them to look.

However, how do I setup my forum homepage to use the page-front-topics.php template? When I create a WP Page at wpthemetrial.com/forum the bbpress automatic page using the archive-forum.php file always overrides it. It says “Archive Slugs

Include custom root slugs to prefix your forums and topics with. These can be partnered with WordPress pages to allow more flexibility.”

but I can’t get it to work.

For now I’ve inserted ‘forumbb’ http://wpthemetrial.com/forumbb/ and ‘topicsbb’ http://wpthemetrial.com/topicsbb/ as my archive slugs, but I’d really like to use my WP custom pages, http://wpthemetrial.com/forum/ and ttp://wpthemetrial.com/topics/ as they are easier to update and manage.

Thanks

EB

[swexican]

@Everton

Did you follow the steps at the end of this thread?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-set-up-bbpress-and-buddypress

-swex

[ebiznet88]

Hard Seat Sleeper, are you referring to Anointed and AWJunkies, or the phpBB-WP bridge fellows whose link I shared in my post?

At any rate, I have moved on from this bbconverter. I have wasted quite a few months and effort waiting for answers to my problems from AWJunkies. Too bad he isn’t willing to finish what he started.