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.
SKParticipant
The only thing I have heard of is forumconverter https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forumconverter/
Not sure it works, though.
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?
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?
Nah, I dropped bbPress and went with phpBB instead.
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
SKParticipant
Just add
.bbp-forum-info .bbp-forums li {display:block;}
to your stylesheet
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…
hey, so all we need is to edit bbp_list_forums function?
can someone explain what exactly to do please?
SKParticipant
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/
SKParticipant
@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
Hi
A newer update for bbpress-2.0.2 has just been released.
Regards, François.
Would like to do this as well, tired of massive theme/plugin incompatibilities with Simple Press, but have an active forum that needs migrated
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.
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
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.
I create the page with the same name an into it I inserted short code [bbp-forum-index].
congratulations! i met the same problem. How do you solve it?
I want created a new menu in the Admin Menu Editor, show topic no-reply, so I set this URL is not intended to replace it. “edit.php? post_type = topic & no_reply = yes” to the edit.php file to get the Query to do what I must do it out of the Query, but WordPress is a SQL statement to display correctly. I know that I can put it on edit.php.
ebiznet88 – even trying to hire these fellows is not easy. They rarely respond to any emails, even for paid work. And when they do, they seem very disorganized. Maybe they are just busy?
I suggest you move on.
Hello,
For now here are the issues:
bbpress plugin installed on jan27 with Minimatica theme.
since a week and a half:
– more and more forums/posts/topics are disappearing: showing only in the admin panel but not on the user end (or only partially with no sidebar/footer/admin bar).
– users can actually post in some forums but not in affected forums/topics/posts.
– admin bar not showing in the “user” tab in the admin panel.
– wordpress backup not backing up the website.
What i did:
– checked and repaired all the database to insure they were ok.
– uninstalled wp super cache and installed quick cache
All the issues are still here… I’m running out of things to try…
Anyone have ANY idea? Maybe I should uninstall and reinstall bbpress?
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