[klimam]

Could you please advise me how to use the Widget Logic Conditional Tags in order to only make some widgets appear/disappear on my forum? Do you filter it via Categories (and than which category name have Forums and Topics in BBPRESS?) Thank you very much Klimas

[Chantal Coolsma]

I have added .avatar-14 to style css now with display:none; This removes the small avatars but leaves the big ones.

If you turn them off in WordPress, everything is gone.

[hscoder]

yes you can completely remove Avatars from your bbpress forum.

You can try :

open the file bbp-reply-template.php (/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/

and comment these lines:

if ( ‘avatar’ == $type || ‘both’ == $type )

$author_links = bbp_get_reply_author_avatar( $reply_id, $size );

try this and let me know if you want anything.

you can get more information from this page:

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/remove-avatar-from-bbpress-2-0-forum/

[veppa]

bbpress is worpdress plugin. you should copy bbpress folder to wp-contentplugins folder.

if you have problem installing wordpress plugin then read detailed instructions here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins

[Martin]

It’s one of those critical mass things, if you ask me.

I chose bbPress over others but was most frustrated when I discovered it’s theming integration issues. Thankfully Anointed came to my rescue.

The other issue of annoyance is the way it treats comments as a post-type which, to me anyway, removes it from being integrated with other services like IntenseDebate and Akismet – and obviously Spam is a real issue for forum operators.

I’m getting up to speed anyway and hope to help out where I can however most people’s challenges seem to be around theming problems and functionality limitations, not to mention lack of help that is split across to different websites.

On a final note, thank you indeed for the work on bbPress and everyone’s efforts. I’m sure it’ll get there.

[lalong]

Fresh website.

Installed WordPress 3.3 into website’s root dir

Downloaded bbpress (2.0.2)

ftp’ed files into ftp . mysite . combbpress (wordpress root dir)

renamed ftp . mysite . combbpress to ftp:mysite.comforum

went to http:\www.mysite.comforum

and nothing but a blank page shows…

Any ideaa?

[ben_allison]

Weird! I don’t have that option.

I’m on bbPress 2.0.2 Do you mean the 2.1 beta?

[SK]

I respectfully disagree on the point that it would be harder to build a bbPress community at WP.

If anything, a more vibrant discussion at https://wordpress.org/tags/bbpress will encourage more WordPress users to use bbPress.

I don’t need to see thousands of unrelated posts to what I am actually interested in.

That’s baffling. I would have imagined that every bbPress user is interested in WordPress, considering bbPress is a plugin for WordPress.

[Anointed]

Sure, in settings -> forums check the last option.

http://screensnapr.com/v/FinWe0.png

Does require WordPress 3.3 and latest bbPress for this option to show up.

[Anointed]

Given the choice, I do my best to stay away from the wordpress.org forums.

When I am at a forum, I am there to learn from or help with a particular script or plugin. I don’t need to see thousands of unrelated posts to what I am actually interested in. That’s why for me at least, I prefer separate forums for each product.

As hard as it is to build a community here around bbPress, imagine having to do it when mixed in with tens of thousands of other products. arghhh

[Anointed]

Every plugin hosted on WordPress.org automatically has a built in forum. You will find a lot of people that answer questions over there pretty much handle everything WordPress related. This forum here is more for us who are more dedicated to supporting bbPress directly. This is more of a community of users of a specific product, bbPress.

[dosch]

thnx for the response.

And indeed you are right; i found a theme that was close enough and worked from there.

It is gonna be a nice website that show affiliation with bbPress and WordPress but is also clearly different to prevent any confusion.

[Anointed]

bbPress is capable of using translations. I would suggest creating a trac ticket with your custom translation so that JJ can include it in future releases.

[Anointed]

If you are using WordPress 3.3 and the latest bbPress (I use the nightly download), then you can turn on the tinymce editor instead of the standard textfield input for creating topics and replies.

You would then need to grant permission to the different roles that you want to allow to insert images, either via links or the upload system.

There are user role plugins that can help with this which are actually built for WordPress, but work for bbPress just fine.

Keep in mind that it’s not usually good practice to allow regular users to upload whatever they want into your media system.

[Anointed]

The themes used on these sites are not available. However there are literally hundreds of themes available that simply use a top logo area with the tabbed menu’s. Dig around a bit and I’m sure you will find one.

[Anointed]

Keep in mind, bbPress is at its core simply a WordPress plugin. bbPress does not take away from anything WordPress is capable of doing.

To try and answer your questions.

1. Yes. You pretty much have full control over the registration system just like you do with a standard WordPress install.

Want it open to everyone with no info collected? Sure it can be done.

Want it open but require some info collected? Sure it can be done.

want it open but require double opt in? That’s pretty much standard behavior.

2. If using a subfolder install of multisite then this is pretty much standard behavior. If using subdomain install, then yes there are workarounds. If using subdomain install with domain mapping… well that is a can of worms but possible.

3. Yes but requires some custom code. Not to difficult.

4. Nope, but keep in mind that topics and replies are simply custom post-types. Hence you can add in custom metadata or custom fields to each topic. Then add in the front end metabox inputs and your 90% there.

5. I personally have a bbPress forum with 300k posts, 45k members on dedicated server and have no issues. This would NOT work on a shared server. bbPress is a ‘heavy’ plugin using a lot of resources, but compared to just about any other forum system, including commercial products, it holds its own.

6. plugin territory – I believe Paul Gibbs has a rewards system for buddypress which could probably be reused for bbPress, though I have not tried it.

Remember that bbPress is just a plugin which follows all the WordPress coding standards. It is simple code to understand, clearly labeled and well thought out. Not to mention JJ is a coding ninja.

[thedonald]

Looks like a good start but my hestitation to use bbpress is that these forums look like a ghost town. I see a post or two every day, very few responses, a theme system that is undocumented and people having a whale of a time trying to look decent just in the WordPress stock theme! As a result, I went from thinking “that seems like a good potential solution” to “anything more than the barest of forums is probably asking for trouble.”

This is a free forum – hard to complain about anything that actually works that doesn’t cost anything. However, if someone wants this project to go somewhere, I think it needs a little bit more fuel. I’m hoping that it will and figured I would give you my feedback.

[ben_allison]

The bb-attachments plugin doesn’t work any more with current version of bbPress.

Is there are reasonable solution to allow users to insert images (upload, not just add tag) into their posts?

[poddar_h]

I had recently uploaded the bbPress forum on my website and I could see many posts containing advertisements and abusive stuff. Is it possible to get a confirmation mail before the post can be seen by anyone on the forum?

[Chantal Coolsma]

Are translations included by default in bbPress 2.1? Would be nice.

[dosch]

Hey,

I am making a website about bbpress and wordpress and want to have the same look and feel as these websites do (small header with name and the ‘tabbed’ menu on the right etc. etc.)

Is there a theme which comes close to this lay-out which I could build upon? Or is the theme wordpress.org or bbpress.prg uses available for download somewhere?

thnx!

[ianhaycox]

Edit the topic or reply awaiting moderation and publish it to change the status from Pending to Published.

Once you have at least one topic or reply ‘approved’ then new posts will be automatically approved

[anthonytkim]

I have been looking throughout the internet for about 3 days and still haven’t found my answer. I have been checking around this forum as well os If my answer is posted here (or somewhere else for that matter, I do apologize.

I am trying to integrate bbpress into my current wordpress theme. I followed all of the steps in the bbpress 2.0 compatibility thread, but didn’t have much luck.

I added the support for bbpress in my functions file, and copied all of the content of the bbpress twenty ten child theme into my current theme, but still didn’t have any luck.

I am beyond lost as to how this works. I understand the support in the functions, and even copying over the file and the CSS, but I don’t know the specifics. for example:

can that bbpress twenty ten theme be implemented into ANY wordpress theme by copying those files over?

And what do we range in the CSS? Am I supposed to merge the CSS files from that child theme, with my current one?

I hope I’m not beating a dead horse or anything, Just looking for some help!

Thanks!

[DiannaM668]

Hi OC2PS again, I tried the converter with changing the version to 2.0.2 which matches my BBpress latest version and it did seem to work this time! However, it is weird how you can’t see it doing anything and then after awhile I hit refresh and check and it converted.

However, I’ve had this problem before and I’m not sure what could be this problem. Everything seems to convert great with users and forum structure, even the forum counts. However, my topics don’t show up within the forums. Within my topics, it shows that they are not connected to any forum. So I have about 500 some pages of topics not attached to anything.

Do you know or have any idea what I could be doing wrong that is not pulling the topics over to their respective forum??

I’m so close to getting this!

I’ve even thought to go through 500 pages of topics and put them in their forums. I am that desperate! But I know better than to work that hard but also I don’t know where these topics really belong or I would consider it.

Help?

[jangles]

I tried to convert phpbb. It ran through successfully. I had to comment out the code that was causing it to choke.