[frank tredici]

I installed WordPress 3.3 and BuddyPress 1.5.2. BuddyPress seems to be considered my site.

The bbPress plugin already existed after I first installed BuddyPress.

I now want to run a Bulletin Board site so I created a new site and gave it a directory name off the root install.

When I FTP to the server, the directory I created does not show up yet I can render a site at the address that includes the directory in the url. I also get the Twenty Eleven theme with the site.

I went to the site and activated the bbPress plugin.

The Bulletin Board site looks like traditional WordPress.

How do I get the new site to look like your bulletin board site?

[rpetersn]

jloosli,

I just spent the bulk of my morning trying to figure this out and finally came up with a solution that involves creating a child theme to my current theme (not necessarily a requirement to do it this way, but I wanted to keep the BBPress files organized and separate from the rest of my theme).

In the child theme I copied over all of the BBPress template files the ship with the plugin and then updated my site to run from the Child Theme. This allows the appropriate template files to be picked up and the forum snapped back to life.

You could also just copy in the necessary template files to the root of your theme, a bit messier, but that’d work as well. Anyway….I’m finally getting back to work on the thing (cleaning up all of the default templates) now after a 4-5 hour detour.

Oh…and you’ll need to enable theme support for ‘bbpress’ too in your functions file if you go my route (either child theme or using your ‘main’ theme):

// Add bbPress theme support

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

Wish I knew why it worked before and suddenly stopped, that still has me stumped…but at least I understand the structure of how this all goes together now:

BTW, if you haven’t already seen it, this helped a ton:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

Hope you get further down the road too!

[jloosli]

I was hoping things would change with WordPress 3.3, but still no go. I’m working on a SSO plugin for Simple Machines, but ideally I’d like to get bbPress working.

[Maximus2]

or better phpbb conversion?

[Sean_A]

Is there a plugin that allows mods/admins to move a post from a topic to another topic?

This would be extremely useful plugin for mods and is typically widely available on other forum software.

[Sean_A]

Hi Orange.

DId you find a solution for this? I’d love to be able to add it to my forums.

[Sean_A]

I would love this plugin also.

OAEErra, it is my understanding that you can’t install any plugins on BP’s built in forum system. So you’d lose many other abilities if you choose to port it over there.

[rpetersn]

I’m in a similar boat here…have a multisite install, installed bbpress plugin (2.0.2) and all worked fine for awhile, I changed gears to polish up the first phase of the project and now, the forum appears half-baked. The main forum page (/forums) shows the list of test forums, but each forum link appears to just use the page.php template…the install seems to have lost the bbpress templating. Seems like I’ve seen similar issues discussed here on the bbpress forum before…but no solution presented. Can anyone help? thx!

[rpetersn]

I’m having the very same issues that jloosi describes….has anyone seen this before. Forum installed great with bbpress plugin…got on to other higher priority tasks, then came back to work on the Forum more and poof…gone….the main forum list is there, but each forum just shows a description, none of the assigned topics appear, going straight to a topic does the same thing. Very wierd…..I tried uninstalling, (not removing from the DB…yet). Anyone with any thoughts?

[ghulst]

I have put bbpress in the buddypress installation for http://www.c2coe.org/site/

However, when I am at the forum overview for a buddypress group, it shows a link to #new-topic but that automatically goes to ww.c2coe.org/site/#new-topic instead of going down the page where the input fields are.

I am going insane over this. Tried modifying /plugins/buddypress/bp-groups/bp-groups-templatetags.php where I have found a new-topic reference, but that didn’t change anything.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!!!

[lkey]

i’m trying to set up a forum using bbpress at awardspace.com.

trouble:

i unzipped bbpress 2.0 on my desktop, then i uploaded ALL the files to awardspace in a folder called bbpress. i visited mysite.com/bbpress/ and there’s no installer. it’s just blank.

questions:

is bbpress a plugin for wordpress? like should i install wordpress on the server first? i’m completely new to these things…

or

should i set up a database first? then go to somewhere and find the installer??

or

should i just set up wordpress and install a wordpress forum plugin??

[Chantal Coolsma]

I have exactly the same question. Avatars on posts are welcome. All those small avatars are annoying. I want to remove them completely. Can’t find the code in the template files.

[Ed]

any news on the punbb eta? thanks

[neodoxa]

Hello! First off, let me introduce myself… My name is Corey and I started a pet care website: http://www.critterhub.com

So today I got to the point with the website where I wanted to add some decent forums to it. I got bbPress, but my theme doesnt support it out of the box. Needless to say, I’ve run into a few snags so far.

This is what I’m trying to get to with the forums:

– Full width individual forum categories would be great… Example: After you login from the sidebar on the main forum page, and click “Aquaria Forums”, it becomes a full width forum and nixes the sidebar.

– Basically, I just want the forums to look a bit more… legit. The way they look now is very bland and white with no real organization or structure. I am so new to bbPress that I have no idea where to begin.

– Is there a way to just embed a forum into a page? That way, I could just create a page for each forum category, such as “Aquaria Forums”, and then set it to full-width.

Here is where I’m at so far: http://www.critterhub.com/forums-2/

Any help in getting these forums looking good is GREATLY appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Corey

[mrabraham]

I am integrating BBPress 2.0.2 into WordPress and Buddypress to create a forum/social experience.

I have everything functioning correctly, but while trying to style the forum I cannot seem to change the height of the forums categories. Currently they are about 300px in height, which is ridiculous! I have done everything I know to do in CSS and I cannot change this.

Am I doing something wrong?

[Hazbro]

Thank you for your response. I realized my question was about the bbPress Widget. I realized I wasn’t setting up the forum hierarchy correctly. I’ve fixed the organization, and now it’s showing the description.

[OAEErra]

Does the included forum system in BuddyPress vary greatly from the BBPress 2.0 plugin? There seems to be one for BP’s built in forums.

If there wasn’t too much difference i’d imagine it wouldn’t be hard to port it over.

[jcarlson1701]

Can anyone help with this issue? I’m at the point where I would like to activate bbPress but am stuck at this error…

[Ronald Rogers]

Using bbPress 2.0.

I changed the time zone from UTC to UTC -5 and new replies began showing before old replies (that were less than 5 hours older).

Topics and other things may also be affected.

[LiveFreeOrDie]

I spoke to soon. I followed this advice, and it was resolved:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/custom-theme-critical-fault-class-bbp_theme_compat-not-foundwhut

[LiveFreeOrDie]

I just upgraded wordpress to the latest version, then bbpress. This is my first time upgrading bbpress, and evidentially I did something wrong.

I receive this error:

Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /home/username/public_html/wp-content/themes/daily/functions.php on line 501

I searched google and this site, and was unable to find any information. Where did I go wrong?

[MikeTime360]

Hi.

I am using bbPress as a stand alone forum on WordPress with Suffusion theme.

I have Categories and Forums.

I do not like the look on the home page of the Forum List under the Category.

All the Forums titles run together onto one continuous line like this:

Category A

-Forum 1, Forum 2, Forum 3, Forum

4, Forum 5, Forum 6

How can I have the Forums under a category listed down the page like this?

Category A

-Forum 1

-Forum 2

-Forum 3

-Forum 4

-Forum 5

-Forum 6

Is there a pluggin to fix this?

Thanks.

-Mike

[Martin]

Oh right, gotcha.

Yeah, the v2 bbPress forums look nowhere as good as the standalone ones.

I thought something might have been fixed in an updated bbPress release – not to be

[Anointed]

@Rastarr

if you look at twwinn’ site you will see 2 forums

http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forums = new bbPress 2x

http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forum = old bbPress standalone 1x vs.

It’s the 2x that he is trying to fix. There is no link on his site to get to the new forums, the button you are clicking on ‘forum’ is his old forum which he is trying to fix.

[Martin]

@tnwinn

Mate, the forum looks bloody great!

And I see the sue forums are displaying descriptions as well. How did you manage that? Is that due to using some latest bbPress version or something?