[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.

[jangles]

Some constructive criticism, if I may.

I’ve read about a tremendous interest in using bbpress as a viable forum option. I want to start by saying I’ve been involved in open source for over 15 years myself and the work and dedication here is very admirable (remembering ROI.) People such as myself would be willing to put in some time and effort to make this project work but there are some fundamental things lacking here that give me cause for concern in using bbpress. Virtually all forums I see using are either (a) the most basic customer support, nothing long term discussion/community based, or (b) amateurish sites set up that are chop shop and will be down in a few months. It doesn’t have to be that way. Couple of things:

1. If it’s not relatively easy, simple or clear to theme bbpress, few will ever use it. Fewer will design themes for it too. And if there isn’t at least a decent, comprehensible system, nobody will use a plugin if it just typically looks like another ratcheted in plugin. Hopefully, this is not the case.

2. Organization here is a mess. I go to plugins and I see listings from 5 years ago and the top. It’s not easy to figure out what is what here. Documentation is incomplete and I remember having a terrible time installing it too – and I’m not a novice. This is the easy part that scares away many potential users.

3. Sometimes simple is too simple. Some things should be standard. For example, nobody wants to have to scroll down to the bottom of the page just to post a reply. That’s just one issue that leaped out at me. Sometimes less is just less.

4. No clear vision here, e.g. the latest blog entry is November 28 2011 and this place feels half deserted. It doesn’t have to be that way.

5. There needs to be an easier way to navigate the forums on this site. I could care less about a long list of tags I’ll rarely use. I do want that short list of forums in the sidebar or somewhere so I don’t have to click my way back to the home page.

Just a few pointers. I like this project, would love to consider using it for a large site but the ghost town effect is putting me off a little.

[jangles]

Hi guys. I really love what I’m seeing here and have a great feeling about potentially moving over to this system! My needs – I have a wordpress based site:

I’m trying to decide between bbpress, simplepress and another solution to move a large forum. The problem I’m having is that I’m not sure what each one is capable of exactly. I want a system similar to this one that allows the following:

1) You can immediately post a question with minimal fuss – you can create a username, collect email, password can be generated and sent to the user (or the user can add the one they want.) The registration must be able to be entered into the main wordpress database – essentially shared user table. This might require an add on but it’s “Ask a question” text field, click “submit” and it takes you to the next page with the information I see now and an area to register a username as well as the rest of the post options.

2) Logging into the system logs into an entire multisite. I don’t mind if the user goes through the front door but I need cookies to be set properly so if i go to the wp front end, going to the forum also works and is logged in. Would be nice to login everywhere but I can put the front door login in a sidebar and problem solved methinks.

3) User profile integration. This is the one where I’m not sure happens here or how easy it is to do. For example, if I have a site at wp_4, can I have the forum profile list sync with that so I can have a link that goes to that site for the author’s profile. In theory this should work with a shared user table. I see you have forum profiles here as well as an additional link. If I have a shared user table it’s just a matter of creating a link and substitution username or userid where it belongs.

4) Is there a thread prefix system here, e.g. “question, comment, other” – or will I need to create one? Not a problem, just want to know. I see one here – is it built in or did you guys customize it?

5) Scalability issues. I’ve seen bbpress running quickly, perhaps because it’s also pretty sparse but getting better. simplepress, however, has always crawled on virtually any site I’ve seen of any size. Could it be due to shared hosting? Maybe but it always crawled on every site. You guys would have a bit more experience as to the post numbers where things start to change (I’m thinking of 70,000 threads, 210,000 posts or so I’d like to import.) Looks like others are using it with large numbers.

6) Badge rewards – addons. This is not totally essentially and I can create this with my team. Wondering what kind of a repository already exists and extensibility.

PS – originally I wouldn’t have considered bbpress but this new version is a major step up from what it used to be. Well done!

[SK]

Why have support forums in 2 places for bbpress – here and on WP forums?

I think it makes the developers spend more time trying to help because they have to look in 2 places, and it confuses users who don’t always know where to post/read…

[shooo]

Still nothing about the many problems of conversions phpbb?

[shooo]

hello,

I tried desperately for months to transfer my phpbb on bbPress, but without success.

This plugin crashes during the creation of the first forum.

have you ever had this problem?

“relinking forum hierarchy

fixing subcounts

done processing forums

Converting posts …

converting posts

Disconnecting

reconnecting …

reconnect success “but after it happens nothing.

This plugin is no longer followed by the author …

it’s just a mess ^ ^

[adv_user]

Hi John (do7d).

Thank you for your attention.

I’m interested in seeing what changes you made​​.

Not exactly the model of Invision or other powerful forums, but their forum was better organized with subcategories.

But still, I keep my critical: bbPress need to improve the hierarchy of sub-subforums to become a powerful forum and allow the creation of many subforums and well organized.

Even the simple press allows this organization/separation of blocks with subforums:

http://simple-press.com/support-forum/

Thanks!

[do7d]

@adv_user

please forgive me if this isn’t what you’re looking for, but im pretty sure i just created the forum @ http://www.USADriftTrikes.org the exact way you wanted to. it wasn’t too difficult, but took about a day of playing with to get where it is currently. let me know if i can help-

john

[mga2]

same here…

as posted to the other topic, i get the “error404” class in response body of the profilpage(non edit)

the edit does not work(except for networkadmins), on click edit i get 404

in detail:

URL: http://domain.com/?bbp_user=15&edit=1

Method: GET

Status: 302 Found

URL: http://domain.com/?bbp_user=15

Method: GET

Status: 404 Not Found

im using my own them for bbpress(add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ )

thanks in advance…

mga2

[Satish]

help..anyone ??

[Nirzol1]

Hello

I’m new in bbpress and I don’t find how to know if there are a new post when I go to my forum page.

In other forum there are icon who say it’s new posts or it ‘s a new reply.

How can I do it with bbpress ? plz

PS: excuse my bad english I ‘m french.

PS2; I can’t reset my password with my first account too* (Nirzol) so I create a new one Nirzol1

EDIT : Same for sticky, there are no icons ? How people know is a sticky ? Or perhaps I do something wrong ? need help.

http://rplayers.com/forums/

[Chantal Coolsma]

I knew bbPress for a while, but didn’t do anything with it until a few weeks ago. I needed bbPress for some projects to embed it in already running WordPress installations. At first I installed bbPress from the WordPress plugin repository and activated it. So far easy as every other plugin.

But how do I show this thing a WordPress site? I created a page called ‘Forum’ and inserted the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into it. Published the page and everything was visible. But now? Why do I need more shortcodes if this is working?

You can copy bbPress template files into your own custom theme folder. This is a way to change some look and feel together with CSS changes. My first question was ‘why are there so many template files?’ As an experienced WordPress theme developer I would say you only need a few. Like forums.php, topics.php and replies.php. I lost my way. Which template is used for which page?

As long as everything works, it’s okay. But then I ran into problems. I am totally lost. I don’t know what is the right way to embed bbPress into WordPress. Just by creating a page? Or add the template files to my custom theme? Both ways got me into the same problems.

I love WordPress, I love to be active in translating and contributing to various projects, I love to help organizing my local WordCamp, but I don’t love to be lost. In my opinion bbPress should work as easy as any other theme file in WordPress. Where you can construct your own page using functions, which are available in a Codex.

[Chantal Coolsma]

I know. I would love to contribute to bbPress. But for a beginner with bbPress it is difficult to find where to start. A bbPress Codex with bbPress specific features would be welcome. But for a start a good documentation would be most helpfull.

[John James Jacoby]

bbPress isn’t only an Automattic project, anyone is free to contribute their time towards improving any of the things mentioned above.

[cruthas]

Using bbpress 2.0 and the current plugin

using current version of wordpress

I am sure it is something simple, but I can’t figure it out and after hours of banging my head I am posting for some help.

Not sure why, but every forum leads to a blank page.

http://www.climberism.com/forums

click on any of the forum and it leads to a blank page.

Any guidance would be great!