Havent tested the plugin, but most of the standalone bbpress plugins are not being actively updated any more.
Is upgrading to bbpress 2.0 out of the question? Their is alot of facebook connect plugins that will work.
The ‘simple facebook connect’ plugin over at the wordpress extend was updated last month… but, it wont work on the stand-alone version of bbpress.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simple-facebook-connect/
if using bbpress 2.0 is not an option, i’ll have a look at the plugin tonight and see if anything can be fixed.
EDIT: The plugin not doing anything seems to be a facebook issue, alot of people seem to have the same issue.
One of the worst things about a major update like this, is that we lose alot of great plugins – But, it’s better finding out now that their not actively updating it anymore than use it for a while and find out one day that everything’s broken 
what type of html did you want your users posting?
Post toolbar allows alot of great functionality – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-toolbar/
It seems to do the same thing as ‘easy video embed’ by allowing users to post videos using a ‘[video]‘ or ‘[youtube]’ shortcode.
Also, because bbpress is now using WordPress post-types. you could also easily create other shortcodes to achieve what you want.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API
Instead of letting users do img src and giving them complete control over the output of the image, you can allow them to do ‘[image]cat.img[/image]’ to achieve the same affect in an easier way, as an example.
I do honestly think that using shortcodes (search the wordpress extend, theirs alot of shortcode plugins) would be a better option as it allows you to control it’s use properly, as i’m sure you know, some humans enjoy causing trouble – and their are afew html codes that can causing a hellish experience for your users if it gets into the hands of the wrong user.
It’s one of the reasons wordpress.com doesn’t allow some html codes
Thanks for the info on the example conversion script.
Not sure if I’ll be able to do what I need because PHP isn’t my forte but I’ll take an honest look!
It would be seriously cool if you’d put together a conversion from XML script. That way all anyone would need to do is export their forum data to xml in whatever way the conversion script needed.
Being able to use my data (learnjazzpiano.com has had it’s forums going for 16 years) is the only thing holding me back from BBPress.
Here’s the problem I’m facing:
– Yesterday, I created the following website – http://smallworldexperiences.com/
– I added the Facebook Connect mod. It worked great for a day.
— http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/simple-facebook-connect/
– I woke this morning and it wasn’t working. I hadn’t make any changes.
– I tested the site with Facebook’s debugger http://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug
– I made the appropriate changes so no errors are reported from Facebook’s end but the button still doesn’t work. Nothing happens, it’s simply dead.
Any thoughts as to what’s going wrong here?
Ditto! Its all great stuff. Thanks!!
Correct. There can’t be any hard coded links anywhere, because all themes are different and will want them in different locations with different URLs. You can use the Login Widget that’s included to get you some of the way there, but even with widgets/shortcodes/templates it won’t satisfy everyone.
Correct. There can’t be any hard coded links anywhere, because all themes are different and will want them in different locations with different URLs. You can use the Login Widget that’s included to get you some of the way there, but even with widgets/shortcodes/templates it won’t satisfy everyone.
Hi John, sorry not getting your point. I’m using the default install. I’ve added the plugin and the forum is showing and functional but there is no login/register links anywhere – are you saying there is no login/register link within the default install/theme?
Hi John, sorry not getting your point. I’m using the default install. I’ve added the plugin and the forum is showing and functional but there is no login/register links anywhere – are you saying there is no login/register link within the default install/theme?
This is changed in the in-development 2.1 version.
Create pages, use Shortcodes or Page Templates.
Create pages, use Shortcodes or Page Templates.
Here is the site I’m working on: http://testtrack.tv/forums
It’s WordPress site using a custom child theme of the Thematic wordpress theme/framework.
As you can see, I have used the WordPress functions.php to filter away the sidebar to get a full width layout. Other than that, I have just the styles.css of my theme to restyle the forums slightly.
However, as far as I can tell bbPress doesn’t have a built in login/register link anywhere on the forums – why on earth not? Did I miss something?
Therefore, can anyone tell me how I add a simple login/register link within bbPress? As I’m not using the sidebar, I can’t add a widget there.
Any help hugely appreciated.
Thanks for the response, Chris.
bbPress forums/topics permits an admin to post html content. Sadly, it appears to be a time in limbo before a member can do the same. It limits the range and ease of discussion.
I will keep searching for a solution. Thanks again.
Hi Philv.
The plugin has not been upgraded for BBpress 2.0+
To use that plugin you will need to download the stand-alone version or bribe the plugin developer into updating it
or; finding a new plugin that is compatible for 2.0+.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the help @will_c!
Unfortunately that didn’t work for me. Somehow I’m not even getting the above mentioned errors anymore (even before your suggestion) but AJAX is still not working.
AJAX is broken in Buddypress and BBpress and I have tried deactivating all other plugins.
Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_option() in /home2/cincomej/public_html/3cincom/wp-content/plugins/easy-video-embed/easy-video-embed-plugin-0.1.php on line 37
What does this mean?
Was able to activate “Allow Images” and “bbPress Moderation Suite” plug-ins, though I have no idea how they function once installed.
Hi,
How do i fix this?
Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are
using the default styling included with bbPress.
thanks,
Oz
Hi, I installed bbpress 2.0.2 on a wp theme called “Nuke” http://www.gallyapp.com/tf_themes/?theme=Nuke from the themeforest website. I have bbpress running on another site but on this one (http://2012.native-media.net/) I get this message when trying to see a new forum;
Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/native-media.net/subdomains/2012/httpdocs/wp-content/themes/Nuke-v1-1/Nuke/lib/custom.lib.php on line 157
No forums are working. Any ideas what I need to change to get bbpress working?
Thanks
Looking for some conversion advice. Here is my current setup.
Server1: http://www.example.com – WordPress 3.3 only… no forums, no bbPress, no BuddyPress, etc..
Server2: forums.example.com – phpBB 2.0.23. No integration with WordPress.
Server3: db.example.com – The database server for both WordPress and phpBB.
I’m looking to migrate from phpBB2 to bbPress. However I do *not* want my WordPress user table and my forums user table to commingle. After reading up on the conversion scripts available, the fact that bbPress 2 is a plugin and not standalone, etc I’m thinking that the following would be my best course of action.
1) Do a straight conversion from phpBB2 to phpBB3.
2) Install a new copy of WordPress on server2, get it up and running basic.
3) Install the bbPress plugin for WordPress on server2.
4) Run bbConverter to convert the (now) phpbb3 database to bbPress.
Does this sound like the best course of action? Anything anyone would suggest different?
Just understand very hard to be able to parse everything with all the different formats for every forum. I use a standard off the shelf parser class which doesn’t catch everything. The parser will need to be expanded or edited to cover all cases I need help on this. Need the community to help maintain that. Add it once and it is added for everyone. Right now priority is PunBB then I can take a look at parser updates.
I’m currently using bbPress 2.0.2 and would also like to see a topics-tags cloud in my sidebar. The existing tag cloud widget doesn’t show forum tags.
Any recent development on this issue?
Thanks ahead of time!
Steve
john,
The point is a simple one that is being avoided in my thread. Firstly I and thousands very much appreciate the work of bbpress team.
1) SimplePress is a WP plugin that is “fully featured” out of the box for Forums.
2) bbpress is a WP plugin that requires other plugins to allow it to be featured to your hearts content.
With 1) you get what the developers of the plugin regard as Forums features and capabilities. What you get is fully integrated features by the plugin and ‘dedicated’ plugin developers.
2) provides you basic features. You then depend upon yourself or other plugin developers to ‘enhance’ to get to a featured Forum solution.
A simple analogy is with 1) you get a “showroom” car that works with a set of features. As for 2) you get a “car” which you then customize along with the development community.
My “challenge” was try both out and then compare.
