[Gautam Gupta]

You might try WordPress SEO which has some support for custom post types, a feature of WordPress that bbPress uses.

[Jared Atchison]

You need to create pages and use shortcodes.

See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

For example have a login page that contains [bbp-login] and a registration page that has [bbp-register] – this will allow you users to register for an account (which they need to post) and and area to login at.

Also there are plenty of plugins available on WordPress.org that let you put a login for into widget areas etc.

[aravoth2011]

Hey guys, I just wanted to say thanks for creating this plugin. The possibilities with it are only limited by a persons skill with php, and of course, their imagination.

Using this plugin, and attempting to build a website around it has dramatically increased my understanding of WordPress, PHP, and everything in between. Before I started tinkering around with this thing I didn’t even know what an array was, nor did I have the slightest understanding of loops, queries, actions, or functions. If I needed something on my website, I used plugins, which often slowed everything down quite a bit and created a ton of conflicts. Now I’m not only designing the website I wanted, but I’m understanding it’s architecture.

Though I am a long way from finishing it, I feel like I actually have the ability complete it on my own, which never would have happened without this plugin.

So thank you again to the creators of bbpress, you truly are the last surviving Jedi Masters of wordpress.

[Jared Atchison]

When you are looking for bbP 2 plugins, disregard the plugins on bbPress.org as they are going to be for 1.x.

All bbP 2.x plugins are being hosted on wordpress.org, so that is where you will want to start your search. Specifically you can check out

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress

[riceguitar]

Hi @metalweb. Are you trying to create a stand alone forum with no group forums? I actually wrote a blog post yesterday that outlines how we made them work together with the stand alone version of bbPress and used “site wide” forums. – http://www.26am.com/blog/2011/12/22/buddypress-and-bbpress-making-them-play-together/

Hope that helps! Post back if you need more help.

[HenriKroeze]

I’m new to bbPress and I am testing it right now to see if it is a good replacement candiate for a phpbb forum I own.

I’ve set up version 2.0.2 on WP 3.3.

I’ve ‘done’ the extensive installation video on YT, which was very helpful.

Although I really appreciate the cleanliness of bbPress, my forum members really need a few addtional features, like bbCode and PM’s.

I found both plugins, but they claim not to be compatible with bbPress 2.x

Also they’re referring to an installation system I don’t get, where is ppPress ‘myplugins’ directory located?? I cannot seem to find this folder, where should it be?

Thanks for helping me out! (and a version compatible indicator in the plugin section of this site would be very helpful for beginners like me!)

Henri

[darvier74]

Hi,

I just noticed that the url removes the forum name when in the topic url.

Is there any way to add the forum name?

example:

url1: http://bbpress.org/forums/forum/requests-and-feedback

url2: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/anyone-use-bbpress-for-role-playing-games-rpg

Can the “topic” of url2 automatically changed to “request-and-feedback” so the final url reads: url2: http://bbpress.org/forums/requests-and-feedback/anyone-use-bbpress-for-role-playing-games-rpg

Thanks

[Crisium]

Hi,

did a checkout and dropped it in my plugin directory and when I activate it.. I get: Fatal error: Call to undefined method WP_Query::is_main_query() in C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-includesbbp-core-compatibility.php on line 1605

regards,

Peter

[bjj_pl]

I am trying to convert phpbb3 database and it goes quite smoothly BUT suddenly stops at some point when converting posts

Screen: http://forumpokerowe.com/obrazki/bbconverter_error_screen.gif

I’ve tried various ‘Rows Limit’ (50, 100, 200)

What am I doing wrong?

I use:

WordPress 3.2.1

PhpBB 3.08

BBPress plugin 2.0.2

BBConverter 1.3

[Vili]

Have you found a solution to this? There seem to be a number of people with the same issue, and no solution that I can find.

I have the issue, running a bbPress 1.x installation integrated with WordPress. I’d like to switch to the 2.x version, but the importer gives a fatal error.

[Steve]

I missed the recount – hiding it under the general WordPress Tools menu caught me out;-).

I’ve run it and it seems to be OK now when it comes to dates.

[murrayac]

@kamikazeek I think if you change to the twentyeleven theme it works.. maybe

@bbpress looks like you have been spammed!

[murrayac]

How do we download 2.1 it’s a bit confusing..

[bcoolface]

With the bbPress 2.0.2 plugin, I can start topics with empty titles if I just fill it with spaces. This leads to inaccessible topics that can’t be clicked, viewed, or moderated in any sane way.

I ask you change line 176 in bbp-topic-functions.php to something like:

// No topic title

if ( empty( $topic_title ) || strlen(trim( $topic_title )) == 0)

Thanks

b

[silverrebel]

Good news!

[danielkj]

niceactor

QTTg

iftomkins

Been there and it does not work – Old threads, old codes.

Found a solution and IT WORKS

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-close-topic-trash-etc-resolved

[danielkj]

Hi BBpress.

First, all my posts about closing topics, never got answered by any. Please share!

I found a solution, so i share it.

You can let users close their topics for reply, remove their topics (trash) edit and so on. With bbpress 2.0.2 and User Role editor.

All new users are subscribers -> In User Role Editor mark these fields:

assign_topic_tags

delete_others_topics

delete_topic_tags

delete_topics

moderate

edit_replies

edit_topics

publish_replies

publish_topics

read

Now they are capable to do it! And they cannot /edit/delete/close other topics – only there own.

The “spam” field is still visible – But it is possible to remove it from the .php files somewhere (Notepad++ and Search all files does the magic of finding it!)

Thats all

[Gil]

Have searched hi and low and only find discussion of these ideas relating to pre-bbpress 2.0 plugin.

I have a private site, i.e. registration required to see anything. Installed the plugin. Forums and topics are created. I want a notification to automatically go out to all registered users (i.e our ‘members’) each time a new forum or new topic is created. I want to preclude their having to get online and poke around to see what is new but rather to push it out to them.

Ideally they would be notified of every new posting both out of the bbpress activity and from a WP Post or Page creation.

Suggestions on where to go for this?

gil

[danoman]

Yeah, I’ve been searching for an answer for hours.

Found that they are supposed to be in:

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten

You might try that!

For me, if I try to change anything in the template files I find there, nothing happens. But perhaps it’s because I’m not using twentyten, but a childtheme to bp-default.

I’ve also tried with:

wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei

but with no result.

[QTTg]

Thanks for the useful information . Do you want to translate it to Chinese ?

[QTTg]

Thanks for the useful information . Do you want to translate it to Chinese ?

[Dan Milward]

Hey John. Sorry just spotted your reply….

We’re getting nailed by spam and its not good. Michelle was going to post the following but I decided to copy it here instead:

We have a huge problem with spam! (40+ posts a day) We have tried quite a few things to try and get rid of this problem but nothing seems to be working.

Currently our site is running the latest version of BB-Press we have the Akismet plugin activated and running we also have the Stop Spammer Registrations reCAPTCHA plugin for new user registration.

We have in the past tried the reCaptcha for bbPress 2.0 this didn’t make much difference and we couldn’t use this plugin with the spammer registration one so have removed it for now.

We are running out of ideas and things to try so are reaching out to you guys for some help or suggestions, have we missed something or can anyone recommend a solution to all this spam.

My solution and best thinking involved finding the spammers in the real world and removing their hands as punishment

[applesofgold1]

Badly needed: A simple SEO plugin that allows me to change the Title of the home page meta tag.

Other items badly needed: SEO for keywords, description.

WordPress has a great plugin called, “All in One SEO PACK” — something like that but for bbpress.

Anyone???

My biggest challenge right now to using bbpress is difficulty finding quality plugins.

Please help!

Thank you!!!

[iftomkins]

Hi! I’m a little late on this one. Using bbpress 2.0 but the above code still kinda works. When I add it, I get the edit button, but no delete button. Any tips? I want all users to be able to edit and delete their own posts. Also, I’m confused whether assigning someone the role Forum Participant vs. Subcriber has anything to do with it, but I’ve tried both. Here’s the code I was using from above:

function delete_own_post($retvalue, $capability, $args) {

if ($capability=="delete_post") {return bb_current_user_can( 'edit_post', $args[1]);}

return $retvalue;

}

add_filter('bb_current_user_can', 'delete_own_post',10,3);

[fidi]

I’m looking specifically to remove the ^topics/ base slug from the url, but ability to remove any or all other base or slugs would be useful as well.

There was a 1.x plugin that did this, but alas I can’t find a way to do it in 2.x

I’m familiar with the necessarily mod_rewrite changes to make this work on the apache side of things, but i have no idea how to make it bbPress 2.x compatible

Please advise, thank you.

ps: this is important and i’m willing to have resources available to achieve it, contact me directly or post here