[Wallach]

I installed bbpress on my WordPress site. I am able to define forums and topics within my admin area in WordPress, however the forum doesn’t show up in my menu bar.

[sravankumardv]

Hi i tried using the code [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] as

[bbp-single-forum id=$Introduction] where Introduction is the forum id, but it is not working. Please help me. Can you exactly mention what is the forum id here, is it the title what we provide for the forum .

[Anointed]

@Justin

Turns out I messed up and did not upload the latest vs. of the converter. Give me a minute and I’ll get everything straightened out.

Sorry about that, my fault entirely

[il_dandi]

Excuse me for this simple question… can you tell me the differences in WP and BBPress between:

Pages

Posts

Categories

???

Categoy is a group of post? (not pages) OK?

In mean I can insert: pages and categories (not post) OK?

I’ve this simple problem

[il_dandi]

I’ve installed bbpress and WP

I’d like to know if users forum, can create new post attaching photos??

How many??? Can I create a forum post with many photos (not only 1) and allow users to reply?

Thanks

[Justin Tadlock]

Some feedback:

The first test run didn’t convert the forums from bbPress 1.x. So, the topics and replies didn’t have a forum.

I tried a second test run and the forums were converted. I stopped the process at this point.

I’m going to give it a third test run to see if it’ll work.

[benfrain]

Hi Raphaelsuzuki – no, making a page (with full width template) and setting it as the base slug doesn’t work I’m afraid.

I’m not using TwentyTen, I’m using a child theme based on Thematic. I ended up just filtering the sidebar away with the following in my main theme’s functions.php:

function remove_sidebar() {

if(function_exists('is_bbpress') && is_bbpress()){

return FALSE;

} else {

return TRUE;

}

}

add_filter('thematic_sidebar', 'remove_sidebar');

Hope that helps someone in future.

[will_c]

I’m using bbPress 2 sitewide forums with BuddyPress 1.5. I am using the bp-default theme and the bbp-twentyten default theme for bbPress. I can favorite existing forum topics, but they don’t show up in a user’s favorites tab in their activity stream/profile. When I click on the “This topic is one of your favorites” link, I just get redirected to the profile page.

Favorites in the activity stream itself are working fine.

Edit: specified using BP 1.5.1

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tnwinn]

When I first installed the plugin, after using the standalone version of bbPress, it appears as though some but not all of the posts on the standalone ‘converted over’ to the plugin. We still have the standalone live, as we work out kinks in the plugin, but how can I move the posts over to the plugin version?

You can see the standalone here: http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forum/

and the plugin version here: http://www.gogo-gringo.com/forums/

I hope to get some help ASAP.. I want to take down the old forum as soon as I can!

Thank you very much and thanks for all the hard work on the new plugin! (BTW I am using version 2.0.2 of the plugin)

[will_c]

I am wondering if there is a way with bbPress 2 to close forums to new topics, but allow users to reply to existing forum topics within that forum (or subforum). Ideally this would emulate the functionality of this bbPress standalone plugin:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

Currently, closing a forum restricts users’ ability to create topics and reply to existing topics (including topics in open subforums).

I found someone else raising this issue in the WordPress forums, here, but wasn’t sure that it was the most appropriate place to ask the question.

[bradlis7]

Spam is hard to deal with in bbpress, WordPress itself does a much better job. For one thing, I would like to see replies to see if it is really spam, but it doesn’t seem like I can view it without marking it as “Not Spam”.

Also, I would like to see a “Delete permenantly” button in the Spam list for both topics and replies.

I think that bbPress also needs better notification, or a setting for “Topics/Replies must be approved the first time”. I had 20 topics that were spam that had showed up in my forums, but I don’t get much traffic, so I didn’t realize they were there.

[FrosyD]

http://www.kristarella.com finally got it working!!!!

Go and DONATE her some cash!!

[MishaOLS]

Hello guys, thank you Adam for all the work you put into this converter! I really can’t wait for the updated version! Now I would like to ask all of you one maybe stupid question but is it somehow possible to convert the author’s of the posts without creating an entry in the wp_users database? My problem is that I have converted my whole site (I was previously using blog:CMS and punbb forum) into WordPress and now I decided that I will ask all my free users to create a new account for WP (to have fresh password, etc.) but I obviously can’t do this until I delete all the users that have been created by the converter. Yet once I delete them, their posts get deleted as well. I also tried to convert the forum without the users but the problem is that the forum then gets converted without the authors of the posts . So I am in a dead end here… I would basically need to keep forum’s authors (only name is sufficient) without creating an entry in the wp_users database (so that my users may register for WP using the same e-mail). Thank you very much for your help/advice/suggestions. All the best from Misha

[David100351]

@Hagandasz

I had problems finding this, too.

Go to Forums on Dashboard.

Hover the mouse over the title of the forum, and a link comes up at the bottom of the page. (In Opera it does, anyway)

e.g. http://pour-your-heart-out.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=36&action=edit

in this case, $forum_id is 36

you don’t use the $

The same principle works with the rest. I know it says “post=36” but I guess that’s just how wordpress stores stuff.

[go3721]

My website has already installed WordPress 3.2 at mydomain.com/blog/. Recently I installed the bbpress 2.0 plugin, trying to set up a forum for my site. However, from what I can see, I can set up the forum as mydomain.com/blog/forums/. But what I really want to do is set it up as mydomain.com/forums/, which means I want to let the blog and fourm appear to be in separate and parallel directories (not one inside another). Can somebody tell me how to do it?

Thanks!

[Adrian23]

Since the WordPress discussion boards increased along with bbPress underneath the cover, bbPress had been examined in order to it’s complete capability, resulting in a number of custom remaking as well as tweaking to support the actual development as well as development associated with WordPress right into a world-wide acclaimed running a blog system.

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bp oil spill claims

[liyucmh1314]

@logart Hi, thanks for this useful information.

[mamikaze]

I am working on a bbpress forum in a WordPress site for a client and it needs to be one forum only. the focus is to be on the topics list.

I’m using the bbp-twentyten theme.

Thanks!

[MellyVille]

Somehow, I believe there are to be more settings than just the two known to me. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1 and have installed bbPress through BuddyPress…

Now i can only make minor settings through:

1. wp back end -> BuddyPress -> Preferences (5 checkboxes and thats it)

2. wp back end -> Settings -> Forums (couple of minor per page settings + slugs).

That can’t be it right? bbPress is a powerful forum, there have to be more settings right? Am I missing anything?

p.s. for example, I want the ‘start new topic’ field gone and move it to it’s own page in stead of being underneath the forum/topic list…

[Dominik Traskowski]

Someone resolve that problem?

[Dominik Traskowski]

Hello.

When i install bbpress for buddypress (for groups) the theme get nice javascript button “Add Topic” what show and hide add topic/reply form.. I want to create that on normall bbpress, normall bbpress forum. Now it’s static form, witchout this show/hide.. Can anyone help me?

[MishaOLS]

Hello, I would like to create a special forum for my paid members. I am using the Your Members http://yourmembers.co.uk plugin for my user management. I thought that I would simply create a new forum called “members” with some topics and I would put this forum using a shortcode to the members page, which would have restricted access for members only (using the Your Members plugin).

Yet it seems not to work this easy way. The logged in member can’t see any forum on that page and there is only a line of text with latest forum news and a form for a reply. Once he clicks either on the news or writes a reply, he gets a 404 page. Do you have any idea why is that?

I was trying to make the forum private or hidden, but I don’t understand at all how these features work and I wasn’t able to find any documentation for bbPress yet:(. Could someone please advise me on how would it be the best way to create the paid member’s only forum? Just to make clear, I also do have a normal forum for my free users (who have to be logged in to be able to post into it). Thank you very much for your help! All the best from Misha

[DiannaM668]

Hi Chrisella, I gave it one more college try on that Forumconverter plugin and it even mentioned needing to use bbpress 2.0 rc4 version. I installed the older version of BBpress but still no go. I’m getting stuck when I get a 500 internal server error and I believe I’m timing out.

When I get the error page after about 2 minutes of conversion, it then makes me log into my wordpress installation as if it’s trying to install itself. I put my login info as it asks and it then gives me a long list of the errors that occurred. It does say “…… has exceeded the ‘max_questions’ resource (current value: 75000)].

When I go to my forum, I do have the forum and topics, but no actual posts. So close yet so far.

If I knew how to further fix my timeout issue, I may try to call my web-hosting to see if they could guide me on the issue or maybe give me more conversion time just for this issue…I’m just grasping at straws.

If no luck on this last attempt with calling my web-hosting, I’m at the mercy of AWJunkies guys for when they have time to possibly finish the plugin for a phpBB conversion. They will totally make my day.

I’ve pretty much tried every route one can possibly try to get my forum over to bbpress. I’ll just wait with crossed fingers and toes.

[Anointed]

bbPress works on virtually any theme out there. It may take a little tweaking of the css to get it to look right, but it should still work just fine.

[andeeh]

I found what I was looking for here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbp_wp_login_action-question

There’s a bug in bbp-common-template.php