Just a couple off the top of my head:
http://www.bbconverter.com/forums/
http://devpress.com/forums/
There are actually a ton of sites out there using bbPress.
yeah, every research about example bbpress forums ends up with some examples that were posted 3-4 years ago and when you try to open them you end up on either a parked domain or just another dead 404 page. It seems like those pages that had bbpress were somehow doomed and failed miserably.
Even the official demo examples at https://bbpress.org/about/examples/ are no where to be found. Technorati doesn’t seem to have a forum anymore and the support forum is only accessible for VIP wordpress members.
It seems like the only working examples of bbpress are the wordpress forum and the bbpress forum. This doesn’t really leave any good impression. I’m getting second thoughts about installing bbPress.
This is a great idea, I can’t believe no one has ever done that for bbpress. Revenue sharing is something that made even vBulletin very popular, bbPress should have this.
You mentioned starting a forum here about Akismet … has that started?
We have a bbpress forum integrated with wp 3.0.3. I would like to be notified via email whenever someone creates a new thread. I checked the settings but couldn’t find any that would let me do this. Is there any easy way to do this? Are there any plugins for this or do we have to get a programmer to do it for us?
Would greatly appreciate your responses.
Thanks in advance!
That did the trick. Thanks for the help
Hi guys,
First of all thanks for your continued efforts to build bbPress. I’ve followed the HowTo video and that got me up and running with the templates reasonably quickly. I created my own child theme of 2010 and re-skinned it. All seems to have worked well.
My only remaining issue so far as I can see is that there is no way for the user to know that they have registered. The email gets sent out but there really needs to be something like “Thanks for registering, you’ve been sent an email.”
On my system when you register the registration form doesn’t change so it looks like nothing happened.
Inspecting the POST submission with fiddler I can see that there’s a “redirect-to” field. I suppose that’s what I need to change to redirect and give the message, but what message should I display?… considering that the mail server could be down or something, I wonder if there’s a status code or whatever? What do you normally do?
thanks,
AndyH
PS: After trawling the forums for tips I found these plugins helpful and complimentary to a bbPress install…
Members (for fine grain permissions)
SB Welcome Email Editor (to edit the registration emails, works well)
WP-reCAPTCHA (captcha at registration)
Private Messages for WordPress (for a basic pm system)
Provided you are talking about the integrated multisite solution and bbpress 2 (not the standalone versions): yes, that should work. In multisite mode, you always have one main site which holds all the users. All sites in the network work with this network-wide userbase, so a bbpress installation on any network site will also do so. 
My question is, will bbpress allow me to achieve this?
Hello to all
I have multiple WP blogs on different domains. I would like to unite all of them in one WP MU installation. I know it’s possible and I think I can manage to pull that of.
After that, I would like to install bbPress on another X.com domain. Is it possible to connect all of the WP MU domains users with the users at bbPress? So if someone registers at bbPress can log in at any WP MU domain, and vice versa.
Actually I’m pretty sure that can be done, but I need to know how and if there would be any drawbacks to that solution? Will it remain stable and so on?
Thanks
bbPress is no longer used on that website (would edit the link if I could) after I handed the site over to be ran by the community so what you are likely looking at now is the theme I designed for the new forum script they use.
Also I see you have the lates posts showin instead of just the forum.
How did you do that?
If that is the bit I am thinking you are looking at, that is simply just the build in WordPress feature that pulls from a RSS feed.
bbPress is no longer used on that website (would edit the link if I could) after I handed the site over to be ran by the community so what you are likely looking at now is the theme I designed for the new forum script they use.
Also I see you have the lates posts showin instead of just the forum.
How did you do that?
If that is the bit I am thinking you are looking at, that is simply just the build in WordPress feature that pulls from a RSS feed.
I have to agree with @WhiteRau, a thorough read through the sticky post (and then his to reiterate in my mind), I was able to combine the bbpress template files with my child theme.
My question is that I’m trying to modify the output and html layout of my bbpress template files, and I can’t seem to figure out a solution.
1. My forum is on the page: Forum, and my forum base slug is: forums. Different, you see? That’s because I want to show the Latest Topics, not default to showing all my forums, when you click the menu for Forum (very much like the bbpress.org/forums).
2. I’m using a page template for the Forum page that outputs the Latest Topics, except as soon as you click away from this page, it reverts back to the default layout.
Problem: I need all the forum pages to use the same layout, preferably a custom one, and the ‘front’ Forum page to output the Latest Topics.
Any ideas?
click on the forums link under the settings tab. On that screen, where you set the number of topics to display etc.. click save. That sets the permalinks for bbPress.
Also make sure that your actual permalinks settings page uses something other than the default top option. Chose any other option and click save.
That should get you going.
@tony lies… sorry for sounding so medieval lol, but i installed it on a non-twenty ten theme and it works just fine.
mind you, it took jackie chan style css kungfu to make it look right, but its doable
I just installed 2.1.bleeding to try out bbPress on my site. Totally automatic and smooth as could be. For the record, I’m using the Simple X theme on my blog. Layout needs a little tweaking, but it all worked immediately.
Most of my site is PHP with the blog secondary. My goal is for the user on a custom PHP page to create a ‘item’ on the base site, and at the same time begin a discussion topic about the ‘item’ on bbPress. They would complete a form with various data that includes a title and comment box. I want to take what they enter and handle part of it on my current site and then create a related new forum topic using the title and comment.
I suspect this can be done by calling some ‘create topic’ function, but being a novice at this I have no clue how. For the record, my url structure looks like ‘xyz.com/blog/forums’.
Is this possible? If so, how?
Thanks for any help,
Hugh
I’ve just installed the 2.0.2 version and I get a 404 error when I click on one of the forums link. Do I need to follow the steps on this post in order to get it running right on my site?
Thanks.
Thank you Adam for the work that you do.
This update you mention, would it happen to contain a converter for phpBB to bbpress as well (keeping fingers on both hands tightly crossed and holding my breath!)?
Can we post a link to a beginners’ guide for creating bbPress themes at the beginning of this topic, with the rest of the FAQ links, please? It’s kind of confusing as to where to find this information. Also, I would appreciate somebody replying to me as to where to find it while I wait for it to be added to this topic http://methoo.com
Can we post a link to a beginners’ guide for creating bbPress themes at the beginning of this topic, with the rest of the FAQ links, please? It’s kind of confusing as to where to find this information. Also, I would appreciate somebody replying to me as to where to find it while I wait for it to be added to this topic http://methoo.com
I have a website I’m going to add forums to and I’m thinking about using bbPress. But there is something I’m not liking when I’m trying it out. I don’t like how when a user isn’t logged in it says “You must be logged in to reply to this topic.” below the posts.
Is there a way to change that text to something more user friendly. Like please login or register to reply with links to a way to login or register.
Sorry guys been slammed I will try to get the update out before weekend is out. Today have to finish up another project so no way it will be today. So look for it in coming days.
I’d suggest creating a trac ticket with a link to the site with the problems so that JJ can take a peek someday.
I had the problem in prior vs. but with the newest vs. of bbPress and my new custom theme I do not have these problems anymore. I never was able to figure out what the cause was.
Below is the link to the first forum that I have made with bbpress.
I have one reservation which is in the sub menu to the forums button I’ve included a page as a site map for the forum. The reason that I did this was that I thought that the forum index page looked a bit cluttered in places. I did think of putting links with the titles on the forum map page but thought that it might discourage users from using the real thing.
What do you think?
It is part of a larger site and I don’t know how to segregate it. The link is direct to the forum page.
what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/forums/