[zbrier]

@spiritfly

Make sure that forum example you trying to mimic or address as sample is using the latest bbPress. Since many nice looking themes for bbPress is only compatible with old version, so you won’t be disappointing at the end.

[zbrier]

My simple answer is NO. bbPress is great but it still need plugins to do what you ask for.

And beside plugins you also need programmers.

[zbrier]

Yes, definitely simple and elegant. Are you using latest bbPress?

[egonitron]

Hiya! Looking to get a phpBB forum converted to bbPress. Any updates on when that’l be available or if you can even do it as a paid service? Thanks.

[big_bass]

I would like to test code before posting since my forum has only one hour edits

I would like to be able to check for errors before posting

Joe

this link is only provided to explain what I mean

I am in no way associated with them

http://www.bbcode.org/playground.php

[David Decker]

@bollocks187

I don’t agree here. SimplePress has do many features for a lot of users/use cases. Yes, it works, it’s active developed and maintained. I tested the new 5.0 beta two weeks ago and it’s still feature overload and a totally different user interface different from “normal” WP… And regarding translation they don’t go with WP standards here and so until they fix some things I could not get it into German. Old 4.x branch is no option because I need optimized code for a new project and also future-proof with WP 3.3+

bbPress — I only mean the plugin version 2.x — on the other hand is really simple but has all I need. It works with almost any theme/framework and I could easily tweak it via CSS. This is a big advantage. Performance-wise it’s really leightweight and future-proof with WP because of custom post types for forum contents.

YES, I know it has not so many features – a few could be added via plugin add-ons – and I assume a lot more will come in the next weeks or month.

IMHO bbPress 2.x is best for small to middle-range communities, best for simple support forums and such. If I need a full packed forum solution with ALL the many and big features I almost always will use a third-party solution like Vanilla, IPB or new XenForo. These have clean style and great UI in frontend AND backend. And with some work of integrating could be work together with WordPress too. — Just look at the newly launched support forum by iThemes.com – they use IPB Forums and it’s great for such a big community.

However, there are some great new bbPress forums out there, see at devpress.com, wpcandy.com, support.pippinsplugins.com, getshopped.com etc. So the bbPress plugin has already proven to manage such communities and they’re doing great.

I vote for bbPress and at the same time have much respect for the work of the Simple:Press devs but just would not use their system!

-Dave

[bollocks187]

Good Post Olympus,

I actually have installed and used bbpress, BuddyPress and SimplePress.

My recommendation is SimplePress is the best out of the box Forum for someones website. It comes canned with many features and you do not have to be an expert to use forums plus it has the social features.

Since forums are designed for people to interact. SimplePress is superior to get you going asap.

bbpress shortcoming include its too much focus on “developers” and not users. While Buddypress goes a step further then bbpress with regard to forums types and of course social media you still have to TWEAK a lot of it to work in your theme.

SimplePress has essential all the positives aspects of the other two plus a lot of built in features. It is truly an out of the box plugin it is so far “Simple” to use yet it is feature ‘RICH”. It is probably the most impressive Plugin I have used to date – I only installed it a yesterday and closed down my BBpress and BuddyPress.

So if you wont “forums” to really work out of the box fully featured then SimplePress is by far the smart choice. If you are a “developer” and want to customize to the ‘n’ degree then bbpress or BuddyPress. But with one important caveat. Customizing forums is analogous to gardening – you can make it different – but the real true measure of its value is not that it looks unique but the content of the forums and what is being discussed.

[David Decker]

This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for the bbPress 2.x Forum Plugin to the WordPress Admin Bar.

Info & Download here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin-bar-addition/

Description from Readme:

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot bbPress 2.x related resources to your admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for forum administrators/ moderators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to ‘Topics’ or ‘Main Settings’ page etc.

As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards forum admins/ webmasters and moderators. The new admin bar entries will only be displayed if the current user has the bbPress/ WordPress cabability of moderate. (Note: I am open for suggestions here if this should maybe changed to a more suitable cabability.)

Plugin/ Theme Support:

At this time the plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some bbPress 2.x specific add-on plugins!

Special Features:

Not only supporting official bbPress 2.x sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole bbPress 2.x ecosystem

Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

Link to official German bbPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

Localization:

English (default) – always included

German – always included

.pot file (bbpaba.pot) for translators is also always included

Have fun with this little add-on!

I am open for feedback of course!

-Dave

[jamiehutber]

Hey dude,

lovely template. Its what I’ve been after, after finding out it wasn’t that simple

I’m going to assume that its a custom template and not one you downloaded? If it is one you downloaded could i grab the template from you?

[dino_rox]

So, I need an integration between WordPress and bbpress posts.

E.g.: I post a new post (!) in my blog and automatically it creates a topic in my bbpress forum. They share the same comments.

Is it possible (of course, but you know)? Somebody knows some plugin that do it?

Sorry my english…

[ebiznet88]

I am glad to read this.

I too have been looking to replace my phpbb board and integrate my existing forum with WordPress.

I’m concerned with the slow speed of responses and development on bbpress.

I know the developers are all doing this voluntarily and in their spare time. There are no guarantees in life and so even though people and companies may say they are committed to something, it doesn’t mean its forever as things change so rapidly in this world. We just have to move forward in faith and hope that things improve.

[Anderson Mak]

Well, if someone what show most recent signed up users on footer of your bbpress forum, you can use my function below:

function show_recent_users($howmany=10, $show_avatar=false){

global $bbdb;



$recent_users = $bbdb->get_results( "SELECT * FROM $bbdb->users ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT $howmany" );



if($show_avatar){

$users = array();

foreach($recent_users as $user){

$users[0].= '<td>' . bb_get_avatar( $user->ID, 48 ) . '</td>';

$users[1].= '<td><anc href="' . get_user_profile_link($user->ID) . '">'. $user->display_name . '</td>';

}

echo "<table id='tb-users'> ";

echo "<tr>" . $users[0] . "</tr>";

echo "<tr>" . $users[1] . "</tr>";

echo "<table>";

}else{



echo "s| ";

foreach($recent_users as $user){

echo '<anc href="' . get_user_profile_link($user->ID) . '">'. $user->display_name . ' | ';

}

}

}

Replaces anc to a, of course, I used and to bbpress don’t treat it as a markup code.

To show just name uses:

show_recent_users(10);

To show gravatar and name, uses:

show_recent_users(10,true);

And now, just put the code above in top of the file footer.php that can be found on your theme

[Anderson Mak]

If you want it, you can see the default layout of bbPress at my own forum: http://ajuda.blogwordpress.ws

[Anderson Mak]

Hi, I started using bbPress there are 2 days, see my forum at: http://ajuda.blogwordpress.ws

My forum is about WordPress and bbPress

[spiritfly]

Well I think there should be a list available somewhere, at least the official list of example sites should be updated, I’m sure there are great sites out there, but they are hard to find. One could get the idea that it is not popular and give up installing bbpress.

[Anointed]

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.

[spiritfly]

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.

[spiritfly]

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.

[spicynodes]

You mentioned starting a forum here about Akismet … has that started?

[tulisan]

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!

[tamaral]

That did the trick. Thanks for the help

[mrjonnn]

Can anyone send me a link to a forum made with bbpress, so I have an example?

I googled it but I’m not getting examples, just forums about forums…

[andeeh]

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)

[0xDE1E7E]

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.

[lyradmil]

My question is, will bbpress allow me to achieve this?