[WhiteRau]

i got mine working almost without effort. i literally read the sticky at the top of this thread and it worked.

a couple of things to note, that people are stumbling over:

1) READ THE STICKY. don’t peruse it. READ IT.

2) the sticky actually says the same thing twice. COPY the CONTENTS of wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten to YOUR theme’s folder, whether it be a child theme or not. in my case the path was wp-contentthemesSuperTurboTheme.

3) it’ll ask it you want to overwrite ‘style.css’. don’t. just let the OS rename it to ‘style(2).css’.

4) ditto for the ‘functions.php’ file. it should, temporarily, be ‘functions(2).php.

5) MERGE the two functions.php files. i just copy/pasted everything from ‘functions(2).php’ to the bottom of the ‘functions.php’ file. just like in the sticky. i didn’t merge the ‘style.css’ and ‘style(2).css’ files. but i DID make sure the ‘Tags:’ line in my ‘style.css’ file included ‘bbPress’ as the first item, just to be sure. it was an old requirement that doesn’t seem to have been deprecated anywhere and i’m a belt-n-suspenders boy…

6) at the very top of your newly expanded ‘functions.php’ file, add the line ‘add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );’ to the very top. just like in the sticky. EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A SIMILAR LINE IN the bbPress’ functions.php file, YOUR functions.php file MUST HAVE THIS LINE as well. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MERGED.

7) reload.

don’t get clever. don’t reinvent. don’t assume anything. just follow the steps and you should be fine.

your only challenge now is figuring out how to do your CSS. the ‘style.css’ will control the WordPress portion of the site. it CAN handle the bbPress styling as well, but i prefer to leave it to bbPress.css (located in the ‘css’ folder you copied over) to handle the forum styles. its a bit of a headache sorting out the bevy of tags that get generates, but hey, it works. and i DO mean headache.

not to beat a dead horse, but the real challenge IS sorting out the secondary CSS. i recommend Firebug to help you drill down the the styles. the byzantine class structure can make your head spin. try using the elements that are relatively easy to spot. and REMEMBER THIS: NOT ALL CLASSES ARE IN THE STYLESHEET. this can really toss a wrench into things. they are added for future slice-n-dice, but seems overkill to me. low-order CSS has proved easier for me. i can’t foresee a reason to slice the site up so finely…but it’s futureproofed to the wheel-wells!

good luck. hope this was useful. i apologize if i missed anything. i tried to be thorough AND simple.

feel free to correct me if i stepped wrong somewhere. this is what worked to me.

WR!

[WhiteRau]

niiiice. you could also check out s2Member plugin, but this is just plain slick.

i’m sure we’ll be seeing an update soon that will asplode everything we’ve done so far, but until then, very cool workaround.

WR!

[WhiteRau]

i suspected this might be the case when i went and updated everything in the following order:

WP

theme

bbpress

plugins

and, like you @mesayre, my PHP chops aren’t quite up to the task of forcing a load order. would seem like a core-functionality issue that needs to be addressed quickly.

glad to hear i’m not the only poor bastard popping eyeballs at this one.

thanks for the pointers. i wish us all a communal good-luck and hope the higher ups see this and implement a fix for us all. to them: if i can help, let me know.

WR!

[dmoz]

I’m looking to get the same setup as this here forum. I can’t figure out how you get your topics to show as the main content on your “forums” page. If your page slug is set to “forums”, and you have your bbPress slugs set to “forums”, then bbPress reads it as the forum-archives page, isn’t that right?

In that case, I’d have to make the forum-archives php file into a topics archive (then use the forums list widget for the sidebar).

And then, once you get the topics to show up on the “forums” page, you have a “Forums” sidebar on the left with names and descriptions, which the built-in widget doesn’t have an option for.

Even with a fully-custom page template, the fact that the slug is “forums” causes the conflict and automatically shows the forums archive page. Does that makes sense?

Any hints on how you did this? Thanks very much in advance.

Dave

[labas]

Hello, I am using latest BBpress as a plugin for WordPress 3.2.1.
I want to enable lithuanian language for BBpress, created necessary folder and uploaded language file, but i can’t find bb-config.php file. There is no such file at all… What should I do? Thank you.

[John James Jacoby]

Were these forums imported from a previous bbPress install? If so, how long ago, using what version of bbPress 2.0?

[Philip John]

I just spent hours figuring this out so I thought I’d try and save others the bother by sharing it here.

The basic aim was to hide the contents of topics in a bbPress 2.0 forum from any users not logged in. This makes for a nice private forum.

I found suggestions about making forums hidden, private and so on but none of them really worked as they hid them for logged in users too.

My final solution was to make bbPress ‘dumb’ when it comes to logged out users. I.e., it could either be clever and say “there are topics, but you’re not allowed to see them until you login” or it could just say “there are no topics”.

The following code does the latter, dumb version by hooking into the forums, topics and replies loops.

Code:

function pj_hla_logged_in_topics($have_posts){
if (!is_user_logged_in()){
$have_posts = null;
}
return $have_posts;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_has_topics’, ‘pj_hla_logged_in_topics’);
add_filter(‘bbp_has_forums’, ‘pj_hla_logged_in_topics’);
add_filter(‘bbp_has_replies’, ‘pj_hla_logged_in_topics’);

I simply placed this within my theme’s functions.php but you could just as easily wrap this in a function.

Hope that helps someone!

[GregKeen]

Sure, but it’s in Hungarian. Also, it’s a work in progress (the live site still uses the old bbPress which came with an older BuddyPress), so don’t judge!

The topic page which shows the wrong odering is located at: http://beta.gitartanfolyam.hu/forums/forum/bazar/

To help with the Hungarian wording: the last column shows freshness, the words “napja” means “days ago”.

Thanks for any help in advance!

[John James Jacoby]

Can you link us to your site to look at it?

[John James Jacoby]

This is no longer a sticky.

[John James Jacoby]

A great YouTube video by Dev4Press about setting up and using bbPress 2.0.

His video was made using a bbPress 2.0 beta, but nothing has really changed since.

[GregKeen]

Yes, I have, but it didn’t help. Thanks for the suggestion though!

[John James Jacoby]

@thecolab – A lot of the things you mention are more functions of a complete site than they are functions of only a forum. As such, bbPress can only predict so much of how any theme is setup, and sticks hard to the WordPress conventions of shortcodes, widgets, and theme hierarchy.

Since WordPress doesn’t have ‘section specific widgets’ neither does bbPress. Some people want full-width forums, others do not. bbPress comes with some examples on how you can make some of these things happen, but it doesn’t yet work for 100% of all themes and sites all the time.

Really what bbPress needs is for someone (other than me) to start developing themes and widgets for it. Until that happens, some things will remain balkanized my design to appeal to the greater 80% of WordPress users.

In addition, having someone contributing code patches and new features is also helpful. For a while Gautam was able to consistently help, and Jared helped with Genesis integration. If someone wants to dream up new features and code them under my tutelage, I’m happy to help someone else get things done.

[John James Jacoby]

Have you tried recounting your topics and replies, by going to wp-admin > Tools > Recount? This can happen sometimes after a migration from another forum.

[John James Jacoby]

Some checks are done to check ancestry in some places to prevent total exposure. It’s a tricky balance to strike, and one that won’t start to be fully baked in until 2.1.

[thecolab]

Glad to see BBpress so tighly integrated with regular wp now, still it seems getting it running smoothly out the box is a bit of a challenge for the non-developer.

For instance, using the shortcodes scenario to list forums in a regular wp page is fine, but then when you click any of the forums the bbpress template is used instead, so any sidebar content which might have been added like logins, topics etc needs to be placed into the bbpress templates as well.

any advice on how to set it up so we can have a forums home, with all the bbpress widgets in the sidebar, and then maintain those throughout the forums.

Also off the bat the homepage of the forums doesn’t even have login or register buttons.

Finding some of the simple things you would expect missing.

[warezjasz]

Yes, I found one theme where everything works fine. (short codes can be placed in sidebar by pulling there text bar and shortcode on it)

How to make it work on other themes?

OR….

How to make new widgets for bbpress plugin? There is default login, list of topics etc, but I need let’s say Tag Cloud on the sidebar.

[mesayre]

Hey folks. Got back up and running again. It is a load order issue. WP was attempting to load my theme files before it loaded the bbp core files. Since the class BBP_Theme_Compat is referenced in core, this makes wordpress asplode.

I disabled the theme via FTP to get access to WP admin, then disabled bbpress. Then re-enabled bbpress and lastly re-enabled the theme. Seems to have solved it for now. If I had better WP/php chops I’d know how to write some code that ensures BBP core always loads before any themes. But I don’t. Maybe that can go on the list for next release?

Have a good one.

[redcocker]

I am using bbpress2.0 (bbress 2.0.1 plugin) on WordPress 3.2.1 and want to allow “pre” tag and “class” attribute for non-admin users.

I modified /includes/kses.php in the WordPress.

I placed fllowing code in the definition of $allowedtags.

'pre' => array(

'class' => array ()),

Nevertheless, “class” attribute was removed.

So, <pre class="value">my code</pre> was replaced with <pre>my code</pre>.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

[Jim S.]

The admin panel for bbPress 2.0 is built right into the WordPress dashboard now.

[mesayre]

A little more info:

The error is happening in the functions.php file of the custom theme, which is copied from the included TwentyTen theme.

I can get my site back by deleting my bbpress child theme. Re-adding the theme re-introduces the fatal error.

I’ve verified that BBP_Theme_Compat exists in bbp-core-compatibility.php. It looks like a load-order problem to me — like functions.php is trying to extend BBP_Theme_Compat before the class has been created in bbp-core-compatibility.php. Could that be the issue? If so, how does one fix that?

[nolactose]

Hello,

I just installed wordpress and bbpress in their last versions. I must have missed something because i see no link to a “bbpress administration panel”.

I’ve read http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-install-but-where-is-the-administration-area but there is no “Admin” link.

The forum is here: http://www.nolactose.fr/forums/

Any help is very welcome.

Regards

[gourou]

The error when I tried to update to 2.0.1 was “Cannot remove old plugin” or similar.

The result was the same as above

Fatal error: Class 'BBP_Theme_Compat' not found in /var/www/karting/www/wp-content/themes/karting2011/functions.php on line 46

I deleted the bbpress folder from wp-content/plugins and then uploaded version 2.0.1 from here:

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

To the same place as the old folder. The template for bbpress in my theme were untouched.

This got the site working again.

[Ronald Rogers]

Well the odd thing is that, though the topic and the forum are public, because it has a parent forum that is private, the topic cannot be viewed without the proper privileges, even though it shows up in the index.

This might just be an oddity with my setup, I do not know.

Anyways, thanks for the help.

[GregKeen]

Does anyone have ideas about this? Thanks!