[WhiteRau]

i’m adding bbPress to our WP blog, followed the instructions in the Theme Compatibility sticky and appended all the functions from bbPress/functions.php into myTheme/functions.php. as soon as i reloaded the page, i got a critical fault error. can’t find the required class. since i copied all the files across as instructed, shouldn’t the file be locatable? i’m not sure where to even begin with this. i thought integration would be relatively simple, i’m sure its something simple i’m overlooking.

please help me out so i can get cranking. i’ve already blown away the theme i built because i didn’t know bbPress’ cute little update ‘feature’, so i’m anxious to get back on track.

should mention, using latest of WordPress and bbPress.

thank you very much

WR!

[starofmay]

Just figured it out. It was a strange setting in my blog template. All is well now.

[starofmay]

I never did get it to work correctly. I just made number of topics showing 5. Then it created a new page.

But now I have a similar problem on the main Forum page. I now have 6 forums, but only 5 will show. There is not a page 2 link at the bottom. I adjusted the settings to only show 5, but still no page 2.

Any suggestions?

BTW, I am using the plugin version and have not altered the templates.

[pumpcat]

I solve it myself.. It seems that all unpublic forum are classified into private posts in bbp_map_meta_caps(), including hidden. I change some code and it work well. Maybe adding a read-hidden-post in post_type during activating bbpress is better. Thanks so much..

[Linesh Jose]

@anointed Thanks dude

[MTPrower]

Couldn’t agree with you more, secretsofsafety. Having a website for me is 5% enjoying the website and 95% building and maintenance.

[Secrets of Safety]

I personally find it ridiculous that someone would suggest that the developer shouldn’t have to do the documentation. Or at least that is what it sounded like when I read these comments.

If the dev doesn’t completely supply documentation, how is anyone else going to know what the heck to do with this plugin?

If this is such a great plugin, then make it easier to integrate into the themes.

It is difficult enough getting our websites up and functioning without having to pull our hair out trying to figure out how to use a plugin that is supposed to be so great.

I have noticed that there are a lot of dev’s who don’t contribute much documentation for wordpress. How unfortunate they assume everyone can read their minds.

This topic has been up for months and still having no clear directions. Hope everyone else figures it out. I’m not going to bother with this.. If the dev doesn’t care, I sure don’t.

[GregKeen]

I’ve upgraded to bbPress 2.0 from the BuddyPress forums.

Everything works fine except that the topic pages are not listing the topics in the order of last activity but instead in the same order as the wp-admin Topics page.

I couldn’t find any setting that would change this ordering and I’ve seen at various bbPress 2.0 forums that the ordering should work.

Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?

[Steve]

Only 2 spams this month according to Akismet

Just did a grep of the access log round one of those times and there is NOTHING going on

[janoochen]

I wonder if bbpress stores the value of how many times a topic have been favorited in that way it could become a like button.

[John James Jacoby]

So, as weird as it sounds, this is by design. The ability to stagger the forum privacy is a feature, and the ability to walk up the forum tree for every topic and check it’s visibility is currently too labor intensive to do.

The obvious fix is not to have public forums within private forums.

[John James Jacoby]

Possible a logged in user is spamming it and being caught by Akismet?

[Steve]

And it doesn’t

[Steve]

I just realised I was on 1.0.3 not 1.1 so I’ve upgraded and will see if it fixes the problem

[Steve]

I’ve got a bbpress install which I run as support forum. I sometimes post links to zip files in there with patch fixes on them.

I was looking at my webstats and noticed :

a) A huge number of hits on my zip files

b) A huge increase in bandwith against my website from my own server

Checking my access logs I see:

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:13 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:13 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818430 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:29 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:29 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:40 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:40 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:37:46 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:29 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:29 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200401.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818430 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:45 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:45 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:50 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:50 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200402.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 818550 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "HEAD /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

192.168.0.1 - - [10/Nov/2011:06:38:55 +0000] "GET /wordbooker/wordbookerdebug200403.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 832241 "-" "bbPress/1.0.3"

So why is bbPress doing this? I did wonder if it was one of the plugins but surely they’d show as external IP addresses.

[master5o1]

All plugins to bbPress 2.0 are in fact plugins to WordPress. So look for the plugins here: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/

Quick look found this as a signature plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-signature/

[jellyjesus]

This is what my current forum pages looks like.

I want to make the author column width much smaller.

How would I do this?

I’ve gone into bbpress.css and made every td, th, bbp-author-reply possible and put it width:20%, but to no avail.

I’ve tried tinkering with the style.css, but not entirely sure what to change there.

Would appreciate some help please.

[tony webb]

I am trying to integrate my forum into wordpress so that the forum shows on a page in my blog, there are 3 problems;

1. your set up documentation says that I need to cut and paste information from the following fields into your integration page; secure_auth and wordpress mu primary log ID. I can’t find them in document used in your hyperlink.

2. I have used a wordpress plug in to import my bbpress forum but there doesn’t seem to be a way to set up the widgets as they don’t show on a newly created page. They clash with wordpress set up as their widgets show on every page. They are not needed for the forum but the forums are and I can’t show them.

Also it seems that the only place to show my topics are in the wordpress blog margin as there is no facility to drag and drop the widget into the page content .

3. I have designed a forum in bbpress but the forums show tight to the right hand margin with the right hand end of the topic details cut off. There seems to be a hot tags widget preventing the topics from appearing in the centre of the page. How can I change the settings?

[pieface]

I uploaded bbPress 1.1 to my website.

Visited the bbPress directory which I called “forum”.

It redirected me to /forum/bb-admin/install.php.

Which said: “There doesn’t seem to be a bb-config.php file. This usually means that you want to install bbPress.”

When I click on “Go to step 1”, nothing happens – it just refreshes the page, and does not display the first step. There no error messages.

I am using PHP version 5.1.6

I don’t have word press installed.

Any Ideas?

[ianstalbert]

I’ve been using bbPress as a WordPress Plug-in for a few weeks now and I’ve got it looking pretty spiffy for my site. My problem is, there are some bbPress plug-ins (for signatures and post counting) that I’d like to implement into the forums, but as far as I see, this is impossible. Enabling the plug-ins in wordpress’ plug-in folder does nothing. I’ve tried doing MySQL query’s and that doesn’t work. I’m lost, is there anybody with some insight on this situation? I’m starting to think I should of went with the stand-alone or another forum system, but I liked the integration of the plug-in with existing users and all. Thanks in advance

[OPI Axxium]

I used a hack to the wordpress code. It was some basic php. If you want the code, just let me know.

[OPI Axxium]

This additional would be really nice for my sites. I want to be able to show friends as well. I know you can have friends on buddy press but it doesn’t show them very well.

[amirsaam]

You have to use the bbPress plugins in WordPress plugin directory…

bbPress.org plugin directory is for bbPress 1 the standalone vr

[AdamBaird]

Anyone know of any demo content files/generators for 2.0?

[jwpegram]

I talked to them a couple days ago and got the impression an update was coming this week.