[John James Jacoby]

I’m surprised this hasn’t been asked sooner, but it’s a great bunch of questions with some good points. I’ll do my best to address them, and feel free to keep the conversation going if there are more questions.

I’m going to start off with a clarifying and important point that’s often difficult to distinguish if you’re not involved directly in the WordPress community. My full-time job is at a company called Automattic, most popularly known for operating WordPress.com. That takes up a typical 40 hour work-week.

My contributions to open-source projects like WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, are done in my free-time. I believe enough in the platforms to actively continue their development.

So the answer to your question; “WordPress” doesn’t pay anyone a salary.

Yes, I am currently leading the development of both BuddyPress and bbPress. My responsibilities include setting the roadmaps, shepherding development, and making sure the .org sites stay updated and operational. Yes, there’s a lot of responsibility there, and I appreciate that you think I’m doing a good job.

Consider also that bbPress has always been a bit of a hobby project. As a sister project to WordPress, and by nature of it being a support forum to the flagship project, it’s never been the focal point but is still critically important, since millions of people interact with it without ever knowing what it is.

BuddyPress and bbPress were both around for a number of years before I worked my way up to leading both projects. BuddyPress has two other consistent core committers that are doing a great job, and bbPress is the best opportunity for any developer to step in and get core-commit to help determine the direction of the project. It’s very much a meritocracy, so anyone that comes along and starts contributing will get noticed for it.

Even though I tend to do the majority of code commits, rest assured that there are plenty more eyes on the code than just mine and neither project is in any danger of losing momentum or being phased out. Automattic as a company loves both BuddyPress and bbPress, and the WordPress Foundation and community are both committed to supporting them for far into the future.

[dmoz]

I couldn’t find any clear documentation on how to setup WP pages to work with bbPress, so I’m at a loss on how to use a page called “Forums” to show latest topics with a “list of forums” sidebar (instead of “Forums” displaying the forums archive).

Any ideas?

[Ramiuz]

But is there not an import option in BBPress 2.0?

I have my forum installed on a different database than WordPress. Will I be able to move the data from one database to a different one?

[Hagandasz]

Just a simple and maybe a stupid question: Where do i find the Forum ID?

I tried to copy the permalink but this wasn’t it.

[spabav]

After a couple of weeks testing bbpress and several other forum solutions, we are really hesitating in running bbpress as our forum.

From what we see the bbpress plugin, while not as feature-rich as stand-alone bulletin boards like vbulletin, phpbb or xenForo, does one thing outstandingly well, which is the integration into wordpress.

For that reason alone, it would be worth giving it a try.

Unfortunately – and here comes our biggest issue – it looks like the bbpress plugin is currently not given full (or any) attention from WordPress.

My question is very simple:

How many developers / coders are writing code of the bbpress plugin currently ?

Is @johnjamesjacoby the only one?

Is there anybody else “officially assigned/paid by wordpress” to work on the bbpress plugin and documentation or/and support ?

John is doing an excellent job, on all his help he gives especially in the bbpress forum. But since the community is small and John is also working on the buddypress project, we are really worried to put our eggs in a “one-man-show plugin” basket.

Please tell me that I got this wrong and that there are at least several people currently working on the bbpress plugin and documentation.

Would be great if anybody could shed some light on this.

[shooo]

hi all,

i have a phpbb forum with 150 000 replies, 12000 topics et 7000 members.

I want to try to upgrade on bbpress.

if i convert my phpbb forum on bbpress 1.1 and convert this bbpress 1.1 on bbpress 2.0?

do you think that is a good idea ? do you know a good plugin for convert phpbb on bbpress 1.1?

[shooo]

hi

a plugin exist

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x

[antonyw]

sorry – its the wpadminbar, found the solution at;

https://wordpress.org/search/hide+wpadminbar?forums=1

[antonyw]

Hi, and thanks in advance for any help.

How do i remove the title bar at the top of the screen for logged in users. I dont want to stop the functionality it is just a duplicate menu – thanks

[jwdds]

I have a previous bbpress 1.1 up and running but would like to migrate it to 2.xx. Can someone please point me to a thread or explain how this can be done?

Thanks

[RoganSarine]

Nobody?

[farinspace]

I wrote a little something in php to get a list of the current actions/filters in bbPress 2.0.1, should help out someone …

https://gist.github.com/1372637 (script + output)

[farinspace]

Also useful to know are the actions/filters (hooks) in bbPress … I wrote a little something to get a list of the current actions/filters in bbPress 2.0.1, should help out someone …

https://gist.github.com/1372637

[David100351]

Having read a bit more, I installed the official twenty-ten bbpress child theme.

Exactly the same. Works fine, but just can’t see it.

How do I sort this. At the moment I’m resorting to suggesting people highlight it with the mouse.

[Angelo]

I’ve looked into a plugin called Role Scoper which grants you the ability to restrict things based on WordPress user roles and capabilities. Admittedly, the plugin is a bit bulky for what’s being accomplished with the above code but it’s an option.

[Angelo]

Hi Fanoop,

From what you describe above, I believe this plugin might do the trick to allow your bbPress forums to searchable across your site.

http://serverpress.com/products/search-bbpress/

[MishaOLS]

Hello guys, I just wanted to ask you how does it look with the bbconverter update? Is it going out any time soon? I really can’t wait to finish my project. Thank you very much!

[Andre]

Start here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-how-to-video

[insaan]

Thanks Andre.

As per your Help I have installed & Activate BB Press 2.0 ..Plz let me know how to run this BB Press 2.0 Forum on my Domain.

really Waiting Your Guidance Words.

Thanks.

[Steve]

If I rename bb-cron.php the problem goes away. So what jobs does bb-cron normally run?

[michaelnobbs]

I’ve installed bbPress 2.0.1 and integrated it with the s2Member plugin.

All seems to be working in the forum apart from when users click on their (or any other) profile links. They receive a page not found.

The profile link does work, however, for my profile (the site administrator). I can view my profile and so can other members.

I’ve tried creating a second administrator to see if the profile link would work then. It doesn’t.

Has anyone else come across this issue?

With thanks for any help or suggestions.

[eldy]

How to make bbpress permalink equal to site.com/forum ?

I changed the permalink of wp bought a not found error, HELP guys!!

[mesayre]

Hey @WhiteRau – here’s what I’ve found on the subject so far.

According to this:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-plugins-load-order

It should be completely possible to make bbPress load first using the priority value in the add_action() call. So if you can figure out which function(s) you want to be sure load first, you can enter a low value (lower than 10) and it should work. I don’t have time to test it now, but if you’re curious, I doubt it could hurt anything to give it a try.

Good luck!

Mike

[mesayre]

If you’re impatient (like me) you can actually fix this with a really easy edit to bbp-common-template.php

This ticket from trac shows you what to do:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1665

Core edits are generally not a great idea, but since this exact fix looks to be in the pipeline for a future release, seems like an OK thing to do.

[gloomis120]

I see. You were suggesting that we change the message to something else.

Thanks for this code. Ive been waiting for something like this, and was about to start working on a plugin to do the same thing.