Sorry if this has been gone over thousands of times but i used bbpress a long time ago and decided recently that its something i need now, but i need a standalone forum i dont need it integrated with wordpress.
I see that both the new plugin and the old standalone are available but how long till the stand alone is discontinued?
Did you ask Chris about the problem?
As he is the author of Thesis, and a fantastic coder, I am sure that he has a simple solution.
The more I have been researching, it is pointing more to an issue with my theme. I have installed other plugins, such as Facebook comments and a post author box plugin. They are not being applied to the forum posts. That leads me to believe the theme is being applied incorrectly.
I will have to try and get an answer from the theme developer.
I installed Buddypress. Everything works great.
I also installed the group forum in the buddypress settings panel. But than i realized it isn’t realy a public forum.
So i installed the wide one (bbpress 2.0) actived the plugin, i can make forums, topics, reply in the dashboard. but i cannot view them on the website.
I can go to a recent topic but i only see the Title of the topic and the message. I don’t see icons, no forum table, nothing. (see link below)
http://www.joeristallaert.be/comm/forums/forum/testing-new-forum/
Do i need to create pages? if so, what kind of content/code i need to insert.
I also don’t understand the settings : Archive Slugs and single slugs. what do in need to fill in, in those fields.
I tried changing permalinks, but i can’t otherwise my full buddypress won’t work.
btw It should work with my Theme. Because the official Demo of this theme bbpress is integrated.
Thank you.
Hello I just activated the Bbpress plugin to my word press Thesis theme, but I can’t even see the Forum on my pages…..The Thesis Blog seems to “dominate” or override the Bbpress plgun Forum. The menu link I assigned to the forum shows up as the thesis blog not like the bbpress plugin orum. Can someone give some some guidance on how to integrate bbpress plugin with Thesis??
On a side note, I was able to set up a bbpress plugin Forum on another theme (Awake)but I cant seem to make it work with Thesis.
Please help! Thanks
I am also trying to integrate bbpress plugin with thesis…..Have not been able to ! The page I point to the forum from my menus shows up as the Thesis Blog, but not like the Bbpress plgun Forum……..I look forward to some guidance or I might have to look at a different option for my Forum
Installed bbpress. Add new forum but no action button. Same with new topic. Using Atahualpa theme. Turned off all other plugins and went to the bbPress (Twenty Ten) 1.2 theme with same results.
On the add new forum page, I see the text box, title, etc. and then forum attributes, topic attributes, reply attributes and slug – nothing to do with publish.
@RN..
Yes you are correct. bbPress uses custom post types for ‘forum/topic/reply’ so there is a separation of data types.
Mixing the output of posts, topics, and replies would require a straightforward custom WordPress loop. It would also probably need a bit of template love to make it look right.
The idea of having a topic automatically created when a new post is created, or vice versa is another topic. Yes it is possible although I am not sure the best way to go about it.
This is a very useful feature, available in the old bbPress. Hope to see it on bbPress 2.
I want in on this discussion too.
I haven’t used bbPress before but I am ramping up fast on it as I have a big project with it.
I am gathering the the only way to combine posts and the forum is through forum topics is this correct?
So then (if it is correct) I can assume that forum topics are a custom post type and that I can then display forum topics alongside other posts in the blog yeah ?
The essential idea is to have a registered user be able to create a topic.. which becomes a regular post in the blog (I know I will have to do a little tweaking to get the topics to appear as posts) but that is no the main idea, the main idea is for the reg user to create this topic then other members of the forum discuss this topic.
Conversely, the system admin might create a post .. that the admin wants discussed in the forum .. so I am hoping that these two can intermingle like this ..
RTBOP
Can anyone tell me how to use a custom style.css for bbpress bbp-twentyten without import my style.css of theme worpress??? Please that can be a good solution for make a better custom…
No one answer our question, i know you are bussy guys but please really this dont work correctly for custom themes or child theme.
I do like Crisium, and nothing, some one can please say how do it correctly?
@ebharding – Thanks so much for posting that. I was going nuts trying to get this issue fixed. Seems like kind of an odd bug – hopefully something that will be fixed in the next update.
No, no need.. even with the plugin deactivated, which means it has no effect on your site, the formatting problem still exists with no paragraph breaks etc…
There is currently nothing bbpress related showing up in the theme, so no idea why that stuff doesn’t work now, or is formatted wrong.
Huh…
Doesn’t do that for me? I wonder what the problem is?
I’m using bbpress 2.0
I assume you are too?
Thanks for the catch on the 404 page sidebar!
I don’t see anything bbPress related in your theme. There is no bbpress.css stylesheet in the header, and the forums link goes to a 404 page.
Did you actually install the new bbPress 2x plugin?
The easiest way to fix this would be to modify your stylesheet css rules from your theme/child-theme.
Remember that !important will override what bbPress is outputting. Without seeing your site, it’s hard to say much more than that.
@anointed Thanks for the tips! As I re-read the post above, I realize that my issue is simply with regard to the theme (I must have been not paying attention when I posted this morning).
The way my forums stand right now, the title is the same color as the background. Could you suggest a way for me to revise this just so I can just get it functional? I’m using the bbpress plugin and am not sure how to adjust these settings. Thanks in advance!
You actually installed the plugin correctly. The warning about your theme not being bbPress compatible is simply saying that the bbPress plugin is using the templates from the plugin and not your theme. That is the default behavior.
The top topic on the forums here about making your theme fully compatible will explain how to take it to the next level.
As for plugins:
There are a few available plugins for the bbPress plugin but nowhere near as many as with the standalone right now. So no, you don’t get all the features of the standalone, but you get close.
The new plugin is built to WordPress standards so it is quite easy to work with and building plugins is actually much easier. I am positive that we are going to see more and more plugins available shortly.
If it were me, I would not use the standalone and would go with the plugin. It is 100x better than the standalone and is progressing every day. It really is one of the best and most advanced WordPress plugins on the market.
Hi,I have a Problem that how Create the url like
“http://www.example.com/forums/topic/202/”
I like number url,Please help me~
Hi,I have a Problem that how Create the url like
“http://www.example.com/forums/topic/202/”
I like number url,Please help me~
Having this problem as well, have no idea how to solve it.
I too have run into this problem using the Custom Community theme on wordpress. In my situation, I’m not doing a localhost install; it’s instead running off a Greengeeks server. Are there any updates with regard to this? If not, are there any quick fixes? The way my forums stand right now, the title is the same color as the background. Could you suggest a way for me to not-so-elegantly change my forum colors around just so I can just get it functional? Thanks in advance!
