[Andre]

Not that I’m aware of.

[roopam.geek]

In one of my projects, the forum was earlier using the bbpress 2.0 plugin. But later on we decided to shift to the standalone version on grounds of more scalability and features. (was our conclusion correct?) Now the problem is, we need to transfer the threads in the bbpress plugin forum to the standalone forum, with users/date intact. Is there any way to do that?

[eraleks]

Hi!

I have downloaded a bbpress theme that I’d like to use instead of the on bbpress-twenty ten that comes with bb-press.

I use the bbpress plug-in. How / where do I place the new theme files and where can I decide which theme bbpress should use?

Aleks

[Anointed]

bbPress 2.0 is final, however 2.1 is going to be released in the near future. bbPress is nowhere near a feature freeze but is pretty rock solid in what it does already.

I am sure that bbPress will always continue to expand and improve. There are currently nowhere near the number of plugins available for 2.0 as with the old system but the base is great and creating plugins is a breeze for developers.

For importing your 1.02 system into 2x, check out http://bbconverter.com which is a great import script written by Alex. I would strongly advise backing up your database first as it’s definitely best practice whenever dealing with databases.

[Ramiuz]

Returning to the BBPress community after long time away.

Like I expected, there´s no practical info here that I need about the new plugin version.

I see the beta-description is gone from the 2.0 download option. Which leads me to the important question, is it ready? Is it done now? Is this the version I´m supposed to download, and expect to work flawlessly?

Please don´t react too seriously to the word flawless. But what I need to know is – can I download this, and upgrade my current 1.02 version into this? Bringing ALL the USERS, THREADS and POSTS into the new installation???

Hopefully I can, but unfortunatly, there is really no site here telling me what I can do with BBPress 2.0. It´s just there as a download option.

I want to be a part of the future here. But I am terrified of loosing what I have already created with BBPress the last two years.

[David]

One cool option I forgot to mention earlier…

If it’s important for you to have the topics of each forum listed on your forum index page you can call them individually by using a shortcode for a particular parent forum (in this case, using WP’s do_shortcode):

<?php echo do_shortcode('[bbp-single-forum id=1234]') ?>

where 1234 is the ID number of the parent forum. I’ve experimented with this for a *Category* type parent forum and it works well. I imagine it would do the same thing for a *Forum* type parent forum. You’d obviously want to lead it with a header title for the parent forum.

Call each parent forum this way and you’ve got a nicely organized index page. (NOTE: you can call individual (non-parent) forums this way too but by default they call the entire single forum template part that includes the form. If you’re interested in messing with this it’s handled in [your bbPress directory]/bbpress/content-single-forum.php.)

The disadvantage is that it’s built manually for each parent so any new parent forums will have to added manually as well, but you do have a lot of control.

[alieninformer]

Thanks David! The truth is I still have some trouble copying my bbpress child theme into WordPress. Every time I do I keep getting errors but it’s only a matter of time before I get it down.

[David]

I’m working on the User Profile page and it looks like there might be an issue with bbp_is_user_home().

Issue 1: When I’m not signed in I’m still seeing the (Edit) link next the username. The template calling that is bbpress/user-details.php in which bbp_is_user_home() calls <?php _e( '(Edit)', 'bbpress' ); ?>.

Issue2: In user-subscriptions bbp_is_user_home() seems to be doing the same thing: <?php bbp_is_user_home() ? _e( 'You are not currently subscribed to any topics.', 'bbpress' ) : _e( 'This user is not currently subscribed to any topics.', 'bbpress' ); ?> is printing the first message “You are…” instead of “This user…”. Again, I’m not logged in and I’m seeing this for each user I view not just my own previously logged in account. (This same situation happens in user-favorites.php.)

Are others having the same issue? How are you dealing with it?

[Trobee]

if you add

.bbp-author-avatar {

display: none;

}

to the css file andre pointed to it will probably stop all avatars being displayed anywhere in the forum

[David]

@alieninformer, thanks for sharing!

You can also call an alternate sidebar in bbPress just as you can in your base WP install, so <?php get_sidebar('alternateside'); ?> would call sidebar-alternateside.php and that file can be kept in the WP theme folder so that it could be shared with other non-bbPress pages.

[Crisium]

@John,

I have tried to follow you procedure for getting bbPress intergrated into my current theme. After 10 hours of copying/pasting directories, files, adding code… I finally gave up.

As you said your self the bbPress as only one theme that supports it and that is the theme you have created, which is a modified twentyten. I think the bbPress fails as user friendly, because I need to manually change things on my harddrive and code to get my current theme to work.

Apparently there are not very many forum plugins for wordpress (well, not that many good ones). I would like to use yours and this is also why I invested 10 hours of my time trying to integrate it.

I’m going to try and explain what I have done, perhaps I misunderstand something with your procedure:

1. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1, theme Suffusion, forum bbPress 2.0

2. With this installment I can see I need to use your procedure description:

If this is not a custom theme under your control (meaning you are not the author) you’ll want to copy the entire “/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten” folder into your “wp-content/themes/%YOURTHEMENAME%” folder, and modify your style.css to make it a custom Child Theme of whatever your current theme is.

3. I copy my folder: C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten and paste it into C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion

4. This means I now have a folder in my suffusion directory called “bbp-twentyten”

5. I now open the style.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten” directory and add “@import url(“../style.css”);”

6. I modify the styles.css file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusionbbp-twentyten”, so that the plugin header now says “template: suffusion”

7. I now open the functions.php file in the “C:inetpubwwwrootwpwp-contentthemessuffusion” directory and add: add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

As I understand your procedure that is what I’m suppose to do? Did I miss something?

regards,

Peter

[sjd4]

RewriteEngine on

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com$

RewriteRule ^folder/folder/?(.*)$ “http//yourdomain.com/folder/$1″ [R=301,L]

Sorry, my ISP requires a lot of escapes

[juggledean]

The bbp-common-template.php edit didn’t work for me.

Could someone share the .htaccess redirect.

[WoolfFan]

When I am logged into my bbPress v2.0 Forum as Admin and viewing topics, I have the options of Edit and Trash among others. But when logged in with a role of Subscriber I only see Edit and not Trash on posts that are authored by the Subscriber user.

I have installed a bb_current_user_can filter as shown here (picked up off this forum):

function delete_own_post($retvalue, $capability, $args) {

if ($capability==”delete_post”) {return bb_current_user_can( ‘delete_post’, $args[1]);}

return $retvalue;

}

add_filter(‘bb_current_user_can’, ‘delete_own_post’,10,3);

but only see Edit capability. How do I get Edit and Trash for Post authors in the forum?

[eraleks]

I just can’t make this work…

If I click on the show source code I can find the problem, but I just don’t get where and how I can remove the avatars in the files provided.

You can see my forum here: http://revyportalen.no/forums/forum/revyportalen-forum-2/

Help is very much appreciated! Especially if someone could point me straight to the solution since I don’t really know css

Aleks

[Trobee]

I don’t know if this is possible at the moment. I started writing a plugin to try and add this functionality but my knowledge of php is not good enough.

I have achieved a similar solution, though it lacks some functionality, by using a multisite wordpress install, and having each site with its own forums, and making each site only viewable to members. Then, if you want a user to be able to see a forum you make them a member of the site. The downside of this is that you have multiple forum areas.

I have created some shortcodes to allow you to list forums from multiple sites on single page, but have not got around to adding it as a plugin yet.

If you would like to try it out then you can grab the code from the pastebin link here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multisite-displaying-forum-list and just create an empty folder in your plugins directory, then copy the text from pastebin into a new php file in that folder.

The usage is a bit strange and explained in the other thread

[Trobee]

I am using bbPress 2.0 and in the end I managed to recover the posts by exporting the tables I wanted to keep from the database, nuking the database and the wordpress install and installing it again.

Still have no idea how it happened though

[Crisium]

Hi bbPress,

I’m fairly new to wordpress and bbpress, so some of my points might just be invalid and based on “I did it wrong”… either way.. please help.

I have installed:

wordpress Version 3.2.1

bbpress 2.0

I have create one forum and one topic.

I added the widget “List Forums bbPress” and the widget showed the forum correctly, but the link was bad. I found out refreshing my permalinks fixed this problem.

When I got to my forum I am expecting to see the text I wrote about the forum and all topics associated with the forum. I do see all topics (in my case the one), but the text I wrote about the forum is not visible?

the forum can be seen here: http://cl204.exaweb.dk/TumblingDrills/forums/forum/new-skills

I hope someone can help me,

regards,

Peter

[LiveFreeOrDie]

Hi,

I’m new to bbpress, so please excuse this if I’m overlooking something obvious.

I’d like to change the forum display hierarchy so that categories are displayed at a higher level and all forums under the category as displayed separately under that category; instead of one area for all forums under a particular category to show total posts and topics, I’d like a section for each forum.

Hopefully I explained that adequately. Thank you!

[alieninformer]

Awesome! Thanks and I’ll remember that next time I have something to share.

And I honestly don’t know enough about bbPress (yet) to integrate that yet BUT I will soon I hope lol.

I also wanted to point out the reason I have (‘sidebar-widget-area’) in mine is I also have footer widgets. By default, then most are simple () and all you need to do is add ‘widget name’ here.

[cliff1976]

I am enthusiastic about bbPress 2.0, but I am severely missing the ability to restrict access to specific, named forums.

Public / Private / Hidden separation of access is not sufficient for my purposes. I need to have the ability to grant different users access to several distinct hidden forums.

I’ve been scouring this board and the WordPress plugins section for something that is bbPress 2.0 compatible and so far had no luck.

Is there something obvious I’m missing? Any core functionality in the works to make this happen? Any plugins doing that already?

In a nutshell, this is what I need:

Users A,B,C can see Hidden Forum #1.

Users C,D,E can see Hidden Forum #2.

Users A,B cannot see Hidden Forum #2.

Users D,E cannot see Hidden Forum #1.

User C can see both hidden forums.

Administrators can, of course, see any hidden forum.

[master5o1]

I’ve been looking into how to make a plugin to bbPress that reads from an email inbox and essentially gives bbPress mailing-list like properties.

[Gautam Gupta]

Thanks for the share! You might want to use is_bbpress() function (found in bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php instead of $uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; if ( strpos($uri,'YOUR-FORUM-BASE') !== false ) {

I have wrapped your code blocks in backticks for easier reading.

[sjd4]

Yeah, I eventually uncommented the code and went the .htaccess route. I was hoping someone with more php experience or a developer could identify the issue based on those few changes.

[bbpressHermit]

Another trick is to redirect via .htaccess. Ugly but it works.