[webowner]

Hi All,

I own a web business and am now using bbpress 2.0 and buddypress together.

I’m a bit confused about the Forum; but for now can display the bbpress one.

However, I woudl rather have the buddypress forum; because it looks so much nicer in

it’s appearance (group forum).

But the problem is, with buddypress I cannot add new topic.

What is the matter, and how do I fix?

[Anointed]

I am adding a number of new options to bbPress and want to add the user inputs to the bbPress options page. Instead of messing around with the default options page, I simply want to add a few tabs to the page where I can add my options.

I do know how to do this when writing my own page from scratch, but do not yet know how to add tabs and options to an existing bbPress options page.

example of what I am talking about:

http://digitalraindrops.net/2011/02/tabbed-options-page/

Can anyone point me to a plugin, or code snippet that would show me how to extend the bbPress options page with tabs and options?

thnx

[Anointed]

I’ve been following the trac ticket http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/17144 where we are now able to bring the editor to the front end of our sites. Seemed like a perfect addition to bbPress.

Has anyone come across a good tutorial on using the new api?

[webowner]

Hi All,

I own a web business and have sucessfully installed Bbpress.

Please tell me if there is a way to order the “posts” in the Forum?

Link is: http://buddy.focusonedesign.ca, although I am still working on it.

Many thanks.

[Andre]

You were on the right track when you enabled bbPress solely on the 1 main site.

Install WP.

Enable Multisite, but you don’t have to create the other sites yet.

Install and activate Buddypress without installing or activating forums through BuddyPress.

Install and activate bbPress.

You are going to get that warning for the time being because BuddyPress 1.5 and bbPress 2.0 aren’t fully integrated yet. Better/Full integration is being worked on for BuddyPress 1.6 which is supposed to come out around the same time as WP 3.3, which just hit beta 1 and is scheduled for release at the end of November

[dosch]

Hey all!

I am trying to make my dream-setup:

One multi-site with six sites.

The main site has bussypress1.5 with bbPress2.0.

I can;t get this to work… Is there already a tutorial on how to do this?

At first I tried installing BuddyP. and then activating fora and installing bbPress in the process; enebling it network-wide. But then the bbPress-fora show up on the dashboard of every site.

Now I tried to enable bbPress only on the site I want to use it, but it generates conflicts with the Buddypress installation. I get this error:

“The forums component has not been set up yet.”

(also, on a side-note; BuddyPress can only be configured on the dashboard of the Network, not only on the site I actually want to have it running on, but that seems to fit maybe more on the BuddyPress forum).

I’d be gratefull for any help or step-by-step guidance here!

[dizmarkie]

I’m using SEO by yoast to handle my breadcrumbs. When my forum pages load this seems to inject the output of the forum breadcrumbs into my own breadcrumbs and breaks the logic.

If I remove my function then the forum logic’s breadcrumbs work great.

I have my logic in my header.php file and would like to keep it there due to the way my layout is built and would prefer to not have to include it on a per page basis.

Is there a condition i could put to not show my own breadcrumb logic on ANY forum related page? so it inherits the bbpress breadcrumbs?

I tried

if !is_page_template (‘forum.php’) and it didn’t work.

I have a page template for my forum in a file called forum.php

thanks in advance

[Andre]

That would probably require bbPress 2.0. You could insert a topic specific short code into the discussion tab. You’d also have a separate area that has all of the forum content, but you wouldn’t have to put a visible link to the forum anyplace.

[bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id] – Show a single topic

[Justin Mason]

Hello,

On my current homepage, I was displaying 3 comments at a time per blog post by using the following code :

<?php

$number=3; // number of recent comments desired

$post_id = get_the_ID();

$comments = $wpdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->comments WHERE comment_post_ID=$post_id AND comment_approved = ‘1’ ORDER BY comment_date_gmt DESC LIMIT $number”);

?>

<?php if ($comments) :

foreach ( (array) $comments as $comment) :

echo ‘<div class=”ddcomment”>’;

echo ‘<p>‘, comment_author() . ‘ says:</p>’;

echo comment_text();

echo ‘</div>’;

endforeach;

endif; ?>

This code works perfectly in displaying my comments on the homepage. However, I’ve decided to add bbpress forums and sync my topics with my posts.

If you add a reply now to a post, it is not reflected on the homepage comments (since it is a reply from bbpress, not a wp comment). I am trying modify this code so I can pull the correct replies for that particular Post or Topic ID, since it is now synced together.

The site is currently located at http://www.propaintball.tv

Is there a specific database query I can use to replace my $comments variable with the topic replies? Thank You for your help!

[selise]

travishill, your plugin works a treat for me. many thanks (and also to daveshine for the head’s up).

[Rev. Voodoo]

I used SMF years ago, it was poorly documented, and hell to use.

I’m not bashing SMF, the point is bbPress is brand new. The devs are creating a new product from scratch. You get a product, or documentation. It all takes time. Resources are finite.

It takes time to grow everything out. If more people don’t volunteer their time, it is what it is. Do you have any idea how many people have worked on something like SMF? Or how long it’s been around?

I’m not knocking anyone here, it’s just good to have realistic expectations.

[antonchanz]

I think I read somewhere that the way to do this would be to extend a WordPress plugin that adds bbcode to wordpress posts, such as the bOingball BBCode plugin to also apply to bbpress posts and replies.

I also need this feature and would be willing to do the work coding it. At the moment though I’m not sure how to begin unless someone can quickly teach me the basics for making a wordpress shortcode active in bbpress forum posts… ^-^

[Andre]

bbPress 2.0 uses the same theme as the WordPress site it’s part of. You won’t find separate bbPress 2.0 themes as you would with bbPress 1.0.

[happycappy]

Hello! Have been looking things over here and I’m wondering if this is the solution to my problems. I’m working on a web site with the following requirements:

1. Admins, and only admins, start new topics.

2. One topic, and one topic only, needs to be embedded in a web page. Each of the similar web pages will have a different topic.

3. Users can add their comments to a given topic (once they register.)

Can / how can this be done with bbPress? If not, do you have any suggestions about other software that can do this?

Thanks so much.

[David Decker]

I see you’re using Genesis – so you could hook in via functions.php or Simple Hooks Plugin and just add some content/message after that notice.

bbPress already has a shortcode for registering: [bbp-register]

So you might add that via Simple Hooks which supports placing of shortcodes.

-Dave

[David Decker]

Back in summer I had similiar issues with the betas and RC’s… When I had templates in theme/child theme and combined bbPress functions.php with my theme/child theme’s functions.php I had problems with still enqueueing the scripts from the included bbPress-twentyten, so I just removed these lines of code from my combined functions.php and got it working. After that my template files/css etc. were called and used correctly.

It’s only a suggestion to just check the source code of your forum index what stylesheets and what scripte are loaded from what source. Then compare it with the calls from the functions.php files. Maybe you can find some issue…

I didn’t liked all these combining and integrating so I just added some css rules to my theme stylesheet (most with “!important” but I don’t care that much about this…) and left all other on default bbPress which worked best for me

Hope this helps a bit, Dave

[ChrisEnd]

Hey!

Ive for ages trying to find a solution to my problem. I need a forum for my website and the Ive chosen BBpress. The thing is that I don’t want the bbpress theme to affect my wordpress theme. I´ve downloaded several themes, but have no idea where to install and how to activate. I also wonder if there are any place out there where I can download free or premium bbpress 2.0 themes?

I feel quiet stupid, since I look at my self as a person that usually figure things out

Thanks,

Christoffer

[Tim Hyde]

I created a BuddyPress compatible theme but when forums are enabled using bbPress I get the annoying message in Appearance panel that says:

“Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.”

My theme displays the forums correctly with or withour BuddyPress enabled.

One of the great things about bbPress is the theme compatability mode. This message is unhelpful as it implies the current theme is not bbPress compatible. It is confusing users.

Is it possible to turn off this message?

[Anointed]

thanks dave, nice addition to bbPress.

For anyone interested, here is a decent tutorial on how to create your own custom forums search results templates

http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/template/create-multiple-search-templates-for-custom-post-types/

[nuobodu]

@grafics: It really seams that you have to chmod you .htaccess file to 777

@travishill: The most strange thing has happened.

i once again unchecked “Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug”

and the links started working

but at the same time the forums stopped using my custom templates and reverted to the templates from the child bbpress theme

I checked the checkbox back, and the links still work. But the templates did not revert to my custom templates

I see that many people in this forum, who have this problem, eventually get it solved, but they cannot explain how

Going fishing my template now…

[David Decker]

Hi there!

Like some other users I noticed a missing search feature for the new and awesome bbPress 2.0+ plugin. So I just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

-> it’s limited to the custom post types of bbPress: forums, topics, replies

-> there’s a drop-down to select one of these (a must) – so it also helps fine tune the search for the visitor…

-> it’s fully localized so you might translate the few strings into your language – I will attach any translations which are submitted to me!

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@nathanbunn:

I noticed the same thing as you and just released a small and leightweight plugin for that:

bbPress Search Widget

Info & download at WP.org:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-search-widget/

I hope it’s useful for you.

Have fun

Any feedback is very welcomed of course!

-Thanx, Dave from Germany

[David Decker]

@travishill:

You’re welcome

Thanx for this awesome idea and making it a plugin! I will use it soon on an own project!

[travis.hill]

Looks like some styling needs done.

I don’t know how you’ve implemented bbPress, but a start would be something like this:

remove the left float from div.bbp-breadcrumb in bbpress.css (line 39)

create a css rule for the table class .bbp-forums and give it a width:

.bbp-forums {

width: 100%;

}

That should get you going in the right direction.

[PureRover]

I have installed bbPress plugin. The forum itself is wonderful. I am having a rough time displaying it properly on my site. Using the shortcode [bbp-forum-index], I have setup a page with a full-page attribute. The page is full-width but the forum is not.

http://purerover.com/test/

I am assuming the forum’s widgets are taking up the space right of the forum. I don’t need them and rather the forum took up 100% of the available space.

I see there are additional templates for bbPress. Does this hold true for the plugin version? If so, how can additional templates be selected since this is not an option in the bbPress settings.

I am not a programmer but can following directions. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.