Also looking for the solution, I resorted to reading the code and found it. Quick version: bbPress inherits WordPress’ locale string. Suppose it’s ‘it_IT’. Then you will have to put your language file in wp-content/languages/bbpress/bbpress-it_IT.mo 
In-depth version: in bbpress.php you can find the load_textdomain() function (line 524 ATM). There you can see it gets the WordPress locale, then uses it to compose the language filename in the $mofile variable. $mofile in our example case is set to ‘bbpress-it_IT.mo’, and this filename is looked for in the ‘wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-languages’ directory first (which, as index.php says, should not be used), and then in the ‘wp-content/languages/bbpress/’ directory. Just put it there named like we found before and you’re done.
Hello everyone!
I am new to bbPress but am pretty excited about it! I run a few gaming websites, each with its own userbase and forum. I now want to move to WordPress Multisite to create a network of my sites, merge all users into a single userbase and have a common forum for all sites. This all should not be a problem from what I have read, but I am still wondering about the multisite features of bbPress… What I’d like to do is having a forum on the main network site with one subforum for each site in the network. Now, to have a consistent user experience regarding the look of things, would it be possible to display said sub forum on a network site? If not, is it possible the other way round, i.e. displaying forums from network sites on the main network site?
Hi Vayu, Thanks I found it, I did not see the “export” tab the first time I was there 
Takker
Moddey
Hello,
I hope i have successfully installed bbpress into wp using the child theme (BJ’s walkthrough (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility/page/3#post-92099).
I can see the title page of the forums at http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums,
but when i try to go to a particular forum or a topic, i get “Paged not found” error.
I suspect there might be a problem with the templates. Or might this be something else. I didnt change any bbpress settings.
I can see every forum or topic i create, but i cannot access their pages. Please help
Hi Moddey.
To download your language file from glotpress
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin
You have to be logged in.
Click into your language section. At the bottom of the page you can export the language file.
Is anyone interested in helping to make an xmlrpc API for bbPress 2.0, perhaps mostly the same as the current bbPress 1.x api?
I tried earlier but gave up because I didn’t know where to start.
Hi a
Same as Vayu here, except I have not downloaded the language file from Glotpress, I am using the last version.
Other than that everything else is exactly the same.
Moddey
Thanks John, but I am still not getting any translation on the bbPress forum plugin.
I have my WordPress translation files here: /wp-content/languages/ and my WP installation is translated perfectly.
I have placed my bbPress plugin language files here:
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.mo
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/da_DK.po
I have this in my wp-config.php:
define(‘WPLANG’, ‘da_DK’);
I have downloaded the language file from Glotpress.
https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/da/default
Wonder what can be going wrong??
Thanks
Vayu
In a production site, I have akismet disabled. Notifications on that one didn’t work. So I thought it could be related to akisment so in another separate site, I have akismet enabled. That didn’t work either.
However, the common thing on both setup is that it was first a release candidate and then I’ve upgraded it to v2.0
In the test setup, I had these plugins installed
akismet
bbpress,
sharecount for facebook
SI Captch Anti spam
tweetmeme retweed button
wp-spamfree
I’m having the same experience now. I’m not getting any reply notifications in bbpress.
Need more information to try to duplicate. The topics/replies in private/hidden forums are explicitly hidden from every query bbPress runs, unless the current user has the ability to see them.
@highexistnence – What version of bbPress are you using? If using 2.0, put your WordPress translation files in:
/wp-content/languages/
your bbPress translation files in:
/wp-content/languages/bbpress/
and then:
define('WPLANG', 'es_ES');
in your wp-config.php, replacing es_ES with your language code.
If you’re language is English, then you don’t need to do anything.
andre, thanks for your reply. i didn’t realize that bbpress and buddypress still had a ways to go wrt to integration.
… based on your info, i took a look at trac tickets and dev notes and will post the links here in case anyone else has the same (or similar) question:
http://bpdevel.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/5th-october-dev-chat-notes/
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3177
http://buddypress.trac.WordPress.org/ticket/3598
looks like jjj is on it and if we’re lucky there may be something in bp 1.6 and/or bbp 2.1. fingers crossed!
Integration between bbPress and BuddyPress isn’t complete yet so there many not be a fix to your problem quite yet.
LOL! Yep @JJJ is right! On line 538 of bbPress.php we have a language directory for bbPress! It exist like /wp-content/languages/bbpress/ and I think the textdomain (if need but I don’t think so) is bbpress
That was what I got from that file
Sure, this is an example of loop-topic.php:
<?php while ( bbp_topics() ) : bbp_the_topic(); ?>
(etc...)
<div class="vote-count<?php rating_class($thumbs_number); ?>">
<h4>
<?php wp_gdsr_render_article_thumbs(); ?></h4><span><?php votes_text($thumbs_number); ?></span>
</div><?php $replies_number = bbp_get_topic_reply_count(); ?>
<div class="reply-count<?php reply_class($replies_number); ?>">
<h4>
<?php bbp_topic_reply_count(); ?></h4><span><?php reply_text($replies_number); ?></span>
</div>
<div class="freshness-count">
<h4>
<?php bbp_topic_freshness_link(); ?></h4><span><?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?></span>
</div>
(etc…)
Basically, you just have to place the code that generates the rating inside the bbpress loop. You can place it in files like loop-topic.php, loop-replies.php, etc.
Almost all voting and rating plugins work this way (I’m using gd star rating).
The next step is to be able to sort the topics and replies according to their rating. But I’ve already spent one year trying that with no results.
bbpress 2.0 was working pretty well until i installed buddypress 1.5 (test site) and now, instead of the old bbpress profiles (w favorites!), there is the buddypress profile, which is nice, except… the problem i’m having is that as far as i can tell the forum (bbpress 2.0) topic favorites are not showing up in the buddypress profile under favorites or anywhere else that i can see.
i’ve googled around and found other mentions of conflicting profile issues, but so far no definitive answers as to how bbpress and buddypress profiles are supposed to work together.
maybe i’m missing something? i haven’t tried using buddypress before. are the user bbpress 2.0 forum topic favorites available in buddypress somewhere and i’m just not seeing them?
or do the bbpress 2.0. forum topic favorites go missing when buddypress is installed? if that the case, is there a work around?
bbpress 2.0
buddypress 1.5
wordpress 3.2.1 (single user)
I seem to be having a problem using shortcodes – see this post: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/funky-action-with-pages-with-shortcodes
Since I cannot use shortcodes, and my forums page http://allaboutfocus.com/forums does not have a registration link anyplace, how do people register to participate in my forums? Every forum page says you must be logged in but they give you no way to login or register.
Thanks,
Patrick
How does one adjust the timezone in bbpress? All fresh topics are showing 5 hours old. They are not paying attention to the WP timezone settings.
That’s the whole point – I didn’t set it to 0. I was trying to set the number smaller to see what happens when topics get split into pages (which incidentally doesn’t seem to happen).
To reproduce enable WP_DEBUG and try saving a setting in the bbpress control panel. I got all sorts of errors when I did that.
In addition I have not yet been able to edit a setting. If I disable WP_DEBUG then the page refreshes when I press save but the settings do not get updated.
Please note I am using WP3.3 nightlies – so perhaps something has changed there.
Hi, I just re-found bbPress and while I redeveloping my site services I also create a forum.
Visit forum at http://nicherss.com/forums/
There is a lot to do!
@johnjamesjacoby — could you give more specific instructions on how to do this?
I’ve tried all combinations of file placement and am using this:
define(‘WPLANG’, ‘en_US’);
define(‘BBLANG’, ‘en_US’);
This fixed itself randomly for no good reason
Hello all,
I am trying to setup bbpress on my test site. I want to replace Simple forum.
I followed BJ’s walkthrough and got it showing on the “forums” page.
From admin interface i created couple of forums, and couple of topics.
I can see the forums on http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums
But when i click on any forum name i get a “page not found” error.
What am i doing wrong?
My parent theme is a custom theme created with Themeframe (im astill working on it, and currently i have only changed the menu). I did not touch yet the default templates.
Thank you.
Not exactly what I planned on doing today whilst sitting in the back of a car! Though whilst browsing these forums I bumbed into this thread and have kicked it off on my iPad with a bbPress test site importing from 30,000 post PHPBB site, been running now for around 30 minutes.
I’ll add some follow ups on how the data Looks in bbPress when I have the right tools
EDIT: ~90 minutes after above
After ~60 minutes I have stopped it and had a look at the WordPress tables with myphpadmin and I cannot see any new posts in ‘wp_posts’ or ‘wp_users’
Is the ‘PhpBB_Not_Complete’ import tool active? i.e. Should I see more than nothing, nil, null as a result of trying this?
Cheers,
Stephen
