[Andreas]

Thanks, this is working. Just before I added both of feed address into header.php

[bobbyh44]

Hi Again,

Ahh thanks tgiokdi, getting closer to knowing how to get this working.

So you install it.

Then you make a wordpress page.

Then you add a shortcode tag to that page.

I’m guessing you add it into the HTML view of the page or a post and it would look something like:

[bbpress(testforum)]

Where the name of the forum is ‘testforum’.

I haven’t tried this but maybe its a step in the right direction. Can anyone tell me what the tag looks like to get the forum to show up… or is it a secret

[kai920]

@anointed, did you ever find a good solution or plugin for this? I tried https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/widget-context/ but putting forums/* doesn’t allow me to show/hide widgets.

[Per Carlen]

Thanks for answering my questions, Andre!

1. If there isn’t an admin panel, where or do I for example, set authorisations for the forum (admin,moderator etc)? There’s must be more settings than those in the menus I described in the original post above?

2. I’ll look in to the Multisite feature. Thanks! Otherwise, If I for example want my BBPress to have the forum structure like http://www.awesomestyles.com/bbpress-themes/demo/static-bb (notice how the different forums and subforums are listed beneath eachother), I’d have to edit the css?

3. I’ll ask about in that topic then.

Thanks a ton for helping me out here!

[Andre]

There aren’t many plugins that work with bbPress 2.0 yet. The ones that do are WordPress plugins, which I assume you know how to install since you installed bbPress 2.0.

bbPress 1.x plugins will not work with bbPress 2.0.

[Andre]

1. It seems as though you are using bbPress 2.0 not the 1.x standalone version. 2.0 does not have a completely separate admin panel, that was just in 0.x and 1.x versions.

2. bbPress 2.0 uses the WordPress theme. bbPress 1.x has a separate theme. You can customize the WP to make it look better with bbPress, but the only way to give bbPress 2.0 a separate theme is to put it on a different site (which can easily be done using the Multisite features in WP).

More info on theme compatibility can be found in this topic – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

3. I don’t think there’s a way to convert it yet, but check this topic – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/introducing-bbconverter-convert-your-current-forums-for-use-with-bbpress-2x – and you may be able to talk anointed and AWJunkies into helping.

[QuickCat]

I am very new to bbpress plugin for wordpress. How do I get a plugin within the bbpress plugin for wordpress? I want to use BBcode, BBVideo, UserApprove and Allow Images. Are there any plugins in for this? How does one install a plugin when bbpress is a plugin itself? Can you automatically download or do you have to install manually?

Will the plugins for the old software work for this bbpress plugin?

[AWJunkies]

Well for starters what do you have the process rows at?

Also can you provide server details and your current limits. It may be easier to do that as I have test environment that I can mirror yours and test. It would go a lot faster that way. So php limits and mysql limits and server details. Also site stats and platform.

[Erlend]

When we tried to do some testing with bbConverter we ran into memory issues. We’re running on a dedicated server so there’s a good chance the problem lies on our end.

Seeing as you’ve successfully converted a 2-million-posts forum without issues, I’d be very interested in knowing more about any server settings that might have been pertinent to your success.

A basic runthrough of best practice server setup relevant to a major forum conversion would be great. Things like php-limit, caching, Apache modules and so forth. Not looking for anything in depth, just some DOs and DON’Ts.

[Per Carlen]

Please look at this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-cant-find-bbpress-admin-panel-two-more-issues-help-really-needed

[Per Carlen]

Hi!

I run a blog on which I’d like to have a BBPress forum alongside the regular blog and some other pages. But I have ran into a few problems.

Step-by-step background:

1. Installed WP

2. Installed Mingleforum

3. Created a page called “forum” for Mingleforum (myblog.com/forum)

4. Set the forum up and people started posting stuff on it

5. Concluded that Mingleforum lacked several features

6. Installed BBPress but did NOT uninstall Mingleforum or delete the page “forum”

7. Did NOT chose any template for BBPress because I don’t know how

8. Created a paged called “new forum” on which i simply wrote [bbp-forum-index]

9. Created what I like to call categories, but I guess really are different “forums”

Problem 1:

After working on my BBPress forum for a couple of days and looking thru tutorials, I realis that there’s supposed to be an admin panel for BBPress!? I can’t find it.

Within the regular WP admin panel I do have a menus called “Forums”, “Topics” and “Replies”. And under “Settings” in the regular WP admin panel I’ve got another menu called “Forums”. In these menus there’s really not that much to do. From what I have understood there’s a admin panel specifically for BBpress, which I can’t find.

Problem 2:

If I get the admin panel for BBPress to work, I will probably want to install a theme since the forum looks like crap when I just add [bbp-forum-index] to the page “new forum”. Can I use a theme specifically for BBPress or will that theme also affect my main blog and all the other pages? When I change to Twentyten under Appearance->Themes (Not sure if it’s called that in the EN version of WP. I use the swedish version) in the regular WP admin panel, my whole blog get that theme.

Problem 3:

Since the old forum, Mingleforum, has about 100 posts in it, I’d like to transfer these posts and their respective categories etc to my new BBPress forum. Is that possible?

I can not express how much I would appreciate it if someone helped me with this. It’s almost 1:00 at night here and I’ve spent yesterday and the whole day today trying to get this stuff to work. I’m going crazy here, so please help me

Thanks!

[AWJunkies]

No eta at the moment sorry trying to see why a few people are getting mismatched thread stuff. I have ran more and more tests and never happens for me. Tried 10 different boards of all sizes even one that has 2 million posts and no issues. It would be nice if someone provided me some login info or server info to test locally this is not public www. Just to see if I am getting same issue as you do.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me at:

Skype: AWJunkies

AIM: AWJunkies

Yahoo: AWJunkies

Email: aellis@awjunkies.com

[tindalos]

I have a new installation of bbPress 2.0 working great, and it’s really nice.

However, I’m trying to migrate data from a plugin called WP-Forum 1.7 which apparently is listed as ForumPress. I can’t find much detail about this at all.

It looks like this may be a fork off WP-Forum-Server, but I can’t find much help online anywhere on how to migrate this. SimplePress has a WP-Forum 2.2 converter, but it doesn’t appear to be online. The WP-Forum plugin creates a different structure of tables:

INSERT INTO wp_forum_posts (id, text, parent_id, date, author_id, subject, views) VALUES

and

INSERT INTO wp_forum_threads (id, parent_id, views, subject, date, status, closed, mngl_id, starter, last_post) VALUES

for example.

Although I’m somewhat familiar with the database, I haven’t found an EASY way to manually export/import to the bbPress use of Posts, etc.

Anyone know more about this or have any pointers? Thanks!

Brandon

[folgerj]

I’m over there now, thanks

[maziyar]

Well I’m sorry john for any inconvenience.

And yes, here is the community support for BuddyPress, you can find anything about BuddyPress here:

https://buddypress.org/support/topics/

[folgerj]

@Maziyar That’s fine but I’m sure when John see’s these entries he will be unhappy. (BBpress only here) So is there another place to discuss how to set it up. I liked what little I saw before it trashed my WP website which I think was my fault for not making my theme the default…

But as I said if there is another place dedicated to this plugin then we can chat there…

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Both [bbp-single-forum id=ID] and [bbp-single-topic id=ID] include a reply form at the bottom.

The code wasn’t that hard, but there doesn’t seem to be a need, since you’d really want context to your ‘make a new post in the forum’ in that thread, wouldn’t you?

[maziyar]

@folgerj Here people discuss bbpress plugin but the reason I brought this here was because there is an integration between these two plugins. It means you install BuddyPress, after that you install bbpress in it’s all working out. Whatever you do in bbpress it shows up on your buddypress activity stream.(In both latest version).

But I saw for some people like me it’s not working and there is no solution for fix this.

That’s why I came here to ask people in bbpress, I’m doing the same thing in BuddyPress community to find something to solve this problem or at least understand the problem.

[folgerj]

System is back up and I’m back in reconfiguring the theme and so forth.. I didn’t get singed to badly but it wasn’t fun…

@John, Is Buddy press a separate plugin the needs to be discussed in it’s own space?

@Maziyar I think a how-to on how to slide into buddy press more gently is called for. Is there a plugin page on a forum where this is being discussed or is it done here? Obviously I’ve been seeing it discussed here so I assume this is the place for it… But I could be wrong…

[spigi]

Hello everyone

I’ve got a little problem with bbpress theme install. My dashboard looks like this:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1038/bbpress.jpg

Where is my “Chenge themes” button? I create “my-templetes” in directory:

wp-content/plugins/bb-press and give 755 permission.

Any help, please?

PS. Sorry for my english

[ebharding]

Yes, I know, new posts still have the wrong timezone

[folgerj]

Well I went through and liked the plugin and then kept it plain vanilla but when I got to the theme change I was going to keep my theme but clicked save and finish and now I have a buddy press themed blog but with no way to get into the back-end of my site… I take it back now I can’t get to the front end either… Oh fun… Now I have to do a rebuild from outside the system…

Now I have to go and rebuild from last nights back up…

I get this error

John is this one of those other plugins conversations that I need to take elsewhere?

I reuploaded from last nights backup and it still won’t let me into the site. I can see it for a minute with the BBpress theme running but if I try to log in or anything It won’t let me go any further?

I would have thought when I overwrote all the files it would have changed back… Does the plugin change the database also?

[maziyar]

Hi folgerj

Activity Stream is a feature that you can have when you install another plugin named BuddyPress. It gives you the community features which one of them is activity stream. Whatever you do or other members do will show up in activity section.

Check this out: https://buddypress.org/community/activity/

Best example of what an activity stream does.

[folgerj]

Maybe I should ask what an activity stream is? and where does it show up? Maybe I’m supposed to be seeing something but since I never used this before I don’t know what I’m missing. But since I don’t run a native BBPress compatible theme maybe I don’t see it for that reason…

[Ed]

any eta for phpbb or punbb? thanks!