The widgets of bbPress are in conflict with custom post types. In the homepage, the widgets show another bbPress post types that are not the topics and forums. I contacted Justin Tadlock, who explained to me that the problem is related to suppress filters the bbPress widgets that should be set to true.
I believe that this correction is important and should be placed in the next update of the plugin.
If you wanna use bbPlugin (bbPress 2.0) you may want to make a plugin that do what you want. But by using bbPress you can use this plugin: Hidden Forums 
Hi BJ, I’m afraid I’m none the wiser and have had no success getting the link on the menu. When I create a new Forum, from the bbPress plugin menu, the option of selecting the homepage template is not available. I’m not sure which page to call ‘page-front-forums’. I’ve no idea about shortcodes and from what I’ve tried to find out there’s nothing related to bbPress that can help with this problem.
General Comment: I got rid of another forum plugin because bbPress seemed to get better reviews and simpler config. The one I got rid of took 5 minutes to install and configure and it worked but just not the way I wanted it to. bbPress seems weirdly complicated requiring levels of knowledge beyond that of the ‘common user’ to even get it visible!
I’ve got Mingle-forum but just installed bbpress. Is there anyway to move topic, posts and so on, to bbpress?
If I enable the plugin on my site, using my personal theme, and the default bbpress template, then the first post in each topic does not appear – but replies show fine.
If I use TwentyTen, then the first post appears as expected.
Not sure if this is because of something I have done in my theme, or if it’s a strange quirk of bbPress. Anyone got any pointers/ seen this before?
You create the navigation on your site the same way you always do, whatever that is for you. Either make the page, use the nav menus, etc… bbPress doesn’t turn your existing site into something new, it compliments it by adding forums in place. You do the rest.
I’m sorry but the OP isn’t lying.
you do step 1-4 and then 5: View your site…
… yup, it looks exactly like it did before I installed bbPress…
no link to forums. The only way anyone can access the forums is if they;re an admin, and go into the forum settings and click “view forum”
You’re obviously telling us theres a magic invisible link outside the Admin area??
are we supposed to make a page with something like [bbpress] inside? And dont bother trying [bbpress] it doesn’t work.
Before installing bbPlugin do you see activity stream?
Install WordPress again, then set up the BuddyPress. After that install bbPlugin on it.
If you saw issue again write it down again here
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aaaand – I got it.
Was missing a style – I got all the bbpress template ones and missed the default one that is built into the plugin
easier than I imagined.
function bm_bbp_no_breadcrumb ($param) {
return true;
}
add_filter ('bbp_no_breadcrumb', 'bm_bbp_no_breadcrumb');
How would you like to send me my dollar?
Now if only I could work out why this isn’t working properly – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-default-template-styles?
Great link BJ, thanks!
I also waiting for the upcoming codex by JJJ.
I have manage to administrate a bbPress forum at http://themescommunity.com/ , but still lots of question in minds. I will compile it first then ask at ones.
Great link BJ, thanks!
I also waiting for the upcoming codex by JJJ.
I have manage to administrate a bbPress forum at http://themescommunity.com/ , but still lots of question in minds. I will compile it first then ask at ones.
@noerman your questions are not actually related to shortcodes. You’d be better off starting new individual threads for your different questions.
Getting back on the topic of shortcodes: Just to reiterate what I brought up in the DevPress discussion about embedding forums in pages, I’d be very happy to have something like [bbp-reply-form id=$forum_id].
There are currently no plugins for VIP members, but there do exist for Adsense (talking of bbPress 1.1).
Hi, I’m new member here. It took me long time to start believe and use bbPress since it kind lack of features before bbPress 2.0
Now using bbPress 2.0, I develop (still locally) a forum site that turn out to be wonderful. Can’t wait to upload it into real site.
I’m using elegantthemes Premium WP theme and finally able to merge it with bbPress theme smoothly. I can’t believe how much power I have now after merge theme together, but I still trying to make it just like an ordinary forum site.
I willing to share my experiences next time, but I do need this account related shortcodes and found it here, Big Thanks!
I still have question about roles, how I can set specific forum moderator? or just maybe forum role manual in general will be great.
I notes most plugin were outdated, can we force them to update it? I know that a silly question, but it a wish (our wish actually).
@varsitysmack — yeah it’s incredibly frustrating. This is the last thing I need to fixed before I can release the new version of my site with BP 1.5 and BBpress 2.0
Just checked this plugin out to upgrade from bbPress 1.x and found two minor (but very relevant) problems.
1) The date of all posts was set to the current date. All posts were ‘less than a minute ago’.
2) German Umlauts were broken. Looks like a utf8-latin1 encoding problem. This might be due to my bb tables being utf8 while my wp tables are latin1. I knew this would bite me some time.
The same bug appears btw. in the official importer – although the official tool sometimes sets the topic to an emtpy string then.
Hello all, I got the exactly the same problem but I found a way that may be help.
I was install the WP on my Mac using MAMP, then BP and BB and they both work and integrated well. Activity stream showed. And then, I moved the test to the web server, do the same thing, activity stream not working but I noticed the @ mention stuff did work. The only thing that is different from my local setting is, the visibility of WP. I set the web server one to “block from search engine” while the local one “visible”. And then, I turn on the “visibility” to open and it works!!!
That’s it, simple and easy. It helps me but I am not sure whether it will be helpful for the rest of you!
WOW. That worked perfectly. Thank you so much!
When I enter the default sidebar.
The line there is actually: When I enter the forums, it displays the default sidebar.
Something must have went wrong when I posted the message,
Howdy!
I recently just installed the bbPress plugin into the Swatch Theme, from wooThemes – everything went great, I love how they interfere, but there’s a little issue.
When I enter the default sidebar. May I please ask, what should I do to make the forum page full width, along with the profile page, because that way the forum it will look a lot more better!
Thanks in advance!
@Erlend it is asking for your bbPress table prefix – typically bb_
Fantastic, will start testing right away. A couple questions & suggestions right off the bat:
– Some very simple step-by-step tutorials for the different kinds of set-ups would go a long way. I’m assuming bbPress 1.x also includes BuddyPress, but it’d be nice to know if there’s any kind of distinction where the conversion is concerned.
– In the bbConverter settings you ask for a Table Prefix. Which one do you want, the WordPress prefix (commonly wp_ ) or the forum prefix (e.g. bb_ , wp_bb_ , etc.)?
– In the case of a BuddyPress forum migration, do we really need to keep bbConverter activated for passwords? They should all be compatible already.
Hey, John:
Yes, I could see the forums and figured out that this is an issue with the URL. The way that I have my forums set up is that there are hard coded links in the WP pages that link to each forum. With the old setup the link structure went to groups and then the last part of the URL was /forum. I figured out that the new bbPress isn’t integrated in with groups and that I will need to do a batch upload of new URL’s for all of my WP pages to update the links. I have over 1,800 individual forums and use the WP pages to ‘drill down’ so the site users can easily get to where they want to go.
This leads to my next question – when will bbPress 2.0 be fully integrated with buddypress forums and when it does integrate, will I be able to use my old link structure like it was set up when I had the old bbPress running?
@kriskl a poll of sorts has been done already. You just have to look at a plugin’s rating & comments (can we see # of downloads anywhere?) to get an idea of how many people are invested in it.
Because the information it was displaying was wrong.
