[Andreas]

Too bad for me too, I have the same problem but I use ElegantThemes theme.

Here the forum at http://thesaurussupport.info/forums/ and I still trying to figuring it out.

I have dedicated this night to browse this forum, hope it resolved for me.

[bikepirate]

I should mention I followed steps below and get stuck on step 4. I visit the intended URL (http://www.freshapproach2web.com/forum/) and I’m NOT greeted with a bbPress installer.

Quick Instructions

1.Download bbPress from the download page

2.Upload the uncompressed files to your server

3.Optionally upload language files to “my-languages” – You will have to create this directory

4.Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site

5.You will be greeted with the bbPress installer

6.Follow the instructions in the installer

7.Visit “Settings” in the admin area to customise your installation

Thanks

[Anointed]

@kai920

I ended up going an entirely different route in order to get forum specific sidebars on the pages. JJ’s answer would have been the easiest to achieve by using widget context, but I wanted full control.

Very long story short…

I started by registering a custom sidebar just for the forums.

I then took all of the bbpress templates and rewrite them from scratch to include my custom code and forum sidebar.

*Keep in mind that bbPress templates are nothing more than WordPress templates, so all rules that you follow when building a custom theme also apply to bbPress. Trying to explain how to build custom templates is WAY outside the scope of what I can provide. There are numerous tutorials all over the internet to get you started.

**If you are not comfortable writing template code, then widget context is definitely the way to go.

[bikepirate]

I’ve uploaded the zipped file to my WordPress directory, put it in a folder called forum and went to click on the link: http://www.freshapproach2web.com/forum/ to install it, but it does not work? Not sure why? Anyone? Help please, I’m new to installing bbPress and not sure what I’m doing wrong.

Thank you

[andymilk]

Just wondering if this BBpress.org forum site is using the stand-alone version.

I have a client that would like to use this exact theme, but when we installed the WP plug-in, it looks much different.

Do we need the standalone version to get the theme and functionality shown on this forum?

[bobbyh44]

Ah – awesome. Thanks Andre, really appreciate it.

Hopefully they’ll add that link into the bottom of the instructions so it reads:

== Installation ==

1. Place the ‘bbpress’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.

2. Activate bbPress.

3. Visit ‘Settings > Forums’ and adjust your configuration.

4. Create some forums.

5. View your site.

6. Adjust the CSS of your theme as needed, to make everything pretty.

7. Create a page and add one or more of these short codes into it to display your forum: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

All the best.

Bob

[kai920]

I’m trying to add pages that show an x number of posts from a specific forum. I see this tag:

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Show a single forums topics

But it doesn’t have the ability to limit the number of posts. I also tried adding the bbPress Topic widget to a page (using the Widgets on Pages plugin), and while this allows you to set the number of topics, it doesn’t allow you to filter by forum.

Is there a quick way to do this? If not, could you recommend the best way to achieve this functionality? I certainly don’t mind getting my hands dirty but just need some ideas to get started.

Thanks much.

[Andre]

1. I just want to be sure we’re both referring to the forum options at /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress. Forum (and WP) roles have to be set by editing a user profile (/wp-admin/users.php). I believe there are plugins that add functionality, but I haven’t used any of them so I can’t give a recommendation. The would be in the WP plugin repository at wordpress.org/extend/plugins.

2. This isn’t an area I’m strong at, but you’d have to edit either the themes files or the css.

[Andre]

You’d probably want to use one of these:

[bbp-forum-index] – Show the forum index/archive

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Show a single forums topics

Here is the thread listing the shortcodes – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

[unfettered]

So I’m brand new to WordPress and old hat to programming. I’m trying to piece together a word press site for a friend that he can easily manager and expand. I’ve got most everything up and running with buddy press now save for the forums (without actually having to touch code, craziness!) . My issue is with the forums (I’ve installed the site wide variant).

The issue I’m running into is that the individual forums seem to be rendering as a page and not getting the specific forum templates added to them. I’m using the custom community theme, but this problem is repeatable if i switch to the base buddy press theme. This problem is not present if i switch to the bbpress theme. Each forum listing shows up only showing the forums tagline as if it was page data. I had to do a bit of hackery to get the forum to render at all (deleted the forum page and made a link to /forums in the menu).

My forums are at:

http://unfettereddesigns.net/forums/

Any sage advice?

My forums options:

Archive Slugs

Forums base : forums

Single Slugs

Forum slug: forum

[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/