@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…
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?
@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.
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…
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 
Yes, I know, new posts still have the wrong timezone
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?
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.
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…
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any eta for phpbb or punbb? thanks!
More explanation..
Your forums_index page is located at myblog.com/forum and displayed full-width or no sidebar. That is what you want and displays perfectly.
But when you accessing a topic or reply it will show sidebar, it happen due each forum specific page is using specific ‘page template’ that belong to bbPress theme.
Here example:
myblog.com/forums – default forums will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template
myblog.com/forum – your custom page that you use now (in my case I create custom template ‘page-forum-home.php’ to show page without sidebar. On your case just using ‘No Sidebar’ template page)
But when you browse into (forum)
myblog.com/forums/forum/general/ – it will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template
When you browse more (topic)
myblog.com/forums/topic/rules-and-ethics/ – it will using ‘single-topic.php’ page template
And that also applies when you edit something or doing something else, it will use different page template that belong to bbPress theme.
How to solve this?
I want you to understand that your WordPress theme (not bbPress theme) have page templates, such as
page.php - default page
page-full.php - page to show full width or no sidebar
page-blog.php
page-contact.php
page-gallery.php
page-login.php
page-search.php
page-sitemap.php
page-template-portfolio.php
etc ... (the number varries and depend on each WP theme)
You need to copy page-full.php or whatever page to show full width or no sidebar content (html and php styles) and replace (about 75%) for your others bbpress theme.
That what I going to by owning your the content of “No Sidebars” page template of yours.
So your forum will display the same layout and styles.
I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.
Yes, that what I meant and you already do that.
The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/
Then the sidebars show up.
Its using another page template that I will describe later if you can provide me the content of “No Sidebars” page template. It will be modified to suit another template for use in bbPress.
Did I just answer your question?
I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!
Please don’t give up on me yet
For your notes, English was not my mother language. I’m Indonesian and I do love to help, since it took my two days to understand bbPress (and I still confused a lots) and able to start my own forum site. I browse this forum, since this is the only help available.
Thank you however this has not made any difference.
I am using the actual bbpress (2.0) plugin not the standalone and it still displays the 1970 date. It doesn’t matter what date format I use. I have a feeling it made be due to the $post->post_id that is causing this.
I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.
The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/
Then the sidebars show up.
Did I just answer your question?
I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!
Please don’t give up on me yet
If your php code work and displayed the date as “THU JAN 1970”, it happen due php code ‘D M Y’
You should refer this page http://php.net/manual/en/function.date.php to change code that will suit your display need.
<?php global $post;
$lalaposttime = date( 'CHANGE THIS', strtotime( $post->post_id ) );
echo $lalaposttime; ?>
AFAIK when posts (or pages, forums, topics or replies) were saved on specific timezone, and the you change to another timezone your post date won’t be changed.
Those new timezone only affect the next posts, and your previous post will have same post date. So when you visit your forum, it still showing old date.
Hey man
Thanks for reply,
I just did what you said. Install a clean WP and after that I installed BP from plugin directory. I tested the activity stream, it worked. I install bbpress plugin and the activity stream still not working.
If I do this in WPMU, it’s a same situation but the other blogs(site) if they use bbpress it show on activity stream in the main website.
I’ve done this in varity of environment. Like I said, Ubuntu+XAMPP, Ubuntu+LAMP, Windows+WAMP and MAC OS X + MAMP.
Thanks alot for helping me out!
I have removed <?php get_sidebar(); ?> in the .php’s within …/wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten folder, but as you say, that’s not where I should be looking.
The thing is that I want to keep my sidebars on the rest of the blog so I don’t want to remove them in my wp-theme (Suffusion). Is there a way to remove the sidebars from the forum part of my blog, but keep them on the other pages?
Thanks again!
I too would like avatar display to be an option.
just wanted to say that this converter worked much better than the included one. The included one didn’t really do anything, it just sat there and looked silly.
perhaps in the bbpress installation, there should be a suggestion to add a page with the shortcode already on it, or create a link in the menu. It took me a while to figure out just where the ‘new’ forum was.
Glad you solve it, I just started new forum using bbPress too and this forum is the only one where we can find answers, so lets help each others.
How can I make it so users wordpress avatar pics are not shown in the new topic area? For instance, I use avatars all over my wordpress site, but I do not want them to show up anywhere in the bbpress forums on the site. Username is enough, the pictures are not needed in the forum area at all.
I noticed I can remove them by editing the HTML, but when a new topic is created the avatar is pulled right back in. I would suspect I may need to comment out some of the php somewhere.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Permalinks doesn’t come into it as this was working before I started uploading a theme. However I think I have solved the issue, and of course it was very straightforward! Quite simply I had not copied the bbpress folder into my theme’s folder as I assumed this was a theme in itself.
Of course I wouldn’t have worked this out if I had not attempted to follow through your suggestions, so thank you for helping me work out my own stupid mistake 
Permalinks! Have you save it for WordPress and also bbPress?
First, you never lose your forums post unless yo delete it. It just not shows, that all.
Can you describe more about your problems? Start from the beginning.
