Nope you can only pull this off if you have PHP skills.
Lets hope somebody will soon jump into this bbPress plugin code and start writing tutorials and info about different ways to list forums.
For myself i can say this is the best bbPress forum layout (listing) i’ve ever seen.
http://www.onemorething.nl/community/forum
I’m trying to list my layout like that but it’s very difficult.
I need this translation but the problem is that I am unable to login there with my WordPress account. I can login here no problem but as soon as I go to https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default I am unable to login 
I’ve insert this to the loop. (showing on the homepage)
<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'max_num_pages' => 1 ) ) ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'forums-1' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
This print only the first forum ID (top forum) and hides all others.
Next i would like to make this.
<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( 'posts_per_page' => 1, 'max_num_pages' => 1 ) ) ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'forums-1' ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘max_num_pages’ => 1 ) ) ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/loop’, ‘forums-2’ ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
<?php if ( bbp_has_forums( array( ‘posts_per_page’ => 1, ‘max_num_pages’ => 1 ) ) ) : ?>
<?php bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/loop’, ‘forums-3’ ); ?>
<?php else : ?>
Only problem it will always call the first (top) forum ID.
I need to find an $args? for calling a forum ID in each loop, this way i can say get forum ID 4 on the first loop and get forum ID 12 on the second loop.
Hi,
The single topic page shows only the thumbnail of an author and it looks fuzzy.
How do I make it to show full image?
I am using bbPress 2.0 plugin.
http://ravidreams.in/offgrid/forums/topic/alternatives-to-st-augustine-grass/
is an example topic page.
Full image URL format is here:
http://ravidreams.in/offgrid/wp-content/uploads/avatars/7/71c948a9c1d112404e9f6ec0e62bcae6-bpfull.jpg
Current thumbail at
http://ravidreams.in/offgrid/wp-content/uploads/avatars/7/71c948a9c1d112404e9f6ec0e62bcae6-bpthumb.jpg
Please let me know which file to edit and what to add.
Thanks
Hi,
The forum homepage now shows only list of forums.
How to show list of latest topics above this forums index? (like it is done in the bbPress forums page)
I am using bbPress 2.0 plugin.
Which file should I edit and what should I add?
http://ravidreams.in/offgrid/forums/ is the site I am working on.
Thanks,
Ravi
Thankyou Anointed for all that information.
I notice you mention there is not much difference in server load…I presume BBpress uses less server load? May I ask what percentsge less?
Sounds great. Is using shortcodes hard to control if the forum grows or is there a list of how many “main” pages and different shortcodes I would need? I guess this is a much more tedious way of doing it and changing the theme code would be best?
I will look for that thread…
You think I shouldn’t download that “bbPress attachments” plugin though?
Thanks again! You are most helpful 
Yes, changing that will make it full width. It should function just fine.
Using shortcodes with full width template pages works as well.
I believe that there is a thread here somewhere with a link to attachments that works with 2.0. Seem to remember reading it somewhere.
Thank you for your rapid reply anointed, I contacted Orman’s support, we’ll see what they say.
Since I am new to bbPress, at your first glance of my above forum link… does it look like I got the installation and functions working, just having a problem with the width template (code)?
I tested how it would look by adding this short code [bbp-forum-index] into a regular “page” (not forum) and setting it to use full width template and I got that page to look like it should; http://limecitykitchen.com/forum-bbpress (just not functioning) Look better though, hope they can help me fix the code.
Also, will the “bbPress attachments” plugin work well with the bbPress 2.0 plugin?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/
Thanks again!
glad you got it figured out.
If it were me, I’d ask Ormon to write a quick function for your theme to switch the body class to
page-template-template-full-width-php
for post_type forums/topics/replies/users/.
*Basically run that last in the chain as to override the default setting only for the forums.
That would probably be the quickest and best approach to take for this particular theme.
That will give you full width forums. There are lots of ways to approach this and he may even have better ideas.
NO, not bothered at all, was just saying that I didn’t understand what you were asking is all.
If I understand you basically want to take the code from the topics widget and use it as a standalone loop instead of a widget?
Keep in mind I’m not a great coder: If it were me, I would simply copy the code from the bbp-core-widget.php file that I needed for the topics widget. I would then strip out the widget portion of the code and hard code in the default arguments.
This basically would give me the same loop used by the widget.
// Query defaults
$topics_query = array(
'author' => 0,
'post_parent' => any,
'posts_per_page' => 10,
'show_stickies' => false,
'order' => 'DESC',
);
Probably better ways out there, but that’s how I would try it
Hello, I am having similar issues, I can’t get bbPress to work well with my custom WP theme (self-hosted wp site). http://limecitykitchen.com/mingle/mingle/mingle-3
I installed the bbPress 2.0 plugin and have so far only created one test forum and no topics yet but I am already so frustrated about the way it shows up, it’s definitely missing padding and the window should be full width like this; http://limecitykitchen.com/fullwidth_test
I love my theme and don’t want to change that just to get bbPress to work, how do I integrate the bbPress forum into my WP site? Are there certain files I need to modify? Style sheets? Move items around in the folders?
Perhaps I need to somehow create a childs theme?
Or should I put the forum on a WPMU?
Or in a different directory on my main domain hosting with a separate WP install?
Any help with this is HIGHLY appreciated!
Thank you!
//anointed, I must say sorry if I bothered you.
You might see the ‘bbPress Topics list’ widget, in wordpress widgets. I meant I want to use the widget ‘outside the loop’.
That must be done the code like below:
<?php
if ( bbp_has_topics( array( ‘author’ => 0, ‘show_stickies’ => false, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’, ‘post_parent’ => ‘any’, ‘posts_per_page’ => 5 ) ) )
bbp_get_template_part( ‘bbpress/loop’, ‘title’ );
?>
Ok, ive been testing these things out for the past 2 weeks. Buddypress and BBpress communicate, however their actual integration as 2 separate plugins is kinda light. They do/can send info back and forth, and BBPress will publish to the activity stream, and things like that.
TO answer the question asked…
When you install Buddypress and use the group forums, it says “Sync with existing bbpress install”. This means an existing version of the built-in BUDDYPRESS BBPress, not the BBPress Plugin.
You can have Buddypress and the BBPress Plugin (from wordpress), but you install them as 2 seperate plugins and they pretty much operate that way, other than some communication.
As far as integrating BBPress into the Buddypress theme. You can use the built in Buddypress version, which uses the same themes and etc. But for the separate plugin version, I havent found a way to do it, other than that they are both built into the same wordpress theme (unless you find/make a BBPress theme thats similar.
Hope that helps.
I registered here just to help you, because i was having this same issue.
I was frustrated as well… BUT the solution is so simple. Too bad theres no documention to tell everyone.
Whatever u changed the BBPress “Forums base” name to, make a wordpress page with that permalink. And then put in the short code [bbp-forum-index] (or any BBPress shortcode u like).
If you changed the BBPress Forums base name to “theboards”, then make a new wordpress page with the same permalink “theboards”. So your forum will be located at mywebsite.com/theboards, regardless of if you create new forums or topics, theres nothing there. Create a page, pop in that shortcode or any of the ones at the link below and ZAP BOOM POW, go to mywebsite.com/theboards and its there! lol
BBPress Shortcodes- https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes.
Hope that helps.
This was useful! thanks.
I simple used the insert code (which I was looking for but didn’t see and assumed not available) within my main template instead of using teh bbPress subtempate.
[bbp-forum-index]
Anonymous User 8347663Inactive
I got some help from the author with the full width issue,
I was told to put this into my themes Custom CSS option:
.bbp-forums, .bbp-forums td, .bbp-forums th {
text-align: left;
width: 100%;
}
.bbPress .inner-content {
margin: 0;
width: 960px;
}
Now i will try and get help with making it look better.
We are wrapping up final beta testing on a brand new plugin which will allow you to migrate your old forums to BBPress 2x. And yes, it does PHPBB3.
We hope to launch the plugin early next week and will notify the forums here when it is ready.
As a forum Vbulletin is miles ahead of BBPress at the moment. There is no comparing the two systems due to the shear number of plugins and addons available right now for vb.
However, BBPress has built everything around true WordPress standards which I am intimately familiar with. This makes building a custom forum solution much easier for me than what vb offers.
I was running a custom bridge setup to ‘hook’ together WordPress and Vbulletin. While this works great syncing users registration/login/etc there is no deep integration with the data side and frankly I didn’t feel like writing it.
Because BBPress stores everything in the WP db and standard formats, it makes it much easier to pull forum data into other templates than it is with vb.
(say I want a user profile page showing all users posts/topics/replies/custom post-types/etc.. very easy with BBPress)
Given enough time and energy, I don’t believe there is anything that vb does which wp can’t do better.
So far I have only installed bbpress on a subdomain install. I have not had that particular issue you are mentioning but then again I am not using sub-directories.
If you can replicate this in the default theme setup, then I would create a trac ticket for JJ to confirm.
Because there are so many possibilities when importing bbpress into all themes, there is currently to ‘automated’ way of removing the sidebar in the theme. (really we can’t control that part)
What you can do however, is follow #3 in the thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility
That will get all the bbpress theme files into your theme where you can then modify them.
At that point you could remove the call to the sidebar in all the templates for bbpress and your good to go.
We are doing final testing of a brand new importer, which we hope to have released early next week. It takes care of all the conversion including users that is needed.
So far we can import from
vbulletin
Phpbb
Invisionboard
BBPress 1x
Xenforo
Once final testing is complete we will make an announcement post with instructions for download and use.
Right now all I’m seeing is going into the DB and changing the post_author field to the right user ID number. But that means you can do it, so just gotta find or make an easier way now…
