I’m going to guess that you are following the directions at
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility
The steps where you copied all the plugin theme files over to your currently active theme and activated bbpsupport.
*If you don’t do it that way, and make changes to the actual plugin files, then you will loose the changes every time bbpress updates
**No – the function above is found throughout the bbpress theme files themselves. The ones I am guessing you copied over to your theme
I think those are the directions for the 1x system, not the 2x plugin.
Follow these instructions:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility
You don’t create subdirectories in the plugin folder etc.. It is now a totally compliant wordpress way of doing things now. Basically, you don’t ‘have to’ copy any files to your theme, but you can if you want to make changes to bbpress.
I am using bbpress 2.0, but when I try to login to the forums with user names that were created in the blog, it doesn’t work.
I have a folder named “forums” (mysite.com/forums/) in my directory that has wordpress installed in it. That’s where I have bbpress installed also. So “mysite.com/forums/” is the URL to my bbpress forums.
I have a blog on my site at “mysite.com”. WordPress is also installed in that directory (mysite.com/). So I have two wordpress installs. One in the “forums” folder and one in the root directory (mysite.com/).
One wordpress install is meant to manage and run the blog, the other wordpress install is meant to run and manage the forums.
I would need to do two things. I would need wordpress with bbpress to communicate with the database that the wordpress with blog uses so that the users are shared between the blog and the forums. I would also need the forums breadcrumb directory to be in this format: “Index/Forum Name/Topic Name”. For some reason, regardless of what I’ve tried so far, the breadcrumbs still show “Index/Forums/Forum Name/Topic Name”. The “Forums” link in the breadcrumbs doesn’t link to anything. Also, “Index” is a page that I created to be the main page for the forums. It lists the index of the categories and forums.
Not a waste of time at all. I try to help where I have time.
Glad it worked out.
Those functions are spread throughout a lot of the bbpress files. There is no single place that you remove them.
to help out a little, the breadcrumbs are output on the theme via the function.
<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>
If you remove that function from all the template files then the breadcrumbs are gone. You can do that for admin notices as well as forum notices.
I took a bit deeper look into your theme, as best I can without having the source, and there is a lot of interesting rules the author has setup.
From what I see, it looks like there are a lot of conflicts going on. Well not really conflicts, but ‘odd’ css rules. I actually had a hard time trying to figure out what the author was trying to accomplish in the theme.
If it were me, I would ask the author of the theme to install bbpress, and to release a modified stylesheet for your theme that will work.
Without knowing all the internals of what the theme is trying to accomplish makes it really hard to determine how much work is going to be needed to get it to work right.
BBPress is a big enough plugin, that I can’t imagine he will just refuse to support it. If he does, let us know, and we can add him to a list of non-conforming themes for use with bbpress.
*I am NOT saying he built the theme bad, but rather just saying that some of his css rules are way to general when dealing with open systems that use plugins.
I’m confused. Is that not the default way bbpress displays forums on the homepage?
My forum homepage displays all of my forums, top-level, sub-category, sub-sub-category, etc..
I don’t understand the question
Well I gave it a shot using the following code, but for some reason the only user that shows up is my admin account. I’m guessing this has nothing to do with bbpress, but more wp. I think I am missing something somewhere, and will try to find a solution sometime.
*code I was using to add author box to topics
add_action( 'init', 'my_add_author_to_topics' );
function my_add_author_to_topics() {
add_post_type_support( 'topic', 'author' );
}
I would probably start by finding a good heat map plugin which creates a widget for output. I would then modify the plugin to use topic_tags instead of post_tags. Then it would be a matter of placing the widget into a sidebar and your good to go.
*I am not currently aware of a heat map for bbpress, but modifying one for blog post topics should be just a matter of changing a few lines of code.
Can you confirm that you went through the BuddyPress update wizard and did not only update the plugins files through WordPress?
If you are using bbPress 2.0, your users are already integrated with WordPress. I’m now a little confused about what you’re trying to do.
You don’t “need” to do anything else. But you can if you’d like.
bbPress 2.0 is over a year in the making. Documentation will come next.
I can’t even begin to guess what is going on there.
I have today installed bbPress, activated it in the plugins menu and created a new forum. When I press “view forum” i get to a page where my phpBB forume is included into the wordpress theme!? Why is it like this? My phpBB installation should not have anything to do with bbPress. I have installed the DB for phpBB togheter with WP, due to that I have the “WordPress to phpBB 3.0.x Bridge” plugin installed.
Someone with the same problem?
== 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.
You have to do plenty more than these steps if you want to install and have some forums up and running on your blog.
I think it’s a bit of a cheat to suggest this is so easy to complete. Absolutely hellish in my experience. 2 days in and still nothing.
You make no mention of setting up pages with the shortcode tags, no mention about issues with sign up conflicts and documentation is non existent if you want to add it to wordpress.
Is this another case of tech people making a great system and then just forgetting that people have to use it?
Where are the wordpress installation instructions?
Please someone just tell me if any exist as I’ll go for another system if not.
Bob
sorry about the garbled code above. I tried to edit it so that it shows up clean, but bbpress won’t let me.
Investigating further, this seems to be a known memory leak in PHP:
http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/262
Hi
Just starting out with bbpress and wanted to check my steps are right.
I have wordpress site (well my sons) and I have installed the bbpress 2 plugin.
Activated it
Created a forum
Added a topic
I then created a new used set as a Forum Participant.
I then login in with this user on another machine.
went to website.com/forums/ and I can see the summary with forum name, topics, replies etc
When I click on the forum name it states Oh bother! no topics were found.
If I give this user moderator role I can then see the posts.
The forum is set to public.
Am I missing someting so obvious it will hurt.
I would like to eventually use the forum for a small group to be able to discuss without the whole world being able to see it unless they have a username and password. The users can read topics add topics and reply to them, but not be able to delete them via dashboard.
I absolutly love WordPress nad this hopefully will do the job.
Any advice and help very much appreciated
Thcnks
Richard
You’re right, BJ, and I removed my additional call that I’d placed in there, and it still works. I’d LOVE a tutorial…once I get this finally figured out and down perhaps I’ll try and write one.
I was just getting comfortable using BBPress 1.0 and now it’s a whole new game. 
I already much prefer the plugin though, if only for the unified backend and easier integration of users.
Yes, I upgraded from 1.0.2 as per the instructions in the uploader. However, two things that were probably out of the ordinary:
1. I had a userbase of around 2700 or so, but since this is a test installation (before officially converting the live site to BBPress Plugin 2.0), and I didn’t want any surprise notices going out to the users, I only imported admins to the test installation (meaning there are 1000s of replies and 100s of topics who’s “author” is blank now)
2. During the conversion process (ie, via Tools > Import), I did not have to import the bb_users to wp_users table. In fact, I didn’t even have a bb_users table, and I’m guessing this is because we were using the old BB/WP user integration? So I made sure I still had my wp_users and wp_usermeta tables correct and just went to the second radio button to import forums, topics and replies.
As for plugins that alter queries, I tried deactivating everything this morning, including and excluding the bbpress plugin, but I get the following error:
“Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /usr/www/users/bikepgh/devsite/wp-content/themes/speakerspokesbb/functions.php on line 32”
I’m using an exact copy of the functions.php file from the bbpress/bb-themes/bbp-twentyten folder (copied to my child theme folder of my own custom theme).
Does that provide any insight?
I understand that I have to create a sub-directory in plugins/bbpress/my-templates/, which will contain my template files. Also I understand that I only have to create specific custom pages where I need them, so on the very first page of my forums (i.e. http://www.followtheboat.com/forums/) I need to create a page called front-page.php. For example, I don’t want my page title to be ‘Forums’, I want it to be ‘Followtheboat Forums’.
Presumably before uploading any themes the forum is using a default theme and must be calling up a default page called front-page.php. I want to use that default front-page.php file so I can use it as a base and tweak it, but where is it? I thought it should be in bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten but it isn’t there.
Finally, the instructions say ‘Activating a theme is even easier. Just select it from you bbPress install’s Presentation Admin Panel’. What? Where? Do you mean ‘http://www.myblog.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress’, because it is not there.
I’ve installed a spoiler plugin which uses html tags as bbpress does not accept shortcodes within posts. The spoiler plugin is called enhanced-ss.
The plugin works fine within WordPress Posts but does not seem to work within bbpress posts. I am using the latest wordpress version, buddypress version and bbpress 2.0.
The code is available here –> http://pastebin.com/AkH7eNJ4
Is there a reason why it does not display within a bbpress post?
I want to use ‘bbPress Topics list’ widget, outside widget.
I’d very happy that someone let me know the code to use it outside widget.
Thank you in advance.
I don’t appear to be able to share user profiles between my wordpress blog and my bbpress forums with my current setup either. I tried installing the bbpress integration tool. In the instructions it mentions that I need to point to the blog’s database in the bbpress admin panel, but I don’t have an option to get to the bbpress admin panel.
