It worked! Thank you so much, anointed! Now just have to sort out how to format those pesky Gravatars, but I hope I can handle it on my own (wouldn’t want to waste your time!) 
The way that I have my wordpress directory setup is “mywebsite.com/forums”. That’s where I have wordpress installed. When I installed bbpress, I got “mywebsite.com/forums/forums” as the URL to the forums index.
Is there anyway to change this so that I can keep wordpress in the “mywebsite.com/forums” directory on my server and still make “mywebsite.com/forums” as the URL to the forums index?
I already have a wordpress theme installed in my home directory, so I thought it would be easier to manage the forums in its own admin control panel. That’s why I installed it in a different directory.
Something else that I was wondering though… in the case where bbpress is intalled alongside the main wordpress site (blog, news page, homepage, etc.), is it separately customizable? Can bbpress have its own theme?
I looked at “http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks”, it reads: “For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields.”
I can’t seem to be able to use the recommended link structures with bbpress forums and topics such as /%post_id%/%postname%/.
Will the permalink structure greatly affect the loading time of my different pages or has this issue been resolved with the latest version of WordPress?
Any chance making it so all the comment forums for a multisite installation are handled by one of the sites.
Example
1.abc.com, 2.abc.com, and 3.abc.com have their comments in the forums at forums.abc.com?
My topics are showing up oldest first…I don’t believe this is the default setting, but I’m not sure where I can change this. Anyone know how this is controlled?
@krisl
Except that the two don’t seem to work together. Which is my confusion. If you go to BuddyPress and Forums you see that you can install Site Wide Forums, which is BBPress 2. But then you see this
“You may activate both Group and Site Wide forums, but this may create a poor experience for your members.”
So, if you already have/had BuddyPress Forums, and decide to want to move to BBPress…..what do you do?
@ericdano You do not have to move it (as far as I am aware)
We do want to move it though, our users prefer standard forums, not group forums..
@anointed Thank you for prompt reply, that’s good news
Kris
Thats strange because i copied the bbPress files from the plugin to my WP theme (child theme) and start editing from that file.
Im inside: wp-content > themes > my-child-theme > bbpress > loop-single-reply.php and i just deleted the entire basic avatar calling code because it pulling out the name, link and avatar in one php code with a in between.
I didn’t like that because it wasn’t easy to customize so i deleted that bit and placed my own easy template tags.
<div class="mpm-reply-author-avatar"><a href="<?php bbp_reply_author_url(); ?>"><?php bbp_reply_author_avatar(array('size' => '80')); ?></a></div>
Link and title are working, avatar showing up only at 40px.
Maybe something wrong with my Child Theme setup?
Strange because i have done 2 days of editing and changing a lot of bbPress codes without any errors and all changes is made showed up.
How would you turn it on in functions?
Thanks
At the moment searching the forums is turned off while it is being reworked. It is easy to turn it back on via the theme functions file, but the output results will look odd as mixing forum topics/replies together on a search results page doesn’t work to well with default templates.
Line 642 of your theme stylesheet says:
.reply {
float: right;
margin: 10px 0 0;
}
The float right is causing the problem. If you remove that rule, then the forums work just fine, however I am guessing it will have other side effects on the theme which I can’t determine myself.
@anointed
What about moving BuddyPress 1.5 forums to BBPress 2.0?
Really? I don’t see any sort of integration between BBPress 2 and BuddyPress 1.5. Seems like one wants to override the other and the two don’t work together.
Is there a way to move BuddyPress’s Forums to BBPress?
Ok sorry for triple-posting but I was wrong, this still doesn’t seem to work. I was mistaken because I had tried creating a WP Page with the same slug as I was using in Settings > Forums where you can set the Forum base to a Page’s slug. That gave me control over the page title, but not the actual theme control I’m looking for.
Wowsers, I wish I could figure this out.
Edit: Wow, that was difficult, but could have been easy. It was the template file that I was editing (and seeing no results) that confused me. I was attempting to edit the page-front-forums.php template file, and it was doing nothing. So I gave a shot at the archive-forum.php template and that worked. Not sure why the page template that states inside that it’s for the Forums Index isn’t working, but oh well…
@kriski
Transferring group forums from the old setup to the new plugin vs. is in the works.
I’m confused about this. If you have BBPress and Buddypress installed, do they work together? Does one have to migrate Buddypress to BBPress?
Ok I believe I’ve got this working, for anyone else having these issues.
1. Follow BJ’s instructions above.
2. Activiate the Child Theme via Appearance > Select that Theme
3. Don’t forget to add the add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); call to the child theme’s functions.php file
John I need this answers…
bbPress 1.1 is translated 50%, if we don’t have a Jalali date format we cannot publish it 
Having trouble getting the BBPress theme templates to work as well…
1. I followed all of the original post’s instructions, but making changes to the templates doesn’t come through on the live site.
2. I tried creating a child theme as per BJ’s suggestion above, but that wasn’t successful for me.
3. Pulled my remaining hairs out trying other solutions.
Just thought I’d mention.
I have WP + bbPress integration. For two weeks, new users who are logged in WP can not post in the forum. (“Old users” can post without problems)
I’ve tried everything! I reconfigured the integration, but has not worked. I think there is a problem with cookies but I’m not sure …
Can anyone help me?
Yay, there is! And it’s actually so obvious I should be ashamed for posting this question.
is_bbpress
More info in bbp-includes/bbp-common-template.php
Is there a conditional tag I can use in WordPress that will allow me to say “if is any BBPress page”?
This is for the BBPress Plugin specifically.
I’ve updated all my language files to the latest stable versions. You can download them on my page and use them freely wherever you want.
At the moment there are language files available for the following versions of bbPress:
1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal
1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress, released today) formal
2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress, released today) formal
Please report any errors, missing or faulty translations! Thanks!
Ich habe alle Sprachdateien für bbPress an die letzten Stable-Versionen angepasst. Du kannst sie auf meiner Seite herunterladen und sie frei verwenden, wo immer Du willst.
Derzeit sind Sprachdateien für folgende Versionen von bbPress verfügbar:
1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell
1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version, heute veröffentlicht), formell
2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress, ebenfalls heute veröffentlicht), formell
Bitte melde mir alle Fehler oder fehlende Übersetzungen, damit ich die Dateien anpassen kann. Vielen Dank!
I’ve updated all my language files to the latest stable versions. You can download them on my page and use them freely wherever you want.
At the moment there are language files available for the following versions of bbPress:
1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal
1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress, released today) formal
2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress, released today) formal
Please report any errors, missing or faulty translations! Thanks!
Ich habe alle Sprachdateien für bbPress an die letzten Stable-Versionen angepasst. Du kannst sie auf meiner Seite herunterladen und sie frei verwenden, wo immer Du willst.
Derzeit sind Sprachdateien für folgende Versionen von bbPress verfügbar:
1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell
1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version, heute veröffentlicht), formell
2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress, ebenfalls heute veröffentlicht), formell
Bitte melde mir alle Fehler oder fehlende Übersetzungen, damit ich die Dateien anpassen kann. Vielen Dank!
After I used the import wizard to import all messages from my old bbpress installation the message “Oh bother! No forums were found here!” is displayed. When I directly browse the form it seems to work, but when using the navigation the same message is displayed.
All forums are published as public, not hidden.
Any clue what might be wrong?
