Is there a way to search the forums/topics via a search tool?
This is now possible:
http://testbp.org/2011/08/forum-shortcode-as-comments/
Though it’s still unclear to me whether or not this relies on BuddyPress 1.5, the environment in which this functionality is showcased. It would be a very odd dependency though, so I’m hoping this would also be possible with WP + BBP alone.
#1
for main forum, edit single-forum.php file to remove
<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_notices' ); ?>
do the same thing for single-topic.php
***I am assuming you are using your own theme and are not editing the original bbpress files, but rather the files you add to your own theme.
#2
sorry, I have not yet dug through the core enough to answer this one. I’m guessing you can pass an argument to the topic output, but can’t say for sure.
#3
You will need to modify a ton of templates to do this one.
basically you are looking for:
<?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?>
and replacing it with:
<?php bbp_breadcrumb( array('include_home' => false, 'include_root' => false) ); ?>
That basically says: do not print the ‘home’ link, and do not print the ‘forums’ link before the single forum link.
include_home = ‘home’
include_root = ‘forums’
Hope that helps.
I have a bbpress (classic) install with WP deep integration, and figured I’d get a head start on formatting my test install for the eventual release of the plug in. So far I’ve got almost everything styled nicely just using CSS, but I’m stuck on removing a few things that seem to clutter up the presentation of the forum.
1. Does anyone know how to remove the “This forum contains X topics and X replies, and was last updated…” from the main Forum and topic pages?
2. How about how to remove the modification history section and the post # display from posts.
3. Remove the extraneous breadcrumbing, right now it’s Site>Forums>Forum as the default ‘Forum” page. Seems like one level too deep for default bbpress forum starting point. SInce my site will only have 1 forum, is there a way to clean up the sloppiness or at least hide the useless ‘Forums’ link in the breadcrumb?
HI,
Is there a shortcode for a searchform?
Xander
‘techy’ fix: (requires php experience)
the bbp_has_topics() function appears to function almost exactly like the wordpress loop.
In the bbpress plugin folder /bbp-includes/bbp-topic-template.php line 68 is the bbp_has_topics function.
It takes the parameter post_parent which you can assign as the id of the forum you are trying to pull posts from. There are also a number of other parameters you can set as well.
‘non-techy’ fix: someday I am guessing there will be a widget available which will let you make the filters with a gui.
You are correct, do not bring over the functions.php and style.css files when using your own custom theme.
To handle this issue simply copy the information from the bbpress functions file and add it to your theme functions file. You can do the same for buddypress.
*It is actually better to simply rename the bbpress functions file and then use an include in your theme functions file. Helps to keep things clean
For the css, I would rename the file and enqueue it in your functions file.
I managed to migrate a vbulletin site with 300k posts and 40k users to bbpress 2x and have no problems. I am running dedicated servers, but really don’t see much difference in the server load after switching the forums over. Overall bbpress 2x should scale just fine.
The forum software has been through several years of development. I’ve seen earlier versions of it used on high(er) traffic websites and it seems to do quite well.
The issue I’m running into is the lack of current version plugins for basic features, such as reply with quotes which seems to have last been updated like 4 years ago. I’m sure with BB2.0 and the integration between WP/BP/BB we should start to see some real life in this community. Vbulletin is great as a standalone board, but does not tie in well with wordpress.
Rule of thumb; Be sure to do lots of trial and error to make sure your plugins are working without issue before you go live on a production site.
phew, i meant functions.php 
hi
i have searched the forums for a solution, but havent found anything relevant.
anyway, i am developing a custom theme for WordPress + buddyPress. lets call it My Awesome Template.
all the theme’s files are in wp-content/themes/awesome.
there, ive got my own style.css and functions.css. in style.css i have defined Template: bp-default, and as i am creating a child theme for buddyPress with a few overrides.
now, i want to work the same way with bbPress. i cant copy over the contents of bbp-twentyten into My Awesome Template folder (wp-content/awesome/), because this overwrites my own functions.php and style.css.
i want to overwrite only certain files, so for example i want to change the main forums index and topics list.
in my perfect world i would do it like this:
add_theme_support (bbpress)
and then i would just create two files: bbpress-forums.php and bbpress-topics.php and then id put there my own html.
is this possible? if im not able to choose my own filenames, then please tell me which files to copy where EXACTLY.
thanks.
Hi guys,
At the first time I installed WPMU+BP 1.5-beta-3+latest bbpress from plugin directory. It’s working perfect on my latest WAMP on Win7. I have both group discussion(built-in bbpress on BP) and the bbpress Forum which you can handle it from Admin panel. Fully integrated with BP1.5-bera-3 Activity Stream. Whatever you do is going to be on your Activity Stream right on time. Even if you mention someone in forum is going to be OK too.
Funny thing is I can’t do the same thing anymore! I tried to do that on Ubuntu server 11.04 with latest XAMPP+ Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 with latest XAMPP. Second one(Mac OS X) is not possible because released XAMPP it’s not up to date enough(PHP still old version and not working for BP-beta-3 or for any other reseaons).
On Ubuntu(or Debian, CentOS), everything is working perfect except Activity Stream and mention thing. Even now I’ve been trying to do the same thing with another installation on WAMP on Windows, it’s not working. I’ve done it 100 times with different strategies. Old or new, I did all of them. Even I check Server time and time zone in WP settings. Still not working.
I almost forgot what I did at the first time! As far as I know based on comparing with the first one which is working well, what ever I create in bbpress it’s not gonna insert in any of wp_bb_ tables.
I’ve done every clean installation on three different OS(Win, Ubuntu, Mac OS X) with latest release WAMP, LAMP, and XAMPP.
Please give me a something, anything.
Thanks
BBPress Widgets: Topics List / Reply List …..
Although forums are marked as private the widgets will list latest topics and replies for logged-out users and users which shouldn’t even be able to see the topic title. Got me? Just try it out yourself. This should be changed before going final cause it’s a security issue. Once marked as private it should be really private!
I’m now using bbpress 2.0 and buddypress 1.2.10 and the shortcodes and widgets have been very useful to the not so techy users like me.
The situation is that I want to show only one forum’s latest topics, is there any plan for releasing shortcodes with more detailed options or a way to make it possible manually?
Thank you in advance!
Hi, We’re new to this, so be gentle.
We’re looking at starting an on-line mag, with plenty of pages/articles and have gone a fair way down the road to populating our site, which is run on WordPress. We’d like to have an inbuilt forum as part of the features on the site, and want to encourage people to post on the forum, as opposed to the end of our articles (or blog posts). My question is, is there a limit to the amount of total members/members on line at any given time/forum topics that bbpress can handle?
Perhaps this won’t be an issue if we fall flat on our face. But, you know, we hope to be wildly successful and popular….
Also, does anyone reading this have blog with an inbuilt forum that you could post a link to, just so I can see how it comes together?
Thanks.
I also have the same problem. Is it possible that the theme is not compatible with the bbpress 2.0 plugin?
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The best fix would be to use a standalone BBPRess syncing with the WordPress database, and then, somehow making it have the same theme?
alrighty, with your help, anointed, I’m getting the hang of this now. I’ve created new pages with bbpress shortcodes, and linked them accordingly. Now I am testing the registration process and I have one question.
Instead of having new users login via the WordPress Dashboard, can I make it so they stay at the frontend? Does that make sense? I do not want them logging into any kind of WordPress backend.
Thanks again buddy.
@tyskkvinna – The forum that comes with BuddyPress is 1.0ish. I don’t know exactly which version, but it’s not based on the bbPress plugin. I think that will change in the future.
bbpress comes with a login/register widget which you can add to your sidebar.
I am so confused here. I have installed the bbPress forum on my website via the link below, but how do people register to post and reply to topics? There’s no visible link.
http://theviruslibrary.com/forums/
I am using the default Twenty Ten theme, WP version 3.2.1.
Do I need to install BuddyPress to allow people to login? Thanks in advance.
I took a quick glance at your site and noticed a few things. Mainly the style sheet from the theme you are using has a lot of conflicts with bbpress. It is going to take a lot of modification to make it look right within that particular theme.
*It is not the fault of the theme or bbpress that everything does not look right out of the box. It just happens that there are a few conflicts and as I don’t know your theme code I can’t tell how big a job it would be to fix.
No, I’m afraid you can’t use bbPress with WordPress.com since that service doesn’t allow the user to add plugins at all and the folks at Automattic have not seen fit to add the ability to create bbPress forums to their service. You’ll need a domain name, a web host, and copy of WordPress running on it.
With the very exciting new “forum shortcode as comments” feature currently being tested on testbp.org, quite a few questions come to mind. Seeing as the test site isn’t really meant for real conversations, I’ll ask my questions here.
(1) For starters, I’m assuming this will also work without BuddyPress in the mix?
(2) What if I’m running a multisite, separating content into two or more blogs?
example.com – main blog and forum.
devblog.example.com – secondary blog, no forum.
So in the instance that I make a post on devblog.example.com that I’d like to attach a forum thread to, would that be possible?
(3) Has this been tested with different post formats?
(4) Also, the idea of multiple posts pointing to the same forum topic is very cool, but what about the other way around?
Say I write a post about an already addressed topic (there is an existing thread about it) but I would like to open a new thread of discussion for some fresh opinions. Being able to point to multiple threads would be very handy. Maybe there’d have to be one main topic, but others could be added as links, pretty much like a pingback.
(5) Showing the first post in the forum thread in the blog post, especially in your example, seems counter-intuitive to me. Have you considered (tried) working around that?