[Jaja..]

You have to follow the loop and delete them from multiple files.

Delete this code: <?php bbp_breadcrumb(); ?> (from all files)

If you don’t understand how it works you can also hide this menu by CSS.

Add the following code at the bottom of the /css/bbpress.css stylesheet.

.bbp-breadcrumb { display: none!important; }

It will hide this menu on every page.

[purplesky]

Hello Anointed, may I ask what were your reasons for shifting from vbulletin to BBpress?

Im still investigating if I should go with BBpress or vbulletin, so it would help me decide if you dont mind,

thankyou.

[Andre]

@agriz – Now that bbPress 2.0 has been released I’d guess people will spend a little more time on enhancements like importers and plugins.

@ed – An importer is in the works, but it didn’t make much sense to make an importer for an unfinished piece of software.

[Andre]

There are some importers in progress, phpbb and vanilla for sure, but the only finished one I’m aware of is from bbPress 1.x.

I’d guess people were waiting for bbPress 2.0 to be done before putting too much work into an importer.

[demonboy]

Hi,

thanks for the guide. There are just a couple of things I don’t quite understand. Please can you confirm for me that this is correct?

1. I have copied the folder bbp-twentyten

2. I’ve renamed it bbp-mythemename

3. I’ve placed that folder into wp-content/themes/mythemefolder/

4. I’ve changed the functions.php in my theme folder to include the line:

<?php // forums

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

?>

Now I assume it’s the functions.php file in my main theme, and not the functions.php file in my bbp-mythemename? Either way, nothing has changed.

I’m obviously missing something very simple – could you tell me what it is?

[Ed]

I’m also interested in this.

Surely an importer is in the works, right? Cannot be that everyone starts from scratch???

[Ed]

I’m currently using punbb (also have that data exported into phpbb3), but would like to move over to bbpress 2.0

However, I can’t find any working converter.

So – is there any proven path for getting data into bbpress v2.0 from outside?

Thanks!

[Lean Sistema]

oh, thank you so much anointed, had the same issue, it helped!

[smiga]

Same question here! I want to try upgrade to bbpress 2.0, but will WPMimic V.1 work afterwards? I realy love this theme!

[smiga]

Same question here! I want to try upgrade to bbpress 2.0, but will WPMimic V.1 work afterwards? I realy love this theme!

[maziyar]

The problem is not about the updating and how should I update the BP. Right now I have a clean WordPress install without any plugins and I just add these two plugins from the plugin directory and do the instruction. But still, there is no activity stream. I’m wondering how it works at the first place for me.

John could you please tell me with clean install and without updating what would be the reason to having this problem?

thanks

[Anointed]

Now I got ya.

Ok, no, bbpress does not currently output the forums like that as you have found out.

There may be a filter for the forum output to accomplish this (display grandchild forums), but I have not yet checked.

[Anointed]

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

[Anointed]

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.

[robot6]

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.

[Anointed]

Not a waste of time at all. I try to help where I have time.

Glad it worked out.

[Anointed]

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.

[Anointed]

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.

[Anointed]

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..

[Anointed]

I don’t understand the question

[Anointed]

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' );

}

[Anointed]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

Can you confirm that you went through the BuddyPress update wizard and did not only update the plugins files through WordPress?

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.