[John James Jacoby]

I can’t even begin to guess what is going on there.

[Oystein]

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?

[bobbyh44]

== 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

[cantregister2]

sorry about the garbled code above. I tried to edit it so that it shows up clean, but bbpress won’t let me.

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Investigating further, this seems to be a known memory leak in PHP:

http://paul-m-jones.com/archives/262

[trickslide]

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

[Clicknathan]

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.

[Clicknathan]

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?

[demonboy]

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.

[Erhnam]

Also here:

http://www.xbmcfreak.nl/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/bbpress20-bug1.jpg

[miruru]

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?

[venividi]

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.

[robot6]

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.

[Erhnam]

DO you mean the bbpress recount tool? Yes all steps were complete!

[Jaja..]

@ Clicknathan,

Did you copy-/paste all files from the plugins (bbPress folder) to your Child Theme folder?

If you did so, you have the functions.php file from bbPress inside the Child Theme folder and i have been looking inside that functions.php file and at line: 120 there is already a code that says:

public function add_theme_support() {

add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );

}

Thats why i didn’t added the add_theme_support code.

Everything seems to work for me but i really have no idea if i’m doing it correct.

If somebody has a tutorial website that explains it better (how to setup a Child Theme bbPRess) post it here.

I would like to learn it the right way, not that i’m telling other people wrong info.

[maziyar]

Thanks John for reply,

Yesterday I saw there is an available update for both bbpress and Buddypress. I updated both of them and still can’t see anything in my activity stream.

The wiret part is, I’ve done 10 clean installations with both single and multisite wordpress since yesterday. In Windows and Linux. Everything is working except activity stream still not showing from bbpress.

With new BP1.5 that released yesterday there is no doubt in order to installing these to plugins. First BP and after that we should instal bbpress from the BP settings.

Am I right? No changes any where? any tricks?

[Jaja..]

Thanks JJJ.

I love how easy it is to understand the WP Codex.

At this point i’m looking at this page:

http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/

But it’s not as easy as the WP codex.

[Jaja..]

Thanks JJJ.

I love how easy it is to understand the WP Codex.

At this point i’m looking at this page:

http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress-plugin/

But it’s not as easy as the WP codex.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll be putting together a codex in the coming weeks. Just dropping an update that eventually we can unsticky these topics and have a real place for documentation.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll be putting together a codex in the coming weeks. Just dropping an update that eventually we can unsticky these topics and have a real place for documentation.

[John James Jacoby]

If the integration between bbPress and BuddyPress isn’t working, it might be because BuddyPress is in maintenance mode and needs to be updated. In that instance, bbPress turns itself off since BuddyPress may not be reliable loaded.

[John James Jacoby]

If you have a custom theme (one which you control and maintain yourself) you can create a file named ‘bbpress.php’ in the root of your theme to act as the “wrapper” template for all of your forum content.

[John James Jacoby]

Template files prefixed with ‘page-‘ are for WordPress pages, and also reserved for actual Page Template designs. It’s a bit confusing, but you quickly adapt.

WordPress custom post types use the ‘archive-‘ prefix to denote the default fallback template file if you have not created a WordPress page using the page template in its place.

You could also create a WordPress page with the slug ‘forums’ and make a template called ‘page-forums.php’ and bbPress would default to that too. There are several ways to skin this cat, and bbPress comes with the ones that are tho most flexible.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll be on a work related trip through October 1, so my availability to help will be diminished. In the meantime be sure to keep your eyes out for plugin conflicts, and please document any duplicatable bugs you find at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org.

Moderators, the power is yours.

[John James Jacoby]

Is this after importing from bbPress 1.0? If not, do you have any plugins installed that might be altering the queries is strange ways?

[John James Jacoby]

@Andre – you’d need to do some switch_to_blog() action to pull it off, but it’s doable.