[iamxquisite]

Alright everyone so I have installed bbpress in my blog that already existed in with wordpress.

Now the question is I want to install a plugin into my forum but it says something about i need to put it in /my-plugins directory so i have checked under the /bbpress directory in my site which looks like /blog/bbpress and i dont see any directory called /my-plugins

Should i just install it into the blog/wp-content/plugins will it work that way??

[mouridis]

I’m greek and I have a WordPress blog in greek running bbpress RC4.

The problem with using greek in your blog is the use of non-latin characters in the titles of the posts. This leads to the creation of slugs with non-latin characters and consequently pretty-permalinks with non-latin characters. That -of course- is a problem because URLs look nice in the address bar of your browser i.e.

http://deltahacker.gr/2011/08/19/πάρα-πολύ-καλά-νέα-αυτό/

but when you copy the URL to paste it somewhere else -in an email for example-, the same URL becomes:

http://deltahacker.gr/2011/08/19/%CF%80%CE%AC%CF%81%CE%B1-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%BB%CF%8D-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CE%BB%CE%AC-%CE%BD%CE%AD%CE%B1-%CE%B1%CF%85%CF%84%CF%8C/

To resolve this problem, greek blog owners can use the plugin Greeklish-Permalings (from the words Greek & English). This plugin adds a filter on the sanitize_title function of WordPress with a new function that converts every non-latin character to a similar latin. For example, the greek alpha character “α” becomes the latin alpha character “a” and so on. So when someone creates a new post, and wordpress tries to create a slug automatically, sanitize-title is called, which is hooked to the plugin, and so a slug with only latin characters is created, even if there are non-latin characters in the title.

You can see the code of this very small plugin on my dropbox:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1816074/greeklish-permalinks.php

The problem is that the plugin does not work with bbpress titles. If a forum or topic title contains greek (non-latin) characters, they are not converted to latin even if the plugin is enabled. Does someone know why is this happening?

Doesn’t bbpress call the sanitize_title function? Do not plugin function filters work for custom post types?

[pete@aodny.com]

I just feel like this should be a much simpler task being that this is a forum plugin made for wordpress by wordpress. Why do I have to make a theme for a plugin for my theme that I already made for it’s parent.

I am sorry, but I refuse to make 2 themes for all of the future sites I make just to support a plugin.

[pete@aodny.com]

I just feel like this should be a much simpler task being that this is a forum plugin made for wordpress by wordpress. Why do I have to make a theme for a plugin for my theme that I already made for it’s parent.

I am sorry, but I refuse to make 2 themes for all of the future sites I make just to support a plugin.

[Adam]

I am wondering how to allow users to login in and use the forums. easy enough you would think. But I have never tested or had a site where users had to sign up. my other site (multisite so I have three) uses buddy press and thats all fine and dandy. as they sign up, and they are returned to buddy press. Will users signing up for my site be returned to the home page? will they have admin pannel (post new posts, edit themes, install plugins) rights? if so How do i remove that?

I am very cautious about this how ever I want to allow users to use the forums, hence why I am creating them…

my second issue is that when I am logged in, as the site admin, and I go to a forum and a test topic and hit any of the “admin” buttons for moderating a forum I get the following issues:

edit: refreshes the page

close: refreshes the page

Stick (to front): refreshes the page

merge, trash and spam: refreshes the page.

on local host these all work.

I am using multi site on the live site and I have this plugin activated for one of my three sites. on local host I am NOT using multi site.

Also, How will bbpress plugins work for bbpress 2.0? the same as before? or will we install them as regular plugins and just activate them?

[common8308]

I’ve installed all the recent versions of Buddypress and BBpress. WP is 3.1.2.

Can anyone just let me know if the view button in the activity stream works well in your sites?

[common8308]

I updated from bbpress 2.0 beta-2 to the recent version of bbpress, and I was excited to find the forum topics and replies shown in the buddypress activity stream. First I want to thank you for developing this really nice feature.

The thing is that when I click “view” button in the activity stream, the link is not redirected to the original forum topic or reply, and it’s just redirected to this kind of URL. rootURL/activity/p/26442/

Is this a known bug or am I the only one having this problem? Thanks in advance for your reply!

[Andre]

@ghostchoja – It seems like you are trying to use a bbPress 1.0 theme with bbPress 2.0. bbPress 2.0 uses WordPress themes, not bbPress themes.

[GHOSTChoja]

SOrry Tom, I didn’t understand any of that mate

[tomunthank]

The bbpress 2.0 install theme bbp-twentyten and not functioning properlly. the pgn seems to missing or corrupted and does show on the install theme page in wordpress. I have not looked any of the code so i do know if there is also a code problem.

[be.green]

As it turns out – although I deactivated and removed plugins, the WordPress plugin ‘W3 Total Cache’ leaves remnant files in wordpress’s ‘mysite.com/wp-content/’ directory that conflict with the Deep Integration.

Upon explicitly removing those ‘W3 Total Cache’ plugin .php files ~ I was able to reinstall bbpress and Deep Integrate successfully.

[GHOSTChoja]

Just to make your insight a bit clearer here’s what I’ve done thus far and the dead-ends I’ve encountered:

Below I have used the instructions with the Static Red Theme:

2. Installation

---

Quick guide:

1) If this is your first custom theme, you will have to create a directory called “my-templates” inside

your bbPress root directory

>>>The only BBPress directory I could find was in the WordPress ‘plugin’ directory. This gave me:

/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/my-templates<<<

2) Upload entire static-red/ folder to your my-templates folder

>>>Yep, did that<<<

3) Activate the theme from your ACP under Appearance

>>>This does not show anything relating to any of the BBPress themes I have installed <<<

[GHOSTChoja]

Hi JJK…

I too am losing my mind with BBPress… I’ve been using WordPress for some time and run a site for my photography business.

I’ve just built a games site for a bunch of fellas who enjoy gaming and we’d like to use WordPress and BBPress to get a swanky forum going.

I installed BBPress as a plugin and all seemed well until I went to the ‘Themes’ page which reads: ‘Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.’

I’ve scoured the Net and found no answers to this issue. Can you please help so I don’t lose anymore hair?

Many thanks!

[GHOSTChoja]

I am having exactly the same problem! I’m amazed at the lack of clarity around getting BBPress to work with WordPress.

Oh no wait… I’m not.

Hope someone who knows can post something useful in here.

Cheers

[Adam]

No I said I managed to get it to work. How ever when visiting the page with the topic or forum its a WordPress page. When NOT using that code snippit i got the 404 page

I don’t understand your sticky post on how to make a theme (I am assuming WordPress themes can be created into) compatibility with bbpress.

for what I understand of that sticky since I am the author of my theme I go into the bbpress default theme and copy all the files out of there and paste them into my theme. This would over ride things like my css, functions and possibly other files. what would you suggest to do to get around this (instead of creating a child theme).

So here is what I did – as I read the sticky like 10 times:

I copied all the files, except for the style and the functions.php and pasted them into my theme. these are the files from the from the bbpress default theme and pasted into my current wordpress theme. I then added the php code snipit to my functions.php like the sticky states. I then activated it (the theme) and went to where the forums should be. I am now getting 404 errors.

ideas?

[Adam]

I was confused by the sticky hence why I asked. Also so since I didnt do that and this is a wordpress theme how would I make it so that bbpress seamlessly integrates with it? if possibly? because with out this line I get 404 pages when going to the forum section…

[John James Jacoby]

Only add that line if YOU have taken control of bbPress’s theming with a custom theme. Meaning, YOU have physically created all the files bbPress expects. If you haven’t, don’t tell bbPress you’ve added add theme support. This is outlined in the sticky topic at the forum index.

[Adam]

I have a single install of bbpress, no other plugins and i am using a theme in which I placed: add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); in the functions.php file. When creating a forum and testing it out I am taken toa page where I get a 404 error….

this theme is a wordpress theme. I managed to get it to work….No not really. the forums do not seem to work properly with ordinary wordpress themes. is there no smooth integration between the two?

[Adam]

use order. if your in bbpress use order.

[jabbamonkey]

When using BuddyPress with BBpress, it acts all screwy…

[bbp-topic-index] and [bbp-topic-form] both show “BLOG ARCHIVES NOT FOUND” when I use those short codes:

http://montecristoowners.com/topics/

[bbp-login] and [bbp-lost-pass] don’t work at all. Just show the title of the page … with no content at all.

[bbp-register] is the only one that works, pointing the user to registration page.

[Jared Atchison]

If you have pretty permalinks turned on (eg mysite.com/about instead of myside.com/?p=14) bbPress should automatically configure mysite.com/forums by default.

It’s possible you need to “flush” your permalinks for this to take affect. To do this just go to the Settings > Permalinks page, merely navigating to the page will trigger the flush.

Assuming your theme using the WP Menu system you should be able to just go to Appearances > Menus and add a link to the forums that way.

[Jared Atchison]

Have you tried using one of the shortcodes to generate the forum index?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

It looks like your theme is displaying the forums with an archive view instead of using bbP’s forum view.

[Jared Atchison]

Alright, marking this as done.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1622

Latest round of commits fixes everything, including pagination. Enjoy Genesis goodness.

//edit: i cant spell >_<

[fontadoni]

Hi,

I had a user complain that he had finished writing a long post and after trying to publish it, he got a message saying “post to old” and lost all he had written.

I’m wondering if there is a setting I need to change so this doesn’t happen again? I’m using bbPress 1.0.3. Thanks in advance for your help.

[SRobbins]

I need a lot of help. I installed bbPress, and figured it would ask me configuration during the process… it did not.

I have 2 problems:

1) I dont know how to set up a link in my menu bar for my forum.

2) I assumed it would ask me where I want to forums to exist to the outside world. I want them at http://www.mysite.com/forums. but I have no clue where it stuck them.

the mysite.com is running wordpress right on it. A lot of the helpo I have found involves editing PHP code. While im a net geek I cant read PHP greek speak.

Its a freash install so I dont need to worry about breaking thread links and the likes. Please help.