[travis.hill]

Grr, I forgot to give a url, in case anyone wishes to check it out:

http://skullclan.com/forums/

[travis.hill]

Starting a new topic as I don’t wish to clutter the VERY USEFUL threaded discussion here:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

I’ve been over this topic a few times and can’t for the life of me get what I desire to work, or maybe it’s working and I’m missing something.

My current setup:

WordPress 3.2.1 (single site setup

**Child Theme**

BuddyPress 1.2.9 (disabled forums)

bbPress 2.0-RC-4

My goal is simple: I wish to use a different sidebar within my forum pages to display information that is forum specific, rather than my default sidebar’s contents and widgets.

I’m pretty fluent in WordPress, customizing things and the like. I understand how to display different sidebars and such within WordPress, depending on pages, etc..

My issue:

When I activated bbPress and navigated to my forum, everything displayed a treat. It was PERFECT (minus some CSS for colors and width, etc). I figured I would be cracking into the code just to get it to display correctly within my theme, but it put it right where it belonged within my theme.

When I decided I would like to take advantage of a different sidebar, things started to go out of place.

Following along with the discussion at http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility, I:

1. Copied the files within wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/

into my child theme folder:

wp-content/themes/%child-theme-dir%/ – minus fuctions.php and style.css.

2. I added add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); into my child theme’s fuctions.php file.

Upon uploading and refreshing, my theme was broken. The forums were being displayed above everything. At the time, this wasn’t much of an issue, as I figured I could modify the files I copied within wp-content/themes/%child-theme-dir%/ much the same way I modified BuddyPress templates to work within my child theme, but alas, these modifications did not work. In other words – any modifications I made to files from plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/ into themes/%child-theme-dir%/ did not work.

3. Instead of “merging” bbPress functions.php and css/bbpress.css with my child theme files, I copied bbPress’s functions.php, created a new file within my child theme, copied the contents of bbPress’s functions.php into this file and included it from my functions.php file. I used an @import clause within my child theme CSS file to import bbpress.css. This all seemed to work, as using Firebug confirmed bbpress.css was imported.

Again I uploaded and refreshed, but the theme is still broken, much the same way it already was.

So for now I’ve reverted everything back to the “vanilla” install of bbPress, and everything is back to normal, minus a unique sidebar.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

[enderandrew]

That is why I cited it. That particular plugin obviously isn’t designed for, nor will work for bbPress 2.0. The link that was posted above returns 67 plugins. 4 of the first 8 results are from 2010 or earlier.

I was looking through 20 of those plugins the other day, and only one specified it worked with bbPress 2.0. That is why I posed the question. You answered that the WordPress plugin repository shouldn’t have any older bbPress plugins, but it does have plenty of old and incompatible plugins, hence the need to try and ascertain which actually are designed to work for bbPress 2.0.

[theurbantwist]

I like a lot of you on here obviously want bbpress to be implemented into my site.

And I like a lot of you have been having issues getting everything installed and working correctly.

I’m writing this post because I got things going finally on my site and it really isn’t as hard as I was making it and some of you are from what I’m seeing.

I just wanted to share a few simple things that I learned along my journey and hopefully this post can steer some of you in the right direction.

My forum is located at http://www.theurbantwist.com/community by the way. Ignore banner at top of page as that’s just a placeholder for when I get my official forum logo designed.

First things first…

I followed the instructions to a “t” from this post:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

I have a custom theme, so I copied all files over, created child theme and all of that jazz, and added theme support.

At this point I just knew that I was going to be finished because when I went to dashboard, it stated that my theme now had bbpress support. Everything was coming together just as how the instructions above would lead me to believe.

The feeling was brief as when I actually went to the forum page, it was completely blank other than the breadcrumb trail at the top…my header and footer was present but everything else in the middle (the content area) was gone.

So me being familiar with wordpress themes and because I’m so used to “pimping” out themes for wordpress…I tried to do the same with bbpress, so I dissected and went over the code in those files I copied over into my main theme as if it were a wordpress theme and changed some things around thinking I needed to add some template tags here and there to get forum to work.

I did all of that and guess what? Nothing changed…same blank space as before.

So I then went into the plugin file itself and tried modifying the theme from there.

Still…nothing changed.

So I went backwards through the steps and started deleting steps to get back to where I was at originally and along the way, after I removed the theme support for bbpress, the forum showed up on my page. The CSS wasn’t matching my theme, but at least I had a start.

I then modified my css file to match certain elements of the twenty-ten default bbpress theme and mow I’m making progress. The theme is pretty much right where I want it be.

The only thing that was missing was that I wanted a topic listing of all topics on forum front page.

And here is where things really got easy and I wish I would have done this from the start.

I simply created a page.

I named page “community” to match my forum settings and I added 2 lines of code.

[bbp-forum-index]

[bbp-topic-index]

And voila! Now I have forum just the way I want it barring a couple of graphical changes which I’m working on.

The reason I went in detail about how I came to a solution for myself is that sometimes we do a LOT of unecessary stuff to get to where we need to be. I’ve wasted a LOT of time trying to manipulate the plugins files and my theme’s files, when all I needed to do was to create a page.

Bottom line and this is definitely something you should try if you are having problems.

1. Install and activate plugin.

2. Add a Page

3. Add those 2 lines of code above.

4. Publish.

You then have your forum. And that’s a start.

Cheers!

[John James Jacoby]

If that plugin is only for bbPress 2.0, yes please

[John James Jacoby]

From the page you linked above:

Currently support bbPress 0.9.0.5, 1.0-RC-3 And BuddyPress 1.0.1

[enderandrew]

Out of the 67 plugins that come up, some go back to 2009, such as this one.

So I’m not sure it is safe to assume they all are designed for bbPress 2.0.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-latest-discussion/

Since many of the plugins don’t specify, and there isn’t a list here, I guess I’m going to have to go with trial and error.

[John James Jacoby]

The WordPress plugin repository should not have any bbPress 1.x plugins in it. The ones that are there have descriptions that explain what they do. It may not be obvious at first, but with a little reading it should become clear.

[John James Jacoby]

Patches welcome.

[John James Jacoby]

Yavelcome!

[Benjamin Allison]

AMAZING!

Thanks man.

[John James Jacoby]

Either delete the physical WP page, or put the bbp-forum-index short-code in it. bbPress assumes if there is a page already where the slug is, that you are manually overriding it.

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like st missing files. Try reinstalling and check back.

[tomerwin]

Hello everybody, good to be here

I installed this morning bbpress plugin (used the automatic installation without downloading and uploading the plugin’s files); the minute I activated the plugin, wordpress refreshed and I can’t access my WordPress dashboard. The blog works just fine (http:/www.egyptian-gods.info) but I can’t access the dashboard at http://www.egyptian-gods.info/wp-login , I tried to log on http://www.egyptian-gods.info/wp-login.php and it opens OK asking for my username and password, but the minute I log in, it takes me to my homepage egyptian-gods.info instead of the dashboard.

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

Adam

[Benjamin Allison]

And, I can navigate directly to a sub-page under forums, and it works… just not the main forums page.

[Benjamin Allison]

Yessir!

[John James Jacoby]

Is there a physical WordPress page with the “forums” slug?

[John James Jacoby]

The BuddyPress plugin repo is an automated theme layer on top of the plugins in the WordPress repo that are tagged with “BuddyPress”

The bbPress plugin repo is still a dedicated repo for 1.0 version plugins.

[John James Jacoby]

Are you using a plugin that is being greedy with it’s query filtering?

Nothing in bbPress core should be limiting it to 5.

[John James Jacoby]

BuddyPress selfishly takes over the “register” slug. If you’d rather use bbPress, you’ll need to make a WordPress page with a different slug.

[Andre]

bbpress 2.0 uses WordPress themes. bbPress 0.x and 1.x use bbPress themes.

You would add the line “add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );” to the functions.php file of a WordPress theme so it knows to play nice with bbPress 2.x.

[jabbamonkey]

First off, when a download a bbpress theme, does it need to be a theme that was specifically created for 2.0? Or can I use a 1.0 theme? If I need 2.0 themes, where is a good place to get 2.0 themes, cause most places have the old themes?

On the theme guide for 2.0 …

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

It says…

…you’ll need to tell bbPress that you are in control of the theme situation. You do this by adding this to your functions.php file:

add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

Where is the functions.php file? I downloaded a new template (http://www.awesomestyles.com/bbpress-themes/view/businesslike) and placed it in my wp-content/themes/mythemename-child folder. There is no functions.php file there.

I also looked in my bbpress plugin directory (located in wp-content/plugins/bbpress). I dont see a functions.php file. I checked the directories in there … in bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/ there is a functions.php … but I don’t want to use that theme!

That’s the start of my questions. Please help. Want to get this configured.

[enderandrew]

That is a good point in that you can define other slugs to stop them from colliding. I just assumed that most people wouldn’t want two different forum implementations running at the same time with inconsistent experiences. But YMMV.

And to clarify, by Network Activated, are you referring to a multi-site install? I’m not running WordPress MU and Site Tracking is visible to me. That may be a BuddyPress bug I need to submit.

[Benjamin Allison]

Oh, forum functionality in BP is disabled. It was disabled from the get go.

In my Forums setting for bbPress, it’s using the slug “forums.” And when I go to the page directly, I’m not getting a 404, so it is “there,” but nothing from the forums is showing up either.

[enderandrew]

Sorry, I meant 1.0. But my point remains that if you search for bbPress in the WordPress plugin repository, there is no indication which plugins are designed for bbPress 1.0 and which are designed for 2.0.