[charlie32]

Hello,

I’ve just installed the bbPress Plugin to my site.I want to be able to lock users from editing their own profile.

I found this former thread.

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/lock-profile-editing-from-non-administrators

Could someone give me advice if the mini-plugin mentioned in this thread would work with the bbPress Plugin?

If so, how would I install it? help me please.

[ksmithtn]

I have a site that I need a programmer to look at. We’ve done a bbPress install a few months ago, and it has been having random database connection errors. This weekend, it went down completely.

Let me know if you are available to look at it for us. Thanks.

[soba]

Hi,

I am trying to display categories and subcategories in the forum’s front page. But while displaying the categories which has no topic but subcategories displays the topics as ‘0’

Forum / Category Topics Replies

Test cat1 0 0

Test Sub cat 5 8

Like that..How can i remove those ‘0’..I just want to print nothing there, i mean an empty space..

Also is it possible to install the bbpress in root and then wordpress in a foldr below that and integrate both..?

Please help..

Thanks in advance.

Soba.

[pimarts]

This site is about bbPress not about BuddyPress, you might want to try http://www.buddypress.org

If you delete or rename the buddypress folder in wp-content/plugins/ you disable the plugin.

[agriz]

I believe it will take few more years!

PHPBB will publish new versions, bbpress will publish new versions!

[yourlocal]

Is there a way that a user can mark a post as private so only they and the administrator can view? http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forum/ does a great job of adding support features, but it doesn’t allow the user to ‘hide’ their post from the public.

Any ideas/ suggestions?

[Kye]

Multisite

I prefer authorised users to be handled per blog but see the need for some people wanting it site wide. Multisite doesn’t make it easy for users to sign up to sub-blogs although there are solutions out there. Perhaps there could be a widget which would allow users to sign up to each forum individually. Allowing the admin to change the wording could give all users what they want. The widget could title as a suggestion “Join These Forums”. Logged in users would see just a button which allows them to join or leave. Non signed in users would see a log on box which would assign them rights to the forums, or a register link/form?

This way it gives all what they want and makes it easy to sign up to one and all forums. Perhaps the widget could have an option to allow “per site” or “Multisite” (all forums) sign up.

Search

I like the way that various CMS handle this. Perhaps it can display specific results (smart) when searching from a certain section but have check boxes to allow you to also search other post types which are available. Use jquery so as the boxes become checked it performs a live search.

Settings

If settings can be broken into separate meaningful page names so you know where to go when something needs changing.

[Rami Yushuvaev]

Translation Strings

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1584

[agriz]

You are using bbPress 1.0.3

I used this converter “http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release”

I didn’t check completely. But It seems everything works fine.

Passwords are not converted.

Name based permalink is not working.

Is there any way to make the Name based permalink to work?

[Chloe.Flanery]

Ok so I think I have this worked out. I copied everything out of the “bbp-twentyten” folder except functions.php. I then put these files inside my child theme folder. Then I copied everything from the functions.php within “bbp-twentyten” and pasted it into my child themes functions.php. The final step was to add theme support by placing add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); inside my child themes functions.php. This appears to be working because the forum is now pulling styling from the bbpress.css file inside my child theme. Now to try to edit some page templates.

[ssavile]

I’ve been trying to solve an integration problem between BBPress and BuddyPress. One or two online forums allude to the problem but don’t provide a satisfactory solution. Any help would be appreciated…..

The Issue:

I’m running both BBPress and BuddyPress on a WordPress 3.1 installation. Everything is working fine (I think) except for my inability to show/publish forum topics (written using the backend interface) in the front-end BuddyPress Forum. I can write and publish the forum topics at the front end, but using the backend allows me to add hyperlinks into the topic post itself – a functionality I want to use.

BBPress Tags and Forums written at the backend show in the front-end without any issues. It’s simply the topics written at the backend that don’t show in the front-end forum…..

Do I need to create some kind of integration loop that allows a synchronisation between the BBPress topic and BuddyPress forum (which essentially seem to be the same thing)? Is there a plugin that I’m missing that can resolve the issue instead…

My apologies if you have answered on this issue before – I’m on a steep learning curve with website development but am responding fast…I just need to find a written solution which is much clearer for me (and probably many others) to understand!!!!

Simon

[Chloe.Flanery]

I would like to integrate the forum with my site but as of now it seems there is no style at all. I tried to copy the files the my child theme directory but that didnt seem to work. Any ideas whats going on here? My forum is located at spurmag dot com/dev/forum

[Thomas Clausen]

1. Create a page with this shortcode [bbp-topic-index] (All shortcodes can be found here https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-short codes )

2. Go to http://websiteaddress/wp-admin/options-reading.php

3. Choose the page you created in the first step to be your static homepage.

4. There is no fourth step

[thuthuatpc]

Hello everybody, I’ve just installed WordPress and bbpress plugin. Now i can access to forum via this link http://websiteaddress.com/?post_type=forum. But i want the forum appear when we go to http://websiteaddress.com, how i do that? Please help me with this problem.

Thank so much

[Erlend]

I’ve been giving some thought to bbPress as a Q/A platform (also relates to the P2 discussion) and one problem came to mind: You can’t always tell from the beginning of a query whether you’re best served with an open-ended discussion or a ‘best-in-the-bunch’ answer placed on top, StackOverflow style. Sometimes a definitive answer will emerge, while other times a linear discussion read from top to bottom constitutes the complete answer.

I think by default you should always get the linear discussion, but it’d be great if there was a button that said “Show best answers first”. One way to solve this could be if threads allowed reordering posts based on certain parameters, in this case ‘descending order’ (post id) versus ‘best answers first’ (number of votes).

For example:

Post 1 (question)

Post 2

Post 3

Post 4

versus

Post 1 (question)

Post 3 (5 votes)

Post 4 (2 votes)

Post 2* (0 votes, *might be hidden)

Can bbPress 2.0 do this?

[Scripty2]

For a site I’m working on, we’re using GeoPlaces theme from Templatic. We installed the BBPress plugin but when we try to create a forum or a topic – it doesn’t show in the list. (It just says “no forums found” where the list of forums should be displaying. However, the “count” next to “All” and “Published” show that they’re in there somewhere. I tried changing the theme to a default theme and then everything displays, so obviously this is a theme issue – but not using this theme isn’t really an option. It had all the functionality we needed – so I need to figure out a way to hack it to play nice. Where do I begin to look to what would cause behavior like this? What would cause this kind of a conflict?

[Mike1233]

Hey there,

i see the nice bbpress Profile and dont want users look to the wordpress admin for profile. but the normal avatar plugins dont work on bbpress profile site. can everyone make a plugin for user can upload a own avatar via the bbpress profile page?

when its a premium pay plugin its okay i dont want all for nothing.

Sry for bad englisch

greetings

Mike

[CT1414]

I am new to bbpress and I am having problems integrating the forum into my website. I activated the plug-in and all the forum options are in my toolbar. Yet I can’t get the forum onto its own page on my website. I can create forum topics and access the forum using the widgets, but cannot get it on its own page. Please help and I thank you in advance

[emersonthis]

AHA!

This explains a lot! I had not copied the bbpress theme files into my wordpress theme directory. So now it makes a lot of sense that it would default to the page.php template. (I was editing the bbpress template file while they were still inside the plugins directory.) I’ll try adding the bbpress template files into my current directory. Thanks so much!

[Anointed]

@sdp

Check #2 https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility

I have no personal experience using shortcodes as I prefer having total control. What I can say is that after adding all the bbpress templates to your own theme folder and adding in the theme support function, then you have absolute total control over how you want everything to appear.

[NoahH]

Hey All,

I’d love some direction on this issue. I’m trying to create a section of my forums that is viewable only to certain members. Specifically, I use a plugin called “wishlist member” on my wordpress site (bbpress is the backend forum I’m now creating), and would like certain members to be the only ones able to access the private forums.

I’ve seen these threads here:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-you-make-a-private-forum-visible-to-some-wordpress-classes

And the members plugin they refer to there does not work when I install it (for some reason i can not save new roles on the new role screen).

Also, I’ve used the role-manager plugin to add new roles in bbpress but I can’t seem to be able to integrate that into the “private forums” plugin. Which would be one possible solution if anyobody knows.

Or if anybody knows why the members plugin from the thread above would not be functionaing correctly, that’d be awesome.

Or if anyone has an idea of an easy way to take members from my wordpress front end and make private forums viewable only to specific member roles, that’d be amazing.

Thank you all for any help / contributions!

Noah

[frankpereiro]

Ever since I installed the forum plugin everything was working fine.

Since a couple of days ago I started getting a sprintf error which I’m not able to solve.

My forum url is: http://murgalostrabas.com/nuestros-foros/

You can see the error, for example, here: http://murgalostrabas.com/forums/topic/bienvenido/

Note: I can’t write a tag in the form here, if anyone can write a the tag bbpress-plugin I’d appreciate it. Thank you very much.

[emersonthis]

If you’ve installed BBPress as a plugin (as I have), I think this is the more or less the intended behavior. There doesn’t seem to be any documentation yet, but I assume it’s supposed to act like other plugins, which should piggy-back on the current theme for their appearance. The problem I’m having is that I can’t figure out how to control this.

Small update: through trial and error I’ve determined that the “page.php” template is what’s getting used for the forum page (no matter what is assigned to the page containing the shortcode). It seems like this is somehow hardcoded into the plugin, which is too bad. It shouldn’t be hard for it to check the assigned template of the page containing the shortcode.

[Nate]

my forum is also inheriting some traits from the default theme, ignoring others, etc. basically a giant mess, as i’m using a custom theme & custom framework.

[Nate]

i’ve been fiddling with this far too long, with little to zero progress. i have a custom theme/framework that i’m using, and bbpress simply doesn’t play well.

if someone has experience theming this forum, please contact me via e-mail @ natecaminata at gmail.