I have found a couple of bugs, or conflicts with other modules.
Where is the best location to post these?
Here’s what I found so far:
Wordpress 3.2.1
bbPress 2.0 RC3
Twenty Ten Theme
Bug 1) When using WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin, I am able to set the Page Title for forums, topics, and replies. This works for topics/replies, but for forums, the token is displayed instead of the site name.
Settings: %%title%% | %%sitename%%
Output is: My First Forum | %%sitename%%
It should be: My First Forum | My Site Name
Bug 2) When using the Rating-Widget to 5 star ratings of posts/pages/comments, etc, You cannot turn off the ratings stars for forums, forum topics. These should only show up when viewing the individual topics, not in the indexes.
I can’t see a way to turn this off for forums or forum topic indexes.
I can send a screenshot to explain the issue.
Can you make a new forum for bbpress 2.0x.
I’m new to the community, and I want to make the comment that it is very difficult to decipher old content/plugins/bug reports for bbpress 1.0 which are no longer relevant to bbpress 2.0x.
Thanks
I am new to this forum but quite impressed with all the support stuff here. My bbpress forum and topic pages are taking time to load. Can someone please look into http://www.pharmaatmorning.com and and let me know if there is anything visibly wrong? I am hosted with ipage.
Thing about that is you wouldn`t be taking advantage of the lightweight nature of comments, which is ideal for simple reactions but not so much extended discussions. Actually I really like the term ‘reactions’, as that’s where I draw the line between a comment and a conversation. I’ve updated my mockup to reflect that. Here’s the updated image:
https://i.imgur.com/y09EW.png
You’d also be confined to a single thread of discussion, which is the key limitation this plugin would resolve. Look at the linked TED page and you’ll see pretty much the exact setup I’m looking for.
Another reason to use comments is that if you’re using a P2-like theme you can enable near real-time comments on your article. This is only possible with WP comments, not posts.
Oh, and then there’s the many types of plugins that facilitate unregistered commenting. Besides anonymous comments, there are plugins to enable posting with a Facebook/Twitter/Google account without actually registering to the site, but just to avoid spam.
Finally, I actually think this “comment conversion” approach would be less of a hack than using bbPress in place of comments. It’s a one way conversion, from one standard data format to another. Removing the plugin only removes the conversion method; what’s left is perfectly standard data, ready for export etc.
In the end it comes down to what you need for your website. Check out “use bbPress in place of wordpress comments” if you want to continue discussing the setup you have in mind.
@blupp: This is exactly what I’m looking for. I’ll see if I can come up with a cleaner version. I’m not a php/bbPress expert, so if anyone can jump in on this, it would be much appreciated!
Thanks I added the short code to create a new page that shows up on the menu line. I used the following…
[bbp-login]
[bbp-register]
[bbp-lost-pass]
[bbp-topic-index]
[bbp-topic-form]
At this location..
http://jeff-foliage.com/fall-foliage-forum/
My only question is there anything better I can do with the shortcodes to implement the login and register page?
Jeff
I am using the twenty eleven theme currently unmodified and using the [bbp-forum-index] short code to display the forums. The forums are displaying correctly however I have set my template page to have a side bar as it should according to the page code I’m using.
My question is: Does the short tag use it’s own template? Is that why the page is not rendering as any other page? ie: no sidebar when it should have one.
I will be making my own child theme with bbpress support, but that won’t be until I finish a plugin I’m working on first.
http://bregandaerth.just-us.net is the site. The forums page should look like all the other pages, but it does not.
Thank you
I’ll try relevanssi too !
You can change it at /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress. You probably want to uncheck the “Incude the Forum Base slug in your single forum item links” box.
Thanks for the short-codes John… but as a completely new user of bbPress how exactly do I use these? What is the proper structure, for instance, if I create a new page in wp and want to add this to the HTML?
The reason I ask is because I’ve been having problems getting bbPress setup properly and have posted this problem already in the forums but from what I gather – 1 or more of these short-codes might be the fix for my problem. Here is a snippet of my previous post stating the actual problem I’m having:
I’ve installed bbPress (2.0 version) and had a few problems then deleted it and re-installed. Now, when I go the “Forums” tab in wp-admin and I try to either edit the “draft” forum or add a new forum I get the naming option as:
http://www.maghosttrappers.com/forums/forum/????? (??? = whatever I type in as name)
Is this the correct settings? ie. /forums/forum/whatever_I_name … seems a little long and redundant…
I wasn’t sure if by re-installing I had caused a problem or if this being the “beta version” it was setup to not write over an existing forum…
Either way, can anyone tell me where and how to change this if possible (at least take out one of the “forum” parts?
Any ideas on how to fix this?
Thanks,
Scott
Hi,
I’ve installed bbPress (2.0 version) and had a few problems then deleted it and re-installed. Now, when I go the “Forums” tab in wp-admin and I try to either edit the “draft” forum or add a new forum I get the naming option as:
http://www.maghosttrappers.com/forums/forum/????? (??? = whatever I type in as name)
Is this the correct settings? ie. /forums/forum/whatever_I_name … seems a little long and redundant…
I wasn’t sure if by re-installing I had caused a problem or if this being the “beta version” it was setup to not write over an existing forum…
Either way, can anyone tell me where and how to change this if possible (at least take out one of the “forum” parts?
While I’ve got a little WP experience I’m completely new to bbPress so try to keep in simple 
aka. in “Lamon’s terms” ~ that is my last name after all LOL
Thanks,
Scott Lamon
I would suggest only Register link be displayed. Forgot Password would be on the failed login screen.
Hello,
For what it is worth I have the same issue on this combination:
BBPress 1.0.3
WP: 3.2.1
bbPress Integration Plugin – latest from wordpress plugins repository as of 7/25/2011
Any ideas on where I should start?
The bbAdmin user can post new topics, forums, replies, etc however any other user type does not have an option to add a new topic or reply to existing topic, but they can SEE topics, forums and posts made by the bbPress admin.
Thanks in Advance,
Ben
Hello,
For what it is worth I have the same issue on this combination:
BBPress 1.0.3
WP: 3.2.1
bbPress Integration Plugin – latest from wordpress plugins repository as of 7/25/2011
Any ideas on where I should start?
The bbAdmin user can post new topics, forums, replies, etc however any other user type does not have an option to add a new topic or reply to existing topic, but they can SEE topics, forums and posts made by the bbPress admin.
Thanks in Advance,
Ben
Hello,
I love the fact that this has now been made a WordPress plugin. I’m using WordPress 3.2.1 and Twenty Ten theme, and all is working fine.
The question that I have is that I would like to have the ability to automatically generate a new forum topic each time I make a blog post, and any comments of that blog post become threads (or replies) to the forum topic.
Is this possible with bbpress 2.0?
I know that there was the wordpress-bbpress-synch plugin for bbpress 1.0.x, and from the description of that module, it seemed like it would do exactly what I wanted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I believe it will take few more years!
PHPBB will publish new versions, bbpress will publish new versions!
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?
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.
