[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.

[Jon Breitenbucher]

Odd bug with P2 and bbPress (in theme compatibility mode). Create a page to serve as the homepage and a page to serve as the blog page. Enable bbPress and create some forums, topics, and replies. Modify your settings to use your homepage as the static page and your blog page as the blog page. Visit the homepage and make sure the title is correct. Now add the bbPress Reply List widget to the sidebar and visit the homepage and note the title is one of the forums and not the title of your homepage post. You get the same behavior if you add the Topic List widget. Not sure what the issue is. I’ll also submit a ticket here but it could be an issue with P2.

[emersonthis]

My wp-config.php file is untouched.

There’s one leftover line of code from when I was running the free-standing version of BBPress:

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/my/root/directory’ );

But I don’t think this should effect the theme at all.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Jordi

You are using the bbPress plugin and not the standalone version.

Themes for standalone version aren’t compatible with the plugin one.

What you need is some CSS fixes because the forums are already under your WordPress theme.

[fpons]

Hi,

You may find the French translation for bbpress-2.0-beta-3b in this article about installing bbPress in French. It will be updated as soon as possible with newer version.

Thanks for this great plugin, it works already quite nicely although it is beta.

Regards, François.

[websitedesigningindia]

Makes the third row of options in the admin menu instantly available without extra clicks. Conversion with code and CSS tweaks from WordPress based on original.

[websitedesigningindia]

can you tell me what changes you have made and what is the content of the config.php exactly

[Snat]

Many thanks for your comment.

I have upgraded to the RC of bbPress 2.0 and converted my sites to use WordPress Network. So far, everything is going good.

[Snat]

Many thanks for your comment.

I have upgraded to the RC of bbPress 2.0 and converted my sites to use WordPress Network. So far, everything is going good.

[MsKitty]

I have written a converter for phpBB (prob an older version) to bbpress (the native Word Press version, Version 2.0-beta-3) for a client. Imports everything but the private messages at the moment. phpBB usernames had to be massaged to have spaces and punctuation removed.

This would not be free, but inexpensive, shareware prices. But a few beta testers to see if it might be generally useful would be nice. Contact me if interested.

[chrishajer]

@pimarts, that is correct, running the old plugin version here.

You can download either version here:

https://bbpress.org/download/

[Andrew Tegenkamp]

I am trying out 2.0 and have a private forum. I want to have non-logged in users receive a different message than a 404 or ideally be redirected to an about page. Is this possible with bbPress 2.0 or does anyone have a plugin/hack to do the job?

Thanks,

Andrew

[pimarts]

Just to be sure: This forum runs the stand-alone version of bbPress NOT the WordPress plugin.

[Jordi2000]

I change the permissions.

But still I cannot find the Biziness Template.

Not sure whether I am in the bbpress dashboard..

It says:

Theme bbPress (Twenty Ten) with 6 Widgets

You are using WordPress 3.2.1.

The Biziness template should appear in Appearance>Themes, no?