[mbiernat]

Am I missing a line of code?

I am using a theme called the ‘Stallion theme’. It is based on the old Talian theme which was popular in WP a few years back. Stallion has a lot of options that I really like, in terms of flexibility, design etc.

However, it does not work with the bbPress plugin.

It creates forums and topics fine.

However: if you look under a topic post or forum (I created some sample ones) – a viewer or user can not reply or create new topics. In fact the only thing you see is my related post plugin underneath the post.

http://peopleandlanguages.com/ is the website I am testing this out on.

It does work with 2010, but not this theme. Is there so line of code that needs to be juggled to make this work with my theme?

Thank you,

Mark

[nobodys]

I wanted to ask if it is possible to move forum from http://www.invisionfree.com to bbPress ? And how it can be done ?

Best regards,

Uldis.

[Treebeard]

I’ve been researching for hours, trying to find a way to import bbpress standalone to bbpress 2.0 in wordpress. First I imported posts from phpBB to bbPress standalone, looks like it worked, then I installed the WP plugin.

I came across this topic but it was closed so I can’t post a question there:

bbPress Standalone to Plugin Converter Beta 2

In the last post you said:

Closing this topic, as the importer is now bundled with bbPress 2.0

I can’t seem to find an importer there anywhere, I checked the Settings under the Settings > Forums menu, and all I can see are the main forum settings. Checked the Readme file with the plugin, there’s no mention of it.

Can you tell me where to find the Importer? I need to get this huge site up and running by 7/1 and I don’t want to use the Standalone version because that means 2 admin pages.

Thanks!!!

[funnycat777]

Hello,

The search field in the twentyten theme does not search for terms inside the forum, but only inside wordpress.

Please let me know how to enable searching within the forum.

[enderandrew]

Can you please elaborate on the partial BP 1.3 and bbpress 2.0 compatibility?

How will they be integrated?

I imagine I’m in the minority, as most BP users seem to prefer having separate group forums appear under each group, but I’d like a more traditional unified forum where you can see the user’s group along with their title in posts, and perhaps have restricted access to sub-forums for groups.

Is that possible?

[enderandrew]

Can you please elaborate on the partial BP 1.3 and bbpress 2.0 compatibility?

How will they be integrated?

I imagine I’m in the minority, as most BP users seem to prefer having separate group forums appear under each group, but I’d like a more traditional unified forum where you can see the user’s group along with their title in posts, and perhaps have restricted access to sub-forums for groups.

Is that possible?

[bradsucks]

Great, thanks John. Personally I wouldn’t mind it if I had to have custom pages to get the functionality I want. But I think the existing page checking is probably a good way to go.

Excited for RC1!

[John James Jacoby]

@mbiernat – Since your question is about theme help with your site specifically, would you mind creating a dedicated topic for assistance? bbPress itself appears to be running fine there.

@ejw – I am unable to find bbPress on your site anywhere, which might be a bigger problem. I’d ask that you do the same and open a dedicated support topic for your issue.

[ejw]

Hi John, excited about getting bbpress integrated on my site, thanks for all the work you’ve done on it. However I’ve tried to get it running and I think I’m having a similar problem to what mbiernat describes above with only the parent forum showing.

I heard there is a new version coming out and maybe this is addressed in that, but just wanted to let you know and see if there was a solution. The site is http://amishamerica.com/

Thanks and all best!

[cultofiphone]

Check out this site, I finally got bbpress and wp to play together nicely using the Evolve free premium theme.

http://cultiphone.com

http://cultiphone.com/forum

[Tom Lynch]

Just found an interesting bug here, when you split a topic it shows the error messaages:

ERROR: Invalid author name submitted!

ERROR: Invalid email address submitted!

Doesn’t split but when you go back to the forum, the post has split off but not to anything else and can only be seen by going to the wp-admin area.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10618510/Screen%20shot%202011-06-29%20at%2012.19.19.PNG

[Tom Lynch]

@trifon thanks, I didn’t even realise there were settings there, I thought it was odd but thanks thats great!

[Anonymous User 5853594]

Under Settings>Forums you could uncheck the forum prefix, which would remove one of the forum slugs.

That could create some conflicts with your WP slugs though (especially the “tag” slug).

[John James Jacoby]

It wouldn’t be anymore bogged down than a site with 1 million blog posts, which is to say that once you have that kind of traffic and data store, you are probably backed by the proper hardware to handle it.

[Erlend]

Great, thanks for letting me know. So there is no speed arguments, e.g. a site with 1’000’000 posts could get bogged down if it has thousands of incoming links?

p.s. sorry for repeatedly posting in ‘Installation’, I just don’t take notice of it very easily.

[John James Jacoby]

@bradsucks – So, I’ve put some thought into the situation that you’re in, and RC1 will include some tweaks to how this works which will hopefully help.

The issue, is that we want to make it easy to get forums up and running, without a bunch of configuration, and the easiest way to do that is let WordPress handle things naturally, and display the forum archives when you navigate to:

domain.com/%forum_slug%/

But… everyone wants to customize the way their forums look and work (even me) so that isn’t always optimal, and there is only so much you can do before the real answer involves creating your row custom theme.

Anyways, before the archive templates were created in bbp-twentyten, a page-template was used to let you put your forums anywhere in the page hierarchy of your site that you want, but that wasn’t obvious enough and not everyone wants to use the hardcoded template file either.

So then I introduced shortcodes, which allow you to put your forums and topics in any post or page you choose, but if you do that, there’s no real way for bbPress to *know* where you put your forum root in the breadcrumb without you manually telling it in the forum settings.

As you can see, it’s gotten complicated to try to satisfy the golden 80%, including myself.

Part of the change that is coming in RC1 is a check to see if a WordPress page exists where you have configured your forum index to be. Normally WordPress would override and show the forums archive, but I make it dump out your page instead. This way you’re able to setup a WP page with whatever you want in it, and have it do whatever you tell it to. The potential caveat here is when people try outsmart the software, create a page with the ‘forums’ slug, and wonder why bbPress doesn’t automatically make forums appear there.

Hopefully RC1 and beyond will satisfy the needs of 80% of users. If so, I’m satisfied supporting the other 20% that want something more tricked out.

[John James Jacoby]

No reason other than wanting to nail down the root functionality of the forums themselves first. There are lots of little WP do-dads that we can take advantage of, and pingbacks will likely be on the list for 2.1.

[Erlend]

It strikes me as a really useful feature to have for forums, yet it doesn’t seem to be included by default for the forum post type. Is there any particular reason for this?

[Tom Lynch]

i suspect to code it from scratch again?

[Erlend]

You might be interested in my suggestion for distributed conversations.

[Tom Lynch]

Thanks for helping out before, works well however the slug still shows like this on posts and forums…

http://forum.gdnm.co.uk/forums/forum/bahons-graphic-design-new-media-forums/

Its not very sightly, is there a way to remove the forums/forum bit?

[Erlend]

I think one of bbPress’ biggest strengths is its potential to extend upon and empower WordPress’ commenting system. Another side of this is the P2 theme used to enable real-time conversations, but that’s a different topic.

‘Distributed conversations’ should facilitate persistent on-topic discussion.

The basis of this idea has already been put to the test on the TED.com website. For an example, follow this link to the Beware online “filter bubbles” video and scroll down to see the “TED CONVERSATIONS”. That is, in essence, what I’m proposing here, along with a new idea (comment conversion).

How would this work?

A) Create conversation directly from a blog post. (TED way)

Create conversation from a blog post’s comment(s). (new way)

See mockup:

https://gomockingbird.com/mockingbird/#tcky31h/qjXSc0

http://i.imgur.com/fS4Yo.png

A:

Every blog post should come with a “start a new topic” link. Clicking this link would start a standard ‘new post’ prompt. The only difference would be the link to the discussed blog post, which could be incorporated in a number odd ways. The easiest way I can think of would be a shortlink with blog post ID. (Although it’s outside of the initial scope, this should also be compatible with forum posts).

B:

Comments can be converted to forum threads. A conversion would:

1) Lock the thread of comments

2) Create a new forum thread with the comments.

3) Link to the new forum thread from the locked comment thread.

This option would only be available to moderators and above.

Maybe not in core, but I could see this being a super handy plugin.

[Andre]

@Trifon – It happened at least once between betas, that’s why I expected it to happen again.

[Lange]

I see, thanks for the reply.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

@Andre

I think that will only happen when 2.0 has gone gold and for later updates.