I’m looking for a simple discussion forum without the need of database. Through google search, i found one (http://sourceforge.net/projects/textmb/) but its not that simple and reliable as bbpress. Is it possible to make bbpress core use XML files for storing data instead of Database?
Is there a way for the forums you setup to live in http:/forum.gdnm.org with no trailing /forums because I am using a wordpress multisite install and eventually will switch to bbpress and the forum doesn’t sit on the front page and I can’t see how to do that.
Hi Good day!
I was able to switch from PHPBB3 to A BBpress site seamlessly using a converter. Now I would like to switch from a BBpress site to a WordPress Site with the BBpress Plugin. I have lots of topics in my forums and so far, I would like to give my members the ability to post ala-Wordpress (with pictures and all). Is this possible?
Thank you!
I added [bbp-topic-tags] in my frontpage to display tag cloud for topics.
Tag cloud shows, but once I click on the any tags, I am unable to display any topics associated by the tag.
The error message is “Oh bother! No topics were found here!”
I am using the twentyten theme, compatible with bbpress 2.0.
I am wondering if any tag components are broken or not.
Can you let me know how to get this fixed?
could it be something in the functions.php of my child theme?
Hello,
I am currently using bbpress 2.0 beta 3b.
When I create a page on wordpress, and use the shortcode [bbp-topic-index], bbpress topics show properly in my page. However, if I set that particular page as a front page, [bbp-topic-index] does not work properly.
For example, I am currently setting “Topics Per Page” to 10, so 10 topics show in page 1. Therefore it will show as “Showing topics 1 to 10.” When I click on page 2, it should show topics 11-20, but it keeps saying, “Showing topics 1 to 10”. I would like to be able to show topics 11 – 20, and so on.
Can you advise?
I have made a custom theme, following the directions posted in the forums here. And have gotten everything to work fine, with the exception of these sidebars.
They appear below the forums making the page extra long. I’ve taken out the php code that calls the sidebar in every forum page in the template .zip file and they are still there.
At this point I just want to get rid of them, but if we can adjust it so that they look the way they do on the blog page it would be nice.
my site: http://cultiphone.com/forum
blog: http://cultiphone.com
_get_ functions do not echo, so you’ll want to use
bbp_user_profile_link()
You can’t. Most, if not all, existing bbPress plugins were made for bbPress standalone (versions 0.x or 1.x) and will not work with bbPress the plugin (versions 2.x). The plugin author will have to make modifications for it to work or you can look for something similar in the WP plugin directory.
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I use phpBB at the moment. It used to be pretty bad but version 3 is acceptable.
The 3 things I hate about phpBB are:
1) Lack of SEO URLs/ pretty URLs/ custom permalinks structures
2) There are no plugins. There are MODs – meaning installation is a pain in the back and code is changed. Forget about updations completely – it is excruciating. Contrasts with the rather pleasant one-click installs and upgrades that WordPress has made me accustomed to.
3) Lack of multilingual capability. WordPress has WPML…though I am getting increasingly disillusioned with it (critical features missing, basic things like Canadian flag, Slovak language etc missing, not using international conventions in naming, arrogant and unhelpful support etc). I run a multilingual site and need multilingual forums. If that’s not possible, then to begin with I need a Google Translate gadget so that people can read in multiple languages at least.
It’s not just the lack of these features that cheeses me off…it’s the unwillingness of the developer community to consider these for 3.1/3.2
And there is a major rewrite underway v4. I believe v4 will be the wipeout of phpBB…they are writing from the ground up, which is never a great idea (http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html)
So excellent opportunity for bbPress.
I would switch as soon as I see the aforementioned 3 in bbPress…
I had the same problem and could not log back into my wordpress. Not only am I locked out but when I go to the myphp admin, the tables have been modified and I cannot figure out how to get everything back to normal. Any suggestions?
I just installed the bbpress plugin for wordpress:
http://cultiphone.com/forums
What I was wondering is how to install bbpress plugins like bbPM inside the bbpress plugin for wp 3.1.3?
I hope that makes sense.
Are there known issues with translations in bbPress 2.0 beta 3b and WP 3.2 RC2? Got a fully translated language file, but still seeing a lot of untranslated strings. POT/GlotPress not up to date?
/edit found the updated pot. But still, GlotPress is not up to date.
@JJJ
@Gautam
Hey guys. One of the projects I work on has a bbpress forum that is very popular. I am talking recent daily traffic of over 160K page views.
When the traffic gets that crazy requests from bbPress start stacking up until all the memory is exhausted then mySQL shuts down.
Initially, we had the site on a RackSpace ‘cloud sites’ hosting account but it could not support it. The forum/site continually crashed during peak traffic.
Recently we moved the site to VPS.net. With access to the my.cnf we were able to keep the site going but it required us dedicating 3 CPUs and 3 gigs of memory and even at that we maxed out and ssw slow downs.
I am not much of a programmer or mySQL guy so my question to you is this… would you be interested in looking at our log files or anything to see what the root cause of this is and to maybe enhance, modify, whatever… offending code? db queries?
I am looking forward to moving over the bbPress plugin but I am a little apprehensive that it might perform worse during these peak traffic times which we cannot afford.
Perhaps your poking around and doing an analysis could help us both out. Thanks!
I allowed unregistered users to post on my website http://www.fotografbucuresti.ro, and everything worked fine for a few days, but then the bbpress forum and comments started to get filled with apparently non-add posts, but all look alike.
I protected comments with Math Plugin, but for bbpress I only found anti-spam on registration, not for posts made by unregistered users.
I don’t want to restrict posts to registered users only, but want to use a capcha system or question-answer.
Please suggest something that adds one more field for security when posting in bbpress as anonimous
@Farlek – There is one and it is done. But I don’t think I’ll release it until bbpress plugin for WP has a stable release. Its getting very close, so just a few more weeks.
@Farlek – There is one and it is done. But I don’t think I’ll release it until bbpress plugin for WP has a stable release. Its getting very close, so just a few more weeks.
I’m using a custom menu in my WP installation and want to include a ‘Edit Profile’ that links to a user’s bbpress edit profile page.
I’m using the following function:
bbp_get_user_profile_edit_link()
Which looks like this in the sidebar:
<a href="<?php bbp_get_user_profile_edit_link(); ?>" class="button">"><?php _e('Edit Profile','mytheme')?></a>
But it doesn’t work. Any suggestions on the above?
Thanks Andre.. this clears up quite a few things.
Ah okay, thanks Andre, but I don’t really want this bbpress plugin forum to get confused with the buddypress group forums, I just want to set some forums to members only.
Maybe I can do this with a user roles plugin as currently Admin can see the private forums so maybe there is a way using user roles to give authors and above access. Of course I have to be careful because if bbpress and buddypress become aware of each other then it could mean authors have access to forums of private groups they aren’t meant to see. Tricky…
Eventually bbPress 2.0 will be used as the forum component of BuddyPress. The private features in bbPress were built for that, but won’t really be useful until BuddyPress and bbPress the plugin become aware of each other. At this point the private features in bbPress are just hooks for future addons.
I’ve asked at which version of BuddyPress and bbPress will they be made aware of each other, but haven’t received and answer.
bbPress 2.0 plugins are installed like normal WP plugins, in the wp-content/plugins folder. The my-plugins folder is only used with bbPress standalone, versions 0.x and 1.x. Most of the plugins out right now, and possibly all of them, were designed for bbPress stand alone and will not work with the bbPress plugin. Please make sure the plugins you are trying to use were made for the version you are using.
There aren’t many options for bbPress 2.x. You can administer:
forums at /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=forum
topics at /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=topic
replies at /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=reply
other settings at /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress.
If it’s not on one of those pages you’ll have to dive into the code.
Well if that’s the case, then except for creating forums/topics/replies, I can’t do anything else at all.
What about plugins for example? Should I put them into my defauly wp plugins folder? Or should it go into wp-content/plugins/bbpress/my-plugins?
I tried the second method and WP doesn’t identify any plugins for bbpress
It appears in the normal wordpress admin section. It doesn’t have its own separate admin any more.
