OR could i get the upload/embed buttons to appear in scenario ‘1)’??
There are 2 ways of replying to topics in the bbPress plugin:
1) To go to the themed page and reply there in the box under the topic-creating 1st post. This works fine, but there are no buttons to easily embed images in your replies, so you have to create your html in a separate editor then paste the code into the reply. And worse, there is no upload buttons (I want my users to be able to upload images/vids to post into their replies).
2)You use the grey panel at the top with ‘Add’>’Reply’ and it takes you to the white, unthemed, admin-looking area (what is this area called please, just so i now!?!), where you do indeed have access to embed and upload buttons WHICH IS GREAT AND DOES INDEED UPLOAD AND EMBED….but, despite choosing the topic it is to link to in the top right dropdown named ‘Reply Attributes: Parent Topic’, doing it this way results in an orphaned reply which sits somewhere obscure on my webspace and does not appear under the topic it was meant for.
Is there a way to solve ‘2)’? Or will my users who i want to be able to put images and stuff in their topic replies have to stick to pasting in code? Have i broken my admin-looking area making it unable to link replies to topics? Could a conflicting plugin have caused this?
Please help!
@ PS Vita Games
I meant ‘solved’ as in ‘answered’ – the answer being, that as yet, there is no bbpress vote software…. but then Janoochen made his suggestion. Thanks Janoochen, I shall try that this weekend.
It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish with your website. If you are already running wordpress and eventually want to have everything linked together between forums, blog posts, users etc, then bbPress is definitely the way to go.
If your primary focus of the website is forums only then I ‘may’ suggest vbulletin. I have no experience with phpbb, but have run very large vb forums for years now.
As to whether or not it is worth the money, well that’s different for everyone. I personally am going to transfer my larger forums over to bbPress as I much prefer the wordpress environment to vb.
At the moment vb can do a lot more out of the box than just about any other forum software, but I believe that bbPress is going to close this gap very quickly. Vbulletin is really bloated with a ton of features that really are not needed but some people just seem to like all the extra junk.
It really is a personal call. I can say though bbPress is progressing very nicely. It is a very solid foundation that can easily be built upon.
Try this:
Go into the wp-admin, then under the settings button is a link called permalinks. Go there and click save changes. (Even though you have not made changes to your permalinks, it is worth trying as many times this gets things back to normal when you add new post-types etc)
Is <?php do_action( 'bbp_template_after_forums_index' ); ?> working for everyone else. I can’t find any other complaints about it.
The action is being called in archive-forum.php and should output the latest topic replies in chronological order of freshness.
http://devpress.com/forums/ <– no forum index appearing.
I am creating a forum for high end audio enthusiasts. There will be a bunch of different areas just like any other normal forum.
Are all of these options good options – vBulletin, bbpress, phpbb ??
Would one be better than another for some specific reason / reasons?
I just want to make sure I make the best choice as I’m just starting the forum.
Why do you have to pay for vBulletin? Is it really worth paying for?
Thank you,
Is it possible for some one to show me how to do site integration with php
sudocode:
If (!loggedin){
echo “Login”;
}else{
echo UserId;
echo Username;
echo UserDisplayName;
}
I want bbPress to do all the authentication I just need to know how to pull that information. Or at least the userId. and I need this on the server side so I can do some other stuff. Thanks
@waterg
As far as I know,
the ‘bbPress Team’ are developers not translators.
‘bbPress Team是開發者他門不是翻譯著.
very like bbp, but i want chinese version
Could you(bbpress Team) provide the Chinese version?
@anointed a how-to guide on theme forum integration would be very helpful, thanks in advance if you publish one. 
@anointed a how-to guide on theme forum integration would be very helpful, thanks in advance if you publish one.
An importer is being made, but isn’t done yet. You can follow the progress of it here, https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1547.
Which one is better depends on your needs. I plan on switching my phpBB forum to bbPress because I think it better suites my needs.
The bbpress plugin will work with Akismet so spam shouldn’t be a problem.
With bbpress installed, my WordPress permalinks now throw 404 errors!
What is that all about?!
How do I overcome this?
Surely this is a very basic requirment of such a plugin!?
Any idea?
Paul
Can I import old posts and users / passwords from a phpbb board?
I am looking to possibly switch over to using bbpress. Is it better than phpbb?
The phpbb board is having a lot of spam problems that I am working with. Thank you,
I got a hack for it if you are using MySql 5.5.
It reported on trac at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1486
Change TYPE = MYISAM to ENGINE = MYISAM in your bbPress installation’s bb-admin/includes/defaults.bb-schema.php
I have the exactly the same problem. I’m using MySql server version 5.5.12 on iis . When I look at database from phpMyadmin. bbPress post tables are missing. So although everything fine on forum, I can’t view post nor add new post.
@ideoplasm Adding a voting or rating system into bbPress 2.0 is extremely easy.
You can use this plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postratings
or this one: http://www.gdstarrating.com/
Then just add the rating function in loop-topics.php (inside the loop).
You can do the same for loop-replies.php
I’m working in a voting forum myself.
This is an example:
<div class="topic-rating-count">
<h4><?php if(function_exists('the_ratings')) { the_ratings(); } ?></h4>
<span><?php _e( 'rating' ); ?></span>
</div>
<div class="topic-reply-count">
<h4><?php bbp_topic_reply_count(); ?></h4>
<span><?php _e( 'replies' ); ?></span>
</div>
<div class="topic-freshness">
<h4><?php bbp_topic_freshness_link(); ?></h4>
<span> <?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_topic_last_active_id(), 'size' => 14 ) ); ?>
</span>
</div>
Hello, I’m very interested in that plugin. I have been waiting for something similar for months because my skills with bbpress and simple-press are not good enougth, but it seems a miracle someone build it.
How it is supposed can it be used?
I have wrote a file called import.php in the my-plugins folder, activated the plugin and tried to fire it with myforum.com?bbpressimport=1, but it does nothing.
I’ve also modified the statistics.php and added directly the function mbbb_init() and then loaded directly on index.php, but it also does nothing.
My bbpress is not integrated, but sits on the same database (different table prefixes)
Could you help with that?
Thank you in advance
Hello, I’m very interested in that plugin. I have been waiting for something similar for months because my skills with bbpress and simple-press are not good enougth, but it seems a miracle someone build it.
How it is supposed can it be used?
I have wrote a file called import.php in the my-plugins folder, activated the plugin and tried to fire it with myforum.com?bbpressimport=1, but it does nothing.
I’ve also modified the statistics.php and added directly the function mbbb_init() and then loaded directly on index.php, but it also does nothing.
My bbpress is not integrated, but sits on the same database (different table prefixes)
Could you help with that?
Thank you in advance
I would like my bbpress forums to sit on the URL: http://www.mysite.com/forum/
Just like on this site: http://bbpress.org/forums/ displays all of the forums available. On my website the URL http://www.mysite.com/forums/ just throws a 404 and I don’t know ‘where’ that page is…?
Many thanks for your help in advance,
Paul
Hi,
Today, I installed bbPress on my WordPress blog site and most things are working. The install log said “>>> Key master email not sent!” but all else went fine including WordPress integration as I can see my forum user names (I created two) replicate in my WordPress Dashboard Users area.
As the Key Master of bbPress, I have also successfully created two forum categories and several sub-forums (children) where members can post messages…theoretically.
But, I’m experiencing the following issues that I have no clue how to resolve:
1. Signed in as the Key Master, I don’t see where I can create a new post
2. As part of registering as a forum user using a different user name, I did not receive an e-mail containing my password. So, I signed into my WordPress Dashboard Users area and assigned my second user name one so I could access my forum with my non-Key Master user name. Not having this forum registration process work without having to sign into WordPress is a problem.
3. No matter which user name I sign into the forum with, when I click on any listing in the Forum Main Theme’s area, I get the “The page cannot be found” error message. See: http://wolfetracksproductions.com/fresh_tracks/forum/
4. When I get the “The page cannot be found” error message, the URL repeats the directory where I installed the bbPress software and I’m not clear as to why this is happening: http://wolfetracksproductions.com/fresh_tracks/forum/forum/production
I did install the bbPress software in a folder called “forum” which is a subfolder of my WordPress.org blogging software.
Please help!
Thank you in advance for your kindness.
Deb
Im using the simple-avatars-upload plugin on my WP site, and i was wondering if it was possible to be able to show those avatars on my bbPress forum? Basically link them across?
Im using latest WP 313 and latest version 1 of bbPress.
Thanks,
Jon
Hi, I also have a wordpress blog site. I’d like to put a “message board”-style Forums page on the site. Is this possible with bbPress? If so, how do I do it? I’m unclear how you get from the Installation to use on a WordPress page.
Thanks in advance for your help with this!
Cara
