[Anointed]

@Lykkotrollet

There are a number of really great member management plugins available. Justin’s is one of the best out there and does a great job for bbpress.

IMHO this type of functionality best remains outside the core of bbpress. Say bbpress did have this in the core, then users who utilize plugins like members could run into conflicts and collisions.

JJ has built in the needed hooks for members management to easily plug into, as evidenced by seeing how easy it is to get the members plugin working.

[Anointed]

@tooltrainer

JJ has made it really easy to remove the link to the website ‘home’ page via a function call. From his comment it sounds like he is going to make it even easier than it is now, so I would hold off until beta3.

Right now you would have to modify every template that calls the breadcrumbs. As bbpress beta is changing so fast, it is probably easiest to wait for his new solution.

Development is on a furious pace, so expect an easy solution soon enough.

[Anointed]

@Ramiuz

No, you are actually able to use your current theme for bbpress. There is a ‘fair’ amount of work involved in initially setting it up however. Shortly after bbpress goes gold then, if JJ hasn’t already done so, I will post a how-to guide on theme forum integration.

Every wp theme is a bit different, so there is a bit of tweaking to do in order to make it perfect, but it is really not all that hard.

[Anointed]

@Ramiuz

No, you are actually able to use your current theme for bbpress. There is a ‘fair’ amount of work involved in initially setting it up however. Shortly after bbpress goes gold then, if JJ hasn’t already done so, I will post a how-to guide on theme forum integration.

Every wp theme is a bit different, so there is a bit of tweaking to do in order to make it perfect, but it is really not all that hard.

[Giulio]

@Fartlek: ok, I’m sorry, you were right. Resolved with the Widget Logic plugin

Thank you.

[tooltrainer]

Please no one eh? Now that’s a novel approach! LOL Does this mean if someone likes it, you’ve failed?

Anyway, at least I know that I’m not missing something. I’ll go in and modify it as needed, or maybe hold off until beta 3. None of my users have mentioned it, but I noticed it and wanted to fix it.

Thanks!

Jonathan

[Spiralspeaks]

@JJJ I installed it on a test site.. with 2 forum categories.. General Talk and Talk Happiness

found a bug got

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

but it gives in title tag the archive mode and shows like this

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

supposed to be this one:

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

and this “Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename” should be only shown at

site com/forums/forum/talk-happiness/

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

Archive Slugs

Forums Base forums

Topics Base topics

Single Slugs

Forum Prefix Yes Incude the Forum Base slug in single forum item links

Forum slug: forum

Topic slug: topic

Topic tag slug: topic_tag

Reply slug : topic_tag

Reply slug:reply

User base: user

View base : view

Permalink Settings

Custom Structure: /post/%postname%/

Another one…

Case 1 If Forum Prefix is set to yes (this is ok)

site//forums/forum/happy-talk/

site/forums/topic/topicpost/

site/forums/users/name/

Case 2 If Forum Prefix is set to no (this is not ok)

site/forum/happy-talk/

site/topic/topicpost/

site/users/name/

when people directly go to site/forum/ they will be lost… 404notfound

and I want to recommend this… its better to have this for forums links pages

Forums Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: forum base, the forum board, the topic)

not this one loosing forums base page.

Website Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: website base, the forum board, the topic)

bug in topic_tag

site/forums/topic_tag/talk

<br />

<div id="topic-tag" class="bbp-topic-tag"><br />

<h1 class="entry-title">Topic Tag: <span>talk</span></h1></p>

<p>					<div class="entry-content"></p>

<p>						<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://bbpress.org/">Home</a> › <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/">Support Forums</a> › <span class="bbp-breadcrumb-current">Why choose happiness with bbPress?</span></p></div><br />

it gives the latest topic on it..

[edited:added this one bug in topic_tag]

my next question is…

is there a way to change all the head title tag to this formats to improve user experience… for wordpress and bbPress plugin:

For Main Forum Base

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

For forum categories

<br />

<title> Talk Happiness (Forum for single/Board for forum category)| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

For forum post

<br />

<title> Why choose happiness with bbPress? |page#| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

it is sometimes annoying to have the word “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” all the head title tag before every forum pages.

Removing this “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” could help to market wordpress and combination of bbPress plugin… to be fantastic combination of blog&forum software..

I found that vBulletin sites head title tag structure for forums gives more emphasis on why people will read it, why people should comment to it (# pages = means hot topic), and the brand for the website/forum site [when people search via google, yahoo or any search engine people sees good head title tag structure, more often people will click it and read it]

Negosyo para sa mga “busy at mahiyain” – Page 31 – PinoyExchange

why/why not go to Accenture? – PinoyExchange

benefits and perks in accenture? – PinoyExchange

sorry, asked questions… and i have to comment on how to improve bbpress plugin

[John James Jacoby]

Nope. Definitely not a bug; that’s the desired behavior.

The thing about these breadcrumbs is everyone wants them to do something different, because everyone configures their sites differently. I’m aiming for a ‘please no one’ approach now.

If you want to remove the home link, you’ll need to filter the breadcrumb with a custom function in your themes functions.php file, or write a plugin to remove the link or change the text. I’ve made it pretty easy to do, and it will be easier for Beta 3 which should be out in a few days.

[Malfunction]

Slightly offtopic, but the title fits the following question though:

Maybe a bit early, but is there a listing of 2.x plugins somewhere?

If not, maybe a sticky topic on here with a first post that gets updated when someone adds a new plugin or something would do? People can post their contributions in the topic then.

I search for them in this way at the moment: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress&sort=new

but I don’t know if there are more? A list would be nice?

[tooltrainer]

Not sure if this is a bug or what but I just noticed it.

The top level of the breadcrumbs is linking to whatever my blog front page is set to be. In my case, my site’s front page is called “Sales Page”, so all my breadcrumbs look like this:

Sales Page › Discussions › Beginners

When someone clicks on “Sales Page” they are taken to the root of my site, which is in fact my sales page but is definitely not the top level of the forums. I would expect it to be something like:

Forums Home › Discussions › Beginners

where “Forums Home” would link to mydomain.com/forums/ since my forums “page” is called “forums”.

Do I have a setting wrong somewhere maybe?

Thanks,

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

The plugin itself should work without a hitch. You will need to adapt it to work correctly within your bbPress powered forums however, so chances are something like that will not be turn-key simple.

[John James Jacoby]

I will +1 the members plugin. It does exactly what you need it do.

[morgan-wick]

@Chrisdfr: It sounds like you’re installing the plugin to integrate bbPress standalone with WordPress, not the forum itself. bbPress-as-plugin is only a beta right now, so despite what kai says I don’t know if it can be installed from within WordPress.

The name of the plugin should be just “bbPress”.

[Ramiuz]

So if you use another theme for your blog, you have to edit two themes?

The normal WordPress theme – AND the BBpress plugin theme?

[Ramiuz]

So if you use another theme for your blog, you have to edit two themes?

The normal WordPress theme – AND the BBpress plugin theme?

[Anointed]

@Pawel

Good catch, I’m sure JJ will look into this one

[Anointed]

@ramiuz

Install the plugin just like any other wordpress plugin by adding it to the plugins folder and activating it.

It does not appear as a page as this is a complete system. The theme comes bundled with the twentyten theme and all the needed templates for it to work in that theme.

It uses the same db as wp. Basically beta2 uses custom post-types for wp, so it is about as native wp as you could ask for.

There is some type of importer script to ‘upgrade’ from the old forum system to the new one. Sorry, I am not familiar with it as I have not used it.

I do know that JJ is working on the import system to make it as user friendly as possible. Documentation will probably proceed the stable release.

[Anointed]

@ramiuz

Install the plugin just like any other wordpress plugin by adding it to the plugins folder and activating it.

It does not appear as a page as this is a complete system. The theme comes bundled with the twentyten theme and all the needed templates for it to work in that theme.

It uses the same db as wp. Basically beta2 uses custom post-types for wp, so it is about as native wp as you could ask for.

There is some type of importer script to ‘upgrade’ from the old forum system to the new one. Sorry, I am not familiar with it as I have not used it.

I do know that JJ is working on the import system to make it as user friendly as possible. Documentation will probably proceed the stable release.

[Anointed]

The easiest solution is to install a members management plugin. One of the best out there is:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/members/

To use it, install the plugin, and then in the settings choose to edit the roles of a subscriber. You can then add the ability to create/read/edit posts in private forums.

Alternately you could also create a new group and give that group extended permissions to use the hidden forums.

[danoman]

Can’t find a Swedish translation set for the bbPress plugin in GlotPress, and it seems I can’t create one. Would be great if someone could set one up so we could start translation.

[danoman]

Can’t find a Swedish translation set for the bbPress plugin in GlotPress, and it seems I can’t create one. Would be great if someone could set one up so we could start translation.

[randiabe]

Will existing WordPress plugins work with bbPress 2.x? For instance, I’m looking for a rating plugin for bbPress 2.x. Can I use an existing WordPress plugin or a bbPress 1.x plugin? Or do I need to create a completely new one?

[ideoplasm]

Hello,

I have the BBpress WordPress Plugin version installed on my WordPress site, and have found that from installation defaults, the lowest ranking user-role that can view the private forums is ‘Moderator’. The trouble with this, is that Moderators can edit other people’s posts, and I do not want all Users that can read and post in the private forums to be able to edit each other’s posts! Is there an easy way to change this? Ideally I’d want WordPress ‘Contributor’-level users and above to be able to view the private forums. I’d also like WordPress ‘Subscriber’-level users to be able to read the public forums but not post to them, but his is not as important, so no real problem if it cannot be done.

Sorry if this has been asked many times before, but I’ve read a bit about user-maps etc, but the discussions tend to be quite old and talking about the BBpress standalone, not the BBpress WordPress Plugin, so I am not sure if it works for the BBpress WordPress Plugin version(?). Just so you know, I am no kind of Coder – just an Animator – so am struggling with terminology etc. here.

I hope someone can help!

Thanks!

[Ramiuz]

Wowow, major surprise here. Suddenly I feel like you´re talking about version two as something everyone is familiar with. And I struggle a bit to find out where I´m supposed to start.

First of all I think I will wait for the completed version, and skip the betas.

Heres my question:

How do you install it?

-Does it appear as a “page” in WordPress?

-Does it use the same database as WordPress?

-Can it use my old separate forum database, and automatically detect the users there?

-If it does, will this be the way to upgrade from “old” bbpress to the new?

[Ramiuz]

Wowow, major surprise here. Suddenly I feel like you´re talking about version two as something everyone is familiar with. And I struggle a bit to find out where I´m supposed to start.

First of all I think I will wait for the completed version, and skip the betas.

Heres my question:

How do you install it?

-Does it appear as a “page” in WordPress?

-Does it use the same database as WordPress?

-Can it use my old separate forum database, and automatically detect the users there?

-If it does, will this be the way to upgrade from “old” bbpress to the new?