Sorry if this is confusing. I installed buddypress through the wordpress plugins page. I then installed bbpress through buddypress. I have since uninstalled buddypress and bbpress and i am trying to now install bbpress on my server. Once loading all the files to my directory mysite.com/forums/ i then go to load the directory. The installing instructions do not come up i come to a bbpress page which shows “page not found”.
I am guessing the old install of bbpress is interfering? maybe in the database?
Thanks in advance.
@Chip – That’s probably the easiest way, yes. If you’re familiar with WordPress themes (which I am fairly certain you are) this should be pretty painless.
@Chip – That’s probably the easiest way, yes. If you’re familiar with WordPress themes (which I am fairly certain you are) this should be pretty painless.
@annointed:
Is there any documentation anywhere for converting a bbPress 1.x custom Theme to a bbPress 2.0 custom Theme? I have a fairly comprehensive Theme I developed for 1.x, and would like to convert it. I suppose I should just start poring through the bbp-twentyten child Theme template files?
@annointed:
Is there any documentation anywhere for converting a bbPress 1.x custom Theme to a bbPress 2.0 custom Theme? I have a fairly comprehensive Theme I developed for 1.x, and would like to convert it. I suppose I should just start poring through the bbp-twentyten child Theme template files?
many thanks jjj! (you just saved me a bunch of time trying to track down my mistake)
@kai920 – Please don’t bump topics, especially if they’re still on the front page.
I’m against the idea of using wp_register(); since it redirects you to wp-login.php to sign-up instead of using a registration page in the theme. Also, the idea with community sites like bbPress and BuddyPress, is usually to keep members out of the admin area. Promoting them to enter it seems counter intuitive.
@selise – that will be fixed in Beta 3
@Syrhen – Only forums can have topics. Categories cannot. I’ll likely add a note to the metabox before release.
Any opinions on the above? I personally think it would be good to include a “Register” link in the login widget. Curious to hear others’ opinions.
“This tag displays either the “Site Admin” link if the user is logged in or “Register” link if the user is not logged in.”
Firstly I’m very glad to see this project going.
I’ve been playing around with the beta, using beta 2 at the moment, and maybe it’s me doing something wrong but if I create a forum, and then create a category it will not allow me to create a topic under that category. Only under it’s main forum. Is this intentional?
I’m very much looking forward to the final release of this plugin. Thanks! 
so sorry, another breadcrumb question to add to the thread….
installed are: wp 3.1.3 and bbp beta-2
(first bbpress plugin install was pre-alpha and have been updating every few days as development has progressed — many thanks for a great plugin!)
my setup is:
forums base archive slug is “forums”
single forum slug is “forum”
forum prefix is not included (button unchecked)
for mydomain.com/forums/
where the forums “page” uses the template “bbPress – Forums (Index)”
and there are three individual forums (example: forum1, forum2, forum3)
the breadcrumb on each of the individual forums seems correct:
site › forums › forum1
site › forums › forum2
site › forums › forum3
i’d expect the breadcrumb on the “forums” index page to be:
site › forums
but instead i see:
site › forums › forum1
where forum1 was the first forum created.
…..
is this the desired behavior? my set up error? a bug?
Nope. Both sound like plugin territory to me.
Not really an optimal fix, since it’s still loading the sidebar. Ultimately if you want a custom theme, you need a custom theme.
Not really an optimal fix, since it’s still loading the sidebar. Ultimately if you want a custom theme, you need a custom theme.
This worked for me while using a Twenty Ten child theme.
.forum #primary, .forum #secondary {display:none;}
.forum #content {margin-left:50px; width: 800px;}
This worked for me while using a Twenty Ten child theme.
.forum #primary, .forum #secondary {display:none;}
.forum #content {margin-left:50px; width: 800px;}
Thanks guys, the ‘Members’ plugin has done more than the minimum that I wanted!
However, it’s now got me thinking of other things!…
Whilst most of my animations/art projects will be for a family audience (Rating ‘U’ or ‘PG’), the main one I am working on right now is more for adults (16 or 18 years-old plus). For this reason, it would be really nice if ‘Categories’ and ‘Forums’ could be have restricted content in the same way that ‘Pages’ and ‘Posts’ currently can.
It would be even nicer if there was a way to get people to enter their age when they Subscribe so that will automatically place them into the user-role with to which the above would be revealed or hidden according to their age. I realise people lie abou their age, but at least I can say I tried my best to provide adult filtering.
Are there any plans to build in the above features I mention any time soon?
Hi softinfo. What you’re trying to achieve can be very challenging cause bbPress developers haven’t included such feature in the software. On index.php topics are obtained with get_latest_topics, forums with bb_get_forums.
The current page (for topics) is collected from a $_GET variable called page which have its own rule in the .htaccess which in turn is parsed by bb_get_uri_page (functions.bb-core.php) called from BB_Query::fill_query_vars (yargh).
Now you must do the same thing with forums but in order to do this you must change too many core files and we don’t want our soul damned for eternity.
I don’t have much time at the moment but I can give you some hints.
You need a new page variable that should be different from the default (which is used for posts’ page) together with its own .htaccess rule: RewriteRule ^forum-page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum/index.php?forum-page=$1 [L,QSA]
You should create a new fake paginate function bb_latest_topics_pages for forums bb_latest_forums_pages, a fake get_page_number_links with /forum-page/%#% instead of /page/%#% and other things here and there.
And last but not least you need a custom query (with a LIMIT) on the $bbdb forum query.
As I said it can be very challenging and there’s room for a very interesting plugin but I don’t write plugins anymore because of the current fragile status of bbPress standalone.
If you will try to write a plugin I will be happy to debug and/or code (a portion of) it.
@lykketrollet
No, there is no way to manually change user permissions within the bbPress core. Well more specifically, not without a ton of hacking of the code.
Someday, I am guessing there may be a bbPress plugin built for this purpose.
I know I keep talking about the members plugin, and I do so because it is the perfect tool for the job at the moment. It really is built so well that you can set it once and ignore it.
Who knows, maybe after seeing just how powerful and simple it is, you may just end up finding other great reasons to use it as well.
*The real problem with having this in core would be group permission collisions. Meaning, if I use members to set permissions for a specific group and also have bbPress doing it then there can be problems if the permissions are not exactly matched up.
**The opinions of this commentator do not necessarily reflect the views of the network
Yep I’m just gonna sit tight. Like I said, no user has screamed about it or anything so, I’ll just accept it for a little while longer.
Furious indeed… maybe they should rename this project “bbPress – the Faster & the Furiouser!”
Jonathan
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@Fartlek: ok, I’m sorry, you were right. Resolved with the Widget Logic plugin
Thank you.
