@jjj
I see… I’m afraid I have never used gravatar and don’t know anything about it. Since my site is a membership site (as many forums are), the membership script has its own profile image support that obviously doesn’t show up in bbP. I think that’s going to be a pretty common situation for people doing members-only forums.
Is there any guidance you could give someone who wants to replace the bbP avatar image, with one from out membership site? Like what file governs them and is currently displaying the little snowman image? I’m thinking of creating a plugin to do just that.
Thanks,
Jonathan
First pass at RSS2 feeds is now in the plugin. Surprisingly, not as easy as I thought they were going to be, so be sure to test these. They are accompanied by 2 new settings options to control the per page count of their RSS feeds.
Starting to run out of room in the theme to put links to feeds, so still working that out. Until then you can access topic/reply feeds by appending “/feed” or “/feed?type=reply” to single topics and forums.
It’s come up a few times now, where people have been using
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
incorrectly. As a result, I’ve added some extra checks and failsafes to make sure that even if you incorrectly report that your theme supports bbPress, it will still fall back to the theme compatibility files. This kind of change is pretty late in the game, so be sure to update your installations and report if anything breaks. 
They don’t. Gravatar. Or use BuddyPress if you need real profiles, images, etc…
OK, possibly dumb question here… how do users upload an avatar image for bbP?
Jonathan
Don’t use “add_theme_support()” unless your theme actually supports it.
add_theme_support() doesn’t automatically add bbPress support to your theme, but the opposite – it tells WordPress and bbPress that your theme already supports bbPress. If you don’t have a /bbpress folder in your theme full of bbPress template files, then your theme does not support bbPress.
There isn’t a core updater yet, but there will be soon. These questions are all answered numerous times in the sticky topic at the front of these forums.
Don’t use “add_theme_support()” unless your theme actually supports it.
add_theme_support() doesn’t automatically add bbPress support to your theme, but the opposite – it tells WordPress and bbPress that your theme already supports bbPress. If you don’t have a /bbpress folder in your theme full of bbPress template files, then your theme does not support bbPress.
There isn’t a core updater yet, but there will be soon. These questions are all answered numerous times in the sticky topic at the front of these forums.
1. Thanks, that was my initial thought.
2. Where can I find this bbPress plugin and is it an official plugin by the creators of bbPress, or the community?
3. When you say “anything of WordPress to be shown in bbPress”, what does that actually include?
Thanks for the reply Gautam.
1. Thanks, that was my initial thought.
2. Where can I find this bbPress plugin and is it an official plugin by the creators of bbPress, or the community?
3. When you say “anything of WordPress to be shown in bbPress”, what does that actually include?
Thanks for the reply Gautam.
@Rick – Can you create a new topic with these questions please? They are starting to pertain specifically to helping you with your site, and not with bbPress. Thanks
I just wanted to give some feedback on what I have experienced while trying to figure out the issues with links not working.
first, you can not have group forums activated and use this at the same time. Atleast I couldn’t. The base for the group forums is FORUMS. Note the S so if you try and use Forums for your page and/or forum base you are not going to get the BBP forum.
I had to turn the global group forum directory off and use forum as the base in order to get the links pasted the forum index page to work. Otherwise all links redirected to my homepage.
Currently though I have this structure —
index page – using shortcode
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum/
the other links have a double forum/forum
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum/forum/welcome-committee/
If I remove the forum slug it changes those links to
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum//welcome-committee/
Outside that things seem to be working ok. Probably need to clean up the look a little.
How do I get the widgets working on these pages so I can list recent posts and so on?
One last question, is using the alternated page template and theme support a better option?
I appreciate the help.
Hi
Testing the new plugin atm here bfstuff.se/forum but have alot of problems to get it to integrate with the theme.
I tried to add the add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); to my thmes function.php but that just make my forum disappear completely.
Also is there a way to use my old database with the new plugin, i have and old bbpress forum with posts etc etc
Cant find a database with the new plugin, maybe it doesn’t use one?
/r00p
@jjj – I must say I’m incredibly impressed with bbPress, and what you have here. I eagerly want to use the bbPress / BuddyPress plugin combo in conjunction with a few wordpress sites that I work on.
Do you have any idea what a rough timeframe on launching the plugin would be?
Also, what could I do to help move the process along? I don’t code myself but I do work with guys that do. We figure its a waste of time to get a bbPress standalone working only to have the plugin released soon after.
Has anyone found a solution? I am ready to shut by bbpress installation down. I did use mass edit to get rid of some of the spam registrants but I would like an option to approve all new users. As it stand now, anyone can register and start posting…
Has anyone found a solution? I am ready to shut by bbpress installation down. I did use mass edit to get rid of some of the spam registrants but I would like an option to approve all new users. As it stand now, anyone can register and start posting…
@tooltrainer – Possibly, but not for the first release. The way WordPress handles this is by pre-saving drafts, which means we’d need to build draft support into user profiles too. Not impossible, but would need to be thought through.
Quick question, are there plans to have a “preview” mode for people when they are writing posts? I had a user request it and frankly I hadn’t realized there wasn’t one (I rarely ever use them myself).
Is such a feature on the roadmap?
Thanks,
Jonathan
The header that I am using is a modified version of the default theme header file that came with wordpress. It should be in the same location and called by the same name as the default header file. I am sort of a noob at code but I thought because my header file appears at on the index/home page when the website loads that things were working. By “appropriate call to” do you mean the “get_header” php command?
Secondly, the entire theme is located in the wp-content folder within a default theme sub folder. That is why there is no reference. Again, I am probably really confused by what you mean so it is probably something I am doing wrong.
The entire site may be a hack job, because it is my first, but up to this point everything has worked flawlessly, including all of my plugins.
I suspect there is a simple solution to preventing the WP css from overriding bbP css but I haven’t figured it out yet.
@Daily Anarchist – Your theme doesn’t use a conventional WordPress header, and it’s missing the appropriate call to
wp_head();
which is how WordPress themes load dynamic content in the
<head>
of the page.
There is also no reference anywhere in your source to a wp-content folder, which is where your theme and any related plugins should be loading from. With something that’s this outside of the norm, you’re going to run into lots of incompatibilities with many plugins as you go. I’m actually pretty happy that bbPress looks as good as it does considering there’s no CSS applied to it at all.
As a general note going forward to everyone, if you have site specific questions please post up new topics and tag them ‘plugin’ so that we keep this sticky focused on the bbPress plugin, and not supporting your sites. Thanks
For whoever is interested, one of the links I provided above no longer works because I deleted the post. I’m still playing around with things to get a feeling for how they work. Everything seems to be working great, except my WP css has taken over and prevents bbP css from working. Also, the gravatars are not showing up, but that is also like a problem of the css.
Here is a link that does work to show what my forum topic looks like. You’ll notice the css is exactly the same as my blog posts.
http://dailyanarchist.com/forums/topic/css-is-the-problem/
If anybody can help clarify to a noob like me exactly what I need to do to make the bbP css work its magic I would be eternally grateful. I am running a modified default WP theme.
My theme is the default theme, but highly modified. Reading back a little bit it looks like Rick Lewis and I might have the same problem, that we need to figure out how to let the bbpress css do its own thing, yet my website’s css is taking it over, which is what’s messing it up.
JJJ gave three options to remedy the situation, the third option not being possible for me, and the first two doable, but a little bit over my head.
Do you know what’s causing the gravatars not to show up, the css maybe?
