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?
Nevermind, ignore me. Looks like some changes were made with how the plugin interacts with themes now.
But, your site is missing the forum CSS for some reason.
It’s a fresh install with the 3167 changeset. I’m not quite sure what you mean by “check out the child theme functions.php to grab the code.”
I’m kind of a perpetual noob so bare with me.
Also, if I do already have the function.php code installed, could it be that my site’s css is overpowering the plugin’s css?
DA,
Looks like your missing the CSS. Check out the child theme functions.php to grab the code.
bbpress uses gravatars for forum icons. No additional plugin is needed.
Hello!
I just installed the plugin because I couldn’t wait any longer. So far I haven’t found any glitches. It seems to work quite nicely and fits into the rest of my website as if it were just another page.
The only problem I see with it right now is aesthetics. It looks terrible on my website. I suppose that is because it is being governed by the same css that governs the rest of my website’s content.
I am hoping that I can either do something right now to make it match better, or that something will get done in the future to make it match better. For example, here is a single post:
http://dailyanarchist.com/2011/05/10/the-success-story-of-sovereign-curtis/
and here is an example of a forum post:
http://dailyanarchist.com/topic/hello-daily-anarchists/
I am hoping one day to make the forum post look just like, or at least a lot like, the single post.
Is it possible for me to do now? Or do I need to wait?
Secondly, I haven’t figured out how to transfer a forum post to the blog, or single post yet. Can somebody clue me in on how to do that?
Lastly, I read somewhere that the plugins for the standalone version of bbpress are not compatible with the plugin. Understandable. But is this true also for WordPress plugins? For example, I am running a Gravatar plugin for wordpress and would really like to have gravatars for my forum section. Is this a no go? Also, will there ever be plugins FOR the plugin? How would that work?
Thanks for the plugin and for all of the help!
@Fartlek
There are a few plugins available in WordPress plugin repository for bbPress Plugin. You may search by tag as bbpress.
@Fartlek
There are a few plugins available in WordPress plugin repository for bbPress Plugin. You may search by tag as bbpress.
They will be treated as normal WordPress plugins, that need to built to hook in to bbPress specifically. Similar to BuddyPress plugins.
They will be treated as normal WordPress plugins, that need to built to hook in to bbPress specifically. Similar to BuddyPress plugins.
