[Rick Lewis]

@Fartlek Our move comes based on BuddyPress and the issues within the company behind vbulletin. I ran a large (50,000 member) gaming community but was not part of the ownership there. After many years of frustration with their lack of doing anything for the gamers especially on their website I was going to just walk away. A friend asked about doing a new venture which was to be based on a social network for gamers. Not a new idea but there wasn’t and isn’t from what I see anything like the entire organization which we have. What I mean by that is, the ones out there are just housing for tons of gamers versus being a true social network and community with connections to those gamers direction on their platforms they play on. We also sponsor teams for PRO events as well as have classes for leadership to help train people to be good leaders of large groups of people.

I am in fact a member at WPMUDEV and it’s also because of them that I decided to make the move. they have been very helpful and without their support I probably am sitting on a very ugly forum based vbulletin site wishing I had something better.

It has been a learning experience for sure with making this move. It’s still not done and may never be perfect but as I learn the capabilities of WP, buddypress, BBPRess and everything else around them, it does get easier and close to that utopia we are trying to achieve.

The support on this site and the other WP sites is also a great thing!

[Rick Lewis]

@Fartlek Our move comes based on BuddyPress and the issues within the company behind vbulletin. I ran a large (50,000 member) gaming community but was not part of the ownership there. After many years of frustration with their lack of doing anything for the gamers especially on their website I was going to just walk away. A friend asked about doing a new venture which was to be based on a social network for gamers. Not a new idea but there wasn’t and isn’t from what I see anything like the entire organization which we have. What I mean by that is, the ones out there are just housing for tons of gamers versus being a true social network and community with connections to those gamers direction on their platforms they play on. We also sponsor teams for PRO events as well as have classes for leadership to help train people to be good leaders of large groups of people.

I am in fact a member at WPMUDEV and it’s also because of them that I decided to make the move. they have been very helpful and without their support I probably am sitting on a very ugly forum based vbulletin site wishing I had something better.

It has been a learning experience for sure with making this move. It’s still not done and may never be perfect but as I learn the capabilities of WP, buddypress, BBPRess and everything else around them, it does get easier and close to that utopia we are trying to achieve.

The support on this site and the other WP sites is also a great thing!

[maarjav]

I tried the link and also tried to open the file from the list and this is the result:

Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

How can it be installed if I haven´t even seen the installation page.

[maarjav]

I tried the link and also tried to open the file from the list and this is the result:

Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?

How can it be installed if I haven´t even seen the installation page.

[Fartlek]

Try going to this URL: /forum/bb-admin/install.php

[Fartlek]

Try going to this URL: /forum/bb-admin/install.php

[Rick Lewis]

@JJJ yeah for sure something has gone a muck there. Going to back track a bit. I started by going through the posts here and I keep seeing mentioned of setting up a page using a specific template. I don’t have that option when I setup a page and was sure I saw also somewhere that it was no longer needed. I did setup a page – Forums but without a template for it I doubt it is going me any good.

Also as James is asking above, I wouldn’t mind a little 411 on how the categories are suppose to work as well.

Coming from Vbulletin world for many years I was thinking category would be above the forum such as — Community Forums – Gaming forums — General Forums and so on. Then you setup Forums under those which house the topics. Doesn’t seem like it flows that way though.

Going to put some time into getting this corrected today as my users are finally making their way over from the old site and after years of having a forum many of them are lost.

Thanks for all the help and support.

[Notnasiul]

Thanks! I tried Vanilla2 before bbPress. I don’t know if that solution would work with bbPress (I guess it won’t). But I just renamed rss.php and rss2.php so the forum system can’t find them and it works.

I guess I could edit them so that they return nothing, but this solution was faster and our forum is just for five people X) Thank you, anyway!

[Notnasiul]

Thanks! I tried Vanilla2 before bbPress. I don’t know if that solution would work with bbPress (I guess it won’t). But I just renamed rss.php and rss2.php so the forum system can’t find them and it works.

I guess I could edit them so that they return nothing, but this solution was faster and our forum is just for five people X) Thank you, anyway!

[Jamie Marsland]

Hi,

Is there any documentation to explain how categories work?

I want to add a new topic to a category i have created but the category is greyed out in the dropdown and I can’t select it?

Here’s my demo forum http://www.dareboy.co.uk/forum/dareboy-forum

tks

james

[John James Jacoby]

Duplicate and related to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1469

[John James Jacoby]

Duplicate and related to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1469

[John James Jacoby]

@Rick – No idea what you have going on there. Looks like /forum is loading your “General Discussion” forum, and then some stuff under it. Some kind of canonical redirect with a shortcode and a page slug maybe? It’s really hard to tell.

[tooltrainer]

Reported here:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1516

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

Reported here:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1516

Jonathan

[maarjav]

Adding index.php to the URL didn´t do anything. Changing index to default..well now I see a list of all the files that I have under that folder:S

[maarjav]

Adding index.php to the URL didn´t do anything. Changing index to default..well now I see a list of all the files that I have under that folder:S

[Jan David Hanrath]

Does the BBpress plugin scale, to make it also interesting for our huge BBpress forum on http://www.onemorething.nl/community?

2M+ posts

60K users

160K topics

[tooltrainer]

@jjj

I’m also seeing issues with the permalinks not flushing, fairly often. I have to go back and save them again and all is well. If there’s any info I can provide to help, let me know.

Jonathan

[Rick Lewis]

@jjj thanks for that tip on the buddypress group forum thing. Was thinking of some wild paradise thing where I turned on the plug in and it pulled everything from everywhere and all was well in forum world. (yes I know that is a fantasy but one can dream).

I just went in and created a forum. It showed up so I created a second and a third. I thought I would be smart and try using the category. That seemed to mess up the main forum page and at some point I had topics stacked on top of what should have been my top forums. I removed the categories altogether and now have a bunch of forums with some topics in it. The front page – http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum/ surely is not showing like it should be or like it did at one point.

I have to be missing something as although it wasn’t super pretty there was a nicer looking main page then what I have now. Just don’t know how to get back to it. Note also those Forums all say edit this entry. I checked many times and re-saved them as Forum. I put one of them under another one to see if that would get it back and that is the one showing now at the top of the page.

Now, I never moved any template files or created a forum page or anything like that. Actually I tried that forum page thing and it didn’t do a thing for me.

What is it I am not doing correctly?

[tooltrainer]

@anointed said “I just found bbp_custom_template so needless to say I am in heaven. So long as I have an easy way of using my own template files for each custom bbpress area, life is good.”

anointed, thanks for pointing this out. I’ve looked at that function and believe it would indeed be extremely useful in creating/integrating a custom theme! Unfortunately I’m not really clear on how to use it. Could you (or JJJ) possibly elaborate a bit on what you’re doing/planning to do with it?

Thanks!!

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

@Ryan

Turns out I was just missing a “forums” page in my WP pages. Duh!!

Thanks for the help all!

Jonathan

[toby386]

SORRY if I’m posting in the wrong place but it seems JJJ may hold the answer to an issue i’m contending with.

Feel free to admonish me if this isn’t the appropriate venue.

I’m re-building a member site with several “levels” of member/access.

Each member level (as you would expect) has separate access to different pages/posts etc…

I’m trying to build a forum that follows the same content protection strategy. The user roles in the stock WP and BBP are inadequate for me needs, but my membership site plugin+Infusionsoft are managing the content protection VERY well…..so my bottleneck is finding a forum that will suffice.

Currently I’m trying to use 2 separate BBP (stand alone) installations, and using 2 separate pages (1 for each member level), and limiting access to those pages by member level.

Does anyone know if this BBP plug in would fit into this model well??

And if no….anyone know of any potential options??

Thanks all!

[John James Jacoby]

Run an svn checkout of the bbPress plugin, and just svn update periodically.

If this is on a remote server and you’re using SVN, you’re probably SSH’ed in, so…

cd wp-content

cd plugins

mkdir bbpress

cd bbpress

svn co https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/plugin .

[John James Jacoby]

Run an svn checkout of the bbPress plugin, and just svn update periodically.

If this is on a remote server and you’re using SVN, you’re probably SSH’ed in, so…

cd wp-content

cd plugins

mkdir bbpress

cd bbpress

svn co https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/plugin .