You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible. 
thank you kindly sir!
Have to say I am quite impressed with what I have seen so far. Not to deep into this yet, but so far so good. Already have bbpress into a fluid 1040 grid working properly including media queries.
Now it’s time to get a bit hardcore with the template changes… 
@anointed
add_filter( 'bbp_template_include', 'foo' );
function foo( $file ) { return 'forum.php'; }
All of the funky theme compatibility bits are at the bottom of bbp-general-template.php.
@tooltrainer – I take that back, once I change permalink to /%postname%/ it’s goofed up.
this is ok:
http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/sample-page/
this link, from the widget, is a problem:
http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/forums/forum/abc/
result of above link
Not Found
Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.
I’m one of those guys with a tricked out page.php file.
Is there a ‘global’ bbpress forum identifier that I can use?
I was thinking about doing something like this on my page.php
if page is a bbpress page then load file forum.php
else continue loading page.php
This would easily allow me to use a custom forum.php page for styling the forum pages, while still maintaining my ability to use a custom page.php file for everything else.
Anyone have a snippet that does this?
–or a better idea?
thanks
@tooltrainer – I’d ask if you have this much going on, that you probably create your own topic to post things in. To be honest, I can’t really keep up with everything you’re trying to do, so I don’t really know what to tell you.
I’d suggest just starting completely over from scratch, and comparing the two installs to see what’s different.
@Rick – Even if you get your old forums converted into the new plugin, BuddyPress still hasn’t been updated to integrate with the plugin version of bbPress, so your group forums either need to stay how they are, or you need to build what eventually will be in BuddyPress core.
ok so from there how would you get the group forums which is integrated with bbpress merged together? Plug in seems to work well though on its own. I have a custom theme and it seems ok with that.
@tooltrainer – seems to be working on a shared hosting server:
http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/?forum=abc
vanilla WP 3.1.2 installed to an empty folder, and there’s nothing in the root.
set theme to: bbPress (Twenty Ten) 1.1 by WordPress and bbPress teams
unzipped branches_plugin-3138 and uploaded to:
/public_html/inadir/newdir/wp-content/plugins/bbpress
added a couple of emtpy forums, added ‘bbPress forum list’ widget
no errors, appears normal.
hope this helps.
In my wordpress website I have the mainpage(index) and several pages, all of which have the content on the left, a middle column that contains advertisements, and a right column which contains widgets.
Is it possible to install a fully integrated bbpress forum that is a page to the wordpress website? Stated differently, can I put all of the contents of the forum in the left hand column, and keep the middle column of ads and the right column of widgets?
to continue my ramblings… just tried 3127 instead but same thing. 404s for all forums, topics, etc.
I’m feeling like this has something to do with it running in a subdirectory. Can anyone else confirm/deny??
Thanks,
Jonathan
OK I’m seriously stumped now. I just blew away my copy of WP an installed a totally fresh one, updated to 3.1.2, in a subdirectory called “new”. Uploaded latest bbp 3145 and activated it. Created a forum, tried to visit /new/forums/ and was immediately redirected to domain.com/forums/ instead of ending up at domain.com/new/forums/ as expected. Is this a bug of having bbp in a subdirectory?
So I changed my permalinks again to /%postname%/ and now I’m not redirected anywhere unexpected, but when I end up at /new/forums/ I get the same page not found error.
This is using the included 2010 bbP theme and stock EVERYTHING except for disabling the “Prefix the root slug before the following slugs?” feature.
What gives? I feel like I’m losing my mind or something… this is normally the simplest thing in the world!
?????
Jonathan
Just as a sanity check, I regressed to 3127 and have the same issue, so I’m inclined to think it’s something with this install, maybe I need to nuke WP and start again. Will try that next… so strange.
Jonathan
Hey at this point I’d actually TAKE that trade! Errors & notices I can deal with because they give me something to debug. But just “page not found” doesn’t give me anything to work with. 
Tried reinstalling several times, de/reactivating, etc. Doesn’t matter, no matter what I do the forums just plain aren’t accessible… if they even exist at all. Bizarre.
JJJ, any ideas?
Thanks!
Jonathan
tooltrainer – I will trade you that for the 50 or so notices and errors I got trying to run the converter. lol… It’s probably my error though. I do have forums so the plug in is working but getting my group forums and bbpress stand alone going isn’t getting there yet.
I am using weebly drag and drop. For my forum, I am using the bbPress. When the user logs out it goes to a “cannot find” page. I want it to re-route to our home page. How do I set it up to do this?
Well after setting my permalinks to /%postname%/ I now get a nice pretty “page not found” error page instead of the DB error. But am no closer to having bbP work, and I really don’t know why. There’s not much to it (which is why I’m using it in the first place! Just upload plugin, activate, create forums, and away you go. Have never seen any issue like this evern with having done several test installs before. I’m using the stock bbP 2010 theme also.
Jonathan
Yep… early adopter blues indeed. But, I want things how I want them so, I’ll just have to deal with it!
SO in an effort to understand how integration should work, I’ve set up a fresh install of WP 3.1.2, ProfitsTheme, and bbPress. I want to have my coder attempt an integration on a totally clean slate and see what happens.
Problem is very strange now… if I try and access my bbP forums, I get “Error establishing a database connection” and that’s it. No idea why… any suggestions?
Thanks!
Jonathan
What made you decide to move away from vbulletin?
I hope that your transition to bbpress runs smoothly, tables and all. Sounds like you’ve got a good handle on things already. Are you a member of WPMUDEV? They would probably be able to help you too, if you do run into problems because combining WPMU with buddypress & bbpress is their specialty (I think).
What made you decide to move away from vbulletin?
I hope that your transition to bbpress runs smoothly, tables and all. Sounds like you’ve got a good handle on things already. Are you a member of WPMUDEV? They would probably be able to help you too, if you do run into problems because combining WPMU with buddypress & bbpress is their specialty (I think).
I love bbpress, very configurable and it really doesn’t get a fair shake on the adminzoneforums, just barely mentioned there.
Yet I understand where eclipsenow is coming from with
I just can’t be bothered installing bbpress only to have to turn around and add 20 plug ins to give it the essential features I need
.
And if that doesn’t work… this guy here renamed his index.php to default.php to get it to run.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-completebutforum-page-not-found
And if that doesn’t work… this guy here renamed his index.php to default.php to get it to run.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-completebutforum-page-not-found
Did you try going to the URL like this: /forum/index.php to see if that worked?
Did you try going to the URL like this: /forum/index.php to see if that worked?
We are using this plugin
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-forums/#post-33
but rss feeds are still available, though. Still working on that.
