Is there by chance any info anyone can point me to on how exactly to make a theme bbP friendly? Since my theme is not based on TwentyTen even the tiniest bit, and is also nothing like the typical “blog” oriented theme, I’ve had to do tremendous amounts of code hacking to get the two to play together. But it sounds like the latest builds of bbP have added a lot of stuff for theme integration.
I’d really like to let one of my coders loose on a fresh install of my theme and the latest bbP, and have her integrate the two “properly” so that future updates to either of them will require a lot less manual hacking. I’m just not really even sure where to start, what files from the bbP theme are required, how to integrate them with my theme (since it doesn’t have the usual suspects like a header file, footer file, single-post file, etc. Nearly everything about it is dynamically generated by the theme admin panel in WP).
Just kinda desperate for a little guidance… thanks!!
Jonathan
can you give me the dummy version of what I need to change in the two places you mentioned?
I thought I did it correctly and tried running the script. What I got was a page of errors and notices. Referencing a few plugins and some other WP files. Way to long to paste here and probably irrelevant to the converter itself.
Where is the file need to be saved and run from?
And then the other changes to it prior to running?
If I get this working I will write a novel on taking a vbulletin site to wordpress with bbpress. It will be long and partially a nightmare story with happy ending!
Thank you for your help.
can you give me the dummy version of what I need to change in the two places you mentioned?
I thought I did it correctly and tried running the script. What I got was a page of errors and notices. Referencing a few plugins and some other WP files. Way to long to paste here and probably irrelevant to the converter itself.
Where is the file need to be saved and run from?
And then the other changes to it prior to running?
If I get this working I will write a novel on taking a vbulletin site to wordpress with bbpress. It will be long and partially a nightmare story with happy ending!
Thank you for your help.
Under normal circumstances, it should be absolutely painless. I’d recommend running it on your localhost or at least have a backup of the whole database. Also, I’d recommend you to use the latest version, you’d have to copy paste or checkout the file – I haven’t zipped and uploaded it as an archive yet.
Under normal circumstances, it should be absolutely painless. I’d recommend running it on your localhost or at least have a backup of the whole database. Also, I’d recommend you to use the latest version, you’d have to copy paste or checkout the file – I haven’t zipped and uploaded it as an archive yet.
I am going to try and see if this works and need some guidance for the paths to input into the file.
I do have WP in the root directory.
I have bbpress standalone in /forums
I do also have buddpress integrated into bbpress with the group forums working.
First is that all going to cause me great pain or is this going to be a painless thing to run?
I appreciate your hardwork and help.
Thank you.
I am going to try and see if this works and need some guidance for the paths to input into the file.
I do have WP in the root directory.
I have bbpress standalone in /forums
I do also have buddpress integrated into bbpress with the group forums working.
First is that all going to cause me great pain or is this going to be a painless thing to run?
I appreciate your hardwork and help.
Thank you.
Hi everyone!
I´m sorry in advance if something stays confusing-english is not my mother tongue, but I´ll do my best.
I have a problem that seems to be quite common, but I can´t find a solution. My tecnical skills aren´t too good, but I´ve been reading through different posts almost all day long and nothing I´ve tried helps. I have downloaded bbpress, put it in a forum folder, checked the db name,user ect a hundred times but still nothing. When I go to the link where my forum should be this is what I get:
Page not found!
I’m sorry, but there is nothing at this URL.
Forums is proudly powered by bbPress.
So I can´t even see the installation page. I thought that maybe it has something to do with my theme(it didn´t work very well with buddypress). I tried to change the theme, but the problem stayed the same. Also I use the same database both for wp and bbpress. All other pages, beside forum, work just fine.
I am very, very thankful for any help you can give me.
I am thinking I want to give this thing a whirl. I got the zip downloaded, change the name and uploaded the directory. Currently I have a standalone bbpress forum with the BP group forums integrated. I have activated the plugin and see my options in the admin panel. I added a forum which I only see the Title for at the /forum page. I know there was a converter from the stand alone but can’t recall where that thread is or what to do with it once I get it.
Is there a quick what to do next somewhere or is it to early on to be asking for some help getting it setup?
I will point out that I am come from the hell of vbulletin world and converted everything to phpbb then to bbpress on my tests sites and now looking to finish it all off with this plugin. Truly not something I want to ever have to do again!
Thanks for all the help and support here and elsewehre on these forums.
I was looking for those too and found this:
from bbp-includes/bbp-shortcodes.php:
bbp-forum-index
bbp-single-forum, pass id attribute
bbp-topic-index
bbp-topic-form
bbp-single-topic, pass id attribute
bbp-topic-tags
bbp-topic-tag
bbp-reply-form
Is there a good shortcode reference sheet available for the plugin?
Hey there everyone! I am going to be installing bbPress to my WordPress blog but just have a few questions before jumping into anything straight away. I’ll list them so it makes it simpler and easier for you guys to answer and avoids any and all confusion.
1. Do you recommend that bbPress is installed in the same directory/folder as my WordPress blog? Please explain why (advantages/disadvantages, if any).
2. In order to integrate it to my blog, will my current theme (K2) work with bbPress (take a look at my blog if you don’t know what K2 is)?
3. On this page, listed under the title ‘Functions (optional)’, do you recommend that I do it or no? Again, advantages and/or disadvantages please.
That’s all the questions I’ve got at the moment. Hoping to get answers as soon as possible to get my forum set up. Thanks guys!
@JJJ re my broken theme. Flaky ftp client I guess, 14 files failed to upload including style.css. All set.
I guess showing you the site without being logged in as an admin is kinda useless though! I’ll try reading these forums thoroughly and seen what the go is.
Hey guys,
I recently installed the plugin but i’m having a few issues.
This sites theme is based on the TwentyTen theme, so i should have all the “core” files needed to run this plugin on my customized theme?
I installed the plugin and created two forums, general and private. Here is a link to the general forum: http://stephenjohnmartin.com/spa/forums/forum/general-forum
Apart from a few styling issues, is this working correctly? I then assume that /forums/forum/ would be the forums main page, which would show both the general and private forum, but stuffs up.
I’m kinda new to WordPress so it’s confusing me a little.
Cheers.
jonkristian: Will take a look into that, worked for me though.
JJJ: I’ll give that a shot. 
jonkristian: Will take a look into that, worked for me though.
JJJ: I’ll give that a shot.
Yes I really don’t see this as a real solution, but we are at a loss as to what is causing the problem. And it’s been very difficult for me to stay up on the latest bbP trunk because every time it updates I have to re-integrate all my changes.
Do you have any pointers at all on what we might need to look at? Right now starting over from scratch and figuring out how to re-integrate bbP with my theme isn’t really an option as it will take too long and potentially break too many things. But I have absolutely got to get topic creation working again, and fast…
Thanks,
Jonathan
bbp_exclude_forum_ids()
is used all through-out the bbPress plugin to exclude the forum id’s that the currently logged in user doesn’t have the capabilities to view. This includes forums, topics, replies, everything. So, I wouldn’t consider the fact that it’s doing what you want it to do, a fix. It’s just masking a bigger underlying condition.
