[John James Jacoby]

Kind of a long story, but more cliffnotes…

BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress, that actually comes bundled with bbPress inside of it to create group discussion forums.

bbPress has always been a stand-alone platform (like WordPress) but is being turned into a plugin for WordPress to make integration as seamless as possible. So right now, there are two distinctly separate versions of bbPress, stand-alone and plugin.

As far as I know there isn’t a migration script between SMF and bbPress, but I could be wrong. There most likely is not one for the bbPress plugin since it hasn’t been publicly released yet.

Documentation, is limited. There is almost none on the plugin so far, but there will be once it’s released and in the wild. We’ll put some documentation up here at bbpress.org to help answer all of these kinds of questions easier.

[John James Jacoby]

Kind of a long story, but more cliffnotes…

BuddyPress is a social networking plugin for WordPress, that actually comes bundled with bbPress inside of it to create group discussion forums.

bbPress has always been a stand-alone platform (like WordPress) but is being turned into a plugin for WordPress to make integration as seamless as possible. So right now, there are two distinctly separate versions of bbPress, stand-alone and plugin.

As far as I know there isn’t a migration script between SMF and bbPress, but I could be wrong. There most likely is not one for the bbPress plugin since it hasn’t been publicly released yet.

Documentation, is limited. There is almost none on the plugin so far, but there will be once it’s released and in the wild. We’ll put some documentation up here at bbpress.org to help answer all of these kinds of questions easier.

[Daily Anarchist]

I’m getting confused by the buddypress and bbpress thing. Are they like apples and oranges? Or granny smith and golden delicious? Should I just wait until 1.1 comes out? When will that be?

Is there any way to migrate my SMF database to bbpress?

Is there a way to test install bbpress and then switch to it if I like it? I’m kind of a noob, so a link to anything that explains how to do that would be great. Thanks for the help, John!

[Daily Anarchist]

I’m getting confused by the buddypress and bbpress thing. Are they like apples and oranges? Or granny smith and golden delicious? Should I just wait until 1.1 comes out? When will that be?

Is there any way to migrate my SMF database to bbpress?

Is there a way to test install bbpress and then switch to it if I like it? I’m kind of a noob, so a link to anything that explains how to do that would be great. Thanks for the help, John!

[John James Jacoby]

Right now probably the best example of the plugin in action is over at http://testbp.org/discussion. It’s using some of the shortcodes and minimal CSS tweaks to mimic the look of the forums here at bbpress.org.

[John James Jacoby]

Right now probably the best example of the plugin in action is over at http://testbp.org/discussion. It’s using some of the shortcodes and minimal CSS tweaks to mimic the look of the forums here at bbpress.org.

[Daily Anarchist]

Thanks! Can you point me to any websites that are good examples of the integration between bbpress and wordpress?

[Daily Anarchist]

Thanks! Can you point me to any websites that are good examples of the integration between bbpress and wordpress?

[John James Jacoby]

The bbPress plugin will fully integrate into any existing WordPress 3.1+ installation. Since it’s using WordPress to power the database interaction, it is immediately integrated and available in any way you need it to be, depending on your level of skill, etc…

Technically WordPress doesn’t really have conventional ‘profiles’ but they do use the exact same user account for everything. In the future bbPress profiles will be merged with BuddyPress profiles, providing a seamless experience.

You’re on your own with advertisements.

Other things of note:

* The stand alone version of bbPress has been in a feature freeze for a majority of the past two years.

* The community surrounding bbPress isn’t as large as WordPress.

* The transition between versions (0.9, 1.0, and now the plugin) have caused some unrest for people passionate about the project.

So, that’s the cliff-notes of the story.

[John James Jacoby]

The bbPress plugin will fully integrate into any existing WordPress 3.1+ installation. Since it’s using WordPress to power the database interaction, it is immediately integrated and available in any way you need it to be, depending on your level of skill, etc…

Technically WordPress doesn’t really have conventional ‘profiles’ but they do use the exact same user account for everything. In the future bbPress profiles will be merged with BuddyPress profiles, providing a seamless experience.

You’re on your own with advertisements.

Other things of note:

* The stand alone version of bbPress has been in a feature freeze for a majority of the past two years.

* The community surrounding bbPress isn’t as large as WordPress.

* The transition between versions (0.9, 1.0, and now the plugin) have caused some unrest for people passionate about the project.

So, that’s the cliff-notes of the story.

[John James Jacoby]

@miruru – You could filter

bbp_get_topic_last_active

and output your own time, or you could hook into

bbp_get_time_since

and have it return the second parameter that’s passed to it.

[Daily Anarchist]

Hello,

I haven’t yet installed bbpress. I currently have SMF and am considering switching because I want to fully integrate my forum with my WordPress blog and I don’t think SMF will ever do that.

I have a few questions before I make the leap, that is, I want to make sure I can do the things I want to before I change everything.

I want to make it so that all forum topics and their subsequent posts can be easily transferred to the front page, i.e. blog. Is this possible? What about vice versa? Can blog posts be discussed in the forum section?

I want all profiles to be automatically usable for both forum and blog. Is this possible?

Is there an Advertisement mod for bbpress?

A lot of articles that are about two years old say simplepress is better than bbpress. Has bbpress really taken off in the last two years? Does it have potential to grow and get more refined?

Thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

Decided to stick this topic to the front so it doesn’t get lost and hopefully gets more traction. Would *love* to see this get turned into a plugin on the WordPress side to help move the data around. That would also put it one step closer to inclusion into bbPress core.

[John James Jacoby]

Decided to stick this topic to the front so it doesn’t get lost and hopefully gets more traction. Would *love* to see this get turned into a plugin on the WordPress side to help move the data around. That would also put it one step closer to inclusion into bbPress core.

[dan_africano]

I just uploaded bbpress into my directory and got this

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in /home/content/88/4791888/html/danafricano/dev/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 1794

Can’t get past step one. help!

[Kreditas]

Create robots.txt file, Add: Disallow: /your-forum-name/

This would prevent all bots from indexing pages under this category.

[Kreditas]

Create robots.txt file, Add: Disallow: /your-forum-name/

This would prevent all bots from indexing pages under this category.

[lixi9m]

hello

I want to put the “Forums” above the “hot tags” like bbpress forum, what should i do?

[glatze]

I have the same problem with the /bb-admin/ as described in the second post. Any solutions?

[glatze]

I have the same problem with the /bb-admin/ as described in the second post. Any solutions?

[bbklo]

ok this is solved, but now when I click the Admin link on forum this not redirect me to /bb-admin/ but to forum home.

whats the solution,

I have read to paste this to bb-config.php, but didn’t worked.

$bb->new_keymaster = ‘admin’;

thanks

[bbklo]

ok this is solved, but now when I click the Admin link on forum this not redirect me to /bb-admin/ but to forum home.

whats the solution,

I have read to paste this to bb-config.php, but didn’t worked.

$bb->new_keymaster = ‘admin’;

thanks

[bbklo]

Hi,

Today, after read many tutorials I integrated WP with bbpress, now any new site subscriber became forum member, and etc anything is ok at this point.

BUT the problem is that need to log in forum, when user is logged in WP, even admin/key master need to do the same, nothing comes automatically, I have installed the bbpress integration plugin and added

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ ); to wp-config.php in top after <?php

Please let me know what I have missed.

Thanks

[Tzrlk]

Hi again,

If anyone could just post a generified version of their bb-config.php, I’m sure I can mess with the properties enough to get the damn thing working.

The LAPP stack uses a PostgreSQL server instead of MySQL, so I imagine that could be a possible reason it’s not working, though I’m reticent to use up more time and bandwidth swapping it our for a LAMP VM if it’s just a shot in the dark.

Help me out here, people. I really like the clean l&f of bbpress, but I’m under a little time pressure, and if I don’t get something to go on, I’m just going to have to run up an instance of phpbb or similar.

Please help,

– Peter

[Tzrlk]

Hi again,

If anyone could just post a generified version of their bb-config.php, I’m sure I can mess with the properties enough to get the damn thing working.

The LAPP stack uses a PostgreSQL server instead of MySQL, so I imagine that could be a possible reason it’s not working, though I’m reticent to use up more time and bandwidth swapping it our for a LAMP VM if it’s just a shot in the dark.

Help me out here, people. I really like the clean l&f of bbpress, but I’m under a little time pressure, and if I don’t get something to go on, I’m just going to have to run up an instance of phpbb or similar.

Please help,

– Peter