[John James Jacoby]

The plugin will have shortcodes and widgets to attempt to ease people in to integrating bbPress into existing themes, but because you can’t easily introduce completely new functionality into a theme that isn’t designed to handle it, there will be limitations to that method.

For the most mileage, you’re better off copying the files out of the bbp-twentyten theme and into your existing child theme and modifying the HTML and CSS to taste. (You are using a child theme, right? )

Topic and reply counts are next on my list of todo’s. They are the biggest source of confusion right now, justifiably so.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@ortixia

The standalone ver will live on

[Rich Pedley]

I deleted part of my reply before I posted…

the child themes will be easy enough to do(or add to an existing child theme), but it is too early in the process for others to be created.

I’m sure full instructions on how to achieve this will be forthcoming down the line, just not yet.

[ortixia]

i understand it is early. your site was lovely. but on my iphone, i think i would need a stylus and a magnifying glass to work it. perhaps a more condensed styling.

For example it appears on the surface to be a two column table, one with the topic and one with the username of the person starting the topic.

perhaps if they were both in the same column. The topic larger, the username smaller below. i noticed in other iphone apps, like wiki, the page width is fixed rather than leading off to the side.

[ortixia]

i understand it is early. your site was lovely. but on my iphone, i think i would need a stylus and a magnifying glass to work it. perhaps a more condensed styling.

For example it appears on the surface to be a two column table, one with the topic and one with the username of the person starting the topic.

perhaps if they were both in the same column. The topic larger, the username smaller below. i noticed in other iphone apps, like wiki, the page width is fixed rather than leading off to the side.

[ortixia]

i use atathulpa as well, but my site is not live yet. I am just switching it over to the child theme when testing the plug-in.

though topics and posts are showing up as 0 count, the posts are coming up in my forum, i believe, that they are working on this (i saw the code in an earlier post.)

@rich- i am in communication with the sharedaddy people over the plugin, it was mostly ironically funny, because i am finding the sharedaddy to be a bit of curse everywhere.

overall, as i do use atahualpa for my site, i will probably need to move to a different forum platform all together, or use bbpress stand alone. i wonder if the stand alone will continue to be worked on once the plug-in is official.

however, as i have time, i am willing to experiment a bit, because i feel that bbpress is worth the investment.

[Rich Pedley]

Yep, and it certainly isn’t ready for use on a live site as yet anyway.

[OreilleMalade]

OK thanks !

So I guess I’ve got to wait for these instructions to be done as I’m using Atahualpa Theme for WP…

[Rich Pedley]

you need to activate and use the twenty ten child theme for bbPress, it should be available on your Appearance page.

Instructions on how to create child themes for other Themes are not yet done.

[OreilleMalade]

Hi,

I’ve just started to test bbpress plug-in on a brand new website :

http://windows-mobile.fr

I installed, activated and created a new forum and a new topic inside this forum.

My problem :

http://windows-mobile.fr/forum >>> 404

http://windows-mobile.fr/topic/test1 >>> 404

(it redirects to http://windows-mobile.fr because of the WP plugin ‘link juice keeper’)

When I check my dashboard I can see :

Forum : test

Topics : 0

Replies : 0

I guess this is the problem. However I don’t understand it because when I look at the topic page it’s correctly linked with its parent forum. Am I just a stupid froggy or what ?

I’m using WP 3.0.1

My theme : Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll

Any other info needed ?

Thanks for helping !

Best regards to all of you people,

Laurent

[Rich Pedley]

Iit should be possible to disable it for the custom post types of bbPress.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve had a check-out for a while, but nothing of his has made it in yet.

Because there are only so many ways to do the same thing, our code is very similar with a few different methods here and there. His code is more mature in a few areas (mapping WordPress meta capabilities, topic/reply counts, additional query caching…) and it’s almost time to cherry pick his code and give props where due.

He started out using taxonomies for forums, but a lack of taxonomy meta thwarted that idea. We talked before either of us made too much progress on how to best do things so we would be loosely compatible with each other. I committed early on to using post types for data storage for everything to allow for easy forward compatibility with things like forum/topic/reply thumbnails, excerpts, revisions, etc… Justin and I both agreed it was the quickest way to go, we put our noses down and wrote some code, and we met a month or two ago in #bbpress on IRC and exchanged more code and ideas.

It was really cool for Justin to volunteer to share his code and approach. He spent countless hours getting things dialed in and that time is going to be greatly appreciated real soon.

It would have been even cooler to have him contribute patches directly to trac, but from what I recall of our talks he had some previous obligations that prevented it. I’m sure if I’m wrong Justin will catch wind and chime in.

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Edit: I saw a reply in the above linked topic about him ‘turning over’ code to bbPress, but I don’t really see it like that. His code is always his, and he’s free to continue developing his plugin if he wanted to. No hard feelings.

The bbPress trac is public and the code is visible for everyone to see, versus Justin’s forum code which to my understanding isn’t something he wants openly available for download, or else I imagine he’d probably have it that way. I know from experience that supporting something as large as bbPress on top of other obligations can be a challenge, so I wouldn’t blame him for not wanting to volunteer additional time.

Either way I’m honored to have his respect and be able to have someone attempting to do something similar at the same time. It’s one of the first times in my professional career I’ve had what most people would consider ‘friendly competition’ without ever feeling like we were against each other in any way… not that I’ve ever had unfriendly competition… but you get the idea.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve had a check-out for a while, but nothing of his has made it in yet.

Because there are only so many ways to do the same thing, our code is very similar with a few different methods here and there. His code is more mature in a few areas (mapping WordPress meta capabilities, topic/reply counts, additional query caching…) and it’s almost time to cherry pick his code and give props where due.

He started out using taxonomies for forums, but a lack of taxonomy meta thwarted that idea. We talked before either of us made too much progress on how to best do things so we would be loosely compatible with each other. I committed early on to using post types for data storage for everything to allow for easy forward compatibility with things like forum/topic/reply thumbnails, excerpts, revisions, etc… Justin and I both agreed it was the quickest way to go, we put our noses down and wrote some code, and we met a month or two ago in #bbpress on IRC and exchanged more code and ideas.

It was really cool for Justin to volunteer to share his code and approach. He spent countless hours getting things dialed in and that time is going to be greatly appreciated real soon.

It would have been even cooler to have him contribute patches directly to trac, but from what I recall of our talks he had some previous obligations that prevented it. I’m sure if I’m wrong Justin will catch wind and chime in.

---

Edit: I saw a reply in the above linked topic about him ‘turning over’ code to bbPress, but I don’t really see it like that. His code is always his, and he’s free to continue developing his plugin if he wanted to. No hard feelings.

The bbPress trac is public and the code is visible for everyone to see, versus Justin’s forum code which to my understanding isn’t something he wants openly available for download, or else I imagine he’d probably have it that way. I know from experience that supporting something as large as bbPress on top of other obligations can be a challenge, so I wouldn’t blame him for not wanting to volunteer additional time.

Either way I’m honored to have his respect and be able to have someone attempting to do something similar at the same time. It’s one of the first times in my professional career I’ve had what most people would consider ‘friendly competition’ without ever feeling like we were against each other in any way… not that I’ve ever had unfriendly competition… but you get the idea.

[ortixia]

testing the plug-in. laughing… I’ve got this crazy sharedaddy plugin on my site, and it is putting facebook and twitter icons on each topic and each reply!!

otherwise it is much smoother and cleaner than I anticipated. will continue to follow changes.

[Mark McWilliams]

wildkyo: Is there any date on which you think the plugin will be fully functional? I tried it today and it seems that it still needs much more development.

Still in the early stages yes, I agree, but the barebones of the plugin is actually there (or pretty much there) in my opinion. I have it running locally, and it works a treat, you can post a new topic from the frontend … for some that’d be all they wanted and needed!

I got the impression (somewhere) that JJJ wanted the final release out by the end of the year if I’m not wrong, but please don’t go and quote me on that, I’m very likely wrong!

[Mark McWilliams]

When Justin announced DevPress.com on his personal blog, the question was raised about the Forum Plugin he’d been working on, to which he replied:

We’re thinking of just contributing all the work back to the bbPress community for their plugin. I’ll post an update as soon as we know the direction we’re going in.

Something like a week later he posted:

The entire code base that we use to run our forums has already been handed over to the bbPress project. I sent JJJ a link to download it a few weeks ago.

As for if JJJ has used any of the code Justin had, I don’t know, chances are both were/would have been pretty similar (but I can’t confirm that!) — Only JJJ and/or Justin could tell us that!

Because of what Justin achieved, I’d love to get him on the ”bbPress (Plugin) Team” and help JJJ get this machine on the road. I myself have it running on a local install, the barebones is GREAT and I can tell you that! Shame my coding knowledge isn’t as good!

Anyway, there’s some info! HAHA

[Mark McWilliams]

When Justin announced DevPress.com on his personal blog, the question was raised about the Forum Plugin he’d been working on, to which he replied:

We’re thinking of just contributing all the work back to the bbPress community for their plugin. I’ll post an update as soon as we know the direction we’re going in.

Something like a week later he posted:

The entire code base that we use to run our forums has already been handed over to the bbPress project. I sent JJJ a link to download it a few weeks ago.

As for if JJJ has used any of the code Justin had, I don’t know, chances are both were/would have been pretty similar (but I can’t confirm that!) — Only JJJ and/or Justin could tell us that!

Because of what Justin achieved, I’d love to get him on the ”bbPress (Plugin) Team” and help JJJ get this machine on the road. I myself have it running on a local install, the barebones is GREAT and I can tell you that! Shame my coding knowledge isn’t as good!

Anyway, there’s some info! HAHA

[mr_pelle]

Have you tried this plugin?

[mr_pelle]

Have you tried this plugin?

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.

[nmprofessional]

Asfame,

MANY Thanks!

WordPress + bbPress is new to me ( it is my third day working with them both) and your article about deep-integration:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

was EXTREMELY helpful in me understanding hoe to integrate them both.

Again – many thanks!

Dave

[nmprofessional]

Asfame,

MANY Thanks!

WordPress + bbPress is new to me ( it is my third day working with them both) and your article about deep-integration:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

was EXTREMELY helpful in me understanding hoe to integrate them both.

Again – many thanks!

Dave

[kenburcham]

Hi guys, I installed and uninstalled bbpress (1.02) several times and keep getting the same result:

After installation (with no integration) into a clean database and fresh unzip of the files (and even trying a couple of different browsers), I login as admin and get redirected to the forums page. I can logout, login, restart browser, try a different browser, etc. to no avail.

so I delete the database, delete the directory, reunzip, reinstall and end up with no joy in the same place.

maybe a hint: after I login with admin username/password, i get a 404 on: http://mysite.com/bbpress/bbpress

i have to delete the second bbpress it is adding from somewhere in its misty innards and then i’m logged in as admin, albeit not very powerful admin who can’t get anywhere or do anything.

bout to give up here and go with something else. love to get some guidance!

thanks…

ken.

[qprints]

Is it true it is to be intergrated with the BBPress forum plugin?

http://popcritics.com/forums/topics/if-i-needed-a-wordpress-integrated-forum-by-this-time-next-week#post-10319