The white screen is a 500 Internal Server Error. If you have access to error logs, you should be able to see what error is being logged. If not, you’re going to have to either display errors or log errors. Then you can see what’s happening.
What PHP version are you using?
1. Spammers – use Human Test to prevent them from registering the first time around. I can’t recommend Akismet because of the false positives and the fact that it doesn’t block all spammers.
2. Translation – not sure what to tell you. Translation takes time.
3. What needs to be managed with search engine traffic? If you have an XML sitemap, the search engines will follow it. If not, they follow links, unless you don’t want them to.
4. I don’t recommend anything other than bbPress, but only because I have never used anything else. The versions available now are standalone and in the future bbPress will be a WordPress plugin.
It doesn’t give any error messages, it just present you an empty white screen.
tried with the default theme too, still it gives you an empty white screen
After activating the plugin, you can’t access the forum. Actually it is more like you will see just an empty white screen.
Great, much better info, thanks.
Now what’s the error message please?
bbPress version = 0.9.0.6
This is probably the reason, but I’m sure I have it working on a bb0.9 version. i’ll double check.
Theme is Hybrid but a little bit customised.
And does it work on the default theme?
Also, is this plugin suppose to give any option to set up on the admin side?
No.
After activating the plugin, you can’t access the forum. Actually it is more like you will see just an empty white screen.
bbPress version = 0.9.0.6
Theme is Hybrid but a little bit customised.
Also, is this plugin suppose to give any option to set up on the admin side? After activating I didn’t see anything on admin side.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Cheers
I am having this same exact issue. Running WP 3.0.1 and bbpress 1.0.2. Have tried the fix mentioned in this thread, however it did not work.
EDIT: Upon further research I found this plugin to work:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/apostrophe-and-or-quotation-marks-cause-backslash-to-appear
Nothing is over unless you don’t know how to code and are in a rush.
bbPress is very stable and very fast and there are literally ten thousand sites using it.
Every month that goes by you’ll simply have more options.
hmmm ! actually this SEO plugin blocks the forum.
Could you find it in the goodness of your heart to give a little more information?
What do you mean by block?
What version of bbpress are you using?
What error message did you get?
Basically, anything that gives actual information would be benefitial, and I’ll try and get a fix to you.
hmmm ! actually this SEO plugin blocks the forum.
Thanks for the plugin. But how would you set it up? it is not giving any options on the admin side.
thanks for the info can you tell me i wan to add in bbpress forums user’s signature feature how can i add it or is it built in with it or i need to add some extra plugin for it?
There are only two themes that come with bbPress (Kakumei and Kakumei Blue), and you’re actually using a 3rd one (Genealogies). So what is not working for you?
I installed two new themes, and none of them are showing up. I changed the permissions on the my-templates folder and each of the theme folders to 755, but they’re still not showing up.
Any idea why? I’ll I’m seeing on the “appearance” page is the 3 themes that come with bbpress
I only realized about an hour ago that there is a Show Avatar option under bbPress Settings – > Discussions…
well as you might have guessed that was disabled!
i hope this never happens to anyone, i wasted 5 hours for this
I have the same problem, I just haven’t used BuddyPress. Fresh WP 3.0.1 multisite and bbPress installed from svn trunk (as suggested by friend). I’ve integrated bbPress with WP and since then I can’t go to /bb-admin/ (being redirected to the root of the forum) nor I can reply on default topic (created by installer). I’ve checked with other users and everyone can log in but noone can reply or create new topic.
I’ve checked the database and wp_roles_map in bbPress db is:
array (
‘administrator’ => ‘keymaster’,
‘editor’ => ‘moderator’,
‘author’ => ‘member’,
‘contributor’ => ‘member’,
‘subscriber’ => ‘member’,
)
In WP database (table wp_usermeta) wp_capabilities for my user:
array (
‘administrator’ => ‘1’,
)
There is also wp_2_capabilities field which contains same serialized array.
WordPress, then bbPress in a sub folder.
http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/
Thanks Raize,
I’ve not had a good laugh on these forums in months 
VanillaForums (v1) was a good effort, for a small few it matched their needs well, and certainly had a community that wanted to drive it on. v2 though, and it’s 2.5 year development cycle, has been quite disasterous with some brilliant spin.
The plan to move to a custom built platform “Garden” (their equivalent of backPress) was re-written twice over 2 years, and just 3 months ago they also changed how all v2 forums are themed – by using an external templating system called Smarty instead of PHP.
That said, it’s not like bbPress is without it’s issues either (people in glass houses etc…), but given the poor state of a just released and not brilliantly tested software thats taken over 2 years to throw together… I’d probably not make too many assumptions that it’s going to impact other software in the same vertical, ha, and I’d sure as heck not tell people to pack their bags 
For anybody else out there that is having this problem, this worked for me:
http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/
still needs some tweaking, but overall… total match!!!! yay!
I have the same interest. Can you point to a how-to article that shows how to integrate the two to have the same theme, headers, menu, etc. The featured site I saw that did this was SlashGear.
There is only one theme listed in the cpanel for bbPress, Kakumei. I do want the WPress and BBPress themes to be consistent.
Where would you paste the code? on the post.php file?
I have a WordPress website and want to add a forum (message board). If I wanted to use bbPress do I setup a bbPress forum first and then integrate it into WordPress or can I install bbPress in WordPress and then set up the forum?
You need to temporarily rename that config.php file to something else to allow the installer to continue, then change the name back. Or find the code that prevents bbPress from installing when it finds a config.php, and disable that so the installation can continue. I would just rename the file for a minute or two while you install bbPress, then change it back.
