[kevinjohngallagher]

It depends on what you’re after.

If your forum needs a specific Mobile version, then you’ll need to scout around.

If your forum needs a specific mobile stylesheet/theme, then creating one for bbPress is very simple, but there isn’t a public one out there that I know of.

Forums are tricky things. Worth it, but tricky.

Define your requirements, whats a must have and a nice to have, and you can make a decision alot easier that way

[kevinjohngallagher]

Yes, it’s been abandoned:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/twenty-ten-for-bbpress-feedback#post-72781

[George Appiah]

Joel Spolsky has released StackOverflow to replace the current WordPress forums (powered by bbPress)

I’m also frustrated with the slow pace of work on bbPress, but “replace” what? The Stack Overflow folks have simply launched their own WordPress support (questions and answers) site, using their own technology platform, Stack Exchange. How does that “replace the current WordPress forums”?

FWIT, I run a WordPress support site using PHPBB3!

[minervaa]

*(you cannot move a post from one forum to another*

I think I came across to a plugin which allows you to do that. Sorry can’t remember the name.

[minervaa]

Just spoke to my hosting company. Unfortunately they don’t provide error logs.

[Fernando Tellado]

Hola,

1. Plugins: Bozo users + Delete all bozos + Akismet + Skip Akismet (for admins and moderators) + Human test

2. bbPress is going to be in glotpress soon (I hope), meanwhile you can download the translation on your language made by the community

3. You can restrict access to bots with a robots.txt too

4. I recommend bbpress because is great for SEO, simple to use and friendly with your hosting needs (very light). It comes with some lacks yet (you cannot move a post from one forum to another) but it have a great future, much more when it will come as a wp plugin

¡Saludos!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Sorry, yeah, the error log on the server will let us see what’s going on.

The plugin doesn’t do anything fancy, nor make any native calls to the database or anything, it simply calls exisiting bbPress functions. That said, I might need to just accept that it’s bbPress1.0 only (though I was kinda sure it wasn’t).

Any info you could give us would be benefitial,

THANKS

[minervaa]

its php 5. Are you talking about the error log on the server side?

[chrishajer]

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?

[chrishajer]

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.

[minervaa]

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

[kevinjohngallagher]

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.

[Ricardo]

no feedback?

[minervaa]

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

[Samara]

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

[_ck_]

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.

[kevinjohngallagher]

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.

[minervaa]

hmmm ! actually this SEO plugin blocks the forum.

[minervaa]

Thanks for the plugin. But how would you set it up? it is not giving any options on the admin side.

[wendymoyer]

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?

[chrishajer]

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?

[hibiscuscreative]

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

[hermann87]

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

[kevinjohngallagher]

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/downloads/bbpress/plugins/kevinjohngallagher_seo.zip

[Avram]

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.