[chrishajer]

2) – no, bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. It should be inside a folder which is inside your WordPress installation. So, if your WordPress is at

/var/www/wordpress/

your bbPress will be at something like

/var/www/wordpress/forums/ where the word “forums” will be part of your URL. If your WordPress site is http://www.example.com, then your bbPress installation will be at http://www.example.com/forums/ if you called the folder “forums” as I did above.

3) create the folder my-languages at the same level as bb-templates, bb-plugins, my-templates, my-plugins. All those folders should have permissions of 755.

Step two is your biggest problem right now. You don’t activate it like a WordPress plugin because it’s not one. It has a separate installer. It doesn’t even require WordPress.

[lid3r]

Hi, i have some questions about installation. I am very new @ WP, but still.

1. Download bbPress from the download page – Completed

2. Upload the uncompressed files to your server – Folder wp-content/plugins? (completed)

3. Optionally upload language files to “my-languages” – Where should i create this dir?

4. Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site

5. You will be greeted with the bbPress installer

6. Follow the instructions in the installer

7. Visit “Settings” in the admin area to customise your installation

8. If you have any questions, ask in the forums

At the moiment i tried the installation through the standart module install, and i got an error, about wrong header or smth. I would appreciate any help my problem. Thank u

[RedBull]

Here’s another one I happened upon.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/members-online/

[chrishajer]

Rescued gerikg’s post from Akismet

[jebro]

Awesome,

Thanks a lot, I will try them out.

[RedBull]

@ jebro,

I noticed this post got spammed over night. Here are some “actual” plugins you can try that fit your criteria.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-ratings/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/best-answer/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forums/

[Samuel Wood (Otto)]

It wasn’t all that complicated. Only took maybe 20 minutes. I just wrote a plugin to do the work and put it on the forums here.

Here’s the bbPress plugin if you want to see it:

http://pastebin.com/0StjFxzM

[thenbrent]

Zaerl, thanks for that. Very handy little fix!

I also just noticed, courtesy of Kevin’s post on the WP Forums, that users registering on the WordPress side aren’t being allocated a role in BBPress.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-change-to-registration-screws-bbpress?replies=2

Argh. Any ideas how to fix that one Zaerl?

[pcheick]

Hi,

don’t know if this is the right place to post this – but I just made the huge mistake to give the table prefixes identical values in both bbpress and wordpress config files. This resulted in 400 post from my blog being deleted.

I think this should be mentioned in the integration guide as it is a pretty easy mistake to do.

cheers

Paul

[kevinjohngallagher]

It’s really unlikely a single user could have done something.

Excuse the obvious nature of the questions, and i aprecaite that you’ll have answered them in teh text above, but this isn’t a normal everyday bug, so we’re starting from scratch:

1) What version of WordPress?

2) What version of bbPress?

3) Are they integrated (share login cookies)?

4) Are they “deep integrated” (can call functions in the other program)?

5) Do you have the latest version of akismet on both WP and bbP?

6) Can you log into WordPress?

7) Can your other users log into WordPress?

Can people register with WordPress?

9) Can people register with bbPress?

10) Can people log into bbPress?

11) Have to tried disabling all plugins and trying again?

12) If so, have to tried switching to the default theme?

13) Are you using a premium (paid for) theme?

14) Are you using buddyPress?

15) What has changed since Friday?

16) What WordPress plugins are you using?

17) Are you using WP MultiSite?

18) Did you know that “registered users only” plugin has been marked by others as not working for WP3.0.1 on the plugin repository?

I know it’s a load of info, sorry, but it will help.

Very few, if any, bbPress plugins change the “role” for bbPress users, simply due to it’s rather convoluted nature.

Hopefully, we’ll get this fixed

[gerikg]

Okay this topic is resolved because it has a solution but not resolve because that site is still up.

this is the website btw. I thought I put it in the original post: http://www.bbpressthemes.net

[Marius-]

BBpress doesnt have integrated avatar support, but gravatar.

This means that users on your forum must completely leave your forum and resort to a different service to create their picture. Then they must go back, and combine these.

To most people, this is too much work to bother with.

Most people just wanna upload their picture into their profile page (which is way too hard to find) and be done with it. They even prefer not having to do any resizing. The forum should do this for them.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

All themes are here as I promised (I know I am late) – http://bbninja.com/bbpress-themes/

[vshal]

I uploaded the bbpress files to the root of my sub-domain and checked the permalinks it shows the following in the namebased option. I guess it didnt work ?

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/forums/first-forum

thanks again, please help me with this issue.

[vshal]

I installed bbpress integrated to my wordpress site on a subdomain, the problem I have is the following.

The forum is working in the following way

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/forums

what I want is to make it work like this

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/

What do I need to do for the above, I am a newbie so please excuse my ignorance if it is a quick fix.

Thanks in advance.

[SusanJohnstone]

Thanks for that. I’m not quite sure how that could be affecting bbPress, since all it does is direct non-logged in visitors to the login page on the WP side.

And I didn’t upgrade to 3.0.1 at all. It’s a brand new site and so it started out with that version.

What’s so weird about this, is that I was able to log into the dashboard Friday night and I didn’t log in again until Sunday night, when I discovered that all users were showing as inactive and the admin link was gone.

In that time, one new user registered and posted twice and then when she went back in the next day she couldn’t post anymore even though she was logged in and was told she didn’t have the permission to start a new topic.

Is there any way the activity of a single user could cause something in all the user roles?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Sorry Robo, i know it’s confusing, apologies if i wasn’t clear. You’re not using bbPress.

bbPress is a standalone forum that can integrate logins/users with WordPress. It sits in its own folder.

You’re installing the bbpress plugin for buddypress which is a plugin for wordpress. (yes, it’s a nightmare that they have the same name)

“http://lostinsound.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/”

If you’re in “wp-content/plugins” in any way shape or form, we can’t really help on this forum. I know it’s confusing because someone at autoMATTic decided to keep the same name for a totally serarate project, but thats where we are.

Anyway, the Buddypress folks are top notch, and they’ll sort you out v quickly

[robo523]

I installed bbpress and buddypress, I am not having a problem with buddypress integrating with bbpress, I am having a problem getting bbpress to work so the forum to be on is this bbpress forum.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’d hasten a guess that “registered-users-only” is more than likely the issue here.

When did you upgrade to WP3.0.1?

If something changed in teh last 6/7 days, thats most likely it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Robo523,

This bbPress is not the BuddyPress plugin called bbPress, although that is based on this bbPress (it’s bbpress without backPress).

Your best bet is to ask on the Buddypress forum.

Good Luck

[robo523]

Hey,

I installed bbpress and got through all the steps and it brought me to a blank page when the install was done.

http://lostinsound.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

After I did the install it told me that it had installed but with some errors. I assume that this is why i see a blank screen. I think I messed up entering some of the Salt things because I couldn’t find two of them my admin panel.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

RObbie

[RedBull]

I believe all of these options are available as plugins. Search the plugins page:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/

[jebro]

I’m building a forum/community and we have a few requirements and I’m hoping you guys can fill in the blanks on whether I can accomplish this with bbPress/buddypress or some solutions of the sort.

Here are some of the requirements:

Question and Answer functionality — Marking a post as an ‘answer’

Stats – Members in forums, total posts, etc

Stickied threads

Vote up/vote down — Stack Overflow like functionality.

Thanks!

[RedBull]

Hello juboe,

_ck_ has developed an “instant password” plugin. The link is: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/installation/

As he suggests you may want to install the “Human Test” plugin: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

as the instant password will automatically log you in upon registering.

Create a folder titled my-plugins. Upload the plugin to the folder. Go to your bbpress admin interface and activate. You will now see a password field in your registration page.

Hope this helps!

[SusanJohnstone]

bbPress came with Askimet, bozo and hello dolly, none of which I activated. I only installed and activated zaerl visibility.

On the WP side, I installed ‘registered-users-only’, bbPress-integration and ‘audio-player’ and also activated Askimet.

That’s it.