[kevinjohngallagher]

What I’m looking for is to have a simple forum integrated with my WP installation. It seems like bbPress is the perfect choice but now I’m not so sure

If you want a “simple forum” then bbPress fits that need.

If you want single sign on with your WordPress install, then bbPress is probably the best out there.

as of yesterday I’ve heard of buddypress… and now I’m confused

Yeah, we have to explain this every day to someone.

Truly wish anyone with Documentation rights would maybe save this as a sticky or maybe in the documentation section or something…

BuddyPress and bbPress are not connected.

BuddyPress allows you to install a forked version of bbPress. It is not the same as this bbPress. We don’t know why they kept the name. We don’t know why they don’t publicise that they are different. If you use BuddyPress in any way, we can’t help you on this forum.

It seems like the two products are made by the same people, are intended for similar purposes, but some people have both installed

BuddyPress is ‘like’ a WordPress plugin, in the same vein of a fancy WooTheme or Thesis framework. Its like an additional layer onto which other plugins can be installed.

About a year ago the BuddyPress team, under the great coding skills and direction of Andy Peatling (http://apeatling.wordpress.com/) forked and ported a version of bbPress to be run as a BuddyPress plugin.

So bbPress and BuddyPress are two different products, with different aims and goals, and some people can have both installed – just not this version of bbPress.

On top of that it seems like support for bbPress is waning

Yes.

But it will not go away or die. It runs the Automattic support forums, so its not going anywhere. It will be ported to a WrodPress plugin at some stage. Other than that sentance, we have no information on that.

If what you need is a forum, use bbPress.

If you need to build a social network (friends, groups, private messaging, activity) then use BuddyPress.

Thats basically it

[kevinjohngallagher]

I was about to point you towards https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/ but I’ve just seen how unhelpful it is.

The realism is that if you’re “less computer savvy” then bbPress is not for you; at least, not just now anyway. You need a minimum amount of Tech no-how to get it up and running.

In order to install bbPress, you need to upload it to a server, and then navigate (type in) the corresponding URL to start the installation process.

That process has nothing to do with WordPress at all, and I strongly suggest putting bbPress in a folder below where you keep wordPress, if you decide to go ahead with it.

Can someone tell me how I would know what the “intended URL of the bbPress site” is? Is that the same as the URL of my website? Is it my WP-Admin login? I am confused.

Yes, its the URL you intend on using for bbPress.

No, it’s got nothing to do with WordPress Admin.

I am confused.

With all due respect, I don’t really believe that bbPress is for you at this point in time.

[Greg]

I am using WP+BBP+BP on a moderately sized site. 1000s of users, ~1M pageviews/month. Here’s my 2c…

What are your needs?

If what you need is a forum, use bbPress. Much less resource hungry and more flexible as a pure forum than the integrated forum in BuddyPress (itself also a fork of bbPress). You will be up and running a lot more quickly. But yes, the future is a little uncertain.

If you need to build a social network (friends, groups, private messaging, activity) then use BuddyPress. Be prepared for a much bigger load on your server and more theme complexity. The resulting site will be quite sophisticated though.

Note that you can start on bbPress and move to BuddyPress later. This will involve some work integrating databases later on, but it can be done quite easily if you know some SQL. This is what I would do in your situation – start out with the minimal subset of features to build your forum and take it from there.

[wildbug]

Can someone tell me how I would know what the “intended URL of the bbPress site” is? Is that the same as the URL of my website? Is it my WP-Admin login? I am confused.

[btko]

I went through the fresh install of WP 3.0 and bbPress 1.0 and the log in works as intended. Maybe you missed a step?

[btko]

Hi there,

What I’m looking for is to have a simple forum integrated with my WP installation. It seems like bbPress is the perfect choice but now I’m not so sure.

I’ve just this week came across and installed bbPress. I have nothing live yet, as I’m still working on a template but now as of yesterday I’ve heard of buddypress… and now I’m confused. It seems like the two products are made by the same people, are intended for similar purposes, but some people have both installed. On top of that it seems like support for bbPress is waning.

I’m not sure how much of the above is true, but that’s the impression I’ve been getting over the last couple days. So can anyone shed light on the situation for me?

Regards,

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hello folks,

I was hoping that someone could point me in the direction of an ACTION that occurs on the following pages so that I can hook my plugin into them without hacking the core:

bb-edit.php

I have a plugin that needs to be fired when someone edits a post.

Forum layout update

In the backend we do it all through AJAX (how wonderful), except we call the following page bb-admin/admin-ajax.php and the following sections (via a switch statement): add-forums and order-forums.

Except, no actions there to call either. And yes, to the best of my ability, I’ve stuck with the code the whole way through all the functions they call. I’ve yet to find a pluggable one.

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I realise that my phrasing is sometimes considered combative, and I apologise for that, but are we seriously suggesting that at no point is the ability to add/edit/control/order our forum pluggable in anyway; and the same for the editing of a forum post??

I’m more than happy to be wrong here, because right now I’m having one of those “bbPress moments” where you’re not quite sure if you’re losing your marbles or if whoever decided to make these not pluggable is.

Thanks for the help

[mattyhockey]

Very latest version of WordPress and BBpress.

I did not solve the problem, but I did do a work around. I just made an if statement to check if the user is logged in. If they are, display that link. If they aren’t display the same link, but instead take them to the register page. I added a login form to the registration page as well if loginform=on in the address.

So not really sure what else I could do as I have been searching for this one for a few days!

[mr_pelle]

woah, did anyone else get a weird error there telling us to “blame matt” ??

The 503 error? Quite a few times, but it’s just temporary, like the 404 error when you try do download a plugin or bbPress release.

[zaerl]

You are running IIS and you don’t have a rewrite filter. Go the the admin panel:

http://touchrugbyportugal.com/bbpress/bb-admin/options-permalinks.php

and choose “none”.

[JemzTouch]

Hey,

I’ve created a forum, some topics and some posts but when I click on anything in the forum it just goes to a “page not found”.

Heres the site

http://touchrugbyportugal.com/bbpress/

In fact most links go to that error page.

What have I not done?

J

[johnhiler]

Yah unfortunately it’s not a plugin… so you can’t easily turn it off. You can just rip references to favorites out of your themes:

http://www.google.com/search?q=favorites+site:http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Gideons,

Mate, with respect, these aren’t really bbPress issues, it’s an issue with an independant theme given away some 2-3 months ago.

It sounds to me like a basic web design CSS issue, thats outwith teh scope of this board, but if you’re still struggling, please contact the theme author at: http://www.jasonmorehouse.com/bbpress-vanilla-theme

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Gideons,

I suggest you talk to the author directly at http://www.jasonmorehouse.com/bbpress-vanilla-theme

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Matt,

What version of bbPress are you using, what version of WordPress, are you definately 100% not using WPMU or BuddyPress, and are you using default themese ?

Thanks

[mattyhockey]

I’m having this same problem.

This is an integrated BBpress w/ WordPress blog. When you click the “add new” link without being logged in, you are taken to a 403 error message page.

If you are logged in, you’re taken to the correct page.

What could be causing this?

I have been searching now for a few days…

[driz]

@kevinjohngallagher

Any help making one? I don’t understand the loop in bbPress very well.

Thanks

[Rartemass]

Thank you for clearing that up.

[chrishajer]

Yes, you can install it at mydomain.com/forum, beside your blog, and you can integrate them.

[btko]

I like it — I look forward to trying it out.

[Rartemass]

I’ve started creating a blog with WordPress and it is working fine.

I now what to add in a forum (on a different page) that uses the WordPress login IDs.

I have found stuff to integrate the two but I have a question about installation directories.

WordPress is installed in mydomain/blog

Do I install bbPress there?

I wanted the forum page to be mydomain/forum

If I install to a directory with that name, can I still integrate with WordPress?

Sorry if this has been asked before but I was unable to find specif details on the forum, FAQ, or installation instructions.

[chrishajer]

It might be different but it doesn’t matter. It’s just taking advantage of leaving the closing php tag off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference

[gerikg]

@kevinjohngallagher you will never know the name of the architect! buhhaha (I don’t know either) They might be reading this.

So I have 1.1-alpha

I briefly had 1.03Trunk.

My question is will 1.1 have all 1.03 fixes.

for example bb-config-sample.php of 1.1 is the same as 1.02 but trunk is different (https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1282)

[chrishajer]

The only one I know of with answers to your questions is Matt Mullenweg. I don’t know if he’s put anyone in charge, but ultimately the responsibility is his.

[gerikg]

If you want it like this site…. An easy way to do it is…

the front page of the default theme is broken into two parts.

If you open front-page.php serach for these div codes, everything on the left is between “id=”hottags” role=”main””

Everything on the right is between “div id=”discussions”” JUst move what you want in them.

All you have to do is adjust the width/margin of both css styles.

style.css (line 285) #front-page #hottags for the left side change the width

style.css (line 293) #front-page #discussions change margin left to be 20px more than what you pick for the left column width and the width to fit.

(Why doesn’t this site have a demo on bbpress! I hate changing my theme back to default to answer questions!)