[frooyo]

@johnhiler

Is there anywhere I can see a demo of either Support Forum or Best Answer.

I’ve looked around at the plugins and couldn’t find either a screenshot of it working or a demo.

[johnhiler]

You should be able to use Support Forum and Best Answer to mimic similar functionality!

* https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forum/

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

[frooyo]

I really like how 37signals made their simplified Q&A site:

http://answers.37signals.com/basecamp

In review, it occurred to me that it’s essentially just a forum site with a few specific functions that make it act more like a Question & Answer site.

Does anyone know how I can mimic 37signals simplified Q&A implementation using bbPress?

[psycheangels]

maybe this will help ?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nested-topic-list-code-snippet

[psycheangels]

there is no documentation of default roles, but if you want to add or edit roles you can use this plugin

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager

[psycheangels]

no wait until matt make bbpress to wp plugin, but now you can use wp function in bbpress using this method

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

or other method in this forum, cek sub forum theme

[jc99]

Is it possible to call bbpress from a page in wordpress?

[jc99]

What do I assign for User Role Maps in bbpress wordpress integration…

WordPress Administrator: I assume this is Keymaster

But the rest I am unsure of….

WordPress Editor, Author and Contributer: Moderator?

WordPress Subscriber: Member?

Is there a place I can read up on the different roles (Key Master, Adminstrator, Moderator Member)

[driz]

From what I can tell it’s gonna require a foreach statement to do what I want.

[Anonymous User]

ok – I see – this is the standard settings for topics, posts and tags.

With the plugin from _ck_ it is possible to set different count limits for nearly every bbPress page:

• front-page
• forum-page
• topic-page
• view-page
• tag-page
• tag-page
• search-page
• feed-page
• profile-page
• favorites-page
• stats-page

Markus

[driz]

Okay here is how I want it to work:

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>



<!-- FOR EACH TOP LEVEL CATEGORY BUILD A DIV WITH A H3 AND OL -->



<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>



<div class="box">



<?php if (bb_get_forum_is_category()) : ?>



<h3><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a></h3>



<?php endif; ?>



<ol>



<!-- FOR EACH FORUM BUILD A LI (only show top level children not children within those) -->



<li class="arrow f_unread">

<a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>">

<strong><?php forum_name(); ?></strong><br />

<?php forum_topics(); ?> Topics / <?php forum_posts(); ?> Replies

</a>

</li>



</ol>



</div>



<?php endwhile; ?>



<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

I only want top level cats and forums to show on the front page, clicking on those will show the sub-forums when you view in the individual forums.

Can anyone help?

[driz]

@kevinjohngallagher

I missed read you post earlier. Yeah getting bbPress to display like phpBB would be an awesome starting ground for me. If you could find those files/links that would be much appreciated.

[gerikg]

Any way to do it via plugin folder, functions.php, or theme folder without putting the file in the root? If bbpress upgrades (don’t laugh too hard) I will forget about it.

[tdfahrney]

I’m having the same issue here. I’ve downloaded two themes from the web site and installed in the directory my-themes and gave the directory 755 permissions and none of the themes are visible except the standard installs. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong ?

[Anonymous User]

Look at this plugin:

Plugin Name: Topics Per Page

Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/topics-per-page

Markus

[Mortgage Reverse]

Man I can’t wait for this to go online! Out of curiosity are there any existing SEO plugins or sitemap plugins for BBPress? Gracias in advance!

[kevinjohngallagher]

I think i can shed a little light on this, but apologies if i’m off a little.

1) you need to decide if you want to have parent/child relationships with categories or not. If you want categories, then all forums need to have a parent category. Its a world of hassle otherwise.

2) bbPress doesn’t actually handle in any way shape or form a parent / child relationship. Its key to remember this when processing the data, especially in the bb_forums() loop. Remember it’s just a plain list of names with no corrolation.

3) The “category” is not marked on the forum list or forum database table where you can query it easily as a 1 to 1 relationship. Instead, a hack of _CK_’s forum as a category plugin for bbPress 0.8/0.9 has been rolled into the core. Thats not a complaint against Sam, its the fact that it doesn’t solve the problem, it merely “fakes” a category to the end user.

4) bbPress doesn’t consider a category to be in a Parent/Child relationship, it considers a category to be one that topics cant be written to AND that has a child forum. So if down the line you make a forum read only for some reason – bbPress will think its a category.

Here is a long (sorry) post I wrote about it in September 2008:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/parent-childrelationship-in-forum-loop

And in the end I made this as an example:

http://kevinjohngallagher.com/___alpha/bbpress_as_phpbb/

Basically, I had to do a major rewrite of the bb_forums() loop.

[driz]

Okay changed all forums to have cats, but I need each block of forums with a cat to have this setup:

<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>

At the moment it’s repeating the div and ol for each forum and not containing the forums within a cat inside just one div and ol.

ALSO

But because I have categories within categories it will become messy nested. So I only want to show top level forums and not the sub-forums/cats within.

[kevinjohngallagher]

There’s a more fundamental issue here.

Basically, you should ensure that every forum has a parent category. It solves so many issues when building themes and dealing with the loop. I covered this in my “bbPress as phpBB” theme back in 2008. I’ll hunt out the links for you. It was simple, but a bit of a pain.

[gerikg]

I’m trying the same thing but instead of OL i’m using TABLES. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/if-forum-is-not-category

Maybe that can help you jumpstart to find the answer.

[driz]

Hi I have the following code:

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>



<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>



<div class="box">



<?php if (bb_get_forum_is_category()) : ?>



<h3><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a></h3>



<?php continue; endif; ?>



<ol>



<li class="arrow f_unread">

<a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>">

<strong><?php forum_name(); ?></strong><br />

<?php forum_topics(); ?> Topics / <?php forum_posts(); ?> Replies

</a>

</li>



</ol>



</div>



<?php endwhile; ?>



<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

Struggling to get it to work how I want which is basically like this:

for each category do this:

<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>

so that div should be repeated for each block. if a set of forums has not category, then all of the code would be above would run but just no h3.

so an example might look like this:

<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>



<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>



<div class="box">

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>



<div class="box">

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>

can anyone help thanks.

[Anonymous User]

Hi Chris,

thanks for your answer. So I only continue to help here in the forum.

Markus

[jurasiks]

/start

I think Gautam and I and gerikg and some others realized we don’t need any outside help to move the project forward, at least for the time being. There’s a lot we can do without having the keys to the whole thing.

/end

After that words… i see your position. It’s very bad position for open-source project.

[Anonymous User]

Hi gerikg,

this post could help you:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/create-a-new-custom-page-like-wordpress

1. Make a custom page

create a page discussion.php in the root forum folder

add require_once(‘./bb-load.php’); on the top of the page. and write whatever code you want in the page.. that should create a static page with bbpress functions..

2. Put in the code for the Latest discussions from the main page (?)

or

3. Make your own sql query – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/create-a-new-custom-page-like-wordpress

Markus

[robynh]

Uh. Yes. I can read, and I DID read that, thanks. As I said…

“Nothing I had read previously said that I COULD use the same database as WordPress, __or that I needed to do something differently if I WAS using separate databases__.” (emphasis added)

So, yes. I realize there was another solution to the problem. I just chose to solve it the one way.