Hey all,
For years I’ve used vBulletin for discussion forums. However, I have recently began to use bbPress for support forums on WordPress powered sites.
There are a lot of good tutorials on bbPress integration however some of the articles don’t go into that much detail in some areas so I decided to write my own tutorial on the matter.
It’s difficult to cover everything, but I have tried to note some of the most common problems which arise when integrating bbPress and WordPress. If you are unsure about anything please let me know 
http://www.wpmods.com/integrate-wordpress-bbpress
Thanks,
Kevin
You can use the Mass Delete Users plugin to delete spammers:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/
This is similar, and lets you delete the spam messages themselves:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-edit/
Are the 100 people real users, or are they using a bot?
I see. Ok, if bbPress stays as standalone yet – i will stay with it.
In my plans – make good wiki about bbPress and make some skins for it.
But i need 1.0.3 final (or maybe i can start now with 1.1 beta?)
but everybody must understand our apprehensions about bbPress future,
we used very good forum engine and one day he will become WP plugin…
Sorry if I sounded negative but I don’t mean to be.
It hasn’t happened yet (a completed plugin) and with no developers, or developers on other projects, I don’t think it will happen anytime this year. I’ll bet on it. Either way, I read a lot of “let’s do this and let’s do that” but no action. I don’t think any of us can demand anything. We aren’t paying anyone anything. I doubt anyone donates either. We can request it, we can be annoying about it, but the choice is not ours. If you haven’t noticed the more annoying people get, the less developers we have. We can start a movement away from bbP once it’s a plugin but it hasn’t happened. This is premature complaining because it hasn’t happened.
We should focus on four things
1 Getting the current plugins to have admin menus for non-php editors.
2 More Plugins
3 More themes (the reason I picked wordpress over drupal)
4 Documentations. It will be easier for people to code once the basic map is mapped out instead of everyone starting from ground zero. https://bbpress.org/documentation/
If you’re serious about keeping bbPress as standalone software, you’re in luck: that’s exactly what bbPress is doing for the next version or two. No need to fork just yet: just get more involved with bbPress.
bbPress will probably start to begin the slow process of becoming a WordPress plugin later this year or maybe next year… at which point, you’ll be better acquainted with the software and in a better position to consider a fork!
It’s good to see people, who liked bbPress.
I was on some GSOC channel in IRC, some guys told me that: they decided to make bbPress like WP plugin.
But WHO and WHY – i don’t know. So, like chrishajer said: “impossible to kill open-source project”.
We will keep bbPress fork as standalone, but now i need to ask admins of this site: will they provide us place for project here? or we must make new name of bbPress?
I can’t get this to work AT ALL. I’ve gone through every forum post I could find, changed every setting back and forth, re-installed twice, still I don’t see any of my WordPress users in bbPress, and as for the cookies issue, I’m about to bash my head in.
WordPress Version 2.9.2
bbPress Version 1.0.2
Someone please help—let me know what other information would make it easy for you. Thanks.
I thought the plugin version was already underway, hence https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
I will keep bbPress alive as standalone version. I have taken this task as a major project of my Bachelors degree.
@Gautam
Its better to have a standalone version for those who just needs to run a forum.
Those who want a better integration with WordPress, can go for the plugin version but I will myself prefer to use the standalone version at times.
sorry to raise an old topic from the dead, but I think I have found a significant problem with the current version…
If you try to post an empty reply in a topic, you are met with a message saying ‘You need to actually submit some content!’ and bbpress won’t let you reply.
However, if you edit a post, and delete all the information from inside, you can resubmit the post as a completely empty reply, because the filter for new replies does not work for edits.
And because there is no delete post function for normal users, some of my users have been doing this to remove their posts.
This means there are blank replies in some topics, which have to be manually found and removed by moderators!
I suggest there are two possible solutions
1) Allow users to delete their own posts, but within a certain time limit, I don’t want users deleting posts they made 2 months ago!
and/or
2) Have the empty-post filter work for post-edits as well as for brand new posts.
How can I make the edit-post function call the same minimum-character filter as the new post function??
Is it possible to mod the above post-delete plugin to include a time-limit on deleting posts (as found in phpbb)?
Thanks, they won’t allow me to post their site. I always thought it was the bbpress plugin but wordpress too I didn’t think of.
Gautam once it’s a plugin it won’t be hard to add on some stuff to make it a standalone right?
i agree with jurasiks, bbpress should not be a wordpress plugin.
im thinking that future bbpress can be a new style of forum engine
in my head now i am think about “micro forum”
bbPress inside WordPress will be slow and heavy.
i liked bbPress for performance and simplicity
imho, wp goes to wrong “all-in-one-combine” future, but this is developers decision
i would like to make future with “NewEngine”
so, who wants to help – please write here
who not – please, ignore
p.s. i will leave this idea if i can install next bbPress versions without WP
p.p.s but i can’t?
You really shouldn’t go that way, please.
Who can help us to keep bbPress as standalone CMS engine?
We will clear up all wp trash from code and will continue bbPress life as new engine.
Simpler, faster, more elegant
I am personally pretty excited about the bbPress plugin for WordPress. As someone has already mentioned there is already a number of other good standalone forum software out there that you could use and there is no reason that bbPress could carry on as a standalone forum as well as being a WordPress canonical plugin.
I have four sites built with WordPress and I have been wanting to add bbPress to each site for some time but the integration between the two has always put me off.
Anyone got any idea when the first version of the bbPress plugin will be out?
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Hi gerikg,
can you post a link to your forum? Evtl. we can test it together.
On my forum i have at first also a blank page – there it was a problem with two plugins (one in bbPress, one in WordPress).
Markus
@psycheangels – thanks very much for the information. I eventually found my way to noease’s beautiful iNOVE WordPress theme at http://www.neoease.com/themes/ and the iNOVE look-alike BBPress template from Eric Barnes’s at http://ericlbarnes.com/projects/inove-for-bbpress/. I also found a really excellent suite of programs developed around the Carrington theme, with templates for WP, bbPress and mobile too. Really excellent all of them. But you know what, I still would prefer a plugin that allowed me to integrate and run bbPress in my own developed Thesis WP theme. That would be my choice in a perfect world.
Try the Easy Video Embed plugin https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/easy-video-embed/
It enabled embedding videos like YouTube, Vimeo, Revver and others in bbPress 1.02, the latest version. Works in Firefox and IE. It is a new plugin, you can find it on the main page of the plugins list.
bbPress isn’t a WordPress plugin.
