[r-a-y]

Chris is right; bbPress is included in BuddyPress already, although there are some limitations:

– most, if not all, bbPress plugins need to be ported over to BuddyPress

– there’s no bbPress backend in BuddyPress

Also, is there a way of converting bbPress to BuddyPress?

Basically, you’ll need to create groups in BuddyPress and then determine which bbPress posts fit which groups.

Read what CUNY Commons did – http://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2009/12/06/upgrading-from-buddypress-1-0-to-1-1/. Specifically the “Dealing with bbPress forums” section.

[r-a-y]

Sorry to bump an old topic, but I just wrote a writeup on the BuddyPress forums detailing how to hide BuddyPress group forums on an external bbPress install:

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/how-to-hide-bbpress-forums-from-users-while-allowing-forums-in-buddypress-groups#post-33582

This addresses anandasama’s problem.

[chrishajer]

From what I understand, bbPress is basically already included in BuddyPress.

From here: https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-09-meetup/

[13:55] <jjj> junsuijin is right again. Frankly apeatling has already made bbPress a plugin, it’s just part of BuddyPress that includes all of the extra social things that forums have; profiles, pms, friends, etc…

[13:56] <apeatling> If the integration code is extracted from BuddyPress and moved into bbPress then we could get it integrating with one click tomorrow.

[13:56] <apeatling> it’s not a lot of code

So maybe it’s not really truly inside BuddyPress already, but parts of it are. I don’t use BuddyPress so I can’t comment first hand, just repeat what I’ve seen elsewhere.

[nickaster]

Well this is interesting. From the perspective of someone with one blog, I guess I’m not too bothered by the idea of this becoming a plugin, but it sounds like a potential nightmare for someone who’s already put some effort into customizing a theme and a lot of features of the bbpress.

[josh16]

Dude awesome! Will it work with BuddyPress?

[Raize]

There both the same thing why would you even care to convert from one to the other

[josh16]

Or is it going to stay a separate project and hopefully improve? I was just wondering because I’m planning on switching to BuddyPress since it already has most of the same characteristics as bbPress, almost like it’s built-in.

And will the bbPress project continue and hopefully gain more attention from the Automattic folks soon?

Also, is there a way of converting bbPress to BuddyPress?

[Raize]

vBulletin comes with this functionality built in, and I find it very useful. I used it for the “School News” category on my forum, where it pulls in headlines from the school newspaper. In this case, they have chosen not to include full text in the RSS Feed, but for feeds that do, it can be readily displayed in the thread that is created. I’m looking for a similar application here, to allow me to pull feeds from other sites in my network and drive traffic to them from my forum community.

Hope this works out, I’m looking forward to applying it.

[citizenkeith]

Hello folks,

It’s my hope that this thread can help move bbPress Plugin development forward. I’m not a programmer but I use bbPress for two different sites. One site is running v0.9.0.6 and the other is running v1.0.2.

I am considering upgrading my 0.9 forum to 1.0.2, since development is beginning to move forward, and some plugins are getting updated. Before making that decision, I decided to go through all the plugins I currently use in 0.9 and see if they have been updated, or in the very least, tweaked by current users. My method for checking this was to read through all the plugin threads for comments or tweaks, and to test some in my 1.0.2 forum.

I broke my list down to five separate lists:

1) Plugins that work

2) Plugins that work, with some bugs (according to some users)

3) Plugins that don’t work

4) Plugins that work with tweaks/changes

5) Plugins that may or may not work (conflicting info in threads, no comments since v1.x was released, etc)

I will only post lists 2-5.

I welcome your comments. If you have specific comments or tweaks, please post them in the that plugin’s thread (see links below).

Not working:

Move It

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/48

Works with bugs:

bbVideo

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbvideo/

Members Online

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

Not sure if it works:

BBcode Lite for bbPress

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-lite/

bb Topic Views

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-topic-views/

BBcode Buttons Toolbar

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-buttons/

Topics Per Page (a.k.a. Front Page Topics)

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

New User Notification

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/new-user-notification/

Post Count Plus

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus

Unread Posts

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/

Works with additional fixes in plugin thread:

Admin add user

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-add-user/

Approve User Registration

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/

bbPress Attachments

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments

Plugin Browser for bbPress:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/

[nerieru]

@grassrootspa I agree, but I think he made the decision to bring back some life in bbpress. But that’s just speculation though. I’ll ask about it in the meet tomorrow that’s for sure.

[gr0x0rd]

Hi all…

First time bbPress user, found installation to be fairly simple, got up and running quickly enough. However, after logging in for the first time, I am redirected to an incorrect URL. During installation I was asked for the URL where my bbpress installation will be, and that was easy enough:

http://mysite.org/subdir/bbpress/

When I log in with my keymaster account (the only account so far) I am instantly redirected to

http://mysite.org/subdir/bbpress/subdir/bbpress/

From what I can tell, this redirection is preventing me from getting the necessary creds to access the Admin area: when I click the Admin link, I’m just instantly redirected back to the index page, and logging out and back in again as suggested in other threads has no effect.

Can anyone shed some light on how to fix this redirection issue?

Many thanks,

~g

[surfeuse]

keep bbpress going peoples!

[chrishajer]

For question two there is a plugin for that:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/

Also, subscribe to topic is coming. It’s already in the latest development release.

[chrishajer]

You can edit header.php in your theme file, and just put the link wherever you want in there.

More reading:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/link-header-image-to-wordpress

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abbpress.org%2Fforums+link+home

[grassrootspa]

@Maurice: I’m with you. Very disappointed to hear bbPress will become a WordPress plugin. Grrr, I do not want to have to install WordPress every single time I want to install bbPress!

[grassrootspa]

@chrishajer: Yeah, read that a while back. I really hope this will be reconsidered.

@nerieru: I’m with you, would be much more in favor of an integration plugin than making bbPress itself a plugin. The thing that puzzles me is this sudden decision that bbPress MUST be a plugin. Why not polish up and release 1.1 and 1.2, 1.3, etc first an then reevaluate? Why a final roadmap decision right now?

[nerieru]

@chris, I think that’s still faaaaaaaaaar off tbh, and I do hope he reconsiders as well. As a plugin would be bloody slow compared to dedicated software. My honest opinion is it should be 2, standalone and there should be a plugin to make that standalone integrated with wordpress! So people will have a choice. Personally I think this is one of the fastest/most secure forum software out there. It would be as silly as making a wp plugin for bbpress. They should be separate and linkable through plugins. (1 at the wp side, 1 at the bbpress side)

@HSeatSleeper, I hope you will still continue this, because even if it’s gonna happen it’ll still take a long time till it reaches the stage of WP plugin. Your theme could still be used for the standalone version, even if it becomes obsolete.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

Thinking about this some more, it might be a while before bbpress becomes a plugin. I’ll start on a sandbox theme regardless. Even if it only gets used for a few months (?), this would help move bbpress forward and get serious themers/skinners seeing it as a viable platform.

[Maurice]

You can always check all the logs here before they’re posted on the blog:

https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=bbpress

Cool I din’t know that. It seems bbPress will NOT stay standalone and will be a plugin after 1.2, shame.

[chrishajer]

If you only want it on the front page, then frontpage.php is fine. You can put it in a separate file and include it in frontpage.php too, if you might want to use it on other pages. But there’s no harm in adding it there. Go for it.

More reading:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/best-practices-for-adding-a-sidebar-to-bbpress

[chrishajer]

I don’t think there’s any question at this point. Here’s what Matt said on Dec 30 ’09:

“[21:26 GMT] <photomatt> bbPress will definitely be a WP plugin”

https://bbpress.org/blog/2010/01/2009-12-30-meetup/

[nerieru]

I also think the serious lack of a good codex is killing potential enthusiasts/contributors. So I don’t mind building the codex for bbpress. It’s a needed feature. And should be like WP’s.

I’ll see you in the meet Wednesday.

[ipunkbali]

@Kamil_D, can u tell me how did you do that? i wanna talk to you, please add me on yahoo or msn messenger ipunkbali [at] yahoo.com thx

[brucini]

i’d really like to rss feed a blog to the side bar of my forum

what code should i add to the frontpage.php where i have other html controlling the text?

or is there a better way?

http://theblackkeysfanlounge.com/forum/

[Michael]

I see. There is a thread somewhere here about that. They tried to get this result:

your.domain.com/<forum-name>/<topic-name>

I’m sure this will surface one day – it would be nice if it were a plugin that adds to the list of permalink types in the admin panel. I too will be implementing something like this. Nice thing about it is that Google will filter your result into a hierarchical display (breadcrumbs).

That type of thing will also increase crawling speeds.