[littleoracle]

Hi gang,

I’m an enthusiast of all things WordPress and would love to help out if I can.

Being unemployed right now, I’ve definitely got some TIME.

My php/javascript skills are kind of entry level, my html/css skills are fairly advanced. That being said, I’d love to get my hands dirty with the code end of things and I’m more than willing to do any testing that’s necessary or write up some documentation.

Just point me at a problem and I’ll get to work.

[Michael]

Hi there

I’m not 100% sure how it would work on a manual basis. There is a plugin called bbPages (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpages/) that will have support for “pretty permalinks” in the near future.

Some-one may have to take over the development of this plugin. It may happen in the next couple of months.

[hpguru]

Try disable ALL plugins. Then try if site works/recount. If no, activate all plugins, problem is maybe in bbPress installation. So try this next.

[chrishajer]

You came to the project either a little too early or a little too late, depending on how you look at it. The project is in transition right now so there’s not a lot of visible stuff going on with it. There is quite a bit of discussion behind the scenes.

To address your specific points:

1. yes, the idea is to keep the core light and add plugins to establish the functionality with plugins.

2. https://bbpress.org/plugins/

3. there used to be a site called bbshowcase.org that listed many bbPress sites. That site was recently taken down. You can see people posting about their sites here https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press and with a little creative googling you can find bbPress forums as well http://www.google.com/search?q=%22powered+by+bbpress%22

If you need functionality that is included in a plugin, be sure to check the version compatibility to be sure it works with the version of bbPress you want to use. There are not currently many plugins for 1.0: most were written to be compatible with 0.9 or earlier. If you want login integration bbPress 0.9 with the latest WordPress, there are plugins to make the cookies compatible between the two versions.

[mrsparex]

dittos… I know almost nothing about building websites but I stepped out in faith and bought space from siteground and they downloaded bbpress for me (free) and with the help of a few members here I have pennyforums.com up and running. buddha trance even told me which file to “play” with to widen my forum which I did (I first totally ruined the file and had to overwrite it ). chrishager even took the time to tell me how to unzip a compressed file (I know that’s kindergarten stuff but heh!) I’ve had nobody belittle me for asking what is to most folks here “dumb questions” and I want y’all to know :

I appreciate it and THANKS for your help.

Seriously….thanks everybody! (what’s this little button on my cpu that says “on/off”? ….just kidding)

[johnhiler]

Similar issues have been reported by plugins having extra spaces at the end of ’em:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-to-rss-xml-parsing-error

Try deactivating your plugins and see if the issue resolves itself… if so, then activate one plugin at a time until the XML error pops up again!

[Michael]

Greetings all

I installed my bbPress forums (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation) about 2 weeks ago. I have also added many plugins to it – and everything seems to be just peachy.

However, I now have a problem with my RSS Feeds. I am getting the following error in Mozilla Firefox:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity

Location: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rss/forum/news-and-announcements

Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

-^

I have replaced all the RSS files with the originals just in case the were corrupted – with no luck.

To see an example, go to this topic and click on the RSS link at the bottom right:

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/topic/from-the-blog-recieving-and-parsing-twitter-feeds

[Michael]

If you’re looking to have a community within your Blog, you should really be using BuddyPress. It adds a social/community layer onto your existing WordPress MU installation.

Like Chrishajer said, bbPress is not for that – it is simply forum software.

I’m using bbPress for a community – but it’s a Discussion-based community. So a forum is great for that.

Visit my forum to see what I mean: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation

[ies22admin]

WordPress: 2.86

BBpress: 1.0

I have installed bbpress integration and done all things following the instructions. However, I still need to login again when i switch from wordpress to bbpress or vice versa.

what is the problem?

[moblemike]

I am pretty bummed because I thought that was one of the benefits of using this forum over others.

1.) The forum seems a bit lacking in features after setting it up. Is the idea that additional functionality for the forum comes from additional plugins?

2.) Where is the complete listing of available plugins for bbPress?

3.) Where can I find examples of other people’s bbPress forums? The site only had two and one of them I have no way of seeing without a username and password.

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

It does not work like that. That’s on the radar though. To make your bbPress forum look like your WordPress site, you should browse the tag here integration. You will usually be creating a template for bbPress that looks like your WordPress theme. Another way to do it is to integrate so you have access to WordPress functions in bbPress, like get_header() and get_footer() so you can use WordPress functions.

bbPress is GPL 2 licensed. You should read that to determine if you can remove all references to the software being bbPress. If you mean things like the logo and footer attribution, there’s no problem removing those things.

[moblemike]

1.) I thought one of the advantages of this forum was that it would automatically take on the theme of my WordPress site. It is not. How can I make that happen?

2.) Can I remove all references to this being by bbPress, OR is that against the license?

Thanks!

[chrishajer]

I don’t think you need bbPress to extend your website user’s profiles.

[Rebtl]

Michael,

My site is linked is the one on my profile here. http://survivalcache.com. It is going to be a gear resource site for survivalists. Not a store, but more a blog/gear reviews.

It is not up and running yet. I working on the design right now. (using Thesis)

I asked my question here because I read somewhere else that using bbPress might be a good way to allow me to create extended user profiles on my site.

That is all I am really looking to do.

I only want this as a way to build community on my site once it gets going. Get people to feel more involved, and allow them to build a reputation for knowledge and credibility on the site.

Thanks for any advice,

Rebtl

[mbeneteau]

I found significant problems with the bbPress documentation on integrating bbPress into a WordPress site, which had me puzzling for well over an hour (http://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/). Here is what I did in the end:

1) Not at all clear from the documentation that bbPress should be installed in the same database as WordPress. Get WP database parameters from the WordPress wp-config.php, and enter these on the first page of the bbPress install page:

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘warriord_wrdp7’);

/** MySQL database username */

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘warriord_wrdp7’);

/** MySQL database password */

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxx’);

2) Fantastico and other automated scripts generate very long AUTH_KEY etc, that typically contain “escaped characters” within a PHP “define” statement (ie. ’ and \). Copying these from the wp-config.php into page 2 of the bbPress installer is problematic. Rather than trying to figure this out, I just copied them from wp-config.php (in WordPress) to bb-config.php (in bbPress).

Other than this, it was pretty straightforward and now works like a charm. To see it working http://internet101.biz/wordpress-how-to/

Marc

[DeMBones]

Hello,

I am aware that there have been several topics in regard to this subject. I am also aware that none of them solved my problem. I wish to have bbPress add target=”_blank” to all external links. I have tried _ck_’s plugin, but it results in an empty anchor: <a >url</a>. I am using the latest version of bbPress. Help is much appreciated.

Ryan

[chrishajer]

All the existing directories will be in the cPanel. Not sure if you can create a new one there, but you don’t even need to. find out where WordPress is installed (the folder with wp-config.php in it usually) and then upload the whole bbpress folder to the server. Rename that bbpress folder to whatever you want before you upload it.

[chrishajer]

Read this where I just answered a similar question:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-upload-bbpress#post-61385

[republican1021]

So would that directory be in my cPanel? I’m using Hostgator web hosting if that makes a difference

[chrishajer]

First you need to get it on your server somewhere. Unzip it on your desktop and then rename that bbpress folder to whatever you want to call your forum (some people us “forums”, like here, or “forum” or “discussions”. If you don’t change it from bbpress, you will be accessing it at http://www.example.com/bbpress/

Once you unzip it, rename the folder if you want, upload it to your server. It’s commonly installed in a subfolder of WordPress. So, if WordPress is here: /var/www/htdocs/wordpress/ then you will want bbpress here /var/www/htdocs/wordpress/bbpress/ (with whatever you called the bbpress folder.)

Once it’s uploaded there, you will access the installer online like this:

http://www.example.com/bbpress/ (assuming http://www.example.com/ displays your WordPress site.)

Once you are this far, you can work on the integration with WordPress.

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. If you uploaded it to wp-content/plugins it’s in the wrong place. bbPress requires its own folder and then you need to go through the installation by accessing your forum online at:

http://www.example.com/bbpress (or ‘forum’ if you renamed the bbpress folder to something else.)

[Michael]

There would be no point in having a bbPress installation if you were to have no forum. I’m not fully understanding what the whole scene here is. What exactly is your website?

[Michael]

I somehow managed to download the Read only forums plugin. Forgot how/where.

You can grab it from my server: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/bbpress/plugins/read-only-forums.zip

The only thing I found was that it didn’t remove the header (“New Topic in this Forum”) for read only forums. Oh well – it still works, which is grand.

[republican1021]

I realize this is a really dumb question but I have the .zip file from this site so what do I do with it now to integrate it with wordpress?

[moblemike]

I am considering using this and have a couple questions:

1.) Is there a way to list all of the available Forums on one page and let the user select the forum they want to choose from there rather than placing all available forums at the bottom of the page like on http://bbpress.org/forums/

2.) Is it possible to remove the Hot Tags area at the top of the page like at the top of

http://bbpress.org/forums/

Thanks!