Can I do this and keep all the existing topics and posts from my current bbPress install?
@johnhiler – Yes man, everyone leaving. Sam’s post is about “1 month old”. How many plugins are updated last month? 
I wrote Matt some hours ago …
I really hope bbpress will thrive from this transition! Go Bbpress! 
Marius – Everyone’s leaving? One person has left… the lead developer, Sam. And he worked crazy hard to get version 1.0 out the door (you can see all his code checkins on Trac).
bbPress is definitely in a state of transition now. I’ll reach out to Automattic and see if we can’t get some clarification on where things are. If they’re not going to actively develop the platform, we can fairly easily fork the code since it’s open source…
Here I was thinking BBPress was a new forum just joining the battle of the forums. Now I find out everyones leaving, slacking off and not priorotizing it.
I bypassed the activation email requirement for the first post (the one made with the plugin), so the post is added immediately and the registration can be taken of later. Other option is to use an anonymous posting plugin. I’ll be around to do support possibly, and that’s the case with most plugins for bbPress, try looking at how many are abandoned… otherwise, pay someone for support, that’s the only real way to ensure it’s there.
If your concept of the site depends on this plugin, you may want to consider hiring a developer (like Kawauso!) to build and test it for you…
Regarding waiting for the password over email – you can address that with this plugin! I use it on all my sites and can vouch for it:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/
This may also simplify the registration process… I haven’t used this one yet though:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/openid/
Good luck!
1. If your website is in public_html, then I would put the folder inside that folder, so you would have this:
/public_html/bbpress/
or
/public_html/forums/
or
/public_html/discussions/
When you unzip bbPress, it will create a folder called bbpress. Rename that folder to whatever you want before you upload it.
Uncompress it on your desktop, then rename it, then upload the whole thing to public_html.
4. Well, if /public_html resolves to your domain at http://www.example.com/ and you renamed your bbpress folder to discussions, you would visit http://www.example.com/discussions/ and start the installation.
If you want a link to the forum in your WordPress menu, you will need to create a Page with a slug that is identical to your folder name. So, if you called your folder discussions, create a Page called Discussions with a slug of discussions and if you’re using permalinks in WordPress, that menu item will serve up the bbPress installation.
There are also plugins that will allow you to redirect a page to another URL. You might need to do something like that.
Custom Field Redirect: http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/
Page Links To: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/
There are ways to do it in a page template as well, but you might not need any of that. Create a page with the slug named the same as your forum folder, and it should ‘just work’.
I have two noob questions re: the installation instructions here: http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/
> 2. Upload the uncompressed files to your server
Where on the server? Do I upload the files to /public_html? to /public_html/wp-admin? etc.
I’ve read elsewhere that you should upload the uncompressed *folder* (i.e., “bbpress”) and its files. But the #2 says to upload the files? Which is it? I’ve also read elsewhere that you might want to rename the folder “bbpress” to something like “forum,” because this will determine the URL to your forum. Is that still the case? The author’s instructions don’t mention this, but it seems important.
> 4. Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site
How do I create the intended URL? Do I need to create a new WordPress page and call it something like “Forum”?
Hello there,
I am starting to create a community using bbpress, so far I am getting most of the features I want besides a few that I am having difficulties grasping. One of these problems is I want to make a sandbox forum for testing and so forth, I want it to be open so all users have access to it however I do not want any of the posts appearing into the “latest discussions” as they are for testing purposes only.
forums:
http://voices.snailface.com/
I am running 1.0.2
Cheers,
I tested both Valendesigns and Ohnas solution with no success, it just shows the default gravatar icon!
Edit: BTW using bbPress 1.0.2
I think that’s the output from the command top so watpocom is just the user that’s running the processes.
I suspect it’s a plugin causing the problem. Using the plugins linked to by johnhiler will help pinpoint the problem. I’d start with bbPress plugins.
You’re in luck! Try this script to see which bbPress plugins are slow:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-benchmark/
This should do the trick on the WordPress side of things:
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/debug-queries/
Good luck!
@johnhiler and we will work!
I don’t want that greatest board engine (since IPB) collapse.
Simple, fast, elegant
What version of bbPress are you running? The 1.0 version has some classes that you seem to be missing there. I don’t have a 0.9 version installed with categories to check this out.
This would get you close, at the bottom of your style.css, but it’s not quite right – it spaces all the table data cells over. You just want the first ‘column’ over, the forum category.
.bb-root td {
padding-left: 2.5em;;
}
I didn’t think the older version had forums as categories – are you using a plugin for that, or are you using 1.0 and just missing some classes for your theme? Maybe that theme was for 0.9 and is missing the markup for 1.0.
@ johnhiler: GREAT POINT (as usual!)
I have a fairly robust shared hosting plan which allows me root access, an IP, and plentiful disk space and bandwidth. I want to install several copies of bbPress for different sites on my account and use a single install of Mu/BuddyPress as a social layer connecting the various sites.
Example
mysite.com – Mu/BuddyPress install
site1.com (physically mysite.com/site1) – bbPress install 1
site2.com (physically mysite.com/site2) – bbPress install 2
…
The point is to have a single userbase between the sites, with one account logging you in to the entire “network”. The catch is that the different bbPress installations would have different domains and different administrators.
The question is, how do I go about setting this up? What existing extensions would I need, and/or what extensions would I need to write?
@grassrootspa – BuddyPress uses bbPress to power forums, so as long as BuddyPress is important for Automattic then that’s good for us.
We definitely need clear guidance around the future of bbPress. If it’s not going to be supported, then we will have to work together as a community to fork it…
I agree 100% with Olaf.
Seems like there is all this attention from Automattic re: BuddyPress development but next to none for bbPress. Sigh…
Sometimes an upgrade can remove your admin/keymaster privileges… if so, this plugin can solve it:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/
