I recently installed bbpress by extending buddypress 1.1 with wordpress mu 2.8.4. While everything is ok on the buddypress end, the forum does not have a “Add New Topic” link displayed…. I tried adding topics and posts through the database too, but same result! 
You can find the link to the forum here – http://smartlearnwebtv.com/iitjee/forums. I’d appreciate any help from you guys.
Note: The forum under the “Groups” category seems to work fine – not sure if this has got anything to do with the problem am facing.
Thanks. I was referring to the links above the powered by bbPress slogan. I want to be able to change the size and color of those links that I put in there. Those links point back to my site. The same problem I am having in the header too. How do I adjust the size and color of the links on the top left corner of the header.php file? I tried making a div in the header but it did not work. Did I do something wrong?
Thank you.
Thank you Olaf, but, I was trying with this plugin before and I can’t get a highlighting code, just a white square with the information.
And, another issue, is that if I write the quotes, bbpress (or the plugin?) change for more quotes: I write “as”, and get “”as””, so, I need to write <pre lang=as>code</pre >
Who has gotten this to work? When i try going into myforums with a cellphone it looks normal. Does not look like a mobile edition.
Hello all,
I’ve upgraded my BP to 1.1, before that I’ve done the deep integration to show the buddybar on bbpress, which worked fine. After the update, it won’t show up anymore. I have been using the plugin “Buddybar in bbpress”, including the settings in my bb-config.php. Any ideas how I can fix this?
Greets,
pixelgirl.
Then you might need a plugin like this:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/#post-245
The only problem with that plugin is that it’s old and might not (probably will not) work with 1.0. But that is the approach you want to take. You must approve a topic before it’s visible to the public.
Just a note here – I did the same thing as dragunoff. The only snag I encountered was that the admin account(s) needed special care, or I was locked out of my blog.
Also, I dumped the nicename data into the display_name field.
There was moderation hold, but it’s a pretty old plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/#post-245
You might also want read-only forums?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/
That’s an old plugin as well.
I have same issue and have over 25,000 posts, how do I delete all the special characters from the post or is their a way to have them imported through the SQL
You need to check the URL requrested and basing on that use the theme
But i suppose you have WP and bbPress installed
I think you could do this with a theme switching plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-theme-switcher/
That particular plugin worked only through 0.9 though.
I think the idea would be to link to the forum using a direct link, specifying the template, or maybe set a cookie depending on where the visitor came from, then choosing the template based on that cookie.
I don’t think you need to modify bbPress at all – you just need to identify where the user comes from (cookie?) and set their template appropriately.
It will integrate users with WordPress, if you want that.
It’s easiest to just use the WordPress database – just be sure the table prefix is different for WordPress and bbPress. WordPress uses wp_ by default and bbPress uses bb_ by default. Just be sure they are different, or bbPress will mess up your WordPress installation. Like this:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/extreme-database-help-im-an-idiot
Hi, iltdevunit
That really depends what you are going to do with you wordpress and bbPress installations.
Using one table (but differenct prefixes) will allow you to make better use of MySQL features as integration will be seamless.
As for bbPress – it could completely integrate into WordPress and could be standalone: so really it depends on you!
Hi,
I’m about to install bbPress.
For the database information in installation step 1, do I put in the WordPress db settings or am I supposed to create a new database and put its details i?
I’m not sure if bbPress integrates into WordPress or if it is a completely stone-alone bb that just happens to be by the same people that brought us WordPress.
Cheers
I’m hoping this is possible, but am doubtful. Hopefully someone can help if it is possible.
I run a small community website. I have a friend that runs a similar but not exactly the same small community website. We were looking to become “sister” websites. What we want to do is have the message boards from both sites be a single board. This part isn’t what I’m worried about. I know it’s as simple as directing a link.
What we are wanting however is to have her WP theme show up as the bbP theme when entered from her domain.. And when entered from my domain, my WP theme to show up as the bbP theme. Does anyone feel this is 1) possible 2) relatively “easy” to accomplish? When I say relatively easy, I mean that I know it will be difficult, but I don’t want to re-write ALL of the bbPress code.
Thanks!
http://tempestchasing.com/forum/
Plugins:
Akismet
Bavatars
bbPM
bbPress-WordPress syncronization
bbPress Favicon
bbPress Moderation Suite
bbPress Polls
bbPress signatures
bbPress Smilies
C*nsor
Members Online
Reputation (Karma) for bbPress
Subscribe to Topic
Topic Icons
Theme: Simples
This forum is integrated with my WP blog, which is a weather/severe weather blog. The site is finished, its just picking up some users that is a but tough 
feel free to check it out. If you at all feel like you want to register, do it through WP, not bbPress. I haven’t altered the login system on bbPress yet
It’s very easy to use your sites template with bbpress
nice one, how about the templates? do bbpress got a lot of templates? are they for free?
bbPress example http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/ (Default Kakumei Blue theme)
You can start from documentation https://bbpress.org/documentation/
Hi, im a new in forums, and i need your all advice. I have a website and its being redesigned now, (www.iliketattoo.com) and i want to put forum on it. How hard is to do it with BBpress and where do i need to start?
Does any one have examples of their forums so i can see what it looks like?
any information will be appreciated.
thanx
Oops, I forgot the version: 1.0.2
You need a tool like phpMyAdmin to access the database directly so you can drop tables that were created by bbPress. Normally those tables begin with the prefix bb_, but if you changed that on installation your tables will be differently named.
http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
Make a backup of your database before you drop any tables.
Your host might have something installed already that can access the database directly. It would be listed in your control panel.
cool but how i can delete the file and have done that already but how do i drop the bbPress tables? Thanks for the help!
To reinstall, you need to drop the bbPress tables and delete the bb-config.php. Then you can reinstall.
