When I get past Step1 I keep getting this message that will not allow me to proceed to Step2. Any help? I am using GoDaddy for hosting and followed all the instructions. Am not using the same database as WP is using. Have created a new one for bbPress.
I created a new database for bbPress.
If you also have a WordPress install that you’re sharing the database with, I think you can use the values in your WordPress config file in your bbPress bb-config.php…
The first “forum” is the forum’s folder and the second is used to identity a (sub)forum.
The same way like a tag or topic is identified. You can change the forum’s folder name, that’s all.
the structure make sense:
https://bbpress.org/forums/ (forums home)
https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/troubleshooting (the troubleshooting forum)
Your bb-config.php file is in the root of your bbpress installation… you can edit it in any plaintext editor.
It looks something like this:
https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-config-sample.php
Which config.php file is being referred to in the article? Will it be under the bbPress folder? Also where is the hostname required? bbPress installation only asks me for the username and password.
Thanks.
Ah ok, GoDaddy requires you to change some settings… there’s a nice writeup here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-select-db-error-and-godaddycom
Here’s the key link:
http://help.godaddy.com/article/39
Hope that helps!
I just downloaded the zip file and uploaded the bbPress folder into the HTML directory and used <mydomain/bbpress> to set it up and am getting this message. I am using GoDaddy for hosting, yes.
Thanks.
Are you setting up a standalone bbPress install, or integrating with WordPress?
Also – who is your webhost… are you on GoDaddy?
I am entering the database user name and password and am getting an error message saying “there was a problem connecting to the database, please check the settings”. I set up the database and password correctly but bbPress will not let me go further. What do I do?
Thank you.
I’m a newbie with bbpress.
I just installed a new forum in a new folder “forum” and I want to know how to make some changes.
I want to change my url from http://my.site.com/forum/forum/my-topic to http://my.site.com/forum/my-topic
The default word after http://my.site.com/forum/ is “forum” can I change this?
I can’t find an option in permalinks.
If you’re looking for broad plugin support, you’re probably better off on bbPress 0.9.0.x for now… it’s going to take some time before a critical mass of plugins works for bbPress 1.0.x.
https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers
Same concept for bbPress. You could make all those plain text if you like, they’re built that way by default for people who need to translate their sites.
So, I’m learning how to hack around these bbpress themes pretty nicely, but sometimes the php confounds me. For example, here’ some code from a basic front page:
<th><?php _e('Posts'); ?></th>
<th><?php _e('Last Poster'); ?></th>
<th><?php _e('Freshness'); ?></th>
Simple table headers, but what’s the point of the php? Why don’t I just slap the words in there exactly how I want it? Isn’t this just churning resources? Why wouldn’t I just do this:
<th>Posts</th>
<th>Last Poster</th>
<th>Freshness</th>
Thanks!
Trick is for bbPress functions, half of them are WordPress functions, just sometimes with bb_ on the front, so they behave essentially the same. A fair few others are just aliases to return data instead of outputting it (i.e. get_forum_link vs. forum_link). Beyond that though, yeah it’s all pretty undocumented, but it’s usually relatively obvious from the name and parameters it takes.
I’d love to be able to help right a bbPress Codex mind you…
Wow, those people have been around forever. I remember when Linux was first going public and I worked with Linux.com, those guys had the exact same list of products.
The web has moved away from threaded discussion formats in favor of conversational (due in part to comments becoming so prevalent on web sites and eventually blogs). There were numerous papers on it years back, though they may be hard to find now. Here’s one blog post on the subject, which does an adequate job of explaining some of the pros and cons: http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2008/06/02/against-threaded-conversations-on-blogs/
It can be accomplished with bbPress, with a little elbow grease, but I definitely don’t think it should rate on the list of core upgrades included in the next release.
@gouri, bbpress is standalone software that is meant to run by itself, or alongside practically anything you choose. In the case of deep integration, if that’s your plan, yes it will work on either WordPress.org or WordPress ยต 
Google? Animated fire gifs have been around longer than bbPress, BuddyPress and WordPress put together…
but it doesn’t work with the latest version of bbpress and where do we find a animated gif
Can I use bbPress on a self hosted normal wp blog or is it meant only for MU?
delayedinsanity, you beauty. As far as I can see, this is the problem. I switched to using wp-load.php and the status in the header is 202 without my hack. What’s more, it corrects this issue:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wpmu-284a-deep-integration-breaks-rss-feed
Many thanks.
So to sum it up. I was previously doing the following in bb-config.php for deep integration:
require_once('/var/www/vhosts/youlookfab.com/httpdocs/wp-blog-header.php');
But it broke RSS feeds and put 404 headers in my forum pages. The following seems to solve both issues:
require_once('/var/www/vhosts/youlookfab.com/httpdocs/wp-load.php');
Sam was notified a while ago about the problem. I’m betting there are more important things to worry about.
There was a plugin to allow for a threaded forum. It’s almost a year old though:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/threaded-posts/
