[chrishajer]

To make the forum look like your WordPress theme, you need to create a custom theme for bbPress to match WordPress. Browse the integration tag here and you will see this is one of two things that people mean by integration:

1. user login integration between WordPress and bbPress

2. make bbPress theme look like WordPress theme

[thekmen]

Dawormie thanks for the reply, the bbPress Address in admin is correct (bbPress address (URL)) http://domain.com/forum/

Any other ideas? I have tried this on 2 different installs & have the same issue on both.

[chrishajer]

1. Create a directory on your server called my-plugins – create it on the same level as bb-plugins and bb-templates.

2. Put the unzipped plugin files into that directory.

3. Access the bbPress admin and activate the plugin.

[dawormie]

Only thing I can think of is…

In your admin settings what is the URL for the bbPress Adress?

[dawormie]

I did! I tend to do that. Have a problem, post for help, find a solution! (I find the solution SOONER if I post about a problem first….)

[thekmen]

Hello, I have my WordPress installed at root level of my domain.

I have bbPress installed in a directory called forums.

Everything seems to be working fine except when I click on Add New when not logged in.

I am redirected to:

http://domain.com/forum/bb-login.php?re=http://domain.com/forum/?new=1

which brings up my wordpress 404 page.

Removing ?re=http://domain.com/forum/?new=1

from the end of the URL does bring me back to my bbPress login page at http://domain.com/forum/bb-login.php. Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

[AndrewRH]

Sadly, I think I was ignored over on WP forum site (perhaps I’m marked as a spammer there too?)

I ended up using the “Page Links To” plug-in within wordpress to make the forum ‘page’ actually take people to the bbpress installation.

It looks naff right now since bbpress theme doesn’t match up with WP theme. I have yet to figure out how you get bbpress to appear in a frame below your site’s menu bar. I guess both themes need to match up?

Thanks again for your help.

~Andrew~

[mortiferus]

General Settings >Pretty permalink type>

Look at “If you activate “Numeric” or “Name based” permalinks, you will need to create a file at /PATH/TO/BBPRESS/.htaccess containing the url rewriting rules provided here”. The provided here is a clickable link that will get you the needed code that you will then paste into a .htaccess file that you create at the root of your bbpress directory.

Edit: Noticed that you got it.

[mortiferus]

Hi Sam,

Unfortunately i might not be able to get into the box as an admin. Can I override that via htaccess until the next rev of bbPress?

[thechrisd]

Page re-instated with a brief history section added.

If anyone has any more relevant information to add to the article, feel free, but please try and make sure that it does have a reliable source, preferably from somewhere on the Internet OTHER than this site.

[michael3185]

I’ve set up a couple of forums recently, and one had ‘someone’ register, the website given (sounding like a university) turned out to be some online casino. I rejected it, then enabled Akismet, and also the Human plugin which asks for the answer to a simple math question. I’ve also trawled these forums for posts about spam, but am not sure I’m best protected yet.

My question: What are the best methods to us with bbPress without overloading it or the server?

In case of replies like “read the forums”, I have, and there are plenty of posts on this. What I’d like to know is what tools those ‘in the know’ have found to work effectively. (There doesn’t seem to be a definitive answer anywhere). Thanks.

[Johanhorak]

Hi Can someone please tell me what I did wrong or what I can do to get bbpress installed. I cannot access the install page…

The procedure here is very clear

https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

But I don’t even get to the installer.

This is my second install and the first worked fine.

[Ramoonus]

@lifestrikes;

im glad my userbase does share

@windhamdavid;

i dont use buddypress and/or WPMU

[sranissen]

please help

[dawormie]

When I activate the pretty hyperlinks, they don’t work.

I see mention about the .htaccess but not 100% sure what needs to go in that ?

Or just a blank .htaccess in the root of my bbPress install? (done under a directory of /bb/)

It’s currently a sub-domain of my main WP install.

So

http://<WP install url>/bb/

EDIT:

Got it!

[dawormie]

I’d be happy to help edit / format and update a wiki. I’m not the best at writing stuff from scratch for tech doco. But happy to help with formating and keeping it clean!

[chrishajer]

Wouldn’t WordPress do most of what you’re looking for? WordPress supports threaded comments now, so replies to a post take on the shape of a threaded conversation. Also, email notification of replies is built in. What are you looking for in bbPress that WordPress does not offer?

[John James Jacoby]

Wish I could be there, but unfortunately I’m stuck in Miami.

Good luck and have fun Sam!

[johnhiler]

I haven’t tried this one yet, but there’s a plugin that supports threaded comments:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/threaded-posts/

Maybe worth trying out?

[rickxxx]

I just would like to know if it is possible to run this forum with “threaded posts” ?

In order to see who has replied to a certain post – in order to get more “structure” into the forum.

Also, is there a chance to receive an e-mail in order to be informed when somebody replied to my forum-post ?

Are these features already build-in into BBPress ? If not, is there a plan to make this functionality happen ?

Many thanks,

Erich

[chrishajer]

Does this help?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forum-could-not-be-created#post-19836

[emcee_legit]

Hello All,

I’m working on installing bbPress, everything goes perfectly fine except when I hit complete installation.

I get these problems:

Forum could not be created!

Key master email not sent!

I would love to do something about it to fix it, unfortunately “Forum could not be created!” does not tell me anything about how to debug the problem.

Could someone point me in the right direction of what needs to happen for me to fix this?

Also the key master is created, so I know that the database can be accessed and modified.

thanks,

– legit

[Ivaylo Draganov]

Yes, I have access to phpMyAdmin but did not really know how to fix it through there…

I managed to automagically fix it with a WP plugin that manages the DB (cause I have WP and bbPress integrated). Now I can make new posts but the links to the erroneous(missing) posts still remain and recounting does not remove them.

Anyway I think I will just use the backup DB. Just about 10-15 replies will be lost but it’s not a pain since nobody except their authors saw them because of the error.

Thanks for the help!

[michael3185]

I’ve been trying to recreate some of the very stripped down simplicity of Vanilla in bbPress (for reasons explained in the zip’s readme file). In thanks to everyone who’s hard work on plugins and in these forums has helped me such a lot, here’s a link to the theme in case it’s of use to anybody; http://getfiles.letsdoo.org/bbVanilla.zip

It’s a very light version of Kakumei Blue, and when (if) I have some time I may strip it even further, whilst retaining its subtle look. Do let me know if you find it useful or encounter any problems or mistakes I’ve made.

[johnhiler]

Sure, I’d be glad to help rewrite and edit info on bbPress.org on a separate site – as well as contribute to a codex wiki.

But just to be clear: I’m not attempting to evangelize bbPress on Wikipedia. I think of Wikipedia as an fairly comprehensive encyclopedia, and as such it should have an article on software like bbPress. Some outside references would help on that front, which is where the impetus for this post came from.

Just let us know how we can help with the copy editing and codex writing, and I’d be glad to pitch in!