I just updated my bbpress forum after a few months of neglect and I’m looking to pump some new life into it and add some new plugins.
There’s not near as much activity in the forums as my regular blog, but I do get some folks who would rather post in the forums than on the front page of the site.
Let me know if anything looks amiss. 
http://www.girlscantwhat.com/forums/
Nice idea! I’ll have to work on making my forums nicer if I want them to appear on that list 
IMHO validation is just a syntax check and the least of bbPress problems right now.
The most useful doctype for the next decade is:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Get back to me when a browser DOESN’T support that 
Makes life sooo much easier. Then posts can contain <b>, <u>, <s> and <i> and all sorts of standards people have been used to for the last decade instead of reinventing the wheel!
Now instead go round up a dozen php plugin developers and get them onboard and we’ll have some real momentum
I’ve been considering making this ability but it really worries me about the volume of email if someone subscribes to many, many topics. Spam filters, not to mention your server host can trigger bans if too much email is being sent.
But I do have all the routines I need however to build such a plugin based on code from my signatures plugin and ignore member plugin. (Digests are another matter however, that’s a bit of work and requires tracking of last message seen, which is not natively built into bbpress)
There is just too much to create but too little time to do it though. I’ve got too many little projects going.
Hello,
Another view on integration..
I’d love to use BBPress as a repository for WP coments (at least some of them).
When they are a lot of comments, WP is not very usage. FGor example I have a popular post with 141 comments ans loading the page takes a long time and cause errors to google ads. I’d love to use BBPress as a repository for that but I don’t know how import a thred of WP comments as a BBpress forum.
Luc
Ah, you were right. With pretty permalinks off it works. Now I have to figure out how to get bbPress to play nice with WordPress. Hmm.
Thanks much!
Wow that’s a nice one Novellino, very active too.
I’ve added it.
List is coming along slowly but surely.
It will have to wait for next weekend to come out unfortunately but that will give me more time to find other lurking sites.
The /~username is known to mess up both wordpress and bbpress permalinks. If you are trying to run that way permanently that way it will require some hacks.
You might be able to setup the username as subdomain if you know what you are doing and get around the problem ie.
username.example.com
Or there might still be some decent free subdomain services around, unsure – you could use one to park onto of your account and then run that way to solve your problem.
Thanks for the lengthy response
It is kind of strange that forum permissions was not their main priority when creating this package. I don’t want this to dampen how I feel about bbpress though. Since the private forums feature works it already fixes half of my problem.
One easy workaround for now would be to manually close all your posted topics in a forum.
I dont see how this would prevent users from creating new topics altogether. These parent forums are simply supposed to act as titles… i’ll see if I can find anything in the code to fix this.
^^
Read-only forums are tricky to do as bbPress does not have any structure in place for forum permissions to the best of my knowledge, only user permissions to a certain extent. Apparently no-one considered forum control important in a forum program? Hmm.
The private forums plugin has to insert alot of code just to mange making forums invisible to certain users (and still can miss some areas). To make them read only, while removing the “new post” form seems obvious, it wouldn’t solve the problem as there are two or three places to create a new post (and apparently in future versions via trackbacks). Unfortunately none of that can be done via plugins, it would have to be a direct hack.
Perhaps in a future version they will consider forum permissions to make this easier. Other mature forum software has this ability, easily. I will look into how tricky the direct hack might be, probably not too hard, but keep in mind you’ll have to re-do it every time you upgrade.
One easy workaround for now would be to manually close all your posted topics in a forum.
Hey guys,
I’d like to know whether there is a possibility to do either one of the 2 things.
– Close a forum from posting (read-only)
– Set all “top-level” (parent) forums to view without href and when accessed through typing url get a redirect to /bbpress
I need a quick solution so if anyone knows of any suggestions.. even if crude please let me know. Thanks!
First off, sorry mods if this is a double post. I left a comment on the Allow Images plugin page, but I don’t think many people read those comments unless they themselves are having a problem. So I thought I would be better off starting a new topic.
I’ve been stumbling with getting images to work on my bbpress 0.8.2.1 forums for a day or two now. For some reason the Allow Images 0.7.1 plugin doesn’t work for me. When I post an image it gets truncated down to <img /> in the database.
I’ve tried using the two spaces before the ending slash – No Luck
I’ve also tried editing the bbpress core files like meeciteewurkor recommended – No Luck.
I did notice that if I used phpmyadmin to edit the database manually and put the <img src="http://domain.com/image.jpg" /> code into a post the image shows up. So there has got to be a function that is filtering out the src part of the image tag or something 
Anyone have any suggestions? Is there a function I should be looking at in particular?
Probably wont work but try making
$bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl both “http://www.subventions.fr/wordpress”
im getting the same error, just install bbpress but cant access my profile page, or post, is there another solution to this problem
The forum is located here:
http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php
But the config entry is wrong, because the server thinks the URI for the site is here:
http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/
So, in your config.php, you have this:
$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/';
instead of this:
$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/';
Change that line, and you’ll be good to go. The site looks like that because the path to the style.css file is wrong (among other things). In fact, once the URI is corrected, the site looks like this:
http://www.chrishajer.com/bike/XLF/ClayStreet.png
Good luck.
I installed and seem to have a database connection, yet my page looks like this: http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php.
i cant find info how to fix this. thanks for helping.
After a few tests it seems the problem comes from the last paragraph
// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.
// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.
$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;
$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.subventions.fr’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com’
$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.subventions.fr/wordpress’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com’
$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;
$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.subventions.fr’;
define(‘WP_BB’, true);
require_once(‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);
/* Stop editing */
if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )
define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );
require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );
?>
Where is the error guys?
Sounds like your server does not support mod_rewrite, or there are other rewrite rules in another .htaccess file (for WP?) that are conflicting.
There were a couple good posts by SamBauers regarding the rewrite rules. Here’s one:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working?replies=24#post-7743
I think if you turn off the pretty permalinks and take that stuff out of your .htaccess file, you’ll find things work again. Then, you just need to figure out how to get them working on your server.
I had a user write a post with this title:
This creates a post like this:
* http://www.kosmosity.com/forums/topic/?replies=1#post-2
I’m using the “slug” option on this test forum which uses the default theme and bbPress 0.8.2.1. It looks like the is being sanitized to “” (an empty string), which confuses bbPress and leads to that topic resolving to an error page. On the test forum to which I just linked, I have no plugins except WordPress Integration.
Has anybody else run into this bug? Is there an existing workaround? If other people can replicate this bug, I’ll create a ticket in Trac. Also, if there’s no existing workaround, I’ll try to create a plugin workaround.
Thanks,
Bob
Oh, thank you SamBauers – this is the information missing on this site…
But as I read at the trac site, the problem is already known. It is fixed by changeset 867 – at least in my test environment. I’ll upload it to the real server, it seems to be okay and of course it will be better than my quick and dirty “solution”…
Oh, and I went to http://www.thisisroanoke.com/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php, copied the text there, and added it to my .htaccess file. (I even copied that file into my bbPress installation directory. No luck.)
Clicking my profile link tries to take me to http://thisisroanoke.com/forum/profile/1, but ends up giving me my home page (or maybe it’s supposed to be a 404 page — I haven’t set up a proper 404 yet).
Help! (And thanks!)
infact.. when a user logs into wp-login.. I’d like to know whether I can set the redirect to any custom location without having to add the ?redirect_to=%2F after wp-login.php
edit:
Found a plugin
“Plugin Name: Force Login
Description: No one can see your forums unless they are logged in.
Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/117
Author: Michael D Adams
Author URI: http://blogwaffe.com/
Version: 0.8″
It redirects the user to the templates /login.php.. its nice but I’d really like it to go to wp-login, but only if I can figure out why its constantly redirecting to the control panel and why it wont let me anywhere else >_> apart from the blog, ofcourse.
Actually… that wasnt such an elegant solution @_@ If logged in it redirects me to the control panel.. and when I access bbpress directly it still redirects 
Maybe its because I dont have an ifelse going on.. not sure.
Out of curiosities sake.. isnt there a way I can disable the wordpress control panel for subscribers and have them redirect to the bbpress profile page? That would be awesome…
>_>
Hey man.. thanks for your reply. And yes I’ve went extensively through all the hacks. (By the way you made some wicked ones… without your contributions bbpress wouldnt be so awesome)
Vbulletin might have been around for a very long time but its so generic it makes my head hurt. Every vbulletin site you come across looks the same and its pretty hard to customize. Sure you can edit the templates quite heavily but it still heavily depends on tables and executes one massive css file.. even though most of their style attributes is stuck on tables @_@ Sure bbpress uses tables but definitely in a more elegant way.. (frankly I wouldnt want any tables on my page to start with.. will make a theme later thats css only)
I like the idea of having a very small bare bone forum install that can be extended from there.. I’m sure in no time the plugins will be in the core where its just a matter of switching it on in the admin panel. Either way, the plugins are pretty easy to install anyway.
As for my problem.. I made a relatively elegant fix!
add this at the top of your header.php
<?php if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>
<?php
header("location:http:/......../wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2F");
exit;
?>
<?php } ?>
Got my site almost sorted now.. just need to find a way to make a tickbox in “post-form.php” that sets the thread to go to favourites
As well as perhaps a tickbox next to the comment button
