If you are just making one locked post with no replies then WordPress will suit you better. Forums are best for users being able to start threads themselves. Blog-like CMS software is best for 1-to-many.
The other benefit of WordPress is that you can have unlimited alias nicknames and anonymous self-posting with alias nicknames. So you could pretend to be “Microsoft” when you post and then later if Microsoft really becomes a client you can give them a true login with the real username.
Last but not least wordpress has far more development and plugins and contributors than bbpress at this time. Something to consider for a commercial application.
Ah….here! That would make sense for sure since even the wordpress.com forums are using a larger layout for posts! I will pass it along up the chain!
Trent
Be sure to see my nifty update at the end of that thread.
I suspect 4.01 will be out shortly 
I really like this plugin, gives bbpress a higher end forum feature.
I guess I meant Kakumei which will use either 800×600 or 1024×768 much more appropriately than this old layout.
This layout isn’t even 800×600, it’s 600px wide, not because there is a sidebar or anything, just because.
There’s no-one left using 640×480. If they are using a mobile browser they can just use the rss feeds and a converter.
Wait are you saying we can change the theme here ourselves? I guess you really meant on your own site(s).
You mean having a template that is completely ‘auto’ driven so that it adjusts to each browser window width? I know that I constantly get users a little mad at me because I like ‘big resolution’ on my computers and my users are still at 800 X 600 screens so my sites have a tendency to have to be scrolled.
Not sure about the overflow as I don’t use the default theme myself. Anyone else?
Trent
Hello,
I am trying to make a job board but im not a developer and i dont know anything.
I will be making it with BBpress, but i just found out about Vanilla.
So i need to know what are the differences and why i should choose BBpress instead.
Thanks,
Talbina
oops, sorry, i double posted a thread
Hello,
I am planning to make a Job Board using BBpress (after 8 months of research, i though this is the best thing), but i have been having some problems trying to decide some things and i was wondering if someone would help me out here.
So each thread will be one job post, and that thread will be locked.
What i cant figure out is what will the employer use to sign in?
Well, i want the username to actually be the name of the employer. For example, if the employer is Microsoft, then the employer will post a job post (ie;make a thread).
So what is the problem with that?
If i (the job board owner) wanted to populate my job board, and make job posts of Microsoft jobs taken from there website, i would have to make a username called ‘Microsoft’. Ok, thats cool. But then, one day, when Microsoft wants to post jobs themselves, they wont be able to becuase the username ‘Microsoft’ has already been taken.
So how is this problem solved? Well, the best solution is to have Guest posting, but that is not avaliable yet.
So does anyone have any ideas on what i can do?
Thanks.
Any chance you’ll switch to the new wider template here?
Narrow templates require too much up/down action and look kinda 1990’s-ish – might be turning off some potential new <s>victims</s> users.
Also, did the overflow:auto get removed for posts? I am noticing this week that posts with wide code seem to be overflow:hidden and the text gets cut off. Didn’t do that before… used to get scroll arrows…
_ck_, there was no misconception – I tested bbPress thoroughly with MU before I decided it was the right move for us. I would expect any other user to do the same. And I’ll just chime in and say that the bbPress site and forums made it very clear to me before I began that bbPress and WordPress are two different applications and would need manual integration.
Prior to bbPress, I tried integrating PunBB directly with our WordPress install, and while I wouldn’t call it difficult exactly, it was unnecessary: the features that separate PunBB from bbPress went largely unused by our community, so why not use forum software that uses a similar table structure, takes advantage of the wp_users table, and is supported by the same community of interested users that brought us WordPress?
I’ll admit my needs are very specific, and that the alternative to using open source software is writing it myself, which means I can get pretty excited that bbPress ONLY requires a certain amount of integration. Also, as specific as my needs are, I posted the conversion script I used for the one or two other people who find themselves in the same position. I don’t know that it’s a common request, and I imagine that anyone who’s in the position of converting already has a bbPress install they’re happy with, whether it’s integrated with WordPress or not.
It is related with wordpress.org. Let me explain. Akismet keys are given from wordpress.com (free hosted blog service) and that key can be used with bbPress and the Akismet plugin for WordPress (downloaded from wordpress.org) or with other blog softwares have the Akismet plugin.
bbPress integration is dealt with here or in the wordpress.org/support/ forums and issues with your Akismet key are dealt with through the ‘feedback’ or ‘support’ tab in the wordpress.com forums.
Hope that clears it up a little.
Trent
I agree with Fel64 here. The cookie problem is just a couple of lines in config.php because they are not in a subdirectory of WP. Most other issues are with getting functions working at the same time and I ask what other forum package runs WP functions in it without any problems.
Trent
ck, unless you know how many people run bb and wp integrated, when you know only the number of problems any conclusions you draw from them are meaningless. There’s nothing nasty about the cookie issue apart from that some people have to add two more lines in their config.php. The username issue is annoying but doesn’t apply to everybody and all you need is a plugin.
It integrates pretty well in that it integrates users. Somewhat more difficult doing that with forums that use a different table structure to wp.
wp and bb together won’t create a land of milk and honey. But it has its good sides, and it doesn’t just have users because people didn’t know the alternatives.
Ah I see. It’s the misconception that by name alone, that bbpress integrates easily/well with wordpress. You’ll find several experiences that it does not integrate easily or well by default. Between the nasty cookie issue and the even worse username issue, it makes no attempts on it’s own to integrate. You’ll need a few plugins and some trial and error with members.
I’ll suggest again to the powers that be that an integration sub-forum might be a good idea to warn/help others. The mini-faq doesn’t begin to cover the issues.
The Plugin is update to version 4.0
now you can use the plugin to restrict selected forums to either administrators/moderators/members.
here is the link
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/12?
bbPress should be magic_quotes agnostic. I’ll do some tests to see If I can pin down the problem.
Are you loading any other scripts at the same time (WordPress, anything else)? Any plugins?
The reason is that people think it would be bad for the community if this became a place to compete for money.
Can you please report this bug on trac? Thank you 
_ck_ : Our PunBB forum dates from the inception of our site, and the nature of our community has sort of moved the interaction out of the forums and throughout the rest of the site. So I wanted to be able to incorporate our past discussions into the latest version of the site and have a little finer control over the data (relating archived forum discussions to archived blog entries and such). Since I am expecting that participation in the forums may continue shifting more toward the blog comments, I am trying to merge the old and the new and a PunBB -> bbPress -> WordPress path has fit perfectly so far.
In the bbPress config.php file is the following
You can get an Akismet key at
// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/
I registered with wordpress.com and received an Akismet key, which I have put in the bbPress config.php
I posted a question WordPress.com forum and discovered that there is a WordPress.org and a WordPress.com. I have WordPress.org blog software, which is able to be customized.
I then registered with WordPress.org forums.
Is bbPress related with WordPress.com or WordPress.org?
bbPress’s auto-close tags is broken by default – though the code and filter is in there, it’s not passed correctly:
add this to a plugin
function force_balance_tags($text) {return balanceTags($text, true);}
add_filter('pre_post', 'force_balance_tags');
or if you don’t know how, use my tweaks plugin:
http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/
my forum about mini transat http://open650.ru/bbpress
I was using WinSCP to connect my server via SSH.
According to the WinSCP web site their SSH protocol core is based on PuTTY.
I entered the command mysql -p in the command text box and clicked the Enter button
It kept timing out.
It is odd the WinSCP FTP client part of the software works fine.
I installed PuTTY and I was able to login to my database and dropped the bbPress tables.
I realize that the phpAdmin software provides a more user friendly interface to a MySql database.
Every time I see a conversion script I have to ask (and not necessarily in a negative way) “what made you decide to convert to bbpress?”
There are several well developed forum programs that endusers have now made conversion scripts to bbpress and I just have to wonder why someone would take a working setup and covert it?
I have an idea Talbina. Post your work that you would like to have done in a new post with all your contact information and I will close the thread. That is often what happens over in the wp.org forums. We don’t want to have a job board here, so anyone interested can contact you to further discuss what you want.
Trent
