[Robin W]

ok, so go into your dashboard and go to

dashboard>plugins>add new plugin and you’ll see near the top left a box that says ‘upload plugin’ ‘ click that and then navigate to were you saved the downloaded bbpress plugin zip file.

Click install and then activate

Then for further help go to

https://codex.bbpress.org/step-by-step-guide-to-setting-up-a-bbpress-forum/

[krroken]

Hi everyone,

i am new to bbPress, i took some time to search the forums for answers but i have only found a few things.

So here is my issue. I’m starting a new blog and i would like :
1. my blog posts to be automatically posted to the forums (either with full post content or with excerpt & link back to the blog).
2. people that want to comment blog posts to do it from the forum (after registering)
3. forum comments being displayed on the blog

That’s something i used to have on an old project using IPB and WP (i had my own plugin coded to do that) but i was expecting bbPress to allow that directly.

Apparently i was wrong, i only found the Topics for posts plugin to do that but it seems outdated.

Any other simple solution to do what i want ?

[nwilkinsonrn]

I have a website that I want to add a forum to. My website is already set up on my domain. I just need a forum. bbpress was recommended to help me get this accomplished.

[nwilkinsonrn]

I downloaded the first link on the page https://bbpress.org/download/

saved it to my computer. I have several files saved on my computer labeled as bbpress

[nwilkinsonrn]

Hi,

I have downloaded bbpress. How do I activate it? I download it and then nothing happens. What am I doing wrong?

[Unicornis]

Please refer to the step-by-step instructions on my site.

Plugin page

[r-a-y]

Have you read this?

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started/forum-moderation/common-tasks/#deleting-topics

[Robin W]

In a word – no !

bbPress is tested with wordpress default themes. It maybe a conflict – you need to check plugins and themes

It could be a theme or plugin issue

Plugins

Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.

Themes

If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentyfifteen, and see if this fixes.

Then come back

[loveslight]

In addition to above, I just updated from 2.5.8 to bbpress 2.6, the problem remains.

Another note, I noticed when I submit a new topic or reply and wait the 17-20 second, if I hit refresh after 3 seconds it’s already there submitted and waiting on the page… it’s like behind the scenes it is working fast but there’s some delay for the browser to be told to go ahead and refresh to show the update. Maybe this info helps…

[Dan]

ping!

Is there a “reply by email” plugin to enhance bbPress?
When I receive a notice someone has posted to a thread I’m watching, I want to reply via email and have it post onto the thread in the forum. Increasing engagement is ++good.

I’ve read the Falcon README and I don’t grok how to install it.

[klink]

We are using bbpress, Memberpress (so all forums are for members only), and askimet, and a couple of other plugins. We want to get trackbacks/pingbacks so we know when other bloggers write about us. But I am surprised that our forum members are getting emails to approve spam trackbacks on forum topics that they’ve started. Is there a way to stop forum trackbacks and especially these confusing and annoying emails that are being sent to our members?

[dasboo125]

Hi there

I am using WordPress Version 4.4.2 and BBPress v2.5.8. I am using a magazine theme called Soledad which allows a number of custom sidebars.

After setting the forum root to community (and I removed the shortcode from a page) and seeing that I did not have a sidebar, I created a new bbpress.php in a child theme to enable it.

At first the sidebar was showing as the default one on the main forum index and the individual forums and topics were showing a custom side bar that I had assigned to posts (it shows the author bio)

After I installed BB WP Tweaks, the main forum index page is showing the correct side bar after adding in the widgets into the BBPress sidebar. However, individual forums and topics are still showing the sidebar assigned to post.

Any help much appreciated. I have read the how to page on setting up specific sidebars, but not luck.

Thanks
Laura

[randomcactus]

I manage a bbPress-based student tech help forum for a college; site registrations are disabled (and must remain disabled). I have anonymous subscriptions/email notifications enabled, and email addresses are required for the creation of replies or topics, but am looking for a way to block any but a few email address domains from creating topics/replies. Is there a way to do this without enabling registrations? The only whitelisting options I’ve been able to find apply to registration, not anonymous subscriptions/topic and reply creation.

[Georgio]

Hi
I put the bbpress login widget on the sidebar, but I would like to remove/hide its title and the line below it. Is it possible?

Here is a screenshot

Thanks in advance

[blackbird16k]

Nevermind:

How to Change bbPress Font Size

Solved this issue thanks anyway.

[TKServer]

I’ve been puzzled as to how useful showing the user how many “empty topic tags” there are in the bbPress stats widget. I also don’t really care to show the user how many topic tags there are either. SO, I decided to make my own bbPress stats plugin, which I just published in the WordPress plugins repository here:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/tk-bbpress-stats/

This stats plugin allows the admin to choose which stats to show, which is nice. I’m still trying to figure out how to get screen shots to appear in the WP SVN, but you can see the stats live on one of my bbPress deployments at Ute Hub.

[Pascal Casier]

Hi,
Is this the standard /forums ? Then start creating a standard WordPress page and add the [bbp-forum-index] on it. Now you can add any other shortcut or text on this same page.

Pascal.

Shortcodes: https://codex.bbpress.org/features/shortcodes/

[blackbird16k]

Hello, So I changed the forums topic size. For my forum, but somehow the titles of the threads and the forum names were enlarged but the description of each forum is still small (12px.) I wanted to know, did anybody know how I can change the forums topic description font size as well with the code below? What would I put to change the description size along with the title font size. Thanks. 🙂

#bbpress-forums div.even,
#bbpress-forums ul.even {
background-color: #fff;
font-size: 18px;
}

#bbpress-forums div.odd,
#bbpress-forums ul.odd {
background-color: #fbfbfb;
font-size: 18px;
}

[blackbird16k]

Hello, so I’m looking forward to editing and changing some things on my bbpress. I’m looking to edit the backgrounds of the header, footer, reply header etc… But I notice through the link below the edits only show background color to change…

bbPress Styling Crib

I’m actually planning on using background images instead of a plain color. So I was wondering, if anybody knew how I go about putting a background image in place of the background color without messing up the code. Thanks in advance.

Also for 7. Template Notices Do anybody know which one is strictly for the color of the background? Without changing the text color, I just want to change the blue box to a certain orange color. Thanks…

one last change question…

for the editing of 4. Topic/reply background, is there a possible way of just editing the topics background and leaving the actual post background white? Since both of them are considered under the same category. I was interested in changing the topics boxes and not affecting the background of the actual posts background.

[loveslight]

Hello!

Our site is getting ready to launch soon and I’ve built out the forum structure to our liking but in testing we see that posting a new topic or replying to a topic in CERTAIN FORUMS can take up to 20 seconds after hitting submit for the post to save and appear. In all other forums it takes only 3 seconds. While I wish both were faster, how do we figure out what the 20 second delay is about?

Add this to the mix: Deleting a reply on the backend for the slow forum also takes 20 seconds compared to 3 seconds to delete for other forums…

20 second to post topic and delete reply forums:
https://www.myacim.com/sharing/forum/acim-lessons/

3 second to post topic and delete reply forums:

ACIM Text

Thank you for your help 🙂

Stats:

bbpress 2.5.8
wordpress 4.4.2
Jupiter theme, tested with generic 2015 theme too with no improvement
Disabled all plugins and problem remains
High speed VPS server using SSD drives, pre-launch / no traffic yet

[johnmontfx]

I’m curious if this is normal — loading up the bbpress templates takes over 4 seconds, as shown in my New Relic traces in this attached image. This is consistent in multiple transaction traces…

bbpress seems to be really a dog for some reason. My system is a Linode 12 core 32GB. That should be more than enough horsepower…

I’m not caching pages for logged in users, but utilizing xcache and W3 Total Cache for object caching…and CloudFlare for CDN

[Pascal Casier]

First thing… can you try in bbPress 2.6 ? This version is almost going to be released and it offers better importing features. https://bbpress.org/download/

Pascal.

[alfio8788]

Hello,

I am trying to import a vbulletin 4.2.2 installation into bbpress and it fails importing the replies without leaving me errors, it just hangs and keeps posting dashes (-) into the progress logs even after stopping it and resuming.

Wordpress and bbpress versions are the latest available as of today 20th of March 2016.

Our vbulletin database has around 11000 users, 600 sub-forums, 30000 threads and around 800000 posts

As the work is being done in local before atempting it on the server i am unable to give links.

If in need of more informations let me know

Thanks in advance for the support

Regards

[pazzaglia]

OK, started my own topic as I was, obviously, not clear enough for my question. I thought it would have been a simple tweak (for someone who know what they’re doing) of this code but, apparently not.

How to set single default thumbnail for all “topic” content types?

Ciao,

L

[tech55541]

Hello,
Site is still a little unstable, but I think it is good enough to get this problem fixed.
Just so we all understand, here is what is going on. The menu is designed to open on mouse hover and then close when the mouse pointer leaves the menu. On mobile devices such as phones and tablets, you cannot close the menu because clicking Options opens it. We need to add some additional code to first check if the menu is open, if not, on click open it, if so, on click close it. Would this be a doable task?

You do have to login to see the options menu, this user account will be deleted as soon as we are done using it.
Username: bbpress.org-support
Password: 5oj^gI6OOx*DrCeAlM4J7ZKG
URL: http://yourtechadvisors.com/forums/topic/testing/

Thanks for your help.