I think you can only make a thread sticky. At the bottom of the thread, when you are logged in, you will see this link:
[Stick topic (to front)]
Click either “Stick topic” or “to front” and the thread will be sticky. If you’re not admin (keymaster) I don’t think you see that.
I don’t think the links are visible while creating a new post or thread. So make your post, then view it and look at the bottom of the page; you’ll see the links you need.
I had used punBB for a while and really liked it – except for the really long amount of time that it takes to update the software. They’ve been working on v1.3 for years now. That’s the version I’ve been waiting for.
punBB seems to be more robust, but the code is a little more sketchy. bbPress is more simplistic but the plugin system makes a pretty good addition. Another thing about punBB that bothered me is that topics aren’t marked as read when you read them – your cookie has to expire before a topic is marked. They have an addon for that, but all the addons rely on editing a lot of files and also is very heavy on the database.
For right now, I’m sticking with bbPress and seeing how everything will end up.
Thanks for the tip on updating bbPress themes, sambauers. I’ll check out the link now. I’m still new to bbPress skinning but hopefully it’ll be pretty straight forward. 
Steve
I’m using the private messaging plugin but now I have to add code to my .htaccess page. I’m stumped as to what to write because I don’t understand .htaccess. Could anyone translate this for me?
http://tapestry.suefeng.com/message?id=1
http://tapestry.suefeng.com/pm.php?new=1
The first link’s number changes for different messages. For example, the first message will have /message?id=1 and the second one will have /message?id=2.
The second link actually works fine…i guess it doesn’t need to be fixed but it’d be great if it could look differently.
Thanks for your time,
Sue
Vili. I have Dan’s avatar thing working on my wordpress blog, and I have installed bbpress and have been having the hardest time getting the integration to work. I am not very familiar with php, so if you could tell me what I am doing wrong, I would be grateful.
I have bbpress installed in a subfolder one level up from my wordpress install in a folder called ‘forums’. I read all the comments here, and have looked at the Function integration part of the “Integration with WordPress” post per your suggestion. I added the code:
require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);
to the bbpress config.php file, and it throws an error when I load bbpress. I have tried using ‘wp-blog-header.php’ and ‘/wp-blog-header.php’ and ‘/’ and even ‘ ‘ as the path to the file, and nothing works, it throws an error every time. I even tried a backslash! lol
“I ported GamerZ’s useronline plugin for wordpress to bbpress awhile back. Been meaning to clean it up and release it one day.”
Any news on this one?
Thanks! 1st and 3rd things are resolved.
I’ve been trying hundreds of different things/syntaxes to get the second item to work, but to no avail yet. I’m sure it must be the way I’m trying to code it (Full disclosure: I’m still trying to learn PHP).
What I’m going for is as follows:
Run the foreach, and then using array_shift(), grab the first item in the array, and then display just the post_text() that is contained within that array (assuming this is an array within an array)
This what my code (stripped down) looks like:
INITIAL POST:
<? php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>
<?
php array_shift();
echo post_text();
?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
=====================================
and then later on, when the responses are displayed:
<? php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>
<?php echo post_text(); ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
I was hoping the first initial post wouldn’t be displayed since array_shift() would have taken it out?
Any help would be greatly appreciated…
– You’d want to use forum_name( $topic->forum_id ).
– I think so. If you look at the code you’ll see an array of posts, and by using array_shift() you can detach the first one and have some special template code just for that. Be sure to check it’s the first post of the topic, though, not just the first post of the page. Maybe a better thing to do would be to add a class to each post giving it a topic-specific number, so you can style topic-post-1 or whatever individually.
– Where in your template I assume it says topic_posts(), replace that with echo( get_topic_posts() - 1 );
RCanine – that code works perfectly! Fixed the problem in titles and posts. Thanks!
Hello all,
I recently dove into the exciting world of BBPress, and in the midst of working out a custom theme (tweaking structure as well), I was wondering if the following things were even possible to do, or are they more suited to be plugin requests?
– attach forum name to latest topics of main page. ie I want to have a topic display like this:
“Plugins | Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet”
(where “Plugins” is the forum name and “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet” is the topic, obviously.
– Within each topic, separate the original post from the comments. I guess this is similar to how a blog entry is; with the entry featured at the top, and the comments displayed below and less prominently. It seems like the way BBPress is coded they can only be stacked on top of each other and have a similar design treatment?
– Tweak post count so that if no has yet replied to a post it is “0” instead of “1”
Hopefully these are just things that are right under my nose that I haven’t been able to figure out, but let’s see…
Thanks!
I recently changed my forum’s style and added some features:
*Add youtube videos by using [youtube][/youtube] tags, instead of allowing the code to be written.
*Allow [flash][/flash] to be added, using the temporadadepatos.net file uploader.
*Friends system
*Quite different profile page
*Color fading Heatmap
*A universal top bar (for the whole site) integrated to the forums where the login form is. Once logged in, it shows a random phrase each time you refresh.
*Integration with my website (custom CMS, not based on wordpress). (For login and for showing community blog posts on the forum profiles).
*Badges System
The link is: http://temporadadepatos.net/foros/
And here’s a link to a profile: http://www.temporadadepatos.net/foros/profile/ogu
Tell me your opinions 
Yeah, lost your capabilities. Look in the wp_usermeta table and delete the entry with meta_key capabilities if I remember rightly.
sorry guys but looked through some of the other answers related to this and it goes way over my head.
i created a mySQL dB through cpanel it’s called bbpress when i look at the databases then it is now called rogermby_bbpress do i use this full string as the dbname?
same with the user bbadmin is now rogermby_bbadmin
the password i entered when i made the db do i just add this (in plain text exactly) along with the other info above to the config.php file?
when i look in my wp-config.php on one of my wordpress installs it uses the rogermby_wrdp1 as the database name and user!?
i did all the simple steps but all i get is cannot select DB. i am installing on a subdomain xxx.yyyy.com is that an issue?
ok forget that something changed and it works i have the same problem with wordpress sometimes if i leave a problem in the night and come back in the morning its fixed, you think my network operator or somebody caches something and i cant clear it?
Thanks fel64, I got through the setup now. I installed BBpress without WP integration because it told me that I’ll be able to do after install, in the admin menu.
So I did. After install I logged in and went to the Integration with WordPress menu and filled in the required fields. After saving changes I couldn’t go back to the Admin menu, because the option went away.
In the upper left corner it says: “Welcome, admin! View your profile (Log out)” Before integration there was an Admin option too to access the Admin menu.
The only thing now I can do is to post into the default forum as a member. Any idea?
Cool, going via options.php sounds good.
When you integrate, you musn’t give them the same prefix or some tables will collide. You need to set these three in your config.php though, if you haven’t already. Obviously change them to your appropriate values, these are just mine.
$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; // WordPress table prefix. Example: 'wp_';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://localhost/wordpress'; // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: 'http://example.com'
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://localhost/wordpress'; // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: 'http://example.com'
Hi guys!
I’m new to WP and BBpress too. So far I couldn’t integrate the forum into my WP install, but I found the secret value:
I logged in as admin into WordPress, and visited the options menu. In the addressbar modified the options-general.php part of the url to options.php and it showed the secret value. Is that right or I did something wrong?
With WP integration, at the third step of the bb install, I can’t select a Key master from the dropdown list because there’s no user listed. So I can’t finish the setup. At the first step, do I have to set the BB database table prefix to match my WP installs table prefix?
No, not avatars
With WordPress, they include Hello which is an admin only plugin and it serves mostly to show how a plugin is done. It doesn’t affect the public site at all, and it’s not activated either. I would think a similarly benign plugin could be included, just so there is something there.
bbPress has a fledgling xml exporter. We had a discussion on IRC#bbpress recently about creating an importer of the same format.
This would be great for migrations and backups, and if we wrote some code for other forum software to export to this same format, we would have greater ability to cross-grade.
No, from the PHP docu glob only returns false when it encounters an error. No files found makes it return an empty array. (I don’t have any underscored files and it works for me, too.)
But I agree with you, those folders should be in there by default. What plugins could be included that could be interesting to everyone? Avatars?
I’ve seen two or three seemingly unrelated problems pop up related to something like this:
if ( is_callable( 'glob' ) )
foreach ( glob(BBPLUGINDIR . '_*.php') as $_plugin )
require($_plugin);
Seems like if there are no underscore plugins, this fails. I don’t follow the code exactly, but further up in that file, it defines BBPLUGINDIR if it’s not already defined as (basically) my-plugins/. But this line just says “if glob is callable, then go through the directory for all underscore plugins”. What happens if there are no plugins there? This would return false, maybe, instead of an array?
And, is there a good reason NOT to include a blank directory for my-templates and my-plugins? At least then people would know where to put stuff. I mean, what IS the reason? WordPress comes with wp-content/themes/ and wp-content/plugins/ directories, and by default, two themes and two plugins. That eliminates the possibility of something missing. Of course, people could delete those, but right off the bat, they wouldn’t and things would just work when they started out.
At the very least, I think this should be fixed to have a conditional looking for underscore plugins before looping through them (i.e. if there are none, you can’t loop through them.)
Maybe someone with a better read on it can explain to me exactly what’s happening.
It doesn’t do much of anything to add define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.llamaslayers.net'); or define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'llamaslayers.net'); to the config.php file.
Edit: It works to remove the values of $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl
For some reason bbPress seems to think your theme is in root. I’d ask you to set the theme again, but, you know, what with not being able to log in …
so first of all, please add define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.llamaslayers.com'); to your config.php. Hopefully that’ll let you log in.
It’s just $bb->uri that I have to update, right?
I was thinking about looking at the techsailor plugin for RSS import/export for wordpress and see if it would be possible to get bbPress into that format so you could even export bbPress and import as blog posts and comments (or vice versa). Obviously I would have trouble doing this with my minimal coding, but hopefully someone else has something to add!
