[John James Jacoby]

Asking “where are the shortcodes” would have probably helped us help you.

Asking Google for “bbPress Shortcodes” would have eventually gotten you there, too. 🙂

[heyw00d]

You sir are the hero of the day.

Does that exist anyplace here for a user to find or on some backend page of the plugin so it can be referenced ? If it doesn’t it should. Hours of frustration relieved by the right code.

If i were a woman I’d offer to bear your children

[Stephen Edgar]

Try creating a page called ‘forum-test’ and add the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]

[Stephen Edgar]

I’m pretty sure this is what your looking for https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[Stephen Edgar]

@Siobhan I like the idea of using bbPress for a docs task list

@labsecrets Thats some pretty impressive stuff you got there

[John James Jacoby]

I’ll take it as a compliment that you’re lost in the simplicity if it all.

If you go to Settings > Forums, you’ll see the slugs for where your forums and topics live. You’re free to change these obviously, and also free to manipulate the output with shortcodes or customized templates in your theme.

[John James Jacoby]

No bugs here; it sounds like you’re just doing it all incorrectly, and what you see is what you get. 🙂

For your installation, you should probably pick 1 method of having a forum index that works for you, and use only that one. If you don’t want to use shortcodes, and would rather use a page template, then just do that way. Don’t make 1 page with a shortcode, and another at the forum root, an another here and another there.

[heyw00d]

Hi there

Picked bbpress as it looks nice & is also linked with wp. Not the first time i used a forum plugin (simple:press years ago) but after installing…….nada, niente, nothing. The back end features are visible from the dashboard but nothing else, it act’s like it created a new page titled “forum” but it didn’t. Even if i create a new page titled “forum” still nothing. I was assuming I’d have to place some snippet on the page (like the way you’d put [nggallery-1] if you wanted a next gen gallery to appear) but if there is some code snippet to place i find no mention of it. Even this site only offers under “Simple Installation”

Simple Setup
Coming soon, I promise!

Any opinions ? did i omit something upon installation, is some documentation lacking ?

Thank you

[viktora]

Hi John, this is what I did when using the shortcode in my page created with slug /forums-test/. It worked well. But what if I do not want to use the shortcodes? The /forums/ page is ignoring my customized page-front-forums.php. I tried to edit the page slug from /forums-test/ to /forums/ but the system is insisting on slug /forums-2/ (created automatically by the system). How should I make the bbpress to use my customized page-front-forums.php file on /forums/? Ideally without shortcodes?

I tried to change the slug for

[John James Jacoby]

I tweaked the widget code for what will be 2.1.2. If you can report back if it fixes your issues would be great.

[viktora]

Dear all, thanks a lot for all your effort and great piece of work!

I am stuck in trouble… I am still trying hard to create my own custom template and I am observing strange bbpress behaviour. In order to customize my bbpress template I have copied all “extras” files from bbpress plugin to my custom template. When edited, the public outcome is as expected… I am able to modify the copied “extras” files and all the changes are visible. So everything seems to be OK.

BUT… The “page-front-forums.php” index file is ignored by my wordpress site. When edited, no changes are visible on the front end. I have tried to call the index file page-front-forums.php using shortcode. It is working fine, all changes in page-front-forums.php working as expected. Strange, isnt is?:-) Why?

All other “extras” files/pages seem to be sent to front end visible with customizations and working as expected.

Thanks for your advice!

[LabSecrets]

Hi Guys,
we would be able to launch right out of the gate with our Responsive Child Theme (based on Emil’s awesome “Responsive” Parent), specifically for bbPress. This is one of our most popular child themes right now, and I think he has more than 170,000 downloads..so maybe a good way to get bbPress “mainstream” and responsive in one swoop.

We would be also able to provide step by step videos and user-manual for the child theme(s) and support customization questions.

You can see it in action here (this is the premium version with BuddyPress and WooCommerce integration as well…the bbPress only would be free, of course)

http://labsecrets.com/demo/responsive/forums/

We also have a version that has special features for folks who want to start a video membership site. See: http://labsecrets.com/demo/responsive-labvidz-bbpress/

The child theme is ready to use now, so as soon as an organizational method is figured out, we can put it up.

All in all, we can give folks a pretty “direct to the result” way to get started…

Thoughts?

Cheers,
Spence

[masonjames]

Yeah a couple different FAQs would be really awesome.

• What do I need to get started?
• How do I set up user role permissions for adding new forums/topics, etc.
• How do bbPress and BuddyPress work together? (when to use what?)
• Where can I go for bbPress plugins?

If @labsecrets has some time to help with the theme compat stuff that would be awesome! I’ve had that on my list since one of the 2.1 betas was released but haven’t gone beyond a basic outline yet. Happy to share what I have on that as well.

Thanks!

[Siobhan]

Awesome! It’d be great to have a push on getting a complete bbPress Codex.

Some general thoughts:

1. Planning the architecture is really important. I get brought on board with a lot of doc projects at a late stage. When no planning has gone into it the docs end up getting unwieldy and difficult to navigate. People just randomly add docs until there is a mountain of information and no user-friendly way of navigating through it. If there is a sound structure from the start it makes sure the complete documentation holds together as it grows.

2. We should create some sort of task list of doc we would like to see and things to work on. We could use a P2 or a wordpress.com blog, or we could try using bbPress itself for management. If we had a bbPress docs forum then we could add doc suggestions as topics. When a person decides to do it, it becomes a sticky (so that no one else works on it). We could tag posts as idea, in progress, and complete – people would be able to discuss individual posts in the threads. It might be fun to try using bbPress in this way.

Okay – those are just some ideas. Feel free to disregard – just thought it would be good to get a discussion going.

[John James Jacoby]

Thanks everyone again for taking this and running with it. It’s a huge, huge help.

[LabSecrets]

Hi Siobhan, Jared… we’ve seemed to get a bunch of folks who have been helped with basic setup from using our Forum Flavors video, located here: http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/

Would love to help out in your documentation/tutorial project, including releasing some “ready to use” bbPress child themes that work out of the box with some of the most popular WP parents in the repository.

Cheers!
Spence
Please let me know if you are open to that?

[LabSecrets]

Shortcut to shortcodes: https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/

[John James Jacoby]

There are shortcodes for sign-up, login, and lost-password forms. Since there’s no UI for shortcodes in WordPress, you’ll need to check the bbPress codex to find them.

[Stephen Edgar]

Cheers, I think there is the start of the FAQ page in ‘drafts’ on the codex.

[Jared Atchison]

Thanks for helping out 🙂

[John James Jacoby]

It’s true. The little shiny pieces of polish, and the things you don’t have to do, are what make software easy to use for everyone, and ultimately more successful as a result.

If you’re holding off on using bbPress because it doesn’t do everything you need it to do out of the box, you’re just not the audience for the software (yet.) Clearly it’s not useless; we’re using it here very successfully.

If your users can’t figure out how to use your site, it’s up to you to cater the theme to fit their wants and needs. If turn-key bbPress isn’t it, that’s totally okay – you’re free to manipulate the design however you’d like.

Future versions of bbPress will receive more and more refinement. Hopefully they improve your outlook – if not, hopefully you contribute code changes upstream to improve the software.

[Siobhan]

Hi all

I’ve been trying to help out with the bbPress Codex when I get some free time. Something I’d like to create is an FAQ covering issues that come up again and again. Or even two FAQs:

FAQ – Getting Started with bbPress
FAQ – Troubleshooting

The best resource for an FAQ is often a support forum so if there are any questions you’d like to see in an FAQ please add them here. Or just drop in a link to a support forum post where a question has been raised. I’ll turn it into a question in the FAQ.

Also – if there are any other docs that are desperately needed let me know and I’ll put them together. I don’t have loads of time but I reckon if I make a list I could write doc a week.

Thanks!
Siobhan

[auco]

Maybe I should add that I am also experiencing a strange issue with my notification mail setting. When I go to the BBPress Admin settings, I see under “General Settings: Send Mail to”

myadress@mydomain.com if new reply/topic ?  <select id=

When I delete this and just enter my address it'll revert to this string after saving. Maybe this is related?

[auco]

Hello,

since the update to bbPress 2.1 I get the following PHP error msg, when I am posting a new message. The message is posted and everything is fine, except for this error to pop up:

http://www.mydomain.de/blog/forums/users/auco/
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by 
(output started at /path/to/my/server/domain/blog/wp-content/plugins/
bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-template.php:1012)
in /path/to/my/server/domain/blog/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 881

I already followed this post from 4 years ago: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/php-error-messages/ and the relevant informations on codex.wordpress.org. I also made sure I’m running the latest stable PHP5 version.
Of course I’m also running the latest WP and have as few plugins as possible.

But I really can’t figure out how to suppress this message.
Any help is appreciated.

[Stephen Edgar]

See https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#install-and-activate