[sanjeevsajjan]

WP Version: 3.4.1
bbPress Version: 2.1.1
Permalink Custom Structure: /%category%/%postname%/

User Settings:
Show Toolbar when viewing site – Unchecked
Username (all small w/o spaces) – forumuser

bbPress Login Widget is used to provide login box which displays user profile image as well as name of user with the link to its profile page:

http://domain.dom/forums/users/forumuser/

I am having problem in accessing the above user profile page. The error displayed on the page is:

The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

However, if admin logins and goes to the url “http://domain.dom/forums/users/admin/” then bbPress’s profile page for admin is displayed correctly.

What could be the problem? Can someone here help me to rectify it so that proper user profile of all respective users are displayed correctly?

Thanks.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

I think you can show the content of a single topic with the [bbp-single-topic id=$topic_id] shortcode in a post.
Haven’t tried how exactly that would work, but it might be what you’re looking for.

[Stephen Edgar]

No it wasn’t an auto reply to your post.

I presumed what you were looking for is in point 4 of ‘Creating your first forum’ where you can define if a forum is a parent category or straight forum. In the case you were asking you simply create the forum as a forum and not a category.

https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/#creating-your-first-forum

> Adjust your Forum attributes. These are:

> Types: choose whether you are creating a Forum or category.

> Forum – can contain topics and be the parent of other forums.

> Category – can only contain forums (no topics). Use for organizing your forums.

> You may, for example, have a Category “Open Source Software” with the > Forums “bbPress” and “WordPress”.

And yes forum wide search is planned for a future release

• This reply was modified 14 years, 3 months ago by Stephen Edgar.
• This reply was modified 14 years, 3 months ago by Stephen Edgar. Reason: quote formatting

[Stephen Edgar]

There are plans to improve bbPress’s moderation features.

You can see whats planned thus far, contribute more ideas or even code here:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1721

[Stephen Edgar]

Create a page (or edit an existing page) and add the [bbp-topic-index] shortcode to that page.

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

[Stephen Edgar]

Try this for starters https://codex.bbpress.org/getting-started-with-bbpress/

[Stephen Edgar]

Also see https://codex.bbpress.org/forums-settings/

[Anonymous User 5853594]

You could create a page and use the shortcodes to display the forum there. You can then set the page as home, instead of the blog (under Settings > Reading).

From there you’ve got the forum index on the frontpage. You could create other pages to handle registration and other account related things.

You’ll want to read through https://codex.bbpress.org/shortcodes/ for the shortcodes.

[Starejosel]

It turned out that the solution was to use the WP htaccess Control plugin and use it to install a custom .htcaccess file with a rewrite rule
(using the pretty url’s generated by the permalinks):
RewriteRule author/([^/]+)/?$ http://yourspecificwebsitename/forums/users/$1/ [R=301,L]

[viktora]

No John.:-) I was using multiple methods for displaying my forum just for testing purpose. Now, the status is that I do NOT have any page with shortcode. I just modified the Forum base slug to /discussion/. Suddenly the historical /forums/ forum base slug started to work in the way I expected and the new slug /discussion/ works in the same wrong way as /forums/ did before.

Couple of questions:
Why is the /forums/ slug working after it was modified in the admin area (forum base slug)? It should not be visible at all.
Why is the new /discussion/ forum base slug ignoring page-front-forums.php file? Compared to the /forums/ slug which accepts whe template file ok.

[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.