[Anointed]

@Rastarr

bbPress does not use comments in any fashion. Rather bbPress uses custom post-types for topics and replies with some rather special crazy code to relate them together.

That is actually where the real magic comes in. Because bbPress uses standard post-types and taxonomies it means integrating with many other plugins is much simpler. Now that still leaves it up to the plugin authors to add support for bbPress. I can say that JJ took every possible step to make integrating with these plugins as simple and standard as possible.

Creating a custom theme is not as easy as I would have hoped for, but after time you get the hang of it. The only reason I have not personally written a ‘how-to-theme’ guide is because I still have a few remaining questions myself. You have seen firsthand though, that even someone with my little knowledge of coding can create a 100% custom theme capable of doing anything I want it to.

The best way to help out, is to simply jump in and answer any questions you can. I do the same, if I know the answer, I answer, if I don’t I skip the question (probably makes people feel ignored, but better than to have me just say I don’t know)

[Anointed]

For sidebars you need to look into using either widget logic plugins, or simply creating your own child theme and inserting a bbPress sidebar instead of the default one. Not to hard to do, but way more involved than I care to try and answer in a post.

There are a number of classes in the code for the posts such as sticky, super-sticky, etc, but there are currently no classes or functions for determining if the user has read a topic or not.

Believe it or not, that type of functionality is very intensive. Imagine a board with 50k members and millions of posts. Trying to keep track of exactly what posts each user has seen and has not seen really fills the db up very fast.

Now this is possible of course with plugin territory so it is possible as most forums do this. I can say though, I personally at least am glad it is not in the core as I do NOT want that kind of overhead for my rather large forums. Also considering I have friends whose forums are 10x my size, I can only imagine the nightmare.

[hscoder]

yes you can completely remove Avatars from your bbpress forum.

You can try :

open the file bbp-reply-template.php (/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/

and comment these lines:

if ( ‘avatar’ == $type || ‘both’ == $type )

$author_links = bbp_get_reply_author_avatar( $reply_id, $size );

try this and let me know if you want anything.

you can get more information from this page:

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/remove-avatar-from-bbpress-2-0-forum/

[veppa]

bbpress is worpdress plugin. you should copy bbpress folder to wp-contentplugins folder.

if you have problem installing wordpress plugin then read detailed instructions here:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Managing_Plugins#Installing_Plugins

[klimam]

Hi, thanks for the plugin!

I am solving one issue. I am using plugins WP likes and fbLikeButton and when I use the shortcode to display the FORUMS ([bbp-forum-index])it shows the like buttons of the mentioned plugins under each and every FORUM title.

Don´t you know how to filter this? WP likes has at least setting to filter category on which it should not be used but what is the category for forums? Which format shall I use for “category name list (comma separated)”? url-style name of the category or name of category in “” or?? I tried the url-style category name but it does not work for me.

THANKS!

[Anointed]

You could always use a custom Page for your forum homepage. On that page you can use shortcodes in order to display the most recent posts if you like.

bbp-forum-index

bbp-topic-index

Just an idea.

[Anointed]

Keep in mind, bbPress is at its core simply a WordPress plugin. bbPress does not take away from anything WordPress is capable of doing.

To try and answer your questions.

1. Yes. You pretty much have full control over the registration system just like you do with a standard WordPress install.

Want it open to everyone with no info collected? Sure it can be done.

Want it open but require some info collected? Sure it can be done.

want it open but require double opt in? That’s pretty much standard behavior.

2. If using a subfolder install of multisite then this is pretty much standard behavior. If using subdomain install, then yes there are workarounds. If using subdomain install with domain mapping… well that is a can of worms but possible.

3. Yes but requires some custom code. Not to difficult.

4. Nope, but keep in mind that topics and replies are simply custom post-types. Hence you can add in custom metadata or custom fields to each topic. Then add in the front end metabox inputs and your 90% there.

5. I personally have a bbPress forum with 300k posts, 45k members on dedicated server and have no issues. This would NOT work on a shared server. bbPress is a ‘heavy’ plugin using a lot of resources, but compared to just about any other forum system, including commercial products, it holds its own.

6. plugin territory – I believe Paul Gibbs has a rewards system for buddypress which could probably be reused for bbPress, though I have not tried it.

Remember that bbPress is just a plugin which follows all the WordPress coding standards. It is simple code to understand, clearly labeled and well thought out. Not to mention JJ is a coding ninja.

[anthonytkim]

I have been looking throughout the internet for about 3 days and still haven’t found my answer. I have been checking around this forum as well os If my answer is posted here (or somewhere else for that matter, I do apologize.

I am trying to integrate bbpress into my current wordpress theme. I followed all of the steps in the bbpress 2.0 compatibility thread, but didn’t have much luck.

I added the support for bbpress in my functions file, and copied all of the content of the bbpress twenty ten child theme into my current theme, but still didn’t have any luck.

I am beyond lost as to how this works. I understand the support in the functions, and even copying over the file and the CSS, but I don’t know the specifics. for example:

can that bbpress twenty ten theme be implemented into ANY wordpress theme by copying those files over?

And what do we range in the CSS? Am I supposed to merge the CSS files from that child theme, with my current one?

I hope I’m not beating a dead horse or anything, Just looking for some help!

Thanks!

[DiannaM668]

Hi OC2PS again, I tried the converter with changing the version to 2.0.2 which matches my BBpress latest version and it did seem to work this time! However, it is weird how you can’t see it doing anything and then after awhile I hit refresh and check and it converted.

However, I’ve had this problem before and I’m not sure what could be this problem. Everything seems to convert great with users and forum structure, even the forum counts. However, my topics don’t show up within the forums. Within my topics, it shows that they are not connected to any forum. So I have about 500 some pages of topics not attached to anything.

Do you know or have any idea what I could be doing wrong that is not pulling the topics over to their respective forum??

I’m so close to getting this!

I’ve even thought to go through 500 pages of topics and put them in their forums. I am that desperate! But I know better than to work that hard but also I don’t know where these topics really belong or I would consider it.

Help?

[jangles]

I tried to convert phpbb. It ran through successfully. I had to comment out the code that was causing it to choke.

[DiannaM668]

HEy shooo! I think I saw you posting on the other thread about the other phpBB converter from AWJunkies. I feel your pain, looks like we are in the same boat of no luck in getting our phpBB forums converted.

It appears this converter is the one to troubleshoot as it seems that others here have had success.

shooo, I haven’t seen what you just posted because I never got that far. Mine would just say that database failed and then would say conversion was not supported.

Thanks OC2PS! I’m going to go look at that link that you provided. I’ll report back if any luck or for more begging….

[mga2]

same here…

as posted to the other topic, i get the “error404” class in response body of the profilpage(non edit)

the edit does not work(except for networkadmins), on click edit i get 404

in detail:

URL: http://domain.com/?bbp_user=15&edit=1

Method: GET

Status: 302 Found

URL: http://domain.com/?bbp_user=15

Method: GET

Status: 404 Not Found

im using my own them for bbpress(add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ )

thanks in advance…

mga2

[Chantal Coolsma]

I knew bbPress for a while, but didn’t do anything with it until a few weeks ago. I needed bbPress for some projects to embed it in already running WordPress installations. At first I installed bbPress from the WordPress plugin repository and activated it. So far easy as every other plugin.

But how do I show this thing a WordPress site? I created a page called ‘Forum’ and inserted the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] into it. Published the page and everything was visible. But now? Why do I need more shortcodes if this is working?

You can copy bbPress template files into your own custom theme folder. This is a way to change some look and feel together with CSS changes. My first question was ‘why are there so many template files?’ As an experienced WordPress theme developer I would say you only need a few. Like forums.php, topics.php and replies.php. I lost my way. Which template is used for which page?

As long as everything works, it’s okay. But then I ran into problems. I am totally lost. I don’t know what is the right way to embed bbPress into WordPress. Just by creating a page? Or add the template files to my custom theme? Both ways got me into the same problems.

I love WordPress, I love to be active in translating and contributing to various projects, I love to help organizing my local WordCamp, but I don’t love to be lost. In my opinion bbPress should work as easy as any other theme file in WordPress. Where you can construct your own page using functions, which are available in a Codex.

[Chantal Coolsma]

Anyone? I reproduced the same behavior on another site which I am working on.

Looks like a line in content-single-forum.php doesn’t return any results:

<?php if ( !bbp_is_forum_category() && bbp_has_topics() ) : ?>

However as an Administrator it shows the results. Any other role doesn’t.

[Chantal Coolsma]

I know. I would love to contribute to bbPress. But for a beginner with bbPress it is difficult to find where to start. A bbPress Codex with bbPress specific features would be welcome. But for a start a good documentation would be most helpfull.

[Chantal Coolsma]

Hi,

I installed bbPress 2.0.2 on WordPress 3.3.1. Embedded it in the site of a customer. There are some forums created. All are Forum, Open and Public. Some topics are added by an Administrator. So far everything ok.

When a user with role Forum Participant logs in, it can access the forum, but no topics are shown:

This forum contains 4 topics and 0 replies, and was last updated by xxx 1 min ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

Administrators do see the topics. What is happening here?

[SK]

All that Firebug has to say is:

syntax error

);

options-general.php?page=fc-options&settings-updated=true (line 304, col 2)

[DiannaM668]

Hi djoep, the converter would be awesome, but I had actually tried the manual instructions that you wrote up here in this thread. I got a good ways through it but then got stuck.

[alsur]

Plugin locales are pretty clear in the Codex. This might be of help:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Internationalizing_Your_Plugin

[Prometheus Fire]

Okay, thanks. It helps knowing that. I just installed this and am getting used to things, found the shortcodes in the other thread which will help with this setup.

I’ll just create a button in my theme for that then, easy enough to do and link to the shortcode created create new topic page.

[CloeST]

I just converted from IPB to bbpress, and moved all my posts over.

Now the problem is, all posts now contains html codes, instead of showing images, making line breaks etc.

This is obviously a user permission problem, because when I post the same codes with the admin account, it shows right.

Is there any way that I can allow users unrestricted html code, just like admin has?

[shortstack]

i want to change the URL of my forum.

instead of being mywebsite.com/forum, i’d like it to be forum.mywebsite.com.

i can’t find the URL hard coded into the database, so i’m guessing there is something in the plugin that references home_url but i am not sure where it is set.

can someone please help?

[Crisium]

has been resolved…

the words are realtime converted to upper case

regards,

Peter

[SK]

Tried just now.

Didn’t make any difference to the forum page, but the topic page got worse…

When I try to go directly to topic page with the URL, I only get a white page with the following error:

Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in ../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 201



Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: nothing to repeat at offset 1 in ../wp-includes/class-wp.php on line 202



Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at ../wp-includes/class-wp.php:201) in ../wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 866

[Anointed]

With your level of expertise that you are describing, definitely use the front-end to import the users. It’s slow, but of course it will work.

Passwords are a combination md5 + salt, and are rather complicated to automate. Once again, bbconverter does this rather elegantly.

Pretty much the fastest way possible really is to write a custom script, and if it were me, I’d base it off of bbconverter. If that is beyond your scope, then I wouldn’t bother as by the time you get it figured out, you would probably be done anyhow

If you are talking a huge amt of users, then consider contacting AWJunkies over at bbconverter for a custom quote for the job. He’s a top notch pro at this stuff. He’s not cheap, but then again he’s about as great a coder as you could ever hope to find.