[jamiehutber]

certainly am. But sitting down and trying to come up with a template like this is no easy task

[big_bass]

I would like to test code before posting since my forum has only one hour edits

I would like to be able to check for errors before posting

Joe

this link is only provided to explain what I mean

I am in no way associated with them

http://www.bbcode.org/playground.php

[David Decker]

@bollocks187

I don’t agree here. SimplePress has do many features for a lot of users/use cases. Yes, it works, it’s active developed and maintained. I tested the new 5.0 beta two weeks ago and it’s still feature overload and a totally different user interface different from “normal” WP… And regarding translation they don’t go with WP standards here and so until they fix some things I could not get it into German. Old 4.x branch is no option because I need optimized code for a new project and also future-proof with WP 3.3+

bbPress — I only mean the plugin version 2.x — on the other hand is really simple but has all I need. It works with almost any theme/framework and I could easily tweak it via CSS. This is a big advantage. Performance-wise it’s really leightweight and future-proof with WP because of custom post types for forum contents.

YES, I know it has not so many features – a few could be added via plugin add-ons – and I assume a lot more will come in the next weeks or month.

IMHO bbPress 2.x is best for small to middle-range communities, best for simple support forums and such. If I need a full packed forum solution with ALL the many and big features I almost always will use a third-party solution like Vanilla, IPB or new XenForo. These have clean style and great UI in frontend AND backend. And with some work of integrating could be work together with WordPress too. — Just look at the newly launched support forum by iThemes.com – they use IPB Forums and it’s great for such a big community.

However, there are some great new bbPress forums out there, see at devpress.com, wpcandy.com, support.pippinsplugins.com, getshopped.com etc. So the bbPress plugin has already proven to manage such communities and they’re doing great.

I vote for bbPress and at the same time have much respect for the work of the Simple:Press devs but just would not use their system!

-Dave

[David Decker]

This plugin adds useful admin links and resources for the bbPress 2.x Forum Plugin to the WordPress Admin Bar.

Info & Download here:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin-bar-addition/

Description from Readme:

This small and lightweight plugin just adds a lot bbPress 2.x related resources to your admin bar. Also links to all setting/ tab pages of the plugin are added making life for forum administrators/ moderators a lot easier. So you might just switch from the fontend of your site to ‘Topics’ or ‘Main Settings’ page etc.

As the name suggests this plugin is intended towards forum admins/ webmasters and moderators. The new admin bar entries will only be displayed if the current user has the bbPress/ WordPress cabability of moderate. (Note: I am open for suggestions here if this should maybe changed to a more suitable cabability.)

Plugin/ Theme Support:

At this time the plugin out of the box supports also links to settings pages of some bbPress 2.x specific add-on plugins!

Special Features:

Not only supporting official bbPress 2.x sites ALSO third-party and user links – so just the whole bbPress 2.x ecosystem

Link to downloadable German language packs – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

Link to official German bbPress forum – only displayed when German locales are active (de_DE, de_AT, de_CH, de_LU)

NOTE: I would be happy to add more language/locale specific resources and more useful third-party links – just contact me!

Localization:

English (default) – always included

German – always included

.pot file (bbpaba.pot) for translators is also always included

Have fun with this little add-on!

I am open for feedback of course!

-Dave

[jamiehutber]

Hey dude,

lovely template. Its what I’ve been after, after finding out it wasn’t that simple

I’m going to assume that its a custom template and not one you downloaded? If it is one you downloaded could i grab the template from you?

[Anderson Mak]

Well, if someone what show most recent signed up users on footer of your bbpress forum, you can use my function below:

function show_recent_users($howmany=10, $show_avatar=false){

global $bbdb;



$recent_users = $bbdb->get_results( "SELECT * FROM $bbdb->users ORDER BY ID DESC LIMIT $howmany" );



if($show_avatar){

$users = array();

foreach($recent_users as $user){

$users[0].= '<td>' . bb_get_avatar( $user->ID, 48 ) . '</td>';

$users[1].= '<td><anc href="' . get_user_profile_link($user->ID) . '">'. $user->display_name . '</td>';

}

echo "<table id='tb-users'> ";

echo "<tr>" . $users[0] . "</tr>";

echo "<tr>" . $users[1] . "</tr>";

echo "<table>";

}else{



echo "s| ";

foreach($recent_users as $user){

echo '<anc href="' . get_user_profile_link($user->ID) . '">'. $user->display_name . ' | ';

}

}

}

Replaces anc to a, of course, I used and to bbpress don’t treat it as a markup code.

To show just name uses:

show_recent_users(10);

To show gravatar and name, uses:

show_recent_users(10,true);

And now, just put the code above in top of the file footer.php that can be found on your theme

[hmTodd]

Hate to answer my own question, but in case anyone wants to try this here is some sample code to start with –

<html>

<body>

This is it.

<?php

// include WordPress

define('WP_USE_THEMES', false);

require('./blog/wp-load.php');



// Handle INSERT if data is Posted

if( 'POST' == $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] && !empty( $_POST['action'] ) &&  $_POST['action'] == "bbp-new-topic") {

$new_topic = array(

'post_parent'    => $_POST['bbp_forum_id'], // forum ID

'post_content'   => $_POST['bbp_topic_content'],

'post_title'     => $_POST['bbp_topic_title']

);

$topic_meta = array(

'forum_id'           => $new_topic['post_parent']

);



$topic_id = bbp_insert_topic($new_topic, $topic_meta);

echo('<br>Topic ID = '.$topic_id . '<br>');

} // end INSERT



// Use Shortcode to show New Topic Form.

// Could also create your own form.

echo do_shortcode('[bbp-topic-form]');

?>

Thats it.

</body></html>

[andeeh]

Hi guys,

First of all thanks for your continued efforts to build bbPress. I’ve followed the HowTo video and that got me up and running with the templates reasonably quickly. I created my own child theme of 2010 and re-skinned it. All seems to have worked well.

My only remaining issue so far as I can see is that there is no way for the user to know that they have registered. The email gets sent out but there really needs to be something like “Thanks for registering, you’ve been sent an email.”

On my system when you register the registration form doesn’t change so it looks like nothing happened.

Inspecting the POST submission with fiddler I can see that there’s a “redirect-to” field. I suppose that’s what I need to change to redirect and give the message, but what message should I display?… considering that the mail server could be down or something, I wonder if there’s a status code or whatever? What do you normally do?

thanks,

AndyH

PS: After trawling the forums for tips I found these plugins helpful and complimentary to a bbPress install…

Members (for fine grain permissions)

SB Welcome Email Editor (to edit the registration emails, works well)

WP-reCAPTCHA (captcha at registration)

Private Messages for WordPress (for a basic pm system)

[0xDE1E7E]

Provided you are talking about the integrated multisite solution and bbpress 2 (not the standalone versions): yes, that should work. In multisite mode, you always have one main site which holds all the users. All sites in the network work with this network-wide userbase, so a bbpress installation on any network site will also do so.

[spiritfly]

Hello to all

I have multiple WP blogs on different domains. I would like to unite all of them in one WP MU installation. I know it’s possible and I think I can manage to pull that of.

After that, I would like to install bbPress on another X.com domain. Is it possible to connect all of the WP MU domains users with the users at bbPress? So if someone registers at bbPress can log in at any WP MU domain, and vice versa.

Actually I’m pretty sure that can be done, but I need to know how and if there would be any drawbacks to that solution? Will it remain stable and so on?

Thanks

[tgiokdi]

I was going through my mental checklist of possible problems, and I realized that I’m sharing the user table with two or three subdomains that are using separate installations of wordpress. I’m assuming that your code has no way to see if there’s comments or posts on those other wp-posts tables?

[maxfaction]

Thanks moderator

[maxfaction]

@tony lies… sorry for sounding so medieval lol, but i installed it on a non-twenty ten theme and it works just fine.

mind you, it took jackie chan style css kungfu to make it look right, but its doable

[Onore]

Hiya!

Use WP Plugin – codestyling-localization.

[sinklar]

I updated the plugin this morning but it doesn’t solve the problem here…

[dmoz]

Hi,

I’m trying to get new-topics-archive to show on my forum front page and to show all my forum pages in a simple left-aligned-sidebar structure, a structure that’s the opposite of the rest of the WP site(right-aligned sidebar).

I created a bbpress.php file with this structure, but it’s not being recognized. Instead, it’s defaulting to my template page.php file. I tried bbpress.php and forum.php, but neither works.

And once I get all that working, a shortcode on the forum front page should make it show the new-topics-archive, right? But that isn’t working either.

Any thoughts?

[dmoz]

I just wanted to post, and suggest or see if these options existed already.

I’d love for the widgets that come along with bbPress to have some (any) custom display features (ie. Forum List widget allowing show/hide the number of topics within, etc.)

Also, a few more widgets would be great (ie. popular topic tags, topic info)

These options might be able to be accomplished by a shortcode, but I don’t believe the current shortcodes allow any parameters such as: [bbp-topic-index number-of-topics=5 pagination=false]

Anyone know of plans for these sorts of things, or if they already exist and I’ve just overlooked them?

Thanks.

[ebiznet88]

Thank you to wmnasef for this script!

I used the updated script provided by Abdessamad Idrissi at http://code.google.com/p/phpbb3-to-bbpress1-converter/downloads/list on my phpBB3 forum.

The conversion went smoothly and I could see the posts from my old forum appear in my bbpress forum.

However, all the posts had the authors listed as Anonymous, which means none of the users accounts were ported over.

Can someone help with this please? How did this happen and how can I fix this?

[Trobee]

in your bbpress theme file bbpress/content-single-user.php is what calls all the different sections of your forum profile, so you should be able to find the calls in there.

Incase you are having trouble locating it

<?php do_action( 'bbp_template_notices' );



// Profile details

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'details'        );



// Subscriptions

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'subscriptions'  );



// Favorite topics

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'favorites'      );



// Topics created

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/user', 'topics-created' );

[yellowwinter]

Hello bbPress forum owners,

Need some help from you – we at Tapatalk (the forum app) has finally able to worked on the bbPress support and will be releasing a plugin for bbPress 1.1 soon. We are looking for testers to give it a spin on their forum, if you are a forum owners and has either iPhone/iPad or Android devices, you are welcome to join us!

Just want to gauge the interest – if you are interested, please response to this post and we will figure out the best way to move forward.

For those you don’t know what Tapatalk is, check out our website at http://tapatalk.com – Looking forward hearing from you!!

[Jaja..]

Thanks for the help..

Nope totally not, just found that board system by accident..

I think bbPress is a great product and it works fine.

The few problems i face are based on WPMU install and testing it locally most of them are my own fault..

I’m trying to make a homepage (WP-website1) with only my blog onto it and a second page (WP-website2) called members with a few forums and some posts on helping very new WordPress users with just some easy steps, as i’m not a professional myself.

Nothing to difficult but the theme i’m using is this one and it’s a little bit old.

http://store.informationarchitects.net/product/ia³-template

It’s a great theme, and i only bought it because of it’s Responsive design. The double drop-down select menu’s when viewing on mobile device is just great.

After installing i started to delete almost every feature because i don’t need them, i Love to keep everything as simple and clean as possible. Less is more..

Because i’m not a Pro, and don’t know anything about PHP i just have to do everything by searching online, looking inside the WordPress Codex and copy-/pasting everything i see and what i think i can read-/understand.. (i do have HTML-/CSS knowledge)

So till now and still working on it i came up with this:

A custom made Widget that i have dropped on the homepage between the blog lay-out to let people know there is a support forum.

http://i56.tinypic.com/25gcb36.png

A tabbed forums view with different options.

http://i54.tinypic.com/2vjel3q.png

Latest topics view.

http://i52.tinypic.com/2rcydra.png

And i customized the Post Toolbar plugin from Master5o1

http://i52.tinypic.com/2zxxqbm.png

As you can see there is still lot to work on, the single pages , replies, edit pages and others.

Lucky it’s just a hobby and i have time.

** O there is one thing i would really love to see inside bbPRess and thats comments-/reply counts.

Just an option to view how many replies a user has given and maybe a user level attached to it.

Like less than 50 posts = New

50 to 100 = Average

250+ = Pro user.

That would be cool to have.

[iftomkins]

Ok! Gave up on the shortcode and found a better solution using the bbPviews plugin, in tandem with the GD Custom Posts and Taxonomies Plugin I bought which creates the bbPress custom fields. Here’s a tutorial I made on filtering by bbpress custom views on my website!

[Jaja..]

True i also looked at it and it’s not great from what i can tell as a rookie.

bbPress code looks much better and also the handling of the template files is done better.

Only one little thing i like better of this Board system:

It still uses the real Posts and Permalinks structure of WP instead of Forums and Topics.

As WordPress and (Otto’s Blog) stated for larger sites it’s important to start your Blog Posts on a Permalinks structure by a number and not by Category of post_name. Just like this: example.com/2011/11/%post_name%

For WordPress performance reasons it would be better to start of by a number first because numbers are found first inside the Database. something like that i think it was.

[kevinvaughn]

I’m interested in the same information… I was sondering if there is a shortcode for this.

[Anointed]

I purchased that plugin a very long time ago just to take a peek under the code hood. Frankly while an interesting concept, it has nowhere near the power and code quality that bbPress has.

It is not like there is a huge company behind that plugin. Last I checked it was just another single coder and I got really tired of every one of my questions being answered back ‘out plugin can’t do that’.

I’d rather have a plugin built and run by JJ, than just about anyone else.

Don’t get the impression that bbPress is having issues solely by what you see in the forums here. Just take a look at the number of times bbPress has been downloaded and you will quickly see that there are a lot of users who never even come to these forums for help.

Also, as someone who runs incredibly large forum based websites, I can say that the spam here, while bad, is not that much worse than even the best commercial systems.

If you check the trac you will see that bbPress is already well along the way to the next level as JJ has been writing tons of code updates.

Give it time, bbPress is gonna grow and will only gain news and traction with the other sites out there.