[ebharding]

I want to display in a RSS widget just the topics (not the replies) in a specific forum.

right now I have

feed://www.westsac.com/forums/forum/west-sacramento-discussion/west-sac-1a/ask-westsac/feed/

Which display all the posts in a forum, I want just the topics and not the replies. is that possible?

Or is there a short code that will give me this?

tia

[hscoder]

check this link if you want to get forum_id:

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-get-forum-id-in-bbpress/

[honski]

Thanks, hscoder! That did it.

[ljrjue]

I’ll do my best to try and find some time this weekend to install the plugin and report back what I find. I did read through the code, but have not yet done anything with it.

Sorry, no idea about devs, everyone I know is absolutely slammed right now. Will keep an ear out though.

*I’ve got my hands absolutely full with the new importer and building the supporting site for it. After that, projects are still lined up…

http://www.madeinflatable.com

[Andre]

There’s not an easy way to do it yet because there isn’t a shortcode to display the latest topics. I’m sure there’s a way to code it, but I haven’t looked into how to do that.

Also, bbpress.org doesn’t uses bbpress 2.x yet.

[CaptainN2]

Hi,

I just restored a very old bbpress 1.x install to use bbpress 2.0 plugin, and it worked great! Thanks so much.

There are a few issues though, that I could use help with. Here they are:

1. I’m getting a ton of spam. Some of these get caught by akizmet, but most get through, and there’s no way to do a “rescan for spam” thing like there is in wordpress comments. Is there any way to clean this up, to reduce the spam (I’ll continue to troll the forums to find solutions, but I’m not sure how most of the suggestions there work, until I know how registration and new topics work)?
2. If not logged in, I can’t see any way to post to the forum, or any register links in the forum area. Is a setting for this (I have it set at defaults, only registered users can post, and anyone can register), or do I have to add theme support? (I’m using 2011.)
3. Does registration go through normal WP reg process? I can’t find it from the forums, but the spam bots sure can!
4. there is no preview button – here or in my forum – I hope the formatting I put in here works!

On an unrelated note, I couldn’t get my old account to work here on bbpress.org (CaptainN) – When I try to log in it says my username doesn’t exist. But I can’t register with either my old username, or old email – they both exist! Also, when I start the reset password process, I get the link to click, but when I click on it, it says I can’t change my password.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Kevin N.

[hscoder]

Check this:

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-show-bbpress-forum-on-blog-front-page/

[jmeyer1715]

I am trying to get one forum to show up on a separate page than the normal forum index. I know the shortcode is [bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] but I do not know where to find the forum_ID at and I have tried everything I can think of to get it to work. I believe this question was asked in the Sticky Shortcodes topic at the top of the page but it wasn’t answered, just linked to another page that had the same information as the topic post with no examples or explanation. Thank you in advance.

jake

[Mr. Salas]

Hello,

i used wp 3.2.1 and a theme called wp-basis,

but after installing bbpress no Forum content is visible.

There is some generated forum-text in the header of the site

“<meta name=”description” content=”Topic: DISKUSSION ZUM FILM …etc”

below is the code of my header.php

“<meta name=”description” content=”<?php if ( is_single() ) { wp_title(‘-‘, true, ‘right’); echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); } elseif ( is_page() ) { wp_title(‘-‘, true, ‘right’); echo strip_tags( get_the_excerpt() ); } else { bloginfo(‘description’); } ?>” />”

i hope somebody can help.

thx and kind regards

Daniel

[Philip John]

I blogged about this little tweak too and someone has just posted an edit to display a friendly message instead of the standard “not found” which sort of completes it

http://philipjohn.co.uk/2011/11/14/hiding-bbpress-topics-from-logged-out-users/#comment-1885

[Dan Milward]

Thanks for the feedback buddy.

Looking forward to seeing Infinity. Want to add us to the Beta list

[Bowe]

Hiya Dan,

Thanks a lot for creating this plugin! We’re using it on our community forums to provide support for Infinity (open source WP Theming Engine), and it does exactly what we need.

I think adding support for Achievements from Paul, is a great idea, and I think it makes a lot more sense then “bloating” the plugin itself. Hooking into Achievements and registering new ways for people to earn awards should be pretty straightforward http://achievementsapp.com/developer/add-support-for-a-plugin-non-custom-post-type/

Once again; awesome work!

[rich]

i have an auto-generated (iffy wordpress search-able) list online as well

http://etivite.com/api-hooks/#bbpress

which is similar to the code posted above – forgot about array hooks so when bbPress 2.1 hits – it will be updated.

[hscoder]

if you want to know that how to use bbpress shortcodes, check this link :

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-bbpress-shortcodes-in-wordpress-site/

[OAEErra]

Bit lost – where in the template should I add this bit of code?

Much thanks

[John James Jacoby]

You posted, I listened.

Version 2 of bbPress’s theme compatibility is now in the 2.1 plugin branch of code for your perusal. This second iteration removes the need to add current_theme_support() to your theme, and totally automates the process.

If your child or parent theme contains the template files that bbPress looks for, bbPress will use them. If not, bbPress will fall back on it’s default templates and styling. No more logic necessary.

Please test it. It’s new code with a new approach, so I’d like to get some fresh eyes on things right away to avoid a long beta period like 2.0 had.

Cheers!

[John James Jacoby]

I’m surprised this hasn’t been asked sooner, but it’s a great bunch of questions with some good points. I’ll do my best to address them, and feel free to keep the conversation going if there are more questions.

I’m going to start off with a clarifying and important point that’s often difficult to distinguish if you’re not involved directly in the WordPress community. My full-time job is at a company called Automattic, most popularly known for operating WordPress.com. That takes up a typical 40 hour work-week.

My contributions to open-source projects like WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, are done in my free-time. I believe enough in the platforms to actively continue their development.

So the answer to your question; “WordPress” doesn’t pay anyone a salary.

Yes, I am currently leading the development of both BuddyPress and bbPress. My responsibilities include setting the roadmaps, shepherding development, and making sure the .org sites stay updated and operational. Yes, there’s a lot of responsibility there, and I appreciate that you think I’m doing a good job.

Consider also that bbPress has always been a bit of a hobby project. As a sister project to WordPress, and by nature of it being a support forum to the flagship project, it’s never been the focal point but is still critically important, since millions of people interact with it without ever knowing what it is.

BuddyPress and bbPress were both around for a number of years before I worked my way up to leading both projects. BuddyPress has two other consistent core committers that are doing a great job, and bbPress is the best opportunity for any developer to step in and get core-commit to help determine the direction of the project. It’s very much a meritocracy, so anyone that comes along and starts contributing will get noticed for it.

Even though I tend to do the majority of code commits, rest assured that there are plenty more eyes on the code than just mine and neither project is in any danger of losing momentum or being phased out. Automattic as a company loves both BuddyPress and bbPress, and the WordPress Foundation and community are both committed to supporting them for far into the future.

[gloomis120]

Wow, great work. mesayre’s code edit with using && instead of || fixed an issue for me with after login, getting redirected back to the home url and not the forum url.

[mesayre]

Hey folks,

I was struggling with this for a while, and I think I found a bug in bbp-common-template.php

Here’s the original, plus an echo I put in to dump the value. It returned the blog url no matter what else I did with filters beforehand:

function bbp_redirect_to_field( $redirect_to = ” ) {

// Rejig the $redirect_to

if ( !isset( $_SERVER ) || ( !$redirect_to = home_url($_SERVER ) ) )

$redirect_to = wp_get_referer();

echo $redirect_to;

exit;

Should this be an OR statement? (||) I found that changing it so and (&&) seems to make it function as intended.

Also, is this supposed to be an assignment here (!$redirect_to=), or should it be a comparison (=. Changing that that to !$redirect_to== ALSO made it function as intended. One way or another, this line is the culprit.

[Hagandasz]

Just a simple and maybe a stupid question: Where do i find the Forum ID?

I tried to copy the permalink but this wasn’t it.

[spabav]

After a couple of weeks testing bbpress and several other forum solutions, we are really hesitating in running bbpress as our forum.

From what we see the bbpress plugin, while not as feature-rich as stand-alone bulletin boards like vbulletin, phpbb or xenForo, does one thing outstandingly well, which is the integration into wordpress.

For that reason alone, it would be worth giving it a try.

Unfortunately – and here comes our biggest issue – it looks like the bbpress plugin is currently not given full (or any) attention from WordPress.

My question is very simple:

How many developers / coders are writing code of the bbpress plugin currently ?

Is @johnjamesjacoby the only one?

Is there anybody else “officially assigned/paid by wordpress” to work on the bbpress plugin and documentation or/and support ?

John is doing an excellent job, on all his help he gives especially in the bbpress forum. But since the community is small and John is also working on the buddypress project, we are really worried to put our eggs in a “one-man-show plugin” basket.

Please tell me that I got this wrong and that there are at least several people currently working on the bbpress plugin and documentation.

Would be great if anybody could shed some light on this.

[ficam]

I didn’t find any bm_bbp_no_breadcrumb in functions file

[Angelo]

I’ve looked into a plugin called Role Scoper which grants you the ability to restrict things based on WordPress user roles and capabilities. Admittedly, the plugin is a bit bulky for what’s being accomplished with the above code but it’s an option.

[Martin ( Martin_C )]

Ok forget the stuff I said about bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id always returning “topic-tag”. Thought the return value was the chosen setting.

Anyway, the above code does seem to work to make the loop display only those topics that’ve been tagged with the currently displayed tag.

[Martin ( Martin_C )]

It seems bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() always returns the default topic tag slug, i.e. “topic-tag” no matter what you use in your forum settings.

However, provided you use the default topic tag slug you can add some args to bbp-has-topics in taxonomy-topic-tag.php, like this:

if( bbp_has_topics( array( bbp_get_topic_tag_tax_id() => bbp_get_topic_tag_slug() ) ) )