[kai920]

Thanks anointed, I might follow your approach as I want to keep the forums somewhat separated from the rest of the site. Am sure I will learn many things along the way also, as an added bonus

[patrickallmond]

I have installed bbpress 2.0 at allaboutfocus.com on the Genesis Framework. Before I knew that shortcodes existed I create a single free forum with some test posts. You can see that here: http://allaboutfocus.com/forums/forum/free-forums/#

Now I’ve discovered shortcodes. I created a new empty page called /mojo-forums. I edit that page and add a couple of simple shortcodes. When I save the new page I am instantly directed back to edit session for page http://allaboutfocus.com/forums/forum/free-forums/ . This is bizarre. That is not the page I was editing. Keep in mind this is all happening in the admin area. When I click on view to view the page /mojo-forums it shows me page /forums which has no edit options.

Also – when I post a new test post it is showing the freshest post as 4 hours ago. But when you drill down to the post it has the correct time that I saved the post.

Help.

Thanks,

Patrick

[bobodisco]

How do I allow people to sign up to my forum, Currently I have a page set up with the sign up short code and when one attempts to sign up the WP login page is displayed with a message stating “User registration is currently not allowed.” Is this a setting that needs changing in the admin section of my site?

Thanks

[Vayu Robins]

Hi Moddey.

I am not sure if what I did is correct. I can’t seem to do this in all my themes. And I can’t seem to find out why.

I am also interested in finding a solution that actually works.

[ModdeyDo]

I would like to know how this is done, BBpress 2.0. I have uploaded the .mo and .po files all over the place Only thing I have not done is what Vayu said:

add_action(‘after_setup_theme’, ‘my_theme_setup’);

function my_theme_setup(){

load_theme_textdomain(‘bbpress’, get_template_directory() . ‘/languages’);

}

Do I have to do that ?

TIA

Moddey

[unholyfruitbat]

Is there any word on when bbpress will support more extensive forum like features? Ex: Image posting, youtube video posting, bbcode?

I’m sorry if this question was already covered and I missed it. Congrats on the release and the success with the plugin thus far.

[unholyfruitbat]

Is there any word on when bbpress will support more extensive forum like features? Ex: Image posting, youtube video posting, bbcode?

I’m sorry if this question was already covered and I missed it. Congrats on the release and the success with the plugin thus far.

[Anointed]

@kai920

I ended up going an entirely different route in order to get forum specific sidebars on the pages. JJ’s answer would have been the easiest to achieve by using widget context, but I wanted full control.

Very long story short…

I started by registering a custom sidebar just for the forums.

I then took all of the bbpress templates and rewrite them from scratch to include my custom code and forum sidebar.

*Keep in mind that bbPress templates are nothing more than WordPress templates, so all rules that you follow when building a custom theme also apply to bbPress. Trying to explain how to build custom templates is WAY outside the scope of what I can provide. There are numerous tutorials all over the internet to get you started.

**If you are not comfortable writing template code, then widget context is definitely the way to go.

[binarymoon]

Thanks for the tip off – I found the rogue code!

[bobbyh44]

Ah – awesome. Thanks Andre, really appreciate it.

Hopefully they’ll add that link into the bottom of the instructions so it reads:

== Installation ==

1. Place the ‘bbpress’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.

2. Activate bbPress.

3. Visit ‘Settings > Forums’ and adjust your configuration.

4. Create some forums.

5. View your site.

6. Adjust the CSS of your theme as needed, to make everything pretty.

7. Create a page and add one or more of these short codes into it to display your forum: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

All the best.

Bob

[Andre]

You’d probably want to use one of these:

[bbp-forum-index] – Show the forum index/archive

[bbp-single-forum id=$forum_id] – Show a single forums topics

Here is the thread listing the shortcodes – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes

[unfettered]

So I’m brand new to WordPress and old hat to programming. I’m trying to piece together a word press site for a friend that he can easily manager and expand. I’ve got most everything up and running with buddy press now save for the forums (without actually having to touch code, craziness!) . My issue is with the forums (I’ve installed the site wide variant).

The issue I’m running into is that the individual forums seem to be rendering as a page and not getting the specific forum templates added to them. I’m using the custom community theme, but this problem is repeatable if i switch to the base buddy press theme. This problem is not present if i switch to the bbpress theme. Each forum listing shows up only showing the forums tagline as if it was page data. I had to do a bit of hackery to get the forum to render at all (deleted the forum page and made a link to /forums in the menu).

My forums are at:

http://unfettereddesigns.net/forums/

Any sage advice?

My forums options:

Archive Slugs

Forums base : forums

Single Slugs

Forum slug: forum

[pjeurien]

this works:

add_action( ‘bbp_get_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);

but it does allow every shortcode.

[bobbyh44]

Hi Again,

Ahh thanks tgiokdi, getting closer to knowing how to get this working.

So you install it.

Then you make a wordpress page.

Then you add a shortcode tag to that page.

I’m guessing you add it into the HTML view of the page or a post and it would look something like:

[bbpress(testforum)]

Where the name of the forum is ‘testforum’.

I haven’t tried this but maybe its a step in the right direction. Can anyone tell me what the tag looks like to get the forum to show up… or is it a secret

[QuickCat]

I am very new to bbpress plugin for wordpress. How do I get a plugin within the bbpress plugin for wordpress? I want to use BBcode, BBVideo, UserApprove and Allow Images. Are there any plugins in for this? How does one install a plugin when bbpress is a plugin itself? Can you automatically download or do you have to install manually?

Will the plugins for the old software work for this bbpress plugin?

[Per Carlen]

Hi!

I run a blog on which I’d like to have a BBPress forum alongside the regular blog and some other pages. But I have ran into a few problems.

Step-by-step background:

1. Installed WP

2. Installed Mingleforum

3. Created a page called “forum” for Mingleforum (myblog.com/forum)

4. Set the forum up and people started posting stuff on it

5. Concluded that Mingleforum lacked several features

6. Installed BBPress but did NOT uninstall Mingleforum or delete the page “forum”

7. Did NOT chose any template for BBPress because I don’t know how

8. Created a paged called “new forum” on which i simply wrote [bbp-forum-index]

9. Created what I like to call categories, but I guess really are different “forums”

Problem 1:

After working on my BBPress forum for a couple of days and looking thru tutorials, I realis that there’s supposed to be an admin panel for BBPress!? I can’t find it.

Within the regular WP admin panel I do have a menus called “Forums”, “Topics” and “Replies”. And under “Settings” in the regular WP admin panel I’ve got another menu called “Forums”. In these menus there’s really not that much to do. From what I have understood there’s a admin panel specifically for BBpress, which I can’t find.

Problem 2:

If I get the admin panel for BBPress to work, I will probably want to install a theme since the forum looks like crap when I just add [bbp-forum-index] to the page “new forum”. Can I use a theme specifically for BBPress or will that theme also affect my main blog and all the other pages? When I change to Twentyten under Appearance->Themes (Not sure if it’s called that in the EN version of WP. I use the swedish version) in the regular WP admin panel, my whole blog get that theme.

Problem 3:

Since the old forum, Mingleforum, has about 100 posts in it, I’d like to transfer these posts and their respective categories etc to my new BBPress forum. Is that possible?

I can not express how much I would appreciate it if someone helped me with this. It’s almost 1:00 at night here and I’ve spent yesterday and the whole day today trying to get this stuff to work. I’m going crazy here, so please help me

Thanks!

[tindalos]

I have a new installation of bbPress 2.0 working great, and it’s really nice.

However, I’m trying to migrate data from a plugin called WP-Forum 1.7 which apparently is listed as ForumPress. I can’t find much detail about this at all.

It looks like this may be a fork off WP-Forum-Server, but I can’t find much help online anywhere on how to migrate this. SimplePress has a WP-Forum 2.2 converter, but it doesn’t appear to be online. The WP-Forum plugin creates a different structure of tables:

INSERT INTO wp_forum_posts (id, text, parent_id, date, author_id, subject, views) VALUES

and

INSERT INTO wp_forum_threads (id, parent_id, views, subject, date, status, closed, mngl_id, starter, last_post) VALUES

for example.

Although I’m somewhat familiar with the database, I haven’t found an EASY way to manually export/import to the bbPress use of Posts, etc.

Anyone know more about this or have any pointers? Thanks!

Brandon

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Both [bbp-single-forum id=ID] and [bbp-single-topic id=ID] include a reply form at the bottom.

The code wasn’t that hard, but there doesn’t seem to be a need, since you’d really want context to your ‘make a new post in the forum’ in that thread, wouldn’t you?

[Per Carlen]

I just wasted an hour of experimenting with turning my homepage/blogpage into a static page, creating categories etc. Then I realised that the setting amount of sidebars on blogpage was just underneath the setting you just reffered to…..

Thanks again man! Things are just like I want them!

[Per Carlen]

That got the forum looking like I want it, but my mainpage is not a “page” so I can’t find where to chose another template for it?

For the other pages I just chose a template with left and right sidebar and they looked as before.

So, just the startpage is messed up now Any ideas?

[Themes Community]

After I seeing above source code, I think that my previous method (that I would like to suggest you) won’t be working as suppose.

So I download the Suffusion theme, trying on my Xampp and found simple answer. You just need to deactivate ‘Sidebar Layout’ into 0 (Zero).

Go to your site at

yoursite.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=suffusion-options-manager&tab=theme-options-sidebars-and-widgets.php

You will have a sidebar layout options, try change the default views into 0 (Zero) or no sidebar at all. You can still manage others to have sidebar(s), just find another related options.

Default Views

The theme is set up with one sidebar (a two-column theme) by default. You could choose to have two sidebars (a three-column theme) or none if you want. Unless otherwise overridden in the subsequent options, this will be applied to your entire blog.

0 (Zero) -> choose this

1 (One)

2 (Two)

The save by clicking Save page ‘Sidebar Layout’

Suffusion is way to complex for code modification, and I hope above method working as suppose, since it work on my localhost.

Hit me if you still have trouble!

[spigi]

Hello everyone

I’ve got a little problem with bbpress theme install. My dashboard looks like this:

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1038/bbpress.jpg

Where is my “Chenge themes” button? I create “my-templetes” in directory:

wp-content/plugins/bb-press and give 755 permission.

Any help, please?

PS. Sorry for my english

[folgerj]

Well I went through and liked the plugin and then kept it plain vanilla but when I got to the theme change I was going to keep my theme but clicked save and finish and now I have a buddy press themed blog but with no way to get into the back-end of my site… I take it back now I can’t get to the front end either… Oh fun… Now I have to do a rebuild from outside the system…

Now I have to go and rebuild from last nights back up…

I get this error

John is this one of those other plugins conversations that I need to take elsewhere?

I reuploaded from last nights backup and it still won’t let me into the site. I can see it for a minute with the BBpress theme running but if I try to log in or anything It won’t let me go any further?

I would have thought when I overwrote all the files it would have changed back… Does the plugin change the database also?

[Per Carlen]

Your english is fine dude! I’m from Sweden myself.

This is Suffusion’s template “no-sidebars.php”:

<?php

/**

* Template Name: No Sidebars

*

* @package Suffusion

* @subpackage Templates

*/



get_header();

?>



<div id="single-col">

<?php

suffusion_page_navigation();

suffusion_before_begin_content();

?>

<div id="content">



<?php

global $post;

if (have_posts()) {

while (have_posts()) {

the_post();

$original_post = $post;

?>

<div <?php post_class('fix'); ?> id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">

<?php suffusion_after_begin_post(); ?>

<div class="entry-container fix">

<div class="entry fix">

<?php suffusion_content(); ?>

</div><!--/entry -->

<?php

// Due to the inclusion of Ad Hoc Widgets the global variable $post might have got changed. We will reset it to the original value.

$post = $original_post;

suffusion_after_content();

?>

</div><!-- .entry-container -->



<?php suffusion_before_end_post(); ?>

<?php comments_template(); ?>

</div><!--/post -->

<?php

}

}

?>

</div>

</div>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[Themes Community]

More explanation..

Your forums_index page is located at myblog.com/forum and displayed full-width or no sidebar. That is what you want and displays perfectly.

But when you accessing a topic or reply it will show sidebar, it happen due each forum specific page is using specific ‘page template’ that belong to bbPress theme.

Here example:

myblog.com/forums – default forums will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template

myblog.com/forum – your custom page that you use now (in my case I create custom template ‘page-forum-home.php’ to show page without sidebar. On your case just using ‘No Sidebar’ template page)

But when you browse into (forum)

myblog.com/forums/forum/general/ – it will using ‘single-forum.php’ page template

When you browse more (topic)

myblog.com/forums/topic/rules-and-ethics/ – it will using ‘single-topic.php’ page template

And that also applies when you edit something or doing something else, it will use different page template that belong to bbPress theme.

How to solve this?

I want you to understand that your WordPress theme (not bbPress theme) have page templates, such as

page.php - default page

page-full.php - page to show full width or no sidebar

page-blog.php

page-contact.php

page-gallery.php

page-login.php

page-search.php

page-sitemap.php

page-template-portfolio.php

etc ... (the number varries and depend on each WP theme)

You need to copy page-full.php or whatever page to show full width or no sidebar content (html and php styles) and replace (about 75%) for your others bbpress theme.

That what I going to by owning your the content of “No Sidebars” page template of yours.

So your forum will display the same layout and styles.