I have not personally tried that, so I’m not 100% sure. However I think you best bet is going to be using shortcodes to try and do this.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
I’m working on what you said.
I’m a little stuck on the shortcodes. To display a single topic, the short code needs an ID code, but I’m not sure what the ID code or name is for each of my topics.
I’ve played with a few obvious choices, but nothing is working yet.
More dumb questions…
I created the pages, added the short codes and unchecked the box.
However, I can’t make the registration feature show up on the live site.
When I manually input the page name into the browser, I CAN see it, but that is the only way it shows up.
If I go to the live site (and log out), I’m not getting the option to register. It says “you must be logged in…”, but it doesn’t give me a way to register or login.
How do I make that happen?
Thanks
Jim,
What I mainly wanted was a web page where the layout was similar to the bbpress.org forum and I wasn’t looking for the colours, etc, to look the same. I have found that a new theme isn’t required and instead I did the following:
1. Create a new page in wordpress
2. Create a layout using <DIV> tags and use bbPress shortcodes to specify where the forum components should sit
3. I then added CSS to the style.css of my WordPress child theme to control how the forum looked. For example, I didn’t want the forum navigation text or the text saying how many posts there are, etc, so I turned them off via CSS.
I’m not sure if that’s the best way to do what I wanted but once I “discovered” shortcodes this was all very simple and didn’t require a new theme or PHP changes, etc, so was fairly easy.
Let me know if you want any more details about what I did and I post them here.
Jon
You will need to use the shortcodes listed on https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
So for example you will want to create a ‘Registration’ page that will have the [bbp-register] on it.
Then you will probably want to create a ‘Login’ page that has [bbp-login] on it.
Lastly, you will want to go into your Forum settings (Settings > Forums) and uncheck “Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies”.
Yes the forums show up when I change the theme to the bbPress 2010 theme.
More likely it’s your theme not working with bbPress, then. Does whatever you’re trying to do, work correctly with TwentyEleven or bbPress (TwentyTen) ?
I’m still hacking around and have just discovered shortcodes…they do some of what I wanted and, for example, can give a similar *layout* to the .org page. Still want to change some of the way the content looks, e.g. remove the navigation path above the forums and topics lists (is that possible without a theme or code change?), and I guess that may require a theme or code change but I’ll keep investigating.
It is the bbPress shotcodes I can’t get to work. I thenk that it is bbPress is not working with the Zeoal theme.
Short codes are not used in bbPress, to limit their exposure from unauthorized users. Most shortcodes do not have capability checks attached to them, and since bbPress comes with its own shortcodes, we don’t want shortcodes inside shortcodes.
Maybe in a future version.
<b>Gautam Gupta</b> tried to help me with this code:
global $allowed_tags;
$allowed_tags=array('name','class','id');
I pasted it inside function.php file; unfortunately its not working.
I’m using https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-syntax-highlighter/ plugin. and want my bbpress forum members to make use of pre tag and this plugin highlights the codes they post on the forum.
It uses the following syntax: <pre name="code" class="c">
please help.
I installed bbPress 2.0.2 on my WordPress 3.3.1 site and I can’t get the shortcodes to work. If I add a shortcode to any of the forums it just shows the [shortcode].
http://www.rmminc.org/forums is blank the forums I created don’t show up on the page.
Below are two forums I setup
http://www.rmminc.org/forums/forum/homelessness
http://www.rmminc.org/forums/forum/poverty
Hi thanks for listing the shortcodes, these make things easy.
What id goes in this one? Where to find it?
[bbp-single-topic-tag] – Show the topics within a specific tag
Do these work for bp’s install?
You would want to disable the admin bar site-wide for “Subscribers”.
Then you would have a link in your site/theme that takes your members to the bbPress profile page where they can edit their profile.
If you disable the admin bar and use login/registrations forms via shortcodes there is really no reason for the users to ever use /wp-admin unless the specifically went to it.
You can do user registration and user login all on the front end using shortcodes and/or other plugins available – there is no reason the basic user needs to use wp-admin at all.
Shortcodes: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
Hi @Everton
not sure I understood you correctly, and maybe you solved that since last week …
well I wanted the same thing (insert the bbpress forum index, in a standard WP page), thus thought I could insert a shortcode to call the forum, in a normal page
I created a page called “forum” (whatever you want there) and inserted [bbp-forum-index] in it,
all the available shortcodes are listed here : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
cheers
Closing. If you have any questions regarding shortcodes feel free to create a new thread.
I got it working though it is not perfect. After setting up all bbp templates into my new theme and ensuring the bbpress, css, and js subfolders associated with the bbp-twentyten template where in my new theme folder properly it is working with some functionality that I can live with; however,…
The breadcrumb link and my forums menu link are not the same. Now, I use a forums page with the shortcode. Now, when someone drills down into the forums and wished to return to the main forums page via the breadcrumb they go to the default forums-archive page set by bbp. I wish it went to my custom forum page with the shortcodes, but I’m happy it is not sending people to a useless page.
So, there is still an issue, but everything is providing useful functionality at this time. I will leave this unresolved and hope the dev will fix in later versions.
You can also maintaining plugin and theme translations with the awesome “Codestyling Localization” plugin: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/
“fi” is the correct locale for Finnish!!
Placing the language files in /wp-content/languages/ is already prepared in bbPress 2.x but unfortunately it does not work yet (since 2.x branch!) – it would be nice seeing that fixed as overriding language files via updates is no fun at all!
Thanx, Dave 
You can create a login form though various methods (widgets, shortcodes, etc) and have them redirect to the site.
So unless your users specifically know to go to /wp-admin there are ways to keep WP from sending them there.
Create a ‘Homepage’ page. Use one of the bbPress shortcodes on that page. Now go into Settings->Reading and set the homepage to a static page (in this case, the ‘Homepage’ you just created).
Hello,
I am using bbpress 2.0.2 plugin on the latest version of wordpress.
Is it possible to add in custom fields, to add in postcodes for example, into the registration process for users of the forum?
I have looked through previous threads and feel they are all too old to answer this question for the new bbpress plugin.
Many thanks for your time and help with this.
load_text_domain is used in bbPress instead of load_plugin_textdomain – codestyling localization plugin reports….some filter and actions won’t be executed anymore…. “please contact the author”
Done.
They are essentially the same, as the bbPress plugin is installed via buddypress upon demand.
We’ve done a little tutorial video to show how you can setup either a BuddyPress Group Forum, a SiteWide bbPress 2.0 Forum, or a custom hybrid forum page using shortcodes. You can have all three at one time. Hope this helps 
http://labsecrets.com/2012/01/23/buddypress-and-bbpress-forums-made-easy/
Cheers!
Spence
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