Hey Andrew,
I took a look at bbPress Post Toolbar but it seemed to add bbcodes either by hand or by clicking a button. With “normal” wordpress, and inside the buddypress group forums, if you just enter the url as text, with no added adornment, it just shows up as embedded video. I believe the same is true for image urls but haven’t tested recently.
Also, I’m confused. On both the WPplugin directory as well as the master501 website, it shows the latest version as being back in August, not today???
Thanks,
joe
Are there options for short code [bbp-topic-index]?
e.g.
[bbp-topic-index max=7 pagination=off breadcrumbs=off]
I am also interested in the ability to migrate group forums to bbpress 2.0 plugin (and out of the groups).
I have managed to set up bp groups so they each have their own forum without having their forum contents displayed at the top level menu by deleting the bp forums page (and removing it from trash).
I then created a site-forums page for the bbpress site-wide forum by creating a “Site-Forums” page in WP and using the bbpress shortcode bbp-forum-index to list the available forums. I may add other shortcodes later.
Unfortunately, I am still left with a lot of content under “groups” that were only created to form quasi forums under buddypress internal groups version of bbpress.
Personally, I really like the idea of having both types of forums available!
joe
Sorry, I searched before, but just saw that user sulliwane2 asked a similar question 4 weeks ago in https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
Adding a few arguments would be very useful!
Are there options for short code [bbp-topic-index]?
e.g.
[bbp-topic-index max=7 pagination=off breadcrumbs=off]
If not, a few arguments would be a welcome addition to this and other short codes.
I’ve done the same thing to my installation, however, you may want to use a check to check a users role so only certain roles can post shortcode.
Your request can be accomplished with a little grunt work. Are you asking for an “all-in-one” shortcode?
…with the exception of being able to hide the sidebars.
Content areas and sidebars are independent areas within a WordPress installation. Hiding the sidebar can be accomplished a few different ways: Within Appearance > Widgets, or you could comment out the code in the template files. But sidebars/widgets are always independent of content areas.
Why can’t the whole forum be put into a short-code so it can be applied inside a full-width page?
Why can’t a full width page be created and the shortcode placed inside? That is more in tune with what WordPress is built to do. Create a page. Give it a full width template (if your theme provides it), and place the shortcode within that page. Anything after that is accomplished is a style issue. I just wrote a post about full-width forums in your other topic:
Full-Width Forum
You can also read up on shortcodes here:
bbPress 2.0 – Shortcodes
bbPress does a good job of being a forum out of the box. Sure, there are issues, but the code is still in its infancy. Any cosmetic customization is up to the user, however.
Hi, I recently install bbpress on my site. I created a login using the shortcodes but for one it prompts that you can’t register and also if you do sign in using my admin it will show already signed in and will not go to the forum. For the forum I cannot find a way to connect it to a page either. Perhaps if anyone could shed some light on this that would be great. Thank you very much
I see you’re using Genesis – so you could hook in via functions.php or Simple Hooks Plugin and just add some content/message after that notice.
bbPress already has a shortcode for registering: [bbp-register]
So you might add that via Simple Hooks which supports placing of shortcodes.
-Dave 
I just solved it 2 minutes ago On my new site http://justaskpatrick.com I turned on registration and made the default role forum participant. On this new site I was also able to get the shortcodes working. I wasn’t able to on my main site http://allaboutfocus.com .
I seem to be having a problem using shortcodes – see this post: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/funky-action-with-pages-with-shortcodes
Since I cannot use shortcodes, and my forums page http://allaboutfocus.com/forums does not have a registration link anyplace, how do people register to participate in my forums? Every forum page says you must be logged in but they give you no way to login or register.
Thanks,
Patrick
Does anybody have any ideas? Is this specific to genesis? Thanks.
Not sure why the [bbp-*] shortcodes aren’t working on this page.
http://beta.tartarus.co.nz/forum/
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
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
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
this works:
add_action( ‘bbp_get_reply_content’, ‘do_shortcode’);
but it does allow every shortcode.
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?
I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.
Yes, that what I meant and you already do that.
The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/
Then the sidebars show up.
Its using another page template that I will describe later if you can provide me the content of “No Sidebars” page template. It will be modified to suit another template for use in bbPress.
Did I just answer your question?
I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!
Please don’t give up on me yet
For your notes, English was not my mother language. I’m Indonesian and I do love to help, since it took my two days to understand bbPress (and I still confused a lots) and able to start my own forum site. I browse this forum, since this is the only help available.
I’m not sure I’m getting you. If I’m creating a new page I can chose “No Sidebars” as template, which I have done for the page where I’ve put my bbpress shortcodes (myblog.com/forum) That page looks fine.
The problem is when I click on a topic or whatever on that page and gets taken to another page. Like myblog.com/forums/forum/topic/
Then the sidebars show up.
Did I just answer your question?
I really appreciate that you’re taking your time to answer me!
Please don’t give up on me yet
So far I’ve only set up forums using shortcodes, but I’d guess you need to change the code listed
// Setup the theme path
$this->dir = $bbp->themes_dir . ‘/bbp-twentyten’;
// Setup the theme URL
$this->url = $bbp->themes_url . ‘/bbp-twentyten’;
to
// Setup the theme path
$this->dir = $bbp->themes_dir . ‘/mytheme’;
// Setup the theme URL
$this->url = $bbp->themes_url . ‘/mytheme’;
Again, I’m guessing and haven’t attempted what you are doing.
Put [bbp-forum-index] as the content of the page if you want a list of forums displayed.
Put [bbp-topic-index] as the content of the page if you want a list of topics displayed.
Other shortcodes are listed at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes.
Ok, I try to help.
You should read this https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
Then if you still encounter problems, just reply again. I will be here.
Hi BJ, I’m afraid I’m none the wiser and have had no success getting the link on the menu. When I create a new Forum, from the bbPress plugin menu, the option of selecting the homepage template is not available. I’m not sure which page to call ‘page-front-forums’. I’ve no idea about shortcodes and from what I’ve tried to find out there’s nothing related to bbPress that can help with this problem.
General Comment: I got rid of another forum plugin because bbPress seemed to get better reviews and simpler config. The one I got rid of took 5 minutes to install and configure and it worked but just not the way I wanted it to. bbPress seems weirdly complicated requiring levels of knowledge beyond that of the ‘common user’ to even get it visible!
@noerman your questions are not actually related to shortcodes. You’d be better off starting new individual threads for your different questions.
Getting back on the topic of shortcodes: Just to reiterate what I brought up in the DevPress discussion about embedding forums in pages, I’d be very happy to have something like [bbp-reply-form id=$forum_id].
