Ahh wow, cool, that looks great! I don’t have BB Press installed on my live site yet but will set up a test and have a look.
It would be awesome to place shortcodes on pages for stuff like this. Where you could perhaps show x number of latest topics etc.
Is there any news on an exporter by the way, to export old Buddypress groups/ forums into the new BB Press plugin.
I want to get rid of groups and just have some forums like on test-bp.org.
The group names would effectively become the main forum names and then the topics would appear in each forum.
Is that on the cards?
Thanks again! 
I’m also looking for something like as it will be very useful. I’m not much of a coder so wouldn’t know where to start. This will be great as a plugin though.
JJJ > My site is only a test site, how would I turn the shortcodes on? I only want to see what it would look like. It’ll be a while before my site goes live. If you don’t want to post this on the forum, then i’ll understand.
I suggest using the WordPress plugin version of bbPress, version 2.x. bbPress 2.0 uses the same WP theme your site is using. It can also import data from a 1.x installation.
This thread will tell you how to display forum content the easiest way. – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
This thread will tell you how to display forum content in a more customized way. – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility
When using BuddyPress with BBpress, it acts all screwy…
[bbp-topic-index] and [bbp-topic-form] both show “BLOG ARCHIVES NOT FOUND” when I use those short codes:
http://montecristoowners.com/topics/
[bbp-login] and [bbp-lost-pass] don’t work at all. Just show the title of the page … with no content at all.
[bbp-register] is the only one that works, pointing the user to registration page.
Have you tried using one of the shortcodes to generate the forum index?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes
It looks like your theme is displaying the forums with an archive view instead of using bbP’s forum view.
I am a relative novice, so forgive me if this is posted in the wrong place. I searched and didn’t see an appropriate topic.
On my bbPress Forum page, I have used shortcodes as follows:
[bbp-login]
[bbp-register]
bbp-lost-pass]
[bbp-topic-index]
The topic index overlays other text on the page, specifically, “Viewing 2 topics – 1 through 2 of 2.”
The url is http://bulimiatips.org/forum-2/ if you wish to see what I am talking about.
Can anyone suggest what the problem might be and how to fix it?
Thanks.
Yup, I’m not logged in.
What are the other short codes?
I got a little more info from the theme (Sofa OPNPress from ThemeForest) owner… these are his words exactly:
“Yeap, I’m afraid breadcrumbs will not work with BBpress. And I think there’s no function or a plugin that will actually do the job properly. This theme is using Dimox breadcrumbs function (see http://sum.mx/4apyd2). Maybe you could ask for author advice on that subject… as far as I can see all the breadcrumbs logic relies on if-else clauses and if there’s a clause that can be used to “detect” BBpress – you are on the horse.”
To answer your question, and I’m sure I’m over simplifying, I guess I was just going to use short codes to get the forums to show up and then rely on the built in breadcrumbs to do their job. But if I could figure out at least what is causing the conflict and causing the page to break the I could fix that and if 2 breadcrumbs were show I’d settle for that. Or, said a different way, if the main site breadcrumbs are more important to me than the forum breadcrumbs if that makes sense.
I’m more of a frontend coder with the ability to do minor tweaking to existing function files which is why I’ve gotten to this point. It’s a bit over my head on how best to address it. I hate being the unique scenario guy but would love to use bbpress for facilitating my community interaction. Any more help is deeply appreciated.
Thanks!!
Ah! that makes sense. Yeah, I wouldn’t want everyone to have the ability to post a shortcode. But the challenge sounds easy enough.
Thanks!
I have them turned off for now, as many shortcodes assume the post author has the trusted ability to post content, which for forums might not be best.
It would be a rather simple plugin to create, although you’d probably want some kind of UI to map shortcodes to user roles. You may not want every registered user to post a poll, but you might want to allow users to use code formatting, for example.
Does the bbPress plugin (2.0-RC-4) allow shortcodes from other plugins?
I wish to enter a poll into a discussion using wp-polls, but the shortcode comes through instead of the poll.
http://skullclan.com/topic/features-poll/
Thanks!
Good question. The main reason it loads all the time is shortcodes. bbPress doesn’t have any way to know that the_content contains a shortcode when the head of the page is being processed, so including it all the time is the safest bet for most people.
If you want to dial in your installation, you can wrap the CSS enqueue in a is_bbpress() check. is_bbpress() returns true when WordPress is loading up a bbPress specific page.
I created a page with the permalink http://montecristoowners.com/register/ with the following content…
[bbp-register]
… but it just sends the user to my homepage.
My other shortcodes work fine…
Login page: (http://montecristoowners.com/login/
Lost Password page (http://montecristoowners.com/lost-password/)
Question: I installed BuddyPress so that I could get some more control over my forums. Is that why the shortcode doesn’t work for Register anymore? If that is not the reason, then why isn’t it working?
Personally, I disabled the Forums functionality within BudddyPress, and let bbpress use the Forums slug. Then I created a blank page called Forums within the plugin “Page Links To” that redirects to the Forums slug.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/page-links-to/
Or you could simply use the bbpress shortcodes on the page.
Hello everyone and good morning.
Has anyone been able to get bbpress to with the hybrid theme?
On the Hybrid Forum were discussing BBpress and how I could not get it to work on the Hybrid Theme, when one of the members said it worked on his without having to go the custom route. This is what he stated:
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‘ “All you have to do to get bbPress active on a Hybrid theme is activate bbPress 2.0 via the plugin repository, then create new page called forum or whatnot via the normal page editor. In the editor, just enter a couple of shortcodes, similar to this:
[bbp-forum-index]
some content to separate forums
[bbp-topic-index]
This will show your main forums and also a recent topics list. You can also use other shortcodes built in to bbPress for different functionality.
The only thing I had to change was the overall table width of the forum, which easy enough to target with the Chrome web developer tools.”
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I unfortunately was not able to get this to work.
I am just curious if anyone has been able to get bbpress to work on the Hybrid Theme without any customization. I am a video editor and motion graphics artist, so coding is not my forte.
Thank you for any help.
I did a search in PLUGINS on this site, and didn’t see a BuddyPress plugin. So, I did a web search for it. Is BuddyPress the social networking WordPress plugin? Does it tie in to BBPress 2.0 easily? Or is it something extremely difficult to do? Do the bbpress short codes (for creating a register page) still work with BuddyPress?
Also, the required or optional option is good. Is there a way to make fields that are HIDDEN from the public?
I just installed 2.0. Where are the register and login links for the forum? I saw the page for shortcode (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-shortcodes) and created a page for registration and login.
Does the regular template not add these links to the pages? Do we need to add them on our own? Do we add them to our bbpress theme, or our wordpress theme?
@woodwardmatt: Thanks for the kudos.
The theme layer is complicated because there is no easy way to create a new type of content in WordPress without the theme supporting it.
Originally you *had* to use a bbPress theme (bbp-twentyten) but that was only so I could build something out of nothing. Once I had a theme, I made shortcodes that use individual template parts so things could live anywhere and still look the way the theme looks. Lastly, I built the whole abstraction layer that used the shortcodes to output content where it belongs without you needing to do anything about it.
The thing is, there is only one bbPress 2.0 theme in the world right now, and it’s the one that comes with bbPress 2.0. I’m not opposed to including more theme’s in core, but I think it’s someone else’s turn to make the next one.
To your request: Currently impossible. Plugin updates delete the parent folder and recreate it with new contents. No way to avoid it getting wiped out. 
To your reason: Makes sense, and if we want to make more bbPress themes for core, we can. Then you can pick which “style” of bbPress you want inside your existing theme. Advanced developers still get the flexibility they desire. Win/Win.
Payment: Delicious
You’ll want to get familiar with how template parts work. The reason there are so many is bbPress uses them to make the shortcodes work correctly.
The file names themselves are fairly verbose, and at the top of each file is the name of the file, which is a fairly clear indication of what it does.
When we get some documentation setup here, I’ll post up a list of the files and what they do and why.
Hi folks,
Always one to make things twice as hard as they need be, I started out designing a theme for the standalone product and I’d now like to change gears and port it to the plugin version.
Essentially, I didn’t think I’d use WordPress for my main site… but I’ve since come to change my mind. Now, I’ve got a nice custom theme for both my WordPress installation and a nice theme for my bbPress installation.
At this point, I can’t decide if I’d be best to keep them separated and use the integration options or to sit and re-theme everything with the plugin version. If I were to continue to use the standalone, is it possible to create widgets similar to the “recent topics” and others created by the plugin version? And subsequently, is there a way to use shortcodes for embedding bbPress into WordPress pages? heh
Sorry for the novel…
The guys at WPCandy either used Shortcodes or a custom template to pull that off.
If you’re going to link to your site here for help, please remove the Facebook pop up. Waiting 30 seconds to see it was really frustrating.
Is there a way to pull custom icons in front of each post title under the forum section?
So how should my hierarchy looks like, i cannot create a good one…
What I did is:
1. I created a PAGE, and name it as ‘forum’
so the link would be http://mydomain.com/forum
-the content of that page is the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]
2. I created a FORUM named General Discussions
-problem is when i open that forum, shows nothing, just the header
GENERAL DISCUSSIONS
3. I created again a PAGE named general chat and put the shortcode
[bbp-topic-form]
im pretty messed up, can you guide me on creating this forum
i have an idea, but seems i cannot explain and do it
something like
if i activate my bbpress plugin beta 3, yes, in admin panel,
im getting the new menu there for adding forum and topics..
also, by defaul, bbpress creates a slug topics, forums, forum, topic etc.
but when you visit that page, it shows nothing but..
archives of “”,
and when i try creating a page and name it forums and add the short codes
its all the same..
what should i do?
Hi,
I like to use [bbp-forum-index] shortcode in sidebar and show only Topics number (as https://bbpress.org/forums/). Now show Topics, Post, Freshness. Can i choose which parameters to display?
Thxs
