[mrhtn]

Well, there were lots of steps. Mostly it was changes to the CSS so the first step would be to take a look at my CSS. I didn’t change any non-theme related files. The plugins I’m using are BBcode buttons toolbar, BBcode lite, bb topics view, and post Count plus. Probably the main thing I do different is that regular users shouldn’t see the admin pages of BBpress. Instead they get redirected to the wordpress admin pages.

Sambauers put a great video together on how to get wordpress and bbpress working together:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

[infected]

@chrishajer: Thank you, that works fine!

@johnhiler: You´re right. If i set the value to -1 i´m always able to edit the posts. But this is something i doesn´t really need.

Okay, then there´s only one point left, the edit thing… I will have a look at the plugin and will see how it works.

Although… I got one more point to figure out. It´s a css thing. At the moment this is my testforum: http://www.test.be-infected.de/forum/topic/test-der-bbcode-buttons

If you take a look at the 2 post with the smilies in it, you can see that there´s a lot of space in this postings. I tried several things to strip this, but can´t find a solution. I think it´s the css class .threadpost that i have to edit. I know it sounds strange, but in this free space the bbsignatures plugin was showing the users signatures before. Could this relate to it?

Any help is welcome

[michael3185]

A very big Thank You to everyone working on bbPress and in this forum.

Sam “The Man” Bauers (it has a ring to it, I think), any other coders behind the scenes, all of you who write such cool plugins to add great features, and those who respond to questions in this forum so promptly and in great detail. Many thanks indeed for your time, thoughts, and hard work.

I was just adding a note to a forum of mine, and realised that after a lot of hours getting it the way I want it, well, it just works. It does everything it’s supposed to, and I’ve learned tons about CSS and PHP into the bargain. This one helps new mums who’ve come to live in the UK, so in a roundabout way everyone who’s helped me has helped a mum and her baby too. Ahhh – all soft and fluffy feeling.

[michael3185]

Don’t know if it’s of any help, but bbPress is very extensible. I tried most other forum packages, and spent day after day struggling to make things work, sometimes getting help, others not, but never managing to do what I needed to. I finally found bbPress.

As a PHP noob I struggled with some things at first, but with help from forum members and a couple of easy online PHP tutorials I’ve got a nice theme and forums working as I want. As well as the theme CSS, I’ve edited PHP files to make things work as I wish, changed layouts and menus, etc. Nothing mind-blowingly flash, but then I go for cool and simple, which is what my users need.

If you’re looking for small, fast, and easy to modify, bbPress is (as Douglas Admas said) the wasp’s nipples.

[michael3185]

Thanks for all the excellent advice. I do like hacking around, but as I need to get a couple of forums up and running I’m best with 0.9.0.4 right now. I think that sticking with it until 1.0 has been well tested – and has the plugins or functionality I need – is the best bet too.

I’ve spent around six weeks or more trying everything under the sun, until finally settling on bbPress. Mostly, it just works. I don’t think I want to do much more than learn a little php and more css as I go along. I’m remembering that there are people outside this room, and conversation, and beer… Hacking about in the guts of things is interesting and really very addictive, but there’s life out there! Love all you folks for making it possible though, I have to say.

[johnhiler]

I checked your stylesheet… it appears to not exist?

http://englishforuniversity.com/forum/bbpress/my-templates/bbpress-forum/style2.css?v=8

[michael3185]

Ouch. I’m pretty savvy at some computer stuff, but not php or css. I’ve been working on two forums for community groups, one of which may grow quite large if it works out as hoped. So, I tested just about every forum package out there. I settled on Vanilla, but had problems with plugins crashing it, and having to hack around for days to try and get something working. Their support is good from a few community members, but there isn’t enough and it often isn’t timely.

I’ve settled with bbPress because I found it very simple to install and set up. My problems were minor, forum members have helped me very quickly indeed, and in a non-geeky manner. I’ve read lots of other posts where people have had WP integration issues, and the help given has been quite extensive. One other thing that I like is the fact that they use it with 100,000 members and 500,000 posts, and it’s still zippy. Also, modifying themes isn’t so bad if you delve into just a few files and play around. I love simplicity as well as my user group, so I created a vanilla clone(ish), which you can get at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-minimalist-theme-available. (Check the posts at the bottom).

If you have some spare time and a nice cup of tea/coffee, click ‘integration’ in the front page tag list and have a good read. I don’t use WP, but I get the impression that many haven’t found it too difficult with a little assistance. There’s an integration plugin too. PS. Read some of your blog; just a body? Nooo…

[AndrewRH]

Thanks. I guess my point was really that the ‘out of the box’ program didn’t format things nicely (as I would have expected it to do, without needing to hack around in CSS). I don’t mind doing that, just that one of the benefits of bbpress is its simplicity (and why I want to switch over from phpBB3 to it).

Thanks again,

~Andrew~

[chrishajer]

In your template file called front-page.php, find the section that outputs the table of forums (#forumlist) and make the cells taller or fixed width and variable height or something. It can all be done in your template files and your style.css.

[chrishajer]

Sounds like you need a shorter description or you need to use some CSS to change the size of the text, hide the overflow or break it onto 2 lines. Maybe you need to make the table cell taller. I don’t see a link to your forum so I can’t suggest exactly what CSS to change to make that happen.

[kevinjohngallagher]

ooops, it might be this link:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-mindset-features-and-where-now-discuss

[kevinjohngallagher]

I raised the issue last October/November:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/parent-childrelationship-in-forum-loop

[adv_user]

Ok, but I also need to include sub-subForum inside the class “subforum”, don’t below.

And I am having trouble doing it…

[eclipsei]

Hello,

I followed this guide http://www.cssjockey.com/wordpress/deep-integrating-wordpress-271-and-bbpress-0904 (which is very helpful for a beginner) and now have bbPress integrated with WordPress.

What I want to do now is let users upload their own avatar which will appear with their posts/profiles in the forum but also with any comments/profile on the wordpress side.

There seem to be various standalone avatar plug-ins for wordpress and bbpress but is there anything which is compatible with both systems?

I’d rather not use Gravatars if at all possible so user’s don’t have to rely or register on an external site.

Any help, suggestions or pointers would be appreciated.

[Ben L.]

With that code, the last sub forum already has bb-last-child, and if you change <td colspan="3"> to <td colspan="3" class="subsubforum">, subsubforums have a class.

[adv_user]

Yes. But also make the “sub subforuns” appear inside the div “subforum”. Well that original URL did not use div:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-sub-forums#post-11762

Thanks!

[Ben L.]

I only partially understand the question. Do you want to add a last class to the last forum on the page?

[adv_user]

It is not possible?

[Clicknathan]

Does anyone know how I might display viewed threads differently from unviewed?

For example, if I’m a user visiting my forum and I view a thread, maybe the link would then be a different color. I can do this with CSS obviously, but it’d be great if the thread was updated (ie, a new reply posted), that then the thread would change back.

Any ideas? I’m just looking for an indicator to show people what they’ve read or what’s new.

[adv_user]

In this url:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-sub-forums#post-11762

works:

-Forum

-Subforum

Subsubforum1, Subsubforum2, Subsubforum 3

But I need to change the style sheet to show:

<div id="list">

<div class="forum">- Forum</div>

<div class=”subforum”>

– SubForum

Make a loop to show Subsubforum in the div SubForum and not below

<div class=”forum”>Subsubforum1, Subsubforum2, Subsubforum 3</div>

</div>

<div class=”subforum”>

– SubForum

</div>

<div class=”subforum last”>

– SubForum – with LAST class.

<div class=”forum”>Subsubforum1, Subsubforum2, Subsubforum 3</div>

</div>

</div> <!– close id “list” –>

[grasn]

@chrishajer, thanks for the code, this one didn’t work for me, but the one on the page top. You can visit my forum http://deadrising2.de/?page_id=84

If someone wants to know how i made it, I just removed stuff from the bbpress head.php so it looks like this:

<body>

<div id=”main”>

<?php if ( is_bb_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?>

and also the first </div> from the footer.php, I also removed the hot tags stuff from frontpage.php. Now I installed embed-iframe plugin for wordpress and modified the iframe.php like this:

<div class="iframe-wrapper">

<iframe src="<?php echo $url ?>" frameborder="0" id="youridnamehere" width=100%>Please upgrade your browser</iframe>

</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

function resizeIframe() {

var height = document.documentElement.clientHeight;

height -= document.getElementById('youridnamehere').offsetTop;



<code></code>// not sure how to get this dynamically

height -= 150; /* whatever you set your body bottom margin/padding to be */



document.getElementById('youridnamehere').style.height = height +"px";



};

document.getElementById('youridnamehere').onload = resizeIframe;

window.onresize = resizeIframe;

</script>

Now I just modified the width of the bbpress style.css for head, main and footer, and also the cols/width of the textarea. I still have a scrollbar if there are more posts on one page, but I can live with.

Thanks for your help!`

[grasn]

Ok i’m using the embed-iframe plugin to integrate the forum, it looks good. I reduced the width of the forum theme in the css file so it fits the page. The only problem i have, in emped-iframe you can assign a width and height for the iframe. 100% doenst work for height, cause if the forumpage has many threads the iframe becomes a scrollbar on the right side. Any solutions to fix this, and let the iframe automaticly get the height of the forumpage height?

[Dave]

The CSS style and placement of the polls bothers me. I’d really like to see the poll at the top of the actual post, not in the sidebar.

But as far as function goes, they seem to be working alright. I inputted my vote and it worked fine.

[simpleanecdote]

Still got them.

I’m not a php newbie.

Not an expert, but in a comfortable place in the middle

I think I’ve pretty much got over all the bugs in the system.

If anyone wants my style of integration – this is what I did:

Installed bbPress in root/forums/

in header.php of forum template put the following before everything else:

<?php include('../lib/includes/header.php');//Website template ?>

in header.php of your own website:

$forumexplode = explode('/', $_SERVER);

if($forumexplode == "forums")

{

bb_feed_head();

?>

#You can also put in here you own, relative path style sheets from the main website.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>" type="text/css" />

<?php if('rtl' == bb_get_option('text_direction')) : ?>

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bb_stylesheet_uri( 'rtl' ); ?>" type="text/css" />

<?php endif;

bb_head();

}

else

{

?>

Anything you want to load from normal relative path (if not forums)

<?php

}

?>

</head>

<body id="<?php ($forumexplode == "forums" ? bb_location() : ""); ?>">

in footer.php of forum template put the following after everything else:

<?php include('../lib/includes/footer.php');//Website template ?>

I also prefixed all the forum template’s XHTML id tags with forum_ so they won’t mess with my website’s structure.

After you’ve done all that, you’re free to style your forum via the css file in the templates directory like you would normally, as well as the structure via the other files.

And your website, via your own stylesheets.

Or you can load everything from either stylesheet as long as you remember to load them from their relative path in the header.

Hope this helps someone ;P

Peace everyone, hope bbPress will release a version soon which will be easier to integrate.

Because my system doesn’t really allow for easy user authentication integration on the rest of the website. Can be circumvented via regular user auth integration but that’s more work.

SMF (Simple Machines Forum) has ssi.php file which you just load into any page and everything is integrated right there and then. Maybe in future versions?

Me.

[guymed]

Hey guys. Guymed here, sheesh I haven’t been here since, like, early 2008. Tell me if I am posting this in the wrong forum, but, Talkpress? I visited Talkpress.com. It was up, not bbqponysomgomg like it was last year. But, I looked for a sign-up button or a certain page or something. NOT THERE! Is it VIPs only like wordpress.com when that first came up?

Um, thanks, I guess.

~Guymed-

http://guymed.org/ (AWESOME CSSs BY ME!)