Hi, I am using bbPress as part of a wordpress site. I would like to show “recent activity” in a sidebar widget without using too much screen space. In other words a combination of the “recent topics” and “recent replies” widgets, e.g. as below (1 topic, 1 reply, but able to set number would be good also)
“Recent Forum Activity”
Latest Topic…
Latest Reply…
Is that possible with shortcodes? else maybe a way to combine the output of the two current widgets?
Thanks
1. can more than 110 000 users be imported
This should not be a problem.
2. My website runs a specific version of phpbb SEO for allowing permalinks for every forum – will this be imported ? (so that there is not a lot of redirect)
No, these will NOT be imported and you will need to manually set your permalinks and make some redirects using .htaccess
3. My website stores custom profile fields for every user (more than just ICQ, but also custom ones). How could I have the same kind of functionalities using bbpress ?
Currently when importing from phpBB we are importing and storing the default phpBB user fields as outlined here. You could modify the import script to include any of your custom user profile fields so they also get stored in wp_usermeta.
After that you would need to find a WordPress plugin that supports extended user profile fields to utilize that data. I am not sure of any specific plugin that can really do that out of the box with bbPress at the moment but at least you ‘would’ have all of your users advanced profile data stored.
4. What about performance – will it be better than phpbb. I know bbpress is very powerful for small forums, but I have no idea regarding huge ones. Can wp caching plugins work for bbpress as well ?
There are some large sites running bbPress and I would suggest you setup a test site to see how it works for yourself personally.
As to caching it appears that ‘WP Super Cache’and ‘W3 Total Cache’ do not work well with bbPress as discussed in this topic though there is ‘Lite Cache’ which appears to work with bbPress as per this topic.
5. Is the entire UI translated in French – it doesn’t seem to me, but maybe I’m wrong.
The current status of the French translation is at 11% translated with 879 strings untranslated though 734 of those strings have been translated and are waiting for the fr_FR translation validator to validate the translations.
https://codex.bbpress.org/bbpress-in-your-language/
6. Can I use any plugins writter for wp for bbpress ?
I am not sure what you mean for this question
Any more questions please ask away…
Can you please create a ticket in trac and we can test this and find a fix:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/
After much soul Google searching, I finally came across this good explanation of how to display the lastest x amount of posts.
http://bp-tricks.com/snippets/add-recent-topics-to-your-bbpress-forums-homepage/
Hope it’s helpful for someone else.
Any news?I’ve managed to solve the issue at version 2.3.1 but now i’m experiencing the same problem again at the latest version
I have the forums as a link from a menu item – the url is villagepca.org – if you click on the menu item “Forums”, you get to http://www.villagepca.org/forums/
If I put a link for a specific forum, it shows up – e.g., click on “Prayer Requests” on the menu, and you’ll see that this works.
But not “forums” as a whole – this does not work. But if I pick another theme, it works. And the same theme that isn’t working does work on another site of mine (a test site with a similar name: villagepc.org)
Suggestions please?
It’s definitely WAMP, most likely the ‘W’ part. (I tried this on Windows 7) XAMPP has even more trouble. Apache is being disrupted and crashed at times, probably because of Windows User Account Control (UAC) security settings and/or IIS. You should get a warning about this when you install XAMPP on Windows. I haven’t test to see if that’s the cause, but it seems likely.
See: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-windows_programs/i-am-trying-to-install-xampp-win32-177-i-get-a/0b44bd10-2fff-49ac-bb48-30dfc4ae9c44?msgId=0c558024-e8e2-47b2-a9f7-ee102b62aec9
What does work is LAMP, so just do the migration on your webserver or localhost. I’ve had no problem doing it all on Nexcess.net’s WordPress hosting with over 61,000 posts and 1100 users converted with the default settings of 100 rows at a time with a 1s delay.
My WordPress is: WordPress 3.5.1. (Russian language pack)
Theme: Emphaino
You are using bbPress 2.3.2.
also installed Akismet (upgraded)
after installs and activates “all in one seo”, I have same trouble:
1. Then “all in one seo” activated – bbPress is dont works well:
1.1. Then I try to create new post, I have an error: “ERROR: You do not have permission to create new topics.” 
1.2. Then I try to go http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/index.php?page=bbp-about – I have about the same error in Russian Language – “Dont have permission”. 
1.3. Then I in Plugins menu in admin panel, and I click “settings” (http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress) – I see the same error – “Dont have permission”
1.4. I stil see the bbPress widget in Console (http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/index.php)
2. Then I deactivate “all in one SEO”:
2.1. Right after deactivation – I start see “Forums, Topics, Replies” in the admin left panel.
2.2. http://catstock.ru/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress2 – start works correct, 
2.3. Now I may correctly add new topic or reply at page http://catstock.ru/?forum=test_forum
3. Now I activate “all in one SEO” again, and all goes back to &1.
3.1. In “All in one SEO” settings using “Reset to default” dont help any.
I assume this is a simply function but I can’t seem to find any clear documentation on how to do it.
I’d love to have my forum homepage show the latest x amount of replies across ALL forums. Pretty much like the forum homepage of bbPress’ own forum.
Can someone point me in the right direction? Using the latest version of WordPress and bbPress.
How is that possible, my forum went off line suddenly and I retested all plugins and the problem was in All in one seo plugin
My forum is not working if I have that plugin installed. I get error no permissions when I try to click on bbpress settings link
Any idea why is this happening?
Hi,
I am using the latest buddypress version with wordpress but a different theme (from rockettheme.com).
The “register” link on the frontpage is not linked to the “register” page. I can fix that in the admin dashboard by going to settings–>buddypress–>pages.
Here I need to create a site called “register” first.
My problem now is that this site is indeed called “register” but has no registration function whatsoever.
Can someone help me?
Thanks a lot for your support,
Fabian
Add me to this list of bbPress needing the messaging functionality. We have over a thousand users and just moved from forum software built 9 years ago to bbPress, and messaging was considered a fundamental feature. Every other piece of competing forum software out there includes messaging.
I’ve been running this successful forum for close to 15 years and I’m a digital marketing manager for a living. It could be argued that I know what I’m talking about.
I fully understand that bbPress wants to keep it lean & mean, yet we have odd, little-used features built into core like Twitter & YouTube embedding. But really obvious items, like quoting, signature files and private messaging, require separate plug-ins? There’s some logical missteps in there. What’s up with Yahoo, Jabber and AIM still having fields? NO ONE USES THOSE SERVICES ANY MORE. Even dropping the Visual editor (in 2013?) in the latest release is a step back.
(A note on Avatars: Listen guys, this expectation of users to register an account with another service like Gravatr, and then return to their account with our site, is clumsy and far-fetched at best. Again, a separate plugin for Avatar? C’mon)
With that said, I switched to bbPress because I think the code is more pure and I think it has better longevity due to its affiliation with WP. It isn’t clunky and bloated. The SEO options for WP sites in general are more impressive, and there’s a wide support community – and I knew it would be intuitive and relatively painless for myself and my team.
Would love to get JJJ’s take and that of others.
After an update to the latest BP, I noticed that my admin cannot anymore manage forums. All the menu items – Forums, Topics, Replies – disappeared! I realized that my admin user is no longer managing forums. The only forum roles I can assign to users are spectator, moderator, participant, blocked. If I assign “moderator” to an user, the user can edit topic and replies, but not manage forums. What happened to admin or keymaster? I tried installing “User Roles Editor”, but it doesn’t show up capabilities for “Administrator” so I can’t edit the Administrator profile to change them… I’m lost.
Is it possible to replicate the theme/layout of the bbPress.org forums homepage easily?
Love the forums on the left and the latest topics layout. Would love to see this as an option in the settings for the future.
Any ideas in the meantime?
Hi everyone.
First, my system:
wordpress 3.5.1.
buddypress 1.7.1 (with bbpress 2.3.2 integrated).
I’ve changed my site from buddypress group forums to bbpress 2.3.1. The transition went fine, but now I have this problem:
Users can’t edit their own messages.
I have also set option “Disallow editing after” to 15 minutes, but still users can’t edit their own posts.
Then, I have some difficulties to understand how forum visibility settings of bbpress (public, private, hidden) correlates to group visibility settings (public, private, hidden). If I set a group as hidden and than bbpress settings to “private” or “public”, new topics of groups forum appears in “latest topics”. Users that are not members of group that try to enter the forum get 404 error, but they still can read the topic, and this is not a good thing. If a users sets his group as hidden I think he don’t want to see it visible in latest topics, don’t you? 🙂
Hum sorry, must’ve gone into the spamfolder. I tested it myself and it works. Aw well, I sent you an e-mail via your contact form, cheers.
Is something wrong with the code tags here that you’re unable to use them? I’m having a hard time following exactly what to do to duplicate the issue you’re having.
I’ve tried each permutation of posting code and swapping between editors, and it appears to work correctly for me in what is now bbPress 2.3.2. I’ve also synced up dev trunk with deploy trunk, so the beta tester plugin should have the most recent changes in it too.
(Keep in mind that the beta-tester plugin doesn’t grab the latest version directly from trunk; it gets what I merge into WordPress.org Extend’s trunk. This helps me keep what the beta-tester plugin gets stable, even though bbPress.org’s trunk might not me.)
Create a post in the visual editor it performs normally. Click “text” tab, and you see the tags as expected. Click the “visual” tab and again it appears normally.
Once POSTED, if you then attempt to edit it, you get the visual tab, and SEE the HTML tags. They are not however the actual tags, when you click the “text” tab you see they are actually & l t ; HTMLTAG & g t ;Whatever the text is& l t ;/HTMLTAG& g t ;
(I do believe that before 2.4-alpha that clicking the “text” tab would result in the same thing BEFORE posting, so it’s “semi” fixed)
WordPress 3.5.1
bbPress 4.2-alpha
bbPress – Mark as Read 0.3
bbPress Beta Tester 0.1
bbPress Enable TinyMCE Visual Tab 1.0
bbPress Unread Posts 1.0
GD bbPress Tools 1.4
We’ve just set up a website for the over 60s and part of it is downloading health information.
I need to capture their real name but also have a ‘user name’ which is then used for everything.
I’m using the latest version of bbPress but, despite looking hard, have no idea where to go next! Does anyone know of a plugin that will do what I need? Thanks.
site is http://www.retiredandkicking.com/
Just installed the beta tester plug in and updated to v2.4-alpha and it did NOT fix this…
Can you include more(any) information on what you’re seeing? From my testing, it’s fixed in trunk and in the 2.3.2-alpha, and fixed here on bbPress.org also.
@Jared – WOW – that seemed to do the trick … THANK YOU … i will update my trac ticket … as fyi, part of me thinks forum permalinks should work with that option on or off but hey, it now works* with it set on so that is good enough for me … thanks again for pointer as this was driving me a bit nutty and driving me a bit towards “Now what did i do wrong … what do i no understand about flushing permalinks, configuring this yada yada” thus while my confidence might have dipped a bit during this testing experience, i am certainly grateful for helpful bbPress community and pros that nudge us forward for success results :>) cordially, chuck scott
*for others who might stumble on this thread – the working part means that now anybody who is on the network as a registered user, but not a member of a particular sub site that uses forums, with this option Jared mentions set to “on” said users when they log in to that sub site will see forums with working permalinks – in my case, they were treated as subscribers thus could not comment or create new forums …
Just installed the beta tester plug in and updated to v2.4-alpha and it did NOT fix this…
Hi Jared
I think, the Beta Tester not update from trunk. Maybe I’m wrong, someone should check this plugin.
I download directly from svn/trunk and now works fine.
Best regards
GP
I think if you update bbPress using the Beta Tester plugin it should pull down trunk, which contains the fix.
Give a try and see.
