[Beastmode]

Hello guys,

I’m new to wordpress and bbpress and started to learning it today. I recently installed wp which succeeded and added bbpress through the plugin tab on the admin page. I installed WP on my root page so how do i access my forums via typing in the linkbar in any browser?

I’ve browsed for a solution before i decided to make a topic and I’m very lost. Also the bbpress forums http://bbpress.org/forums/, how would I organize mine with the forum category on the left side and latest topics in the middle?

Thanks very much in advance.

[selise]

i have yet to test this, but it appears that the answer to my question above is ‘yes’…. with the plugin bbPress Topics for Posts by David Dean:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-post-topics/changelog/

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-topics-for-posts-export-post-comments-to-new-topic

[Will Earnhardt]

I’ve seen numerous threads on this very subject for the last few years and JJJ has been posting the same response every time. It more or less says “This is the way it is. If you don’t like it, come up with your own solution.”

I understand his reasoning for saying that’s just the way it is, but IMO, I wouldn’t have released this product with the URLs in this format. How can a topic be considered part of a forum, yet the URL not represent that?

This is the logical structure. (assuming everything exists in a forums subdirectory):

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/

Viewing a Thread (or topic):

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name

With comments being this or something similar:

domain.com/forums/forum-name/thread-name#comment-35

.

This is what we actually get.

Viewing a Single Forum:

domain.com/forums/forum/forum-name

Then click on a Single Thread:

domain.com/forums/topic/thread-name

You lose all acknowledgement that you were in a particular forum. It’s like the threads are just floating about aimlessly…not attached to anything in particular.

If BBPress operated like WordPress, Let’s say that “Forums” are “Categories” and “Topics” are “Posts”. Well, with WordPress, you can set your permalinks to read:

domain.com/category-name/post-name/

So why not be able to do that with BBPress? The problem is that in order to get all of the various settings applied to both Forums and Topics, they have both been created as separate Custom Post Types. The individual Posts in Topics simply have a custom field that ties them to a specific Forum.

Now, I haven’t tested this at all, but in theory it may be possible to tap into some WordPress action and filter hooks and create our own rewrite rules to fix what I see as the biggest flaw with BBPress. I found a thread on another site recently where the user used a custom field value to generate the permalink for a custom post type. That seems to me would be exactly what we need to do here. If I can get some free time, I’ll see if I can get it working and maybe build a plugin to handle it.

[tiberiusCA]

Wow thanks, I will test when I done my bb forum 😀

[Ryan Hellyer]

Thanks 🙂 I look forward to hearing the results. If it doesn’t work for any reason, just let me know and I’ll look into it for you. In principle it should work, but I’ve done very little testing so it’s possible I’ve missed something on the bbPress implementation.

[Melindrea]

I’ll test it this weekend, one of my sites has enough spam to keep someone fed for a decade >.>

[Ronileco]

Sure thing.

The boxes are CSS and our own design but you can use the Vote It Up plugin for votes, although it hasn’t been updated in ages.

You’ll need to customise and theme it. BTW, we are using BBPress 2.0.2 and not the latest but it should work.

Good Luck…

[joethephish]

I have also been getting reports of this happening:

http://www.inklestudios.com/forums/topic/unable-to-edit-my-own-profile

Oddly enough though, when I created a test account, it worked fine.

Any thoughts? Love bbpress by the way! Just looking forward to getting the teething problems out of the way 🙂

[richardpd]

Thanks for your reply. Do I presume from this that the error message:Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ is a BuddyPress error? So I will need to find help with BuddyPress to fix this
(I updated 9 plugins all at once & this included bbPress & BuddyPress latest versions-so it would seem likely the problem is with the BuddyPress plugin update).

• This reply was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by richardpd.

[c-smile]

Just tried again. Latest WP installation, “Twenty ten” theme with bbPress and Akismet plugins only and still getting this.

What function may cause this? Will try to find by myself.

[John James Jacoby]

Shouldn’t be happening with Twenty Ten. Basically, this is a nonce check error. Nonces are used through out bbPress to make sure you’re actually invoking actions on your own request, and that someone hasn’t duped you into doing something you didn’t want to do.

This is the first I’ve heard of this, so some plugin or theme is really interfering with things. bbpress.org is always running the latest build, so if it’s not broken here, it’s not broken in core.

[MTPrower]

Been 24 hours again. Bump

I see that a lot of people have an issue with this in some form or another, but I’ve only seen one fix– a non-explained hard-coding. It’s unfair to everyone.

I want to be able to change loop-forums.php to look exactly like loop-single-forum.php. That means a new table for every category, a Freshness (author name and avatar, as well as latest post time) for every parent forum inside a category, and the displaying of “content” below the forum title, if we have content on the forum edit page (people usually use that for a description of that particular forum).

Changing the CSS to make each forum have its own line is easy. The REST of the things you have to do to make the forums root, or forums index, look like a single-forum page, is hard.

This is a much-needed tweak. Pretty much everyone would benefit from it. I will keep bumping this as long as I need.

I do want to say that I love bbPress though. I’m not giving up on it in the foreseeable future.

[ayeweb]

Just test modified haha

http://www.thlive.com/forums

[AAShepAA]

1. I have deactivated all plugins with no change
2. I have changes to 2010 them with no change

Here is the scenario:

1. I receive an email telling me there has been a new reply

   (For example:New topic/reply awaiting moderation on your site Stratoliner.me – Deluxe, Roadliner, Stratoliner Forums: http://www.stratoliner.me

2430

bbPress 0.8.3 is compatible with WordPress 2.3

1. I click the link to the reply and it shows up as a single reply as it should but this weird ending in the link:http://www.stratoliner.me/forum/reply/reply-to-dark-side-people-comin-back-to-the-light-side-7/#.UCbm6qn_TOE
2. I go to the site and click the link in the sidebar under “Latest Replies” and it come to this page:http://www.stratoliner.me/forum/topic/dark-side-people-comin-back-to-the-light-side/#post-2430 (Notice that now it is referencing #post-2430 the one mentioned in the email notification that I received.
3. HOWEVER – post 2430 is not there in the list of replies.
4. This is happening with several replies – but when I post a reply it shows up.

I could really use some help as I am stumped.Thanks,Shep

[racl101]

Imma respond to dat.

[racl101]

Imma say de other.

• This reply was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by racl101.

[racl101]

Imma say dis. dat

• This topic was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by racl101.

[MediaSVI]

I did all that and before I tried anything I watch a Youtube video going over bbpress by Dev4Press.

When I go to make a new Page and select the Templets menu there is no bbpressindex to choose in fact there are no bbpress options to pick?

I am using fresh latest install of WP from GoDaddy, I have “Paid Membership” plugin and and “Simple Local Avatars” and my theme is Responsive.

[tbguitars]

I’m trying to get bbpress to let me use a regular page on my site for the main forums page which I want to populate using the bbpress shortcodes. This is not hard to do, but the issue I’m stuck on is that once you go into the forums the breadcrumbs will only link back to the page with the “Forums” (or whatever you change it to in the settings)slug, and that page works like an archive page and wont let me write anything on it or use shortcodes etc.

I’ve wasted many hours already trying to figure this out, any help would be so much appreciated.

Thanks!

using latest updates of wordpress and bbpress

[MediaSVI]

I installed bbpress today and I am using the lastest WP and there is no bbpress pages for me to choose from to attach the page to the forum?

[capsx]

check those two posts:

link in standart WP post: http://wordpress.versuspro.lv/uncategorized/test/

the same link in the forum: http://wordpress.versuspro.lv/forums/topic/test/

[Prometheus Fire]

Finally had a chance to upgrade and test this. New version is working well across the board, but the auto-embed feature doesn’t seem to be working.

All I get are normal active links instead of the embedded video. Tried with Flickr and long links from Youtube. Could this be a plugin conflict? I don’t know how it works internally so I’m not sure how to start troubleshooting it.

[CustomTB]

Looks Great! Did you use a widget for the “Latest Discussion” Section?

• This reply was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by CustomTB.
• This reply was modified 13 years, 3 months ago by CustomTB.

[John James Jacoby]

Not a bbPress problem. Looks like your theme is a child theme of BuddyPress’s bp-default, and it uses hardcoded relative paths in its @import rules. Any number of things could be going wrong here, but it wasn’t updating bbPress that caused this to happen.

[richardpd]

HiMy WP theme format is broken after updating to latest version of bbPress plugin.Can anyone help me fix it please?WP site:http://richard-dickinson.com/Most grateful for helpful replies(see also this post:http://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-462?replies=15 )Thanks