[Jaja..]

Probably everything what you asked for can be done, but you need PHP skills and change the template files.

I don’t know about the online status, you probably need JavaScript for that.

I have none PHP skills so i have been looking around and testing Vanilla yesterday. From what i’ve been seeing at the start it looks very good. Not yet changed some template files so i can’t tell how easy that will be but i really like the features they have by default.

And if your community will get going you can always upgrade to the paid version and get the Badges Feature! Thats the coolest thing i’ve ever seen inside a communty.

http://vanillaforums.com/blog/news/introducing-vanilla-reactions-and-badges/

It will help your community grow faster for sure.

Everybody likes the get Awards.

[POS2012]

Hi, I am going to convert from Kunena to a WP based forum. Simple:press and bbPress are the 2 finalists.

The thing I absolutely love about bbPress is the loading time. Sooo much qucker than SP on my test server. That is a VPS. Actually Kunena is quicker loading than SP. That is when I have 1000 posts in Kunena, and only 10 in SP.

But bbPress has almost half the loading time than SP.

But there is something Iack in bbPress:

In the “Forums” layout:

– It currently says: Total topics, total posts and last refreshed for each forum

– Can I also show “Last post title” by “Author” ?

– Is it possible to show an excerpt of the last reply?

In the “Topics” layout:

– It currently says: Total topics, total posts and last refreshed for each forum

– Can I also show “Last post title” by “Author” ?

– Is it possible to show an excerpt of the last reply?

In the “Topic view” (thread):

– Can I somehow get the number of posts per user? (same place where the IP adress shows when I am logged in as admin)

You see : I like to know how many posts a user has made. That tells me of how active they are or not.

I would also like to see:

– Member Since: (date)

– Online status

PS: I have been testing bbPress 2.0.2, and have now installed 2.1 and find that even better

[jmessick]

Same problem. I actually have 2.-02 working on a test site but when I activate the plugin on my live site the page just shows the “white screen of death” until I deactivate the plugin. Fortunately I still had the dashboard open in another tab so had to problem turning it off.

[POS2012]

I have installed the latest 2.0 WP plugin, and there the feed shows a little different.

I found this code in the bbp-topic-functions.php:

(line 2994)

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-functions.php

<title><?php bloginfo_rss( ‘name’ ); ?> » <?php _e( ‘All Topics’, ‘bbpress’ ); ?></title>

If you alter that you could probably get the RSS title to say whatever you’d like.

I also found this:

/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-functions.php

line 1372

<title><?php bloginfo_rss(‘name’); echo $title; ?></title>

I have ony 2 days of experience with bbPress, but this might help you…?

[Torsten Landsiedel]

The topic title in bbpress rss feeds is “(author) on (title)” which is really bad, because I can’t sort on title anymore. This is sort by author, because the author is the first string in the title.

And it is redundant, because there is a author field which I can see in my feed reader.

Maybe you can change this to “(title) – (author)” (or similar) …

I see this on http://de.forums.wordpress.com and I know this is not the latest version running there. So if this is changed in the latest version, just tell me!

Thanks in Advance!

Kind regards

Torsten / zodiac1978

(Moderator German support forums WP.com)

[Jaja..]

@Jaredatch,

What’s the best and worst difference between the two, Vanilla VS bbPress.

I have been testing and building bbPress a few times locally but it has never gave me that final push to go live with it, I just don’t trust it..

Every website i make i pick WP as my default CMS because i truly 300% believe in the product it has made my life so much easier. While 3 maybe 4 years ago i was always scared of the word CMS i loved Static content and doing lots of work.

bbPress never gave me that final push of confidence that it could be the Tool you need.

Example, i help solving a lot of questions on the Dutch WordPress forums and all new users i can tell what the power of WP is and all it’s Easy to Use features like the Menu system (my fav.) but when somebody asks me if i know a good forums software i always end up saying bbPress BUT i don’t know if it’s for everybody.

There is still that level of difference. While a user don’t understand why. a plugin = a plugin they can activate and it should work.

[trissietris]

Hi, im using the latest version of buddypress+bbpress.

I installed sitewide forums.

Used the shortcode [bbp-forum-index] on http://portal.thedrughouse.eu/forum/

It works, but after you click on a sections you cant do anything anymore. cant start a topic, it just puts the description in the page

[BobHatcher]

Any updates on the status of 2.1? The way it deals with theme compatibility is great.

I installed the 2.1 beta on a test site using harnold007’s directions (I wish he’d tell us what the modifications were in steps 3 and 5!)

When I tried to change themes, or even to deactivate 2.1 I got this error. Anyone know how to fix it?

Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /homepages/6/d396770293/htdocs/Clean_Test/wp-content/themes/bbp-twentyten/functions.php on line 32

[kriskl]

Hi,

I am testing bbpress 2.1 plugin, and topic tags seems to be an unnecessary feature,

How to disable / remove it completely? (tags are so out of fashion these days)

It would be nice if in the future version there was a tick box in forum settings to turn it off

[paulychilds]

Hi – I have a wordpress blog (installed on my own mySQL Database/webspace) and have added bbPress as it seemed the best forum plug in I could find. I am using the theme Graphene. These are all the latest version as of 19/04/12.

I have created a blank page called Forum which, when the menu item is clicked, forwards to the bbPress forum main page and which appears on the top menu, along with Home and Blog.

Here is where things get difficult…

I would like for the ‘Forum’ menu item (page_item_419) to be highlighted when I am in the bbPress Forum but currently, when I am in the Forums it is the ‘Blog’ menu item (page_item_146) which is highlighted.

Any idea what I need to do? I am not a great deal of coding experience so go easy on me

Many thanks

PC

[mtp1032]

I forgot to mention that I’m using the latest stable release of bbPress, version 2.0.2.

[SK]

You can try forumconverter plugin…some people have had some luck with it…downgrade to v2 or RC before importing, though…you can upgrade to latest version after the import…

[Lynq]

You could set a fixed width on the table rather than a percent, to make sure it doesn’t go any wider…

table { width: 535px; }

Edit: I did test in firebug and adding the width onto the table seemed to be fine, you may want to use the actual classes though, like .bbp-replies etc…

[Ben Hayes]

Ah OK, I think I see that you have implemented something like this in version 2.1

I just tried to install the latest 2.1 beta version but I got an error from WP saying “Could not install this plugin as it has an invalid header”

[BDISGUSTING]

Not sure if this is just not a feature, a bug, or an issue with my installation or theme.

When a user posts a reply to a topic that is multiple pages long, it appends the post ID to the URL but still brings them back to page one of the topic.

For example, if I post to…

mysite.com/forums/topic/test-top/page/14/

after I am redirected to…

mysite.com/forums/topic/test-top/#post-223774

So then I have to click back to page 14 and scroll down to see my post. Is this normal behavior or is my forum not appending the page number when it redirects me after posting?

[EntrepreNerd]

When ever I try and post a URL, such as – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJC28DUQcZs&feature=g-vrec&context=G2026267RVAAAAAAAABg – I get the following error.

---

Forbidden

You do not have permission to access this document.

Web Server at crankyoldmen.com

---

feel free to register an account at http://www.CrankyOldMen.com and test it out. I have tried 3 accounts so far and they all do the same thing.

Things I have tried already:

– turn off all non-core plugins

– switch to default theme

– sign in and post with accounts of varying privileges

– tried posting from my Android Phone and Tablet

[rikv]

Sure..

http://www.discovideo.be/forums/forum/forumtest/

[mizu no oto]

Thank you. I was able to change the color of one box, now yellow,

using the following code.

#content div.bbp-template-notice.info {

background-color: #FFFFEE;

border-color: #FFFFEE;

}

But I can’t figure out the coding using Firebug for . . .

Gray topic box color . . .

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums/forum/test-forum

Gray author/post box color . . .

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums/topic/what-sustains-a-democracy

Also I am unable to double-space between paragraphs as the bbpress forum does.

Thanks for your suggestions and help . . .

[cruthas]

Hey jaredatch,

url to the test forum is: http://www.climberism.com/forum-page-tst/

When users login and click-through to their profile, there is a tabbed menu in the upper right hand side of the screen. I’d like to bring that into the header so it is displayed on every page of the forum. Essentially, I’d like to ad to the tabs. exp. photo tab, conditions tab, etc.

Any help would be great!

Thanks

[Jared Atchison]

Everything looks ok, its just your theme isn’t playing nice with TwentyTen.

Personally, since your site is under development, I’d recommend giving bbPress 2.1 a test run using the new bbP Compat theme (instead of the TwentyTen one).

bbPress 2.1 can be downloaded on this page, where it says download zip archive – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

If you do choose to try 2.1, keep in mind that it is still under development, so you should make a backup of your site before installing.

[Jared Atchison]

Trunk is simply the latest development version of bbPress. So if jjj committed a patch last night, it’s not going to show up in the latest *stable* version – it will be in trunk.

You can download trunk via a zip file or through SVN – SVN is better because then you can easily sync it down the road.

Make sure you are grabbing the plugin trunk and not 1.x trunk.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

[mizu no oto]

Greetings from Vancouver, B.C.

I’ve installed the BBPress plugin and want to modify the ‘light blue’ and ‘yellow’ text block colors on the following page.

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums/forum/test-forum

I followed plugin >> bb press >> bbp-twentyten >> css >> bbpress-rtl and bbpress.css

Using Firebug I located in the css where (I thought) I would modify the colors but when I looked in both bbpress-rtl and bbpress.css there was no matching code, at least that I could find.

Same for . . .

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums

which I want to modify the header to match the rest of the website.

Any suggestions would be grateful . . .

[MaTaX91]

so did I do something wrong when I checked out the latest using my svn thing?

[MaTaX91]

what is truck? I used tortoise svn to get the latest files? I used the url on the download page, did I do something wrong?

[thedzigner]

I just wanted to add to this, because I’m getting the same problem.

If I make a topic ‘super-sticky’ it works as it should, i.e. it appears at the top of all forums.

However, as soon as I ‘close’ the super-sticky topic, it only appears in the forum where it was created.

I also tested this with twenty eleven theme just to make sure, and the problem persists.

Any help greatly appreciated.