[Jared Atchison]

I’m I really can’t say because I use SVN to sync up with the latest version. Maybe jjj will have some input.

[hock88]

Thanks for the quick reply!

Will try it now.

Thanks.

[Jared Atchison]

There is a “Recent Activity” widget that comes with bbPress – typically I just use that

[hock88]

Hi jaredatch,

Thanks for the reply. BTW do you have any suggestion or recommendation to share?

Thanks.

[Jared Atchison]

Should be fixed if you get the latest 2.1 download. Again, thanks for reporting and props jjj for the quick fix.

[kannued]

Thanks jaredatch! Found the plugin.

[Jared Atchison]

bbPress has a widget that can show the latest activity (you can set how many).

I would suggest creating a new sidebar area, place that on your homepage, and then use the bbPress activity widget in it.

[kannued]

On my home page which is straight html/css, I would like to pull the latest discussions, about 3 entries, from my bbpress page. How would I do this so it would automically update on my home page as new posts occur?

[Jared Atchison]

You would need to post that in the support forum for that plugin, which is here

https://wordpress.org/tags/bbpress-latest-discussion?forum_id=10

Unfortunately, according to https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bbpress-latest-discussion-dropping-all-bbld-support-and-development it seems the plugin is no longer supported.

I would suggest trying to find a different one to use, that is actively being maintained.

[SK]

@JJJ: Which version are you trying?

I am using the latest version of WordPress 3.3.1

I have tried both bbPress 2.0 and 2.0.2

I installed bbConverter through WP’s admin panel so the plugin version is 1.3

When I click Activate immediately upon installation, I get

The plugin does not have a valid header.

[mudechevy]

It seems I have the other pages looking fine with the sidebar but the single topic page shoves my sidebar below the forums. How can I fix this? I’m using custom community theme with bbpress & buddypress. http://www.wisewahm.com/forum/topic/test/

[hock88]

Hi,

Good day to all community,

I am starting up a site, and I am setting up the BBPress Latest Discussions Plugin. I have installed and integrated WP & BB. Once I activate the plugin and use the call for the latest discussion on the wordpress page I am given this error

“It Seem There Is Something Wrong With BBLD Configuration, Please Check It.”

What should I set?

Thanks,

Hock88

[jamieskella]

I think I may have a related issue, two of them in fact:

– For some reason my forum index won’t show more than 5 forums. If I create 7, 2 are hidden.

– My topics list only shows 5 topics, even though it says “Viewing 5 topics 1 through 15”

Please see example here: http://pantheones.com.au/latest-posts/

Do you have any idea why this would be?

[kaifanun]

same issue here. For testing just to make sure if any of my other plugins or themes are not the cause, I have installed bbPress on a fresh WP install without any other plugins and I get the same error.

any solutions yet?

[Jared Atchison]

There’s a “Zip Archive” link on the bottom of https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin – this will be the latest development version.

Just keep in mind, while 2.1 is general stable, it’s still beta so make a backup of things first!

[Jared Atchison]

I just tested it and you are right! Seems to be screwy when using the numeric permalinks.

We’re going to look into that. I definitely appreciate you coming back and posting about the problem you encountered – this will help us make 2.1 as solid as possible when it is released publicly

[Keshav Saini]

I am using the latest versions of both the software. Buddypress 1.5 and bbpress 2

I have installed bbpress both for group forums and sitewide forum. I started seven discussions in sitewide forum but none of them appearing in my activity.

[jamescarson1]

Jaredatch, this is gold. And it will be appreciated by many people I imagine. This should be reposted as a sticky or similar until it’s added to the plugins page or to the next bbpress update?

By the way I just tested the code and it’s working great. It’s missing a closing ?> tag.

Thanks!

[SK]

bbPress needs to face the fact that most people who want a forum, have already had a forum. The *new* market for forums is much smaller than the *installed base* of forums.

Consequently, most of the people who would want to use bbPress probably are already using another forum script and need help migrating. It is collossal mistake to leave this for community plugins.

If I have a forum software in a production environment, then one of the major factors influencing my decision regarding migration is whether or not there is a robust, stable, tried and tested and reliable migration path to the target software. This is extremely important for me. In fact, I would suffer a somewhat inferior software willingly rather than move to a better software if there is no clear migration path or there is a high degree of risk in migration.

It is a mistake on part of bbPress to leave migration to community plugin developers. Even if there were some plugins out there that did the job, it would be much less reassuring to prospective users compared to a migration/import path created by the bbPress team. As it happens there are only 2 import plugins ( http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/forumconverter/ and http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbconverter/) out there and both of them are broken and not supported.

WordPress does it right in building an importer directly into the core.

Over the next 18-24 months, I expect to see a mass exodus from phpBB as they rewrite the software from ground up ( http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=41583). If bbPress provide a good migration path, it stands the chance to capture some of fleeing population.

Task

I think it would be greatly beneficial to the project if the bbPress team build a bbPress importer that supports the top 4 forum software: phpBB, Invision, SMF and vBulletin.

Such a migration tool, importer or converter will:

i) import topics and forum hierarchies into bbpress

including the relations between forums, topics and replies

and slugs for forums, topics and replies

ii) generate an .htaccess to place in the old forum directory so that old URLs are 301 redirected to new ones.

iii) import users including profiles, passwords, signatures and roles

@jjj You have mentioned at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1740 that this is more appropriate for a plugin and that bundling that code in the core of bbPress seems needless for many users that are starting off fresh.

I believe that this function is too important to be left to the mercy of others. There is a huge trust issue…if I have to entrust my data to someone, I want to make sure that they are reliable, trustworthy, good enough, and understand the software well.

I take your point about not bundling the function in the core. How about a migration plugin by the bbPress team?

[Jared Atchison]

This is a total guess and not tested, but you should be able to put something like this in your theme’s functions.php file

add_action( 'bbp_init', 'do_custom_body_classes' );

function do_custom_body_classes() {

add_filter( 'body_class', 'genesis_custom_body_class', 15 );

}

[Dan Milward]

Hi guys,

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The concept is loosely based around our own ideas and automatting some of Anointed’s ideas.

The Spam Killer Plugin saves us a lot of time and money. Since the spam problem has cost us such a lot of time and money;

a) removing spam daily

b) testing many plugins that did not work

c) and finally building a new Plugin which took many many hours that fixes our problem

… we have decided to make it a premium plugin for sale on our site.

http://getshopped.org/premium-upgrades/premium-plugin/bbpress-spam-killer/

Best,

Dan

[Jared Atchison]

If you are 2.1 (which from my testing is stable and full of awesomeness) you can place the bbPress template files in your theme and bbP will use those instead of the pre-packaged ones.

See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-21-theme-compatibility

[osby]

Hi!

This is driving me nuts! It should be so simple but I cant get it to work.

Running latest versions of WP and the bbPress plugin, installed within WP.

Then I download the language file (sv_SE, swedish) and pretty much everything in the backend stops working.

Depending on what other plugins I have active at the same time different parts stop working.

I’ve tried to put the file in the location you described and the bbpress/bbp-language folder as well.

Please help me!

[theap]

I would like to list comments by most recent on the Home page of my Forum.

At the moment only Topic with the latest comment entry comes up fist, but I would like to have list of comments, like here for example:

http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?code=cotn:UKX.L&display=discussion&it=li

i guess what I need is similar to bbpress forum where you can click to view latest topics or latest posts, but I’d like to have latest comments listed by default.

Many thanks in advance!

[Everton]

Hi

I’m still playing around with bbpress/buddypress on my test site wpthemetrial.com. I know I’m doing something fundamentally wrong, so can I please get help.

I originally copied all the bbp-twentyten files into my active theme and manually edited the files like archive-forum.php, archive-topic.php to get these pages how I wanted them to look.

However, how do I setup my forum homepage to use the page-front-topics.php template? When I create a WP Page at wpthemetrial.com/forum the bbpress automatic page using the archive-forum.php file always overrides it. It says “Archive Slugs

Include custom root slugs to prefix your forums and topics with. These can be partnered with WordPress pages to allow more flexibility.”

but I can’t get it to work.

For now I’ve inserted ‘forumbb’ http://wpthemetrial.com/forumbb/ and ‘topicsbb’ http://wpthemetrial.com/topicsbb/ as my archive slugs, but I’d really like to use my WP custom pages, http://wpthemetrial.com/forum/ and ttp://wpthemetrial.com/topics/ as they are easier to update and manage.

Thanks

EB