I have installed bbPress plugin. The forum itself is wonderful. I am having a rough time displaying it properly on my site. Using the shortcode [bbp-forum-index], I have setup a page with a full-page attribute. The page is full-width but the forum is not.
http://purerover.com/test/
I am assuming the forum’s widgets are taking up the space right of the forum. I don’t need them and rather the forum took up 100% of the available space.
I see there are additional templates for bbPress. Does this hold true for the plugin version? If so, how can additional templates be selected since this is not an option in the bbPress settings.
I am not a programmer but can following directions. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
A member reported they couldn’t edit their post in a thread. I tested it (as administrator) and this is what came up:
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/9743/editpostn.png
How would I fix this issue?
Nope, im not using buddypress.
All the Forum settings are default, i didnt change anything after instalation.
Archive Slugs
Forums base forums
Topics base topics
Single Slugs
Forum Prefix checked
Forum slug forum
Topic slug topic
Topic tag slug topic-tag
Reply slug reply
User base users
View base view
I tried to access the forum via the original link http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/?p=3448. But that links changes the line in the address bar to the nice address http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/one-new-test-forum and it still gives 404 error.
regarding the other plugins, true i have 26 plugins active, which i all use.
Are there any known conflicts with other plugins? Just to know before i will make a clean install.
Thank you
I’m using numeric permalink structure.
Well, i installed my test environment into that subdirectory. But the links see to be created nicely and logically:
to the forum
http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/forum/second-new-test-forum
to the topic
http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums/topic/testing-topic-2
even if i add a trailing slash at the end of a link, it doesnt work anyway.
I am completely lost here. I have read every post in this forum about the similar problems, but never saw an insuring answer 
I would be happy to give you access to my test setup if you want to see it for yourself?
You can email me here if you’re interested – http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/contact/
Hello,
I know why, I dont know if its a feature or a bug , but.. 
you only get notification from a registered users. So when user is registered and opens the forum and replies you will get notification, but if the user comes to site and uses only simple form without registration and even if I tick “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” I will not get any notification. I think its not right.
I might be wrong but its my testing and observation. correct me if I am wrong.
thanx
In a production site, I have akismet disabled. Notifications on that one didn’t work. So I thought it could be related to akisment so in another separate site, I have akismet enabled. That didn’t work either.
However, the common thing on both setup is that it was first a release candidate and then I’ve upgraded it to v2.0
In the test setup, I had these plugins installed
akismet
bbpress,
sharecount for facebook
SI Captch Anti spam
tweetmeme retweed button
wp-spamfree
Tested this on 3 different installs and cannot duplicate. Something else must be conflicting somewhere.
bbpress 2.0 was working pretty well until i installed buddypress 1.5 (test site) and now, instead of the old bbpress profiles (w favorites!), there is the buddypress profile, which is nice, except… the problem i’m having is that as far as i can tell the forum (bbpress 2.0) topic favorites are not showing up in the buddypress profile under favorites or anywhere else that i can see.
i’ve googled around and found other mentions of conflicting profile issues, but so far no definitive answers as to how bbpress and buddypress profiles are supposed to work together.
maybe i’m missing something? i haven’t tried using buddypress before. are the user bbpress 2.0 forum topic favorites available in buddypress somewhere and i’m just not seeing them?
or do the bbpress 2.0. forum topic favorites go missing when buddypress is installed? if that the case, is there a work around?
bbpress 2.0
buddypress 1.5
wordpress 3.2.1 (single user)
Hello all,
I am trying to setup bbpress on my test site. I want to replace Simple forum.
I followed BJ’s walkthrough and got it showing on the “forums” page.
From admin interface i created couple of forums, and couple of topics.
I can see the forums on http://www.8ball.lu/wordpress/forums
But when i click on any forum name i get a “page not found” error.
What am i doing wrong?
My parent theme is a custom theme created with Themeframe (im astill working on it, and currently i have only changed the menu). I did not touch yet the default templates.
Thank you.
Not exactly what I planned on doing today whilst sitting in the back of a car! Though whilst browsing these forums I bumbed into this thread and have kicked it off on my iPad with a bbPress test site importing from 30,000 post PHPBB site, been running now for around 30 minutes.
I’ll add some follow ups on how the data Looks in bbPress when I have the right tools
EDIT: ~90 minutes after above
After ~60 minutes I have stopped it and had a look at the WordPress tables with myphpadmin and I cannot see any new posts in ‘wp_posts’ or ‘wp_users’
Is the ‘PhpBB_Not_Complete’ import tool active? i.e. Should I see more than nothing, nil, null as a result of trying this?
Cheers,
Stephen
I took it for a spin, and here’s my feedback thus far:
A lot of functionality should be in its own plugins.
– Move forum:
I’m surprised this isn’t in core already; I thought it was. In any case, this would make much more sense as a stand-alone plugin, as its useful for all topics, not just support topics.
– Forum Ranks:
As far as I can tell, it doesn’t tie directly in with support topics; it’s a completely separate feature. Maybe you have plans for it, but if that’s the case I still think you should just have two plugins communicate, as this is something many support forums won’t need. I personally dislike forum ranks. I consider it unwarranted labeling. On the jMonkeyEngine forum we frequently see first time posters with 10+ years of Java experience, which is the type of experience that holds weight in our community, not # of forum posts.
– Please separate your settings from bbPress’ options page. Your plugin offers so many options (which by itself is great) that it ends up bloating the options page.
– I think the default setting should reflect the one in this screenshot:
https://s.w.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-vip-support-plugin/screenshot-3.png?r=448946
That part slipped by me in the settings screen, and when I tested the plugin I was puzzled by how I couldn’t change my test support topic to “resolved”.
– What about a widget for the resolved/not resolved drop-down? (Same goes for Assign topic, and possibly some others I haven’t noticed yet). This would make it easier to fit it in with custom themes. This also means admin should have the option to turn off the in-built drop-down.
Oh and as recommended, add the bbpress tag to your plugin. It’s the default bbPress plugin tag, and currently the most convenient way of keeping up with the latest bbPress 2 plugins.
I disabled WP_DEBUG in wp-config.php and resaved and the errors went away. Still, I always develop with WP_DEBUG enabled so it would be good if I could test things without getting errors.
If you look at a topic thread on my site (http://willowbilliards.com/forum/topic/test-topic-3/) you’ll notice that there’s no avatars showing.
I figured out that the place where the code should exist is in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/bbpress/loop-single-reply.php so I stuck a message that says “avatar should go here”. Here’s the code from that page: http://pastebin.com/dMLeD6LV
But what do I need to put there so the avatar actually shows? Please advise. Thanks in advance!
EdParticipant
AW, as i’ve jumped from punbb>phpbb2>phpbb3>bbpress1>bbpress2, I don’t think it’s worth sharing my setup – just too many variables to account for.
However, look forward to testing a punbb or phpbb version for you.
I have installed bbpress 2.0 at allaboutfocus.com on the Genesis Framework. Before I knew that shortcodes existed I create a single free forum with some test posts. You can see that here: http://allaboutfocus.com/forums/forum/free-forums/#
Now I’ve discovered shortcodes. I created a new empty page called /mojo-forums. I edit that page and add a couple of simple shortcodes. When I save the new page I am instantly directed back to edit session for page http://allaboutfocus.com/forums/forum/free-forums/ . This is bizarre. That is not the page I was editing. Keep in mind this is all happening in the admin area. When I click on view to view the page /mojo-forums it shows me page /forums which has no edit options.
Also – when I post a new test post it is showing the freshest post as 4 hours ago. But when you drill down to the post it has the correct time that I saved the post.
Help.
Thanks,
Patrick
Yeeah, exactly what we needed! Yet another definitive nail in BuddyPress’ legacy forum’s coffin. Can’t wait to make the conversion now. Will start testing this and give you some feedback first chance I get.
Hi Again,
Ahh thanks tgiokdi, getting closer to knowing how to get this working.
So you install it.
Then you make a wordpress page.
Then you add a shortcode tag to that page.
I’m guessing you add it into the HTML view of the page or a post and it would look something like:
[bbpress(testforum)]
Where the name of the forum is ‘testforum’.
I haven’t tried this but maybe its a step in the right direction. Can anyone tell me what the tag looks like to get the forum to show up… or is it a secret 
Well for starters what do you have the process rows at?
Also can you provide server details and your current limits. It may be easier to do that as I have test environment that I can mirror yours and test. It would go a lot faster that way. So php limits and mysql limits and server details. Also site stats and platform.
When we tried to do some testing with bbConverter we ran into memory issues. We’re running on a dedicated server so there’s a good chance the problem lies on our end.
Seeing as you’ve successfully converted a 2-million-posts forum without issues, I’d be very interested in knowing more about any server settings that might have been pertinent to your success.
A basic runthrough of best practice server setup relevant to a major forum conversion would be great. Things like php-limit, caching, Apache modules and so forth. Not looking for anything in depth, just some DOs and DON’Ts.
No eta at the moment sorry trying to see why a few people are getting mismatched thread stuff. I have ran more and more tests and never happens for me. Tried 10 different boards of all sizes even one that has 2 million posts and no issues. It would be nice if someone provided me some login info or server info to test locally this is not public www. Just to see if I am getting same issue as you do.
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@folgerj Here people discuss bbpress plugin but the reason I brought this here was because there is an integration between these two plugins. It means you install BuddyPress, after that you install bbpress in it’s all working out. Whatever you do in bbpress it shows up on your buddypress activity stream.(In both latest version).
But I saw for some people like me it’s not working and there is no solution for fix this.
That’s why I came here to ask people in bbpress, I’m doing the same thing in BuddyPress community to find something to solve this problem or at least understand the problem.
Hey man
Thanks for reply,
I just did what you said. Install a clean WP and after that I installed BP from plugin directory. I tested the activity stream, it worked. I install bbpress plugin and the activity stream still not working.
If I do this in WPMU, it’s a same situation but the other blogs(site) if they use bbpress it show on activity stream in the main website.
I’ve done this in varity of environment. Like I said, Ubuntu+XAMPP, Ubuntu+LAMP, Windows+WAMP and MAC OS X + MAMP.
I have the same problem too, I use premium theme from elegantthemes.com and after some test and try I found that I need to modify the ‘Number of Posts displayed on Archive pages’ within ePanel theme options.
So if you use another theme (paid or free) and you encounter the same problem, just may be you need to change any number related to archive pages.
Hope it helps.
Hello all, I got the exactly the same problem but I found a way that may be help.
I was install the WP on my Mac using MAMP, then BP and BB and they both work and integrated well. Activity stream showed. And then, I moved the test to the web server, do the same thing, activity stream not working but I noticed the @ mention stuff did work. The only thing that is different from my local setting is, the visibility of WP. I set the web server one to “block from search engine” while the local one “visible”. And then, I turn on the “visibility” to open and it works!!!
That’s it, simple and easy. It helps me but I am not sure whether it will be helpful for the rest of you!
WOW. That worked perfectly. Thank you so much!
