[lckitchen]

Hi there, first I want to say thanks for creating this, seems like a great forum plugin once you get it working.

To start, I have read the entire thread on the forum on theme compatibility; http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-20-theme-compatibility and a few other treads and topics relating, unfortunately I am still having some problems.

I am including screen-shot links to be as clear as possible in hope for great support.

What I have done so far;

A.) I decided to go with the child theme option since I am using a custom theme that I am not the author of and prefer not to clutter that folder.

I copied all the files (except functions.php) that were inside “bbp-twentyten” (/bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten) and put them in my “gridlocked-child” folder that I placed inside /wp-content/themes/ (next to my custom “gridlocked” theme folder)

I added the “theme name” and “template” name to the empty “style.css” in folder “gridlocked-child”. screenshot: http://grab.by/cJ7R

I put the ” add_theme_support( ‘gridlocked-child’ ); ” code in my “gridlocked” (not child) functions.php file. screenshot: http://grab.by/cJ7S

At this point, after just test creating a few forums and topics, it looks like the plugin is “functioning” like it should. I can tell that it’s using some of the styles from my main theme style.css (colors, fonts etc), the MAIN PROBLEMS that I have now is the fact that it’s not taking to my page template widths in my main theme (gridlocked), it wont use a full-page-width template (or let me pick) and the default that it is probably using, is also supposed to be full width, plus something is wrong with the padding and it snugs too tight to the page edges.

Here are some screenshots to show you what I mean;

Forum home page: http://grab.by/cJ7I

Forum named MINGLE page and test topics: http://grab.by/cJ7J

I would like the forum to look like this; http://grab.by/cJ7H

and fill up the entire width of a full page, with nice padding. I achieved that preview by adding shortcode [bbp-forum-index] in the html section of a “page” picking the “full-width-template” option in my theme.

Ok, here comes the questions:

1. Did I set everything up correctly in the directories and files?

2. What files do I need to modify to tell the bbPress forum to use a full page width template? Can I copy code from my main theme “template-full-width.php” into one or more template files inside my new child theme?

2. Do I need to add code/functions into my main theme “template-full-width.php”? and if so, what kind of code? and on a scale, how easy should these edits be? (I have asked, but I am not getting any support with this from my theme support forum, otherwise great forum but they wont help with plugins, understandable)

3. How does shortcodes work? Are those simply just for placing certain parts of your forum on different pages as previews/links but not for use throughout the FULL forum?

Do you have ANY ideas on how I can solve this issue, I feel pretty lost and I am not a developer or programmer, just a stubborn, enthusiastic designer that loosing her hair about this.

I HIGHLY APPRECIATE ANY HELP WITH THIS!

Thank you!

[Steven Hodson]

I am running the current version of WordPress, v1.0.2 of bbPress and trying to import it into the latest available build of bbPress 2.0.

When selecting to begin the import this error gets thrown:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class BPDB in /home/winextra/public_html/forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 39

Now that it the path to the installed version of the stand-alone version (1.0.2) of bbPress but for the live of me I can’t figure out how to gt past this so *any* help would be greatly appreciated

[Anointed]

I’d be really careful about changing core files as you loose changes on every update. Depending upon what you did, you may be best off copying the code to your theme functions file, renaming the functions, and storing it there so you don’t loose the changes.

[Anointed]

I have not done any ‘true’ stress testing as of yet. I’m actually waiting for a stress test plugin to be built to see real stats. (Not my area of expertise)

What I can say is that my server load is staying under 2, which is where it was with vb.

[Anointed]

Just like with MyBB, let us finish up testing on the first systems and we’ll see about adding it later.

[Anointed]

Not tested:

In the file loop-single-reply.php change the following line:

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />' ) ); ?>

to:

<?php bbp_reply_author_link( array( 'sep' => '<br />', 'size' => 100 ) ); ?>

change 100 to whatever size you prefer.

[highexistence]

Every single permalink for forums give me a ‘page not found’ error. I’m using BBpress 2.0 and Buddypress 1.5 on the latest version of WP.

Any suggestions? Thanks

[Jaja..]

When in your Admin, create a new page and call it ‘Latest Topics’ or whatever title you like.

And select from the right-side sidebar where is says: template the New Topics template.

Save it.

Still in the Admin-/Dashboard – Go to your WP Settings (bottom left) -> Reading.

And select the New Topics template as a static page on the homepage.

Save it and your done.

[Ravi]

Hi,

The forum homepage now shows only list of forums.

How to show list of latest topics above this forums index? (like it is done in the bbPress forums page)

I am using bbPress 2.0 plugin.

Which file should I edit and what should I add?

http://ravidreams.in/offgrid/forums/ is the site I am working on.

Thanks,

Ravi

[common8308]

In WP, most of the users usually set the latest post or comments shown on the first loaded page. I think it’s very natural to show like that, but somehow the forum topic URL is made to show the first page when clicking the forum link.

I’m curious to know if there’s any manual way to show the latest page URL when clicking the topic URL. Thanks for reading!

[common8308]

@anointed Thank you for the suggestions! I searched for the codes and it seems it’s very nicely written about almost all the functions, I just added a couple of lines in the the widget core (since I don’t know much about tweaking the codes without fixing the core..) and it works great! Thanks for making the forum plugin again. It’s really a seamless and powerful integration of forum and WP!

[lckitchen]

Thank you for your rapid reply anointed, I contacted Orman’s support, we’ll see what they say.

Since I am new to bbPress, at your first glance of my above forum link… does it look like I got the installation and functions working, just having a problem with the width template (code)?

I tested how it would look by adding this short code [bbp-forum-index] into a regular “page” (not forum) and setting it to use full width template and I got that page to look like it should; http://limecitykitchen.com/forum-bbpress (just not functioning) Look better though, hope they can help me fix the code.

Also, will the “bbPress attachments” plugin work well with the bbPress 2.0 plugin?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/

Thanks again!

[Anointed]

MyBB was not on the original list, but I’ll see about getting it added in after we run the first version through a bunch of testing.

[lckitchen]

Hello, I am having similar issues, I can’t get bbPress to work well with my custom WP theme (self-hosted wp site). http://limecitykitchen.com/mingle/mingle/mingle-3

I installed the bbPress 2.0 plugin and have so far only created one test forum and no topics yet but I am already so frustrated about the way it shows up, it’s definitely missing padding and the window should be full width like this; http://limecitykitchen.com/fullwidth_test

I love my theme and don’t want to change that just to get bbPress to work, how do I integrate the bbPress forum into my WP site? Are there certain files I need to modify? Style sheets? Move items around in the folders?

Perhaps I need to somehow create a childs theme?

Or should I put the forum on a WPMU?

Or in a different directory on my main domain hosting with a separate WP install?

Any help with this is HIGHLY appreciated!

Thank you!

[lmburford]

Ok, ive been testing these things out for the past 2 weeks. Buddypress and BBpress communicate, however their actual integration as 2 separate plugins is kinda light. They do/can send info back and forth, and BBPress will publish to the activity stream, and things like that.

TO answer the question asked…

When you install Buddypress and use the group forums, it says “Sync with existing bbpress install”. This means an existing version of the built-in BUDDYPRESS BBPress, not the BBPress Plugin.

You can have Buddypress and the BBPress Plugin (from wordpress), but you install them as 2 seperate plugins and they pretty much operate that way, other than some communication.

As far as integrating BBPress into the Buddypress theme. You can use the built in Buddypress version, which uses the same themes and etc. But for the separate plugin version, I havent found a way to do it, other than that they are both built into the same wordpress theme (unless you find/make a BBPress theme thats similar.

Hope that helps.

[Anointed]

We are wrapping up final beta testing on a brand new plugin which will allow you to migrate your old forums to BBPress 2x. And yes, it does PHPBB3.

We hope to launch the plugin early next week and will notify the forums here when it is ready.

[Anointed]

We are doing final testing of a brand new importer, which we hope to have released early next week. It takes care of all the conversion including users that is needed.

So far we can import from

vbulletin

Phpbb

Invisionboard

BBPress 1x

Xenforo

Once final testing is complete we will make an announcement post with instructions for download and use.

[Andrew Tegenkamp]

A wonderful plugin that works great so far in my testing Thanks Milan!

[Anointed]

maybe you need to set type as avatar?

Not sure why it does not work for you. I just tested in my child theme, and all is good… very strange.

[cantregister2]

I see the culprit is in the importer:

<br />

$topics_query = new BB_Query( 'topic', array(<br />

'forum_id'     => $forum->forum_id,<br />

'per_page'     => -1,<br />

'topic_status' => 'all',<br />

'order_by'     => 'topic_start_time',<br />

'order'        => 'ASC'<br />

) );<br />

Instead, it should be something like:

<br />

$page=0;<br />

$per_page=50;<br />

$topics_query = new BB_Query( 'topic', array(<br />

'forum_id'     => $forum->forum_id,<br />

'per_page'     => $per_page,<br />

'page'     =>  $page,<br />

'topic_status' => 'all',<br />

'order_by'     => 'topic_start_time',<br />

'order'        => 'ASC'<br />

) );<br />

Strange thing is that even when you step through the pages it still doesn’t free the memory. You can test it with:

while (isset($topics_query->results)) {

echo "<p>Mem usage=" . memory_get_usage(true)/1024/1024 . "</p>";

//echo "

"; print_r($topics_query->query); echo "

";

//echo "<p>" . $topics_query->results[0] . "</p>";

$page++;

$topics_query->query = $page;

//thought following might help, but doesn't

//unset($topics_query->results);

$topics_query->query();

}

exit;

[Clicknathan]

Yes, I upgraded from 1.0.2 as per the instructions in the uploader. However, two things that were probably out of the ordinary:

1. I had a userbase of around 2700 or so, but since this is a test installation (before officially converting the live site to BBPress Plugin 2.0), and I didn’t want any surprise notices going out to the users, I only imported admins to the test installation (meaning there are 1000s of replies and 100s of topics who’s “author” is blank now)

2. During the conversion process (ie, via Tools > Import), I did not have to import the bb_users to wp_users table. In fact, I didn’t even have a bb_users table, and I’m guessing this is because we were using the old BB/WP user integration? So I made sure I still had my wp_users and wp_usermeta tables correct and just went to the second radio button to import forums, topics and replies.

As for plugins that alter queries, I tried deactivating everything this morning, including and excluding the bbpress plugin, but I get the following error:

“Fatal error: Class ‘BBP_Theme_Compat’ not found in /usr/www/users/bikepgh/devsite/wp-content/themes/speakerspokesbb/functions.php on line 32”

I’m using an exact copy of the functions.php file from the bbpress/bb-themes/bbp-twentyten folder (copied to my child theme folder of my own custom theme).

Does that provide any insight?

[miruru]

I’ve installed a spoiler plugin which uses html tags as bbpress does not accept shortcodes within posts. The spoiler plugin is called enhanced-ss.

The plugin works fine within WordPress Posts but does not seem to work within bbpress posts. I am using the latest wordpress version, buddypress version and bbpress 2.0.

The code is available here –> http://pastebin.com/AkH7eNJ4

Is there a reason why it does not display within a bbpress post?

[Erlend]

I run a fairly large site with a standard integrated bbPress forum, categorized by groups. I’ve been able to successfully update to version 1.5. However my attempts at migrating to bbPress 2.0 have so far been unsuccessful.

All I’ve tried so far is the default process:

Tools -> Import -> bbPress Standalone

I’m given a path to bb-config.php, at the root of my WordPress install, which seems to be correct. Going by these default settings has worked just fine on a much smaller test site. On this big one however, no such luck.

We have ~20’000 threads and ~15’000 users. If you’ve attempted to migrate a fairly large website to bbPress 2.0 from the legacy BuddyPress forum, kindly share your findings.

[robot6]

I looked at “http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks&#8221;, it reads: “For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields.”

I can’t seem to be able to use the recommended link structures with bbpress forums and topics such as /%post_id%/%postname%/.

Will the permalink structure greatly affect the loading time of my different pages or has this issue been resolved with the latest version of WordPress?

[wemaflo]

I’ve updated all my language files to the latest stable versions. You can download them on my page and use them freely wherever you want.

At the moment there are language files available for the following versions of bbPress:

1.0.2 and 1.0.3 (old versions) formal and informal

1.1 (current standalone version of bbPress, released today) formal

2.0 (the brand new WordPress plugin of bbPress, released today) formal

Please report any errors, missing or faulty translations! Thanks!

Ich habe alle Sprachdateien für bbPress an die letzten Stable-Versionen angepasst. Du kannst sie auf meiner Seite herunterladen und sie frei verwenden, wo immer Du willst.

Derzeit sind Sprachdateien für folgende Versionen von bbPress verfügbar:

1.0.2 und 1.0.3 (alte Versionen) formell und informell

1.1 (die aktuelle Standalone-Version, heute veröffentlicht), formell

2.0 (die brandneue Plugin-Version von bbPress, ebenfalls heute veröffentlicht), formell

Bitte melde mir alle Fehler oder fehlende Übersetzungen, damit ich die Dateien anpassen kann. Vielen Dank!