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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
A wonderful plugin that works great so far in my testing 
Thanks Milan!
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.
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;
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?
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?
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.
I looked at “http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks”, 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?
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!
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!
Hello,
I have just updated my test site from buddypress 1.3 to 1.5
and installed new bbpress 2.0 plugin and it looks/ works good, with our custom theme
thanks!
we have over 10k topics in buddy press group forums,
anyone successfully managed to move all group forum topics/posts to standalone bbpress forums?
is there any converted available (or any chance someone is working on it)?
The awesome bbPress Plugin 2.0 is finally released!
So for all German users I have the language files ready for download – in formal (SIE) and informal (DU) version. Both were tested/used in production environments so should work like a charm.
Just DOWNLOAD here:
http://ddwb.me/1c#bbpress-plugin
Have fun, Dave from Germany
This is now possible:
http://testbp.org/2011/08/forum-shortcode-as-comments/
Though it’s still unclear to me whether or not this relies on BuddyPress 1.5, the environment in which this functionality is showcased. It would be a very odd dependency though, so I’m hoping this would also be possible with WP + BBP alone.
I have a bbpress (classic) install with WP deep integration, and figured I’d get a head start on formatting my test install for the eventual release of the plug in. So far I’ve got almost everything styled nicely just using CSS, but I’m stuck on removing a few things that seem to clutter up the presentation of the forum.
1. Does anyone know how to remove the “This forum contains X topics and X replies, and was last updated…” from the main Forum and topic pages?
2. How about how to remove the modification history section and the post # display from posts.
3. Remove the extraneous breadcrumbing, right now it’s Site>Forums>Forum as the default ‘Forum” page. Seems like one level too deep for default bbpress forum starting point. SInce my site will only have 1 forum, is there a way to clean up the sloppiness or at least hide the useless ‘Forums’ link in the breadcrumb?
‘techy’ fix: (requires php experience)
the bbp_has_topics() function appears to function almost exactly like the wordpress loop.
In the bbpress plugin folder /bbp-includes/bbp-topic-template.php line 68 is the bbp_has_topics function.
It takes the parameter post_parent which you can assign as the id of the forum you are trying to pull posts from. There are also a number of other parameters you can set as well.
‘non-techy’ fix: someday I am guessing there will be a widget available which will let you make the filters with a gui.
Hi guys,
At the first time I installed WPMU+BP 1.5-beta-3+latest bbpress from plugin directory. It’s working perfect on my latest WAMP on Win7. I have both group discussion(built-in bbpress on BP) and the bbpress Forum which you can handle it from Admin panel. Fully integrated with BP1.5-bera-3 Activity Stream. Whatever you do is going to be on your Activity Stream right on time. Even if you mention someone in forum is going to be OK too.
Funny thing is I can’t do the same thing anymore! I tried to do that on Ubuntu server 11.04 with latest XAMPP+ Mac OS X Server 10.6.8 with latest XAMPP. Second one(Mac OS X) is not possible because released XAMPP it’s not up to date enough(PHP still old version and not working for BP-beta-3 or for any other reseaons).
On Ubuntu(or Debian, CentOS), everything is working perfect except Activity Stream and mention thing. Even now I’ve been trying to do the same thing with another installation on WAMP on Windows, it’s not working. I’ve done it 100 times with different strategies. Old or new, I did all of them. Even I check Server time and time zone in WP settings. Still not working.
I almost forgot what I did at the first time! As far as I know based on comparing with the first one which is working well, what ever I create in bbpress it’s not gonna insert in any of wp_bb_ tables.
I’ve done every clean installation on three different OS(Win, Ubuntu, Mac OS X) with latest release WAMP, LAMP, and XAMPP.
Please give me a something, anything.
Thanks
BBPress Widgets: Topics List / Reply List …..
Although forums are marked as private the widgets will list latest topics and replies for logged-out users and users which shouldn’t even be able to see the topic title. Got me? Just try it out yourself. This should be changed before going final cause it’s a security issue. Once marked as private it should be really private!
I’m now using bbpress 2.0 and buddypress 1.2.10 and the shortcodes and widgets have been very useful to the not so techy users like me.
The situation is that I want to show only one forum’s latest topics, is there any plan for releasing shortcodes with more detailed options or a way to make it possible manually?
Thank you in advance!
alrighty, with your help, anointed, I’m getting the hang of this now. I’ve created new pages with bbpress shortcodes, and linked them accordingly. Now I am testing the registration process and I have one question.
Instead of having new users login via the WordPress Dashboard, can I make it so they stay at the frontend? Does that make sense? I do not want them logging into any kind of WordPress backend.
Thanks again buddy.
With the very exciting new “forum shortcode as comments” feature currently being tested on testbp.org, quite a few questions come to mind. Seeing as the test site isn’t really meant for real conversations, I’ll ask my questions here.
(1) For starters, I’m assuming this will also work without BuddyPress in the mix?
(2) What if I’m running a multisite, separating content into two or more blogs?
example.com – main blog and forum.
devblog.example.com – secondary blog, no forum.
So in the instance that I make a post on devblog.example.com that I’d like to attach a forum thread to, would that be possible?
(3) Has this been tested with different post formats?
(4) Also, the idea of multiple posts pointing to the same forum topic is very cool, but what about the other way around?
Say I write a post about an already addressed topic (there is an existing thread about it) but I would like to open a new thread of discussion for some fresh opinions. Being able to point to multiple threads would be very handy. Maybe there’d have to be one main topic, but others could be added as links, pretty much like a pingback.
(5) Showing the first post in the forum thread in the blog post, especially in your example, seems counter-intuitive to me. Have you considered (tried) working around that?