[Gautam Gupta]

There is an importer that is bundled with bbPress plugin itself. Just navigate to Tools -> Importer -> bbPress Standalone and enter the path to the BuddyPress bbPress install (should get detected automatically) and you’d be good to go (backup must).

[rossagrant]

Ahh wow, cool, that looks great! I don’t have BB Press installed on my live site yet but will set up a test and have a look.

It would be awesome to place shortcodes on pages for stuff like this. Where you could perhaps show x number of latest topics etc.

Is there any news on an exporter by the way, to export old Buddypress groups/ forums into the new BB Press plugin.

I want to get rid of groups and just have some forums like on test-bp.org.

The group names would effectively become the main forum names and then the topics would appear in each forum.

Is that on the cards?

Thanks again!

[Gautam Gupta]

You can use this code (untested, but should work if bbPress is being loaded on that page):

if ( bbp_has_topics( array( 'author' => 0, 'show_stickies' => false, 'order' => 'DESC', 'post_parent' => 'any', 'posts_per_page' => 5 ) ) )

bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/loop', 'topics' );

@JJJ: I think we could allow such attributes in [bbp-topic-index] shortcode too?

[miruru]

I’m also looking for something like as it will be very useful. I’m not much of a coder so wouldn’t know where to start. This will be great as a plugin though.

JJJ > My site is only a test site, how would I turn the shortcodes on? I only want to see what it would look like. It’ll be a while before my site goes live. If you don’t want to post this on the forum, then i’ll understand.

[rossagrant]

Hi guys!

I really can’t wait to start working with BP 1.5 and BB Press 2.0!

I’m just going through a homepage redesign in preparation for upgrading.

I was wondering, if I wanted to give users a sneak peak at what was going on in the site forums, could I somehow add say the latest 5 topics to the homepage in the same kind of layout that you would see in the forum directory?

Is there a shortcode for adding anything like that to a page?

Would be awesome if possible!

Thanks!

[Adam]

I just posted there at: http://testbp.org/discussion/topic/testing-9/#post-2780 and everything works.

So We can officially say that the plugins I am using are causing the edit, delete, mod keys to not work. How ever on local host all I have is the bbpress installation going. I integrated it with my theme following your steps in your sticky. So I can’t tell if its a theme issue or not. How ever could a theme cause the whole paragraph thing and html tags to epically fail?

so can we explain why the paragraph and html tags dont work?

[John James Jacoby]

testbp.org is a standalone installation not connected to anything. We use it to test BuddyPress, WordPress, and bbPress together in a typical hosting environment.

[Adam]

thats what I have as well. Is “post any html” lets test this jazz.

My login information which works here does not work there…..>_> I thought this login stuff was global across buddypress, wordpress (which it doesnt work there either) and here?

[John James Jacoby]

None. Can you try posting something over at testbp.org with the HTML you are using? If you make a topic, I will post to it to, and we can test it together on a vanilla installation.

I can confirm that as an admin, I am able to post any HTML I want to as expected.

[Adam]

Hmm lets see:

– we can rule out theme (for all but this paragraph and code issue, code being what tags can be used in the forum). I never though to check plugin in relation to the moderation buttons. I fear it may be the buddypress moderation plugin. tests will be done >_> (which they should have been)

-The install is on a multi site activated on one site instead of a network activate.

Where are the html tags located in the .php files that i can add or remove tags to? these tags don’t work on local host or live….unfortently. except for em….

also paragraph formatting doesn’t work on localhost or live.

Localhost has two plugins but only one is activated, bbpress. the other is buddypress 1.5 rc1 and its deactivated.

any other ideas or suggestions?

[Adam]

I am wondering how to allow users to login in and use the forums. easy enough you would think. But I have never tested or had a site where users had to sign up. my other site (multisite so I have three) uses buddy press and thats all fine and dandy. as they sign up, and they are returned to buddy press. Will users signing up for my site be returned to the home page? will they have admin pannel (post new posts, edit themes, install plugins) rights? if so How do i remove that?

I am very cautious about this how ever I want to allow users to use the forums, hence why I am creating them…

my second issue is that when I am logged in, as the site admin, and I go to a forum and a test topic and hit any of the “admin” buttons for moderating a forum I get the following issues:

edit: refreshes the page

close: refreshes the page

Stick (to front): refreshes the page

merge, trash and spam: refreshes the page.

on local host these all work.

I am using multi site on the live site and I have this plugin activated for one of my three sites. on local host I am NOT using multi site.

Also, How will bbpress plugins work for bbpress 2.0? the same as before? or will we install them as regular plugins and just activate them?

[Adam]

I am wondering if someone can tell me why the reply to this test topic I made in a forum is all scrunched up. any reply made to any topic in any forum is all scrunched up while the initial post is well formed.

Site: http://blackandwhite.web44.net/labs/forums/topic/test2/

[Adam]

I have a single install of bbpress, no other plugins and i am using a theme in which I placed: add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ ); in the functions.php file. When creating a forum and testing it out I am taken toa page where I get a 404 error….

this theme is a wordpress theme. I managed to get it to work….No not really. the forums do not seem to work properly with ordinary wordpress themes. is there no smooth integration between the two?

[Jared Atchison]

Alright, marking this as done.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1622

Latest round of commits fixes everything, including pagination. Enjoy Genesis goodness.

//edit: i cant spell >_<

[Jared Atchison]

Patch update. Still needs testers

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1622

[kevinvaughn]

thanks JJJ… with this info I have continued to test and found that it is in fact working correctly

[Adam]

So I have bbpress 2.0 rc4 installed.

I also have buddy press 1.5 (the latest build from trac) installed.

How do I keep the discussion forums enabled in buddypress and use the forums of bbpress like how you guys have the sample site set up?

What are the steps?

[Jared Atchison]

Glad you got it figured out

For anyone who stumbles on this topic: the plugin linked to above has been tested with Genesis 1.7.1, WP 3.2.X, bbP RC 4, and *several* Genesis themes – so far I have found zero issues.

The patch still needs more testing and tweaks, however. That’s next.

[David Decker]

@WebEndev:

I am so sorry for you! I hope I could help you out soon. I got mine working with Jared’s plugin patch – I just experimentet with his code line for the layout option and have all working like I want it.

My above report you quoted was regarding the patch from John for bbPress core which was not working at that time (or the last time I tested it a few days ago…). So I am sorry if you got confused because of my report…

Please have also a look here and especially for Nathan’s posts:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1622

I hope this helps a bit right now. I am knee deep in important client work and might get back later here on…

-Dave

[Jared Atchison]

Right now the patch is pretty much what the plugin is – just cleaned up and in a patch form. It needs further testing. The sole purpose of the patch/plugin is to help provide a few fixes so Genesis/bbP will have limited out of the box support for each other.

It doesn’t make any changes to the template files or the way they operate.

[Adam]

Not understanding this….. (bbpress 2.0 rc4)

1) I installed the plugin.

2) I don’t have twenty ten installed and I got the error “bbPress (Twenty Ten) The parent theme is missing. Please install the “twentyten” parent theme.” This should be updated to use the latest version of WordPress theme 2011

3) Installed twenty 10

4) returned to themes.

5)bbpress theme is not showing its preview .png file most themes show.

6) Activating bbpress theme gives me:

Your active theme does not include bbPress template files. Your forums are using the default styling included with bbPress.

The active theme is broken. Reverting to the default theme.

-> NOTHING was touched or changed. All I did was install bbpress plugin and install the twenty ten theme.

So I thought, what the hell lets create a forum and go to it:

1) forums

2) new forums

3) new: Test

4) Publish

5) view ->

This is somewhat embarrassing, isn’t it?

It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching, or one of the links below, can help.

What am I doing wrong? Why is this not working at all?

[spaghetti]

Clicking the subscribe to topic will bring you to the same or the latest topic you have posted or commented into and it is not located at the top of every topic you are posting.

[Adam]

So I installed the new plugin to test it out on a local host. How do you set up the “This forum is for this site on multi site feature? and Why do you have the option to allow anonymous people to create threads and topics?

Would it also be possible to do something like:

mainsite.come/multisite1/forums

Where multisite is a blog and a series of forums? when this is tried on a local host site I get a white page when visiting multisite1 and only by disabling the plugin do I get multisite 1 and its contents back.

[Adam]

I would do the codex as Jquery did their documentation IMO, wordpress pages/posts. Easy to set up, easy to edit and change, and allows for people to comment saying what changed, how to use or provide feed back.

Gets the community involved. Thats how I do documentation for ruby based projects.

Any ways,

can you explain (since I am not testing this plugin till its 2.0) finished, how we will set it up for multi site to only use with ONE site? will it be done via the dash board?

[KRCSC]

Hi chaps, just a quickie: is there any snippets of code I can use to display the latest posts (and decide the number) on my static and custom front page here: http://www.krcsc.co.uk. Am using BBP 2.0 but can’t find any php on it – any ideas?