I noticed that BBPress 2 is a WP plugin, where the first was a standalone. Is there documentation for the upgrade process? Can you still have separate themes?

Any documentation or information on the latest would be great but I can’t find anything on the site.

Thank you!

[pimartsParticipant @pimarts 5 years, 11 months ago]

That’s because the WordPress plugin is still in beta. There’s bits and pieces of information all over the forum and you can always ask questions of course.

[sdigglesMember @sdiggles 5 years, 11 months ago]

Like…Is there documentation for the upgrade process?

[pimartsParticipant @pimarts 5 years, 11 months ago]

I didn’t try it myself, but you can import posts from the stand-alone edition. Try searching for it.

Either way, I would suggest you get a beta running where you try it out first, before you employ it on any live site.

[sdigglesMember @sdiggles 5 years, 11 months ago]

Yea I did and it looks like it is just custom post types/taxonomies/etc.

Maybe I am better off just switching to vBulletin…

[AshfameParticipant @ashfame 5 years, 11 months ago]

So, Custom Post Types / Taxonomies aren’t powerful enough for you?

[sdigglesMember @sdiggles 5 years, 11 months ago]

lol no…it’s a great thing, but I just wanted WP and the forum to be seperate. Probably the only person who wants this.

[ErlendParticipant @sadr 5 years, 11 months ago]

Separate as in users, or just not an inherent part of WordPress?

I highly recommend Vanilla:

http://vanillaforums.org/

That’ll give you a tight integration with WordPress, but through a “bridge”, so CMS and Forum remain two distinct systems.

[AshfameParticipant @ashfame 5 years, 11 months ago]

I would suggest you to use the standalone version

[sdigglesMember @sdiggles 5 years, 11 months ago]

@Erlend you are the best! Vanilla is perfect…BBPress I guess just isn’t the right tool for this job.

Thanks!!!!

[John James JacobyKeymaster @johnjamesjacoby 5 years, 11 months ago]

For what it’s worth, *not* wanting complete integration between a WordPress install and bbPress is the exception rather than the rule. It’s been a long while since someone has wanted two separate and disconnected installations.

Best of luck!