I have been dowloading the plugins from the forums and now in several readme.txt files the creators keep refering to the plugins location at /my-plugins/.

Now in WP I know that plugins is located under w-content/plugins/ so I had assumed that bb-plugins was the correct folder.

is /my-plugins/ just a verbage for a standard plugin folder or do you have to create a new folder?

PS I know what they say about assuming… makes an ASS out of U and ME.

[@ipstenu Moderator 16 years, 1 month ago]

You need to create the folder You’ll have these folders on the root of your forums:

/bb-admin/

/bb-cache/

/bb-includes/

/bb-plugins/

/bb-templates/

/my-plugins/

/my-templates/

[@mobiel-internet Member 16 years, 1 month ago]

You can just use the /my-plugins/ folder

[@787consulting Member 16 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks guys!

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

The core developers absolutely refuse to ship bbPress with pre-made /my-plugins and /my-templates directory for reasons I cannot fathom. It’s very weird, especially since documentation to create it is very sparse and they will still work if you put items incorrectly into the bb- directories.

[@johnhiler Member 16 years, 1 month ago]

It may be a little thing, but I don’t understand why the themes and plugin folders have different names (and are stored in different places) from the similar folders in WordPress.

[@_ck_ Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

bbPress attempted to correct where it could some of the naming and placement issues for files and functions that persisted in WordPress because of legacy reasons. In that way and a few others it’s design is subtly superior to WordPress.

[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 1 month ago]

I have asked in the past about including the my-plugins and my-templates directories as well. I wish someone of authority would explain the reason to not include two empty directories in the archive. There must be a good reason.