I’m in the process of converting a standlone BBpress 1.1 installation into the 2.02 plugin version (well, really, recreating it from scratch in the plugin version, because the importer apparently doesn’t work if your blog actually has any users or content).
And I’ve run into a problem – the default permalink structure for the BBpress plugin is really bizarre. It adds a “forums” slug for the forums area, which is fine and to be expected, but then it also insists on adding an additional “forum” slug before the name of each forum, so that instead of a normal URL like example.com/forums/announcements, you get example.com/forums/forum/announcements, which looks weird and awkward. I tried just removing the forum slug, but that left a double slash in the URL, which my web browser then reduced to a single slash, resulting in a 404 error.
And for posts within forums, instead of the sort of URL you would normally expect – i.e. for a post in the announcements forum, something like example.com/forums/announcements/welcome, or example.com/forums/announcements/12345 or whatever, you have example.com/forums/topic/welcome – there doesn’t appear to be any way to associate the posts with the actual forum they’re in.
Is there any way to fix this? Obviously the “forums/forum” thing is the most important – having the completely useless “topic” slug in the post URLs is annoying and pointless, but the “forums/forum” thing makes it look like I was drunk when I set the forums up or something – I really can’t let it go live with a glitch like that in the URLs. But I’d like to fix the topic issue too if possible. Any ideas?
Is there a way to add total post count and roles (moderator, etc.) under the avatars/usernames of users in the forum?
I’m using the BBPress plugin with a Buddypress / WordPress site.
Thanks.
Hi!
First of all, thank you for a wonderful plugin! You’re doing a great job!
I’ve been working a lot with version 2.0.2, and I have had a lot of problems. I didn’t want to upgrade to 2.1 because it wasn’t a stable version. But i eventually did upgrade to 2.1 and let me tell you, it solved a lot of my problems.
Thank you very much and I appreciate what you do!
I’ve spent a couple of hours looking without much result, so I will ask the question.
My bbpress standalone 1.0.2 forum was using Human Test quite successfully up until last week, when it mysteriously quit working. It thinks everybody is a nonhuman. The few spam posts that appeared I did not mind deleting manually, then I would manually delete that user also.
Now I am getting about 50 new registrations every night (normally I get zero to one per day). Not a lot of spam posts, oddly enough.
So next I tried Akismet. It boasted that it was blocking 25 spams a night. But there is nowhere to check these spams–really? An email to the Akismet folks got me the reply that they don’t have a clue where bbpress stores spams.
I would much rather block registrants than posts. Does bbpress 2.x have any protective measures built in, or are there any good plugins? Does 2.x play nicer with Akismet?
Problem: Remove sidebar from bbPress
Solution: My theme has a Full Width option
I know that if I input my shortcode into a Page, it will display the forum in the Template of my choosing. Presto, the forum index is within Full Width.
Yet when the user decides to choose a forum, they’re relegated to the Theme’s default Template, which includes the sidebar.
Meeeeh.
Is there a quick and dirty way to tell bbPress to use the Full Width template that’s already available?
I recently noticed that when I try to start a topic or posting a reply, it’s taking about 30+ second before the topic/reply is show up. If you try to tell me there may be a “bad plugin” and try to disable all of it except bbPress, save it. I have tried the following:
1. Using different browser.
I find out that when I try to use Firefox 12.0 to post, it’s loading extremely slow. But this is not happening in Internet Explorer 9 or Google Chrome 18.
Try to start Firefox in safe mode? Yes I have tried to do that but it doesn’t make a difference.
2. Using different user/computer.
It’s still the same.
3. Try to post a comment in a normal post.
I was able to comment a post without any problems, so I think it may be a “bad plugin” problem.
4. Disable all plugin (except bbPress & BuddyPress)
But the same thing happen. FYI I don’t edit either the bbPress or BuddyPress files.
5. Using different theme.
I replace my modified custom community theme with BuddyPress Default theme and see if I putting bad codes in my theme. But this doesn’t solve problem even I tried other themes.
6. Change permalink structure.
It doesn’t make any changes, and I don’t think it will help.
7. Reinstall WordPress, bbPress & BuddyPress
Still doesn’t make any changes.
8. Create a new install in another domain.
I use http://scirefs.com/ as my main and http://www.scirefs.org as a sandbox (with the same configuration as in SCIREFs.com) with only bbPress and BuddyPress activated. But everything works fine in SCIREFs.org with either bbPress 2.02 or 2.1 and I have no issue with Firefox 12.
9. The Cloudflare……
Since I have Cloudflare as my CDN for SCIREfs.com but not SCIREFs.org, I tried to remove SCIREFs.com from Cloudflare and add SCIREfs.org to it and see what happens. The result: The issue with Firefox at SCIREFs.com disappear but SCIREfs.org is now facing the old issue.
Do anyone here have any ideas what’s wrong with it? Or someone here is facing the same problem? This seems to be the first and the only problem I can’t figure it myself.
You can login to SCIREFs.org using the following information:
Username: demo
Password: demo
URL of the forums: http://www.scirefs.org/test-forums
And try to start a topic or post a reply using Firefox and see if it’s happening to you.
In my forum when someone comment a topic the avatar picture(profile Picture) is going weird.see below link please
http://sden.adkdesign.co.uk/myforums/topic/test6-topics/
How would I go about making the Avatars bigger on the forum page? More specifically, the avatar of the most recent poster on the forum page? Thanks.
Hello! I’d love to see some examples of sites that utilize WordPress for its blog and bbPress for its forum/messageboard. I’m poking around this forum now for examples but would love to see any that you may know of. Thank you 
Howdy,
i wuold like to have email notifications to users with out them have to click “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” check box.
is that possible? it wuold be great that “Notify me of follow-up replies via email” wuoldnt show at all. so if you write to forum you wuold get notification every time someone wuold write answear to it.
