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Hi there,

I am looking into bbPress — but we run a mult-site wordpress configuration.

Am I able to put forums on each of the sites?

-Josh

Ok so I am new to BBPress. I was looking for a quick and easy solution for forums.

So far so good. Then I updated my permalinks structure in WordPress to be “post-name”

Now all the forum links come up as 404s.

Perhaps I am just having a dumb day but I have read the similar problems and cannot make head or tail of them.

I want my blog in general to use the post name permalink structure, as I like it for SEO purposes. I really could not care less for the Forum. I just want it to work.

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help!

OK, I chose bbPress because the description made it sound as if it was a simple program to use. Well, maybe it is if you have a decent amount of prior knowledge with programs like this.

Thing is that many of us who decide to use web development software like WP do so because we want to put up a website but don’t want to take the time to learn HTML or CSS or any other programming language. We simply want to be able to show the world our thoughts, shops, blogs or whatever via the web and want to do so without needing to learn a 2nd language. I don’t think that’s too much to ask in the year 2012.

The problem many of us are running into with bbPress is that the developers assume too much of us. There is nothing simple about getting this thing to work correctly and that’s a shame because it really looks like something great to add to a website.

Again, I do believe that this program would be fairly simple for someone with a decent amount of understanding in web development. However, there are a large amount of WP users who have not one bit of programming knowledge or web development experience. For those of us with extremely limited knowledge in this area it would be a great help if we could get a small bit of instruction to get started.

Having a forum for getting questions answered is a fine idea and would be enough for most of us if only we could get some of the mods to actually answer our questions. I see several posts in this forum from people who are having a difficult time and the only time anyone seems to get any communication from the mods is when they finally get irritated enough to get their post shut down.

I’m not at all trying to be rude or insulting here but there really is no help at all for someone needing it. I’m just trying to offer some feedback in order to improve the product and the support for it. Something as simple as a small manual with step by step instruction describing how to get a link to bbPress forum on the WP front page once it’s set up would really go a long way toward helping those of us who are a little technically challenged.

Seriously….ignoring a plea for help until it’s elevated to the point of frustration and then shutting down the post is counter productive. I’ve searched several posts where all the poster wants is an explanation on how to access his forum from the front page and every one I’ve seen so far offers no help at all. The posters are ignored completely until they are frustrated and then told to leave or to use a different product.

Just a small bit of advice for everyone and something I learned long ago…..Be careful which toes you step on today because they may belong to the feet you have to kiss tomorrow.

hi,

I am currently integrating BBPress with my custom theme. All going well so far, i’ve edited all the template files so they fit with my blog but i can’t seem to find the file that controls the user profile page. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Natalie

I just installed the bbpress plugin in my wordpress site. I can see the bbpress settings page. I created a Forums page on my site, and added a forum to the bbpress Dashboard forum page. Now, how do I actually see the bbpress forum in my site’s Forums page? When I go there, the page is empty? What am I missing? Do I need to add some code to the Forums page to get the bbpress forum to show up?

Hey guys…

I did not find the translation to portuguese for BBPress 2.0. There are?

Thanks!

How can I remove the labels and inputs for Topic Tags and Topic Type when creating a new Topic?

Hello,

Install 2.1 version on few days back and it works good and used my custom theme without any issues.

But when i saw the Titles in the forums

its outputs before like…

Forums – site name

Forum: (forum name) – site name

Topic: (topic name) – site name

1) So what i want is move them to right or complete remove the later two, can some one point what to edit to achieve this.

2) And want the members to img code so image displays when topic is submitted, how to achieve this, what should i set default user to?

3) So if i use the admin account to post in forums it uses admin username directly in url, so how to hide this out… so as not to give out the admin username

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

I have a website built in Ruby on Rails. My site has a webpage, located at “example.com/communityboard”, that you can use to enter a separate Community area. The community area is built with bbPress.

I want users who type in the URL “example.com/community” to be redirected to “example.com/communityboard” . It used to work this way, but for some reason, the redirect no longer works in any browser but IE.

We accomplished this redirect by placing an index.html file in the /community folder where bbPress had been installed. The entire code for the index.html file reads

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://example.com/communityboard">

Back when we built the site, I was told that a meta refresh redirect using an index.html file was the best option. The redirect had to address ONLY a single page (http://example.com/community) and not all of the sublevels of the community bb (which lives at http://example.com/community/index.php). Otherwise, the community bb and all of its sublevels would be redirected.

So… my questions:

Why is the meta refresh redirect not working anymore? How can I fix it?

Do the shortcodes have some how to limit the number of topics that can be shown with the

shortcode ?, per example i have a page where i only want to show the last 5 topics not all of them.

Thanks!!