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I knew bbPress for a while, but didn’t do anything with it until a few weeks ago. I needed bbPress for some projects to embed it in already running WordPress installations. At first I installed bbPress from the WordPress plugin repository and activated it. So far easy as every other plugin.

But how do I show this thing a WordPress site? I created a page called ‘Forum’ and inserted the shortcode

into it. Published the page and everything was visible. But now? Why do I need more shortcodes if this is working?

You can copy bbPress template files into your own custom theme folder. This is a way to change some look and feel together with CSS changes. My first question was ‘why are there so many template files?’ As an experienced WordPress theme developer I would say you only need a few. Like forums.php, topics.php and replies.php. I lost my way. Which template is used for which page?

As long as everything works, it’s okay. But then I ran into problems. I am totally lost. I don’t know what is the right way to embed bbPress into WordPress. Just by creating a page? Or add the template files to my custom theme? Both ways got me into the same problems.

I love WordPress, I love to be active in translating and contributing to various projects, I love to help organizing my local WordCamp, but I don’t love to be lost. In my opinion bbPress should work as easy as any other theme file in WordPress. Where you can construct your own page using functions, which are available in a Codex.

Using bbpress 2.0 and the current plugin

using current version of wordpress

I am sure it is something simple, but I can’t figure it out and after hours of banging my head I am posting for some help.

Not sure why, but every forum leads to a blank page.

www.climberism.com/forums

click on any of the forum and it leads to a blank page.

Any guidance would be great!

I’m curious to know how well bbpress scales. As it stands right now, I’m beginning to think that WordPress is a bit of a dog despite being good for a number of things, relatively speaking. I haven’t seen many using bbpress other for simple support type sites – does anyone use it on a larger scale?

The foum tittles are comming at bottom of page , how to fix ?

http://downtownburjpalooza.com/forums/topic/kangaroo-kids-nursery/

Hi. I have downloaded the BBpress plugin for WP. In this version how do I install plugins for BB? There is no “my-plugins” folder.

Thanks!

Hi,

I installed bbPress 2.0.2 on WordPress 3.3.1. Embedded it in the site of a customer. There are some forums created. All are Forum, Open and Public. Some topics are added by an Administrator. So far everything ok.

When a user with role Forum Participant logs in, it can access the forum, but no topics are shown:

This forum contains 4 topics and 0 replies, and was last updated by xxx 1 min ago.

Oh bother! No topics were found here!

Administrators do see the topics. What is happening here?

If you want different sidebar to be displayed instead of blog sidebar in your theme then you can use this plugin that replaces your blog sidebar with forum specific sidebar.

On forum sidebar you can list forums, login box or login and register links, latest topics. While on blog you would list latest posts, categories, pages etc.

Also you can select default forum wrapper using this plugin.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-wp-tweaks/

Also you can use it to display login link for not logged in user. usually bbpress will say you need to login and not display link or form for login.

Is there documentation on how you can integrate your current them to bbpress? I see all these replies yes you can but no documentation. I mean I have dropped my theme into the bbpress folder etc etc.. and no luck. If anyone can help me out I would appreciate it.

I don’t want to have anything to do with all the theme files mixed up with the plugin, there is just way to much going on there that I don’t want in my theme.

Is there anyway to just add two little files to your existing theme, one that lists (paginated) all threads, and then obviously the single thread page? I don’t want it to automatically add any links, breadcrumbs, post date, tags, or anything else. If I don’t add it myself, I don’t want it to be on the page, just the way WordPress itself works.

I just installed the bbpress plugin and it seems to work great. I am working on stylizing it to match my site. How do I get it to use a specific page template for the forums? Can I make the forums pull into a specific page that I create and then set a page template?