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I just installed 2.1.bleeding to try out bbPress on my site. Totally automatic and smooth as could be. For the record, I’m using the Simple X theme on my blog. Layout needs a little tweaking, but it all worked immediately.

Most of my site is PHP with the blog secondary. My goal is for the user on a custom PHP page to create a ‘item’ on the base site, and at the same time begin a discussion topic about the ‘item’ on bbPress. They would complete a form with various data that includes a title and comment box. I want to take what they enter and handle part of it on my current site and then create a related new forum topic using the title and comment.

I suspect this can be done by calling some ‘create topic’ function, but being a novice at this I have no clue how. For the record, my url structure looks like ‘xyz.com/blog/forums’.

Is this possible? If so, how?

Thanks for any help,

Hugh

I use bbpess integrated with buddypress, and it works fine.

But i can find any settings page(I am noe sure if there should be)..

I would like to do som small changes, like latest post on firs page, and nuber of views on every post. typical: postname(12 views)..

Hello Everyone!

I’m doing a website about proper skin care. I want it to be a blog, with some static pages, and a forum component for an active community. I want to know how to do this in WordPress. I installed BBPress 2.0 plugin, and created a new forum, but I want to make the forum be It’s own menu item, as a separate component to my site. I also want to try to apply a universal theme.
If someone could lead me in the right direction, I would greatly appreciate it.

Zach

Am I correct in understanding that currently there is no way to set role permissions on a per forum basis?

We are able to use member plugins to control the global permissions for a particular role – but we can’t, for example, allow the ‘Author’ role to access the ‘Author’ forum whilst preventing all other roles from accessing the ‘Author’ forum – correct?

I have a website I’m going to add forums to and I’m thinking about using bbPress. But there is something I’m not liking when I’m trying it out. I don’t like how when a user isn’t logged in it says “You must be logged in to reply to this topic.” below the posts.

Is there a way to change that text to something more user friendly. Like please login or register to reply with links to a way to login or register.

Below is the link to the first forum that I have made with bbpress.

I have one reservation which is in the sub menu to the forums button I’ve included a page as a site map for the forum. The reason that I did this was that I thought that the forum index page looked a bit cluttered in places. I did think of putting links with the titles on the forum map page but thought that it might discourage users from using the real thing.

What do you think?

It is part of a larger site and I don’t know how to segregate it. The link is direct to the forum page.

what-do-christians-believe.co.uk/wp/forums/

Hi,

Anyone know if there is a way to integrate with a mailing list? Some poeple prefer forums, but many prefer traditional mailing lists (like google groups). I’ve always wanted a solution that combined them both (I’ve seen a couple of attempts on other platforms).

Anyone know of anything?

Kevin N.

Hi,

On my website I have in root folder of the domain (www.example.com/) all html static pages. Some time ago I installed on that website the WordPress package, for blogging. As it was allowed in standard setup, WordPress files are located in www.example.com/wp/ folder and blog is accessible via www.example.com/blog/.

Recently I decided to add forum to the site, using existing WordPress installation. After bbress plugin installation, when I configure the forum, it is by default appended to blog – current WordPress starting folder and addressed as www.example.com/blog/forum/, which is messy and confusing.

How to setup bbpress in this environment to have forum root separated and directed to www.example.com/forum/ in parallel to blog www.example.com/blog/?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Hi.

I have some problems to use bbPress 2 with a full custom theme. bbPress is globally working and the forums are displaying correctly but some views don’t work properly. Example: the topic-tag view, which actually lists all topics of the forums, without taking the selected tag in account. I have the same behavior with the search results (I use the bbPress Search Widget plugin).

1. When I use the default bbPress theme, it works.

2. When I use my own custom bbPress theme, the problem happens.

3. When I override files in the default theme folder (not recommended), it works.

4. When I use the default bbPress theme as if it was a custom one (copy/paste of the folder, etc.) the problem happens too.

So it’s not related to my theme as it happens with the default theme files too, as soon as they’re not in the default folder.

What could it be related to?

Hi,

I’m trying to get new-topics-archive to show on my forum front page and to show all my forum pages in a simple left-aligned-sidebar structure, a structure that’s the opposite of the rest of the WP site(right-aligned sidebar).

I created a bbpress.php file with this structure, but it’s not being recognized. Instead, it’s defaulting to my template page.php file. I tried bbpress.php and forum.php, but neither works.

And once I get all that working, a shortcode on the forum front page should make it show the new-topics-archive, right? But that isn’t working either.

Any thoughts?