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I have today installed bbPress, activated it in the plugins menu and created a new forum. When I press “view forum” i get to a page where my phpBB forume is included into the wordpress theme!? Why is it like this? My phpBB installation should not have anything to do with bbPress. I have installed the DB for phpBB togheter with WP, due to that I have the “WordPress to phpBB 3.0.x Bridge” plugin installed.

Someone with the same problem?

== Installation ==

1. Place the ‘bbpress’ folder in your ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.

2. Activate bbPress.

3. Visit ‘Settings > Forums’ and adjust your configuration.

4. Create some forums.

5. View your site.

6. Adjust the CSS of your theme as needed, to make everything pretty.

You have to do plenty more than these steps if you want to install and have some forums up and running on your blog.

I think it’s a bit of a cheat to suggest this is so easy to complete. Absolutely hellish in my experience. 2 days in and still nothing.

You make no mention of setting up pages with the shortcode tags, no mention about issues with sign up conflicts and documentation is non existent if you want to add it to wordpress.

Is this another case of tech people making a great system and then just forgetting that people have to use it?

Where are the wordpress installation instructions?

Please someone just tell me if any exist as I’ll go for another system if not.

Bob

Hi

Just starting out with bbpress and wanted to check my steps are right.

I have wordpress site (well my sons) and I have installed the bbpress 2 plugin.

Activated it

Created a forum

Added a topic

I then created a new used set as a Forum Participant.

I then login in with this user on another machine.

went to website.com/forums/ and I can see the summary with forum name, topics, replies etc

When I click on the forum name it states Oh bother! no topics were found.

If I give this user moderator role I can then see the posts.

The forum is set to public.

Am I missing someting so obvious it will hurt.

I would like to eventually use the forum for a small group to be able to discuss without the whole world being able to see it unless they have a username and password. The users can read topics add topics and reply to them, but not be able to delete them via dashboard.

I absolutly love WordPress nad this hopefully will do the job.

Any advice and help very much appreciated

Thcnks

Richard

This is my forum layout.

<header> header stuff </header>

<div id=”content”>

<aside> Topic of Forum info (like a sidebar) </aside>

<section>

<header><h1>Topic title</h1></header>

<hgroup class=”reply-ID” id=”-1″> reply author stuff </hgroup>

<article class=”reply-ID” id=”-1″> reply content </article>

<hgroup class=”reply-ID” id=”-2″> reply author stuff </hgroup>

<article class=”reply-ID” id=”-2″> reply content </article>

<–! repeats of the above code –>

</section>

</div><!– end #content –>

<footer> footer stuff </footer>

</div><!– end #wrapper –>

It would be very helpful to have an (extra) counter on my first <hgroup> and <article> pair of tags. This way i could only style the starting topic content and make it stand out, because the first author always-/most of the time has a question and i would like to make it stand out more from the other replies.

I don’t want a topic or forum ID because those are too unique.

I need something that starts counting by Zero or One on every new topic like a Reply counter 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, I could add them to an ID or Class (shown above) to make it unique.

Something like a WP-comments counter.

1. How can I show something after the last post?!? You know that the last post has no id to use that. I wanna show the Closed Topic messege after the last post but it come under topic title http://up8.iranblog.com/images/61frq7cfblw4039p3jvv.png the code is this:

<div id="entry">

<h2<?php topic_class( 'topictitle' ); ?>>

<span id="topic_labels"><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?></span><?php topic_title(); ?> <span id="topic_posts">(<?php topic_posts_link(); ?>)</span>

</h2>

<?php do_action('under_title', ''); ?>

<?php if ($posts) : ?><?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>

<?php bb_post_template(); ?>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

<?php if ( topic_is_open( $bb_post->topic_id ) ) : ?>

<?php  if(bb_is_user_logged_in())	{ echo post_form();} ?>

<?php else : ?>

<div id="closed">

<h1>موضوع قفل شده‌است</h1>

<p>شما نمی‌توانید به موضوع‌های قفل‌شده پاسخی دهید.</p>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

</div>

2. How can I fix this problem? http://up8.iranblog.com/images/6z4otkp479qzah6tr5.png

I understand that I have to create a sub-directory in plugins/bbpress/my-templates/, which will contain my template files. Also I understand that I only have to create specific custom pages where I need them, so on the very first page of my forums (i.e. www.followtheboat.com/forums/) I need to create a page called front-page.php. For example, I don’t want my page title to be ‘Forums’, I want it to be ‘Followtheboat Forums’.

Presumably before uploading any themes the forum is using a default theme and must be calling up a default page called front-page.php. I want to use that default front-page.php file so I can use it as a base and tweak it, but where is it? I thought it should be in bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten but it isn’t there.

Finally, the instructions say ‘Activating a theme is even easier. Just select it from you bbPress install’s Presentation Admin Panel’. What? Where? Do you mean ‘http://www.myblog.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress’, because it is not there.

Hi all,

Newb here, rattling my way through the functionality of this excellent plug-in. I’m a little confused though, perhaps it’s best if I explain what I am trying to do.

A new forum has been created. Anyone can see the new forum name and the description. However to drill down into this forum or to contribute to it requires membership. I’ve added the plug-in ‘WP-Member’ so I can set a subscriber of my website to ‘forum contributor’. Essentially this is a subscription-only forum but I want a read-only version available for everyone to see as a teaser, but all topics within the forum must be hidden/private, available only to modrum contributors (ie anyone with granted membership).

At the moment I have the parent forum set to:

Type: Forum

Status: Open

Visibility: Public

The Content Permissions are ‘Forum Contributor’ and ‘Forum Moderator’ only.

This means anyone can see the parent forum and anyone can click on the link to see its topics.

I assumed that by setting the parent forum visibility to ‘Private’, only ‘forum contributors’ would see the forum, but this is not the case. When set to ‘private’, no one can see the forum.

What settings on that parent forum do I set so anyone can see the forum but can’t click on the link to see the topics? Also how do I allow a ‘forum contributor’ to see this forum and the respective child topics?

I’ve installed a spoiler plugin which uses html tags as bbpress does not accept shortcodes within posts. The spoiler plugin is called enhanced-ss.

The plugin works fine within WordPress Posts but does not seem to work within bbpress posts. I am using the latest wordpress version, buddypress version and bbpress 2.0.

The code is available here –> http://pastebin.com/AkH7eNJ4

Is there a reason why it does not display within a bbpress post?

I want to use ‘bbPress Topics list’ widget, outside widget.

I’d very happy that someone let me know the code to use it outside widget.

Thank you in advance.

I’ll be on a work related trip through October 1, so my availability to help will be diminished. In the meantime be sure to keep your eyes out for plugin conflicts, and please document any duplicatable bugs you find at http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org.

Moderators, the power is yours.