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I run a fairly large site with a standard integrated bbPress forum, categorized by groups. I’ve been able to successfully update to version 1.5. However my attempts at migrating to bbPress 2.0 have so far been unsuccessful.

All I’ve tried so far is the default process:

Tools -> Import -> bbPress Standalone

I’m given a path to bb-config.php, at the root of my WordPress install, which seems to be correct. Going by these default settings has worked just fine on a much smaller test site. On this big one however, no such luck.

We have ~20’000 threads and ~15’000 users. If you’ve attempted to migrate a fairly large website to bbPress 2.0 from the legacy BuddyPress forum, kindly share your findings.

We are creating a custom theme and have been trying to activate “hot tags” like those being used on wordpress.org/forums and other boards. I’ve searched around the board and found threads that are pretty dated and the code isnt working. BBPress has probably moved past most of the old suggestions.

What do I need to do to add the tag heat map to an area on my custom theme on mysite.com/discuss?

I am using bbpress 2.0 plugin for WordPress. I am trying to have all the forums listed, subforums/categories, on the first page. Much like how the forums are displayed in the Dashboard. Is this possible ? If not, how do I go about making it possible.

I posted this over on BuddyPress’s support but can’t get any support there. Hoping someone here can help because this issue is holding up an urgent job

OP – https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/bp-1-5-bbpress-2-site-wide-slugs/

I want to be able to use /forums for the bbp’s site wide forum on a new site. However when I try, there is a conflict with BP. I have to change bbp’s slug to something like /discussion, which leaves /forums with a message: “The forums component has not been set up yet” because the group forums have not been set up, and don’t want to use them.

When I try to get bp to use a different page, and use /forums with bbp, it doesn’t work – I just get a blank page and forums cannot be accessed.

Is there a way to get bbp’s sitewide forums to use /forums ??

Thanks for your help.

I’ve gone through every single theme file in the plugin, I even deleted the entire bbp-themes folder and still can’t figure out where the file exists so I can remove the header stuff that says like the forum title, Home > Forums > Forum Name, This Forum Contains X Topics and X Replies, etc….

The way that I have my wordpress directory setup is “mywebsite.com/forums”. That’s where I have wordpress installed. When I installed bbpress, I got “mywebsite.com/forums/forums” as the URL to the forums index.

Is there anyway to change this so that I can keep wordpress in the “mywebsite.com/forums” directory on my server and still make “mywebsite.com/forums” as the URL to the forums index?

I already have a wordpress theme installed in my home directory, so I thought it would be easier to manage the forums in its own admin control panel. That’s why I installed it in a different directory.

Something else that I was wondering though… in the case where bbpress is intalled alongside the main wordpress site (blog, news page, homepage, etc.), is it separately customizable? Can bbpress have its own theme?

I looked at “https://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks”, it reads: “For performance reasons, it is not a good idea to start your permalink structure with the category, tag, author, or postname fields.”

I can’t seem to be able to use the recommended link structures with bbpress forums and topics such as /%post_id%/%postname%/.

Will the permalink structure greatly affect the loading time of my different pages or has this issue been resolved with the latest version of WordPress?

My topics are showing up oldest first…I don’t believe this is the default setting, but I’m not sure where I can change this. Anyone know how this is controlled?

I have WP + bbPress integration. For two weeks, new users who are logged in WP can not post in the forum. (“Old users” can post without problems)

I’ve tried everything! I reconfigured the integration, but has not worked. I think there is a problem with cookies but I’m not sure …

Can anyone help me?

Is there a conditional tag I can use in WordPress that will allow me to say “if is any BBPress page”?

This is for the BBPress Plugin specifically.