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Hello,

I have searched both here and on WordPress.org for how to use shortcodes and still can’t seem to get it right.

I have a custom WordPress theme that is based on the stock twenty-eleven theme. I have created a child theme in order to add styling for my BBPress forum.

I’m hoping to mimic a style similar to the forums here on bbpress.org with the forum listings on the side. Am I correct this can be accomplished? If so, where do I include the shortcodes?

Thank you in advance. Any help is greatly appreciated.

I’ve been attempting to import an existing standalone bbPress install into the plugin version without success. The existing forum is integrated with WordPress. According to the dashboard, it has 31 forums, 6,693 topics, 42,525 posts, 2,545 tags, and 2,711 users.

I set up a test install on my local computer with MAMP Pro, and brought the database and files over. All bbPress plugins and all plugins in WordPress except bbPress are disabled. I bumped up the memory and time limits for PHP.

It chugged through about half of the forums and their topics then just stopped without any error message. I thought this might be PHP timing out or running out of memory so I bumped max_execution_time and max_input_time to several hours and memory_limit to 2048M and tried again. It stopped at the same place with these settings.

There are no relevant messages in my php, mysql, or apache error logs.

I did a repair and optimize on the database tables then did a re-count of all items in the old bbPress forum and tried again. It was very close to the same result with only stopping a few posts sooner.

I looked in the database and checked the message it stopped on and the next numerical topic id messages and didn’t see any odd characters in the post content or title.

One other thing I noticed is that when I went back to the import screen it recognized that I had a partial import with the message “It looks like you attempted to convert your bbPress standalone previously and got interrupted.” I used the “Continue previous import” button but it started back at the beginning again. I’ve also tried the “Cancel & start a new import” button with not change in the results.

Any ideas where else to look, things to try, or additional information I can supply? Thanks.

Hello,

my Problem is the white line from the post-editor. i cant find any css for it and cant delete this line.

can anybody help me? i have a dark design but the white line is not so nice. i have make a pciture:

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/4967/unbenanntyd.png

i hope anybody help me to delete or style this line.

greetings mike

I am running earlier version of bbpress and being the bbpress 2 is releases as a plugin of wordpress. Is the core forum supported anymore ? or any suggestions

I can’t find the user signup page url for an installed instance of the bbpress plugin. This is the url: http://www.africareport.com.dev.studioseptember.nl/business-opportunities/

Can anyone give me a hint as to where to search for it? I found the php/html code in bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/page-user-register

So 2.0 beta has been downloaded over 15k times, which is awesome. Feedback has been coming in steadily, and I’ve been holding an official RC because of a few odds and ends that are taking some time to figure out. Hoping to get some feedback on a few specific things:

Page Templates

The way WordPress works, page templates can work automagically if the template name matches a page slug. This is really convenient as it automatically acts like a page template without setting it, but can get in the way if you want to use a specific page slug and not have bbPress take it over. Example:

page-user-register.php

If you made a WordPress page with the unique slug ‘user-register’ WordPress would automatically use that template file for that page. So far I’ve purposely picked unlikely template names so they wouldn’t collide with existing slugs. But, if that same file was renamed to:

page-register.php

…all it would take is making a “Register” page and bbPress would automatically have a sign-up page with no shortcodes and no more work. The adverse to that convenience is if you want to customize your sign-up page beyond what bbPress provides, you’re looking at a totally custom theme.

This works with any template file in the root folder of a theme, so there are lots of possibilities. My goal is to satisfy the majority, so I’m thinking of heading in this direction and renaming the template files.

Multisite

At the moment, multisite integration works great, if you want to have individual bbPress forums with their own authorized users per forum. If you want to have all users have access to all forums in a multisite install, you’re currently out of luck. With multisite there are endless configuration options, and I see the use case for all of them.

Which do you prefer as the default? Users can access all forums, or users can only access forums for which they have a role on that specific site?

Search

Right now there is no interface for searching the bbPress 2.0 integrated forums. The original implementation got negative reviews because search results were site wide, showing blog entries, topics, and replies.

It’s currently possible to filter search results by post type (topic/reply) but most WordPress themes assume the search results will come from posts or pages, and as such aren’t styled to look like forum results, which is really confusing to the person performing the search. It’s also confusing to have multiple search boxes, or to need to pick what results you’re looking for.

How do you think it should work? Should forum results appear in your existing blog search? Should they be separated? Should there be some kind of ‘smart search’ that knows where the request came from, and only shows results based on the type of content you are looking at (blog/forum/other)?

Settings

The WordPress mantra is decisions over options, but creating something as large as a discussion forum within WordPress is going to come with at least a few settings. I think our settings page is starting to get out of hand. Should we break the one page up into a few, or leave it as 1 page with all options?

That’s what’s on my mind. If you’ve been using 2.0 for the past few weeks, your input would be much appreciated so these last few ends can be tied up and we can let this ship sail.

First off, I’m sorry to start a new thread here. I commented on one here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/about-search-field-in-bbpress-20-beta-3 but unfortunately it got closed, so I can’t comment on it.

John James Jacoby told me:

This has been covered in these forums a few times already, which may or may not be an indicator of how little the search functionality gets used.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575

But since I actually commented on a thread regarding the issue, it should tell John, that I actually did a search, and I had actually sought for about 30 minutes before writing the question. And a googlesearch also shows me, that it’s the only place linking to the tracticket: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575

Having said that. When I paste the code it just generates an error and the code in the trac ticket should be this instead:

function my_add_bbp_to_search( $post_type ) {

$post_type['exclude_from_search'] = false;



return $post_type;

}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );

add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );

add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );

Unfortunately I haven’t figured how to solve these two issues:

– have pages in search results (I always only get one page shown)

– show both forumposts and blogposts in search results.

So any thoughts on these issues would be great.

I’ve seen a thread on going to www.yoursite.com/bb-press but then subsequent comments about the fact that you have to login first as administrator before you can use this entry method.

So, I’ve installed bbPress and BuddyPress (still not sure what the heck the difference is). But, I do not know how to access my admin panel.

Sounds like a stupid question, but the plugin has no documentation on the matter that I could find.

Thank you

Does anyone know a good way to allow “contributors” and above, to edit their own custom title?

I have successfully installed the bbPress 2.0 plugin on a WordPress 2.3.1 site. I can see the Forums, Topics, etc. on the admin menus, and I have created a forum. However, when I try to view the forum using the provided link (http://server.tld/forums/forum/family-talk/) or just trying to use the http://server.tld/forums URL, results in a not-found condition. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

PS – I did a few forums searches. I agree with the guy who said a quick how-to would be very useful! (What to do after install…)