Published on October 23rd, 2009 by Matt Mullenweg
A few people have reached out to me and I just wanted to let everyone know that bbPress is still an important project for the WP community. (It powers our forums and plugin directory, for one thing!) It’s not going away.
Strategically the most important thing we need to figure out is how to integrate bbPress better with WP more for people who want that — right now it’s easier to use one of the WP plugins for forums than bbPress.
As to where bbPress goes in the future, I’d be curious to hear who wants to help with that. The world is our oyster. 
I have two noob questions re: the installation instructions here: https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/
> 2. Upload the uncompressed files to your server
Where on the server? Do I upload the files to /public_html? to /public_html/wp-admin? etc.
I’ve read elsewhere that you should upload the uncompressed *folder* (i.e., “bbpress”) and its files. But the #2 says to upload the files? Which is it? I’ve also read elsewhere that you might want to rename the folder “bbpress” to something like “forum,” because this will determine the URL to your forum. Is that still the case? The author’s instructions don’t mention this, but it seems important.
> 4. Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site
How do I create the intended URL? Do I need to create a new WordPress page and call it something like “Forum”?
Hello there,
I am starting to create a community using bbpress, so far I am getting most of the features I want besides a few that I am having difficulties grasping. One of these problems is I want to make a sandbox forum for testing and so forth, I want it to be open so all users have access to it however I do not want any of the posts appearing into the “latest discussions” as they are for testing purposes only.
forums:
http://voices.snailface.com/
I am running 1.0.2
Cheers,
Hi!
Yes i would like to have the Gravatar in all those places, is that possible?
I am currently making a forum here:
http://www.speedrevision.se/forum/
And i would like to have the gravatars to the left be from the authors of the latest posts, is that possible?
Also, i would like to have the same function here: http://www.speedrevision.se/forum/forum/allmant
I´ve have looked in alot of Gravatar posts here but cant find a solution that works, please, anyone?
Who can help me. I got the plugin installed. When i click on avatar or upload avatar. It takes me to the forums page. Can anyone help?
I have a fairly robust shared hosting plan which allows me root access, an IP, and plentiful disk space and bandwidth. I want to install several copies of bbPress for different sites on my account and use a single install of Mu/BuddyPress as a social layer connecting the various sites.
Example
mysite.com – Mu/BuddyPress install
site1.com (physically mysite.com/site1) – bbPress install 1
site2.com (physically mysite.com/site2) – bbPress install 2
…
The point is to have a single userbase between the sites, with one account logging you in to the entire “network”. The catch is that the different bbPress installations would have different domains and different administrators.
The question is, how do I go about setting this up? What existing extensions would I need, and/or what extensions would I need to write?
Homepage – http://www.sublimeoblivion.com/forum/
Using a heavily-customized theme of Options 0.1 Alpha (Dark) by Justin Tadlock (http://bbshowcase.org/themes/bbpress-options.zip)
As you can see on my site, the categories (e.g. GLOBAL TRENDS) are automatically on the same margin as their subforums (World Economy; Politics, Society and Demography; Resource Depletion; etc). This means that at first glance it is not clear that they are, in fact, categories, not forums.
I would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell or give a hint as to how I could make it so that the Subforums are positioned to the right of the Categories they are a part of, such as is the case at Simon & Schuster Forums (http://forums.simonandschuster.com/).
Thanks in advance and Best.
Hi all – i’ve been a happy user of bbPress for a while (www.wearepopslags.com), but only now did I receive a message from my hosting partner about instable or slow executing scripts. First of all, I don’t really understand what that means and the other info that followed after that really boggles my mind. Does anyone have a clue?
Your website scripts needs to be looked at as they are taking too long to executed and are unstable, as shown below;
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+
COMMAND
22962 watpocom 16 0 32684 19m 6068 S 1.3 0.5 0:00.42
php
22876 watpocom 17 0 0 0 0 Z 0.3 0.0 0:00.42 php
21347 watpocom 17 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.66 php
21494 watpocom 17 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.62 php
21581 watpocom 17 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.49 php
21717 watpocom 16 0 0 0 0 Z 0.0 0.0 0:00.47 php
23010 watpocom 20 0 28684 14m 5896 S 0.0 0.4 0:00.20 php
We allow max execution time 30s as per our T&C
hello,
after upgrad my bbpress installation to the latest release , i can no more see the menu in the admin panel , so i should put the link manually in the browser to get into the plugin administration section , setting section , edit section … or any other section
whazt is the matter with thease please.
So I totally hacked up my htaccess file and now when I visit a nonexistant url it goes to the apache 404 page instead of the bbpress 404.. how do I need to change the code below to fix that?
# BEGIN bbPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /community
Options +FollowSymlinks +MultiViews
RewriteRule ^forums$ forums/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^forums/$ /community/index.php?view=forums [P,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^leaderboards$ leaderboards/ [R=301]
RewriteRule ^leaderboards/$ /community/index.php?view=leaderboards [P,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ ?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ topic.php?id=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ topic.php?id=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forums/([^/]+)/?$ forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
</IfModule>
# END bbPress
