Andy Peatling
Boone B. Gorges
Paul Gibbs
John James Jacoby
Tammie Lister
Andrew Nacin
Started chipping away at the admin settings and forums screens this weekend, in preparation for bbPress 2.x migration logic.
- Moved the complicated bbPress 1.x config-file setup to settings page
- New bbPress 1.x installs are no longer possible in BuddyPress trunk
- Forums settings page slowly being deprecated in lieu of it being a temporary setup/migration tab only
- Actual Forums Settings will be controlled by bbPress going forward
- bbPress 2.1-r3773 and beyond have preliminary Group Forums setup in place
Some todo’s:
- bbPress 2.1 Group Forum admin and edit screens
- Clear migration path from bbPress 1.x to 2.x
- Improve bbPress 1.x to 2.x migration script to make sure it’s bullet proof. See #BBP1592
Grant Swaim and 
Erlend 10:04 pm on March 5, 2012 Permalink |
Any chance “groups to tags” conversion could make it into the importer at this stage?
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/feature-request-for-importer-group-to-tag
To iterate on that a bit further, it’d be great if the importer had a simple interface that let you go through each group step by step, choosing:
Tags to be applied to every post within that group
Which forum (or a new one) to move the group’s posts to
Considering some projects have hundreds of groups, it should be possible to skip this step-by-step process all together though.
Erlend 10:42 pm on March 5, 2012 Permalink |
Please disregard the post above. Any discussion about my enhancement proposal should go in its appropriate ticket submitted here:
http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1774
(Wasn’t sure if just writing #BB1774 would work)
Grant Swaim 4:30 am on August 6, 2012 Permalink |
JJJ,
I recently heard that bbPress 2.x as group forums was going to be pushed back to the BP 1.7 release. However, with BP 1.6 RC, I stumbled onto the fact that you can install bbPress 2.x as group forums. It is not well documented but it can be done.
This approach doesn’t give you the “Start a Topic” and “Forum Directory” links at the top. So if you are viewing a topic you have to click on the “Forum” tab to see the directory or start a new topic.
This approach is also not leaving me with any way to kill the sidebar with forums. If you have a WP site fixed at around 1000px you really need to drop the sidebar to make it layout right. I use a Genesis theme along with their GensisConnect plugin. It has a setting to drop the sidebar with the group forums and works will with bbPress 1.x based group forums. However, it has no effect with bbPress 2.x group forums. I have tried to get some help with this from Genesis support but they seems to look at this technique as “not legit” They seem to be saying they will support bbPress 2.x group forums when it is handled by the BuddyPress installation wizard.
So, is a slicker (setup built into the BP installation wizard) bbPress 2.x integration on the way? I also noticed with the BP Default theme I couldn’t get rid of the sidebar in forums.
Maybe this issue will all go away with the theme work planned 1.7…
Thanks in advance on any enlightenment on this!
Grant Swaim 4:37 am on August 6, 2012 Permalink |
UPDATE:
This is the quote on when they would support bbPress 2.x based group forums:
“If/when the group forums are converted to the bbPress plugin the BP core dev team will update the default BP theme accordingly. At that time similar changes will be made to GenesisConnect.”