I am curious if anyone has successfully implemented an online community using Buddypress with the Newspaper theme.
The theme says it supports buddy press but not very well. Design elements get mixed up and none of the sidebars work as expected. I want to make it work but haven’t had much time to dive in other than removing functionality from my site to try and make it work…
Hi,
Yes the bbpres is compatible with our theme
-> https://www.screencast.com/t/v64jbmgzkIV
-> https://www.screencast.com/t/cySoVqWL
-> https://www.screencast.com/t/50AxpNds
How to install bbPress forum -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/how-to-install-bbpress-forum/
Please notice that the shortcode need to be paste in code editor not visual editor.
Hope this will help you!
Thank you.
Thank you for responding. I appreciate the links to set this up. I’m wondering if anyone using the Newspaper theme has an actively engaged community on their news site.
I host with Godaddy (primarily) and am concerned with the resource pull slowing the website down from all the avatar image uploads.
I would love to create an engaged community but don’t want to slow the site down or use up available resources.
Also, how does the sign-in that comes with Newspaper integrate with Buddypress/bbpress?
Thank you so much for your help. I have purchased many copies of this theme and have been using it for years. It’s high quality.
Rhonda
BBpress is *NOT* the same as BUDDYPRESS (buddypress implements bbpress for some of its functionality, sure). Yes, BBpress looks ok and is super seamless in newspaper theme however BuddyPress forces you to disable sidebars for all PAGE content or your groups/members/community pages will not be sized right…
I was sort of disappointed to see that while they claim to support buddypress there is no real support. You have to know how to edit CSS to fix broken styles (search boxes covering content and such) and you have to disable sidebars on page content.
The user registration process for buddypress takes over when you switch to buddypress and it works with the theme. as for cpu load, unless you get a ton of users immediately you should be able to upgrade your plan as you build a community. The only issue i saw with buddypress/bbpress was that it ads a few style sheets and javascripts which you have to defer and doing that in newspaper theme is still challenging.
Hi,
Sorry, Is look like I do not understand correctly, @rockchucksummit you was right bbpress is not the same as Buddypress, and Buddypress is not entirely compatible with our theme.
Thank you for your understanding!
Thank you for this input.
Thank you so much, Rockchucksummit, for your thorough answer.
Did you mean that you have to disable all pages throughout your site to get buddypress to work?
If you care to share your website, I’d love to see it.
Rhonda,
To get Buddypress to work 95% of the way I went into the “page” template and disabled sidebar. That means /groups /members /register and other buddpress pages will render correctly without getting squished. That gets it working most of the way. I leave sidebars enabled on posts (blogs) so it worked ok and if needed i could enable sidebar on individual pages.
