Forum Installation Guide

Contents

• Installing and Deep Integrating bbPress
• Uploading and Activating your bbPress Theme for the First Time
• Upgrading to a Newer Version of the theme

1. Download bbPress from bbPress.org and uncompress it.

2. Rename the uncompressed folder to anything you’d like (for the purposes of this guide, we’ll call it ‘forum’) and upload it to your server.

3. Visit the URL of the bbPress directory you just created to start the installer. (i.e. http://www.yourURLaddress.com/forum)

4. Follow the instructions in the installer. Make sure you do this right. If you’re unsure about anything, ask us!

5. Deep Integration — Once you complete the installation, deep integrate by telling bbPress to load WordPress first. Open bb-config.php in the bbPress directory and add this line: require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-blog-header.php’) to the end of the file right before the closing bracket (?>). (Make sure that the path points to the wp-blog-header.php in your WordPress install).

6. You may want to create a new page called ‘forum’ to be directed to your new forum using the ‘page-links-to’ WordPress plugin or equivalent.

1. Uncompress the Forum file to access the theme and the plugins.

2. Find the theme folder located in the ‘ForumTheme’ directory (i.e. ‘StationProForum’). Upload the folder to the ‘bb-templates’ directory in your bbPress install via FTP.

3. Find the plugin folders located in the ‘ForumPlugins’ directory (i.e. ‘bbcode-buttons’, ‘bbpress-polls’, etc).

4. Upload all of the folders to the ‘bb-templates’ directory in your bbPress install via FTP.

5. Activate the theme in the admin, under ‘Appearance’…

6. Activate the plugins in the admin, under ‘Plugins’ > ‘Installed’.

1. You may want to back your site up (just to be safe).

2. Rename the new forum theme (i.e. “StationProForumXX”) and upload to bb-templates folder.

3. Visit admin and switch to new version.