Markus Echterhoff

<p>If you have a multisite setup, you normally cannot have the same bbPress forums across all sites of the network. Now you can.</p>
<p>Install this plugin and activate it on the main site and for each subsite that should use the main site’s forums, or network-activate to enable on all sub sites.</p>
<p>If you want both main site and sub site forums displayed on the sub site, set a different root slug and topics slug in the forum settings. After that, both slugs will be known on the sub site and display their respective forums.</p>
<p><strong>BUT!</strong> There is a reason why you cannot normally do this and that is because the code base is not really supportive of it. I have monkey patched my way to the goal and I’m doing some evil black magic like hooking ‘query’ and running regular expressions on the query. All of this is only ever done to your forum pages, so be cool, give it a try. If it works for you: great. If it doesn’t: deactivate, relax, look for a different solution (or patch mine).</p>
<p><strong>Profile Note:</strong> Profiles are not merged! Favorites, topics started etc show main/sub site only. If you want your users to see all their subscriptions in one place, you’ll have to write some custom code and likely patch my code too.</p>
<p><strong>BuddyPress Note:</strong> It does work with network enabled BuddyPress, but they don’t play together nicely because of the BuddyPress/bbPress integration stuff. I have monkey patched this to work. If you do not have BuddyPress installed in /members/ you’ll have to monkey patch my monkey patch, please see the code. And as for the profiles: Same thing as with bbPress profiles.</p>


Multisite bbPress Slave

Make sub sites use the main site's bbPress forums

Freemius

Milan Petrovic

<p>GD bbPress Attachments is an easy-to-use plugin for WordPress and bbPress for implementing file upload for bbPress Forums topics and replies. You can control file sizes from the main plugin settings panel, or you can change some attachments settings for each forum individually. Currently, included features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Attachments are handled through WordPress media library. </li>
<li>Limit the number of files to upload at once.</li>
<li>Embed a list of attached files into topics and replies.</li>
<li>Attachment icon in the topic list for topics with attachments.</li>
<li>Attachments icons for file types in the attachments list.</li>
<li>Option to control if visitors can see a list of attachments.</li>
<li>Display uploaded images as thumbnails.</li>
<li>Control thumbnail size.</li>
<li>Control thumbnail CLASS and REL attributes.</li>
<li>Upload errors can be logged.</li>
<li>Post author and administrators can see errors.</li>
<li>Tool to clean up uploads error log entries from postmeta table.</li>
<li>Administration: attachments count for topics and replies.</li>
<li>Administration: metabox for settings override for forums.</li>
<li>Administration: metabox with attachments list and errors for topics and replies.</li>
</ul>
<h4>bbPress Plugin Versions</h4>
<p>GD bbPress Attachments 4.8 supports bbPress 2.6.2 or newer. Older bbPress versions are no longer supported!</p>
<h4>More free Dev4Press plugins for bbPress</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-forum-manager-for-bbpress/" rel="ugc">GD Forum Manager</a> – quick and bulk forums and topics edit</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-members-directory-for-bbpress/" rel="ugc">GD Members Directory</a> – add new page with list of all forum members</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-bbpress-tools/" rel="ugc">GD bbPress Tools</a> – various expansion tools for forums</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-power-search-for-bbpress/" rel="ugc">powerSearch for bbPress</a> – add advanced search to the bbPress topics</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/gd-topic-polls/" rel="ugc">topicPolls for bbPress</a> – add polls to the bbPress topics</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upgrade to forumToolbox for bbPress</h4>
<p>AKA: GD bbPress Toolbox Pro. The Pro version contains 63 features, with over 500 options to control the integration:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enhanced attachments features</li>
<li>Limit file types attachments upload</li>
<li>Add custom file types for upload</li>
<li>BBCodes editor toolbar</li>
<li>Report topics and replies</li>
<li>Say thanks to forum members</li>
<li>Various SEO features</li>
<li>Various privacy features</li>
<li>Enable TinyMCE editor</li>
<li>Private topics and replies</li>
<li>Auto closing of inactive topics</li>
<li>Notification email control</li>
<li>Show user stats in topics and replies</li>
<li>Track new and unread topics</li>
<li>Mute Forums and Users</li>
<li>Great new responsive admin UI</li>
<li>Setup Wizard</li>
<li>Forum based settings overrides</li>
<li>Edit: BuddyPress support</li>
<li>40 BBCodes (including Hide and Spoiler)</li>
<li>19 more Topics Views</li>
<li>9 additional widgets</li>
<li>Many great tweaks</li>
<li>And much, much more</li>
</ul>
<p>With more features on the roadmap exclusively for a Pro version.</p>
<ul>
<li>More information about <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/plugins/gd-bbpress-toolbox/" rel="nofollow ugc">forumToolbox for bbbPress</a></li>
<li>More Premium plugins with <a href="https://www.dev4press.com/bbpress-club/" rel="nofollow ugc">bbPress Plugins Club</a></li>
</ul>


GD bbPress Attachments

Implement attachments upload to the topics and replies in bbPress plugin through a media library and add additional forum-based controls.

Multisite bbPress Slave vs GD bbPress Attachments