-Install new theme or custom bbPress
Installation is very easy bbPress themes. Just follow the simple steps below.

Create a directory named 'my-templates' in the root directory of bbPress. Suppose you have installed the bbPress forum 'forum' folder (follow the installation steps above). Now you have to create a folder called 'my-templates.
Select the theme and download it to your desktop. Unzip the folder. Now upload the theme to your server on your my-templates directory using any FTP client. You can use Cute FTP, FileZilla or other FTP software. Make sure the transfer mode is set to automatic. No FTP in ASCII 'mode, existing staff more than the current theme or images within the folder will not be visible in your forum.
Enter as Keymaster.
Click Administration and then select the Design tab. The new item is added to the topic at hand. Select your new theme to be your current bbPress theme.
If you want to design your own theme bbPress then follow the steps suggested by bbPress here.
After you have installed bbPress forum and changed the subject that best fits your taste or blog website, now is the time to install plugins. I've compiled a list of 20 plugins bbPress with the installation steps that must be installed to make your forum much more robust, flexible and different from others.
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If I want to logout from the dasboard, I get a blank page, why?
Searching the web you find a Ticket #1272 (closed defect: fixed) on http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1272 for:
If you click the Log Out Link you get the following error..
where is the solution:
Changing

<?php bb_logout_link( array( 'redirect' => bb_get_uri( null, null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_HEADER ) ) ); ?>

to

<?php bb_logout_link( array( 'redirect' => urlencode( bb_get_uri( null, null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_HEADER) ) ) ); ?>

in admin-header.php fixes this issue.

This ticket is closed with 'Resolution set to fixed' 17 months ago, but still not in the latest files of bbPress 1.1

There is also no documentation of the database structure of this updated software.
My database has the following tables listed:

bb_forums
bb_meta
bb_posts
bb_tagged ->not used anymore?
bb_tags ->not used anymore?
bb_terms
bb_term_relationships
bb_term_taxonomy
bb_topicmeta ->not used anymore?
bb_topics
bb_usermeta
bb_users
subscribe_to_topic ->not used anymore?

I leave these tables as I know the old plugins still use them, but updating any content like tags or subscribers will not be updated by the core.

Coming to plugins, most of them work for versions 0.9.x, there is almost no plugin updated within the last 12 - 18 months.

Okay, this is just a small standalone forum, I will most definitely not make the step to bbPress 2.0 plugin. This WordPress plugin converts your topics to a kind of posts in WordPress and runs as plugin.

Will there be themes and plugins deep in the wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes folder?

I would like to get a ready to use WordPress theme for a standalone forum using bbpress-plugin in a blank WordPress.

Just my thoughts after upgrading to the latest and last standalone bbPress 1.1

Actually bbpress is now available a plugin for WordPress, bbpress 2.0 plugin, which might be the next step for me. As it is not possible to import/convert bbpress 0.9x to the plugin 2.0 version, I had to go this upgrade path via bbpress 1.1

Switching to this latest and last standalone bbpress worked flawless as it seems by now.

Just two plugins I used seem to be obsolete, as they are buikt in now.

One is the plugin 'Subscribe to Topic' which gave you the chance to be emailed on updates.
Possibly you have to use the 'Notify me of follow-up posts via email' marker below to renew your email subscription - we will see.

The second plugin not needed anymore is 'Topics Per Page' for pagination, I just set topics per page in the dashboard now.

On converting the database I realized once again that all spam and deleted posts/topics are still kept in this database...

I deleted them in phpmyadmin in four steps:

First 'delete' all spam topics in your forum dashboard to get marked as deleted

(BACKUP FIRST by EXPORTING, WHO KNOWS)

Second delete all posts in this marked as deleted topics as sql in phpmyadmin:

DELETE FROM bb_posts WHERE post_id IN (
    SELECT post_id FROM (
        SELECT DISTINCT(p.post_id)
        FROM bb_posts AS p LEFT JOIN bb_topics AS t ON p.topic_id=t.topic_id
        WHERE t.topic_status=1
    ) AS bb_posts_in_deleted_topics
);

Third: remove all deleted posts:

DELETE FROM bb_posts WHERE post_status=1;

At last remove all deleted topics:

DELETE FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=1;

I think now the database is cleaner and you should recount posts in the Tools of your Dashboard, just tick all boxes.

<p class="quest">
<?php $post = bb_get_first_post(get_topic_id());
echo make_excerpt(get_post_text($post->post_id)); ?>
</p>
<?php if ($post->post_id != $topic->topic_last_post_id ) { ?>
<p class="ans">
<?php echo make_excerpt( get_post_text( $topic->topic_last_post_id ) ); ?>
</p>
<?php } ?>

Sure have to post this 'answer' now to see if it is working..

EDIT:
Working!!
now have to set this condition also in the two other templates where I use a similar display, this is in my theme the forum.php as well as the tag-single.php

make_excerpt(get_post_text($post->post_id));

and the last answers excerpt by using

make_excerpt( get_post_text( $topic->topic_last_post_id ) );

The problem arising is that with only one post it will display the text twice, as the first post is also the last one.

The full code I use so far is:

<p class="quest">
<?php $post = bb_get_first_post(get_topic_id());
echo make_excerpt(get_post_text($post->post_id)); ?>
</p>
<p class="ans">
<?php echo make_excerpt( get_post_text( $topic->topic_last_post_id ) ); ?>
</p>

To solve this I am going to echo The ID of each post to see what's going on.
I want to show an answer only if the first post's ID $post->post_id is not equal to $topic->topic_last_post_id.

The code above with an echo of the ID:

<p class="quest">
<?php $post = bb_get_first_post(get_topic_id());
echo $post->post_id;
echo make_excerpt(get_post_text($post->post_id)); ?>
</p>
<p class="ans">
<?php echo $topic->topic_last_post_id;
echo make_excerpt( get_post_text( $topic->topic_last_post_id ) ); ?>
</p>

Have to post now to see something .. ;-)
How I did it will come as soon it works in the answer to this post

I wanted to add an additional sub sub menu page to my Arthemia theme. As of now it only allows for Page and Sub Page and not sure how to code another level.

Thank you in advance,

Matthew

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Changing permissions on the folders did the trick!

After that, I saw the preview in the dashboard and I was able to activate it.

(bbpress) http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0.2/bbpress/
(wordpress) http://www.arguemax.com/
(since you asked)

I used the Kakumei theme and copied all files from bb-templates/kakumei folder to a folder under my-templates/my_kakumei. I also edited the top of style.css of this new theme in my_kakumei folder and changed the first some lines from:
-----
Theme Name: Kakumei
Theme URI: http://bbpress.org/
Description: The "revolutionized" new face of bbPress.
Version: 0.01 theta-beta
Author: Bryan Veloso
-----
to:
-----
Theme Name: My_Kakumei
Theme URI: http://bbpress.org/
Description: The "revolutionized" new face of bbPress modified
Version: 0.01 theta-beta
Author: ME and Bryan Veloso
-----

now when I go to my bbPress dashboard under design I find this theme under My_Kakumei with the original screenshot. When I enable this I will see the same a in original Kakumei, but from my-themes folder.
From this point I started editing My_Kakumei theme to my needs and always can switch back to the old one if something goes wrong.

What is the link to your bbPress forum?

Wie installiere ich ein bbPress Thema? Ich habe "my-Vorlagen"-Verzeichnis entpackt und ich mein Thema in einen Ordner in diesem Verzeichnis. Aber wenn ich in mein bbPress Armaturenbrett, zeigt der Screenshot für mein neues Thema ein Leerzeichen mit einem roten X in der oberen linken Ecke. Wenn ich auf "Aktivieren" das Thema es zeigt einen gesichtslosen Version mit bbPress überhaupt kein Thema.

I have managed to download and install BBPress and WordPress and I got them to sync up with the plugins from WordPress that make that happen. Now I just need to tweek it just right so it will behave and look like I want it too.

It would be nice to find someone who has been through these steps. I could use some pointers.

switching pages works well with the plugin explained above, but the title of the forum will always just show the forums name.

On page two however we have another URL and different topics, so the title should reflect this.

In a similar way as in WordPress you can easily add 'page X' to the title if it is paged and if you are on front-page.

In header.php you find:

<title><?php bb_title() ?></title>

by adding 'if (is_front() && $page>1)' you can echo the page number if it is paged. It should look like this:

<title><?php bb_title() ?><?php if (is_front() && $page>1) {echo(" page $page" ); } ?></title>

Now, if you switch to page 2 it will display 'your forums name page 2'