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bbPress support forums Tag: multiple forums http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: multiple forums en Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:28:49 +0000 lstelie on "Multiple-level forums" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-level-forums#post-18941 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:11:07 +0000 lstelie 18941@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hello, Exact, you just need to check the is category when creating (or modifying) the forum. You also have to check the theme. Kakumei is ok, but some others display 0 (zero) in front of the father forum, this is disturbing for users who fail to understand that the top forum is only a container and not a real forum. Some doesn't display forum as a hierarchy (with a father / container forum and sub forums). darnit on "Multiple-level forums" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-level-forums#post-18940 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:42:20 +0000 darnit 18940@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I found the answer myself, 26 mins. later, LOL: you simply need to go to Manage -> Forums -> click on a forum and set its parent forum. That way you'll have multiple subforums on any forum on your bbPress installation. Heh. Next time, I'll get acquainted with the features of bbPress BEFORE asking for help ^_^ darnit on "Multiple-level forums" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-level-forums#post-18939 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:12:53 +0000 darnit 18939@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hello bbpress world! I would like to congratulate you all for developing such a steadfast, easy-to-use forum software known as bbPress. I love(s) it :) Secondly -- yeap, it's an issue -- I would like to know if it is possible to have a forum-forum-topic structure instead of the current forum-topic one. For example, we currently have: Webmasters Forum - [all the topics go here] while we would want to have: Webmasters Forum - Italian Webmasters Forum / American Webmasters Forum - [all the topics from the Italian / American go here] Would such a structure be possible? Thank you for your time and for your replies. ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/3#post-13463 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 14:40:50 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 13463@http://bbpress.org/forums/ It's working great. Thanks for everything Chris. I'd be using a plugin if it wasn't for you. chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/3#post-13457 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 23:45:38 +0000 chrishajer 13457@http://bbpress.org/forums/ You can remove a whole div, no problem. If it still validates, then it's fine. If it looks good, then it's fine. Sounds like it's working fine... ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/3#post-13449 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:12:21 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 13449@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hey Chris, I owe you a huge apology...I wasted your time. So, after trying all the various combinations you suggested, I remembered that when I first tried you original suggestion: <table class="forumlist" id="forumlist-<?php forum_id(); ?>"> that I had put it on two lines. So, the "id" line started with a black (rather than light green) "id." I thought, "Oh, that needs to be green," so I went ahead and added < to begin the line. Obviously I'm learning this stuff as I go. Anyway, I went back, used you original method all on one line without adding the extra < and, guess what? It all validated. I'm an idiot. Sorry for waisting your time and thanks for making it work. Oh, also, I didn't want the "Hot Tags" so I justed cut that entire Div out. Everything still seems to work and still validates, but I worry that I shouldn't have done that. What do you think? I signed up for adsense and I'm thinking of putting ad code where hot tags was ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-13446 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 07:14:03 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 13446@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hey Chris, Thanks for answering. If you're still up, well, I have to go to bed. But, I'll try it again in the morning and let you know how it goes. Thanks again chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-13445 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:05:55 +0000 chrishajer 13445@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I' m not sure, but I think the id needs to come before the class. Did you try your one example with the id first, then the class? I've always seen them in that order (id first) but I'm not sure if that's required or not. What was the error exactly? chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-13444 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:00:51 +0000 chrishajer 13444@http://bbpress.org/forums/ There is a difference between id and class. Maybe you're using one or the other. This is a class: <pre><code>.forumlist { font: whatever; }</code></pre> This is an id: <pre><code>#forumlist { font: whatever; }</code></pre> You're using <code><table id="forumlist-1"></code> but your css doesn't contain markup for that (it has forumlist, not forumlist-anything. There is markup for #forumlist, but without numbers. Maybe you could do something like <code><table id="1" class="forumlist"></code> or something? That way, the forumlist class doesn't need to be unique, since each city will sort of look the same, and the id is unique to each city. You still need to add the proper tags in your CSS, #1, #2, #3 for the ids and .forumlist (which is already there I believe.) Hope this advice is accurate. Let us know if it works. ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-13443 Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:58:24 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 13443@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hey Chris...still around? I'm continuing this thread because so much on the info is here. I've been trying to validate my html and css by trying the various methods listed above. This didn't validate <table class="forumlist" id="forumlist-<?php forum_id(); ?>"> But, this did <table id="forumlist-<?php forum_id(); ?>"> Both the html and the css are perfect with the last one, but I lost some of my styling, namely the colors. Any ideas? ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-13383 Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:36:54 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 13383@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hey All, I've been away for a while...I got an assignment so I had to put my site on hold. But, I'm back. I'm only writing today because I really wanted to thank a few people for their help. I would never have gotten as far as I have with my forums if not for them. So...fel64, livibetter and, especially Chrishajer, thank you all for your help. Since starting this whole WP and bbPress venture, I've constantly been surprised and impressed with just how generous people in this community are with their time and their knowledge. Thanks again...I'm sure I'll be hitting you up again soon. chrishajer on "multiple forums in a single database - Change prefix to what?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-forums-in-a-single-database-change-prefix-to-what#post-12759 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:13:47 +0000 chrishajer 12759@http://bbpress.org/forums/ If you are going to do something like bb_installation_ and bb_plugins_, it sounds like you want subforums. You would have one installation in a directory like /forums/ then you create subforums in your admin panel. You would NOT create multiple <code>$bb_table_prefix =</code> lines - that wouldn't work. chrishajer on "multiple forums in a single database - Change prefix to what?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-forums-in-a-single-database-change-prefix-to-what#post-12758 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:11:39 +0000 chrishajer 12758@http://bbpress.org/forums/ If you want multiple forums, you need to do multiple installations, and each bbPress installation will be in a directory of its own, and the config.php in each individual directory should have a unique table prefix, as Sam suggested, like bb1_, bb2_. In that case, each forum would be access with a different URL as well. Maybe your site is at <a href="http://www.website.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com</a> . A normal bbPress installation would be in something like <a href="http://www.website.com/forums/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/forums/</a> or <a href="http://www.website.com/bbpress/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/bbpress/</a> . To have multiple forums, you would access them like this: <a href="http://www.website.com/forum1/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/forum1/</a> <a href="http://www.website.com/forum2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/forum2/</a> <a href="http://www.website.com/forum3/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/forum3/</a> or <a href="http://www.website.com/football/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/football/</a> <a href="http://www.website.com/baseball/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/baseball/</a> <a href="http://www.website.com/hockey/" rel="nofollow">http://www.website.com/hockey/</a> and the associated directories on the server would be /var/www/htdocs/yourname/football/ /var/www/htdocs/yourname/baseball/ /var/www/htdocs/yourname/hockey/ If you just want multiple forums or subforums in your bbPress installation, you just need to install one time, then set up the forums/subforums within bbPress. You don't need multiple forum installations. imagiscapeca on "multiple forums in a single database - Change prefix to what?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-forums-in-a-single-database-change-prefix-to-what#post-12753 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 13:20:37 +0000 imagiscapeca 12753@http://bbpress.org/forums/ So I should list $bb_table_prefix = 'bb1_'; $bb_table_prefix = 'bb2_'; $bb_table_prefix = 'bb3_'; ? (I don't understand how the program would determine which prefix to apply to which forum.) "what makes sense to me" Ok, so I might use, for example: $bb_table_prefix = 'bb_installation_'; $bb_table_prefix = 'bb_plugins_'; ... Does "each installation" refer to multiple forums or multiple what? Do I need to install something more than once? Thank you. sambauers on "multiple forums in a single database - Change prefix to what?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-forums-in-a-single-database-change-prefix-to-what#post-12752 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:58:06 +0000 sambauers 12752@http://bbpress.org/forums/ ...you need to change them unless you want the same data in each installation. sambauers on "multiple forums in a single database - Change prefix to what?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-forums-in-a-single-database-change-prefix-to-what#post-12751 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:57:28 +0000 sambauers 12751@http://bbpress.org/forums/ You could prefix the first install "bb1_" an the second "bb2_" (you get the idea)... Whatever makes sense to you, there is no guideline. imagiscapeca on "multiple forums in a single database - Change prefix to what?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/multiple-forums-in-a-single-database-change-prefix-to-what#post-12750 Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:42:09 +0000 imagiscapeca 12750@http://bbpress.org/forums/ config-sample.php says: // Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database. $bb_table_prefix = 'bb_'; // Only letters, numbers and underscores I do want to have multiple forums in a single database. Why do I need to change it from bb_? What would be intelligent to change it to? Duh? Thanks chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12421 Tue, 04 Dec 2007 06:34:02 +0000 chrishajer 12421@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I'm not sure which version of front-page.php you're using (couldn't make my site look like yours using the last front-page.php code that was posted) but I THINK all you need to do is change the line that looks like this: <code><table id="forumlist"></code> to this: <code><table id="forumlist-<?php forum_id(); ?>"></code> That just adds a dash and the forum number to the table id. That should validate. But I think that will affect the CSS in a bad way. There will no longer be an id of "forumlist", they'll all be "forumlist-something" which the CSS will have trouble with. Maybe it would be better to do something like this: <code><table class="forumlist" id="forumlist-<?php forum_id(); ?>"></code> Then you would need to change your style.css to make any references to #forumlist look like .forumlist (change from applying the forumlist styling to ids and make it apply to classes.) That's a lot of work, but ids are supposed to be unique on a page, where classes are not. This is actually a better application of a class since all the tables should look the same and use the same styling. You're not referencing them with javascript or something where the ids matter. I just tried this and it worked on mine and validated properly. There were 6 instances of #forumlist that needed to be changed to .forumlist in my style.css Hopefully that will work for you. ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12415 Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:05:05 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12415@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Hey Guys, Chris, sorry I didn't answer sooner, I had to work this weekend and I also had to deal with a WP issue. First, I'd again like to thank all of you who helped me. Especially Chris and livibetter. Second, to answer your question Chris, no I haven't fixed the table ID issue yet. I see what you mean and when I try to validate at W3Schools it says exactly what you said. Problem is I'm still trying to find where in my files to change the ID's. Basic question I know, but I've looked at everything I think might apply. Ideas? chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12325 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:06:25 +0000 chrishajer 12325@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I hope so - now go get some members! Where you going to fix the ids to make them unique for each city table? ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12319 Wed, 28 Nov 2007 05:34:32 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12319@http://bbpress.org/forums/ So? I think I'm done for now, right? ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12313 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:37:07 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12313@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Yes, remember I was going to try to have a list of the cities so people could just click on say "Miami" and then be taken directly to the "Miami" part of the page? Well, livibetter's code created a list of all the cities and took them directly to the sub-forum for each city. If I create a link on the main WP Page for the Chicago board using an address like <a href="http://theangrywaiter.com/forum/forum.php?id=2" rel="nofollow">http://theangrywaiter.com/forum/forum.php?id=2</a> it also takes them directly to the sub-forum. I didn't really like that, so I figure I'll just offer one link from the main WP site to the forums and let the visitor scroll past the other cities until they find their's. It might actually be better because then they can see the other cities and more easily go and read posts in those cities as well as in their own city. Oh, and if they go to a sub-forum they can enter a post outside of the child forums. I tried to comment that comment form out, but it took them out of all the forums as well. So, now I think it was all a waist of time, but at least I learned something. chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12312 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:27:42 +0000 chrishajer 12312@http://bbpress.org/forums/ table ids, yes, the code from livibetter would need a tiny modification to create unique ids for each table. :) And for the anchoring, do you mean something like a list up top on the page, then each of those link further down the page to a named anchor? Like this? <a href="http://www.vestacompanies.com/properties/" rel="nofollow">http://www.vestacompanies.com/properties/</a> (click a for sale or for rent category and it just scrolls down the page a little bit to the proper table) ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12305 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:36:04 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12305@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I changed the title to alt= As far as the table ids...are you talking about the code I got from Livibetter? And about anchoring each forum? After all that work (by you guys, not so much me) I took that out and decided to just let people scroll down the page. I just think the page looks better and I kind of like that they can see all the other cities. I know, I'm a pain in the ass. So, on the front-page.php and the forum.php I see nothing like that anymore, but if I right-click page source when at the actual forums page I see what you mean. Edit: I see what you mean too when I run it through a valadator chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12303 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:07:15 +0000 chrishajer 12303@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Only 47 posts? Piece of cake. I did notice, in Firefox 2.0.0.10 the logo is not entirely clickable. Certain parts of it are, if you hit it just right, but not the whole thing. Odd. In IE7, it's all clickable. Oh, and I probably told you this incorrectly as well (although not intentionally.) The <code><a href</code> should have a title attribute, not an alt attribute. The <code><img</code> should have an alt. So <code><a href="http://www.theangrywaiter.com/" title="go home"></code> and <code><img src="http://www.theangrywaiter.com/forum/bb-templates/awbbtheme/images/awforumlogo3.jpg" alt="the angry waiter logo" /></code> Sorry about that. And, to keep your page valid XHTML, you're going to have to give each forumlist a different ID by appending the name or number of the forum to it. So it would be <code><table id="forumlist-chicago"></code> and <code><table id="forumlist-atlanta"></code> or <code><table id="forumlist-4"></code> and<code><table id="forumlist-11"></code> ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12301 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:48:57 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12301@http://bbpress.org/forums/ 47 posts later and I think I'm done! Check it out and let me know what you think ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12297 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:19:15 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12297@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Yes! It works! I was having trouble in IE (it worked fine in Firefox). Now, after removing img id, it works in both. Thanks. I think, though, I might make a slightly smaller logo/click here so it fits better into the header. chrishajer on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12296 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:00:41 +0000 chrishajer 12296@http://bbpress.org/forums/ This needs to be removed. It's right after the header div in header.php <code><img id="headerlogo"</code> That is doing you no good. Actually, my message was a combination of a couple messages. Initially I was going to say give the image an id so you could position it, then I said to just style it with <code>#header img</code> - in any case, you need to remove the above since it's not valid and is causing weird things. And you must be working on it since there is no border. ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12295 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:12:23 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12295@http://bbpress.org/forums/ so now I changed style sheet put floated the image right and it's postioned fine, but there's a bortder around it. I think I should replace that image with a smaller one Edit: Ok, I think it's related to what you said before about the image being too large. I kind of blew that off because I was using a different image. The new one is 280x100. I think what I'm going to do is make a smaller image, upload that and change the header.php ing src. Then, try to hide the border. ChgoGrrl99 on "How Do I Do This?" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this/page/2#post-12294 Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:54:28 +0000 ChgoGrrl99 12294@http://bbpress.org/forums/ The whole header is clickable now...could this be because I positioned it with padding?