Thanks!

I guess I takes it for granted that all WP stuff works well in any language, but not this time around...

Btw, can someone please go ahead and validate the Chinese translations. I really need them and they are ready.

<p>This webpage has a redirect loop
The webpage at http://www.ichatnigeria.com/groupforum/topic/corruption-perception-index-2011 has resulted in too many redirects. Clearing your cookies for this site or allowing third-party cookies may fix the problem. If not, it is possibly a server configuration issue and not a problem with your computer.
Here are some suggestions:
Reload this webpage later.
Learn more about this problem.
Error 310 (net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS): There were too many redirects.</p>

When users submits their post at the bbPress/BuddyPress Forum, it takes more than 2 minutes for the page to load and will in the end give a 301.

Is there any known plugin having conflicts with bbPress?

Thank you!

http://www.ichatnigeria.com

I really glad that I dont need to worry anymore about those extra sub slugs.

Thanks for clarifying.

Did Matt tell you this directly?

Yes, It does have an effect to be one category deeper (at least according to Matt Cutts from Google).

So, yes please, I want to generate the URL's without any additional sub-category... and Yes, I would not mind if i had something like ../forums/general generated.

Would be great if you could tell me how to take this extra subdirectory layer off in bbpress ?

If you have a "General" forum, i.e. at /forums/general , wouldn't you rather avoid the confusion if a user starts a thread called "general"? I actually don't know what would happen in this scenario...

http://mywebsite.com/forums/topic/this-is-the-name-of-the-forum-post

For SEO purposes I would like to shorten the URL to this:

http://mywebsite.com/forums/this-is-the-name-of-the-forum-post

I tried to the content of the field "Topic slug" , but it keeps on returning, whenever I save the settings.

How can I shorten the URL structure of all posts?

/support/forums/[forum name]/[topic name]

I have setup a page with the URL /support/ because I want it to be the "home page" for support (will add list of latest topics with list of forums, .etc).

On the forums setup page by "archive slugs" should I set the Forum archive slug to "support"? Will this break anything?

Also, I find that there is very little documentation around to read to find help. I know this is still in beta, but is there plans for more robust documentation?

Thanks,

Kalman

Just like on this site: http://bbpress.org/forums/ displays all of the forums available. On my website the URL http://www.mysite.com/forums/ just throws a 404 and I don't know 'where' that page is...?

Many thanks for your help in advance,

Paul

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/nav.html?bb-includes/functions.bb-formatting.php.source.html#239

Would you care to enlighten me on how that would add dashes? I was thinking that I'd have to parse the topic_title field with regexp somehow (not great at regexp yet, just learning)then create the string. Is that what this represents?

Regards,
Dan White

It definately sounds like a conversion issue. It's not one i've heard of before, but it shouldn't be too hard to fix (though there is no existing pluign that I know of).

Baiscally you're going to need a Title to Slug function, then iterate through every forum & topic and update the database accordingly

Basically, something like this:

$sql = "SELECT * from $bbdb->topics WHERE topic_slug ='' LIMIT 100";
$rows = $bbdb->get_rows($sql);

foreach($rows as $row)
{
 $topic_slug = bb_sanitize_with_dashes($row['topic_title'],200);
 $sql = "UPDATE $bbdb->topics SET topic_slug='". $topic_slug ."' WHERE topic_id=". $row['topic_id'] ." LIMIT 1; ";
}

So i've not tested this code at all, just guessing at it really.
It should update 100 topics at one page load.
(I do this incase i made a horrible mistake)

Then do the same for bb_forum table.

Kev

I've made a conversion from vbulletin 3, via phpbb3, to bbpress 1.0.2. In the process, none of the slugs for the forums or topics fields were populated. Would any of you have a nice solution for that handy?

I've put this in the Installation topic, because bbpress isn't broke. I believe this is more likely an artifact from the conversion. Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards,
Dan White

:)

# BEGIN bbPress

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /devstation/

RewriteRule ^rules/?$ /devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^faq/?$ /devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=2 [L]

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/index.php?page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/forum.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/forum.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ /devstation/ [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/topic.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/topic.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /devstation/ [R=302,L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/tags.php?tag=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/tags.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /devstation/tags.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id=&tab= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id=&tab=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/profile.php?id= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ /devstation/profile.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /devstation/view.php?view=&page= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/view.php?view= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/?$ /devstation/rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /devstation/rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?forum= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /devstation/rss.php?forum=&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?topic= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?tag= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /devstation/rss.php?tag=&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?profile= [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /devstation/rss.php?view= [L,QSA]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /devstation/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END bbPress

Most of those should already be there. I have separated the two rules at the top so you can see how it is done for pages.

If your site has a forum directory (ie the forum does not reside on the top-level of your site, then you should remove the "devstation/". If it does, then replace "devstation/" with your forum's directory.

Regards
Michael

so where should i put this file... wordpress root or bbpress root?

I recently had this problem too - so I manually edited my .htaccess file in the bbPress root.
So, I turned my Rules page from this:
http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=1
to
http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rules/

You need to open your .htaccess file in the bbPress root and add the following for each page, replacing <your-page> with the url you would like:
RewriteRule ^<your-page>/?$ /bb-page.php?page_id=1 [L]

i want to change it to
http://www.example.com/my-own-keyword.html

can any coder tell me how it possible?

i'll be great thankful to you

here is plugins files

------------------------------------------
1. bb-page.php for root

<?php
require_once('./bb-load.php');
$page_id = 0;

bb_repermalink();

if ( !$page )
bb_die(__('Page not found.'));

do_action( 'bb-page.php', $page_id );

bb_load_template( 'page.php', array('bb_db_override', 'page_id') );
?>
-------------------------------------

2. page.php for template

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( isset_id() ) : ?><?php if ( page_exist() ) : // Do not delete this ?>

<div class="top_box">
<h2><?php echo get_page_title(); ?></h2>
<div class="bbcrumb">"><?php bb_option('name'); ?> » <?php echo get_page_title(); ?></div>
</div>

<div class="post-content">
<?php echo get_page_content(); ?>
</div>

<?php else: // If there is no page with id=X in database ?>

<div class="notice_box"><div class="notice_content">404 - I'm sorry, but this page does not exist.</div></div>

<?php endif; ?>
<?php else: // If page ID is not specified or it equals 0 ?>

<div class="notice_box"><div class="notice_content">Page is not specified.</div></div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>
-------------------------------------------------------------------

3. bb-pages.php for plugin
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPages
Plugin URI: http://astateofmind.eu/freebies/bbpages/
Description: Allows you to create static pages within your bbPress forum.
Author: F.Thion
Author URI: http://astateofmind.eu
Version: 0.0.2

license: GPL
donate: http://astateofmind.eu/about/support/
*/

function get_page_id() {
if ( isset ( $_GET['page_id'] ) ) :
$page_id = $_GET['page_id'];
return $page_id;
endif;
}

function isset_id() {
if ( $_GET['page_id'] > 0 ) :
return true;
else:
return false;
endif;
}

function page_exist() {
global $bbdb, $bb;
$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";
$query = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT page_id FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=".$id."");

if ( $query == true ) :
return true;
else:
return false;
endif;
}

function get_page_title() {
global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;
$id = get_page_id();
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";

$query = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT page_title FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=".$id."");

foreach ($query as $rk) {
return $rk->page_title;
}
}

function get_page_slug() {
global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id, $page;
$id = get_page_id();
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";

$query = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT page_slug FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=".$id."");

foreach ($query as $rk) {
return $rk->page_slug;
}
}

function get_page_content() {
global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;
$id = get_page_id();
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";

$query = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT page_content FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=".$id."");

foreach ($query as $rk) {
return $rk->page_content;
}
}

function list_pages() {
global $bbdb, $bb;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";

$query = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $table_name ORDER BY page_order ASC");

$status = array(
0 => 'Draft',
1 => 'Published'
);

foreach ($query as $rk) {
echo '
<tr>
<td>'.$rk->page_id.'</td>
<td>'.$rk->page_title.'</td>
<td>'.$rk->page_date.'</td>
<td>'.$status[$rk->page_status].'</td>
<td>page_id.'">Edit | page_id.'">Delete | page_id.'">View</td>
</tr>
';
}
}

function pages_panel() {
$action = $_REQUEST['act'];

switch($action)
{
default:
?>
<h2>Manage Static Pages <small>(Create new page)</small></h2>

<table class="widefat">
<thead>
<tr>
<th style='width:5%;'>ID</th>
<th style='width:45%;'>Title</th>
<th style='width:20%;'>Creation Date</th>
<th style='width:10%;'>Status</th>
<th style='width:20%;'>Actions</th>
</tr>
</thead>

<tbody>
<?php echo list_pages(); ?>
</tbody>
</table>

<h3>Please support the developer</h3>

<img src="http://astateofmind.eu/uploads/donation.gif" style="margin-right:10px" border="0" align="left" />

Do you like this plugin? Do you find it useful? If so, please donate few dollars so I could keep develop this plugin and others further and further. Even the smallest help is greatly appreciated for a student in Poland ;).

<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">

<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_donations">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="wojciech.usarzewicz@gmail.com">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="bbPages Donation">
<input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="bbPages Donation">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1">
<input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD" />

Type donation amount: $ <input type="text" name="amount" value="1" />

<input type="hidden" name="tax" value="0">
<input type="hidden" name="lc" value="US">
<input type="hidden" name="bn" value="PP-DonationsBF">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Donate with PayPal!" alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!">
<img alt="" border="0" src="https://www.paypal.com/pl_PL/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" height="1">
</form>

<p>Want to know what I'm developing right now? Follow me on Twitter, ignore 90% of stuff and learn a lot you will ;). And thank you for using my plugin!</p>

<?php
break;

case "add":
global $bbdb, $bb;

if (isset($_POST['add_page']))
{
$page_title = $_POST['page_title'];
$page_slug = bb_sanitize_with_dashes( "$page_title", "" );

$page_content = $_POST['page_content'];
$page_order = $_POST['page_order'];
$page_status = $_POST['page_status'];

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";
$query = "INSERT INTO " . $table_name .
" (page_id, page_date, page_content, page_title, page_status, page_slug, page_order) " .
"VALUES (0, NOW(), '".$page_content."', '".$page_title."', '".$page_status."', '".$page_slug."', '".$page_order."')";

$bbdb->query($query);

?><div class="updated"><p>Page has been saved.</p></div> <?php
}
?>

<h2>Add new page</h2>

<form class="settings" method="post">

<fieldset>
<div>
<label for="page_title">
Page title </label>
<div>
<input name="page_title" id="page_title" type="text" class="text long" />
<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don't worry, it's not useful for anything yet).</p>
</div>
</div>

<div>
<label for="page_order">
Page order </label>
<div>
<input name="page_order" id="page_order" type="text" class="text long" />
</div>
</div>

<div>
<label for="page_content">
Page content </label>
<div>
<textarea name="page_content" id="page_content" rows="20" cols="80" ></textarea>
</div>
</div>

<input type="hidden" name="page_status" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="page_id" value="<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>" />
</fieldset>

<input type="submit" class="submit" name="add_page" value="<?php _e('Add page', 'add_page') ?>" />
</form>

<?php
break;

case "edit":
global $bbdb, $bb;

if (isset($_POST['save_page'])) {

$page_id = $_POST['page_id'];
$page_title = $_POST['page_title'];

$page_content = $_POST['page_content'];
$page_order = $_POST['page_order'];
$page_status = $_POST['page_status'];

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";
$query = "UPDATE ".$table_name." SET page_content='".$page_content."', page_title='".$page_title."', page_status='".$page_status."', page_order='".$page_order."' WHERE page_id='".$page_id."'";

$bbdb->query($query);

?> <div class="updated"><p>Page updated...</p></div> <?php
}

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";
$query = $bbdb->get_results("SELECT * FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=".$_GET['id']."");

foreach ($query as $rk) {
$id = $rk->page_id;
$title = $rk->page_title;
$content = $rk->page_content;
$order = $rk->page_order;
$status = $rk->page_status;
}

?>
<h2>Edit page</h2>

<form class="settings" method="post">

<fieldset>
<div>
<label for="page_title">
Page title </label>
<div>
<input name="page_title" id="page_title" type="text" class="text long" value="<?php echo "$title"; ?>" />
<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don't worry, it's not useful for anything yet).</p>
</div>
</div>

<div>
<label for="page_order">
Page order </label>
<div>
<input name="page_order" id="page_order" type="text" class="text long" value="<?php echo "$order"; ?>" size="10" />
</div>
</div>

<div>
<label for="page_content">
Page content </label>
<div>
<textarea name="page_content" id="page_content" rows="20" cols="80" ><?php echo "$content"; ?></textarea>
</div>
</div>

<input type="hidden" name="page_status" value="1" />
<input type="hidden" name="page_id" value="<?php echo $_GET['id']; ?>" />
</fieldset>

<input type="submit" class="submit" name="save_page" value="<?php _e('Save page', 'save_page') ?>" />
</form>

<?php
break;

case "delete":
global $bbdb, $bb;
$id = $_GET['id'];

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";
$query = $bbdb->get_results("DELETE FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=".$_GET['id']."");

$bbdb->query($query);

?> <div class="updated"><p>Page deleted...</p></div> <?php
break;
}
}

function pages_admin_menu() {
bb_admin_add_menu(__('Manage Pages'), 'administrate', 'pages_panel');
}

function bbpages_install() {
global $bbdb;
$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . "pages";

$bbdb->query("CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $table_name (
page_id mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
page_date datetime,
page_content text,
page_title varchar(255),
page_status int(1),
page_slug varchar(255),
page_order int(11),
PRIMARY KEY (page_id)
)");
}

bb_register_activation_hook( __FILE__, 'bbpages_install');
add_action( 'bb_admin_menu_generator', 'pages_admin_menu' );

?>
------------------------------

Note: I want to mention here that the author of this plugin is no more active. He make this plugin but something is wrong with this pluing. he tell us wrong path for plugins files. But I've little bit knowledge of php that's why i correct its path now the path of the plugins files which I've mentioned above is totally correct and working fine.

Now I really need to your help. If someone will not guide me then I'll leave this software "bbpress" and I'll move to vBulletin or phpbb after disheart....

So I'm waiting for positive answers from developers... Thanks ... And Love you all

But something is wrong because the pages cannot be found. This is my rewrite code (it is a bit different from your code because I am using the newest version of bbpress):

# BEGIN bbPress

Options -MultiViews

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /forum/

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /index.php?page=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/([^/]+)/?$ /forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^forum/?$ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/([^/]+)/?$ /topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^topic/?$ /forum/ [R=302,L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/([^/]+)/?$ tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^tags/?$ tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/([^/]+)/?$ profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^profile/?$ profile.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^view/([^/]+)/?$ view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/?$ rss.php [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?forum=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/forum/([^/]+)/topics/?$ rss.php?forum=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([^/]+)/topics/?$ /forum/rss.php?tag=$1&topics=1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([^/]+)/?$ rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]
RewriteRule ^rss/view/([^/]+)/?$ /forum/rss.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^.*$ /forum/index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END bbPress

Probably I made something wrong with point four where you say that the lines 46 and 48 have to be switched. What do I actually have do do there?

Quote: "4. Open up bb-post.php at the root of your bbPress install and simply switch lines number 46 and 48"

Is it this code?
$link = get_post_link($post_id);

$topic = get_topic( $topic_id, false );

i was actually surprised that no one has had this issue and there were no plug-ins either. :)

well words would be fine. 3-4-5 to keep the link short and sweet. of course i am not looking for a wordpress like slug feature. but a vbseo like fixed limit on the number of words.

can i set a limit to the number of words in thread slug?