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You actually installed the plugin correctly. The warning about your theme not being bbPress compatible is simply saying that the bbPress plugin is using the templates from the plugin and not your theme. That is the default behavior.

The top topic on the forums here about making your theme fully compatible will explain how to take it to the next level.

As for plugins:

There are a few available plugins for the bbPress plugin but nowhere near as many as with the standalone right now. So no, you don’t get all the features of the standalone, but you get close.

The new plugin is built to WordPress standards so it is quite easy to work with and building plugins is actually much easier. I am positive that we are going to see more and more plugins available shortly.

If it were me, I would not use the standalone and would go with the plugin. It is 100x better than the standalone and is progressing every day. It really is one of the best and most advanced WordPress plugins on the market.

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If you make a topic super-sticky then it will show up on the top of all forums.

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@rosiste

I would suggest going over to the http://bbconverter.com forums and request to have mingle added to the converter. At the moment there is no system in place, but Adam may add mingle to the list if requested enough.

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@Dan

If I figure it out then I’ll submit the changes. It’s kinda low on my list as I have so much else to finish up, but I do indeed want to learn how to do it so I will try.

I know how to easily add classes to the wp post_class, but it is not the same on the bbPress topic classes. Time for me to keep digging around to learn how to modify the function to work like it does with wp.

*I’m using the plugin over at bbconverter.com and it works great. Nice, simple little plugin, thnx

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That is all set in the root bbpress.php plugin file.

I have never even thought about changing those locations, and I don’t think it is currently possible without hacking the heck out of the plugin as I see the dirs hardcoded throughout.

Frankly, as they are internal links within the bbpress plugin, I can’t personally see any reason that I would ever want to change them, but whatever the reason that’s your business.

I’m no developer, but I seriously doubt it’ll happen. JJ would have to speak to that… way out of my league.

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In loop-single-forum I use:

<?php bbp_author_link( array( 'post_id' => bbp_get_forum_last_active_id(), 'type' => name ) ); ?>

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I’m guessing you mean bbp_get_user_favorites_link() which is found in: /bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-template.php line 534.

Accepts the $add and $rem arrays for changing the output text.

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I took a quick peek at your link. Honestly I do not see anything at all which would cause the spacing like that.. it is very strange.

One place you might try asking is over at css-tricks, as they have a great forum for css issues and Chris is a genious at that kind of stuff.

As to removing the info boxes:

Unless you have manually replicated all of the bbPress templates and added them manually to your theme, then you are actually using the bbPress twentyten theme templates. (they are found inside the bbPress plugin folder)

In there you will find files like content-single-forum.php, content-single-topic.php, etc..

In those templates are functions like:

<?php bbp_single_forum_description(); ?>, <?php bbp_single_topic_description(); ?>, etc...

Those are the functions used to output the information blocks. You would need to remove those lines from the files in order to get rid of the boxes.

**Now obviously if you modify those files, then you will loose your changes every time you update bbPress, not advised….

Instead check out the theme compatibility thread in the forums here to learn how to make child themes so you can make changes without loosing those changes.

Or.. you can always take the ‘easy’ way out and simply add some css rules to your stylesheet to hide them. Not at all elegant but effective.

.div.bbp-template-notice.info { display: none; }

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Here is an example link showing the problem:

http://www.bbconverter.com/forums/topic-tag/phpbb/

*there should only be 1 topic tagged phpbb, of course it shows 12

**I can revert the template back to twentyten and the problem remains.

I have no idea what I keep doing on every site to cause this so that I could assist JJ in figuring out what the issue is, but I have no idea why this is happening.

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I have the same problem, but unlike your setup, I have never added topic-tags via the admin side.

This problem exists on every install I use.

We do have one thing in common, being that I also use custom themes by adding all the needed bbPress files to the theme. However, even if I revert to twentyten ‘stock’ I still have the problem.

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Maybe this will explain it a little better:

<?php _e( 'Pages: ', 'wptumble' ); ?> <?php bbp_forum_pagination_links(); ?>

That basically adds ‘Pages:’ right before the page links. The ‘downside’ is that ‘Pages:’ is output to the browser even if there are no links available.

what I am trying to do is something like:

<?php bbp_forum_pagination_links('before_links' => 'Pages:'); ?>

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@JJ

Did you get my message about a generic ‘bbpress theme plugin’ skeleton component?

Basically just like we talked about last month, I was thinking it would be really beneficial if there were a generic plugin that we could use for our custom themes.

I’m thinking just the barebones basic setup. Heck even if the plugin included all the default template files it would be great.

Then all we would have to do is replace the template files in the plugin with our own, so long as the names are the same.

*well I know there is a bit more to it than that, but I think you get the idea of what I am after.

And yeah, it is 5:30am, ouch… have not slept all weekend as trying to finish this up, crazy tired now.

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bumping it up

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Just bumping it up as I still can’t find a conditional to use for determining if I am on the forum front/homepage.

*I am not using shortcodes but rather custom templates

also need a few other conditionals please:

What conditional can I use to see if I am on a topic-tag, or topic-tag-edit page?

finally, conditional for being on the users/users-edit page?

*trying to change titles around above the breadcrumbs in my template. and also using conditionals to remove breadcrumbs when on user page as they dont work on user pages yet.

thanks

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I also sent them a contact form requesting access in order to help and troubleshoot.

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no idea then, server admin stuff is beyond my ability to troubleshoot. Someone else will have to jump in to help. sorry…

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Short answer, no.

The new bbPress plugin uses custom post-types ‘topics/replies’ so technically topics and replies are already posts.

It’s easiest to think of forum topics as simply WordPress posts that are simply styled as forum topics by using special templates.

Of course anything is possible to build.

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the error is basically saying that your website does not have enough ram allocated to it in order to run anything else.

You can either deactivate other plugins on your site and then try to activate bbp or you can call your webhost and ask them to allocate more memory. (probably have to pay more for more ram)

This really has nothing to do with bbpress, but more a general error that shows up when system resources run out.

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It is really almost impossible to troubleshoot via a jpg. An actual link to the problem page at the very least provides us the ability to peek around and see if we can find anything obvious.

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There is a trac ticket already submitted with this problem.

What vs. of WordPress are you using?

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1640

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bbPress 2.0 is final, however 2.1 is going to be released in the near future. bbPress is nowhere near a feature freeze but is pretty rock solid in what it does already.

I am sure that bbPress will always continue to expand and improve. There are currently nowhere near the number of plugins available for 2.0 as with the old system but the base is great and creating plugins is a breeze for developers.

For importing your 1.02 system into 2x, check out http://bbconverter.com which is a great import script written by Alex. I would strongly advise backing up your database first as it’s definitely best practice whenever dealing with databases.

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Because the skeleton plugin adds the capability of adding theme templates which do not require added markup such as the header/footer/etc.

The way it is now, bbPress has a bunch of twentyten specific templates which handle all the output for bbPress. Each of these templates carries the overall ‘layout’ for twentyten instead of just what is output by bbPress.

If my understanding is correct, I would create a single bbpress.php file that holds just the twentyten layout. ‘The_content’ would then be auto replaced according to what page you are on.

This would mean that in order to get a custom setup in any theme, I would only have to modify one template file, ‘the twentyten base layout’ instead of modifying every file.

Basically I am trying to find a way of making it easier for me to build and market bbPress templates that work in any theme.

An example would be people that don’t want a sidebar. You would simple change the bbpress.php file to remove the sidebar, change the css attribute for the content area to be fullwidth and your done. You don’t have to modify the other bbPress templates.

*Yeah, I know, there are shortcodes, custom page templates etc already avail, but trying to find an even better approach.

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What did the theme author have to say?

To have something like this happen in a single browser means he obviously coded something specific to Safari that isn’t working right.

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Suggestion:

Please consider adding the topic status to the topic_class()

This will make it very easy for me to style resolved/not-resolved differently to give it a little flair.

It would also be nice to not have the ‘urgent/resolved/etc’ placed before the topic title. Provide an off switch and a function where I can simply place the code where I want it to show up.

*I can do that myself, but it would make upgrades difficult

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It works by having a new table called utplugin_log which accounts for which posts have been read by which user in what topic.

While working nicely, this also means that the plugin won’t scale well for huge boards, since the amount of records in that table have a potential for reaching number of users * number of topics.

thanks for the link, however according to the above this is a non-starter. I run boards with hundreds of thousands of posts, and have friends with boards running in the multi-millions of posts and users.

That’s kind of why I added the topic here in hopes that JJ or another dev would see it and come up with a scalable solution.

thnx again