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In reply to: Looking for Theme
The Revolution themes are pretty nice and a lot of work have gone into them. I doubt you will find anything for bbPress that you can easily edit to make it look the same.
Brian Gardner has a bbPress theme for Revolution here:
http://www.briangardner.com/blog/revolution-finally-meets-bbpress.htm
Or, you can find people who are familiar with Revolution and can create a theme for you, here:
http://www.revolutiontheme.com/support/viewforum.php?f=15
Not exactly what you’re looking for, but the quality of those Revolution themes is so high, you’re going to have a hard time finding something for bbPress of similar quality.
You could also start with one of the bbPress Raw themes:
What happens when you attempt to log in to your site with the keymaster account?
In reply to: advice for customizationYes, using those functions will bring the header and footer over. Whether or not they look like you want is up to you to decide. The functions will work, but your bbPress template needs to be setup to display the WordPress header/footer/sidebar properly.
In reply to: Locked Out of Forum!Do you have access to the database with a tool like phpMyAdmin or something in your host’s control panel? You will need to directly access the database to fix it I think.
In reply to: Locking Post within ForumAs keymaster, at the bottom, you can [Close Topic] – is that what you mean?
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In reply to: advice for customizationAlso, before making changes to a stock template, you probably want to make a new directory called my-templates, then inside there a new directory called $whatever-you-want (maybe “forumtemplate” or “mytemplate” or “newlook”). Then inside that directory, copy over all the files and subdirectories from the bb-templates/kakumei/ directory. Now, in your new directory, edit the top of style.css to change the template name to something unique. Once you’ve done that, you can log in as keymaster, then select your new template, by name, since the screenshot will still look like kakumei since that’s what you copied over. Select the new template and look at your site. It should look the same as it did before, because you didn’t make any changes yet.
Now, confine all your changes to these template files, and if you break something you can always fall back on the default kakumei, or compare to see where you went wrong.
In reply to: advice for customization> – adding a banner to bbpress like that of my WP
Not sure what you mean there. If it’s navigation you need, you probably want integration with WordPress so you can use the WordPress functions like get_header and get_sidebar. If you mean just a banner ad of some sort, you can just add that to the template file header.php
> – changing the logo (I know, this should be simple)
It is. Just look in header.php for the header div, and style.css for the corresponding css.
> – containing bb within the main area of my WP pages
Not so easy. It doesn’t work well (or at all) in a WordPress page. It’s not a plugin for WordPress, it’s a standalone forum. If you want it to look like a WordPress page, you probably want integration as explained in item one above, or here.
> – adding a navigation button to return to my WP pages
> from bb
Also easy, like changing the logo. You can do it in header.php if you want the link up top. Or you can edit another template file if you want the link somewhere else.
In reply to: Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_forums()You probably have the path to the wp-blog-header.php wrong. You can try the full path there in the bb-config.php or you can verify that the relative path is actually correct. You may need to do something like
../wordpress/wp-blog-header.phpif your WordPress installation is in a folder on the same level as bbpress. It’s easy to figure out if you have a command line. If not, if you can describe your directory structure, someone can help you with the path to wp-blog-header.php.In reply to: getting the forum picked up by googleI turned that plugin off long ago as well (but sometimes run it manually), because as the forum grew, it was taking longer and longer to regenerate the sitemap, as the visitor waited, as _ck_ said. The Google XML Sitemap plugin for WordPress doesn’t have that problem, but I have no idea what makes it different.
In reply to: Plugins LocationsI have asked in the past about including the my-plugins and my-templates directories as well. I wish someone of authority would explain the reason to not include two empty directories in the archive. There must be a good reason.
In reply to: getting the forum picked up by googlehttps://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/bbpress-sitemap-generator/trunk/bbpress_sitemap.php?rev=1277
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-sitemap-generator/
http://boakes.org/talk/topic/sitemap-plugin-for-bbpress
The first link is probably best since development of the plugin has been picked up by someone else.
In reply to: Can anybody help me?There is no plugin to do that with bbPress that I know of. You didn’t actually ask about that initially either. To put bbPress info in your WordPress sidebar, with 1.0-alpha, bbPress Live is great.
The closest thing for you with version 0.9.0.2 is bbSync. bbPress live is for the 1.0 versions.
In reply to: blog posts and googleIf this is about WordPress, you might want to post over at WordPress.org support. If this is about bbPress, please explain more and post contact information for yourself. Then we will close this topic.
You can also access a WordPress professionals list if you’re looking to hire someone.
In reply to: uninstalling 0.9?Which versions of WordPress and bbPress are you installing?
Does this thread help at all?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-alpha-2-released/page/2
In reply to: uninstalling 0.9?If you read the screen very carefully during the bbPress installation, it will tell you exactly which key to put where, and where to get the SALTs that are not listed in wp-config.php.
In reply to: New installationTo get the database connection details, either look in wp-config.php in your WordPress installation, or get them from your cPanel.
In reply to: New installationYou can install bbPress in the same database as WordPress, it will use a table prefix of bb_ by default. It’s actually recommended to use the same database if you’re going to try integration at some point. So, there’s no need to create a new database, just use the connection details for the database you use for WordPress and ensure the table prefixes are different. By default, WordPress uses wp_ and bbPress uses bb_.
In reply to: Can anybody help me?I think the bbPress Live WordPress plugin will do what you want.
https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/
“bbPress Live allows the display of information from
a bbPress 1.0 forum from inside a WordPress blog.”
1. I would find out why the host has those functions disabled and ask if they will enable them.
2. Using the phpinfo() you need to find a function that is available that will allow you to replace this function. You will need to do this in every place it occurs in the code.
3. Or, you could consider a new host.
In reply to: Created By. Missing. Advice?What happens when he tries that? Need more information please. Maybe you should put the developer on here to discuss.
BTW, I did try that exact thing in my template and it works fine. Maybe it won’t work where you’re trying to use it?
Make a backup of the files and the database, then just try the upgrade. I don’t know of any specific problems that come up between 0.8 and 1.0-alpha. I can’t remember any when I upgraded.
In reply to: Remove ‘dash’ from forum descriptionThanks sam.
In reply to: Can’t see topics and posts in adminI’m sorry, what are you seeing in the admin and what do you expect to see?
My experience is that in the admin, you will only see moderated topics (usually deleted ones.) That’s why there are tables and submenus. It’s much simpler than that though when you need to edit or moderate a reply or topic. You can do it while viewing the topic while logged in as keymaster. What are you unable to do?
In reply to: BBpress faster than WordPress@techypenguin: What do you mean, “Thanks but the quiries doesnt work” – you need to get it to work to see if that’s part of the problem. Then you need to figure out where the extra queries are coming from.
In reply to: Created By. Missing. Advice?From your forum:
> Please wait a reasonable amount of time before
> bumping posts. Try to bump posts using 24 hours
> as a guideline. Posts that are not within these
> guidelines are subject to removal.
I found that funny. Also funny to say “preying” vs. praying. All very interesting.
Anyway, to find out who started a topic, you need to stick this into your template somewhere, wherever you want to see that information.
<?php echo get_topic_author(); ?>
