So, when members join, they can opt in to your newsletter. You want to use bbPress as sort of a member database. But the content you send out would not be bbPress topics and replies necessarily, but maybe something written by you, with links to topics in the forum you found interesting, or topics with no replies, or topics with lots of activity?
Just trying to get a clear picture of what you want to do. Thanks.
If you are using WordPress, you need to read this about WordPress integration, to have access to WordPress functions like get_footer, get_sidebar and get_header.
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func
bbpress/my-templates/front-page.php is the template file that controls the look of the front page. You might want to put it right before the “discussions” div.
You can create a full plugin out of it, then activate the plugin, or _ck_ likes to create a single plugin for all the miscellaneous tweaks or mini-plugins, then add this to that file. Adding this to a file of other mini-plugins means you cannot activate and deactivate this independently. That works for tweaks you will always want to use.
A plugin header will need to look something like this:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress Tweaks
Plugin URI: http://www.example.com
Description: Various tweaks to bbPress
Author: You
Version: 0.1
*/
Add the above code after that, and call the file bbpress-tweaks.php, put it in my-plugins, then activate it in the bbPress admin. It should look like this when you’re done:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress Tweaks
Plugin URI: http://www.example.com
Description: Various tweaks to bbPress
Author: You
Version: 0.1
*/
function meta_keywords() {
global $tags;
if (!empty($tags)) {
$keywords="";
foreach ($tags as $t) {
$keywords.=$t->raw_tag.', ';
}
echo "n".'<meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="'.trim($keywords,", ").'">'."n";
}
}
add_action('bb_head', 'meta_keywords',
;
?>
Sounds like you have a typo in bb-config.php in your database details. Since the first error message is appearing on line 7, my guess is that line 6 has the typo, the line with the database password in it. Can you check that? If it doesn’t make sense, check my profile for a website and contact me through that website and I can help you. Posted an edited bb-config.php here will not do anyone any good.
_ck_, I think the “Options -MultiViews” is a 1&1 specific thing (turning that off so you can use the good rewrite rules.)
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16050
Then something is not working 
Or, just change the colors for the fields. The yellow and white doesn’t really work with the theme anyway.
Not sure if auto-filling those fields comes from FF3 or the Google Toolbar. I thought it was the toolbar.
In any case, I would fix it rather than put it in the FAQ. No one reads those, and you’ll end up getting questions anyway, IMO.
OK, the little “admin” is your username, the big “Admin” is the link to your administration area. That’s the screenshot I am looking for – when you click “Admin” what does the screen look like. Does it look like this?
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/admin-dashboard.png
Please post a screenshot of your admin screen after you log in and click Admin. There are normally more options than what you’re describing. I think they are “Users”, “Manage” and “Design” on the left, then a couple more on the right (settings and plugins.)
For how to place a link to the forum in your WordPress site, that’s highly dependent on your theme. But a basic html link will normally work, depending on where you’re putting it.
<a href="http://www.example.com/forums/">Forums</a>
If you’re putting it near wp_list_pages, in an unordered list, then it needs to be wrapped in li tags.
<li><a href="http://www.example.com/forums/">Forums</a></li>
I registered and was able to save a profile change there for my profile.
One thing I noticed – if you’re using Firefox 3 with the Google Toolbar, it changes the field background color to yellow because it thinks it can fill that field in for you. The new data is there but you can’t see it because the font is white on light yellow.
To check if that’s happening to you, try highlighting the “invisible” text in a field after you’ve changed it and refreshed and see if it’s there. I registered with no real name, but then edited my profile to add my first and last name. I saved, then went to edit again, and it looked like the data was not there, but it was, when I highlighted it.
With IE7 (no Google Toolbar), I can see the data both before and after.
When you log in as keymaster, right next to your name will be a link to “Admin” – that’s the admin section.
If you have logged in, and you don’t have that link next to your name and instead have just “View your profile”, then you’re not the keymaster and the permissions have somehow gotten jazzed up.
I have a non-integrated alpha 2 install, and I am able to save new profile information just fine.
Link to your forum? Also, if it’s NSWF please state so when posting the link.
The WordPress table prefix is wp_ – when you enter that for the user database table prefix, bbPress will modify that WordPress table so that bbPress and WordPress users are both stored in there.
In my 0.9.0.2 installation, in the file bb-templates/kakumei/rss2.php, it’s most definitely line 19. Not sure why yours does not contain this line. See screenshot here.
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/rss2.png
Here’s the original file:
https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/branches/0.9/bb-templates/kakumei/rss2.php#L19
I looked in the bbOrg template and know there is no file there. So another theme is overriding it. In my installation, that would be the stock kakumei theme.
I will try it out. You have my email if you need to send the plugin via email.
Also, what widget are you using, and what feed URL are you using?
You would have to change the one in your theme, not a theme you’re not using. If you don’t have this file, then it’s a bbPress file that’s providing this function.
Wait – it used to be that if a file was not present in your theme, the file from the stock theme would be used. That’s not the case? Is the RSS data cached or something? Can you force a refresh?
Look at rss2.php in your theme. It is line 19 in the stock kakumei theme.
What widget are you using to pull the feed into WordPress? And what feed URL are you using?
You’re using WordPress 2.6.3 – what version bbPress did you use?
And, can your users just log in at WordPress or bbPress and they are automatically logged in on the other side?
Just install without integration. If you don’t allow comments on the blog, then there’s no reason for anyone to log in there, and integration wouldn’t be helping anyone anyway.
First, I think I would make sure the bbPress version are the same. If they’re not, first backup your MySQL database then upgrade bbPress at your current host. That way you have the same version of the code and the database.
Now, dump the database, paying attention to the MySQL version in case you need to specify any compatibility options for the new host. If the version are close to the same, you’ll be OK just dumping it.
Now that you have the bbPress code at the new server and a dump of the database, just import the old database on the new host, and you should be done.
If the domain name changed, you have a couple more things to worry about. But you didn’t mention that: just a new host.
I was able to make the links clickable by adding this to the SmallNav CSS:
position: relative;
z-index: 3;
Then I removed the four margin settings. You might have to experiment with the positioning, but this at least makes the links clickable.
I also noticed that your login form has a z-index of 1 and everything else is either zero or two. If the login form has a z-index of 1, and the nav links have a z-index of zero (automatically) then the nav is going to be behind (or under) the login form, and therefore not accessible to be clicked. You’d be clicking in the higher z-index layer, and the links are not there. You can’t get to them.
I think it has something to do with the z-index and the order you nested the divs.
