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In reply to: Images, a pain in my side…
I’ve seen a bunch of replies today regarding things you’re unhappy with being missing from bbPress, things that are handled by plugins that should not be. I think your idea of forum software is different from the creators ideas for bbPress. I don’t think all the functionality you are missing in bbPress is ever going to be in the bbPress core. I have no official word on the subject, but from watching the replies over the past two years regarding topic like this, I don’t think these things will ever be part of the core, but will be available as plugins.
Also, bbPress is alpha or beta software, depending on the version you installed, around two years old, where phpBB is something like eight years old.
bbPress isn’t for everyone. That’s why there are lots of forum packages out there. Something for everyone.
In reply to: Plugin: Post NotificationI don’t want those things in the bbPress core – I would never use them. That said, normally things like this can be added via plugins, which are optional and I wouldn’t have to install them. Best of both worlds.
I am curious why you selected bbPress over phpBB if these core features are already present in phpBB but not in bbPress? Not a flame, an honest question.
In reply to: Page Links and Post Count WrongGlad you resolved the issue.
In reply to: Email notification of thread reply?Your users probably want to mark a topic as a favorite if they want an email when there is a reply. A topic created by a member does not automatically subscribe them to it as a favorite (I think in some versions of phpBB that’s how it works.)
For buttons, you probably want one of these two plugins:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-buttons/
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quicktags-4-bbpress/
You’ll find with bbPress that most of the things you want to do can be accomplished with plugins.
In reply to: Page Links and Post Count WrongWhat do you see when you’re logged out? Is it different than what you see when you’re logged in? Maybe it has something to do with replies that have been deleted, maybe they show up in a post count when you’re not expecting them to?
In reply to: Latest Topics widget (Pre 1.0)https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/ was for the older version of bbPress. Not sure how well it works with 0.9.0.2. If you browse the bbsync tag, you will see some discussion.
In reply to: Page Links and Post Count WrongOn that page you sent, I can navigate forward and backward with the page number 1 or 2 and the next and previous links. So what is supposed to be broken? Looks like there are supposed to be 22 posts in that topic and I see 20 on the first page and 2 on the second page.
There was another topic that had 21 posts and it had two pages, 20 on the first page and 1 on the second.
I am focusing on the bbPress generated links at this point.
Maybe it’s different when you’re logged in? I was not. Also, FF3.
In reply to: Page Links and Post Count WrongDo you have a link to the page that’s a problem?
And is the link you’re clicking generated by a plugin or by the bbpress core?
In reply to: Problem deleting postsWhat do you mean “removing in the admin page some posts”? When you’re logged in as keymaster, don’t you have the ability to edit or delete posts when viewing the topic? Are you doing this in the admin section somewhere or are you doing this from the topic page with the [delete] link?
When I am in the admin section and select Manage > Posts, I see only deleted posts there, not all posts that I CAN delete. I can restore deleted posts from here.
This is 1.0-alpha-2 same as yours, non-integrated. I can’t recreate the problem.
In reply to: 404 error: forum, topic, tag, user profileHave you tried with permalinks set to none? Sounds like those mod_rewrite rules are not working on your server. Change permalinks to none and then see if your forum works. If it does, then you just need to get permalinks working.
In reply to: Page Links and Post Count WrongDid you try a recount in the admin panel?
And is it just the link in the front page view (which is from a plugin, correct?), or the link from page one to page two of a topic?
In reply to: Deleting ‘Allowed Markup’ info below posting fieldNo.
Kakumei is a theme (WordPress terminology) or a template (bbPress terminology) and controls the display of the content on your site. Any modifications you make to your site should be done in these template files, never in the core. Changing core files makes it hard to upgrade to newer releases: you lose your changes with every upgrade. So, if you make the changes in a template file, you can maintain them between releases.
Also, by default, the stock kakumei theme is used and it’s in the bb-templates directory. I recommend creating a new directory called my-templates (if it’s not there already) at the same level as bb-templates. So, in a directory listing, they’d be at the same level. Then, inside there, create a directory called mytheme or some other name that is descriptive for your forum. This directory name does not matter. (The
my-templatesone DOES matter.)Now that you have a my-templates directory, and inside that a new directory with a name you choose, copy everything from inside the bb-templates/kakumei/ directory to this new directory you created. Then, open up style.css and change the header to give this new template a unique name on line two. You will see this there:
Theme Name: KakumeiChange that to “Theme Name: My Cool New Theme” or whatever you want. Then refresh your admin panel, and you will see a new theme. You can change the rest of the lines in that header as well, to things that are meaningful to you. Be sure not to modify the text before the colon, just change the text after, to your values.
Now, modify the php and css files in this directory to change the look of your forum. You can switch back and forth between themes here. If you break something, just choose the default theme until you fix the one you were working on.
In reply to: Deleting ‘Allowed Markup’ info below posting fieldIf you just want to delete the display of the information below the post form, don’t remove that from a core file. What you want to do does not require any modification of core files. Stay out of there.
You want to be in a template folder, by default bb-templates/kakumei/ but if you created a custom template, you may have a my-templates/yourtemplatename/. In that folder, there should be a file post-form.php and edit-form.php. In the 0.9.0.2 version, you want to look at
./edit-form.php line 19
/post-form.php line 31
Those lines contains the code to display “Allowed markup” below the post form. Remove that line completely and the text will no longer appear under your post form. Remove it in edit-form.php as well, and it won’t appear below that form either.
If you don’t have those files in your template, or those lines in your template files, then I don’t know what to say. That’s where the text comes from in a stock installation.
In reply to: Check if a user is logged in?The code above handles both cases, you’re logged in or you’re logged out. There is no in between. If one is true, the other is false.
<?php
if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo "No ads for you!n";
}
else {
echo "Here is an ad, buy now!n";
}
?>You could also just check to see if they’re not logged in like this:
<?php
if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {
echo "Here is an ad, buy now!n";
}
?>The exclamation in front of the function says “if this is NOT true, then the if statement is true; continue.)
In reply to: Double PostsYou know, there was a post here a year or more ago about using javascript to prevent duplicate form submissions, but I can’t find it right now. I did find some results with google though, just not at this site.
http://www.google.com/search?q=prevent+duplicate+form+submission+javascript
The solution posted here at bbpress.org was similar to this one (at the end):
In reply to: RSS links show document tree instead of feedPlease post a link to the feeds that are not working.
Is this your forum?
http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/
I was able to get a proper feed for everything there, never a document tree. If you want to validate specific feeds, you can go here:
In reply to: Can’t modify error pageI had no idea it would be so hard to modify. I never really thought about it.
In reply to: rounded edges in IE7I have a trunk installation and the rounded corners don’t work when viewed in IE7. I think the “border-*-*-radius” stuff is a CSS3 property that IE7 does not support. It degrades nicely, but the problem is with IE7 not bbPress, I don’t think. I like that is a non-javascript way of doing it.
In reply to: WordPress “logged in” cookie key ?Does that mean you resolved it or you still need help? That logged in cookie key can be found in your wp-config.php, line 15:
define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',In reply to: Second Page Gone!Yes, through my website – click my profile, find my site, find a way to contact me. I’m not trying to be difficult, just also not trying to spam the board.
Or just google chrishajer: I’m easy to find.
In reply to: Second Page Gone!What type of server is this hosted on? And you mean it works in your Mac browser even when the server is having trouble?
You can contact me via my profile if you need additional help.
UPDATE: I am unable to add a new reply to this thread for some reason (the background image looks weird to me too all of the sudden) so I am posting this here:
Yes, through my website – click my profile, find my site, find a way to contact me. I’m not trying to be difficult, just also not trying to spam the board.
Or just google chrishajer: I’m easy to find.
In reply to: Second Page Gone!I suggest you find someone you trust and give them access to that server or hosting account to help you with this. It’s such a nice forum: you need to get these problems resolved.
In reply to: Second Page Gone!Interestingly, I just checked the forum again, and it was inaccessible. So I tried the main website, and it came up. Then I tried the forum again, and it came up (so, it appears that the forum was down about 10 minutes this time.)
But I got this error on the forum page for:
http://harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/topic.php?id=63
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: avatarupload_display() in /mnt/local/home/harrismarine/harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/post.php on line 7There were supposed to be 6 posts to that thread I think, but only the first one comes up, with this error, then there are no more replies.
Then, I refreshed the same page, and I got this error:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: show_view_count() in /mnt/local/home/harrismarine/harrismarine.co.nz/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/topic.php on line 9That error kept coming up over and over when I refreshed the page.
It seems to me that right now you’re disabling plugins, but the call to the plugin function is still in the template, which is causing these errors. That points to a totally different problem, not the one that was causing the 503 before. This is something new and only because I think you disabled some plugins.
In reply to: Second Page Gone!Not just displaying them, no. If you are processing them in some way before displaying them, then maybe. But just displaying them on a page would not cause this error.
Another possibility is that the website is exceeding a bandwidth cap on the host. I don’t know the details of the hosting plan, but it’s possible that somehow the host is limiting or throttling the bandwidth or resource usage.
It’s still giving a 503 error for even the front page of the forum. Maybe with some sort of throttling, it takes your site down for a while after exceeding some cap? I never timed how long it gives a 503 after the first time it happens, but it seems like it’s at least 10 minutes, maybe more. It’s still down right now.
In reply to: Second Page Gone!You might need more help than can be offered via a forum.
The missing topgrey.gif file is not your problem: that’s just a 404 file not found error. That won’t bring down your forum. The missing.html file being missing is probably because the server is configured to display a custom 404 page, but it can’t find that file either. But two 404 errors will not bring down your server.
Upgrading to alpha will not fix your problem. You need to find the specific problem with your installation.
Also, just loading page one of that topic 9, TWICE, caused the blank screen. So I doubt it even has anything to do with that thread having two pages. Just try loading any page twice and see if you experience the same thing I did (503 error, Service Not Available.)
To me, it sounds like something in the bbpress forum is overloading your server. Could be one of the plugins causing an excessive amount of database queries, could be something exhausting PHP RAM. You need someone close to the server to be able to troubleshoot this. If it’s a shared server, you might have a hard time finding the information you need.
