flatworm, also, you can contact me via email and I will help get you running off-list. See my profile, go to that website and follow the the “contact us” link and email to support. I will help you out. You don’t need to get into the development of bbPress.
Also, you’re not experiencing ‘errors with graphics’ you’ve got a problem with the path to your stylesheet. That’s all. That may very well be a bug, but all software has bugs. Don’t just trade one problem for another.
vanilla support forum: http://lussumo.com/community/9/
Also, did you ever look in a rendered page (in your browser) for the stylesheet line? If you do see that (use ‘view source’ or something similar in your browser when you pull up a page similar to the one you took a screenshot of) post the information from that stylesheet line. My guess is that the slashes are backslashes.
Also, I never understood the point of installing community/forum software on localhost, unless it’s just for testing. Even if that’s the case, I prefer to test in the environment where it will be live so you’re not solving problems that won’t ever happen once it’s live, and you won’t experience new problems that you didn’t anticipate.
But, contact me off-forum and I will help you.
Sorry, Sam. I am Linux on the desktop and Linux on the webserver. I supposed I could just try it too. I guess the issue is that now that I’ve already install bbPress and updated it once, do I need to start with a new checked out version and make my changes manually to that?
Thanks,
Chris
That is unstyled because the path to the style.css file is incorrect. Can you look at the source of that html page and find the line that begins:
<link rel="stylesheet"
My guess is that the path to your stylesheet is incorrect. There have been a couple threads about slashes being changed to back slashes improperly:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/700?replies=28
Even more relevant for localhost:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/730?replies=9
Here is a trac ticket for the backslash issue:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/594
HTH
edit: there will not be slashes before the double quotes in your html source around stylesheet , unlike this post. It’s a bug they’re working on.
flatworm : please email me at the email address found on the website in my profile.
fel64: can you clarify the “page numbers” question? Are you looking for the number of pages that are in the thread.
And what sort of hook for registration? I am trying to learn here too. What do you want to do with that hook?
There is no activation required. Any .php file in the my-plugins folder will just work.
So says Trent (and I believe him):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/714?replies=9#post-4462
flatworm, how about a URL so we can see what you’re talking about? Sounds like the path to your stylesheet is not being found, so the pages are all ugly. But a URL would be helpful in seeing exactly what you’re talking about.
I think this feature was removed from the core and added as a plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/16?replies=1&more=1
Not sure from the release notes if this works with .81 or not, but I imagine the functionality will still be there, just in plugin form, not in the core. I think there were more requests for it to be out than in.
I got it. One thing I found out is that people can register with the same email address for multiple accounts. So they don’t necessarily need multiple email accounts. So that’s not an issue.
I understand the want to not make them log out and back in. Maybe it’s something someone will consider as a plugin, a “fast user switcher” or something …
Error 28 is a MySQL out of disk space error:
Error code 28: No space left on device
Is that more or less difficult then the users just registering multiple times? Is the logging out and back in as a different user much more difficult than selecting from a drop down?
I think it’s an interesting idea, but I’ve never see forum software with a function like that before. I always just register with multiple accounts. What use would this have for you? Why do they need pseudonyms? Just curious.
I think bbPress is still like the Wild West, and is changing so often that writing the docs would be a waste of time. It’s not super complicated, so if you have a question about how to get a specific piece of data, you can always ask here or grep through the code. There are a lot of knowledgeable people here who are very good at writing plugins. Looking through the plugin code is helpful too.
Plugins
Good luck and share what you learn. Thanks.
The relevant section that would affect those slashes, in the config, is this part:
// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.
// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.
// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.
$bb->domain = ‘http://my-cool-forums.example.com’; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’
// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.
$bb->path = ‘/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’
What do your slashes look like there?
radkitten, that’s interesting. It’s supposed to be a checkbox as seen in this screenshot: http://www.chrishajer.com/bike/XLF/bozo2.png
Can you post the relevant source of the rendered page to see if the input is type=”checkbox” like this?
<td><input name=\"is_bozo\" id=\"is_bozo\" value=\"1\" type=\"checkbox\">
edit: those slashes do not appear in the HTML, just here after I pasted the HTML. I thought I saw a trac ticket for that already :
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/596
edit2: they had one slash added the first time, then I edited above and a 2nd slash appeared, now I am editing now and I suspect there will be a 3rd slash when I check again.
Yes, that’s the reason your site is unstyled when vieweing in FF. If you check with IE, you will see that the stylesheet is found. Are they typed like ( ) that in the config.php or is this an issue with bbPress?
Trent, I am still using .80 (still, after 24 hrs of .81 being out!) but the checkbox was there in admin for me with .73 also. It’s been there for a while which is why I thought it was odd that is was missing from radkitten’s install.
It seems that we haven’t gotten to the root of the problem yet…
I was only going off this reply by peiqinglong (different user?):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/643?replies=17#post-3815
Trent,
That’s the problem, there is no box to uncheck them anywhere in their individual profile, where they are listed as Bozos, etc.
“No box to uncheck” was the part I caught. I’ve seen it mentioned before too and wondered if that was part of the real problem. (edit: maybe since this is a few weeks old this is the one I was remembering)
This was a different, but possibly related problem (where unchecking the box never “stuck” – you’d always be a bozo – that was in 0.73 though I think):
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/312?replies=4#post-1525
Also, I didn’t follow this from mdawaffe:
There’s nothing in the admin for this (sad, I know).
You need to edit that user’s profile.
But, as key master you CAN edit the user’s profile, from admin. So I didn’t follow this part either.
I thought the crux of the problem was that there were no boxes visible in the admin, where I have boxes, as expected. That is all 
edit: PLEASE change the style.css to include some styling for [blockquote] – my quotes were quoted up there but you can’t tell. Indent, different font, different BG color, something.
Here is the section of akismet.php that I saw that led me to believe I could assign a level to a user to make them ‘trusted’:
In akismet.php, around line 119:
function bb_ksd_check_post( $post_text ) {
global $bb_current_user, $bb_ksd_pre_post_status;
if ( in_array($bb_current_user->roles[0], bb_trusted_roles()) ) // Don't filter content from users with a trusted role
return $post_text;
Trent, maybe I misunderstand. There is a box on the edit tab of my user’s profiles that says “this user is a bozo” and it’s normally unchecked (there was an issue with .73 and the admin being checked bozo, but that doesn’t appear to be an issue any more.)
See this admin user screenshot and normal user screenshot, both of the edit tab in the profiles. Is that what is missing from the OP’s install? I wasn’t asking for anything that doesn’t exist. It sounded to me like this box that I see does not show up sometimes. That’s the confusion for me.
edit: also, I saw on the source somewhere that users of a certain level could be whitelisted to skip the akismet check, but maybe that’s not implemented yet.
In akismet.php, around line 119:
function bb_ksd_check_post( $post_text ) {
global $bb_current_user, $bb_ksd_pre_post_status;
if ( in_array($bb_current_user->roles[0], bb_trusted_roles()) ) // Don't filter content from users with a trusted role
return $post_text;
That I asked about before, for sure:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/728?replies=1
Why is there no box in admin to make someone a bozo or not? I have heard this a couple times now. Why does that happen?
Here’s mine:
a:2:{s:8:”throttle”;b:1;s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}
Mine is in wp_usermeta though since I am integrated (not sure if that matters or not.)
Also, “administrator” is there since I changed /bb-includes/capabilities.php to make the title administrator rather than key master. Did you make a similar change in your capabilities.php?
It’s also possible that this might help you:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/185?replies=6#post-909
I wouldn’t recommend changing core files on a regular basis. I do it because I don’t know how to create a plugin (yet.) I also keep a list of modifications to the core files. That way, when another version comes out, I can apply my changes to the new core files. Hopefully, in the future, I won’t need to do it like that, but for now, it’s all I can do.
Good luck.
There is no plugin that I know of. I wanted to do the same thing, so I just modified the core file ./bb-includes/registration-functions.php around line 101. One of these days I will figure out how to write a plugin…
