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In reply to: cannot edit forums
Post a link to your bbPress site please.
In reply to: Is bbpress licenced?You should read http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html or contact your attorney if you are building a pretty big plugin, an application on top of bbPress and for commercial purposes. No one here can give you legal advice, and software licenses are legal issues.
In reply to: Really basic stuffhttp://www.wpquestions.com/ is for paid WordPress support. Maybe you will find some bbPress help there as well. Paying there though doesn’t benefit the bbPress project monetarily.
http://wphelpcenter.com/ is for paid WordPress support as well.
Both those projects are independent of WordPress, Automattic and bbPress. WP Help Center is manned by employees of Crowd Favorite (Alex King), WP Questions has people visit the question and offer solutions after you’ve set your price. Two totally different approaches.
Not sure if there is a more concerted effort for paid bbPress support or not.
In reply to: Modifying header to display image issues@kevinjohngallagher – I wish the
STYLE="FORTHRIGHT"didn’t get stripped out of your comment.The source of that page was awesome the day they put it up. Here’s an archive of it, I think:
In reply to: Modifying header to display image issues@uhclem – I think you have exactly the right attitude to be involved with bbPress. Some tips:
1. Don’t modify any core bbPress files. Restrict your modifications to files in the my-templates and my-plugins folders. If you don’t have those folders, create them. They will be at exactly the same level as bb-templates and bb-plugins.
2. To start modifying the look of your forum, make a folder inside the my-templates folder, call it whatever you want (something unique, but it doesn’t matter. Maybe it a filename with no spaces though, like
newtheme.) Now, copy every single file from the kakumei folder into this new folder. Now open up style.css and change the line that saysTheme Name: Kakumeito say something likeTheme Name: Custom Theme by uhclem. This name can have spaces in it. It’s this Theme Name that will show up in your bbPress admin section when you go to select a new theme in the Appearance tab. The screenshot will be the one from kakumei, but that’s only because you didn’t change it yet. You can worry about that later. If your new theme name does not show up in the bbPress admin, you did something wrong.The files that end in
.phpare just like HTML files, but they are processed by the web server before sending to your browser. If you put just HTML into a file with a php extension instead of a htm or html extension, it will display just as if you had named it with html or htm. Try it.Now, you need to look through some of those existing php files and see what’s going on. You will see some plain old HTML but you will also see some stuff inside blocks that look like this:
<?php do something(); ?>PHP code will being with a
<?phpand end with?>– the stuff inside those brackets is PHP code that will be interpreted by the web server before sending it to the browser. Any PHP code in a file with a PHP extension will not be sent to the browser. It is processed, for good or bad. If you get a white screen, it means you probably have a syntax error in your PHP code.You can edit the PHP files with notepad, just as you did with batch files, but it’s better to use an editor with syntax highlighting, so you can see when you make a mistake in your PHP. Notepad++ is good and free on Windows. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
Once you get to that point, you can learn about all the cool things you can do with PHP and bbPress.
In reply to: Modifying header to display image issuesGeocities tribute from XKCD:
In reply to: Fatal Error! HelpLooks like that’s a WordPress plugin for BuddyPress? Not much to do with bbPress unless I’m missing something in that message. I would ask at the BuddyPress forums or for support from that plugin author.
In reply to: Enable AvatarThe problem is, everyone defines “basic” in a different way.
I didn’t verify any of this, just guessing.
You could rename the tables with the prefix that works, to get around this. But you’d have to update the data in the tables as well, I think there are permissions maybe that refer to the table by name.
Or, you could further troubleshoot connecting to that database and selecting data from the tables with the prefix you currently use.
I’ve not heard of that problem before, but there probably aren’t many people who upgraded from .9 to 1.0 AND had a custom table prefix. The fact that it wants to perform a new installation when the bb_ tables don’t exist makes sense, since bbPress does not know there is a current installation.
I haven’t looked at the upgrade code to see if maybe there’s a bug where the database connection fails due to a non-default table prefix, but you could check that as well.
Checking the database connection does not involve checking the table prefix. It’s just host, username, password and database name. No tables needed to establish a connection. You have something else going on there, I would guess.
In reply to: Want to make my forums …Staticfrost, please keep your topic to one subject or problem or request at a time. Start new topics for new issues. Thanks.
In reply to: Help needed to transfer data from IPB 3.0 to bbpressAllesandro, your request is outside the scope of bbPress support. So, if you post your contact information here, (as you did,) I will close the topic and people can contact you with their offers of assistance.
In reply to: Help needed to transfer data from IPB 3.0 to bbpressAlessandro – please post your contact info here and I will close this thread. You can conduct business outside the forum. Thanks.
In reply to: TinyMCE – not showing upVery strange. Can’t see the permissions there, but if I am understanding that listing, you are in the correct location.
So, why can’t you load that file in a browser? Can’t load this one either, which you should be able to: http://www.leaf-age.com/forum/my-plugins/tinymce/tiny_mce/license.txt
I also noticed a redirection from non-www to www, when it goes to the 404. Not sure that’s related, since the other forum pages seem to work without www. Anything interesting going on in your .htaccess with rewrite rules? I’m not sure when the redirection is happening, before or after the 404. I doubt it’s related but it’s something.
Can you put a file one level up, in the tiny_mce folder, call it test.txt or something, then see if you can load it in a browser by URL. If not, go up one more directory, to tinymce, and try accessing the file there (put the file there first) and if that does not work, copy it to my-plugins, and then try to load it at that URL.
In reply to: TinyMCE – not showing upThe file cannot be loaded by a browser. You’re sure the name and folder names are all correct? The only other thing would be permissions, but that would normally give another sort of error, not a 404. Calling that file from a browser now, as it’s written in the header, results in a 404. Can you screenshot the directory listing or FTP listing of that folder, with permissions? Something is not right with it. Possibly an underscore instead of a hyphen or something?
Since deleted posts are not really deleted, I would guess that the meta stays. I didn’t verify that, but that seems to make sense. They’re not really deleted, they’re just MARKED as deleted (by changing the status.)
In reply to: TinyMCE – not showing upDoes that file exist in that location? If not, just put it there. Or fix the link to it. It seems pretty simple to fix. It’s just the path to the file. If you can’t change the path (in the header) then put the file where the header expects to see it. Is it there?
In reply to: Somethings holding us back (random thoughts)…Poor little bb_meta just hanging out there, all alone…
In reply to: Somethings holding us back (random thoughts)…I would be willing to go through and document the database, including a nice clear diagram. I would also be happy to talk (deeply) about database design issues. It wouldnt be hard to pull together a patch to submit to Automattic to enhance the internal data structures. The issue I have though, is the number of plugins that would need to be massaged after such an event. Still, I’d be up for it
I’d say, if the foundation needs to be reworked, better to do it now than later. Another reason I’d hesitate to spend any time developing plugins for a moving target. Until the data structure is relatively stable, I’d be concerned about major changes required to my plugins.
I’ve not reviewed the data structures at all, but if someone who knows what they’re doing suggests a more efficient way of organizing the data, then I would be up for that, as a bug fix, before new features.
In reply to: TinyMCE – not showing upOn Leaf Age, the javascript is not found. Check this from the source of the page:
http://leaf-age.com/forum/my-plugins/tinymce/tiny_mce/tiny_mce.js
So, where is it on your server?
In reply to: Want to make my forums …Don’t use the same table prefix for bbPress that you are using for WordPress. That will overwrite tables. Make sure the table prefixes are unique for bbPress and WordPress.
In reply to: Installation Successful But Not Showing UPIf you can log in at WordPress, navigate to the forums, still be logged in, and then log out and do the reverse, your cookie integration is fine. To test the rest (the reason you included wp-load.php) try using a WordPress function (wp_list_pages()
) in a bbPress template and see if it works. Those would be good tests.
In reply to: Installation Successful But Not Showing UPUsually, when the path to the file is wrong, you get a php error displayed about not being able to find the file, and here’s all the locations that PHP looked. But maybe your host has those errors turned off (which is a good thing in a production environment.) But you need access to the error logs if the errors are not being displayed, to help you troubleshoot things.
In reply to: Installation Successful But Not Showing UPIs this
require_once('/../wp-load.php');inside PHP tags near the top of your bb-config.php file? Like this<?php
require_once('/../wp-load.php');
/**
* The base configurations of bbPress.
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?>If it is properly inside PHP tags, then there might be something wrong with the syntax of that line.
The other thing is, chances are the file is NOT located at the root of the server. You have it starting out here: / – which is the root. Might look more like this:
require_once('../wp-load.php');if wp-load.php is located one directory up. You can also use the full path to the file, if you know it. Like this:require_once('/var/www/htdocs/wordpress/wp-load.php');Looks like the path is wrong there if you have it starting with a slash, at the root.
