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In reply to: Godaddy installation issues
A table prefix is just one way of having lots of different software packages use one database. Since they might use similarly named tables, like
userorpost, the table prefix allows multiple packages to use the same database and table name, it just gets this prefix added to the table. So, the posts table becomes bb_posts, or wp_posts in the case of WordPress.You could change it to chevycamaro_ and then you’d get chevycamaro_post as a table name.
Just don’t use the same prefix for two different software packages. That has a tendency to wipe things out. (The second package you install with a similarly named table will overwrite the first table, if you use the same prefix. Always use a unique prefix. It’s a non-issue for you now with only one software package installed using that database.)
In reply to: Godaddy installation issuesSounds like it can connect fine. But it sounds like the variable name is wrong or something. bbPress doesn’t care what your table prefix is, just that you have one.
Can you email me your bb-config.php and I will look at it first hand? Please don’t edit it first since you might destroy some evidence or something important that was edited. You’ll just have to trust me. I’m not going to do anything evil with your config.
If you don’t want to do that, find someone local who can look at this and see what’s up. It’s probably going to be something very simple that another set of eyes will see.
chrishajer [at] gmail.com
In reply to: Godaddy installation issuesI see this error now:
You must specify a table prefix in your bb-config.php file.Did you edit the file manually? There is a table prefix by default of
bb_– is that no longer there?In reply to: Question about IntegrationOk good – we were all talking about modifying the same file, header.php in your theme or template folder.
In reply to: Godaddy installation issuesIf you entered the database username, database password, database name and database server (which is another machine on GoDaddy), what happened then? Screenshot?
You do not need to change the bb_ table prefix at all. And I wonder what text box you’re looking at that has that information in it.
In reply to: Godaddy installation issuesI don’t want to get into semantics over documentation I didn’t write, but “where do you intend the site to be?” If you want it at http://www.example.com, then put all the files in whatever folder is served when you access that URL; no folder. Since you are having just a message board as the basis of your site, what you have done is correct.
In reply to: Question about Integrationbuddha trance explained it pretty clearly, for adding the links to your header.php:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/question-about-integration#post-60365
Did that not work for you?
In reply to: Godaddy installation issuesThe only reason you might want to not have the files in a folder of some sort is if bbPress if going to be the basis of the site, the only thing accessible. Otherwise, you want bbPress files in a folder, called bbpress, or forum, or forums, or discussion, or community, or something else.
In reply to: Godaddy installation issuesIf you uploaded the files in the folder that was called “bbpress” by default, and it was in your website html root, then it would be accessible at http://www.example.com/bbpress/ and your site, if you have a site, will be at http://www.example.com. Was that not your experience?
In reply to: Tags not shown.They are not picked up by the search engines, because they are no where in your page.
In reply to: Question about IntegrationHeh, completely misread that one. It’s even easier to put a link to the WordPress site in your bbPress header. Just modify the template file to put the link where you want it.
In reply to: Godaddy installation issuesThen it says that “You will be greeted with the bbPress installer”
Of course this didn’t happen.
If that didn’t happen, then the host is configured wrong or you visited the wrong URL. You need to figure out where you installed the software. Then you can work on the configuration.
What does the file structure look like, and what is the site URL and bbPress URL?
In reply to: Help with css layoutCan you post a link to your forum please? I’m having a hard time finding it.
In reply to: Bold letters in HeadingSo, the topic title, like “Bold letters in Heading” here? Only on the topic page?
You need to find this in style.css:
.topictitle {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: normal;
display: inline;
}and change the font-weight to bold, like this:
.topictitle {
font-size: 26px;
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}It’s all controllable with CSS. Most of the things you’ve wanted to change in the past couple weeks are just CSS modifications.
In reply to: exporting bbpress to punbb / fluxbbThere was this:
I don’t think there is an export feature in bbPress. What sort of importers exist for the forums you’re looking at?
In reply to: Question about IntegrationYou do not need integration at all to put a link to your forum in your top menu.
But it’s even simpler than that. If you put your bbPress installation in a folder (subdirectory of where WordPress is) called “kitty-cat-talk” and you create a WordPress page called “Kitty Cat Talk” with a slug of “kitty-cat-talk” – the link will be in the menu, and clicking the link will send visitors to your forum. The way WordPress .htaccess and mod_rewrite works with pretty permalinks is that it looks for a folder first (or a file) and if a folder with that name exists, serve that. So that is what happens with a page like this. Your WordPress page will have no content, it will just send people to your forums, assuming the Page slug and the folder you installed into are the same.
There also also ways to call the page whatever you want, and do a custom redirect to your forum. That is detailed in the link I sent. There are a couple plugins that can do that for you.
http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/page-links-to/
http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/custom-field-redirect/
And then there is the template way someone linked to in that thread.
It’s pretty easy and you do not need integration at all to just have a link in your WordPress menu to your forum installation.
In reply to: Open Links in new windowcitizenkeith, can you post a URL where it’s not working properly?
In reply to: Leaving space between lines or paragraphs.It’s controlled by your CSS. The [p] tags are there for paragraphs, but they need more space. Something like this:
#thread .post p {
margin-bottom: 20px;
}That will space them out. I added it around line 647 in style.css and it worked fine.
In reply to: The attribute "rel=no follow"In reply to: No topics shows up after installationkallumamaji – please start a new topic and I will delete this. A lot has changed in 7 months.
In reply to: Search Bar DisabledTake a look at these 3 screenshots taken using the web developer toolbar for firefox. The red outlined area is the current element being highlighted and the toolbar shows the name of that element. I suspect you didn’t intend for these elements to be positioned this way?
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/div-header.png
(why so much to the right?)
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/div-login.png
(why so wide, and why does it include the search box)
http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/div-search.png
(look how low it goes)
Also, check when I hover the mouse in the search input field: the toolbar shows
form .login, but nothing about the search div.http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/form-login.png
(the cursor is a crosshair in the search input)
I suspect that’s a clue to why you cannot access the search input or the search button: it’s “behind” the login form.
In reply to: Search Bar DisabledYou have the divs nested improperly or something like that. Take a look at this page (when you’re not logged in):
http://www.spendlessonlife.com/forums/bb-login.php
You can search from there just fine. So, it’s like the search is behind another div and you can’t click on it.
In reply to: Comment Lenght LimiterYou could do it with JavaScript like this:
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/form/limit-characters.html
That will just prevent someone from going over that limit accidentally. Since it’s done browser-side, there’s no guaranteed way to limit the input to just 2000 characters. But to prevent a normal user from posting a comment longer than 2000 characters, this would be one way to do it.
There is probably a way to add a maxlength to the input, but I’m not sure which template file you would need to modify to make that change (probably just post-form.php and edit-form.php, add
maxlength="2000"to the textarea for a new post):http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_maxlength.asp
Again, since that’s browser-side, it can be circumvented as well. You’d have to check the input on the server side to ensure it doesn’t exceed 2000 characters. But these two methods will prevent people from posting really long comments.
In reply to: denied mimehttps://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/
That plugin is compatible with up to 0.9 only. What version of bbPress are you trying to use it with?
In reply to: Move Tag CloudJust find the page you want to change it on (probably front-page.php) and then edit that file in your template. Just move the div that is usually called
hottags. Here it is from the stock theme<div id="hottags" role="main">
<h2><?php _e('Hot Tags'); ?></h2>
<p class="frontpageheatmap"><?php bb_tag_heat_map(); ?></p>
</div>Just put that wherever you want it on your page. To change the size, you will need to find the CSS in style.css and adjust that to allow it to be wider and not float or whatever else you want it to do. Copying the styles from here is one option, to see how it was done. Here’s the corresponding CSS that controls the layout in the stock theme:
#front-page #hottags {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
width: 150px;
overflow: hidden;
}
