[Gautam Gupta]

@Rich Pedley

Try reactivating the plugin.

@Ryan Gannon

Ok, figured that out. bbp_has_topics() doesn’t return the query. You’d have to use bbPress functions like bbp_topics(), bbp_get_topic_title() etc.

[Gautam Gupta]

Bump – can we resume the dev chats?

[Gautam Gupta]

Doesn’t bbp_get_user_topics_started( $bp->displayed_user->id ); work?

[Gautam Gupta]

Are you sure it’s id and not ID? (in BuddyPress, because I think it should be ID)

[Gautam Gupta]

bbp_get_displayed_user_id() echoes the value of $bbp->displayed_user->ID, so if you’re using the variable, you can use the function.

Which page are you on then?

[Gautam Gupta]

You may want to use bbp_get_displayed_user_id() function.

[Gautam Gupta]

@Ryan Gannon

You *can* use bbp_has_topics(). Use the same args that you use in WP_Query->query().

[Gautam Gupta]

Maybe it’s not working for you because of the permalink structure you have. Try having it simply /%postname%/.

[Gautam Gupta]

@intimez

I started from scratch and I’m trying to add it to the menu

Ok, here are the steps to test the plugin:

1. Upload the plugin folder to the wp-content/plugins directory & activate it.
2. Go to Appearance -> Themes & activate the bbPress TwentyTen theme.
3. If you’re using permalinks, go to Settings -> Permalinks and click the save button.
4. Go to Pages -> Add new & select bbPress - Forum index in the template selection in the right side, give the page title Forums or anything and press publish. You can repeat the step to add pages like add new topic, topic index page etc.
5. Go to Appearance -> Menu if you want to add those pages to the menu for easy navigation.
6. Go to Forums -> Add new & write a forum title, description and press publish.
7. Now go to your blog’s home page or that forum you created or directly here – http://www.example.com/bbtest/forums
8. If you go to that /forums url, hopefully you’d see the forum listed which you just created and the new topic form.
9. Browse, test & report bugs

[Gautam Gupta]

@Willabee @alanchrishughes

Edit: BuddyPress also already has a built in forum.

That “built in forum” is bbPress-standalone only. BuddyPress already has the code to integrate bbPress-standalone into it, but as the bbPress-plugin is an entirely new start from scratch, that code would have to be changed if we want to itegrate bbPress-plugin into BuddyPress. That’s why I said “No BuddyPress integration yet (I don’t know if jjj’s working on that, but I don’t think so).”. jjj = John James Jacoby = lead developer of bbPress and BuddyPress.

Did it clear your confusions?

[Gautam Gupta]

@Willabee

As I said earlier, “And we’re also done with these or I’ve patches ready for these“. I’m still doing testing etc. & I’ll post the patches once I’m finished.

@alanchrishughes

If you are talking about one reply per page style threads like creativecow.com please do not, that is the most annoying forum to follow in the world.

Nothing like that. Moreover, replies per page would be an option given to the user.

Someone also mentioned the forums/forum/thread problem and I agree, I would like if possible the option to just go http://www.sitename.com/forum/threadname. Not every market or group needs that much organization. And being able to rename “forum” to something else would be nice also, I don’t know if that is already possible or not, I’ve been trying to be patient and just wait until it is done.

Yup, there would be options to edit any slug.

Are you still required to use the Twenty Ten theme? Or was that just something during the development process?

The development process is still going on, though you can port your themes very easily, you just need to add a few files.

Is this the version that is suppose to be compatible with Buddypress?

Nop, we’re focussing on the basic forum features right now. No BuddyPress integration yet (I don’t know if jjj’s working on that, but I don’t think so).

[Gautam Gupta]

Oh, you’re talking about the admin-side. I’ll report that or you may, if you want to.

[Gautam Gupta]

@intimez

That shouldn’t be actually happening because of this check. Can you please double check that?

[Gautam Gupta]

@intimez

Regarding forums/forum, that’s gonna be an option. You could remove the root slug (i.e. forums) from all the slugs, once we just add it.

And regarding [edit, sticky, move], I said “And we’re also done with these or I’ve patches ready for these“. If you want to test these, just register up on my demo forums, I’ve set the default role as Forum Moderator, so you’d see those links.

[Gautam Gupta]

I’ve opened up tickets for all those things, you can view the todo things here.

[Gautam Gupta]

@Willabee

The bleeding-edge (trunk) version is very much working. If jjj wants to release an alpha or beta, then we can. We’re already done with these points (mentioned in the first post):

1. Topic Counts
2. Post Counts (except forum -> reply count, afaik, jjj was working on that)
3. Voice Counts (except forum voices – I don’t think we even need those)
4. Rough Template
5. Admin area clean-up
6. User’s Profiles
7. User’s Posts
8. User’s Favorites

And we’re also done with these or I’ve patches ready for these:

1. Front-end topic/reply creation, editing, trashing, deleting
2. Closed/sticky/spammed topics
3. Closed/private/category forums
4. Spammed replies
5. Error handling
6. Email subscriptions
7. Widgets
8. Anonymous posting
9. Front-end user editing
10. Some part of settings page
11. Forum moderator
12. Merge topics
13. View – topics with no replies (not actually a view, but a page)

And today, I’m working on:

1. Splitting topics
2. PHPDocs/Code cleanup

After that we’d be just left with these to complete (which are present in bbPress standalone):

1. Login/Registration/Password reset forms
2. Feeds
3. Filter the content for HTML tags
4. Tag heat map page
5. Tag management form (renaming/merging/deleting)
6. View – topics with no tags
7. Statisitcs
8. Change the forums back-end UI to bbPress-standalone like
9. Akismet spam checks (plugin)
10. XMLRPC!?
11. Properly integrated pingbacks
12. Complete the settings page

For more details, you can checkup the commit log.

[Gautam Gupta]

but, really? Administrator can’t manage themes and plugins?

Yup, really.

[Gautam Gupta]

[Gautam Gupta]

Yup, I think so.

[Gautam Gupta]

Ok, you need to actually go to the Permalinks page and press the Save Changes button to flush the rewrite rules.

[Gautam Gupta]

@alexvorn2

You just need to go to Permalinks page after activating the plugin to flush the rewrite rules.

[Gautam Gupta]

Just try creating a simple ticket, milestone can be changed later too. – Though that really shouldn’t be happening.

[Gautam Gupta]

@Rich Pedley

The plugin is in the bleeding-edge state, I’m sure that some kinds of those checks would be added in future.

And about error reports, Trac is the best place as it is easier to manage tickets/issues there. Just open up a ticket with milestone 1.2, current open tickets can be viewed here.

[Gautam Gupta]

That’s right.

[Gautam Gupta]

how do you display the forum itself on the site or has it not got that far yet

First of all, you need to enable the TwentyTen child theme from Appearance. Then, you need to create a new page, give it a title and then select bbPress - Forum Index in Template Select Box in Page Attributes section (below Publish button).

And when you’d visit the page, you would see the list of forums, then you can go to a particular forum to see its topics and then go to a particular topic to see its replies.