[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 1 month ago]

How can i disable HTML and/or VISUAL editor? (2.1 plugin version)

Have you tried Settings > Forum?

Unless you’re talking about conditionally toggling the mode, in which case you’re on your own to build that as a plugin, similar to WordPress.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 1 month ago]

Hey thanks! Good to hear it’s working out!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 1 month ago]

Probably best to fix the issues with your theme instead. bbPress 2.1 is due out soon, and then you’ll be ready for it.

But, to answer your question… Just delete the plugin folder, and no forum/topic/reply data will be deleted.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 1 month ago]

You’re doing it exactly backwards to accomplish what you want to do.

You do *not* “need” a page with the slug “forum” or “forums” to make your forums appear. They will just work, based on the slug you set in Settings > Forums.

If you want the index of your “forums” to show “forums” then it’s slug needs to be “forums” and not “forum”

If a WordPress page has the same slug as something else (“forums”), the page wins.

(If your forum archive slug in Settings > Forums is “forums” but you have a page with the slug “forums” then the page will appear and it will be whatever the_content of that page is.)

You can have an unlimited number of permutations on the forums to look and work. It comes with the most obvious (and working) settings out of the box.

You can include slashes in your archive slugs, so hierarchical pages work, too.

This part is not broken, it is not a bug. It’s two settings that you need to make match, and you’re in control of both of them on your own to operate however you want your site to operate.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

This is by design, since that’s the title of that page.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

There isn’t anything bbPress can do to make Akismet work any better. It’s just heuristics and monitoring. Akismet misses a ton of spam here on bbPress.org, too.

On the Super Cache front, some improvements went in, but I haven’t spent a lot of time with them together; you probably have more than I have.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Something with your theme is hardcoded to make that happen. Nothing bbPress can do about it if the theme takes over.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

You can use bbp_get_forum_last_active_id() to get the post ID of the latest topic or reply. From there you’ll have to use WordPress functions to get out what you need.

(This, of course, is assuming you’re using bbPress 2.0 or beyond)

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

I suspect it is. Hashbang URLs are a pain. Will take a look.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Happy to help, but I’m only one person; can’t do it all. It’s way more helpful to everyone (and the project) if you dive into the code and figure it out in your free time rather than relying on mine.

Also, no reason to create one topic and point to your old one. It’s spammy. Closing this one.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Do you also have the WordPress translation files where they belong? If WordPress core cannot find its translations, it will revert back to English. If that’s the problem, it’s possible you’ve had bbPress’s in the correct locations already, and WordPress was nooping it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Time to dig in the code and look around. The /bbp-includes/bbp-template* files are a good place to start.

bbPress’s template logic works almost identically to the way WordPress’s works, it just needs to do all the same things that WordPress does for specialized content. Just like WordPress has queries and conditions for posts, pages, categories, and tags, bbPress has them for forums, topics, replies, users, topic views, and front end posting and editing.

In many ways, bbPress feels more complex because it is more complex. But, I can assure you, it’s built to the same standard and uses the same conventions as WordPress does.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Invalid header issues indicate you’ve installed the plugin incorrectly, or have an incomplete download.

It’s possible to use the core templates, but it won’t really work the way you want it to. Why? Because when you view a single forum, you also want to view that forum’s topics. When you view a single topic, you also want to view that topic’s replies. A single flat loop isn’t enough to handle this behavior, no matter what you do.

You can still create those templates, and they will work as you’d expect, but you’ll still need to redo some heavy lifting. Probably easier to follow the bbPress conventions for now until the whole flow makes sense.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Fixed in: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3841

Thanks for reporting!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

If you don’t like what the default theme provides, make your own.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

I don’t understand what you want to do.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

He meant trunk. Also, no reason to open a second topic for the same issue. Closing this one.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

It’s overdue already. It’ll be ready when it’s ready. We’ll push out some betas before hand.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 2 months ago]

Deactivate and reactivate bbPress. Sounds like the plugin you used to ‘reset the caps’ nuked out any custom caps and isn’t playing nicely with replacing them.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

You’re wrong. They are most certainly related. Most likely that your install thinks it lives in a different directory, .htaccess rules, rewrite rules, or something similar.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

I think you have other things that are broken. Your images are broken, and none of your permalinks work at all, not even for your blog.

http://wbbg.com/blog/let-it-snow-let-it-snow-let-it-snow/

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Cool. Good luck!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Your feedback is appreciated. It’s not new information, though – and it doesn’t really help us do anything differently to improve your experience here.

Making bbPress easier to use has been the primary goal of its past 2 years of development. The number one tag on these forums is ‘integration’ and it’s because a majority of users want bbPress to work seamlessly with WordPress. Given the constraints of WordPress’s templating engine, we’ve done a great job with bbPress 2+.

Had you tried to use bbPress in 2008, you probably would have completely written it off; you *had to* go into the code and make edits to configuration files, it was part of the connection process and there was no turn-key solution.

Right now, as long as your theme is behaving:

* Install bbPress

* Make some forums

* Go to yoursite.com/forums/

* You now, have forums

* Optionally make login/register/lost-password pages, configure widgets, etc…

If you have BuddyPress installed, if your theme isn’t playing nicely, if you have a page with the slug ‘forums’ already for some reason, if you have anything more complicated you have to go hunting around for solutions. bbPress can’t predict every situation, it can only work with WordPress core files. If you’re experiencing one of these complications, it’s unique to a small subset of users and you (or someone you hire/know) is the expert in your installation.

You say you don’t want to look at code, and you’re not a developer; that’s okay. The problem is that bbPress isn’t going to be exactly what everyone wants, and why plugins exist. If you decide to dive into the code, it’s been painstakingly documented to read like a book – top down, left to right – with hints, direction, and pointers to connect things together in plain English.

In terms of staff on these forums, we are a volunteer staff of mostly Jared and myself with others that come and go as they can. When a topic goes unanswered, it’s because we just don’t have the time to take away from other things to help that day. Being disappointed is understandable; the only way that improves is by becoming familiar with the project and committing to time towards it.

bbPress, the project, has been around since 2005. bbPress, the plugin, since 2011. It’s born again, and new. No better time to get in on the ground floor of something awesome.

Sorry you’re unhappy. In the future it would be great to have more specific things we can address. General happiness isn’t really what we supply here.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Don’t worry about defaults.bb-htaccess.php. It’s part of the version of bbPress that you’re using.

No idea what your ‘data folder’ is, so can’t say for sure if it’s correct or not.

And no, I can’t really just fix your problem for you. You’ll have to do some digging. Searching for something like “apache htaccess redirect” should be all you need to do.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 3 months ago]

Anywhere it will be applied. Don’t hack the core of anything that isn’t yours – I.E. bbPress, a theme you purchased, etc…