[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Cool. Good luck!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 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, 4 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, 4 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…

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

I don’t think it’s the theme you’re worried about, I think it’s the content. Which, won’t show up until there is some, just like your blog.

Make some forums, then go to yoursite.com/forums. There they are.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Does that mean you got it figured out?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

You’re correct about the move to Apache and Linux. You’re incorrect about it redirecting your entire site. .htaccess *could* be used for that purpose, but it’s far far more powerful than only that, and can be used to more effectively accomplish what you need.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

mr_pilot,

The BuddyPress permalink structure is hardcoded to look for specific criteria in specific positions. It doesn’t really scale well, and we’re going to change it in future versions to use proper rewrite rules, but until then it would be a huge nightmare to change; even then, your changes would end up broken when we make improvements to the API.

The rewrite rules themselves get created in register_post_type() in /wp-includes/post.php. Lots of complex logic in there, and I doubt there are many better examples on how to write your own rewrite rules completely from scratch than inside that function.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Safari and Chrome messed up layout

Duplicate. Closing.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

However you did it originally. You’ll have an easier time running it directly from a Subversion checkout. If you’re unfamiliar, a Google search should return tons of good results on how to do this. Makes the life of running bleeding edge code much easier.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Most likely because the table layout is fixed and your containing element does not have any width associated to it.

#main table.bbp-topics,

#main table.bbp-forums,

#main table.bbp-replies {

table-layout: auto;

}

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Hi John,

Looks like you might have other, bigger issues on your hands.

http://cl.ly/2Y262I3S1B0G3c3i1N0a

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Shortcodes do non currently accept any arguments at all. Would not be difficult to do, but committing to future-safe attributes will be key.

There’s a trac ticket for this already, so it’s on our radar to do in a future release. If it’s something that you need to write yourself, it’d be a great way to contribute back directly to the core project.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Assuming you’re running on some sort of Linux server, you’ll want to use an .htaccess file and research how to redirect pages from one place to another. Tons of articles available with a Google search on how to make this happen.

The meta refresh method is pretty janky, and won’t scale when you want to change a bunch of other links later on down the line.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Added and fixed in: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1803

Will be in bbPress 2.1. Thanks for the recommendation!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Correct, but you’ll need to be creative, since you’ll want to unset or override existing rules.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

No reason you shouldn’t be able to single out the container for each forum, and do it that way?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Unfortunately not easily. WordPress handles the rewrite rules for bbPress’s content types. It’s possible to overload them, but you’ll need to do so on your own.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

1. Create a WordPress page with the same slug as your forums root

2. Add the [bbp-forum-index] shortcode to that page’s content

3. Make this page the front page of your site

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

bbPress 1.x does not have unread posts or topic icons without third party plugins.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 5 months ago]

What version of WordPress are you using? I suspect something in your theme is attempting to access a $post variable that’s been unset as part of bbPress attempting to work its magic.

You can tell that it’s using the page template, since you have some hard-coded author information in there. It’s probably something in your theme that’s trying to access something that no longer exists.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 5 months ago]

Could be Akismet doing it?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 5 months ago]

This happens when your translation string is missing one of the variables it’s expecting to exist. Basically, the translation does not have an equal number of variables for the printf() being called on it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 5 months ago]

Try using bbPress 2.1 pre-release and report back.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3816/branches/plugin?old_path=%2F&format=zip

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 5 months ago]

The feedback is great, the rest is insulting.

Closing so no one trolls.