[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

This has been covered in these forums a few times already, which may or may not be an indicator of how little the search functionality gets used.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

@manager2 – Update to a newer beta, it has Akismet baked in. It uses the existing WordPress Akismet plugin and the same API key.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

Known issue. Fixed in branch for some time.

Somehow the eol-style setting to native on the new file in that commit, caused that to happen. Weird.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 6 months ago]

@tofugu – Are you using Beta 3 or RC1 from the plugin branch?

@folgerj – The only donations I’m looking for are testers and contributors. For launch, there will probably be some auto-page creation to get the most common ones up and running right away.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

It’s a concern for sure, and bbPress will scale no differently than WordPress does with that many entries.

Comparatively, bbPress 1.0’s schema was purpose built for exactly what it was designed to do, and using the WordPress posts table is a bit of square peg in a round hole. bbPress 2.0 is the compromise of maximum efficiency for ease of integration. If you must have maximum efficiency and are not using deep integration already, then bbPress 1.0 is the safest bet for now. bbPress 2.0 is only going to get better as more devs use it and more people interact with the code.

Ideally I’ll get it running on a few of our sites in the .org sphere and we’ll be able to stress test it a bit more. That will be happening in the next few weeks, but isn’t as much of a priority as releasing the first 2.0 version and getting BuddyPress 1.3 out as well.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

The phrase “Cheap Benidorm hotels and apartments” obviously isn’t in bbPress core, so you must have a Page with that title set to be your homepage.

You can override the individual pieces as needed. Look for the bbp_breadcrumb() function.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@dehicks – Incorrect. is_post_type_archive() is new in 3.1 and not deprecated at all.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@johan – Not a bug, since it’s possible to have several pages of favorites and subscriptions too. If you don’t have enough for a second page, then there aren’t any to show.

Those should probably be broken up into pages at some point, though.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

You can’t.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@johan – I’ll look around and see if something is excluding categories for some reason.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@manter5o1 – I’ll be adding some hooks to the post forms for RC.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@twdesigns – What version of WP? Any other plugins installed? Access to DB to see if they are saved?

@mbe – there are no files named forums.php or topics.php in the bbPress plugin.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

This should be fixed in RC. If you’d like to test it and see, you can download it from trac.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

See the download link at the bottom.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

Seems to be part of the same issue others are experiencing. I’m on it.

Moving discussion here going forward.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@Carsten.M – You need to use the numeric ID of the forum. I realize this isn’t the easiest for everyone, but it’s the easiest and fastest way to develop it for now. In the future we’ll open this up to other things and build a UI for it all.

@Nate – I updated the instructions at the top with more details. Give them another go. All you need to do is copy the contents of bbp-twentyten into your theme, and merge the style.css and functions.php files together so they fit what you need – this I can’t help with because it involves code only you probably know.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

Anything is possible but sadly there isn’t an importer from IPB yet.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@Tom – I’ll take a look at that tonight.

@johan – Have you tried doing a recount of the freshness times in your forums?

(Admin > Tools > Recounts)

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@nate – Seems you’re only following some of the steps outlined above. To start you’ll want to research WordPress child themes and how to make one. If you decide to go that route, then your new theme doesn’t go inside the old one, it goes in the /themes/bbp-empt/ folder that you create. It kinda sounds like you figured that out, but it’s hard to tell from your comment if it’s working for you.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@mbiernat – Since your question is about theme help with your site specifically, would you mind creating a dedicated topic for assistance? bbPress itself appears to be running fine there.

@ejw – I am unable to find bbPress on your site anywhere, which might be a bigger problem. I’d ask that you do the same and open a dedicated support topic for your issue.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

It wouldn’t be anymore bogged down than a site with 1 million blog posts, which is to say that once you have that kind of traffic and data store, you are probably backed by the proper hardware to handle it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

@bradsucks – So, I’ve put some thought into the situation that you’re in, and RC1 will include some tweaks to how this works which will hopefully help.

The issue, is that we want to make it easy to get forums up and running, without a bunch of configuration, and the easiest way to do that is let WordPress handle things naturally, and display the forum archives when you navigate to:

domain.com/%forum_slug%/

But… everyone wants to customize the way their forums look and work (even me) so that isn’t always optimal, and there is only so much you can do before the real answer involves creating your row custom theme.

Anyways, before the archive templates were created in bbp-twentyten, a page-template was used to let you put your forums anywhere in the page hierarchy of your site that you want, but that wasn’t obvious enough and not everyone wants to use the hardcoded template file either.

So then I introduced shortcodes, which allow you to put your forums and topics in any post or page you choose, but if you do that, there’s no real way for bbPress to *know* where you put your forum root in the breadcrumb without you manually telling it in the forum settings.

As you can see, it’s gotten complicated to try to satisfy the golden 80%, including myself.

Part of the change that is coming in RC1 is a check to see if a WordPress page exists where you have configured your forum index to be. Normally WordPress would override and show the forums archive, but I make it dump out your page instead. This way you’re able to setup a WP page with whatever you want in it, and have it do whatever you tell it to. The potential caveat here is when people try outsmart the software, create a page with the ‘forums’ slug, and wonder why bbPress doesn’t automatically make forums appear there.

Hopefully RC1 and beyond will satisfy the needs of 80% of users. If so, I’m satisfied supporting the other 20% that want something more tricked out.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

No reason other than wanting to nail down the root functionality of the forums themselves first. There are lots of little WP do-dads that we can take advantage of, and pingbacks will likely be on the list for 2.1.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

When it comes time to migrate the bbPress.org forums, we’ll likely have similar issues. Whatever solution we come up with, I’ll be sure to make available.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

A few people have had this similar issue, and so far we haven’t been able to pin-point the exact cause. Any additional details you can offer would be helpful.

* Other plugins you are using

* What are your permalink settings

* What theme are you using

* Did they ever work correctly

* Does that tag actually have topics in it

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 7 months ago]

bbPress does not come with things like attachments enabled, since opening up the file system to untrusted users isn’t something to be considered lightly. To do all those fancy things, you’ll want to write plugins for bbPress to enable and handle that type of enhancement.