In your functions.php file for your theme.
Sounds like it works on 3.2, but not 3.1.
I’ll take a look and see what’s changed.
Sounds like it works on 3.2, but not 3.1.
I’ll take a look and see what’s changed.
If you *moved* all the page templates out of the bbp-twentyten folder, and did not *copy* them, then exactly what you’ve described will occur.
If you copied them, and did not explicitly add this snippet to your theme, exactly what you’ve described will occur:
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
If your permalinks were flushed by another plugin, it’s possible that bbPress’s rewrites got missed. This is a known issue, and I’m working on a fix. Visit Admin > Settings > Forums, and save them, which will force bbPress to flush the rewrite rules again.
Also, the code itself is very heavily documented. If you’re curious about the inner workings, dive in and take a look. Honestly, documenting bbPress.org will be largely a community effort once I get things setup here. I’ll contribute to get it off the ground and will always be around to help, but it’s hard to build everything and document everything too. The WordPress codex is the culmination of years of hundreds of developers chipping in, and both bbPress and BuddyPress will eventually have something similar.
Categories are basically just forums you can’t post to. This mirrors existing bbPress behavior, and not existing (other forum platform) behavior. This is mostly just a presentation issue, so if you figure out a way to make it do what other platforms do, drop a patch in Trac. 
I don’t imagine it will difficult to make it do what you want, since it’s just opening and closing elements in the loop, but things will get confusing when nested and multiple child/sibling elements come into play. I remember this from my old phpBB days. 
What about deactivating and reactivating bbPress? It sounds like your caps aren’t being applied correctly.
To be clear, there are subscribers posting over at testbp.org/discussion perfectly fine, and it’s running exactly the same code you are. Your video was helpful, and it’s really odd that it’s happening for you like that.
What versions of WordPress are you using? I suppose it’s possible it’s a WordPress 3.1 issue, since I’ve moved on to testing with WP3.2 the past two weeks or so. I’ll revert back to 3.1 and see if that changes anything.
What about deactivating and reactivating bbPress? It sounds like your caps aren’t being applied correctly.
To be clear, there are subscribers posting over at testbp.org/discussion perfectly fine, and it’s running exactly the same code you are. Your video was helpful, and it’s really odd that it’s happening for you like that.
What versions of WordPress are you using? I suppose it’s possible it’s a WordPress 3.1 issue, since I’ve moved on to testing with WP3.2 the past two weeks or so. I’ll revert back to 3.1 and see if that changes anything.
@tooltrainer – As a bit of advice, these forums don’t have enough traffic to necessitate bumping your topic after only an hour or two of no response. It’s also really draining to read really long replies that only repeat your frustrations instead of providing any more insight. I can tell this is something you’re experiencing and obviously very passionate about, but no one else has experienced this so far. Remember this is *prerelease* software. If you’re relying on it to function 100% correctly all the time on a live site, then you’re breaking rules #1 and #2 of test-club.
If it’s a bug, then it will get fixed. If you have access to IRC and want more personal, live help, join #bbpress on freenode and I can try to help you there when we’re both around.
It sounds like it’s a permalink problem. Go to Admin > Settings > Forums and resave your settings. Let me know if that fixes it?
@tooltrainer – As a bit of advice, these forums don’t have enough traffic to necessitate bumping your topic after only an hour or two of no response. It’s also really draining to read really long replies that only repeat your frustrations instead of providing any more insight. I can tell this is something you’re experiencing and obviously very passionate about, but no one else has experienced this so far. Remember this is *prerelease* software. If you’re relying on it to function 100% correctly all the time on a live site, then you’re breaking rules #1 and #2 of test-club.
If it’s a bug, then it will get fixed. If you have access to IRC and want more personal, live help, join #bbpress on freenode and I can try to help you there when we’re both around.
It sounds like it’s a permalink problem. Go to Admin > Settings > Forums and resave your settings. Let me know if that fixes it?
This is a tough one, and would probably take an additional plugin to piggy-back bbPress to make go. You could do it easily enough with custom post_meta values; one for admins and one for moderators. Save them serialized, and build some meta boxes to help you assign the users.
Ideally something like BuddyPress will handle this in the future, and that would probably be the approach it would take.
This is a tough one, and would probably take an additional plugin to piggy-back bbPress to make go. You could do it easily enough with custom post_meta values; one for admins and one for moderators. Save them serialized, and build some meta boxes to help you assign the users.
Ideally something like BuddyPress will handle this in the future, and that would probably be the approach it would take.
You’re doing it wrong.
You need to tell bbPress that your theme is going to override the theme compatibility. Sadly we can’t really have that cake and eat it too.
Add this to your functions.php for your theme and it should work exactly like you want it to.
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
You’re doing it wrong.
You need to tell bbPress that your theme is going to override the theme compatibility. Sadly we can’t really have that cake and eat it too.
Add this to your functions.php for your theme and it should work exactly like you want it to.
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
@Rick – No idea what you have going on there. Looks like /forum is loading your “General Discussion” forum, and then some stuff under it. Some kind of canonical redirect with a shortcode and a page slug maybe? It’s really hard to tell.
Run an svn checkout of the bbPress plugin, and just svn update periodically.
If this is on a remote server and you’re using SVN, you’re probably SSH’ed in, so…
cd wp-content
cd plugins
mkdir bbpress
cd bbpress
svn co https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/plugin .
Run an svn checkout of the bbPress plugin, and just svn update periodically.
If this is on a remote server and you’re using SVN, you’re probably SSH’ed in, so…
cd wp-content
cd plugins
mkdir bbpress
cd bbpress
svn co https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/plugin .
Phew.
I really hoped I wouldn’t need to trouble shoot more complicated permalink issues. 
Phew.
I really hoped I wouldn’t need to trouble shoot more complicated permalink issues.
@anointed – Most likely not in core, no; so create away. Technically ‘topics’ are questions, and ‘replies’ are answers and suggestions. Since they are all just custom post types, and everything is filtered with actions everywhere, you should be able to create custom taxonomies, adjust the custom post type properties, and all kinds of fun things.
Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.
It’s complicated.
All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.
Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.
It’s complicated.
All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.
Cool. I’ll play with flushing the rewrite rules some more, and see if I can make this more automated. There’s a sweet spot that needs to be found with these, and I’ve managed to miss it so far.
