[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

@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?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

@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?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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' );

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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' );

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

Duplicate and related to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1469

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

Duplicate and related to https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1469

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

@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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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 .

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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 .

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

Phew.

I really hoped I wouldn’t need to trouble shoot more complicated permalink issues.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

Phew.

I really hoped I wouldn’t need to trouble shoot more complicated permalink issues.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

@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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

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.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

You really shouldn’t have one WordPress installation inside another. That’s a recipe for exactly the kind of disaster you’re experiencing, since it’s most likely conflicting .htaccess files trumping each other.

“Running nested WP installs” is different than “Running WP in a subdirectory” because of exactly what I mentioned above. If you install WP in a subdirectory, it won’t care where it is (or what its path is) as long as you install WP correctly. Once you nest several installations on top of each other, you’re setting yourself up for headaches unless you’re able to fluently track down and alleviate the rewrite issues you’ll run into.

An important piece of missing information, do both of the WordPress installs work independently without bbPress activated on either of them? Pretty permalinks turned on, on both, etc… Once you get that to behave first, then it’s time to try adding things into them.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

You really shouldn’t have one WordPress installation inside another. That’s a recipe for exactly the kind of disaster you’re experiencing, since it’s most likely conflicting .htaccess files trumping each other.

“Running nested WP installs” is different than “Running WP in a subdirectory” because of exactly what I mentioned above. If you install WP in a subdirectory, it won’t care where it is (or what its path is) as long as you install WP correctly. Once you nest several installations on top of each other, you’re setting yourself up for headaches unless you’re able to fluently track down and alleviate the rewrite issues you’ll run into.

An important piece of missing information, do both of the WordPress installs work independently without bbPress activated on either of them? Pretty permalinks turned on, on both, etc… Once you get that to behave first, then it’s time to try adding things into them.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work.

For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…

So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work.

For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…

So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

@ryan – Can you try visiting the Settings > Forums screen, and saving your settings again after you’ve changed your permalinks? I wonder if the rewrite rules aren’t being flushed correctly.

Could you also

global $wp_rewrite; var_dump( $wp_rewrite );

somewhere, so I can see what it thinks it should be looking for?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

@anointed – Excited to see what you come up with. I know you’re quite familiar with BuddyPress, so hopefully you’ll 1.) feel comfortable and see the similarities, and 2.) see how bbPress has improved on those similarities, and see what’s going back into BuddyPress.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 15 years, 4 months ago]

You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible.