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Fixing the problem with minimal issues is the way to treat bbPress mZimmers. Really glad to see you getting through it bud
Yeah for sure, I helped out with the original WordOfRaids back in the day and they do that, but they just manually link to a forum post ( i set up a custom field on WordPress, so they make forum and copy/paste into there).
I’m not against the idea, its just definitely not going to be “off the shelf”; and nor is the original poster’s ideal solution going to be easy to come by (where it all happens automatically, though if you had time and the need it’s v possible).
I sent slightly off topic (big shock) but this sort of thing depends on the usergroup immensely. people who play mmorpgs as an example are used to forums and doing things in front of others; where as say a Classical Music Magazine website/blog’s users might not be really up for entering a forum flame war. Sorry if i gave the wrong impression, I sometimes feel its better to manage expectations a little with bbPress, especially with all the wordPress “as a CMS that can do anything” stuff flying around
I follow the bbPress instructions and I get a blank page
Awesome. Please give us LESS information.
Don’t tell us the error on your server logs, don’t tell us at what stage you get the blank page. Just tell us “blank page” and we’ll magically guess
Is this what you guys look at all day long?
No, but we know how to be polite when asking for help.
But I’m going after the bubble-gum chewing crowd with BuddyPress and bbPress looked like something they would use
You can’t use them together in anyway. You either use bbPress or you use BuddyPress. Let me put it more simply, if you use BuddyPress in any way shape or form, bbPress won’t work.
its all about making money
Cool, then you can go for paid support
So if there are any folks here who want to help I’ll take the advice; if not I’ll be joining the folks who find bbPress out of date with no support
bbPress is out of date, but it has support. You’ll find you’d get better answers if:
1) You had manners – the words “please” and “thanks” work really well
2) You gave us actual information, like your error log, rather than just “blank page”.
Just to reiterate, if you’re using BuddyPress, your problem has nothing to do with bbPress! Nothing at all!
If you’ve been using WP for 3+ years, maybe you’d have the know how to read that bbPress and BuddyPress are different things. I’d you’re using BuddyPress, you should head to the BuddyPress forums.
And just to be clear, cos you’ve not given a whole
lot of information: bbPress is a stand alone forum that you can add shared cookies with WordPress, but it’s not there our of the box.
So if you’re not using BuddyPress, feel free to come back with more info, a better attitude, and we’ll try and help
oh and can i ask, after how long of using WordPress do humans stop making errors?? Glad you decided it was definately bbPress at fault and no possibility of anything else
Four little bugs with the theme:
1) Pagination duplication on Profile page:
http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_duplication_of_pagination.png
2) Pagination on Profile page:
Posts started will only appear/work on the first page. As soon as you move to page 2 or above, it says you’ve not started any ( haha, we all know I’ve started more than i should have ;-] )
3) bbPress Edit area:
http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_edit_area.png
It’s not been looked at in the slightest. Even teh default styles haven’t been applied.
4) bbpress Edit area:
If you write some code in a
<code>tag. and edit your post, bbPress now puts in<p>and<br />tags into your code on every line. If yuo’re syslexic like me and struggle with the small font, and edit code based posts a few times to remove errors, you get alot of added code.5) RSS feed:
The new RSS feed has new/added HTML. If you’re RSS reader is a mail client (say google or windows live mail) then it strips these extra tags, but if you’re not using an overly sophisticated RSS client, you see everything wrapped in a
<p>tag.From what I can tell, and this may be down to the latest trunk version rather than the theme, it appears to wrap each paragraph twice in the
<p>tags.Thanks to Noel or whoever at Automattic is working on fixing these, we apprecaite it
What’s wrong with it?
Far too little of bbPress’s output comes with relavant IDs or classes for theming; and far too much of it is is hardcoded into the core rather than in the theme, or even a functions file etc.
Ok, lets see what we can do here:
1) What version of WordPress?
2) What version of bbPress?
3) Are they integrated (share login cookies)?
4) Are they “deep integrated” (can call functions in the other program)?
5) Do you have the latest version of akismet on both WP and bbP?
6) What happens when you log in and post?
7) What happens when you log in and post as a new user (i.e. not as you)?
Are you using buddyPress?9) Have to tried disabling all plugins and trying again?
10) Are you using a premium (paid for) theme?
11) If so, have to tried switching to the default theme?
12) When you say things appear in your akismet que and then akismet
13) Are comments getting through akismet on wordpress?
I selected the check box next to “Create a page that shows spam
statistics” on the Akismet page. The page showed there was 26 post in the spam section.
I selected spam in the drop down box but the messages do not show up even
after I click on filter. I don’t know of any other way to get to the
messages to see if they are all spam
Um, is this on the wordpress side or the bbPress side?
Coding:
I’ve found NotePad++ to be quite invaluable in the past year or so.
I’ve use both Komodo and the PHP plugin for Eclipse in the past; but frankly once you use Visual Studio and intellisence, i find half-assed IDE’s to just annoy me. Thats purely personal ofcourse, but it’s lead me to keeping the NotePad++ installer on my USB stick just incase i have to work somewhere on the move (how sad is that???).
Somethign else that won’t endear me to anyone, when outputting tables or visually formatted HTML, Dreamweaver makes life so much easier. I can’t count the amount of time i’ve saved by churning some HTML out on Dreamweaver and then just finxing the code with one or two saved Reg-Ex’s.
FTP:
Filezilla
Images:
Fireworks is still awesome. I thankfully haven’t had to touch Photoshop for any theming in years and years. I’ve not tried the latest version of GIMP, but it’d have to be something special to overtake FireWorks.
UML / Process / User Flow
I use Visio.
Edit: Ok I realise that i’ve just mentioned both Adobe and Microsoft products, so i expect the comments to come flying in
Night all!
Hey guys,
You’re really trying to do something here that was never intended.
bbPress was coded to create the same (or a readable) cookie from wordpress.
Deep Integration, the allowing of wordpress functions to be called in bbPress, is totally unsupported and unintentional. If you can hack it to make it work then cool, but really, you’re on your own for the most part.
Calling bbpress functions in wordpress is always always always going to cause issues in the long run. it wasn’t built for it in any way shape or form. It’s a square peg in a round hole scenario, and if you can push something through then awesome, but sometimes it’s just not worth it.
The simplest and most straight forward solution is to work out what you want to do, and code that directly.
In this case:
<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() || bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {
// Logged in user
// Hardcode your form here
} else {
// Not logged in
// Hardcode your form here
}
?>
Remember, hardcoding is your friend, because YOU control it
