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Sweet! Cool thanks!

How did you make it so that it auto generates thumbnails off the image?

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I like the lightbox integration…any directions on how to do it?

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To rearrange the stuff, create my-templates directory in your bbpress directory. Make a copy of the files inside bb-templates and copy them to the my-templates.

Edit the front-page.php file. That is where you can rearrange what goes where.

To get the background like here, you have to integrate your bbpress to your wordpress like http://www.abunchofcars.com/forums

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I used xdforum, but could never really get the look I like.

http://www.bui4ever.com/xdforum

Plus I’m stil having problems with the redirect. BBPress, IMO, seems to have much better integration and look.

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Just wipe it from the database.

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I would start styling the table. Copy and paste the original code from the style.css from the bbpress into your new theme and then go from there.

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You make a directory inside of bbpress directory called my-templates and copy the contents of bb-templates into there and modify the files.

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First off, I would go back to the beginning. Delete all the bbpress files that you put into your WP directory. Then create a sub directory inside of WP, bbpress, or something. Put all of bbpress in there.

If you copied and pasted the config.php file exactly as you inputted it, then the problem seems to be that you didn’t fully fill out the config file.

Config-sample.php should be renamed to config.php and this is what you should be entering (leave anything I didn’t include here alone):

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘wordpress‘); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘ur MySQL username‘); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘the pass to the database‘); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

$bb->domain = ‘http://shadesofblack.free1k.com‘; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/bbpress/‘; // Example: ‘/forums/’

Give your forum a name and enter your email…

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://shadesofblack.free1k.com‘; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://shadesofblack.free1k.com‘; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash

And that’s it…go to shadesofblack.free1k.com/bbpress and you should get the installer.

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https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/38?replies=29

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/166?replies=6

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Thank you! I’ll post the instructions when I get a chance.

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doubter:

Are you trying to incorporate the look of your main site into bbpress or functions of WP into bbpress? If you are looking to make bbpress look a part of your site, I highly recommend that you remove all the WP code from config.php. Then make a my-templates directory inside bbpress directory, make a copy of the contents of bb-templates and drop it in there. Then modify the files to match your existing site. See an example here: http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum/

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If you want it to have the same look as your site, don’t edit the config.php like that. Create a folder inside bbpress directory called my-templates and make a copy of all the files in bb-templates and paste it into my-templates and edit those files. Example: http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum/

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It would be cool to be able to restrict view/write access to threads. That way Mods/Admin could have their own threads to discuss things.

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That’s pretty nice, I like it! Any plans to further integrate it into your site’s existing design? I like the color coices. One thing though, when you look at a specific topic, its interesting how its all one big grey box, it makes a bit difficult to separate the posts: http://outletzine.org/forums/topic.php?id=10 I can tell by the dotted line, but its a bit misleading because the post time/date actually belongs to the post on top, but it looks like it belongs to the next post, if that makes any sense.

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I wonder if there will ever be a plugin or easy way to do this? Couldn’t it be triggered the same way posts are when people make comments?

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Sweet! Thanks!

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mrjain,

Of course, I would be glad to help.

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How did you get img tags to work inside bbpress?

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Cool! Works for me also!

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The page you refer to is one of my sites: http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum and it took a bit of playing to get it “integrated”, but its easy now.

Basically when you go to http://www.abunchofcars.com/forum , you’re not going to a page called forum, you’re actually loading the bbpress directory. I created a folder called “my-templates” and began warping the standard layout to match my layout. It involved some heavy modification of the bbpress layout files. The main files I tweaked with are: headers.php, front-page.php, footer.php, and style.css. I also did some slight tweaking with the login-form.php also.

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I would also like to know if there is an img plugin/rewrite for bbpress.

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Okay, figured out my noob mistake. Was using my “live” MySQL database versus my dev one. Works fine now.

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It was a bit fustrating in the beginning, but I’m finding it kind of fun. It’s a good back-to-basic-code refresher for me. Here is a little modding I’ve been doing: http://dev.abunchofcars.com/forum/ and I like its pretty easy to integrate into WP since its practically built off the same engine.