[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Mark,

sorry I’m not a buddypress guy – was hoping that buddypress would get you to an answer!

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Presuming it is buddypress you are using, then your question would be better on their support site.

I don’t have buddypress experience.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

yes, but you do need to

a) show some patience – we are all volunteers here and have lives outside of bbPress
b) answer fully questions asked – these are not random or standard, they are specific to your problem. All are asked for a reason.

To help me to help you, I need information to get to a problem definition, and from there to a solution.

Please respond to each question below

1. I now understand your problem as follows :
bbPress is fully working, except that when you go into Dashboard>replies you get an internal server error.
Is this correct? If not precisely when/how do you get the error
2. Have you just installed bbpress, or is this an old installation?
3. Has this error always been there, or has it appeared?
4. What else has changed on the site
5. What other plugins are your running?
6. Are you running any caching software?
7. can you confirm that with ALL plugins except bbPress AND a default theme such as twentytwlelve installed you still get this error? and which default theme you used.

Thanks

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

bbpress only works on wordpress, so no your can’t directly run it on Magento, so yes a link would do it.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Ok, I am also confused !

If http://www.techgreet.com/ is your site, it seems to be working fine on the client side, I can access and see the forums.

So for the server error – when exactly do you receive this error?
Are there particular actions that you take to create this?
Have you contacted your server administrator, and what did they say?

for the tab error – I presume this is in the dashboard?
Have you just installed bbpress, or is this an old installation?
What else has changed
What other plugins are your running?

It may be a plugin or theme conflict – not sure whether you tried deactivating all plugins except bbPress viz

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

The way the forum looks will depend on both how your theme is set up, as well as styling changes within bbpress.

There’s not a fantastic amount of styling in this forum, basically it’s just a theme with a left hand sidebar, with some standard widgets in it and a couple of special ones.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Can you help us to define your problem.

when you talk about the “group forums” and the “general forums” do you mean ones set up using buddypress, or how have these been set up?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

I’d try and eliminate any conflicts

Deactivate any other plugins and see if a disappeared topic reappears. If so, re-enable the plugins one at a time to see which is causing the issue.

If that doesn’t help, then try switching to a default theme such as twenty twelve and see if it’s a theme issue.

Come back and let us know how you get on

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

great, glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Do you have any caching plugins working?

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

great – no problem !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

elegant – depends !

If you simply alter this file then on any bbpress version update you’ll lose the changes, so make a note of them.

There are alternatives

1. Add the css styling change to the style.css file within your child theme.

If you have a child theme, then this is ideal, as neither plugin nor theme update will affect your change. Simply add the code below to your style.css

/*Styling for forum description */
#bbpress-forums div.bbp-forum-content {
clear:both !important;
margin-left: 0px !important;
padding: 0 0 0 0 !important;
	}

2. If you only have a main theme, then consider using a child theme – it’s quick and easy to create one, basically it’s just a theme that you create that says “use this main theme, but then add these bits”. Google child theme video and you’ll get loads of help.

3. Add this to the style.css in your main theme
But you’ll need to keep a note of it for theme upgrades, so this is really no better than changing in the bbPress template, and neater to do it in bbPress than your theme

4. Make a directory called css in your theme (either child or main) and copy the bbpress.css file into it. Then make changes there. this then won’t be overwritten on upgrades, but you will not get the benefit of changes to the default bbpress.css that may be in upgrades.

Overall 1. is by far the best choice, as you keep the code no matter what happens. Otherwise keep a note of your changes (which are fine, and are what I did to test prior to putting the end result in my style.css), so that you can replicate them on upgrades.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

I see you’re getting some help in the buddypress site

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

thanks, glad you’re fixed !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Thanks, I’ve slightly amended it to get it to display on all pages and added it to the documentation

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

Thanks again for posting your solution !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

I’ve just added the code I think you’re after to the documentation viz

Layout and functionality – Examples you can use

Come back if that’s not what either of you were after !

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

bbpres uses gravatar as it’s photo system.

load you photo to gravatar and it will appear

I have a page on my site that explains this to users viz :

This site uses Gravatar to display avatars. if you already have a Gravatar account with your email for this site, then it will display on your forum posts; it can take a few hours before the link is established the first time.

What is an Avatar?
 When you post, you'll see the default avatar beside your name. You can change this to any image you wish (providing it's decent!).  Many people have a picture of themselves, or anything that represents your ego or character.

Changing from the default avatar.
The site uses Gravatar.  The Gravatar site stores you avatar against your email address.

This allows you to have a single image that many websites can use without you needing to add it or change it on each site.

Since this site knows your email address (through your profile), this site can pick up the avatar stored with Gravatar.

If you're not already signed up with Gravatar, then follow this link [https://en.gravatar.com/site/signup] to register your email address and avatar with them.  This site will then pick up that avatar and display it against your post. It can take a few hours before the link is established the first time.

Confused?
 Don't worry - if you're happy with the default avatar against your name, you need to do nothing further !

 

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

@angeliti – suggest you contact the plugin site – they claim to be bbpress compatible.
https://optimizepress.zendesk.com/hc/en-us

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

‘Could you please tell me the same as above check box for the bbpress registration form.’

I Haven’t used gravity forms myself, but if you are using the bbpress login widget , then you should be able to add a page called say “register” and then call the gravity form from within that, and add that url to the widget.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

@1lizcollins

Don’t know why it happened. try Dashoboard>tools>forums.reapir forums and run one at a time to see of this fixes your links.

It could also be worth checkint that you haven’t got a plugin or theme issue, although neither would cause a plugin to disappear.

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

@adenslayer

This seems to be a known issue with this plugin viz :

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wpsc-support-tickets-bbpress-conflict?replies=1

I see you’ve also posted to the plugin site, so hopefully the plugin author will come back to you.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

‘Step 6 of the instructions reads:’

Sorry can you give me the link this text, I can’t immediately trace where this is written, and I’ll come back and help you further

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

yes you could probably that if it within your skill set.

Best wishes

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

great, glad you’re fixed

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

Can only suggest you try the following to see if they are causing issues

Check other plugins

Check that no other plugins are affecting this.

Turn off all other plugins, and see if that fixes the problem. If the problem is resolved, add back one at a time to see which is causing the conflict.

Check themes

If plugins are not the cause, then it may be a theme issue. Switch to a default theme, such as twentytwelve, and test.

[@robin-w Moderator 10 years, 10 months ago]

ok, you could try just using a separate page for bbpress.

Create a file called bbpress.php in your theme folder

Add the following code to the bbpress.php file

<?php
/**
 * bbPress wrapper template.
 */

get_header(); ?>

<?php while( have_posts() ): the_post(); ?>

	<?php the_content(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

If you need a sidebar add

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

before the footer line

See whether that works for you.