Sure thing, happy to let you peek around. I can even give you admin access to a hidden forum for testing purposes, along with some specific content that refuses to post.
Let me try a fresh copy too… I’d kinda rather wait till late late at night since that’s when there’s the least chance of anyone being active on the site.
I’ll PM you more info. Thanks!
Jonathan
Yeah sorry, poor wording on my part. I think of “core” as meaning “any file that came with bbP” but that’s not really accurate. I’m modifying the various page template files, CSS, and a few minor modifications to the files in mytheme/bbpress/. Oh and I did modify the replies widget, but only so I could make it a fixed size and give it an overflow. There’s probably a better way to do that but I just needed a quick solution that I could do myself.
So basically when a file like page-front-forums.php changes, I need to know so that I can incorporate those changes into my version for my theme, or vice versa.
Traclog seems to be pretty much what I was asking for anyway, so thanks for pointing it out.
Jonathan
Nothing useful in the apache error logs.
No folder called “forums”.
No bbPress install.
No rewriting of the forums slug.
And like I said, it was working fine… then 20 minutes later not. And all I did in between was answer a handful of forum posts.
Also with the slugs enabled, I’m still not able to visit /forums/ if the forums base is set to same.
Jonathan
Definitely no chance at all that the content is identical. It’s like a 2 or 3 page post. 
I turned on the slug and – IT POSTED!
So you’re right on with that… problem is I really seriously don’t want those slugs being shown. So is this just a bug that can be fixed perhaps?
Thanks!
Jonathan
OK I’m even more confused now. Just on a whim, I changed the forums base to “forumsbase” instead of “forums”, and now I can visit /forums/ without any problem!
Turns out I can change to anything other than “forums” and everything begins behaving.
Anyone have any idea what the heck is going on here? And is there any potential negative consequence to not having my forums base set correctly?
Jonathan
@anointed – I believe it was your post that actually turned me onto the mod_security thing in the first place. I had my host whitelist the problematic rule for me so that I could post what I needed to in WP, and that solved that issue completely. But this time it’s in bbP… would there be a different rule needing whitelisting this time?
@jjj – here are the hidden fields from my form:
<input id=”bbp_reply_title” type=”hidden” value=”Reply To: Where to start with LPGEN working on that first $1″ name=”bbp_reply_title”>
<input id=”bbp_forum_id” type=”hidden” value=”143″ name=”bbp_forum_id”>
<input id=”bbp_topic_id” type=”hidden” value=”9041″ name=”bbp_topic_id”>
<input id=”bbp_post_action” type=”hidden” value=”bbp-new-reply” name=”action”>
<input id=”_bbp_unfiltered_html_reply” type=”hidden” value=”e72f207254″ name=”_bbp_unfiltered_html_reply”>
<input id=”_wpnonce” type=”hidden” value=”f3ac8f8387″ name=”_wpnonce”>
<input type=”hidden” value=”/topic/where-to-start-with-lpgen-working-on-that-first-1/” name=”_wp_http_referer”>
For a moment I thought it might be related to having a $ in the topic title, but I’ve had no problem making other replies to this thread (nor has anyone else), it’s just this ONE reply I can’t post.
I’m running WP 3.1.3, single-site, custom/modified commercial theme.
Thanks!
Jonathan
But that’s just it – all I did was run the update from within my WP admin. That’s all. I was running a stock bbP beta 1 install (my customizations are just to the various template pages and a few minor edits to files within mytheme/bbpress). When next I looked, the folder was gone.
Nobody at all was working on the server during this time but me, and nothing else happened in between. I ran the update, saw it completed, walked away, came back after a couple of hours, and the directory was gone.
I suppose I could back it up now and try again just to test it, but I’d really kinda rather not. I can’t come up with any logical explanation of how my entire theme directory could have spontaneously deleted itself right after running the plugin updater.
If I’m the only person this ever happens to, then great… we can write it off as an unexplained mystery. Personally though I’m never updating again without first backing up my theme directory.
Jonathan
I had hoped that beta2 would fix this but, it doesn’t. I still can’t post this specific reply, and other members are having the same problem and getting understandably frustrated.
Help?
Jonathan
Could we get a list of files that have changed in the changelog? For those of us who have had to make certain modifications to some core files, it would be extremely helpful.
Thank,
Jonathan
FYI it appears to be related to the specific content in my post. I typed up a very short reply and posted it without a problem.
Are there words or symbols that bbP is treating as security risks? I’ve seen this before in WP and it’s enough to drive one to drink.
This isn’t even a code-oriented post. I at least understand it blocking posts that contain SQL queries and whatnot, but this doesn’t have any of that…
Jonathan
Aha… I had read somewhere that _ck_ had gone “underground” and kinda disappeared. Not sure if that’s actually the case but either way I would sure love to have a Views column. Thanks!
Jonathan
I just noticed there is no “views” column so members can know how many times a particular topic had been read. Are there plans to add this? It’s a much-desired feature.
Thanks!
Jonathan
Has anyone run into the situation of users not being able to edit their own topics?
I’m still running alpha 3167 as my site is now live and I don’t want to risk updating until I’m OK with potentially taking it down for a day or two, in case there are issues migrating to the beta.
But even so, has anyone seen this or have there been any changes that might have affected this capability?
Admins can edit their own topics just fine, but regular users just see a blank page when they try.
Thanks,
Jonathan
Aha that makes total sense. Thanks!!
Jonathan
Is there a way to change the order the forums are displayed in? It looks like by default they’re displayed in the order they were created. I’d really like them to be either in Alphabetical order, or better yet in a custom definable order, like what one can do with menu items in the WP menus.
Can this order be changed currently?
Thanks,
Jonathan
P.S.
We really do need a solution that allows members to post code in a “safe” way. I’ve already got members wanting to post helpful code snippets for each other, and they can’t.
Is something like this in the plan? Or should I develop a custom plugin that makes it possible?
Thanks,
Jonathan
I actually did wrap the code in a code tag, and it did nothing. The code just executed. Of course once I sanitized the code, it got highlighted in yellow.
Jonathan
OK whew, that’s a bit of a relief. I just tried the same thing from a normal member level account and the dangerous stuff was removed so… relieved.
Of course I’m not sure even admins should be able to post what I was able to post, or at least require it be wrapped in some special tag like <raw> or something. I am often going to need to display code for my members and obviously I can’t have it executing! I need some sort of efficient way to have it be sanitized.
Thanks for the clarification, and sorry for posting security related stuff improperly.
(Oh and also sorry for the multiple account posts, I didn’t realize earlier I had been logged into that other account.)
Jonathan
OK, possibly dumb question here… how do users upload an avatar image for bbP?
Jonathan
Quick question, are there plans to have a “preview” mode for people when they are writing posts? I had a user request it and frankly I hadn’t realized there wasn’t one (I rarely ever use them myself).
Is such a feature on the roadmap?
Thanks,
Jonathan
Yep working great, no errors, no issues, it “just works”.
Was able to open my site’s doors to my first members today and the forum is seeing activity. No turning back now! LOL
Thanks again J3 
Jonathan
Yep working great, no errors, no issues, it “just works”.
Was able to open my site’s doors to my first members today and the forum is seeing activity. No turning back now! LOL
Thanks again J3
Jonathan
Rockstar! Uploading new build now…
Jonathan
Rockstar! Uploading new build now…
Jonathan
