[Trent Adams]

After looking at the list and this new site of yours, I am really impressed! Very nice!

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[Trent Adams]

I haven’t heard back, so why not. I am not saying for sure that everything is going to work on this one. Backup your current my-templates/ folder and then test with this one:

Trent’s bbPress Default Template

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[Trent Adams]

I will have a post to devlist, but I am pretty sure that only Micheal changes the core code, but will get around to it after the holidays! I tested them both earlier and they did work for me! It has been 3 weeks since a core change and there is about a dozen or so tickets since then!

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[Trent Adams]

That is a good approach! Let us find if this behavior is a bug or not for most people, how to fix it, then go to TRAC!

Thanks again chrishajer for all of these ‘problems’ you are posting. Some would have been overlooked and that is great!

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[Trent Adams]

I would search both these forums and wordpress.org forums for bbPress and WP integration of themes. Personally have had 0 success with integrating using wp-blog-header.php in an include, therefore I won’t have anything useful to say. That being said, the point was more to let you know that wordpress.org support forums have suprisingly more topics of this type of integration (theme) than these forums!

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[Trent Adams]

Good luck Spencer! Looks like you are rolling out a great package integration documentation!

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[Trent Adams]

STICKY Within TAGS. I like that!

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[Trent Adams]

Do you mean in the recent discussion list having which forum each thread belongs to in the list as well as title, last poster, freshness, ect.?

Guess I am trying to visualize what you are asking for!

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[Trent Adams]

Part of the issue is that all the plugins have come on fast in the past couple of months. In the New Year, we will have https://bbpress.org/plugins/ working and all the plugins will be in one place. Part of the fun of bbPress is the ability to have a light core file system and expand with plugins as most users don’t need all the functionality. phpBB is a great system, but extremely bloated for most users that don’t need all the functionality!

As for the plugins that are around now, WOW! Thomas, Ardentfrost, So10 and others are popping them out like crazy! I would imagine no less than 50 plugins more in 2007. Can you?

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[Trent Adams]

That fixed it up all right. I am submitting that portion to TRAC! Thanks!

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[Trent Adams]

It has the same action even on this forum as well as wordpress.org forums. Not sure if it is meant to be that way or not….

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[Trent Adams]

Definetely a plugin request for sure.

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[Trent Adams]

I am using the latest from TRAC, but if I add a duplicate tag, it just updates the tag with the recent timestamp, but doesn’t give errors. Is this on .73?

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[Trent Adams]

I have done some crazy google searching and also came up empty handed. I would change all registration links to bbPress or WP. That way, at least you know they can register and not screw anything else up.

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[Trent Adams]

Are you still getting that error, or did you just get it once while the plugin was creating the tables? The error suggests that the plugin table wasn’t created.

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[Trent Adams]

Spammer is gone!

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[Trent Adams]

Thanks Spencer for pointing that spammer outJ

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[Trent Adams]

That sounds great! I know so10 has requested (through TRAC) that we have something in the admin to choose themes. Here is what I have been doing for mine!

/my-templates/theme1/

/my-templates/theme2/

/my-templates/theme3/

Then I just have to copy contents of the theme folder I want to use to the root of /my-templates/

It is a pain right now, but really simple when using FTP I guess!

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[Trent Adams]

I have a basic template clone of this forum, but I am awaiting the OK from the big boys upstairs to let me release it. Stay tuned!

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[Trent Adams]

That is really great! I like it! I just logged in and took a look around! If you want, you could setup a download link for what you did and release it as a theme!

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[Trent Adams]

The standalone version doesn’t have the ability to log, so it is difficult to test it without having someone do something that Bad Behavior doesn’t like! That being said, I am 99.9% sure it would be working if you are still able to bring up your forums because if you install it incorrectly, it will not let you access your pages and block everything until you get it right.

The good thing about Bad Behavior is, install and forget about it!

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[Trent Adams]

I would suggest using the following to stop the avatar plugin from working in the mobile version until I can figure out a way to make all images smaller or non-existant with this plugin.

Put this over the code for the avatar plugin in post.php in /my-templates/

<!-- Diable Avatar for BB-Mobile -->

<?php if ( mobile_check() ) : ?>

<!-- <?php post_avatar(); ?> -->

<?php else : ?>

<small><?php post_avatar(); ?></small>

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- Diable Avatar for BB-Mobile -->

I have now tested this out and know that it works on my site.

In fact, any code that you do not want shown or changed in the mobile version of your site can be elminated or changed with the following structure!

<!-- Code for BB-Mobile -->

<?php if ( mobile_check() ) : ?>

CODE YOU WANT SHOWN ON MOBILE

<?php else : ?>

CODE YOU WANT SHOWN ON MAIN SITE

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- Code for BB-Mobile -->

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[Trent Adams]

Customization is really not bad once you get the hang of it. All the template files are in /bb-templates/ and the main ones you will most likely want to change will be:

header.php

footer.php

front-page.php

style.css

There are other ones, but with header.php you can put in your links to other parts of your site or anything else you want displayed on every page. This can include your images. Footer.php is where you will put in more information on closing your style tags you opened in header.php and your footer information. Front-page.php is where the meat of your forum is, whether you want to move around the hot tags or just want to add in a link to a plugin off the main page.

The real meat and potatoes of customization is done through CSS in style.css. That is where you can tweak where you want things placed and what colors you use. If someone knows CSS, you will find it not so bad!

Once you change a file, what you want to do is create a folder called /my-templates/ and add the edited files there. That way, if you make a mistake, you can delete the file off the server to fix it and bbPress will go back to using the one in /bb-templates/ until you upload to /my-templates/ again.

The future will have a system much like WordPress, a kind of drop and drag themes approach, but we have this for now!

The starting point would be to read:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/customization/

Trent

That should get you going. Once you understand changing around the stylesheet in style.php, it doesn’t seem so bad!

[Trent Adams]

With integration, you had to say during the installation what user you wanted to be the key master (adminstrator) in bbPress. Adminstrators in WP don’t automatically get admin status in bbPress. What I would suggest is finding out who is the key master in bbPress, login as them and add the user you want as admin with key master or admin status.

If you are unsure who is key master, I believe a search in the db should let you know, or just check out:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/185?replies=5#post-909

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[Trent Adams]

I don’t know if it is possible, but is there any way to do this without having to hack the core files? It sure sounds like a great idea!

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