I am definitely outside of your immediate circle, and am running the bbPress plugin over at testbp.org/discussion. A site with over 22k subscribed users that are able to post in those forums with no issues. 
Not saying there isn’t a bug somewhere, just saying it hasn’t manifested itself on my installs yet.
Also, the bug isn’t in WordPress 3.1, or 3.2. It’s probably in how I’m handling the query differences between the two versions, as some of the advanced meta type queries are being fine-tuned.
I am definitely outside of your immediate circle, and am running the bbPress plugin over at testbp.org/discussion. A site with over 22k subscribed users that are able to post in those forums with no issues.
Not saying there isn’t a bug somewhere, just saying it hasn’t manifested itself on my installs yet.
Also, the bug isn’t in WordPress 3.1, or 3.2. It’s probably in how I’m handling the query differences between the two versions, as some of the advanced meta type queries are being fine-tuned.
Also, the code itself is very heavily documented. If you’re curious about the inner workings, dive in and take a look. Honestly, documenting bbPress.org will be largely a community effort once I get things setup here. I’ll contribute to get it off the ground and will always be around to help, but it’s hard to build everything and document everything too. The WordPress codex is the culmination of years of hundreds of developers chipping in, and both bbPress and BuddyPress will eventually have something similar.
VERY interesting additional data!!
1. I have a programmer in Pakistan (I’m in California), and she sees the identical bad behavior on her local machine using WP 3.1.2.
2. I remotely accessed a computer at another location and used it to download and install a fresh copy of the bbP Plugin, thinking maybe by some totally bizarre circumstance it had something to do with my local machine (virus, who knows what). No change at all, still can’t create topics.
3. Programmer tried WP3.2b1 on her local machine, same problem, identical in every way.
4. I tried WP3.2b1 on my server (same one I’ve been using this whole time) and…
IT WORKS!!!!
http://cloudsharehost.com/wp3.2/forums/
user & password of “test”. User is a normal subscriber and can post topics as expected.
NO problem whatsoever.
This was using https://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.2-beta1.zip
Identical install process of 3147 bbP plugin. NO change at all.
So what does this tell us??? I really have no idea but I’m hoping someone else does.
Jonathan
VERY interesting additional data!!
1. I have a programmer in Pakistan (I’m in California), and she sees the identical bad behavior on her local machine using WP 3.1.2.
2. I remotely accessed a computer at another location and used it to download and install a fresh copy of the bbP Plugin, thinking maybe by some totally bizarre circumstance it had something to do with my local machine (virus, who knows what). No change at all, still can’t create topics.
3. Programmer tried WP3.2b1 on her local machine, same problem, identical in every way.
4. I tried WP3.2b1 on my server (same one I’ve been using this whole time) and…
IT WORKS!!!!
http://cloudsharehost.com/wp3.2/forums/
user & password of “test”. User is a normal subscriber and can post topics as expected.
NO problem whatsoever.
This was using https://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.2-beta1.zip
Identical install process of 3147 bbP plugin. NO change at all.
So what does this tell us??? I really have no idea but I’m hoping someone else does.
Jonathan
WordPress 3.1.2 and I’ve reactivated many times… no change. Just did it again right now.
I agree this is the strangest issue, and that’s part of why I’m so passionate about it. In a “former life” I was a software QA engineer and a bug like this would just never sit well with me. 
Possibly related note, it seems that after reactivation I also have to re-save my permalinks… could be related to the flushing problem I’ve seen you mention elsewhere.
Let me know if by chance you spot anything when you regress to 3.1! There has to be an explanation for this… there just has to be!
Jonathan
WordPress 3.1.2 and I’ve reactivated many times… no change. Just did it again right now.
I agree this is the strangest issue, and that’s part of why I’m so passionate about it. In a “former life” I was a software QA engineer and a bug like this would just never sit well with me.
Possibly related note, it seems that after reactivation I also have to re-save my permalinks… could be related to the flushing problem I’ve seen you mention elsewhere.
Let me know if by chance you spot anything when you regress to 3.1! There has to be an explanation for this… there just has to be!
Jonathan
What about deactivating and reactivating bbPress? It sounds like your caps aren’t being applied correctly.
To be clear, there are subscribers posting over at testbp.org/discussion perfectly fine, and it’s running exactly the same code you are. Your video was helpful, and it’s really odd that it’s happening for you like that.
What versions of WordPress are you using? I suppose it’s possible it’s a WordPress 3.1 issue, since I’ve moved on to testing with WP3.2 the past two weeks or so. I’ll revert back to 3.1 and see if that changes anything.
What about deactivating and reactivating bbPress? It sounds like your caps aren’t being applied correctly.
To be clear, there are subscribers posting over at testbp.org/discussion perfectly fine, and it’s running exactly the same code you are. Your video was helpful, and it’s really odd that it’s happening for you like that.
What versions of WordPress are you using? I suppose it’s possible it’s a WordPress 3.1 issue, since I’ve moved on to testing with WP3.2 the past two weeks or so. I’ll revert back to 3.1 and see if that changes anything.
backpress? I think that’s something else completely… I’m using this:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3147/branches/plugin?old_path=%2F&format=zip
Thanks for your efforts!!!
Jonathan
backpress? I think that’s something else completely… I’m using this:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3147/branches/plugin?old_path=%2F&format=zip
Thanks for your efforts!!!
Jonathan
I have another (supposedly) silly question.
I have added fields I need to the topic post type, thank you very much. However, I am finding it difficult to post them to the database when I enter any data from the frontend. I can add all the inputs to those fields from WordPress editor, but on-page fields fail on me.
Can I just replicate bbp_form_topic_title() function and modify the new one to suit my needs?
No Core Code has been harmed as yet.
I have another (supposedly) silly question.
I have added fields I need to the topic post type, thank you very much. However, I am finding it difficult to post them to the database when I enter any data from the frontend. I can add all the inputs to those fields from WordPress editor, but on-page fields fail on me.
Can I just replicate bbp_form_topic_title() function and modify the new one to suit my needs?
No Core Code has been harmed as yet.
Run an svn checkout of the bbPress plugin, and just svn update periodically.
If this is on a remote server and you’re using SVN, you’re probably SSH’ed in, so…
cd wp-content
cd plugins
mkdir bbpress
cd bbpress
svn co https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/plugin .
Run an svn checkout of the bbPress plugin, and just svn update periodically.
If this is on a remote server and you’re using SVN, you’re probably SSH’ed in, so…
cd wp-content
cd plugins
mkdir bbpress
cd bbpress
svn co https://bbpress.svn.wordpress.org/branches/plugin .
I want to thank you for making this plugin. It’s been too long that WordPress users have waited for a fully integrated forum.
I’m also really happy that it’s coming out in a few days. This is just what I need.
Thanks again.
I want to thank you for making this plugin. It’s been too long that WordPress users have waited for a fully integrated forum.
I’m also really happy that it’s coming out in a few days. This is just what I need.
Thanks again.
Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.
It’s complicated.
All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.
Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.
It’s complicated.
All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.
You really shouldn’t have one WordPress installation inside another. That’s a recipe for exactly the kind of disaster you’re experiencing, since it’s most likely conflicting .htaccess files trumping each other.
“Running nested WP installs” is different than “Running WP in a subdirectory” because of exactly what I mentioned above. If you install WP in a subdirectory, it won’t care where it is (or what its path is) as long as you install WP correctly. Once you nest several installations on top of each other, you’re setting yourself up for headaches unless you’re able to fluently track down and alleviate the rewrite issues you’ll run into.
An important piece of missing information, do both of the WordPress installs work independently without bbPress activated on either of them? Pretty permalinks turned on, on both, etc… Once you get that to behave first, then it’s time to try adding things into them.
