[theurbantwist]

Can someone take a look at my forum page and let me know some reasons as to why my forum isn’t showing up?

I’ve followed all instructions to a “T” and I’m obviously moving in the right direction because my “Theme natively supports bbPress” as stated in the dashboard admin panel and on my forum page, it’s at least labeled at the top in the breadcrumbs section that it’s a forum but that’s pretty much it.

Also I know that things are installed properly with the plugin because when I switch theme to default it works as is.

I just want to know if I’m missing something. I’ve moved all relevant files into my theme folder, and like I said before I’ve followed instructions to a “t” and I’m pretty knowledgeable with wordpress and theme customization but can’t figure this out at the moment.

Any suggestions?

Forum page is located here: http://theurbantwist.com/community/

[adv_user]

In fact, if you see my posts, two years ago, I sought it, at the time that the integration with WordPress was difficult:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-subforum-change-css

Now bbPress has evolved a lot, because it has become plugin an easily integrated with the WordPress and BuddyPress.

So I’m sure that soon this will be improved organization of categories.

@anointed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-sub-forums#post-11762

Joining the contents of these two topics that I passed the link, you can get what they want (as you yourself said, tks), but let’s be honest…

It is not easy for those who are only user

(not even a beginning programmer)

In other forums it is ready. Simply create categories and forums by default that the organization already does this separation. It should also be standard in bbPress.

If you do not want the separation of categories, will not do it, but it uses different categories is because you want to be separated for better organization.

So it is ideal to be implemented this improvement, and as you mentioned, many other features (as plugins).

And preferably, as plugins for WordPress, which can be installed and automatically updated directly by the panel without having to use FTP, as are separate plugins bbPress.

Suggestion:

is that all plugins from bbPress and BuddyPress, stay in the WordPress directory, thus it will be much easier to use them.

[Anointed]

It is currently possible with the default theme and does not really require any php knowledge. You will spend 90% of your time simply modifying the css in order to get the results you are asking for.

There are a few functions to move around in order to get the exact layout, but that is simply a matter of moving functions around the templates and not writing new functions.

*Now in order to get the full ‘functionality’ of the forums you are talking about, then yeah, that would take a considerable amount of coding work to write all the needed functionality. I fully expect to see many of those features coming in the form of plugins though.

[adv_user]

Example:

Invision: http://community.invisionpower.com/

phpBB: http://www.phpbb.com/community/

vBulletin: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/

I want to get this result with bbPress:

http://blogame.com.br/forum/

############################################

With the default structure of great forums:

Category 1

– Forum 1

— Subforum 1, Subforum 2, Subforum 3

– Forum 2

– Forum 3

Category 2

– Forum 4

– Forum 5

— Subforum 4

– Forum 6

############################################

With a “friendly space” between category 1 and category 2.

Because there are many forums.

I Would like a theme that had it, I do not need to change anything, just add the categories, forums and the Subforums in admin panel WordPress.

Tks.

[folgerj]

I uploaded and activated the plugin (RC3 installed and working) and I allowed most items to be uploaded. I (for now, left the smilies in default). Now where would I see this toolbar?

I assumed users would see it as they are posting a topic in the forum…

Did I misread the intent of the toolbar?

Here’s one of my topics… http://jeff-foliage.com/forums/topic/connecticut-trip-planned-for-fall-foliage/

[dtwp]

I got it working. If anyone happends to have the same question here is my solution:

This solution is for the bbPress Plugin version.

1. Got to “https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default”.

2. Log in

3. Export the .mo file at the bottom and download it.

4. Place it in the following dir “/wp-content/languages/bbpress/”.

5. Rename is to “bbpress-nl_NL.mo”.

6. Make sure you have filled the correct languages in your wp-config.php: ‘nl_NL’.

If there is an easier way feel free to leave a comment.

Tobias.

[dtwp]

Dear community,

I am looking for the dutch translation of the bbPress forum, but I can’t find it.

I have looked in the repository at “http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/”, but there isn’t a nl_NL version.

I know that there is a translation available, because when I look in GlotPress I see that the dutch translation is 100% completed.

See: http://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/nl/default.

Can anyone point me to the downloadable .mo or .po files of the dutch translation?

Thanks,

Tobias.

[EL45]

By default the avatars are tied to your email address through gravatar.

Go to http://en.gravatar.com/ and register with your email address then upload a picture.

[ns32]

Can someone tell me how to modify the plugin so that notifications about favorite topics are emailed by default? I want to save users the two extra steps of logging into their profile and ticking a box to get email notifications about favorites.

Please err on the side of over explanation.

Thanks!

[Corse]

Hello,

BBpress 2.0 Plugin is using the standard content width of my WordPress installation for showing. But i would like to have it full width (920 px instead of 550px). Because of my posts is not a option to change the default content width.

How to change this for BBpress only?

Thanx in advance!

[zakiu]

Hi Everyone,

I’m not a super hacker or anything, but I have some basic competence with computers. I’ve been tasked with converting our phpbb3 to bbpress standalone and now to bbpress plugin. I’ve managed to do phpbb to bbpress, but i am stuck at converting standalone to plugin.

We currently have wordpress users as well as bbpress users for our forums. We would like to maintain separate users for each. My major question is, how do I convert bbpress to the bbpress plugin and maintain those user categorations?

We do not want our forums users to be able to affect our wordpress account. This is the only information I can find:

bbPress Standalone to Plugin Converter Beta 2

Currently, there are three situations:

1. You have a new WordPress blog, to which you are migrating to and an established forum. Then, you would go to user migration section first and then proceed to forums, topics, posts migration section. In this process, all your WordPress users would be deleted (well, renamed to another table) and in place of those, bbPress users would be added. A keymaster will be WP admin, bb admin and moderator will be bbPress plugin moderators, rest all would be converted to the default WP role (which can be set in your WordPress settings).

2. Your WordPress and bbPress user tables are integrated. You don’t need the user migration process and you can directly go to forums, topics, posts migration section. No worries.

3. You have a established WordPress blog, with a good number of users and can’t afford to lose those. This is currently not supported as it is hard to merge two conflicting user sets.

[Anointed]

cool, didn’t know you could set a default forum… where is that setting located?

I can test and report back if it works for me

[BearBug]

Current, the bbPress Forum configuration for my site are as follows:

Category 1

– Forum 1.1

– Forum 2.1

Category 2

– Forum 2.1

– Forum 2.2

When using dashboard > add >topic, it will link me to create topic page and everything works fine.

However, whenever user start to add topic using this method, the default attribute for forum post is set to (No Forum).

This causes the newly created topic to land in nowhere and admin has to read the topic thereafter manually assign the topic to the relevant forum.

I tried changing the default attribute from (No Forum) to Forum 1.1 but to no avail as it was all locked n grey out.

Any user encountering the same problem?

If yes, please enlighten…

[drizzt82]

bbpress RC2:

1. The search does not work. It searches only in the wordpress default pages, not in forum posts.

2. The profile edit does not work. It ends with fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get_error_codes() on a non-object in … bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php on line 1392

3. Stick a top to the front and close it. Add another topic and make it sticky to a forum only. The super sticky topic does not appear everywhere anymore.

[drizzt82]

bbpress RC2:

1. The search does not work. It searches only in the wordpress default pages, not in forum posts.

2. The profile edit does not work. It ends with fatal error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get_error_codes() on a non-object in … bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php on line 1392

3. Stick a top to the front and close it. Add another topic and make it sticky to a forum only. The super sticky topic does not appear everywhere anymore.

[funnycat777]

Hello,

In BBpress 2.0 RC2, the default reply form template contains a box called Tags, which enables users to add tags.

The problem is that existing tags for the topic/post are preexisting in the Tag textbox as well, which also enables random users to be able to delete the existing tags (if they want to) when replying to a post.

Is there a way to hide the existing tags from the default reply form template to prevent users to delete the tags accidentally?

[Matthew.S.]

Hello All,

I am not sure if this is expected behaviour. I have spent all day looking for an answer. Which does not mean that I did not miss something.

My forums are at http://www.weekendbrisbane.com.au/forums

I have followed bbpress theme compatibility install, and believe I have done it correctly. Created a child theme, copied files over to the child theme, inserted the functions.php and add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );

I have also created a page at http://www.weekendbrisbane.com.au/forum, (<–no “s” on the end) and used the shortcode [bbp-forum-index]. Which appears to work, until you click on a sub forum or topic. Also, using breadcrumb to move back to forums takes you to “forums”

So my questions are

1. Is this expected behaviour for the default “/forums” page or have I missed an installation step?

2. If I missed a step, is it possible to point me in the right direction? It would be appreciated

2. Or if it is expected behaviour, do I need to create pages for every topic and forum created? Which I am guessing is not the case.

couple of extra notes

– I have also created a page “forums” with slug “/forums” and added [bbp-forum-index] which appears to be ignored completly.

– If I change the template in “/forum” to bbPress – Forums )index, I also loose style formatting.

PS. I may be batting out of my league trying to install bbpress in beta version. But I like the looks of it and would be great if I could get it to work on my website.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[Jared Atchison]

I’m using the latest build of bbPress and Genesis (1.7.1). For the most part things are going smoothly, however there is one thing I have not been able to figure out.

I am using the default setup of bbPress and it’s running off of bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten theme (I have not installed or moved a bbpress theme inside my child theme directory).

Here’s what I don’t understand…

When viewing a specfic forum or post, such as http://allaboutdryeye.com/forums/forum/sufferers-corner/ things work fine, as expected.

*However*, when trying to view the forum index (http://allaboutdryeye.com/forums/), user profile (http://allaboutdryeye.com/forums/users/allabout/), and some other sections the page just shows what looks to be a dead loop.

After a little poking around, it almost seems like bbPress isn’t using the template file at all.

For example, on this page http://allaboutdryeye.com/forums/users/allabout/, the corresponding template file would be /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/single-user.php right?

I’ve tried editing the file (for testing purposes only, of course!) and echoing test lines, however they don’t show. It’s like some of the template files aren’t being picked up at all.

I have no idea what is going on. I’ve been beating my head against the wall on this one. WP_DEBUG turns up clean.

Any clues?

[pmcdonald]

I followed the instructions to install and got this error that I need help interpreting and resolving:

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: wildfelid (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_posts (

post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

post_text text NOT NULL,

post_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’,

poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”,

post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (post_id),

KEY topic_time (topic_id, post_time),

KEY poster_time (poster_id, post_time),

KEY post_time (post_time),

FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text)

) TYPE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’;

>>>>>> You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘TYPE = MYISAM DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8” at line 16

The setup did not create the necessary tables in my database for some reason even though the access details are correct.

[slithx0r]

I actually joined just to post this exact problem.

I managed to figure it out after reading this!

You were right when you suggested it could be to do with the permelinks because I was using the exact same custom structure of “/%category%/%postname%/” and had the same problem.

The solution is either a)

Use the default link structure or

edit function ‘bbp_get_topic_edit_link’ in file

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-template.php

with this line of code

$uri .= ‘?edit=1’;

just before it returns.

Then do the same for

wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-reply-template.php

with function ‘bbp_get_reply_edit_link’

So now the edit url should look like

http://beta.guildwars2community.com/forums/topic/ranger-pets/?edit=1

I hope this helps!

[Erlend]

Another argument for this plugin would be multisite friendliness. I think it would be anyhow.

Since the “integration” is simply a matter of the plugin copying the contents of a comment and re-posting it on a forum, it shouldn’t matter whether that’s in example.com/forums (default), forums.example.com (a secondary site) or example.com/secondarysite/forums, so long as that’s specified in the settings.

So if I have a main site for blogging, example.com, and a secondary site for forum discussion (i.e. with bbPress 2 installed on it), forums.example.com, this approach could still work just fine.

Am I correct in this assumption?

[mysitesrock]

I like the layout of The bbPress forum… is it available anywhere?

-What if… they give us a nice looking theme like this as a default? That’d rock.

Thanks.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

@folgerj

You can use the Dashboard’s menu’s to see most of that.

If you use the default ordering of topics and posts, combined with the excerpt view, it displays the items by freshness and gives a small preview of all which happens on your forums.

From a UX point of view, I don’t find the page with the forums very user-friendly. I’ve got a pretty high screen resolution, but I have to scroll down to see the forums which I expect to be there.

I’d put the forums on top and the login and such at the bottom. If I want to read, I can go right ahead. If what I read interests me, I’d look for a way to sign in anyway… But the content should come first.

[Anonymous User 5853594]

@folgerj

You can use the Dashboard’s menu’s to see most of that.

If you use the default ordering of topics and posts, combined with the excerpt view, it displays the items by freshness and gives a small preview of all which happens on your forums.

From a UX point of view, I don’t find the page with the forums very user-friendly. I’ve got a pretty high screen resolution, but I have to scroll down to see the forums which I expect to be there.

I’d put the forums on top and the login and such at the bottom. If I want to read, I can go right ahead. If what I read interests me, I’d look for a way to sign in anyway… But the content should come first.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve added a multisite option to handle the assigning of the default role and caps. I see value in having it work either way, and can see a case for toggling this setting even on a per site basis.

Multisite crisis averted.