[littleman9]

I used my current wordpress site to install bb-press. I have the forum set up menu in the WP-admin section and it seems to be working. http://www.gadgetsandgizmos.org/forums/ but i can’t find where to login to the bb press admin section to change settings etc.

The site is using my default theme and working nicely, so great job there.

[bradsucks]

There was a conflict noted with the bbPress topic tag slug. I changed it which cleared the conflict but the tag page still isn’t returning any results (“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”).

And ‘forums’ is the root of all the forum permalinks on my setup (everything else is default, I believe.)

[bradsucks]

Just upgraded to beta 3 and my topic tag pages don’t return any results now (on the default theme). Is anyone else having this problem?

Also was there any change in the root breadcrumb behavior? I think I read there was going to be so I held off implementing a fix.

Thanks for all your hard work, bbPress 2 is looking great.

[zaerl]

<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot "your-htdocs/forums.example.com"

ServerName forums.example.com

</VirtualHost>



<VirtualHost *:80>

DocumentRoot "your-htdocs/example.com"

ServerName example.com

ServerAlias www.example.com

</VirtualHost>

on *apache-config-dir*/sites-available/default (*apache-config-dir*extrahttpd-vhosts.conf on windows) (or somewhere else)

[Sithu Thwin]

I got a hack for it if you are using MySql 5.5.

It reported on trac at https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1486

Change TYPE = MYISAM to ENGINE = MYISAM in your bbPress installation’s bb-admin/includes/defaults.bb-schema.php

[valked1n]

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: xxxxxxxxxxx (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

Key master email not sent!

I am using XAMPP and I tried to integrate it with WP which I installed it into the same database.

can anyone please help me ?

[Paul Gregory]

@jjj Thanks. I’ll try and find time to support any tickets for including login and register page settings in WP itself.

It does seem that setting up a decent bbPress forum will almost always involve installing other plugins too, and a list of the little issues that can be resolved by these should form part of the final FAQ/documentation.

I’ve found that the plugin Register Plus Redux mentioned earlier lets me change the emailed link and is generally pretty useful.

Given that by default the system is already using /wp-login.php as a login link unless overridden, it’s not exceptionally naff as I first thought for bbPress Login Widget to use that as a default and allow admin to override it.

So who/where do I nudge to get the bbPress Login Widget extended to include an over-ridable Register link when logged out?

[Paul Gregory]

Yeah, that specific function’s not at all the right one, it seems to be a well-meaning but naive tip on kai920’s part.

But the basic idea of having a Register link within the bbPress Login Widget is sound, and I’m a bit concerned that it seems to be problematic.

There needs to be a good bundled method of having a link to Register that does NOT show up when a user is already logged in, and the Login Widget is the most logical place to put it. (Obviously it’s trivial to add a Register link to a menu or widget area that would be present all the time).

Two naff, but workable, solutions:

1) Add a field in the bbPress Login Widget for the registration page URL, with “/wp-login.php” set as the default. When the Login Widget is displaying the Log In details, display the registration link (if not blank and if registration is enabled). When the Login Widget is displaying the current user details and log out link, don’t show the registration link.

2) Encourage users to install a pair of simple widgets. I don’t know if decent ones exist, but they’d be called something like Logged In Text and Not Logged In Text, which as their names suggest are like Text widgets but only show their contents if is_user_logged_in() condition is true or false. It’s then simple to add a Register link or whatever to a Not Logged In widget, which could be placed above or below the bbPress Login Widget. If I can’t find an existing pair I’ll knock them out myself soon, although I suspect what I’ll end up doing on most sites is conditionally displaying one entire sidebar or another.

—

The reason both are naff is that it seems pretty clear that there should be a function or method that returns the correct (custom) login page, and the absence of it is causing problems.

Is WP completely unaware of custom registration pages? It seems so. There should be somewhere central that the URLs (or page IDs) of custom Register and Login pages etc are set – and that this should be site based rather than theme based, much like you can set the front page and posts page in WP Reading Settings.

Of course, that’s arguably a WP issue not a bbP issue, but bbP as plugin is at liberty to extend WP in useful ways because that’s what plugins do.

From what you’re saying it sounds like this isn’t part of immediate bbP plans.

I don’t know whether I’m missing a setting, or if it’s something you’ve fixed since b2 but: having registered using a bbPress registration page, the email that people get with their password includes a link to /wp-login.php rather than my /log-in page that uses the bbPress login template. Using that leaves people in an inappropriate interface that they are probably not intended to see, and will confuse (and lose) users.

Am I expected to override this myself with a plugin or in my template? That would mean hard-coding page references. It doesn’t seem right.

I think bbP should just bite the bullet and allow users to specify their login and register pages under Settings. And indeed specify the View Profile page etc. It seems to me that bbP really needs to know where the login page is, and searching for a page with either the bbPress Login template or the Login shortcode (the “magic” method) seems prone to error.

All that said, I don’t want to seem too negative – I am liking bbPress 2.0 a lot and thank you (and everyone involved) for your time on it.

[zaerl]

Hi softinfo. What you’re trying to achieve can be very challenging cause bbPress developers haven’t included such feature in the software. On index.php topics are obtained with get_latest_topics, forums with bb_get_forums.

The current page (for topics) is collected from a $_GET variable called page which have its own rule in the .htaccess which in turn is parsed by bb_get_uri_page (functions.bb-core.php) called from BB_Query::fill_query_vars (yargh).

Now you must do the same thing with forums but in order to do this you must change too many core files and we don’t want our soul damned for eternity.

I don’t have much time at the moment but I can give you some hints.

You need a new page variable that should be different from the default (which is used for posts’ page) together with its own .htaccess rule: RewriteRule ^forum-page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum/index.php?forum-page=$1 [L,QSA]

You should create a new fake paginate function bb_latest_topics_pages for forums bb_latest_forums_pages, a fake get_page_number_links with /forum-page/%#% instead of /page/%#% and other things here and there.

And last but not least you need a custom query (with a LIMIT) on the $bbdb forum query.

As I said it can be very challenging and there’s room for a very interesting plugin but I don’t write plugins anymore because of the current fragile status of bbPress standalone.

If you will try to write a plugin I will be happy to debug and/or code (a portion of) it.

[ideoplasm]

Hello,

I have the BBpress WordPress Plugin version installed on my WordPress site, and have found that from installation defaults, the lowest ranking user-role that can view the private forums is ‘Moderator’. The trouble with this, is that Moderators can edit other people’s posts, and I do not want all Users that can read and post in the private forums to be able to edit each other’s posts! Is there an easy way to change this? Ideally I’d want WordPress ‘Contributor’-level users and above to be able to view the private forums. I’d also like WordPress ‘Subscriber’-level users to be able to read the public forums but not post to them, but his is not as important, so no real problem if it cannot be done.

Sorry if this has been asked many times before, but I’ve read a bit about user-maps etc, but the discussions tend to be quite old and talking about the BBpress standalone, not the BBpress WordPress Plugin, so I am not sure if it works for the BBpress WordPress Plugin version(?). Just so you know, I am no kind of Coder – just an Animator – so am struggling with terminology etc. here.

I hope someone can help!

Thanks!

[Giulio]

Fartlek, thank you but is not a problem of widgets. I’m using Twenty Ten I can manage my forum index without sidebar using a custom template but only for the parent page. Each sub-page is using the default template provided by twentyten with his sidebar.

[Fartlek]

Giulio, these 2 links might help you: http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/the-no-widgets-paradox/

http://www.everparent.com/lunaticfred/2011/05/05/how-to-remove-default-sidebar-widgets-in-wordpress/

[Giulio]

Hallo, I’d like use a custum page template without sidebar, but BB Press always uses the default one for each sub-pages, how should I do? Thanks in advance.

[tza79]

Also, I tried reverting back to the default theme and that did not fix it either. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Jamie Marsland]

Hi,

I will want to run this instead of default bbpress on buddypress going forward. Can you let us know the rough roadmap for integrating / separating bbpress from buddypress and how this will work for existing sites and new site.

tks

j

[John James Jacoby]

Will be fixed in the next release.

Created a new default title length option, and set it to 80 as default.

[John James Jacoby]

@Jonathan – Do you have a folder in your install named ‘forums’ that might be conflicting? Do you have BuddyPress installed and is it using the default ‘forums’ slug for its forums component? Did you do any rewriting in your .htaccess file regarding the forums slug? Have you tried visiting your permalinks settings and resaving them to see if something is just out of alignment?

[Rev. Voodoo]

Just figured I’d report this here for information. I’m not skilled enough to know which end the conflict would be on.

With Otto’s SFC (Simple Facebook Connect) there are numerous modules that go with it. There seems to be a conflict between bbPress plugin, and the Like button module.

When the Like button is active, I can get to the main forum listing. But if I click to get to the individual forum pages, I just see the title and nothing further.

This only occurs when running it straight from the plugin. I have a simple twenty ten child theme on VoodooPress. I originally dropped all the files into my theme, and it worked fine. But I don’t want to run it that way, as the intent of the site is to always run a customized (child) version of whatever WP’s default theme is. So keeping just the plugin running is easier.

When I drop all the files out of my theme, and run bbPress as just a plugin, I get the conflict.

Just wanted to make everyone aware in case they run into this. So far, bbPress is a great plugin. Slowly working through things to figure it out.

[Rev. Voodoo]

Discovered the problem in my situation. It was a permalink clash. The default settings for the forums sets the tags slug as tags. My permalinks for WP have the default tag base of tags. So the default forum and standard WP tags were conflicting. When I renamed my forum tag slug to topic-tags everything works again

[kai920]

Thanks John. That’s what I had expected the forums to look like by default.

Is the best way to get the ‘latest’ version downloading the zip from here? https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

[John James Jacoby]

@kai920 – Not sure what you mean. Your forums should look like http://johnjamesjacoby.com

The default /forums view is controlled by archive-forum.php. There’s a bug in Beta 1 that’s affecting some installations that will probably fix the problem you’re experiencing.

[kai920]

Which template file controls this default /forums view? http://i54.tinypic.com/bwp6s.jpg

PS. Are there plans to include more information here such as number of posts in a forum, link the name to the forum, etc.?

[matchbox]

i found a bug,but i don’t know if it was fixed.

when i permalink is /archives/%post_id%.html,i couldn’t open my forum,but use default permalink,it is ok.

is any one also have the same problem?

[a.pot.of.gold]

This is such a silly issue, but for new users (myself) included it seems to be troubling. I have 2.0.beta1 on our WP site (version 4). I changed my permalink structure from the default to the and created a page called forums.

Yet still the forum I have created with bbpress does not appear on my WP site. I can see the forum from the admin side. Here are the two urls in case that helps – many thanks!

(forum) http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/forums/forum/stories-matter

(site where forum should be) http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/forums

[a.pot.of.gold]

This is such a silly issue, but for new users (myself) included it seems to be troubling. I have 2.0.beta1 on our WP site (version 4). I changed my permalink structure from the default to the and created a page called forums.

Yet still the forum I have created with bbpress does not appear on my WP site. I can see the forum from the admin side. Here are the two urls in case that helps – many thanks!

(forum) http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/forums/forum/stories-matter

(site where forum should be) http://storytelling.concordia.ca/storiesmatter/forums