[Submachiner]

We updated from 0.9.0.2 to 1.0.2 bechet. Tags worked fine before the update occured. We do have a custom theme installed and tags worked fine with it installed before the update.

Just reverted to the default theme, and tags are not deleting.

Can you give more detail into what you mean by changes modifying core bbpress files? please and thanks

Thank you for helping me out so far, and providing tips on how to get better support. I apologize that I’m testy. I’ll be more patient.

[Submachiner]

We updated from 0.9.0.2 to 1.0.2 bechet. Tags worked fine before the update occured. We do have a custom theme installed and tags worked fine with it installed before the update.

Just reverted to the default theme, and tags are not deleting.

Can you give more detail into what you mean by changes modifying core bbpress files? please and thanks

Thank you for helping me out so far, and providing tips on how to get better support. I apologize that I’m testy. I’ll be more patient.

[John James Jacoby]

Hi neighbor. No, you are not being marked as spam. If you were your posts would show you.

Looking through your topic history, there is one unresolved core bbPress issue (which I just responded to). The rest were questions to plugin authors which we don’t have much control over.

Consider that wanting to remove topic tags completely would require the use of a custom theme that does not use them, and/or a plugin to disable the functionality too.

Of the several things of you’ve tried, exactly what version of bbPress did you update from and to (1.0.1, 1.0 branch, 1.1 trunk, etc…) Did it work before your update? Did any of your changes modify core bbPress files? If so, what happens when you go back to what came in the zip? If not, are you using a custom theme? If so, does deleting tags work with a default theme?

Lots of things you can include to help us help you. Remember this is free software and free support that you’ve received already, successfully, and recently in the past.

I get that you’re upset and there is an obvious sense of urgency, but in the future you’ll get a better response by including detailed info about your issue, what you’ve already attempted, and steps to duplicate the issue.

[John James Jacoby]

Hi neighbor. No, you are not being marked as spam. If you were your posts would show you.

Looking through your topic history, there is one unresolved core bbPress issue (which I just responded to). The rest were questions to plugin authors which we don’t have much control over.

Consider that wanting to remove topic tags completely would require the use of a custom theme that does not use them, and/or a plugin to disable the functionality too.

Of the several things of you’ve tried, exactly what version of bbPress did you update from and to (1.0.1, 1.0 branch, 1.1 trunk, etc…) Did it work before your update? Did any of your changes modify core bbPress files? If so, what happens when you go back to what came in the zip? If not, are you using a custom theme? If so, does deleting tags work with a default theme?

Lots of things you can include to help us help you. Remember this is free software and free support that you’ve received already, successfully, and recently in the past.

I get that you’re upset and there is an obvious sense of urgency, but in the future you’ll get a better response by including detailed info about your issue, what you’ve already attempted, and steps to duplicate the issue.

[spenderr]

Sorry moved from previously badly named topic!!

i’m unable to post a new topic on my forum. it just gives “this topic has been closed”.

i have integrated BBPress with WordPress and installed the platform pro theme which all looks fine and i login to wordpress and don’t have to login again when i go into the forum.

if i go back to the default theme there is no problem with posting a new topic.

this is the thread in the pagelines forum where we have been discussing this issue.

http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic.php?id=3149

[Submachiner]

Sorry for the large bump, but I have an issue that needs to be resolved. We also would like the tagging system to be removed. Recently users have been adding in profane, disgusting terms into the tags on threads and its harming our community. A few users have left the community…

So I guess since tags are tied with the coding there is no on-off switch. We cannot delete tags, as it gives us “this tag cannot be deleted” error. We recently upgraded to the latest version.

But “fix” that I found doesn’t fix the problem. It wont help in deleting the tags.

I noticed in this thread that it calls for editing the CSS of the main default CSS. Well the admin uses a custom CSS. Another issue is, well as he put it to me over email:

“Im not removing php files since that’ll cause problem from index when it’ll try to communicate with deleted files.”

We’re all frustrated with the topic tags. Really, there should be an on-off switch. They don’t get used at all. And they are only being used by the trolls in our community.

So is there any other solution to having these tags removed, or at least having users not be able to add tags to threads.

[decas]

Hello, I am translating bbpress po file and when I press save in poedit I get error.

17:56:06: C:UsersZDesktopbbpen_EN.po:7: field `Project-Id-Version’ still has initial default value

17:56:06: C:UsersZDesktopbbpen_EN.po:4034: a format specification for argument 2 doesn’t exist in ‘msgstr’

17:56:06: msgfmt: found 1 fatal error

How to fix this?

[spenderr]

i’m unable to post a new topic on my forum. it just gives “this topic has been closed”.

i have integrated BBPress with WordPress and installed the platform pro theme which all looks fine and i login to wordpress and don’t have to login again when i go into the forum.

if i go back to the default theme there is no problem with posting a new topic.

this is the thread in the pagelines forum where we have been discussing this issue.

http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic.php?id=3149

[intimez]

I tried this now

http://www.example.com/forum/general

Not Found

Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.

If I reset and go to default permalink, no problem.

Using 2580

[aninja]

I am using the default theme. There is a bbpress logo on the top right of my screen.

How do I make this logo clickable on every page of my forum?

I want it to link to back to my main page.

Thanks in advance

[Ricard Torres]

@Gautam: right. So weird… If you have the default Permalinks and you change them it doesn’t work. But if you save again it does

I guess the plugin will flush it itself in the future, right?

[Alexandru Vornicescu]

@Gautam yeap, I like to see a Month and name permalink instead of the Default, by Default it’s ok but if I choose other, without the code I mentioned in the previous message it doesn’t work.

[snelson2678]

I installed the integration plugin but still have the problem. I’m using the default theme and in the left hand corner I see:

Welcome, Steve & Beneta | Admin | Log Out

When I click on Admin it just brings me back to the same page???

[snelson2678]

I installed the integration plugin but still have the problem. I’m using the default theme and in the left hand corner I see:

Welcome, Steve & Beneta | Admin | Log Out

When I click on Admin it just brings me back to the same page???

[aninja]

version 1.02

default theme

no plugins

I notice the 1st line of login.php is:

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

but when I click on http://www.mydomain.com/bb-login.php the register/lost password part of my header does not display at all. How can I get it to show?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

[tdarcy]

I am trying to install bbpress for my website and unfortunately it doesn’t seem to matter what I put in the boxes I get the following error(s). Now I am not trying to integrate it with WordPress just yet so it should be fairly straight forward (however it apparently is not). Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Oh, and I have tried disabling all my security features and that didn’t work either. Knowing my luck it is something stupid and it will work like a charm in two seconds but whatever it is, I’m not seeing an immediate solution to the problem.

Here is the code:

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: taylordarcy_com (mysql.taylordarcy.com)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_7w6sfp_bb_forums (

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_desc text NOT NULL,

forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (forum_id),

KEY forum_slug (forum_slug)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘DB_CHARSET’ COLLATE ‘DB_COLLATE’;

>>>>>> Unknown character set: ‘DB_CHARSET’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: taylordarcy_com (mysql.taylordarcy.com)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_7w6sfp_bb_meta (

meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

object_type varchar(16) NOT NULL default ‘bb_option’,

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,

meta_value longtext,

PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),

KEY object_type__meta_key (object_type, meta_key),

KEY object_type__object_id__meta_key (object_type, object_id, meta_key)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘DB_CHARSET’ COLLATE ‘DB_COLLATE’;

>>>>>> Unknown character set: ‘DB_CHARSET’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: taylordarcy_com (mysql.taylordarcy.com)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_7w6sfp_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 ‘DB_CHARSET’ COLLATE ‘DB_COLLATE’;

>>>>>> Unknown character set: ‘DB_CHARSET’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: taylordarcy_com (mysql.taylordarcy.com)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_7w6sfp_bb_terms (

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

name varchar(55) NOT NULL default ”,

slug varchar(200) NOT NULL default ”,

term_group bigint(10) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_id),

UNIQUE KEY slug (slug),

KEY name (name)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘DB_CHARSET’ COLLATE ‘DB_COLLATE’;

>>>>>> Unknown character set: ‘DB_CHARSET’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: taylordarcy_com (mysql.taylordarcy.com)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_7w6sfp_bb_term_relationships (

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

user_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

term_order int(11) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (object_id, term_taxonomy_id),

KEY term_taxonomy_id (term_taxonomy_id)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘DB_CHARSET’ COLLATE ‘DB_COLLATE’;

>>>>>> Unknown character set: ‘DB_CHARSET’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: taylordarcy_com (mysql.taylordarcy.com)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_7w6sfp_bb_term_taxonomy (

term_taxonomy_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

term_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

taxonomy varchar(32) NOT NULL default ”,

description longtext NOT NULL,

parent bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (term_taxonomy_id),

UNIQUE KEY term_id_taxonomy (term_id, taxonomy),

KEY taxonomy (taxonomy)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘DB_CHARSET’ COLLATE ‘DB_COLLATE’;

>>>>>> Unknown character set: ‘DB_CHARSET’

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: taylordarcy_com (mysql.taylordarcy.com)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wp_7w6sfp_bb_topics (

topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

topic_title varchar(100) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

topic_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ‘Anonymous’,

topic_last_poster bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_last_poster_name varchar(40) NOT NULL default ”,

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

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

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_open tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_last_post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 1,

topic_sticky tinyint(1) NOT NULL default 0,

topic_posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

tag_count bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (topic_id),

KEY topic_slug (topic_slug),

KEY forum_time (forum_id, topic_time),

KEY user_start_time (topic_poster, topic_start_time),

KEY stickies (topic_status, topic_sticky, topic_time)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘DB_CHARSET’ COLLATE ‘DB_COLLATE’;

>>>>>> Unknown character set: ‘DB_CHARSET’

Database installation failed!!!

[jbhewitt]

Hi all,

I’m trying to see if there is functionality built into bbPress; I want users when the arrive on the forum to have highlighted topics where there are new posts/replies since last visit.

I’ve been looking through the default themes and haven’t found any joy in there.

Googling a bit and I can’t find any clear answers

[kiddbin]

[g][a=http://www.allsogood.com]friendship jewelry[/a][/g]

[Alex]

This is driving me crazy. I cannot get any of the target=”_blank” or “nofollow” plugins to work. I’m using the default kakumei theme with the latest WordPress installation. Has the plugin code changed?

[Rich Pedley]

That isn’t so good, and I thought you might be going down that route. Is there no other way of displaying a forum other than using this?

I would suggest that if a bbPress template exists within the current theme use that, else fall back to a default within the plugin. Otherwise the uptake will be severely limited to those using TwentyTen! and then only if they haven’t already created a child theme.

If you keep with this route then it will only alienate users. (IMO)

edit: where do you want error reports sent, seems daft to use TRAC at this early stage, can we have a dedicated board on here?

[Gautam Gupta]

All you need to fix this is to have a display:inline; for the select box.

[KentonMr]

I find all this SCN TRAC TRUNK all a bit gibberish and well beyond what I need to know.

I find the version control of bbPress also confusing and always thought that the most stable version was on the main download page.

The “bug” being discussed is not a show stopper (there are more irritating things) but it is fairly obvious in the code what is breaking this.

Two things in functions.bb-template.php

The use of <fieldset> and <div> inside the form – comment them out in bb_get_topic_move_dropdown() and add the lines

$r .= bb_get_topic_delete_link($args);

$r .= bb_get_topic_close_link($args);

$r .= bb_get_topic_sticky_link($args);

after the initial <form> line.

commenting out the original lines in the bb_topic_admin() as

// ‘delete’ => bb_get_topic_delete_link($args),

// ‘close’ => bb_get_topic_close_link($args),

// ‘sticky’ => bb_get_topic_sticky_link($args),

This is by no means an elegant solution but it appears to work.

I’m sure something more elegant could have been done in css.

[frooyo]

I just installed a fresh copy of bbpress 0.9.0.6

Since the default installation does not create a my-plugins directory, I created such a directory at the root of the bbpress install.

However, when I go to put some PHP files for 0.9.x plugins in my-plugins directory, it doesn’t appear those plugins are getting loaded.

I know the *.php files located in my-plugins directory are not getting loaded because I have inserted the following code at the topic of the php files and nothing happens

die('ALERT: my-plugins loaded');

And I never see the message.

Any ideas why my-plugins directory is not loading the .php files within it?

[zaerl]

Dear “Random Guy Says” let me write in in more simple words. bbPress is a free software, free as in freedom and free as in “free beer”. Maybe you don’t know what this means. Now we will see what the GPL states. I will only report the short form cause the entire license is too long.

<one line to give the program’s name and a brief idea of what it does.>

Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.

This is the base of the entire open-source movement of the last 21 years. You get the software _as it is_. You don’t like the software? The developer stop supporting it? Then modify it, you are free to do it. (addendum: Automattic doesn’t provide any kind of official support for bbPress and when someone has a problem he comes here and ask with the hope that someone will solve the problem and as you clearly can see I’m trying to do my best and I’m not one of the official developers).

If you have a web domain I assume that you have an FTP client as well as phpmyadmin as well as a text editor. You don’t know how to change the default number of forums? Write a couple of lines here and someone will answer you back.

But like I said, these are basic forum elements that are missing – for instance, if you have more than 10 topics, by default your forum is now 2 pages long … And to a degree, I agree with that, where the ability to customize the software’s appearance to suit almost anything is a huge reason why I considered it

You know what? There is a feature, a big one, called “templates”. In a template you can change everything you want and there are gazillion of functions that you can call. Why should a forum software must have an option for changing the number of forum displayed? It’s one of that “set it and forget it” option. Change a line (an operation that can be accomplished in nearly 20 seconds) on the template and enjoy your board.

But as Kawauso said, even if the bbPress team made their own optional plugins supporting these basic features (again e.g. polls), at least we wouldn’t have to worry about them losing support.

Akismet and PollDaddy are two service that have premium account.

The plugin idea is what drives the modern days cause it’s far more simple to add a plugin to a repository than sending a core patch to the official dev teams. Plugins are the key features of all successfull modern software. Some example:

1) WordPress

2) Movable Type

3) The entire Mozilla software line (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc)

4) Joomla!

5) Drupal

5) and many, many other

Modular design is the present and the future and thanks God a lot of bloatware are disappearing.

I don’t say that bbPress is an easy to use software. It’s not an “upload and run” software. It suffers the fact that it’s a pretty young software and you must know a bit of php in order to set up it for being the base of a medium-sized community. That’s true. But I think that an administrator must be bit skilled in php/mySQL/mambo-jumbo. I choosed bbPress cause I was frustrated by phpBB and then I was frustrated by bbPress as well but this is the damnation of the system administrator. I have written 7 plugins in order to accomodate my needs and the needs of the community (zaerl Editor, zaerl Visibility, zaerl Post Permalink and zaerl WordPress 3 fix over all) and then I am happy with my system.

Conclusion: it’s ok if you don’t want to use bbPress. I understand your difficulties with plugin/themes and in general the personalizations at code-level. But I can assure you that once you do that couple of changes you will enjoy a great system.

Have a nice day.

[zaerl]

Dear “Random Guy Says” let me write in in more simple words. bbPress is a free software, free as in freedom and free as in “free beer”. Maybe you don’t know what this means. Now we will see what the GPL states. I will only report the short form cause the entire license is too long.

<one line to give the program’s name and a brief idea of what it does.>

Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/&gt;.

This is the base of the entire open-source movement of the last 21 years. You get the software _as it is_. You don’t like the software? The developer stop supporting it? Then modify it, you are free to do it. (addendum: Automattic doesn’t provide any kind of official support for bbPress and when someone has a problem he comes here and ask with the hope that someone will solve the problem and as you clearly can see I’m trying to do my best and I’m not one of the official developers).

If you have a web domain I assume that you have an FTP client as well as phpmyadmin as well as a text editor. You don’t know how to change the default number of forums? Write a couple of lines here and someone will answer you back.

But like I said, these are basic forum elements that are missing – for instance, if you have more than 10 topics, by default your forum is now 2 pages long … And to a degree, I agree with that, where the ability to customize the software’s appearance to suit almost anything is a huge reason why I considered it

You know what? There is a feature, a big one, called “templates”. In a template you can change everything you want and there are gazillion of functions that you can call. Why should a forum software must have an option for changing the number of forum displayed? It’s one of that “set it and forget it” option. Change a line (an operation that can be accomplished in nearly 20 seconds) on the template and enjoy your board.

But as Kawauso said, even if the bbPress team made their own optional plugins supporting these basic features (again e.g. polls), at least we wouldn’t have to worry about them losing support.

Akismet and PollDaddy are two service that have premium account.

The plugin idea is what drives the modern days cause it’s far more simple to add a plugin to a repository than sending a core patch to the official dev teams. Plugins are the key features of all successfull modern software. Some example:

1) WordPress

2) Movable Type

3) The entire Mozilla software line (Firefox, Thunderbird, etc)

4) Joomla!

5) Drupal

5) and many, many other

Modular design is the present and the future and thanks God a lot of bloatware are disappearing.

I don’t say that bbPress is an easy to use software. It’s not an “upload and run” software. It suffers the fact that it’s a pretty young software and you must know a bit of php in order to set up it for being the base of a medium-sized community. That’s true. But I think that an administrator must be bit skilled in php/mySQL/mambo-jumbo. I choosed bbPress cause I was frustrated by phpBB and then I was frustrated by bbPress as well but this is the damnation of the system administrator. I have written 7 plugins in order to accomodate my needs and the needs of the community (zaerl Editor, zaerl Visibility, zaerl Post Permalink and zaerl WordPress 3 fix over all) and then I am happy with my system.

Conclusion: it’s ok if you don’t want to use bbPress. I understand your difficulties with plugin/themes and in general the personalizations at code-level. But I can assure you that once you do that couple of changes you will enjoy a great system.

Have a nice day.