[_ck_]

They did something wrong and bbpress defaults to “anonymous” when it can’t find the user. Probably means they didn’t do a global or something like that.

[Bryan Petty]

I have a WP install that doesn’t use any table prefix (the default being “wp_”) in the installer, and I had trouble getting bbPress installed using it.

I did get bbPress installed using the “wp_” prefix anyway, but had to go into the database by hand and change the bb_metadata entry for the prefix to nothing, and merge the (apparently auto-created) wp_metadata table into my “metadata” table to get it to work.

I can’t see any problems past what I ran into with the installation, it all works fine now, but I thought I would report this anyway.

[Rose]

Does anyone know if this still works with the current incarnations of wordpress and bbpress? I’ve tried it but it comes up with nada (using the default bbpress template with <?php echo bb_list_pages();?> added).

[wblogan]

Checked out r2540 from http://svn.automattic.com/backpress/trunk and I’m still getting the problem that was fixed in r2518.

[wblogan]

Well, you’ve introduced me to subversion. I had no idea. I don’t know whether to thank or cuss you! I’ve downloaded svn packages (I run the Ubuntu distribution of Linux on my computers) and am working through documentation. I’ll get it sooner or later. Thanks!

[mr_pelle]

It’s a bit hard to explain…

I suppose you may try to download bbPress trunk and then BackPress trunk from here and extract the /includes folder into /bb-includes/backpress folder…

EDIT: you’ll need this too.

[wblogan]

Man, I hate to be so ignorant, but I did not know what SVN is. So I went to Docs and did not find anything helpful, then to google and found http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/. I do not find a zip archive there so I take it that one simply chooses the file(s) one wants and does a copy/paste?

[mr_pelle]

Note that the archive you can find on TRAC does not include BackPress: I suggest you to upgrade via SVN.

[wblogan]

I downloaded from https://bbpress.org/download/, not from https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk. I did not know about “trunk”. If the link at the bottom of the page to zip format is what I need then I’ve got it. Thanks. I’ll give it a try.

[mr_pelle]

Did you download the archive from here or from the Download page on this site? The former is trunk, the latter 1.0.2…

[lmsook10]

Thanks for your reply. Yes, if I select year/month/title option, it goes to http://localhost/wordpress/forums/ (which is bbpress) page, which I wanted.

However, I have another page, like about and staff.. and they do not exist like forum, so I need them to be like default?p=123

Currently, if I click about page, it tries to go to http://localhost/wordpress/about/ and it throws Object not found! error because I do not have about page. How can I solve this problem?

Thanks,

[wblogan]

@chrishajer – you got me to thinking, so this morning I downloaded both the zip and tar files from this site replaced all of my core files with each of these (just to insure that there was no difference between the zip and tar); same problem. I’m no developer; I figured this was some problem on my end and not with the core files. It doesn’t seem to have affected the function, just the appearance, so it is not a huge deal. Should I report this as a bug or what? (And if so can you tell me where to do that?)

[wblogan]

I am using the default WordPress and Kakumei themes at the moment. It seemed that bbPress was very sluggish, so I activated the default theme in order to check the load on the server and found that it was significantly less with the default theme than with the integrated theme. In my case it’s a personal call in favor of performance. This is a well known trade off about which there is plenty of information available.

Having an integrated and non-integrated theme created no issues of which I am aware. Unless I am forgetting something the only change to the WordPress theme was the call to the bbPress style sheet in header.php. All other changes are made to the bbPress theme. So either remove, comment out, or leave the call – I don’t think it hurts performance. I commented it out so that I can do some testing. I may be wrong about something here, but it’s all working for me at the moment.

[wblogan]

Version 1.0.2.

[chrishajer]

What version of bbPress are you using? The bracket problem was fixed a while ago, and right now in the default theme it all appears on one line, not multiples.

http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/single-line-move.png

The link colors are changed but this is otherwise Kakumei default, running r2518 trunk.

[wblogan]

I found a work around which I’m not totally satisfied with. I created a style for the admin class called in the div but which did not exist in the style sheet, and removed the brackets around the move drop down from the function call. There are still two lines, but it’s all on one.

[wblogan]

The admin functions on the topic.php page (where one can delete, close, stick or move a post) takes up three lines. View source:

<div class="admin">

[Delete Entire Topic]

[Close topic]

[Stick topic (to front)]

[<form id="topic-move" method="post" action="http://domain/bbpress/topic-move.php">

<fieldset>

<div>

<input type="hidden" name="topic_id" value="5" />

<label for="forum-id">Move to</label>

<select name="forum_id" id="forum-id"">

<option value="4"></option>

<option value="1"></option>

<option value="2"></option>

<option value="3"></option>

<option value="5" selected="selected"></option>

</select>

<input type="hidden" id="_wpnonce" name="_wpnonce" value="(number)" /><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Move" />

</div>

</fieldset>

</form>]</div>

</div>

The first line ends with a ”.

I’ve examined the topics.php page, found the ‘<?php bb_topic_admin(): ?>’, and found the function in bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-templates.php.

if ( !$dropdown )

return;

$r = $before . ‘<form id=”topic-move” method=”post” action=”‘ . bb_get_uri( ‘bb-admin/topic-move.php’, null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_FORM_ACTION + BB_URI_CONTEXT_BB_ADMIN ) . ‘”>’ . “n”;

$r .= ‘<fieldset>’ . “n”;

$r .= ‘<div>’ . “n”;

$r .= ‘<input type=”hidden” name=”topic_id” value=”‘ . $topic->topic_id . ‘” />’ . “n”;

$r .= ‘<label for=”forum-id”>’. __( ‘Move to’ ) . ‘</label>’ . “n”;

$r .= $dropdown . “n”;

$r .= bb_nonce_field( ‘move-topic_’ . $topic->topic_id, ‘_wpnonce’, true , false );

$r .= ‘<input type=”submit” name=”Submit” value=”‘ . __( ‘Move’ ) . ‘” />’ . “n”;

$r .= ‘</div>’ . “n”;

$r .= ‘</fieldset>’ . “n”;

$r .= ‘</form>’ . $after;

I thought the problem might be the div after the fieldset, so I changed it to span, but that did not correct the problem. I can not read or understand the function.

Is it possible to get the move option on the same line as the delete, close and stick options?

[nood]

Doesn’t matter as long as they are not the default ?post=2

The structure affects posts but page permalinks are always in the format url/slug

I always use the year/month/title option.

[e-motion]

The theme, basically, is default “Kakumei” with altered header and footer.

[_ck_]

Okay I see the problem now with the next page link on page 4, which takes it to an empty page.

That in theory is a slightly different problem.

We can see that bbpress thinks there are 81 posts (visible) in the topic.

And there are 20 posts per page on the default setup.

So yeah, there should be a page 5.

Somehow post 81 is showing on page 4

page 1: 1-20

page 2: 21-41 <<<< mistake, post-position 24 is missing

page 3: 42-61

page 4: 62-81

Something started going wrong on page 2 I think?

It should start at 21 and go to 40.

Let me go back and look at that.

Yup, there is a gap for 23-25

That means that number count is showing post-position and 24 has been deleted.

So the example I show above with the pages, imagine post 24 is post 4 from the example.

bbPress is being stupid and rounding up for some reason.

There aren’t 81 posts in the topic, there are 80.

[_ck_]

Here’s a simplified example of what I think is happening internally.

Let’s say for ease of understanding there are TWO posts per page.

And there are 7 posts in this particular topic example

|1 2| – |3 4| – |5 6| – |7|

so there are 4 pages (each | | is a page)

In this example, the post numbers are also the post-position.

Now let’s say a mod deletes post number 4

|1 2| – |3 5| – |6 7|

Should only be three pages.

But bbPress is stupid by default, post-position is never recalculated so those post numbers still represent post position in this example.

bbPress DOES track number of posts in a topic, even when deleted.

So requesting a link to the last post in the topic, regardless of post-position, WILL be calculated correctly, and return page 3.

However, if it specifically asks for a direct link to post 7 and not the last post in the topic, this is what happens.

Post 7 is post-position 7

posts per page is 2 per page

ceil( $post_position / $per_page )

7 / 2 = 3.5, ceil of 3.5 = 4

So it will ask for page 4

Page 4 does not exist in the topic.

The link may be created but the link is bogus and will not work, it will either return you to the first page of the topic, or maybe the front page of the entire forum.

[milkyWim]

What i wanted to do is change the order of the topic comments and this is what worked for me:

edit the file:

bb-includes/functions.bb-topics.php

and then change on line approx. 431 function get_thread()

$defaults = array( ‘page’ => 1, ‘order’ => ‘DESC’ );

//$defaults = array( ‘page’ => 1, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’ ); =>was the original line

and then change on line approx. 436 function get_thread()

//$defaults = ‘DESC’; //

$defaults = ‘ASC’;

[VirtualityStudio]

For anyone else that wants to set the default avatar… I eventually found this plugin that did work for me: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-avatars/

yahoo!

now just to solve that pesky website link vs profile link issue.

[VirtualityStudio]

is there a way to change the default gravitar to something custom? i’m not talking about a member’s gravitar, but the one that shows up if they have not personalized it. there is a plugin to do this in wordpress, but i haven’t found one in bbpress yet.

also something i noticed is that under the gravitar… where the member’s name shows up, when you click on it the link takes you directly to their website instead of to their member profile……….. has anyone come across that and figured out a way to change that?

does bbpress have a permalinks option like wordpress does?

thanks!!!!!

[VirtualityStudio]

ah… no wonder i couldnt find it. is there a way to do this with the uploadable wordpress gravitars though? and to customize the default?

thanks for your help!