[adammurphy]

Yes that’s a good point – didn’t think of the FTP.

Plugins:

admin add user

allow images

bb-wysisyg editor

force login

hidden forums

wordpress integration

The problems I had on the main site:

My host are insisting that they didn’t touch it, and I certainly didn’t, so I’m not sure if it’s been hacked, or it’s some sort of database glitch or what. On the WP site, all of the categories were reset to “uncategorized” which, for a site running comicpress, which is category-based, was a bit of a disaster. Just as I was panicking, it seemed to find the categories again, and reset the site to 6th July (which I assumed was them rolling back altough they insist they haven’t). I also noticed the category order plugin giving the following error:

WordPress database error: [Can’t create/write to file

‘/tmp/#sql_e93_0.MYI’ (Errcode: 22)]

SHOW COLUMNS FROM wp_terms LIKE ‘term_order’

WordPress database error: [Duplicate column name ‘term_order’]

ALTER TABLE wp_terms ADD term_order INT( 4 ) NULL DEFAULT ‘0’

Again, if this suggests anything to you, or I can provide any more info, I’d be most grateful,

Adam.

[sureshdrim]

Hello All.

I have one more problem with avatars.I have set read,write and execute file attributes on avatars folder through FTP with “apply to all files and subdirectories” option selected.At this stage avatars are displayed properly.But in case a new user uploads his picture or existing user changes his picture,file permission are automatically reset to default due to which avatar is not displayed coz of 403 Forbidden error.So I have to set these permissions again and again.

Is there any permanent solution for this ?

Please help.

[ian.forest]

Are there any websites anywhere offering premium themes for bbPress? I’ve looked around and they all look pretty standard and not so great.

The default one is nice, but I do like the one used on this website but I doubt that is available anywhere.

So, premium themes anyone?

[nacclan]

Just a quick question. I have installed bbPress and I use the Blue theme but I would like to change the white background to a dark gray so the whole page looks the same.

I edited the style.css in the kakumei and found the ‘fff’ color for white and changed it but the large header text is black (default) and looks bad. Is there a main style I am missing to change this so It looks correct?

I would like to completely customize it to the site to blend it in.

Any help is much appr.

[worklife]

I am having the same problem you had when you installed bbPress. The install went well with a message of 1 error and then notified me that “Installation was successful” and I received the Welcome and Login email. However, when I try and login, it defaults to the “install.php” and gives me the message: “bbPress is already installed.”

Can you help?

[_ck_]

I’ve been talking about this for years.

The “performance” tag has a few gems in there I’ve written over time.

bb-benchmark will also show you all the queries via the same method and a few other details, unfortunately the newest version is not in the plugin section right now because of how bbpress.org is broken.

Part of the problem on the WP side is many times the plugins do not set their options to autoload (and have a whole bunch of options). I believe bbPress 1.x now has the same problem (it was avoided in 0.9 but re-introduced with backpress).

I have a mini-plugin somewhere for 1.x to load all options with one query.

Some setups can take hours to get the queries down, it’s exhausting

Next you should notice that WP 3.0 + bbPress 1.x takes nearly 1 megabytes of code per instance and in some cases won’t even run on shared hosts because it goes over the PHP ini default setting of 32MB during runtime.

If you are using a tag cloud, my “hot tags plus” will cache the complex query for the tag cloud and all rendering becomes static.

ps. the real answer is not to do deep integration – just make a clone theme for bbpress, it’s worth the effort – the good thing about that is if WP is down, bbpress can still run

[rajada]

I’m relatively new to this, so bare with me…

I’ve got a WordPress site integrated with a BB Press forum (one login for both) and I have created a my-plugins directory in my base directory and the permissions on it is 755 numerically. Even though I believe everything is set up correctly, and the forum itself works absolutely perfect, a total of 0 of my installed plugins show up on the administrative plugins list (default ones show up still). If I am not mistaken, someone mentioned that BB Press is not a plugin in itself, but the directory is in fact in my plugins folder.

In other words, I install my BB plugins to:

ftp and website address stuff…/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/my-plugins

Every file in my-plugins is 755, and no one else seems to have this exact problem when they use plugins. So does anyone know what exactly is going on?

WordPress version is the most up to date one, I’m using the default green theme (for the forum), and these should easily be compatible plugins.

[ethanthekiwi]

During the bbPress install it told me that I had to create a bb-config.php file and upload it to the root directory. I just copied the text, created the file and dropped it in without looking at it (I am not very familiar with php yet). Here is what it looked like on my server before:

<?php

/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your

* web host.

*

* This file is used by the installer during installation.

*

* @package bbPress

*/

// ** MySQL settings – You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for bbPress */

define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘bbpress’ );

/** MySQL database username */

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘root’ );

/** MySQL database password */

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘There was a password here’ );

/** MySQL hostname */

define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’ );

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define( ‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’ );

/** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */

define( ‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ” );

/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys.

*

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ WordPress.org secret-key service}

*

* @since 1.0

*/

define( ‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

define( ‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

define( ‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

define( ‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’ );

/**#@-*/

/**

* bbPress Database Table prefix.

*

* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique

* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

*/

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

/**

* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.

*

* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen

* language must be installed to a directory called “my-languages” in the root

* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to “my-languages” and set

* BB_LANG to ‘de’ to enable German language support.

*/

define( ‘BB_LANG’, ” );

?>

There were no spaces on or before the first or last lines. This is what it looked like (aside from me removing the password). I noticed the ‘put your unique phrase here’ deal and went ahead and filled those in following the instructions in the comment before it. Then I went to the page again and go the same error.

@chrishajer

I didn’t set the server up, but I believe it is a VMware WordPress application http://www.turnkeylinux.org/wordpress. I am afraid I don’t know where the php error log would be. The warnings are on the page itself not in a popup or anything. The url of the page with the warnings is mysite.org/bbpress/bb-login.php. I hope that helps.

[Ben L.]

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: My Profile Keys

*/



function my_profile_keys( $a ) {

$a['my_key_id'] = array(

true,                  // Required

'ID number',           // Label

'text',                // Type

'',                    // Value

''                     // Default when not set

);

return $a;

}



add_filter( 'get_profile_keys', 'my_profile_keys' );

Untested, but should work. (Change the lt thing to a less than sign – the bbPress.org forums have some kind of glitch).

[_ck_]

The directory is above site root by default but you can put it anywhere if you don’t care about security. The way WP does it is completely insecure on shared servers. Any chmod 777 folder under the webroot is a beautiful target for evil hackers.

A small percentage of people still seem to have problems with the install routine that is supposed to run upon activation and create the table. I had to use a workaround because of a bug with 0.8 and IIs users but that may break it for other people, especially with 1.0

you can try replacing the bb_register_activation_hook line with the conventional line that might finally be working correctly under 1.x

bb_register_plugin_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bb_attachments_install');

Keep in mind I have not updated bb-attachment in over a year due to a lack of donations, so feel free to write your own. Keep in mind whatever you write will not be compatible/necessary with the eventual version of bbpress that runs as a WP plugin.

[justkeepblogging]

Hey Kevin,

Thanks for your help. It was the permissions. All is working fine now.

[kevinjohngallagher]

First, check you’ve uploaded the theme to the right place.

If i physically go to the theme files, they’re not there on your server.

http://jeffreydeanmorganunlimited.com/community/bbpress/my-templates/mistymorning_bb/style.css returns a 404 error.

Second make sure that you’ve got the permissions of the folder set correctly:

The permissions of the my-templates folder should be 0755. Same for the folder the theme is in as well. Files in the theme folder should be 0644

Shout back if that doesn’t fix it.

[justkeepblogging]

I just installed bbpress and it seems to work with the default theme. When I tried a couple of other themes the formatting was lost.

This is what it looks like:

http://bit.ly/acst7R

I installed the themes as zip files into the mytemplate directory.

Could anyone help me with figuring out what is wrong?

Thanks!

[kevinjohngallagher]

How lovely of you to say. Especially after all those lovely things you’ve said about bbPress over on the BuddyPress forum. You are truly too kind.

WP3 and bbPress play really nicely in my experience.

So far, 29*** upgrades to WP3 done, and 4 have had issues above the usual ultra-minor things. Most of those have a bbPress forum attatched, 2 of them use deep integration and there’s a definate hit in loading but it plays real nicely.

There is 1 new issue with Deeply Integrated WP3/bbP1 install, and thats with regisrtaion but: 1) there was a patch by Zaerl on the day this was found and 2) if you’re using a WP/bbP integrated website you should use WP for registration anyway.

***6 of those sites were running either a nightly or RC version anyway.

=======================================================================

To Specifics:

I didn’t ask about BuddyPress because the Original Poster was kind enough to give us the URL in question, so I can see for myself it’s not a BuddyPress issue (i do actually make the effort).

Given that WP3 has been out for a week, and we’ve had very very very few people telling us of integration issues (deep or normal), I’m quietly confident that there are few new integration issues. Previously we’ve had alot more posts in the last 4 WordPress upgrades – even in the first week.

And as for my short question in reply… It’s important information. Its really difficult to give up time and effort to help out here when people can’t actually tell us what’s going on, or gone wrong. You’d be amazed at how simply the really intelligent folks here can solve the most complex of issues (and I’m def not one of them) once given actual information.

If you come on these forums asking for help with a problem, make sure you say:

• bbPress version:
• Are you using default theme:
• WordPress version:
• Are you using default theme:
• Are WP/bbP integrated:
• Are WP/bbP Deep Integrated:
• Using BuddyPress:
• Using WordPressMU:
• Using WordPress3 Multisite:
• Is there an error message:
• What is the error message:
• What PHP version is your server on:
• Did the issue occur as you installed something for the first time:
• Did the issue occur after an upgrade:
• What plugins are you using:
• Are you using a paid for theme that came with special instructions:
• What is the URL:
• Can you include a screenshot along with a description:
• Did you follow any specific tutorial?

99/100 by giving us as much of the information as possible, someone here will be able to help.

Is this correct or a bug?

There is option 3: Human Error!

[cmunns1]

shows up on latest discussion page:

Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected ‘America/Los_Angeles’ for ‘PDT/-7.0/DST’ instead in /Library/WebServer/Documents/wordpress/_bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-formatting.php on line 327

I also can’t login as keymaster for some reason. Any thoughts on this? Password recovery doesn’t work either.

[WimTibackx]

Hello Burlesona,

I’ve used vanilla (1.x) before but vanilla 2 was new to me. I’ve just checked it out briefly, but while I think using a framework (like Garden or others) to build a custom website, I don’t like the idea of using a framework to build a sort of webapplication (not sure what it should be called) which can be extended itself. (Then you’re actually building a mini-framework onto a framework)

Although the idea of using the MVC-pattern sounds interesting. It might be usefull for the theme stuff, although it isn’t a “go” yet.

Furthermore there is a difference between Garden and my to be fork of backpress. My fork would function as a basic cms. If you only need a simple website, you could go with my fork + the default included plugins. My blog and forum plugins would be just plugins. Garden however is a framework, it can do nothing on its own. It needs a layer (here : vanilla) on top of it.

As for your integration problems, you could try to integrate vanilla and wordpress untill you find something better?

However, the bbpress forum might not be the best place to have discussions about stepping off bbpress or forking it.

Thanks for the tip,

Wim Tibackx

[kevinjohngallagher]

Gautam,

This won’t be a short post, but I truly wish for you to know this comes from a place of respect and admiration for both your code and your commitment to bbPress and it’s community.

Please, let us focus on what we need to get the next release finished.

We simply cannot fix everything.

We have to prioritise.

Matt, who is the project lead, did the prioritising for us.

• Critical Bug fixes
• Email notifications
• Anonymous posting.

That’s it. Once those are ready, we release.

Matt himself said that the focus should not be on bugs, but on the 2 new features and critical only bugs.

It’s not for me to tell you, nor even ask, what you should be working on; but please allow me to help you. As a developer, and someone who loves this project, you are trying your best to solve as many problems as possible. It is so admirable, and we all appreciate your efforts. But in the long run, you are only going to slow us down. How?

Bugs.

When a developer writes code, especially large pieces of code, there are bugs. It is the nature of the beast. We have very very few testers, very very few people who download the latest trunk version to test. The chances of us catching anything but the most obvious of bugs are slim.

Take the new default Kakumei theme you’ve included. While I’m in total agreement that the default theme needs changing, this is not the way forward. You’ve changed about 400 lines of code, and there will be bugs. Given that a new Kakumei theme isn’t part of the feature list, those bugs are going to count against us, not be a positive.

You’re giving theme developers slighty more tools to work with, but all you’re giving the average user and the new users is an untested theme that looks like the old one (which looks crap still).

Regardless of how awesome your code is, and it looks brilliant, the best we can hope for with it is that it doesn’t go badly. If it works flawlessly, no-one will notice. There is no winning scenario here. No part of releasing a new theme in 1.1 will be beneficial, especially as it looks identical to the old one.

Sadly the same can be said for your efforts to totally rewrite the entire tag system. I’ve absolutely no doubt, 100%, that your code and functionality would be amazing. But right now, it works. Same for your Mass Delete / User handling functionality. etc etc

There comes a time when Less is More.

Less code changes means less new bugs, means less “OMG it’s taken a year to come out and it’s still terrible” posts. Less code means less to test, it might mean more bugs are caught, it means less bugs released. Less code means we can release quicker. Less code means less testing time.

Realistically, we have only 2 bugs in 1.0.3 ( #1228, #1276 ) and 2 bugs in 1.1 ( #1244, #1268 ) that are stopping us from releasing this thing to alpha for testing. Thats great work, even if #1244 looks like it will be a lot of work.

The other bugs (#538, #1183, #1277, #1243 ) are all “nice to haves”, and yet somehow contain about 800-1000 lines of code with changes. There has to be some form of Risk Assesment here bro. 1000 lines of code changed with no functionality to forum users, but instead increases the chances of bugs?? Risky, very risky.

Look, BackPress might never include the fix we need to get this thing working, so lets focus on the outstanding bugs that are blocking us, and lets worry about the others after. Because lets be honest, if we’re building a new theme for bbPress, it’s should look nothing like KAKumei (emphasis on KAK)

[ts230]

I guess I might take a shot at coding a bbPress plugin. Here’s what I was thinking of:

Adding an additional role that doesn’t allow posting, but is set as the default role. If that is detected, a message will appear telling the user about that, they can click on a link that will open a fancybox and show the quiz. If 9/10 or 10/10 of the questions were right, set some kind of cookie that changes the role to a member that can post. Just double-checking if my idea seems valid.

[WimTibackx]

I think that with the new 3.0 Custom Post Type functionality, a lot could be done to simplify the current WordPress as blog vs. WordPress as CMS vs. Buddypress vs. bbPress clutter. It seems to me that there is no good way of combining them all at this very moment. In wordpress you can’t change nor delete the default post types. If you want bbPress you need to link it up and such. I think it would be better if the current project group evolved into (but who am I in the community ^^):

*BackPress, which contains the whole base (a lot of things it doesn’t contain atm from WordPress)

*Wordpress, which could just be no more then a plugin to BackPress (on the download page you should have the option to either download the plugin or backpress+plugin)

*bbPress, (see wordpress)

*BuddyPress, (see wordpress)

This way, wordpress can evolve in a stable, clear and usefull cms. This way, development teams could be handled much more flexible (a team for backpress, and teams for the other projects only having to worry about the plugin).

This would make it more clear for users and certain wanted features could be implemented much quicker. There should be, however, the functionality of having “plugins on plugins”, thus, plugins on wordpress, …

Also, this way of working would permit developers to use the backpress/wordpress codebase without having the mess of the current post types. It would also ease combining these projects a lot.

Last but not least, it would give the teams the oppertunity to clean up codebases (raise spec to php 5, more object oriented way of handling things, …)

What do you guys think about it?

As a final note, I’d like to say the following to the developing teams : work with the community, not against.

Edit : And if there would be interested in starting such an initiative from the community, as automattic isn’t likely to do this, I’d be willing to help developing. If I’d had more time, I’d probably already started something like this, but I haven’t got the time to lead such a big thing.

[garrik]

from w3

“CSS attempts to create a balance of power between author and user style sheets. By default, rules in an author’s style sheet override those in a user’s style sheet (see cascade rule 3).

However, for balance, an “!important” declaration (the delimiter token “!” and keyword “important” follow the declaration) takes precedence over a normal declaration. Both author and user style sheets may contain “!important” declarations, and user “!important” rules override author “!important” rules. This CSS feature improves accessibility of documents by giving users with special requirements (large fonts, color combinations, etc.) control over presentation. “

[Rootside]

Okay, bug hunting is hereby unsuccessfully terminated for the time being:

I installed WordPress 3.0 RC3 and bbPress 1.0.2 in a different subdomain on the same server, and everything works as it should:

I can register new accounts, they show up in WordPress without a role, but as soon as I’ve logged in and posted a reply, I’m mapped as a subscriber in WordPress.

Adding a new user in WordPress works as well, I can hop over to bbPress, log in with the details chosen in WordPress, and post as a member.

Now that I see it working on the same server, I must have made a mistake in the first installation, or it’s a crazy bug. I doubt it had to do with my custom theme, because I switched back to the defaults during testing. However, I’ve only tested the new installation with the defaults, I’ll be back here if anything goes weird…

I’m still slightly uneasy about this of course, because I usually find the bugs or errors, even if I can’t always (okay, rarely) solve or correct them myself. But given that bbPress is BY FAR the best solution for a simple forum on WordPress, I simply had to make it work. Non-intrusive custom themes and Akismet are just two reasons why bbPress is so far ahead of other WordPress integrated solutions; I’ve tested 4 alternatives over the last week or so – OMFG.

The only thing I can offer to others is to try again, following Sam Bauer’s screencast at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast

(with one addition: when bbPress asks for the cookie salts and you can’t find them on the admin page bbPress links to, copy them from wp-config.php)

[Rartemass]

I’ve setup a wordpress and bbpress blog/forum.

In wordpress I have added a plugin to display the user login/registration screen by default. So unless you login you can’t access the blog.

Logins will only be created manually by me.

I want the same for the forum but can’t find a plugin.

Please assist.

[KentonMr]

I’m still struggling with this one – and it seems everyone is flummoxed as well.

The problem has evolved a bit.

I’m looking to change the default topic list view not only as described above but also to give the user the option by clicking a image button in each header to change the display order. Also taking the view count out and into a column. So a user can view the most viewed as well as most posted as well as the freshest – all sub listed by ascending alphabetical order.

Although i can change the image buttons and the raw sql for ordering the data – I still cannot get my head round how it is currently working (or should that be not working)

[kevinjohngallagher]

Kool and the gang. We’re one step closer.

EDIT: Yes, you’re partly right. I get the same. Ok, thats a bug. Well done!

When logged out, visiting a user’s profile page the default avatar is replaced with the profile owner’s avatar.

That said my code above definately works to not display the gravatar if you’re logged out, insteadyou can display any image you want.

if (empty($bb_current_user) || $bb_current_user == 0)

{

echo "create an image output here to any image on yoru server";

} else {

echo bb_get_avatar($bb_current_user->ID, 100);

}

[kevinjohngallagher]

I am mate, the function bb_get_avatar() returns either your Gravatar or the default gravar that you specified in your admin section under Settings / Discussion.

In order for that to happen you have to type in the code I’ve given you above. I’ve got it working right now, i’m looking at it.

It’s not working for you for some reason I can’t replicate, so you need to debug the array and look to se what’s happening with print_r($bb_current_user) – and we’ll try from there.