[chrishajer]

If you edited any files or are using any plugins or a custom theme, remove those for right now. Did you edit your keys in bb-config.php? Maybe there’s an error there? What version are you installing and where did you get it?

If you are just installing a stock version, chances are it was not uploaded properly. This error does not occur in the default installation.

[bforeste]

Okay – here is my resolution. It only took me a weekend to figure this out.

Media Temple’s default DB CHARSET / COLLATE settings are ‘latin1’ and ‘latin1_swedish_ci’ for WHATEVER reason…

The bbPress db client connection is using UTF8 – which is why I kept getting the database error.

I used this command (because the knowledge base article in MT is incorrect) to update my CHARSET and COLLATE settings for my DB:

ALTER DATABASE db12345_wp CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

That allowed me to finish the upgrade.php script.

Hope this helps someone in the future.

bforeste

[deejaywoody]

Just installed WP 2.92 and Buddypress 1.2.1 on my dedicated Linux host @ 1and1.com. I literally:

installed

upgraded to 2.92

updated permalinks to non-default settings

downloaded/activated BuddyPress

Activated BuddyPress Theme/Uploaded Header

Initiated Forums (bbpress) Installation (went smoothly)

When I visit either http://www.kdjn.net/forums or http://www.kdjn.net/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums , I get a blank page and nothing else. No errors, no administration page, no login prompt.. just the white page. Can anyone throw me a bone?

Thanks in advance-

Eric

[jdh1178]

Hi there,

For some reason the text (in the default theme) drifts off the area it should be in for replies to posts.

Here is a modified css file, but the problem is the same even with the default files.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

http://twistedtools.com/forums/topic/how-to-download-freebies

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

You can set roles for unassigned roles and specify default roles for new members but if you change the role of a member, it is not reflected at other end.

I find this limiting thing as a feature to have even more control on things.

[chrishajer]

You need to make sure you have all the settings correct. One thing that gets many people is that once they have the username, database name and password done, they still need to enter the database host. The space to enter that, instead of localhost, is not shown by default and there is a link to click, something like “show advanced database settings.” Do you need to use a database host other than localhost?

[jcrens8392]

Better yet, nofollow should be the default rel attribute value. From an SEO standpoint, you’re asking for trouble allowing dofollow links unless you really feel like checking out every single users’ website and making sure it’s not a “bad neighborhood”. Even then, Google will see you as handing out links indiscriminately and will probably take away any pagerank your pages might have had.

[Zatoozy]

Hey all there,

I tried to integrate wordpress with my bbpress installation but it failed..

I edited a setting in the menue, I forgot which..

I typed “wp_” in a box where it needed to be, that’s what I understood after reading the description below the box.

Now the forum has no users! My users.php file looks like after the first installation..

I can’t login into the forum and so I can’t change it back to default..

Please help me.

{ The searchbar didn’t }

Zatoozy.

Link to my forum: http://zap.bplaced.net/forum/

[paulhawke]

I lifted the following list from functions.bb-core.php where bbPress defines the set of fields that should make up the user profile:

'first_name' => array(0, __('First name')),

'last_name' => array(0, __('Last name')),

'display_name' => array(1, __('Display name as')),

'user_email' => array(1, __('Email'), 'email'),

'user_url' => array(0, __('Website'), 'url'),

'from' => array(0, __('Location')),

'occ' => array(0, __('Occupation'), 'role'),

'interest' => array(0, __('Interests'))

If you want any of these fields to appear in your custom profile, you will need to add them to the list of fields you were building. Basically, the filter in your plugin takes over defining the definitive list that will be used, not a list of additions above-and-beyond the defaults given by bbPress … least I think that is what the code is telling me!

[xananax]

Hello. I am lost; I’ve been scouring the internets for a few days to no avail.

I thought what I was looking for should be quite easy, but I can’t find it.

What I need is a forum-less forum, where all topics would be displayed according to date (kind of like the view inside a forum, or the “latest topics” in bbpress), with tags and/or categories for easy search.

All the forums I find are multiple-forums by default. I can’t find one that allows me, if I set a single forum, to display the topics only.

What would be even more ideal is a forum that doesn’t make a difference between a topic, a post, and a forum. Anything could be replied to, and nested, to infinity. But I guess this really doesn’t exist.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

[chrishajer]

The permissions on your my-plugins should be 755. Are the permissions correct?

Depending on when you installed and what version, the default permissions on the folder were 750, but that’s fixed now.

If the permissions on the my-plugins directory are 755, we will look at something else.

[chrishajer]

Your server is running out of memory. That doesn’t normally happen on a default installation. What plugins or modifications have you added, if any?

You can request more RAM from the server (or host) but it would be good to see why this is happening.

Also, did you integrate with WordPress? That’s an error from WordPress. Additionally, did you install bbPress as a WordPress plugin? It’s not a plugin for WordPress.

Need more information about your setup please.

[yoyopop]

Hi guys.

I was looking at this conversion again and one really useful thing it misses out is converting internal links – eg: if someone has posted a link to a certain topic within the forum, the link will no longer work.

If it could convert from the standard phpbb format eg: forum/viewtopic.php?t=7836

to the default bbpress format eg: forum/topic.php?id=7836

or does the smilies conversion only search for standalone text (ie: it wouldn’t convert phrases within a string)??

would adding something like this to the smilies conversion section work?

‘viewtopic.php?t=’ => ‘topic.php?id=’,

I guess you could also write a new viewtopic.php file that could parse those links, although that’s a bit of a workaround.

[Juan]

Line 1508:

$defaults = array( ‘id’ => 0, ‘before’ => ” );

really disrupts the layout. Changing to:

$defaults = array( ‘id’ => 0, ‘before’ => NULL, ‘after’ => NULL );

Fixes the nasty template issue.

Can this line of code be modified in the core code for distribution?

Thanks

[Marius-]

Yeah, I havent made a separate theme. I´ve edited the original Kakumei that came with the software. So theres no “default theme” any more. Just one.

It seems you ran into this problem on other setups too, didnt you say so? Cause I see you´re doing the process of elimination, but I´m not the only one having this problem, so it must be something more universal.

[Vect]

Hello. I want to do in my plugin that page links would be /page/2/ , /page/3/. By default it is /page/2 , /page/3 . I have this code in my plugin:

function my_get_topic_page_links_filter( $_links ) {

$_links = bb_paginate_links(

array(

'format' => bb_get_option('mod_rewrite') ? '/page/%#%/' : '%#%/',

)

);

return $_links;

}

add_filter( 'get_topic_page_links', 'my_get_topic_page_links_filter' );

But it is not work properly. What I’m doing wrong? Please help.

[kevinjohngallagher]

is it safe to rely on these old plugins

No.

a new version, hopefully is coming soon

It’s not.

In honesty none of us know when it is coming, the “weekly” IRC meetings have not been taking place for the last 6 weeks, 1 bug in the last 3 weeks has been fixed and 20 are still outstanding, etc etc. Matt hasn’t been seen or heard of since threatening to leave the project.

How will backwards compitability be in the future of BBPress

It won’t.

It is not an aim. Never has been.

Will most of these standard functionality-plugins be built in

No.

Mostly because everyone’s definition of “standard” is “plugins i want”.

I have used hours and hours to customize my Kakumei theme, and will all that work go to waste with a new version

Some of it will, some of it won’t.

Will it apply to the next bbpress themes at all

From what i’ve seen in subversion, you won’t need to change to many things in your theme to make sure it is bbPress1.1 compatible. But you will probably have to make some changes – it is the nature of software.

Or am I gonna have start all over again?

It depends on your theme, plugins, and custom code.

I doubt anyone will have to start all over, but some poeple will have more work than others.

In your specific case, given your lack of coding abilities and reliance on the default theme, i doubt youi’ll have much coding to do – but it is likely that some things will have to be changed.

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

I say this alot, but bbPress is not currently ready for use for people with no technical knowledge.

Database setup, editing files and FTP are a minimum to get the defaults going.

Some basic web development knowledge is needed to edit your theme.

Slightly above basic knowledge is needed to edit any functionality.

That is just where this software is and will be for a long time. I don’t say this to cause offence, i say this to save people difficulty.

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

P.S. Marius,

You also don’t have to upgrade.

Almost all of the issues you bring us could have been solved easier if you were using bbPress0.9

[jtrory]

I want to change my display name from the default “admin” to something else. In the Profile/Edit panel under ‘Display Name As’ there is a little dropdown menu that shows “admin” as the one and only display name and there’s no way of changing it. I can’t figure out how to do this. It’s the only place I can find a way of editing this info.

[johnhiler]

Ah thanks for resetting it to default! Hmm, it definitely looks like an issue with the plugin/version compatibility. I also just tested it on a 1.0 install, and saw a similar issue.

Your best would be to ask a programmer to take a look at the plugin and see if they can spot the issue! I bet it’s a pretty minor one, if everything else works except for that one button.

[Marius-]

Please re-read my edited post above. And yes, the word “Save” for saving. Its all default now.

[Marius-]

Johnhiler, the translation has nothing to do with it. In the admin panel, you can type in what you want there, it doesnt affect the functionality.

The theme IS Kakumei. None of the code is touched, exept for some CSS colors.

–

If you turn on Firebug, and you inspect the canclebutton, you will see that there seems to be no code at all for a save button present.

–

I have reset the polls to default settings, just to prove that.

–

You see at the plugins site here on Bbpress, that more users are having the same problem:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-polls/page/3/

There, user Michael888 says to me that version 1.1 of BBpress might include poll functionality.

Is this next upgrade far away. Am I just wasting my time with this old plugin?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi jansummers,

You’re bbPress install has content being sent to the browser before all the processing is finished.

9/10 this comes from a ‘new line’ at the end of a user created php file (theme or plugin).

The fact you’re getting this error via the Plugin API strongly suggests such an issue is with a plugin. Have you edited one? have you got a new one installed recently?

Without more info, the only suggestion we have can give is this:

1) Change back to the default theme and see if it the bug still occurs.

2) Start deactivating plugins one at a time and see if it still occurs.

3) If you’re using the default theme and all plugins are deactivated, try re-uploading bbpress. Its unlikely that’ll make any difference, but its covering your bases

[Marius-]

I seriously need this to work now.

Is there some other plugin like this?

Im surprised this is not one of the default tool in WordPress, to limit posts counts for each user, as well as post messages.

[jtrory]

I’m working on editing the default bbPress theme and have almost got it where i want it, but I’m having one problem. The base font color seems to be black (which you can’t read against my dark gray background) and while I have edited the CSS of enough of the theme to change most of the colors, certain ones just won’t change. Specifically the bullet points, the [ ] that surround certain things, and the names of Discussions. They are all still black, and I can’t find where this is in the stylesheet. If I add something like color:#fff to the body it changes fonts I don’t want changed. It’s only a handful but I think they must all be controlled together somewhere, I just can’t figure out where.

[johnhiler]

I believe Gravatars are supported by default in v 1.0+.

Because Gravatars are in the core, I remember reading once that it should be easier to create avatar plugins using the Gravatar hooks. I think Bavatar uses these hooks:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bavatars/