[Gautam Gupta]

If you have BuddyPress installed on WordPress, then just install the bbPress component. BP would automatically handle everything.

[Michael]

There is this one: http://manojkumar.org/buddypress-theme-for-bbpress/

Not sure which version of BuddyPress it originates from, however.

[kevinator]

OK, we fixed it. I’ll find out details and post later. See how it looks here: http://www.cwnp.com/forums

Our purpose in doing it is twofold:

1. privacy/security, obvious reasons

2. we just implemented the Leaderboard plugin found on bbpress.org so we can have a participation contest. Leaderboard by default shows username, which in our case is email.

Bottom line is we also require “nickname”, so we’ve used that instead.

Now, anyone know how to make Leaderboard a widget?

[johnhiler]

Here are all the capabilities of each role, as defined in bb-includes/functions.bb-capabilities.php:

function bb_init_roles( &$roles ) {

$roles->add_role( ‘keymaster’, __(‘Key Master’), array(

‘use_keys’ => true, // Verb forms of roles – keymaster

‘administrate’ => true, // administrator

‘moderate’ => true, // moderator

‘participate’ => true, // member

‘keep_gate’ => true, // Make new Key Masters //+

‘import_export’ => true, // Import and export data //+

‘recount’ => true, // bb-do-counts.php //+

‘manage_options’ => true, // backend //+

‘manage_themes’ => true, // Themes //+

‘manage_plugins’ => true, // Plugins //+

‘manage_options’ => true, // Options //+

‘edit_users’ => true,

‘manage_tags’ => true, // Rename, Merge, Destroy

‘edit_others_favorites’ => true,

‘manage_forums’ => true, // Add/Rename forum

‘delete_forums’ => true, // Delete forum

‘delete_topics’ => true,

‘close_topics’ => true,

‘stick_topics’ => true,

‘move_topics’ => true,

‘view_by_ip’ => true, // view-ip.php

‘edit_closed’ => true, // Edit closed topics

‘edit_deleted’ => true, // Edit deleted topics/posts

‘browse_deleted’ => true, // Use ‘deleted’ view

‘edit_others_tags’ => true,

‘edit_others_topics’ => true,

‘delete_posts’ => true,

‘throttle’ => true, // Post back to back arbitrarily quickly

‘ignore_edit_lock’ => true,

‘edit_others_posts’ => true,

‘edit_favorites’ => true,

‘edit_tags’ => true,

‘edit_topics’ => true, // Edit title, resolution status

‘edit_posts’ => true,

‘edit_profile’ => true,

‘write_topics’ => true,

‘write_posts’ => true,

‘change_password’ => true,

‘read’ => true

) );

$roles->add_role( ‘administrator’, __(‘Administrator’), array(

‘administrate’ => true,

‘moderate’ => true,

‘participate’ => true,

‘edit_users’ => true, //+

‘edit_others_favorites’ => true, //+

‘manage_forums’ => true, //+

‘delete_forums’ => true, //+

‘manage_tags’ => true,

‘delete_topics’ => true,

‘close_topics’ => true,

‘stick_topics’ => true,

‘move_topics’ => true,

‘view_by_ip’ => true,

‘edit_closed’ => true,

‘edit_deleted’ => true,

‘browse_deleted’ => true,

‘edit_others_tags’ => true,

‘edit_others_topics’ => true,

‘delete_posts’ => true,

‘throttle’ => true,

‘ignore_edit_lock’ => true,

‘edit_others_posts’ => true,

‘edit_favorites’ => true,

‘edit_tags’ => true,

‘edit_topics’ => true,

‘edit_posts’ => true,

‘edit_profile’ => true,

‘write_topics’ => true,

‘write_posts’ => true,

‘change_password’ => true,

‘read’ => true

) );

$roles->add_role( ‘moderator’, __(‘Moderator’), array(

‘moderate’ => true,

‘participate’ => true,

‘manage_tags’ => true, //+

‘delete_topics’ => true, //+

‘close_topics’ => true, //+

‘stick_topics’ => true, //+

‘move_topics’ => true, //+

‘view_by_ip’ => true, //+

‘edit_closed’ => true, //+

‘edit_deleted’ => true, //+

‘browse_deleted’ => true, //+

‘edit_others_tags’ => true, //+

‘edit_others_topics’ => true, //+

‘delete_posts’ => true, //+

‘throttle’ => true, //+

‘ignore_edit_lock’ => true, //+

‘edit_others_posts’ => true, //+

‘edit_favorites’ => true,

‘edit_tags’ => true,

‘edit_topics’ => true,

‘edit_posts’ => true,

‘edit_profile’ => true,

‘write_topics’ => true,

‘write_posts’ => true,

‘change_password’ => true,

‘read’ => true

) );

$roles->add_role( ‘member’, __(‘Member’), array(

‘participate’ => true,

‘edit_favorites’ => true,

‘edit_tags’ => true,

‘edit_topics’ => true,

‘edit_posts’ => true,

‘edit_profile’ => true,

‘write_topics’ => true,

‘write_posts’ => true,

‘change_password’ => true,

‘read’ => true

) );

$roles->add_role( ‘inactive’, __(‘Inactive’), array(

‘change_password’ => true,

‘read’ => true

) );

$roles->add_role( ‘blocked’, __(‘Blocked’), array(

‘not_play_nice’ => true // Madness – a negative capability. Don’t try this at home.

) );

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/bb-includes/functions.bb-capabilities.php

Hope that helps!

[ajithkpunnoose]

Sorry I haven’t found a plugin. I am searching for one.

But Your post should read

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“I want the bbpress theme to be a custom one, but needs the default theme to be available for some selected categories only. Is there a plugin that allows me to use specific themes for specific categories? “

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[ajithkpunnoose]

I need to know what the different types of users : Key-Master, Administrator, Member etc can do on the bbpress forums and topics. I searched for about an hour and can’t find a suitable answer. Any post or link will help.

[kevinator]

Similar request here: by default, anyone on any bbPress forum can click on anyone else’s profile and see their email address. Big privacy/security issue. How can you hide/mask all user’s email addresses?

[crobinson18]

@ johnhiler,

1) YES, I still have the problem if I activate the default Kakumei theme.

2) NO, I have not installed any plugins recently.

Thanks for any help!

Chris

http://www.nissenfundoplication.com

[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.

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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.

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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