[hurburghwhite]

Hi, Just downloaded and installed wordpress and bbpress with the intention of integrating them. Having gone through the three steps I got a minor error – it couldn’t create the first forum – but completed the installation. When I put in the URL address of bbpress it simply told me that ‘bbPress is already installed’. i noticed it defaults to ‘http://tokrates.net/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php’

Any ideas?

Chris

[paamayim]

Oh, i think I found, defaults.bb-filters.php

[jcharles]

Tonight I tried to install bbPress, following the detailed instructions from the following screencast: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast. I’m running the newest version of wordpress and downloaded the newest version of bbpress as well.

I set all the database options based on the settings in my wp-config file and then ran into a snag. I couldn’t figure out if I needed to rename the default “bb_” database prefix to what my database prefix was “wp_” or leave it as the default “bb_”. I was planning to complete the integration route, so I changed the prefix to “wp_” thinking it would just add a few tables to my current SQL datbase. I also had a weird hostname, ” $_ENV{DATABASE_SERVER}” so I added that in the bbPress config hostname space.

I then went through all the other screens and bbpress said it installed with a “minor errors.” message. Unfortunately, I closed the screen in error and didn’t note the specific error.

Once I closed, I went to the site and while the article names we there, clicking on them resulted in a 404 error. In addition, I couldn’t log-in to my admin (said I didn’t have permission.) At this point, I assumed I did something wrong and deleted the “forums” folder, and restored my database.

I’d really like to use bbPress instead of Simple:Press because I heard it’s faster and fairly easy to customize. Any ideas on what went wrong? Is there a better set of instructions someplace?

Also, should I keep the prefix bb_ or change it to wp_?

Any help is appreciated. I’m pretty new at all this!

Jerry

[lividinstruments]

hmm. I have changed all my permissions to 755 and it is still not showing? Any suggestions?

http://blog.lividinstruments.com/forum/my-plugins/bb-attachments/icons/default.gif

[Michael]

I found the smilies here: http://pinvoke.com/

They seem to be a remake of the default WordPress ones – the others were just from all over the web. I plan to make my own set one day, once I have more experience in Icon Design.

Glad you like the compilation.

[Mike]

Hello,

I really like the theme that is using in bbpress.org. I recently install new bbpress for my Singapore Silverlight User Group http://forum.sgsug.org/ but the default theme of my site looks a bit different from here.

Where can I download the theme that is using in bbpress.org?

Can someone or me create the theme that exactly like bbpress.org if there is no theme available on the net?

[london-muscle]

Having the same problem, believe its due to being on an .asp server. there is some sort of setting to change to search for .php naturally the server is searching for default.aspx or something like that and you need to change this setting.

The settings have to be changed per folder apparently, im yet to work out how to do this though.

Anyone got any ideas would be greatly appreciated, been going at it for a week now still no fix

regards,

Chris

[chrishajer]

line 19 in the default bb-config.php is the database username. Can you look at the file and see if it’s missing a quote or had an extra quote or something? A syntax highlighting editor is a big help here since it will show with highlighting is the syntax of that PHP file is correct or not. vim is good on Linux. Notepad++ is good on Windows. I don’t use a mac to know what works well there.

[chandersbs]

thanks for the help chrishajer, but that code is not working, instead it returns an error :S

@michael if i hate the option, i’d have all items published less than 24 hours ago, show like this:

22:35 → Apoplectic sluit contract met Mexicaans promo bedrijf af

22:22 → Nieuwe video HIM online

As you can see, only Hour and minutes.

Articles older than 1 day, would be displayed as this:

23.01 → Apoplectic sluit contract met Mexicaans promo bedrijf af

22.01 → Nieuwe video HIM online

As you can see only day and month.

Sadly i can’t seem to fix how the timestamp should look. another issue i’m facing is that its showing a different time in that list than the website has, its not picking up the default local time as it should.

[Lucian Florian]

The second server configuration, I have tried on is::

PHP5 (more info) 5.2.12 (default)

MySQL 5 5.0.82

[chengdu-living]

BTW I tried what was advised in this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-broke-when-i-changed-the-url but it just displayed the code on the actual live forum page

Here is my bb-config.php included the added part at the very bottom:

<?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', 'justchar_wrdp5' );



/** MySQL database username */

define( 'BBDB_USER', 'justchar_wrdp5' );



/** MySQL database password */

define( 'PASSWORDWASHERE' );



/** 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', '' );

?>



$bb->uri = 'http://www.chengduliving.com/bbpress/';

[NiksE]

I can not understand which files from this plugin and where exactly I have to insert them?

Now I’ve displayed all the files on the server in the folder my-plugins!

Should I have to move any files to other directories?

“Don’t Forget!

If you haven’t already done so: upload the files in the “additional-files” directory to the following locations.

* avatars/ – directory to the location specified on the admin page, rename if neccesary.

* avatars/default.png – default avatar image into the directory created above.

* avatar-upload.php – bbPress root directory.

* my-templates/avatar.php – your my-templates/my-template-name/ (or bb-templates/kakumei/) directory.

[kehlers]

Does anyone else get this error in the forum when you have upgraded to PHP 5.3.0? I know this is due to many deprecated features in this version of PHP. Does a recent version of bbPress correct it?

Strict Standards: Creating default object from empty value in /<<pathname>>/forum/config.php on line 15

[jaqdesign]

I apologise in advance if I come across as a newb – in a lot of ways, I am!!

This morning I tried to install (and integrate) BBpress at http://www.serenespirit.com.au, which is running WordPress 2.9. The WordPress side of things was working perfectly until this, so I am lead to believe that BBPress is the most obvious culprit of my problems now, but I have also posted an urgent HELP to the good people on the WordPress forum.

Anyway, long story fairly short, I went through the BBPress install / integration following the instructions at http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wp-integration-coockie-does-not-work#post-61969. I got to the end of it, tried it out, and it didn’t work. I figured I have missed something, so instead of going back over it step by step I deleted BBPress from the server, updated the cookies on WP using the wp.config file, and reset the cache in my browser.

Here’s where the panic sets in – suddenly, I couldn’t view any of the PUBLIC pages and posts in wordpress (including the home page!) unless I was logged in, either as Admin or another user. EVERY page and post results in a 404. To add insult to injury, I now can not delete or change the status of ANY post or page (I.e from public – private), although I can edit the content.

I have been through the WP forums with a fine comb, tried deleting the WP .htaccess file, resetting permalinks to Default, deactivated all my plugins and reset the AUTH keys in wpconfig a half dozen times, nothing is working.

The only thing I can think of is that something very screwy is going on with the DB, but not knowing enough about it I am really hesitant to start playing with it any more. I understand this really needs to be fixed within WP, but I thought since this only started after my attempt to install BB SOMEONE here might have an idea of even something else I could TRY. I am at a loss, and this is a client’s live website!!

PLEASE HELP!!

[Gautam]

You can see the changes done to default theme here (from 0.9 to 1.0.2) and do the same to your own theme, as most of the custom themes are based on the kakumei theme.

[gr0x0rd]

Not working with default settings + no help from community = rm -r bbpress/ .

phpBB here I come.

[sureshdrim]

Dear Johnhiler,

I tried this plugin.I provided following settings:

/* SETTINGS */

// Set to ‘smtp’ to use an SMTP server

var $mailer = ‘smtp’;

// Set a specific name that emails will appear to come from

var $from_name = ‘me@example.com’;

// The hostname of the SMTP server

var $smtp_host = ‘smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com’; //my SMTP server name

// The port (default is 25)

var $smtp_port = 465; //my SMTP port number

// Use authentication (true or false)

var $smtp_auth = true; //in my case authentication is mandatory

// Authentication user

var $smtp_user = ‘me@example.com’;

// Athentication password

var $smtp_pass = ‘password’;

/* END SETTINGS */

Rest everything is as it is. Still problem is not solved. Any idea please !!!

[chrishajer]

It’s easiest to just use the same database that you use for WordPress. It makes things easier when you go to integrate the two. Just be certain the table prefixes are unique for bbPress and WordPress. WordPress uses wp_ and bbPress uses bb_ by default, so if you don’t change them you will be fine. You do NOT want to install bbPress using a wp_ table prefix. Bad things will happen.

[paulhawke]

That’s the “support forum” plugin. The “support forum” plugin also lets you display a small icon next to the topics.

The “topic icons” plugin will allow you to “skin” your icon set, if you dont like the default icons that “support forum” gives you.

[angrywhiteboy]

I’ve looked all over, and being a neophyte to coding, cannot find the answer. How do create a link within one of the two default themes back to my main URL?

Thanks

[grassrootspa]

The Sandbox theme is awesome…great to see you working on this HSeatSleeper.

There was talk a while back about bundling Sandbox as a default WordPress theme. It would be great to see this happen and bbPress include a variation as well!

[chrishajer]

The forum comes up if you use this URL which is the index page for the forum directory:

http://www.londonmuscle.com/blog/forum/index.php

I see you’re on IIS. Do you need to set the default index page to index.php or something? This has happened a couple times that I know of recently.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/404-for-bbpressinstallphp

[ripten]

The final pulldown asks you to pick the user. I selected Admin (myself) and hit complete install. The error I got was that it couldn’t work with that user. I don’t remember the exact phrase as I was a little ticked off that the proposed solution was the delete it all and start over. Is there some sort of access the forum needs? I am using Apache and by default on my server everything is set to user access unless I specifically go in and grant write access to group. If there is a certain file/folder that BB Press needs Apache access to outside of its own please let me know. Also, if the problem is something else please let me know that as well. I will try this install exactly one more time. Thanks, Chad-

[Michael]

Greets

I recently had a problem with my tag cloud, which I have not resolved. I landed up having to revert to the default tag cloud.

Now that I’ve done this, the tags look too close to eachother. So some tags look as if they are one, when they are actually two.

My idea is to separate them with bullets (•) of the same size. Once again, I don’t wanna go messing around with the core unless I know what I’m doing.

Any way to do this?

Peace, Michael

[johnhiler]

I use that subscription plugin I linked above… it’s been great, and we haven’t had problems with delivery. It might get out of hand if we default subscribed members to threads… but it’s opt-in, so the number of subscription emails is much lower than you’d think.