[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.

[hoppie]

Backed up everything.

Saved my bb-config.php (but did not need to re-install this, right?).

Saved my my-plugins dir.

Disabled all plugins.

Changed from 0.9 to 1.0 using a symlink reset.

Was asked to enter several config options, such as database name. Did it all.

Installer claims that db was available etc. and declares the job done.

New Forum 1.0 appears, I can login using previous credentials.

Postings seem intact.

However, clicking on “Admin” makes the browser go briefly to bb-admin and then back to the home page.

Clue: after login, the browser claims:

The requested URL /pub/pub/ was not found on this server.

My Forums live in /pub and this was also offered by the installer as default. The /pub symlinks to the 1.0 dir. Manually going there works.

Jeroen

[Gautam]

Hello all,

I am currently coding a theme to match my blog’s layout (which is Mystique theme by digitalnature). I want it to be a bit different from the default kakumei theme, so I need all your suggestions of what improvements can be made in the theme.

Here is the current theme which I have prepared till now – http://forum.gaut.am/

(Also check any topic page)

Thanks!

[Jeremy G]

Great ! It works now.

It appears that using the Gnome Nautilus integrated FTP function doesn’t respect permissions by default, I re-uploaded every file with FileZilla and everything is OK (even if files are set by default with a 604 permission in filezilla, instead of 644 as you suggested. Looks OK though ?)

Thanks again chrishajer.

[sgordon]

Maybe it’s me, but I have no clue what I’m supposed to put for my database title in the very first step – as in what is hte database file usually called by default and where would I find it?

I’m running wordpress 1.9.

I’ve installed the bbpress folder renamed as “forums” in my root because if I put it under /blog/forums I get a 404 and the rss list of posts from wp

I have the database host set as the default “localhost” per suggestion

I assume ‘databse user’ and ‘database password’ are not pre-existing UN & PW but the same ones used to access the admin of WP, but if they are a way of setting new UN and PW then I’d be using the same for both BB and WP.

I’m using Yahoo as my web host

[timskii]

Checkbox under posting form, checked by default

I assume this checkbox auto-subscribes to this topic.

But that raises a side issues: User Settings. Remember the default per-user, as an account settings.

Currently I hack settings into the profile data (since they are easy to call out almost anywhere without special functions). Of course I also had to hack the profile data structure slightly to categorize each piece of profile data – both to split settings from public information, and do other things – like group similar data together, or define the input field type. Note that there is an array already in place to categorise profile information, although it refers to data by position (0,1,etc), not key name, which can makes hacking it messy.

Cookies would be the lazy option, but a tad confusing for users that don’t visit regularly, or visit from different computers.

(After 10 minutes I didn’t get anything – but it could be an email snarl-up.)

[thierryyyyyyy]

In the current version of bbPress, anyone can change the display_name.

I really think this is a stupid “feature”, anyone can make a joke (good or bad) taking the name of “admin” or anyonelse. That a primitive type of spoofing.

Before all my forum member discover this “feature”, I would love to forbid it.

I could easily say that displayed name is the login, but then, I can’t change the display name for the admin.

Which is stupid : “admin” is the default login for the administrator, but I don’t know any admin whose name is “admin” …

I searched on how could I disable that myself “nicely”: no plugin, this is not in my theme (a bad solution would have been to suppress the form input).

Someone has another idea ?

[Matt Mullenweg]

Click subscribe above here, and then leave a post on this thread and you’ll also get notifications when other people do.

TODO and patches welcome:

* One-click unsubscribe using nonces

* Checkbox under posting form, checked by default

* AJAXify subscribe link

* Profile page that lists all subscriptions

[chrishajer]

Everyone defines basic in a different way. That’s the problem with adding more things into the core by default. I agree that finding plugins that work has been a problem, but that’s less of a problem with the fact that bbPress is minimal and more with a problem of the way the project has been run, and the amount of resources it’s gotten.

[grassrootspa]

@yutt (or is it Skull Man?) & Dailytalker:

I agree 100% with your points. ‘Simplicity is a feature’ and ‘less is more’ are great slogans, but it’s impractical to require someone to find/research/download/upload/configure zillions of plugins to do extremely basic forum tasks that are taken for granted with other programs. I want a stable forum program that contains basic features that aren’t going to stop working if a plugin developer walks away or won’t update them to work with future bbPress builds. I love bbPress but find it just too stripped-down and feature-less out of the box. Would be great to see more optional features you can use or turn off like Gravatars. The default text input interface in-particular leaves much to be desired.

Plugins like Topic Views should be incorporated into the base feature-set of BBpress as well as things like Widgets and the ability to edit themes or plugins from within the admin.

I am not a professional programmer and really admire and appreciate those who develop plugins, such as NightGunner5, Paul Hawke, Michael Adams etc. Going out on a limb here, I would guess it would not be too difficult to incorporate SOME of the more popular plugin features into the Core (especially focusing on _ck_’s best stuff as she will likely not be back). Again, I’m not talking about building in Nintendo emulators or Weatherbug displays but why the heck should someone need a plugin to display how many times a topic has been viewed?!?

@all:

Something I think base minimalists and more-base-feature advocates like yutt & Dailytalker would all agree on is that that bbPress’s admin should display plugin update notifications like WordPress’s admin does. This would be extremely helpful for everyone, especially when security risks are discovered in plugins one has running.

Haha, I bet even kevinjohngallagher would agree with me on this one!

[chrishajer]

Checked from command line on Linux and it redirects if you don’t use the slash:

[~]$ curl -I http://authorstock.com/forum

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently

Content-Length: 168

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Location: http://authorstock.com/authorstock.com/forum/

Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:36:34 GMT



[~]$ curl -I http://authorstock.com/forum/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Content-Length: 0

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0

X-Pingback: http://authorstock.com/forum/xmlrpc.php

X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:36:40 GMT

Can you access any other directories and get the index file instead of a redirect? Is there a way to ensure that index.php is the index file for the directory?

1. In the IIS Manager, double-click Default Document.

2. Click Add, then enter index.php and click OK.

[gerikg]

I keep getting this error when trying to post a new topic in a forum.

Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in /home/xx/public_html/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-users.php on line 506

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/xx/public_html/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-users.php:506) in /home/xx/public_html/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 865

after returning to the forum and refreshing I see that the post gets posted.

It’s now on the default template.

[Gautam]

This is the CSS from the default (kakumei) theme:

/* Page navigation

=================================== */



a.page-numbers,

span.page-numbers {

border-right: 1px solid #bbbbbb;

border-bottom: 1px solid #bbbbbb;

padding: 4px 4px 2px 5px;

margin-left: 5px;

background-image: url('images/page-links-background.gif');

background-repeat: no-repeat;

background-position: 0 0;

}



span.page-numbers.current {

color: #ffffff;

background-position: 0 -100px;

}



#latest a.page-numbers {

font-size: 0.8em;

padding: 3px 3px 1px 4px;

margin-left: 3px;

}



a.prev.page-numbers,

a.next.page-numbers,

span.page-numbers.dots {

border-width: 0;

padding: 0 4px;

background-image: none;

}



span.page-numbers.dots {

padding: 0;

}



a.page-numbers:hover {

background-position: 0 -100px;

}



a.prev.page-numbers:hover,

a.next.page-numbers:hover {

color: #006400;

}

[brayjason]

I am using the default template. The kakumei one.

I have not done too much work yet at all. Unfortunately I deleted all of the files off of my server and the reuploaded them via ftp (cyberduck)

After that I had to go through the installation step one and when I entered in the information it said its already installed! (weird since I had deleted everything)

I’m going to try and delete everything again. Re download the files from bbpress, and re upload them. Maybe it will work

thank you so much for a quick reply btw

[eyashwant]

I installed wordpress mu and bbpress in single database and installed integration plugins of respective ones on both. And configured it.

As of today mine is the latest wordpress mu version and bbpress version. The problem I am facing is :

1) Login integration

2) User roles integration

3) Theme integration

In detail :

1) Login integration :

When I login in to wordpress and then move to forum, I am logged in. Also when I logout of wordpress and then go to forum I am logged out. This works perfectly. The problem is when I login in to forum and then move to wordpress, it does not work. Also when I logout at forum and then move to wordpress I am still logged in. I can access wp-admin. When I access wp-login it seems like I am logged out. But if I access wp-admin I am logged in. If I press log out I get error :

You are attempting to log out of Test 1

Please try again.

URL of where I am getting is http://test1.soulblog.net/wp-login.php?action=logout_wpnonce=f3ec0d7e0f

2) User roles, in wordpress I installed Role manager. In bbpress I see the registered users as “Inactive (no role)”

3)I want to integrate wordpress theme in the forum. I followed the steps below :

____________________________________________

styling your forum

1. Open bb-config.php and add the following line (replacing PATHTOYOUR with the

relative path to your blog):

require_once(‘/PATHTOYOUR/wp-blog-header.php’);

2. Navigate to the folder for the theme you are using on the forum (the default is

Kakumei, which is in /bb-templates/kakumei) and open the header.php

file. Replace the contents with <?php get_header(); ?>.

3. After the <?php get_header(); ?>, ����������������������������������insert the following line of code:

<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>”

type=”text/css” />.

4. You can do the same with the footer, replacing it with <?php get_footer(); ?>

if you wish.

5. Open the style.css file for the bbPress theme you are using. Search for the

following line in the header: class.

background: url(‘images/page_header_bblogo.png’) no-repeat

Remove that line and save the file.

6. View the forum. It should now be very similar in look and feel to the rest of the

blog network.

__________________________________________

This replaced the header and footer, but did not integrate well.

So some one please guide me with these 3 issues and get me solved asap.