[michael3185]

Ahem. Spoke too soon. I tested my forum in Firefox and IE7 after working in Chrome, my default browser. I got an error page in IE7 from Bad Behaviour;

Error 403

We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for / on this server.

You do not have permission to access this server.

Your technical support key is: (blah blah).

You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact badbots at ioerror.us and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

On the ‘fix it yourself’ page there are no useful details of how to, and the email I sent got returned as failed.

Any ideas?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You mean to pull from you bbPress database to populate the members of your mailman list?

In theory, anything that worked for WordPress to do that could be tweaked for bbPress. Just be careful that the default is to leave people NOT getting emails, so they can opt-in if they want. Otherwise you’re practically spamming

[thekmen]

chrishajer – not sure what you are getting at?

I have been through that & many other searches and still don’t see a solution. Is there a specific one there I should be looking at?

This issue happens on a default install on 2 domains with no modifications made.

[michael3185]

I tested Vanilla out for a week or so, then bbPress (I’d tried every other flavour out there in the two weeks before). Vanilla is cool, and I love the look of version 2, but bbPress is what I’m going with now for 2 community forums.

As to speed, I haven’t done any ‘proper’ testing, but find bbPress very fast. Also, all the plugins I need worked first time without problems,and the default theme is very easy to adapt. bbPress only uses 8 core tables compared to 14 in Vanilla. I guess that might speed things up a little, as there are less eggs in the air..?

[Derek Herman]

// Custom Topic Starter Avatars

function topic_author_avatar( $size = '48', $default = '', $post_id = 0 ) {

if ( ! bb_get_option('avatars_show') )

return false;



$author_id = get_topic_author();

if ( $link = get_user_link( $author_id ) ) {

echo '<a href="' . attribute_escape( $link ) . '">' . bb_get_avatar( $author_id, $size, $default ) . '</a>';

} else {

echo bb_get_avatar( $author_id, $size, $default );

}

}

[tribsel]

Not sure if this belongs into this thread as it looks like its not a bug, but “feature”. At least in bbpress 0.9.0.4.

I dont think this is the way it should work.

You are adding new topic – and forget to enter something – eg topic title. Then press submit. Error message gets displayed with link to go back to forums. but there are two problems in this:

1. your custom template is suddenly not used (very confusing for users).

2. there is a link “Back to <your forum frontpage>” – this should point back to previous page not homepage! And fields you entered before should be “pre-filled” by your previous input. not cleared.

this default behaviour is pretty annoying for regular users, in my opinion.

[mortiferus]

Hello fellow bbPress admins!

I have wordpress and bbPress installed on a Mac OX Leopard server running PHP Version 5.2.6 (Safe Mode Off) and am having problems activating bbPress themes and plug-ins. Mind you everything else is working fine as well as WordPress which is working perfectly, but in bbPress I get the following errors:

Your attempt to switch themes has failed.

Please try again.

In the case of Plug-in’s I get

Your attempt to do this has failed.

Please try again.

In terms of Troubleshooting I have:

1. Tried the Akismet and Bozo plugins and the two default theme(s) included by themselves and I cannot switch between the two default themes nor activate the default plug-in’s.

2. Tried each plug-in individually. None will activate.

3. Tried adding the underscore (_) to the name to force the loading, they still wont work, but the show up as “Automatically Activated”.

Heck, I even Added the .htacesss rules for name friendly urls, did not help.

My questions are, do I need to set anything up differently for bbPress Plugins and Themes an two is there an error log for bbPress that I can view to try and sort out?

Is this a known issue on unix/linux variants?

Thank You in advance for your help

[tribsel]

Hi, I have exactly the same problem. Do you have any ideas what could cause this? It is problem with theme obviously, because when I switch to default one, everything works. I just have no idea what could i break to do this error. Didnt touch anything important as far as I know

btw – another thing which doesnt work is redirect – like when you forget to enter topic title and then press submit. You will get some error in default green layout (not inside my theme) and displayed link “back” leads to forum homepage, not to the topic post form – where it should…

[chrishajer]

If you deleted the topic that was tagged with bbPress (it’s the default first post/first topic I believe) then you just need to recount. There is an option there something like “Delete tags with no topics.” If you go through the recount, just check them all and the phantom tag should go away.

[shawncampbell]

With version 1.0-rc-1 and the default template (or if the current template includes <?php bb_topic_admin(); ?>) and you are logged in with the proper credentials for moving a post you should see the “Move this topic…” dropdown. With Kakumei it appears under the Reply form.

Lines 49-55 of kakumei’s topic.php:

<?php if ( bb_current_user_can( 'delete_topic', get_topic_id() ) || bb_current_user_can( 'close_topic', get_topic_id() ) || bb_current_user_can( 'stick_topic', get_topic_id() ) || bb_current_user_can( 'move_topic', get_topic_id() ) ) : ?>



<div class="admin">

<?php bb_topic_admin(); ?>

</div>



<?php endif; ?>

[websydaisy]

Thanks, I gave that a shot, but sadly it did not make any difference. I had turned on multiviews so I could use pretty permalinks, but changed it back to default and turned off multiviews, but I still get a 404.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You have to tell bb, when you set it up, where wp is Default assumption is that it’s the same folder. You’re going to need phpMyAdmin or something to fix it.

Go into your XXX_forum database and open up the bb_meta table.

Look for:

user_bbdb_name

user_bbdb_user

user_bbdb_password

The first one is the NAME of your WordPress database (so XXX_wrdp1), the second is the ID used to access said database (sounds like XXX_wrdp1 from your post) and the third is (heh) your password for that ID.

Set those up to point to WP and you should be able to log in.

[ndrwld]

Hey,

I’ve a problem with bbPress integration with WPMU. All installation steps going fine. I enter cookie integration fields, the same database, use default prefix’es, but nothing solves the problem.

In 3 step of bbPress installation when I enter existing user “admin” in key master field it shows me an error – “The key master could not be created. An existing user was found with that user login.”. But even if I choose new user, forum installation ends fine but when trying to login, it redirects me to install wizard once again.

With single install (without integration) bbPress works fine.

[Dolugen]

I’ve setup the role map, and WP integration ages ago, but newly registered users get “inactive” role by default… ? (WP2.7.1&bbP1a6)

[indivio]

My new forum is the Alpha. And the theme is the one that comes with it by default (kakumei).

The old forum was 0.9.0.4 that I upgraded to the Alpha in order to export.

Any ideas? Thanks so much for your help!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Yes but defining ‘better’ is really subjective!

Look, better for ONE of my sites is a barebones bb. Better for the other is Invision. It has to do with what you, as an admin, want to support, what kind of users you have, what you need to integrate your site with, etc etc etc.

In short: Any answer you get will be based on the specific individual needs.

You’re never going to get a definitive answer. Instead, you need to ask a better question: “What features do you feel are important in forum software?” Then you get a list of the default features in each board software and list them all.

From THAT, you can make a breakdown of ‘Who handles which plugin better?’ and have multi-choice.

Which would kind of be a cool app to help people pick the right forum software, but it still rolls back to ‘what’s right for you?’

[Filipe Deschamps]

After some searching @ this forum, I’m really confused on how to make replies links to open on a new window by default. I’ve found some tweaking plugins by CK, but I think that was a really early version and didn’t worked out.

I’m using 9.0.4. Anyway to target=”_blank” links and bbCode-lite?

[pierrottorreip]

I switched the theme to default and tried it again. Upon hitting submit the password fields highlighted in red – which they don’t do in the Options theme.

For some reason in Firefox and only with this particular installation of bbPress my first password field auto fills. The page thinks I’m trying to change my password and wants me to fill both password fields.

Problem solved!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

do follow is the opposite of no-follow, last I heard. Which is amusing since by default, it’s all do-follow

That link is interesting! Wonder if it actually happened (dated Oct 2007…)

[iang]

It works like a charm…you are the best! Thanks much.

[H]

How can I decide which tags people are allowed to post?

I want to use tiny_mce, and want people to be allowed to post

* a

* blockquote

* cite

* b

* i

* p

* u

* ul

* li

* img

It seems for example like the p tag is forbidden by default…

[nicolas_fr]

Hello, thx for your answer.

I use the default template (theme) named kakumei.

I tried the blue version : same result.

I tried to use alpha 6, but from scratch, i had many issues. Unable to share user session with WP.

Not the same version from bbpress integration module, on the WP side. (only alpha 4.1, not alpha 6).

I tried to upload directly, but I had problems.

It’s really difficilut, an finally, i spent a day of work, and my forum doesn’t work.

I hope i’ll run ^^

[nicolagreco]

facebuddy is a css make up ( so it’s not a new bp theme )

it means integrating the default one, you’ll have facebuddy theme working

[chrishajer]

Are you using the default theme? If not, try the default theme and see if you have the same error. Someone else posted this recently and I can’t recall what it turned out to be. Here are a couple relevant posts:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/can-not-post-new-topic-in-this-forum#post-25509

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-error-closed-topic#post-22226

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/problems-with-forum-is-category-in-10-alpha-6#post-25526

Also, why are you using alpha 4? I thought the basic integration screencast used alpha 6 and WordPress 2.7. There may be some bugs that were fixed between alpha 4 and alpha 6.

[chrishajer]

Looks like you are using an Apache web server. If that’s the case, edit the .htaccess file in the root folder of the website, and make the index page for the site whatever you want. It might look like this is you want a static page home.html to be the home page for the domain:

DirectoryIndex home.html index.html index.php

That says “look for a file called home.html first, and serve that if it’s present. If not, look for index.html next and then index.php.” It’s good to have at least two in there, so if the first one is not present, it can fall back on the second one.

If you host does not allow this override in the .htaccess, then you will need to do something different. This is the easiest way. Post your results after you try it.