[virginiagirl]

I created a theme so the Forum looks integrated with the rest of the site, but now the Reply link does not work and the Reply box does not show up. I’m not sure how to fix it. When I change it back to the default theme, everything works fine. I didn’t make any major changes to the files, but maybe I deleted something? If anyone can help me figure out how to fix this I would appreciate it!

Here is the forum: http://www.fallforthebook.org/bbpress

And here is an example of the issue: http://fallforthebook.org/bbpress/topic.php?id=2

[Trent Adams]

Generally what I do is just edit your template to change the code on register.php to just have the registration page either redirect to your wordpress registration or have a link on it. If you use the default theme, just copy it into /my-templates/ and edit the register.php file of your theme. That seems to be the easiest as it then never shows the bbPress registration form.

[feastoffools]

Thank you guys so much for the feedback! Are any of you guys available (for hire) to upgrade our bbpress forums? Right now we’re running version 0.8.3.1 — really hope that version 1.0 will be ready to go soon.

Right now I’d just like to get it to work with version 0.9– thanks!

Another issue I notice is that a lot of our users don’t scroll down the page to post entries, and usually wind up putting the top category by default.

[hotforwords]

For topic_page_links() on the forum home page, I went to: /bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php -> line 932 and changed ‘show_all’ => false to ‘show_all’ => true

This allows me to show the pages of a post without popular topics shifting the entire forum to the right.

You can see it in action here: http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/

Most themes disable this tag as it messes up themes with popular topics.

My question is, if I have to change the default setting on a bbpress core page, that would indicate to me that there is a variable I can put within the tag… between the ().

Does anybody here know what I can put there so that I don’t have to change the core pages? ie: topic_page_links(show_all->true) or something like that.

Thanks!

[apocalyptictomorrow]

I started playing with WordPress on December 25th. ApocalypticTomorrow was born on the next day. On that same day, I discovered bbPress and it was then integrated with WP. At the mement it has the included default “blue” theme and not many plugins but as the days go by, I will be modifying it and adding plugins as well as changing the look and feel.

Check it out at http://apocalyptictomorrow.com/bbpress (feel free to join and be one of the first ones in the newly-made community!)

By the way, you can shameless self-promote your personal website at:

http://apocalyptictomorrow.com/bbpress/forum/website-promotion

[Fernando Tellado]

I’m finishing my new forum (latest was made with SMF). I’m using bbPress 1.0 alpha 4 with the default theme (in blue and customized) and several plugins (a lot):

– Akismet

– Attachments

– Favourites notification

– Registration notification

– Temporal Ban

– bbcode buttons

– smileys buttons

– Related topics

– Signatures

– bbcode lite

– bbvideo

– post count plus

– support forum

– mass edit

– hidden forums

– active users

– bbpress karma

– terms of service

– human test

– report post

I’ve made the translation of bbPress 1.0 to spanish ( http://ayudawordpress.com/bbpress-espanol-alpha-104/ ) and the forum URL is …

htp://foro.ayudawordpress.com

[TechGnome]

I’m not sure if this is a rant, a request for help, or a general gripe.

I want to replace the default front page with something else. I’m building a website for an online radio station, and when visitors first hit the site, I want them to see current info, like what’s playing, what’s up next, and the last few that played. From there, there would also be a “Listener Forums” link that would take them to another page that would be the forums’ front page.

Trying to be smart about it, I took index.php from the root, copied it, and renamed it “forums.php”. Then I went into the template, copied front-page.php and renamed the copy “station.php”. So far, so good. Then things went wrong from there.

Back at the root, I opened the index.php and changed it to call station.php instead of front-page.php. I then went to my website, and made sure that index.php was still working, which it was. Again, so far, so good. At this point station.php and front-page.php are exactly the same, as are index.php and station.php, with the one exception. But I should still get the exact same thing from both index.php and forums.php (or so I thought). When I visited the forums.php of my site…. I noticed it was….. off… and not a little, the layout as a whole was jacked with very little in the wrong place.

Careful scrutiny of the source for both pages led me to find out that on the forums.php version, I was missing the ID off of my body tag. Eh? I finally found the location in the bbPress file that returns the body id…. and sure enough…. because my “file” doesn’t fit into the list… I’m not getting a body id…. well, this isn’t very flexible. My first thought was to create my own version and include it in my functions file…. but that’s hardly a solution.

So, am I stuck? Do I need to consider something else? How do I get around this? I’ve got other files I will be adding to my site like this… so this is just the first of several times this is going to happen to me. I’m just glad that I didn’t fully finish the plugin I was working on. I would hate to have wasted my time on something that I can’t use.

annoyed and frustrated,

-tg

[Trent Adams]

Compare the functions from the default theme and the theme you are trying to integrate. It is hard to say what you changed that caused you issues. It is pretty much guessing without knowing what you changed.

[Buca]

I was able to successfully able to add a new topic with the default theme. I do have access to the database, though I’m not sure what to look for or where to begin.

[chrishajer]

Looks like creating a new topic results in the error message, but replying to an existing topic works fine. I tried to create a new topic and got the error, but I was able to reply to the existing topic.

I also registered at the forum, not the blog, even though there was no register link there.

Have you tried this with the default theme? Maybe something with the theme integration is causing the problem.

[chrishajer]

If you put in username, password and database name, it sound like the only thing missing is the host name, which is localhost by default, but maybe you need to set a different host name.

This setting is hidden during installation by a link called something like “Show advanced database settings.” When you click that you will see two additional fields: host name and table prefix. My guess is that you need to set the host name.

What host name does the host tell you the database resides on, what are their instructions?

[complaintbucket]

Hello,

Finally was able to get the Forum installed – like it so far. However, with my blog http://www.itshaunted.com members are contributors and each has an extended role; however, When members sign-up Forum FIRST his/her membership is considered a role: NONE for the blog. How can I change the role in the forum to match the assigned role in the blog? Simply meaning, you sign up via blog FIRST your role is a contributor; however, if you sign up Forum FIRST your default assigned role is NONE.

Thanks in advance.

[suzkaw]

I would say it must be related to your setup. Either browser or hosting because I am unable to duplicate this and if the default doesn’t work then something has to be going on.

[Sam Bauers]

I don’t recall if this is in the stable version 0.9, but in 1.0 on the default themes when you click on the “freshness” column in the topic lists you go to the last post (on the last page).

[chrishajer]

_ck_

Sorry, that didn’t work. More errors this time. It’s making GoDaddy look worse and worse.

Warning: fopen(Hosting123456htmlgodaddytesttest.txt) [function.fopen]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Hosting123456htmlgodaddytestdefault.php on line 9

Warning: fclose(): supplied argument is not a valid stream resource in Hosting123456htmlgodaddytestdefault.php on line 9

Warning: chmod() [function.chmod]: No such file or directory in Hosting123456htmlgodaddytestdefault.php on line 9

Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file Hosting123456htmlgodaddytesttest.txt because Permission denied in Hosting123456htmlgodaddytestdefault.php on line 11

0.00039196014404297 seconds

[chrishajer]

Not sure what mediatemple is (hosting?) but basically the connection details you supplied for the database are incorrect. You usually need four things to connect to the database:

database name

database user

database password

database host

In a lot of cases if the first 3 are correct, it’s the 4th one that throws you. I think depending on the version you’re installing (what version is that?) the database host is not shown by default so you don’t enter it, it’s hidden by something like “Show advanced database settings” or similar. When you click that, you see the database host and the table prefix can be changed.

Is it possible your database is hosted on another server and you need to enter a host name here?

[chrishajer]

_ck_

I needed to change the /test.txt to \test.txt, but even once that was done, I get this error (prior to this, the filename and path were not right):

Warning: file_put_contents(Hosting123456htmlgodaddytesttest.txt) [function.file-put-contents]: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Hosting123456htmlgodaddytestdefault.php on line 9

Warning: touch() [function.touch]: Unable to create file Hosting123456htmlgodaddytesttest.txt because Permission denied in Hosting123456htmlgodaddytestdefault.php on line 11

0.00028681755065918 seconds

[_ck_]

I am changing the behavior to be more intuitive.

If they have highlighted text, it will create a link for them by just asking for the link.

If there is no highlighted text, it will first ask for the link, then it will ask for the text for the link.

Replace this function by with it’s one new line in BBcode-Buttons.js

function edInsertLink(i, defaultValue) {

if (!defaultValue) {defaultValue = 'http://';}

if (!edCheckOpenTags(i)) {

var URL = prompt('Enter the URL' ,defaultValue);

if (URL) {BBcodeButtons.tagStart = ''; edInsertTag(i);}

if (edCheckOpenTags(i)) {var myValue = prompt('Enter the text for the link', ''); edInsertContent(myValue); edInsertTag(i);}

}

else {edInsertTag(i);}

}

Or download 0.0.8 shortly.

[flashpunk]

Negative – changing the theme to the default theme doesn’t fix it

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

It may be your theme. Try using the default theme.

[chrishajer]

In the front-page.php file in your template folder, you can do this:

Change:

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php new_topic(); ?></th>

to:

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php new_topic('Add New ---->'); ?></th>

Where Add New —-> is what you want displayed instead of the default.

[beardownarizona]

I’ve noticed when you click on a topic with multiple pages in these forums, it still takes you to page one….is this the default for bbPress? If so, is there a way to change it so the user is always taken to whatever the last page is? (ie. if the topic has three pages, the link from the forum takes the user to page three).

[suzkaw]

If it still doesn’t work I think you can delete that file totally from the inove directory as it will revert to the default template.

[Sam Bauers]

Just a note, the load options trick only applies to 0.9 it is default behaviour in 1.0

[chrishajer]

I’ve been working with Brad to help resolve this. We’ve finally made some progress.

1. We needed to use the iis_fix plugin from _ck_. Otherwise, any page other than the first page just gets stuck in a reloading loop. Installing this plugin, as an autoload plugin or manually activated plugin, takes care of that problem.

2. When the index.php file is renamed to default.php, the site works fine. When it’s left named index.php, the forum comes up as a 404 error for the front page of the forum only. You can access other pages directly, by adding to the URL. But if you try to load http://www.beardownarizona.com/forums/ or http://www.beardownarizona.com/forums/index.php you get a 404 error. If you rename index.php to default.php, http://www.beardownarizona.com/forums/ loads the front page of the forum just fine.

GoDaddy serves the DirectoryIndex file in this order:

http://help.godaddy.com/article/61

So renaming index.php to default.php (or even leaving index.php there and just copying it to a file called default.php) works just fine.

I also found, with the plugin installed, and this line commented out in index.php, that index.php works fine, and the forums will also load fine when accessed at http://www.beardownarizona.com/forums/ .

/* bb_repermalink(); */

So long as that function is not called in the index.php, index.php works just fine on this server.

So, here are the questions:

1. will bbPress work OK without an index.php and just a default.php being the DirectoryIndex file? (it seems to be fine)

2. can the bb_repermalink(); line be commented out in index.php if the site is not using permalinks? Would commenting it out affect anything else negatively?

3. What does that function do that would cause the index.php file to come up as a 404 when it’s clearly there? It’s almost like it’s trying to load index.php, index.php says “rewrite the URL to {something else}” then it fails to find index.php.

Any thoughts? Thanks.