[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Those plugins come default for 1.0alpha2 under the plugins tab, you have to turn them on. I suspect it’s POSSIBLE if you downloaded the alpha version, they might work in a non-alpha install, but it’s untested.

But really, if you’re just moving your domain, you can pretty much do what you’d do for WordPress or any other PHP/SQL driven site. You have two basic options.

1. Download a copy of the main bbpress files from your OLD server to your hard drive and edit wp-config.php to suit the new server.
2. Go back to your OLD forum and go to options and change the url (both of them) to that of your new site.
3. Download your database (but keep the old one just in case), upload this new database and the copy of the wordpress core files with the edited bb-config.php to your NEW server.

Or…

1. Install a new forum on the new server.
2. Export the forum content from the OLD server into a BBXF file
3. Import the data into the new forum.

[agitainment]

Hi, there.

I’m trying to figure out how to get my theme (http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/) to use the 404.php page that I’ve styled to fit with my theme. Currently all 404’s are using the default provided by my host or the bbPress die page.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

[chrishajer]

How about using the 1-column fixed bbPress raw theme and customizing it to look like your blog?

http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/

I don’t think I’ve seen anything like Kubrick for bbPress at all yet.

[danbbpress]

I just installed BBPress and it’s working fine with the default numerical URLs. When I change the Permalink type to the 3rd one (textula URLs) all I get are 404 errors, even in the admin backoffice. What to do?

Thanks.

Dan

[hotshottwo]

Can anyone point me at some instructions on how to create a bbPress theme that loosely matches the WordPress default (Kubrick) theme, i.e. 760 px wide with rounded page corners and space for a header image with rounded corners? Looking for a quick way to integrate bbPress so that it has the same look as the rest of my WordPress site.

[_ck_]

What I meant by that is pretty-permalinks are not turned on by default.

[quidoloremipsum]

i wonder if there’s bbpress plugin that can display graphical ranks (something like phpbb’s default stars under user’s nickname…)? if no – did anyone though about writing such plugin?

[chrishajer]

beernews: yes, that’s what pretty permalinks look like. Looks like the options in trunk are now:

None   …/forums.php?id=1

Numeric   …/forums/1

Name based   …/forums/first-forum

It used to be “none, true, slugs” which correspond to the above options in order. I’m not sure if they’re on by default when you install the latest version. There was talk of creating the mod_rewrite rules automatically when turning permalinks on (like WordPress does right now), but I’m not sure if that happens automatically or not yet.

But, with name based (the old slugs option) I think the links would be pretty good for SEO. The slugs might still contain stop words or otherwise be too long, but, they’re still pretty good.

[beernews]

Looking into this now but your comment confuses me, Chris. Isn’t pretty permalinks on by default (even though the admin indicates that it is not in the options).

Is this not pretty permalinks?

Is bbpress SEO friendly???

Wouldnt it say https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/#thread-2342 or something like that if they weren’t on?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

meitershaker – In theory, the principle that worked for Adding default Gravatars to WP 2.6 should work for bbPress.

Haven’t tested it yet.

[eagano]

@ctsttom – In order for a user that was registered in WordPress to have any authority in bbPress, they need to have the option ‘bb_capabilities’ in their user metadata. This does not have anything to do with the role maps in bbPress. Those role maps only affect users that are registered within bbPress that need to have capabilities inside WordPress. I think you are having the same problem that I had – you need to go the other direction. You need a default capability in bbPress for a new user registration in WPMU.

There are two ways to do this:

1) go to your bbPress admin panel, drill into each new user that was registered in WordPress, edit their profile, and assign them a ‘User Type’

2) use my shiny new WordPress plugin that creates a default capability of ‘member’ in bbPress for users that are registered in WordPress

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/

I would be interested in any feedback you have. There are two caveats to this plugin:

1) it does not handle any users registered in WordPress that existed before the plugin was activated, you’ll have to do that manually (but you get the idea and could handle this with a mass SQL)

2) there is no logic to determine which bbPress User Type to use, I just start with ‘member’ and assume that I’ll manually set admins/moderators, and further that everyone with a login should be able to post.

Let me know what you think!

[kunia]

I have my answer :

file : bb-include>template-fonction.php

search : “bb_allowed_tag”

Include :

// Add Tags with allow_tags

<p>    function allow_more_tags( $tags ) {<br />

$tags['p'] = array('style' => array());<br />

$tags['span'] = array('style' => array());<br />

$tags['b'] = array('style' => array());<br />

$tags['em'] = array('style' => array());<br />

$tags['ol'] = array('style' => array());</p>

<p>    return $tags;<br />

}</p>

<p>    add_filter( 'bb_allowed_tags', 'allow_more_tags' );

under this…

// format=list or array( 'format' => 'list' )<br />

function get_allowed_markup( $args = '' ) {<br />

$args = wp_parse_args( $args, array('format' => 'flat') );<br />

extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);</p>

<p>	$tags = bb_allowed_tags();<br />

unset($tags['pre'], $tags['br']);<br />

$tags = array_keys($tags);</p>

<p>	switch ( $format ) :<br />

case 'array' :<br />

$r = $tags;<br />

break;<br />

case 'list' :<br />

$r = "<ul class='allowed-markup'>nt

<li>";<br />

$r .= join("</li>

nt

<li>", $tags);<br />

$r .= "</li>

nn";<br />

break;<br />

default :<br />

$r = join(' ', $tags);<br />

break;<br />

endswitch;<br />

return apply_filters( 'get_allowed_markup', $r, $format );<br />

}

[chrishajer]

No.

Kakumei is a theme (WordPress terminology) or a template (bbPress terminology) and controls the display of the content on your site. Any modifications you make to your site should be done in these template files, never in the core. Changing core files makes it hard to upgrade to newer releases: you lose your changes with every upgrade. So, if you make the changes in a template file, you can maintain them between releases.

Also, by default, the stock kakumei theme is used and it’s in the bb-templates directory. I recommend creating a new directory called my-templates (if it’s not there already) at the same level as bb-templates. So, in a directory listing, they’d be at the same level. Then, inside there, create a directory called mytheme or some other name that is descriptive for your forum. This directory name does not matter. (The my-templates one DOES matter.)

Now that you have a my-templates directory, and inside that a new directory with a name you choose, copy everything from inside the bb-templates/kakumei/ directory to this new directory you created. Then, open up style.css and change the header to give this new template a unique name on line two. You will see this there:

Theme Name: Kakumei

Change that to “Theme Name: My Cool New Theme” or whatever you want. Then refresh your admin panel, and you will see a new theme. You can change the rest of the lines in that header as well, to things that are meaningful to you. Be sure not to modify the text before the colon, just change the text after, to your values.

Now, modify the php and css files in this directory to change the look of your forum. You can switch back and forth between themes here. If you break something, just choose the default theme until you fix the one you were working on.

[chrishajer]

If you just want to delete the display of the information below the post form, don’t remove that from a core file. What you want to do does not require any modification of core files. Stay out of there.

You want to be in a template folder, by default bb-templates/kakumei/ but if you created a custom template, you may have a my-templates/yourtemplatename/. In that folder, there should be a file post-form.php and edit-form.php. In the 0.9.0.2 version, you want to look at

./edit-form.php line 19

/post-form.php line 31

Those lines contains the code to display “Allowed markup” below the post form. Remove that line completely and the text will no longer appear under your post form. Remove it in edit-form.php as well, and it won’t appear below that form either.

If you don’t have those files in your template, or those lines in your template files, then I don’t know what to say. That’s where the text comes from in a stock installation.

[beernews]

Got around to trying this in version 0.9.0.2 / template: bbOrg

I didnt see those files you mentioned but searched a bunch of files and all I found was this strip of code in the includes/template-functions.php file:

function allowed_markup( $args = '' ) {

echo apply_filters( 'allowed_markup', get_allowed_markup( $args ) );

}



// format=list or array( 'format' => 'list' )

function get_allowed_markup( $args = '' ) {

$args = wp_parse_args( $args, array('format' => 'flat') );

extract($args, EXTR_SKIP);



$tags = bb_allowed_tags();

unset($tags['pre'], $tags['br']);

$tags = array_keys($tags);



switch ( $format ) :

case 'array' :

$r = $tags;

break;

case 'list' :

$r = "<ul class='allowed-markup'>nt<li>";

$r .= join("</li>nt<li>", $tags);

$r .= "</li>n</ul>n";

break;

default :

$r = join(' ', $tags);

break;

endswitch;

return apply_filters( 'get_allowed_markup', $r, $format );

}

Would that get rid of the markup stuff underneath the posting area WITHOUT disrupting my BB Code Buttons functionality?

Thanks!

[agitainment]

Hi, there.

I have been getting sporadic errors with my RSS feeds using both my own theme and the default Kakumei theme on the latest installation of bbPress.

Sometimes when I hit the various RSS links, the following error comes up on a new page followed by a listing of the document tree:

“This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.”

Usually, when I hit the back button on my browser and try the feed button again, it works fine.

Any idea what’s going on here and how to fix it?

Thanks!

[agitainment]

Yes, I think this is what it is.

I’ve run into it on every theme I’ve tried, including the default. It always shows the same forrest-green box with the bbPress logo and an error message like “You need to actually submit some content!” It’s really jarring when coming out of my theme, which has a kind of handmade-look (http://agitainment.com/ics/forum).

So, is there no hope for me to be able to restyle this myself?

Thanks for your help, everyone!

[brad_langdon]

Yea that was me disabling some plugins.

Thanks but I don’t know anyone that knows how to fix this type of thing.

I tried refreshing another page over and over and you are right it did the same thing only with more gibberish errors over top of the default bbpress error page.

[epiphone]

It also happens the default as well. I’ve deactivated all plugins still no form.

Just to clear up. I don’t get a blank screen. I mean when I click new topic it will bring me to the page with the heading of create new topic, but below it will be no form of any kind

[chrishajer]

Does the problem happen with the default theme? Chances are there’s a problem in one of your template files.

Or, possibly a plugin issue. Turn off plugins until your forum works again.

If you have access to error logs, you can look in there and see exactly what’s causing the problem. A blank screen is normally a 500 Internal Server Error.

[chrishajer]

There is no language file for that text, it’s in your template file: /bb-templates/kakumei/post-form.php line 15 by default. You can change it there.

[sawndiddle]

Where is the language file for “Enter a few words (called tags) separated by spaces to help someone find your topic: “?

I need to change spaces to commas. Also, I think this needs to be updated in the new bbpress, but the default setting I got was separated by commas, but spaces is misleading to those who post.

[agitainment]

Hi.

I recently installed bbPress on my WordPress site here at http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/.

I’ve built a theme based on 1col_fixed 1.1 (I believe it’s kakumei with most of the CSS stripped out). In any case, when I go to my forums I can see my Gravatars and default avatars in kakumei, but when I switch on my theme they disappear.

Is there a php file I’m missing or a block of code somewhere I need to copy over from the kakumei theme to get these to work? If so, where should I put the code?

Thanks!

[zigx]

Hi All,

I recently upgraded to 0.9.0.2 and since this upgrade the “remember me” functionality we used to have is now not working at all.

Basically if you close the browser down completely, and reopen it, then access the site you have to login Each time.

Any ideas?? i tried switching to default themes, etc and it made no difference.

Also, i should add that i have no WordPress integration at all, its a pure bbpress site.

[Sam Bauers]

Another thing left is to try it using the default template instead of the custom one you are using and seeing if that changes the behaviour.

You can just switch to it temporarily, then test and switch back.