[parthatel]

I want to know what I need to change in the bbPress files so that the layout will be changed. Basically, I want the left sidebar currently on the default bbPress on the right, with the content on the left. Also, currently on the default bbPress theme, the sidebar disappears when you click a topic or forum. I want the sidebar to always be present. Is there anyway of doing this and switching the sidebar and content?

[malfhok]

Here’s my bbPress. It’s a forum for kids and teens to discuss books on. I modified the default theme to fit with the color scheme of the main site, and added a few plugins for features that my members wanted.

This is actually our second forum. The first was a YaBB install, which I hated, ’cause it kept letting spammers in. But our members and I love bbPress and the ease of use!

http://incredibooks.com/ibdiscuss/

[chrishajer]

Do you have any plugins installed? If so, try disabling them and see if users can log in.

You’re running a modified template. If so, try the default template, unmodified, and see if the problem goes away.

Do you have access to server logs? If so, look for 500 errors being logged or php errors.

UPDATE: I just created a user and I see what’s happening. Not a blank screen, they’re just redirected to the login screen to log in again. Try a stock template and try disabling plugins.

Also, there’s a lot of javascript on that page. Does disabling those scripts affect anything?

[willyhoops]

I tried this and it has not gone. I downloaded .rar file at http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-remove-forum-and-topic-keyword-from-bbpress-url/

(thankfully winzip can open .rar files), and copied the two files “.htaccess” and “remft.php”, and then run the plugin from admin but it made no difference. The first time I ran it I may have forgotton the .htaccess file. Any suggestions what now please?

My forum is at http://www.willyhoops.com/bbpress

Also, I am totally new to this but searching for “remove hot tags” got me nothing. Not sure why they have added that by default but obviously I have to remove it. Can anyone tell me how to do that please?

Ahh gee, you can’t delete a post. I think I have totally messed up. This pluging does not remove the forum it does something else.

Man I have been done! The default install is hopless and there is no info on how to change anything. This is a pro product only but it did not give that impression at all. I though I would have a simple little forum like the one here and it would all be easy. Instead I lost two hours of my Saturday.

“So let’s get started. Download, install, and you’re on your way!”. Yea right

[bobbyh]

Chris, you’re totally right about phpinfo and this should work. If that doesn’t work, it’s probably because Google says that the hosts that disable default PHP functions also disable phpinfo.

[paradox460]

When users on my site sign up using the forum signup, it successfully integrates them into wordpress, but they do not have a nickname, so all comments appear as Anonymous.

Normally wordpress would automatically set the display name default to be the login name, but they dont seem to for this.

Any way i could edit the BBpress files to make wp have a name?

[Oscar]

I’m looking for a plugin for bbPress that shows the latest posts on the forum front page. With the default theme this would be shown as snippets (text of the actual post) below the Tag Cloud/Hot Tags ‘widget’.

I can’t seem to find a plugin, except the one that does just this on your WP installation if you’ve integrated with WP. Does this exist for bb as well?

[mrhoratio]

You’re welcome. It’s included with 2.5.1, it’s just an optional entry, so I don’t think it would be in your default config file. But I think it is shown in the sample config file.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Secret_Key_IMPORTANT

[djp]

Hi Leemon

As far as I am aware, the email addresses of the people who register are not visible in their profiles by other registered users. It seems to be a default setting in bbpress.

The email addresses are only visible to the Keymaster & people who have been given Administrator access.

Hope this helps

[dangrey]

I needed to put a writeable .htaccess containing “Options +MultiViews” in my bbpress root for “pretty permalinks” to work — there wasn’t one by default.

Perhaps your old install had one and you didn’t copy it over during the upgrade.

[bobbyh]

The easiest way is to find and install an existing theme that exists for both WordPress and bbPress. For instance, K2 for bbPress is similar to the WordPress default theme. Here are some bbPress themes for you to check out.

[bobbyh]

Chris, I did disable plugins, but I hadn’t wrapped the Email Notifications plugin function call with a function_exists wrapper, so my active theme stopped working when I did so. I then oh-so-intelligently reasoned that this plugin couldn’t be the cause of the problem, so I moved on…

I couldn’t just disable all plugins and test with a default theme because of the existence of private forums. Finally, I moved the database to a private test server (and used a HOST file) and went through all the plugins carefully one-by-one until the problem was fixed.

Let my idiocy be a lesson for others: wrap your plugin function calls with function_exists wrapper!

[bobbyh]

Lookfab, here’s a slight tweak to the default kakumei topic.php theme file that should do what you want:

<ol id="thread" start="<?php echo $list_start; ?>">

<?php $i = 0; ?>

<?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>

<li id="post-<?php post_id(); ?>"<?php if ($i == 0) { echo 'class="firstpost"'; } elseif !($i % 2) { echo ('class="alt"'); }?>>

<?php bb_post_template(); ?>

</li>

<?php $i++; ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ol>

You can then style the class “firstpost” using CSS to make it stand out however you want…

I didn’t test this, but I think it should work either by itself or with a tweak or two.

[citizenkeith]

My forum users have named this the “Page Bug.”

Here’s what happens: Our forum has 30 posts per page in a thread. Somebody posts the 31st post (or 61st, 91st, etc) which should show up on a new page. However, the thread gets stuck. There’s no “next page” number to click on. The post was successful, it’s just not displayed on a new page.

At this point, I tried recounting, but it still did not appear.

The only way out of the mess is to make a new post. Suddenly, a new page appears and the 31st post is right where it should be, followed by the new 32nd post.

Sometimes the 32nd post doesn’t work either, but that doesn’t happen often.

I’m running v0.9.0.2 with a host of plugins. I’ve tried with no plugins and the default template but it still happens.

[chrishajer]

Are you talking about bbPress or megabb? For bbPress, the keymaster (admin) password is randomly generated and displayed in the last step of the installation. It is also emailed to the email address you entered when configuring the installation.

In any case, if you have direct access to your database, you can insert a password hash for a known password value, then log in using that password for the admin account. I think that’s your best bet if you don’t know the admin password.

For bbPress anyway. I had not heard of megabb until today.

[jllo2035]

I’ve installed megabb and can accesspages until i change the constants file to not be in emergencymode.

I can’t access the admin id even in emergency mode and all of the functionality I’m trying to get to seems to be unavailble

Help?

[mrhoratio]

Is there a way to show a paginated list of front page stickies? In the default bbPress template file “front-page.php”, I found this code:

<?php if ( $super_stickies ) : foreach ( $super_stickies as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <big>“><?php topic_title(); ?></big></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”>“><?php topic_time(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; // $super_stickies ?>

It display a list of front page stickies, but it doesn’t have any pagination if you have a lot of stickies. I tried adding this:

<?php forum_pages(); ?>

But it doens’t work.

Any suggestions on getting this to paginate?

[Bloggsbe]

Yea, I noticed

Just as I uploaded the plugin I read my emails.

But still, this also gives you control with the size of the gravatars (and identicons etc), and you can specify your own default image by stating an URI to the image, so hopefully it gives a bit more control!

Regards,

RG

[Bloggsbe]

I’ve made a plugin that lets you set your own default gravatar.

You can also choose to use Identicons, Wavatar or monsterID as the default gravatar.

You set the size and the rating you want.

This plugin overrides the built in Gravatar function, but you still have to choose to show the avatars in the standard options page, but all other gravatar options from that page is ignored.

I’ve tested it on bbPress 0.9.0.2 and 1.0-dev (from trunk), but it should work on all 0.9.x versions.

You can download the plugin from here.

I’ve also submitted it to the plugins list here on bbpress.org, and will (hopefully) show up there to

—

RG

[affacat]

Not sure what you mean – the code I had above should do what I say it did, it just didn’t do what I wanted.

That said? I now have it working the way I wanted.

This code:

Gets the bbPress avatar, if it exists.

Checks to see if it’s an Identicon…

No? Display it.

Yes? Display Gravatar… but with the URL of the Identicon set as the default in case none exists.

Problem solved.

Note: I believe Gravatar recently integrated Identicons as a default setting, so you can probably do this now without Identicons setup in bbPress by modifying the code some. But this works.

PROFILE.PHP:

$ava = avatarupload_get_avatar($user->ID,1,1,0);

if ( avatarupload_get_avatar($user->ID) && !(usingidenticon($user->ID) )) {

avatarupload_display($user->ID);

}

else {

echo bb_get_avatar($user->ID,48,$ava[0]);

}

POST.PHP:

$ava = avatarupload_get_avatar(get_post_author_id(),1,1,0);

if ( avatarupload_get_avatar(get_post_author_id()) && !(usingidenticon(get_post_author_id()) )) {

avatarupload_display(get_post_author_id());

}

else {

post_author_avatar(48,$ava[0]);

}

[kikloo]

Hi,

I am looking for a similar theme to wordpress blog’s default theme. Anyone has it for bbpress ?

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

You’re stuck with the default of ‘none’ if your server doesn’t support mod_rewrite or Options +MultiViews. You can read about setting up permalinks here if your server supports either of those.

Setting up permalinks on bbPress is not as straightforward as it is on WordPress, but they’re working on it.

[_ck_]

Okay version 0.8.7 of this can now indicate forums with new posts:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/

You will have to change the optional setting to true near the top of the plugin.

It defaults to highlighting the title in blue but you can also change the css to append an icon, etc. instead.

[freshestnoob]

since this is about WPMU, I guess I don’t need to open a new thread. We have common problems.

To get you secret key: go to http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options.php

It lists out your option and your SECRET_KEY is a long alphanumeric character in front of the key ‘entry’.

For the second secret (I’ve forgotten which is which), just define one in the wp-config.php of your installation.

I’ve not checked user-integration on my side by downgrading bbpress sounds like a pain.

Now, to my own problem;

I just installed bbpress on my new WPMU based website. I used the automated wordpress registration.

Everything is working fine but I’ve got two concerns:

1. I got this error on installation: Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’

>>> User tables will already exist when performing a database integrated installation.

It looks pretty harmless, but I want reassurrance that it will not be harmful in the future.

2. The only pretty permalink feature working is the default forum.php?id=1. The others give 404 errors.

Any idea what I might do?

[howtogeek]

You’ll need to use the PHP functions to check the cookies… bbpress doesn’t use sessions by default.

Also, you wouldn’t want to simply use the userid, because that would be insecure since anybody could hack a cookie with any username.

bbPress and WP both store two cookies, the username and the encrypted hash of the password. You’ll have to use those in combination to do a lookup to the database to make sure they both match. I’d advise taking a look through the bbpress source code… it’s not terribly difficult to understand.

The other thing you could do… you could create a plugin / hack for bbPress to assign a session parameter after a successful login, which you could then check for in your other code.