[chrishajer]

In your theme’s style.css (or the default theme style.css) you want to find this at around line 255:

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

}

That controls the styling of <td class=”num”>.

I also recommend you use the Firefox web browser with the Web Developer add-on by Chris Pederick for finding things like this.

[fel64]

Err, no. I read your description here. I thought about that approach before but I like the time-based implementation, especially as my hosting is a bit creaky (and edit: having come to the finish of this post, I realise that it’s actually not that bad at all! Maybe it is a good idea, especially as it’s a lot more convenient). It’s good that you’ve done it though, and cool that you’re sharing it (in the face of adversity ). I hope you don’t mind; here’s some suggested changes that could speed things up a lot.

For installing the table, you may want to use bb_dbDelta() (should work exactly as wp’s implementation: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins ).

There are also a lot of queries made that you could probably avoid. For example, in the topic listing the current topic will be in the global $topic, and you can get its last_post_id by this:

$last_post_in_topic = $topic->topic_last_post;

You can do the same for the number of posts.

Every column in the table will be available as a member variable (don’t know how familiar you are with PHP? Member variables are just like above, $member->!!!member_variable!!!) – that’s true for users, posts, topics and forums alike. (Meta entries are too, if there’s an entry topic_colour in the topicmeta table you can call it by $topic->topic_colour.)

Right now you’re making at least three additional queries per topic:

if ( utplugin_is_topic_unread($topic, $user) || utplugin_is_topic_new($topic, $user) )

utplugin_is_topic_unread() makes three queries. If it’s not unread, it’ll check if it’s new, too, which is another two. For the default 30 topics, that’s 90 – 150 additional database queries per single view of a page. Since db queries are usually the bottlenecks in website speed that could be a problem. (_ck_ would probably blow an artery.)

By using the already-queried stuff from global $topic you can cut that down to one or two topics per query. Also, in utplugin_is_topic_new() you’re using exactly the same value again, but making a new query for it, if I see that right. You could either move the check to utplugin_is_topic_unread() (which would return true for unread and for new) or make that a global itself.

That would make it at most one query per topic.

Finally, IIRC data for all topics on the page is being called in a single query. If you can find the right filter or hook, you may find that you can get all the relevant topic_ids at once, at the start, then do a _single_ query on your table that gets data for all of them, make that a static (so it’s preserved every time the function is called) and use that data every time. Then the overhead generated by your plugin wouldn’t even be so bad.

[neyoung]

ok. I’ve figured out whats causing the problem. It comes down to the Default Role Plugin. There is nothing wrong with the plugin itself other than the fact that it relies on wordpress functions. Thus you need to load wp along with bbpress. To do so I have the following added to the top of my config.php file.

require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');

define('WP_BB', true);

With the two lines in the config.php file the allow images plugin does no work. I even tried disabling the Default Roles plugin and leaving the 2 lines in config.php to make sure the plugin wasn’t the culprit. If I remove the two lines the Allow Images plugin works as expected.

I don’t know much, but I could take a stab at whats happening. Is it possible that when a reply/topic is made, bbpress is calling wordpress functions instead of bbpress functions?

[henrybb]

_ck_: have you considered hacking up a plugin that gathers information about the forum upon activation and once per month after that and submits it to you in some way? Would automate the process way more for you and admins instead of having to post the link to you, and then you having to review all the sites.

I’m thinking it would fill out an HTML form and submit it to a site you had. Then people could log in and see updated information about the most active bbPress boards and what their functionality was. And you could compile a static list regularly.

If it was well written, I’d be interested in seeing it in bbPress by default so new admins who wouldn’t find the plugin here could activate it and submit statistics.

Ofcourse, there’d be some bozos trying to inflate their numbers sometime down the line..

[fel64]

To delete a topic, you have to open the topic, scroll to the bottom and click [Delete Entire Topic]. You can’t rename the theme as it’s a default, but you can make your own theme (and name it whatever) by creating a my-themes folder in root and creating a style.css file (you can just copy the one from bb-templates/kakumei to start with, as a reference).

[_ck_]

Oh sorry, I’ve created a new main theme so this one isn’t visible anymore by default.

However thanks to a theme switcher I pieced together you can now see it this way:

http://bbpress.dreamhosters.com/forums/?bbtheme=kakumei-too

(I’m calling it “Kakumei Too” for lack of a more creative name right now)

You can switch to other themes using the toggle in the bottom right.

[kboan23]

I just discovered something and wanted to run it by the forum. I agree…when I registered in bbPress and then logged into WordPress as the administrator, that new registrant was not given a role.

However, after I actually logged on as the new person and then logged BACK on as the administrator to see what was what…the person’s role was actually changed to “Subscriber” – my default role in WordPress.

So, if this is true, and I’m not missing something that could catch me up…it seems that this whole issue might be mute. Once the user actually logs in, their role is set as the default role so their rights are restricted by that role.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I perhaps missing something that I’m really going to regret if I don’t fix this?

Thanks,

K

[kboan23]

I’m trying to create this plugin. When I try to register using bbPress, I get this error message…

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_User’ not found in /home/sbisdedt/public_html/web20/forum/my-plugins/default-role.php on line 11

The registration actually takes place; the person receives the email with the password; their registration shows up in both WordPress and bbPress.

But how do I stop that error message from appearing. What could I have possibly done wrong.

Thanks for your help.

K

[_ck_]

Please let me know if I missed any decent themes available?

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes

You can click on them to get a general idea what they look like in action. Themes reset back to default in three minutes (or use the theme switcher in the bottom right hand corner on any page).

Still needs a bug fix or two but I’ll release that as a “My Views” module along with the theme switcher probably this coming weekend.

Whew. That was a project and a half.

[_ck_]

I couldn’t find anyone who made a bbPress theme switcher (not a style switch, but the entire template) so I modified (somewhat deeply) one from WordPress last night. Took some research and testing!

I’ve added it here, you can see the dropdown at the very bottom right:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

(if you are willing to edit all your themes you can put the dropdown anywhere, otherwise it will default to that location on each theme automagically – a new feature!)

So give me your themes and I’ll add them to the list to see if I can find the bbPress breaking point…

[_ck_]

Yup this is a bug and there is a fix that I can’t remember for the life of me. It might be already fixed by default in the alpha.

Let me google away and see if I can find it… I know it’s very annoying.

I vaguely remember it has something to do with the forum pointer not being reset after the sub-forums are displayed.

[chrishajer]

I guess after re-reading, you are not sure what files to modify. Each of the php files in the template folder are used to display SOMETHING. When I first started out, I had no idea what file was used to display each page, or view, or whatever. So, I usually found a page I didn’t like the look of, just by looking at it in the browser, then I found a word on that page that seemed distinct enough that I could grep through all the template files for that word. In a lot of cases, I would find one file or maybe 3 files where that word occurred. That’s how I knew what page to modify. I’m sure someone with more knowledge could tell you that forum.php is used to display a single forum, or that topic.php is used to display a single topic.

One thing I did right off the bat to see which php pages were actually displayed and not called from other php files was to look in the template folder for something called header.php. There’s always a header.php and a footer.php, it seems. So, there is indeed a header.php. Now, since that is the header for each page, that has to be called from any page that is displayed in the browser. So, I grepped through all the php files in the template folder for header.php and found there are no files called header.php. I know they have to call header.php somehow, maybe it’s a function. So, I grepped through all the files for header without the php, and it returned a ton of files with header in them.

shell:~/forum/my-templates/mytheme > grep -i header *php

edit-post.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

favorites.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

forum.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

front-page.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

header.php:             <div id="header">

login.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

memberlist.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

password-reset.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile-base.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile-edit.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

register-success.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

register.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

rss2.php:<?php header('Content-type: text/xml'); ?>

search-stock.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

search.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

stats.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

tag-single.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

tags.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

topic.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

view.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

OK, so they call the header with a function called bb_get_header. I grepped again for that, to eliminate the other places the word header appears (div id=”header” for example.)

Now, I have a list of every page, I think, that’s used to display some content to the user in a browser. If you are trying to change the structure of a certain page, it’s going to be one of those php files listed there.

If you’re just trying to modify the look (not the actual structure) you might just be able to make a change to the style.css. Find the id or class of the element you want to change (view source in your browser to see what’s being used currently) then change that element in the style.css.

One thing I did right off the bat was styled the blockquote. By default (when I installed a year ago) there were no styling rules for blockquote. No indent, no different font, no border, no color change, nothing. So, I added a definition to the style.css for blockquote.

In some cases you’ll be modifying existing rules, in others you’ll be created new ones for things that might be unstyled.

I find Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Toolbar add on for Firefox invaluable for modifying CSS.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

You can make a change while viewing the page and see the effect right away. Then, you can make the change permanent by modifying the style.css. The changes made in with the web developer toolbar are local only, they’re not saved. Play all you want there, you won’t break anything. Make a change you like, then make it permanent in the style.css.

[chrishajer]

> A few silly questions:

> Changing or adding hot tags. Whats the procedure?

When a topic is added, the user can add tags upon creation. I think each user can also delete tags they have added themselves. As admin, you can add or delete tags on any topic when viewing the topic. So, you can delete or add a tag. Was there something else you needed to do?

> Looked through dashboard and can’t seem to find how

> to change or add new topics. Forums can be added but

> don’t know about topics.

To create a new topic, just create one as a user or as the admin user. There’s no specific place in the admin panel to do it. It’s just done in the forum.

> Last query: Again I ask about the changes made to

> structure in the html. I looked through all files and found

> nothing. Many scripts I have used in the past have one

> file called index or something that can be access to the

> html. Just creating or changing the style sheet does not

> allow for the changes I want to make. I like the default

> but some changes to reflect my website is key.

I guess it depends what you are looking to do. I know from other posts you have seen what other people have done to change the look of their forum. So, anything is possible. You want to avoid changing core bbPress files so that when you upgrade those changes aren’t lost.

You start by changing the template files. Default template files are found in bb-templates/kakumei/. To create your own template, create a directory called /my-templates/ (on the same level in the filesystem as bb-templates). Then, in there, create a folder which will be the name for your template, so maybe something like ronjroy. Your directory structure would look like /my-templates/ronjroy/ .

In that folder, put a copy of whatever file you want to modify, or put a copy of all the files from the default theme. I think at a minimum you need to have a style.css in this folder. IMPORTANT: modify the name of the theme by changing it at the top of the style.css file. Maybe you want to call it “Ron J Roy”. Change this line (at least) at the top of style.css:

Theme Name: Ron J Roy

(I copied all the files over from the default theme, but I know now that’s redundant. If you are not making a change to a file, you don’t need a copy of it. You need style.css and then any file you want to modified. The file present in my-templates/{whatever} override the stock files. If a file is not present in your theme, the stock one is used.)

Now, select your new theme in your admin panel (Presentation > Themes, or navigate to bb-admin/themes.php). If it’s not showing up in the admin panel, then something is wrong in the files you copied over. Maybe you made a mistake in editing the style.css.

Now, you should see your new theme there by name anyway. Select it. Now, because your theme is just a copy of the stock theme with a new name, the screenshot is identical (you just copied over screenshot.png), and when you use your new theme, the forum will look exactly the same as the stock theme. That’s OK. The files in the my-templates/ronjroy/ are being used to display the template, but they’re unchanged from stock, so they look the same. At least you’re using your new theme. Now the fun begins.

Pick a file, any file, in my-template/ronjroy. Make a change to the HTML in a PHP file or to the CSS in style.css. Save it. Now refresh your forum. It should look different. If you broke something, fix it in your theme, or just change the theme back to stock and go back to stock, then figure out what you broke.

These are not official docs by any means. It’s stuff I figured out from using the software in the past year. Some of it may have changed in new versions since I started. One thing I have learned about installing forum software though: if you find that you can’t understand the software enough to modify it, move on to another project. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I mean, if you’re not able to do the things you want, the way you want them, then why bang your head against the wall? Just install something else. It’s not worth the hassle. The hassles I was having with other software is why I ended up with bbPress. I grok it, I like it, and we get along fine.

(haha – longer reply to a long question)

[ronjroy]

Hello,

A few silly questions:

Changing or adding hot tags. Whats the procedure?

Looked through dashboard and can’t seem to find how to change or add new topics. Forums can be added but don’t know about topics.

Last query: Again I ask about the changes made to structure in the html. I looked through all files and found nothing. Many scripts I have used in the past have one file called index or something that can be access to the html. Just creating or changing the style sheet does not allow for the changes I want to make. I like the default but some changes to reflect my website is key.

Excuse the lengthy text, but I find looking through the documentation much like chasing my own tail. Thanks to those who have replied to earlier queries. I have made some changes and it looks good so far.

[_ck_]

In your .htaccess file put

AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1

Actually, I’m seeing in the header.php template

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Which would have to be edited directly.

[_ck_]

I’ve tried hacking a couple wp plugins to bbpress to get better code preservation. But it’s not working.

What is used here? It seems to actually work somehow and that’s not the default technique in the core…

[_ck_]

All these problem are both cookie path

and forbidden character problems.

Both are poorly documented (or not mentioned at all)

but the good news is that fixes exist for both issues.

I have to find my previous instructions on this but

because bbpress search is so poor, this may take awhile.

Could someone please get this into a wiki or faq at some point:

Steps required for more complete and problem-free bbPress+WordPress integration:

1. cookies paths need to be changed to the same path in both WordPress and bbPress (change to domain root recommended)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpressbbpress-single-sign-on?replies=22#post-9010

2. the integration plugin should be installed

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/4?replies=26&more=1

3. the allow spaces in usernames plugin should be installed (also add my underscore hack for characters bbPress by default forbids but WordPress allows – see my message later in same thread)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/usernames-with-spaces-do-not-work?replies=28#post-7904

4. add the ” set default role when registering new user though forum” mini plugin should be installed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yet-another-integration-bug-no-role-set-on-registration?replies=10#post-8768

5. search your bbpress templates and force all registrations/logins through wordpress from the several places they are buried on the forum (the WP login interfaces are far more developed) – unfortunately at least one bbPress login location is hard coded in the core which will require a direct hack everytime you upgrade. ie:

<?php $request_uri=$GLOBALS["HTTP_SERVER_VARS"]["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Login'); ?></a>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-register.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Register'); ?></a>

6. optional but highly recommended, install the “use display name” plugin for mods+admin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/2?replies=6&more=1

[benbeltran]

SamBauers is right, text/html is right and “application/xhtml+xml” + IE6 = headaches. And it’s really not that important.

On the other hand, the inline styling parts are more of a problem for people who want to design a theme. To edit the tag cloud I had to edit the code so it could support changing colors. If you could make a class for each step, it would be easier to customize the cloud.

point 4 .. .well I wouldn’t know about it since I don’t have a colour deficiency, but I can barely notice the change of color. Still, because of the structure of the forum, I am able to differentiate between topics easily, might be something to think about.

Why not help the project out by editing the default theme so it validates properly and is more accessible (I wouldn’t change the text/html part though) without changing the current looks, if it’s properly executed and it doesn’t make things harder for developers, it might become the official one. Collaborate

[mazdakam]

hi again )

al of you know that notification email is very important for tracing a post

i am using post – notification plug in

but it need to be better:

don’t send any email until you visit the post from your email link

i got crazy this month because for every new post i will give notification email and the trafficked of my forum is high

many other forum systems have this feature

so i recommend this:

an option for users to select didgist summary or per post or until he/she visit(default!)

[bobbyh]

I had a user write a post with this title:

This creates a post like this:

* http://www.kosmosity.com/forums/topic/?replies=1#post-2

I’m using the “slug” option on this test forum which uses the default theme and bbPress 0.8.2.1. It looks like the is being sanitized to “” (an empty string), which confuses bbPress and leads to that topic resolving to an error page. On the test forum to which I just linked, I have no plugins except WordPress Integration.

Has anybody else run into this bug? Is there an existing workaround? If other people can replicate this bug, I’ll create a ticket in Trac. Also, if there’s no existing workaround, I’ll try to create a plugin workaround.

Thanks,

Bob

[mikeinspain]

Never mind, had to default back to a Vanilla Forum..

[Elias]

Arrgh! Horrors!

The problem is caused by the bb_append_meta invocation in line 2075 of functions.php. The query destroys the last SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS and so the count is wrong. A quick and dirty workaround is to change 'append_meta' => false to 'append_meta' => false in the $defaults array in line 2021 of functions.php. But this only works if the append_meta argument is not given in the bb_user_search call.

Now the problem is more complicated as I suspected earlier. It is a problem for the hackers that make bbPress. No further searching for bugs from me, the problem should be clear. (It is clear enough to me after reading lots of code from other people.) I expect it to be fixed in the next release.

[dennylin93]

I installed bbPress version 0.8.2.1 on Windows XP Pro SP2 with Apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.3. I installed a few plugins, and everything worked fine. However, when I tried to register a new user for testing, I couldn’t receive the e-mail with the password.

I checked the error log and found this:

[Sat Aug 18 21:18:09 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in \Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\forums\bb-includes\registration-functions.php on line 105, referer: http://127.0.0.1/forums/register.php

Most things on Apache and PHP are set to default, so I’m not sure if I skipped any processes. I’ve been having trouble with SMTP for a long time now.

[Inquirer]

The following code is in the front-page.php file

<th><?php _e(‘Freshness’); ?></th>

What file contains the code to change the Freshness of post format from the default of Days to the Date – Hours – Minutes ?

[Sam Bauers]

Ummm, I probably won’t add that sort of functionality to the plugin. Perhaps you should try to hack together a plugin yourself?