While it sounds like somewhat useful functionality, I don’t want it – if it was enabled by default in bbPress, I’d even want to turn it off. Anything that means users can just visit once, know that they’re going to get any answers and never have to come back is that you’re going to get a lot of users who do just that. I would much rather they check regularly, sometimes see something that catches their eye and hang around … It just sounds like a feature that hinders a community building up. 
Oh no, quite the contrary. The results are shown fine too. The problem is when the titles are show a local variable $topics is created:
<?php
foreach ( $titles as $topic ) :
$count = $topic->topic_posts;
?>
This is all fine and dandy, but, as you can see, $topic is a local variable and won’t be any use further down the page when the code checks whether results have been returned or not.
I hope I’m making myself clear. Let me reiterate just for kicks: The title results show up fine, but the php code prints “No results found.” as well. Just change $topics to $titles in the following code in the template file “search.php”:
<?php if ( !$topics && !$recent && !$relevant && !$users) : ?>
<?php _e('No results found.') ?>
<?php endif; ?>
So i think the database field title is not included in the search ?
After a search for a word that appears only in the topic title (but not the tags, nor post content) the results are listed, followed by:
No results found.
This is because the if statement is looking for the local variable $topics, instead of the correct variable $titles.
It’s a small fix, but I didn’t know how to post on the bbPress bugtracker.
How difficult would it be to create a plugin that allows users to be able to post under different names for different posts? They could have a maximum number (let’s say 5) of options, and they could select at post-time with their default name pre-selected.
Null, I couldn’t get this to work. I experienced the same issues as suleiman. I looked at your SQL, and found some errors involving your column names: you’re using mySQL keywords as column names, like “set”.
I tried
CREATE TABLE bb_menu(
sett varchar( 50 ) NOT NULL default ”,
item varchar( 50 ) NOT NULL default ”,
page varchar( 50 ) NOT NULL default ”,
location varchar( 50 ) NOT NULL default ”,
orderr int( 9 ) NOT NULL default ‘0’,
PRIMARY KEY ( sett, item )
but still got an error:
MySQL said: Documentation
#1064 – You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 7
Notice I changed “set” to “sett” and “order” to “orderr”. I think you’re on the right track tho. Let me know if I can help further. I’ll check this thread periodically because I’d like to see this plugin work.
I’ve seen lots of posts requesting this functionality, but couldn’t find any plugins. Well I’ve had a go at porting Jeff Moore wordpress plugin, not all bbcode tags work as the markup isn’t allowed by default within bbpress, but it’s a start !
Download Here.
Blog Post.
just in case you’d like to move the hottags to the top:
seperate #frontpage and #hottags in the css and change the pos. from absolute to relative.
I do have the template files in /my-template/ folder (I even put them in the default template directory too), I am using mod-rewrite, and when I initially set up the pm plugin, the database did not install, so I grabbed the query from the bb-privatemessage.php file to create the bb_privatemessage table and when I ran the query it gave me an error with the “message” column saying
“#1074 – Too big column length for column ‘message’ (max = 255). Use BLOB instead”
So I set it to BLOB and Even tried LONGTEXT. I don’t see if it would make a difference or not, but maybe that is why?
If you visit http://bbpress.org/forums/bb-login.php and use the top-most login form (the one in header.php), a recursive redirect occurs, which displays an error message in Safari. (I haven’t tested it in other browsers.)
This happens in all bbPress installations using the default template (and a few other templates that include the login form in the header). Is there a way to avoid this situation?
Hi,
I have a fairly default install of bbpress here:
http://www.asianamericanmedia.org/discuss/
… using the default the default kakumei theme. I noticed that if you click the little double-right-arrow next to “New topic in this forum” on an empty forum page, it gives a 404 error. The link is pointing to /discuss/topic/#postform, and I have pretty permalinks on.
What is this link supposed to point to?
Note: I just noticed the same problem on this support forum too! If you go to the ADD NEW topic page, there is a little double arrow next to the header “Add New Topic”, pointing to http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/#postform – which also results in a 404. What gives?
flaerpen,
Could you try on your localhost version two of the plugin you tried?
https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/575/path-to-url.2.php
(Download link at the bottom.)
First delete the first version of the plugin you have installed.
it appears the patch only mods the default template so assuming I have to make those changes manually
That’s right.
probably could edit the patch file by hand, but I have already modded some of those files in my theme… no package available of the modded files?
Modding the patch file would be difficult, sometimes patch can work out what to do when the files it’s patching are modified (i.e. the line numbers are different).
The easiest thing to do is start from scratch with a fresh 0.8 install, patch that, then add your customisations. Following the default template after patching, you should be able to work in categories to your custom theme.
Are there any more planned releases between 0.8 and 1.0? which I believe I read somewhere is the planned formal release with this incorporated… Roadmap shows 1.0 next but it may not be current…
The roadmap is current. The 1.0 milestone has a ticket against it for this. That doesn’t mean it will necessarily make it into that release.
A couple more questions on this… it appears the patch only mods the default template so assuming I have to make those changes manually… probably could edit the patch file by hand, but I have already modded some of those files in my theme… no package available of the modded files?
Are there any more planned releases between 0.8 and 1.0? which I believe I read somewhere is the planned formal release with this incorporated… Roadmap shows 1.0 next but it may not be current…
thanks…
I have done exactly what you are doing and cannot replicate this error with or without permalinks. What theme are you running and does it work if you only use the default theme? Are you using any plugins that are being displayed on the login page (as both login forms are displayed on that page)? Does your theme have login.php in it? If it does, what happens when you remove it for the default one?
Anyone else seeing this error by logging into the top form on login.php?
Trent
When I read your post the first time I missed that you put localhost and that is the problem. Anything before 0.8 you cannot install it on a localhost because there are some issues with it.
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/573
I would imagine you are running this on 0.8 though. The double slashes on the local server would be the issue. Maybe the address wrong on config.php or your setup? There are quite a few people with successful installs on localhost with 0.8.
It must be a setup issue, but really glad to hear that it works where it is really important, on the web.
Trent
Okey.. I tried to upload it to my internetserver and it works. You can’t try this on your own localhost.. Bad i think..
is there someone who can help me?
so1o, I’ve created a new version of the plugin (let’s call it 1.2 beta 1). I haven’t committed it yet, I wanted you to review it. It covers these issues:
- Integrated visual-support-forum plugin features as options in admin
- Added admin action to upgrade database instead of running on plugin load
- When default status is “unresolved”, topics with no status set now show in the “unresolved” view
- Sticky topics that are unresolved now show in the “unresolved” view
Download here for now:
support-forum.1.2.zip
OK…I’ve figured that in the <link> for stylesheet it only has http:/forum5o1 ( http:/ not http:// )
yet in config.php it has http://forum5o1.awardspace.com not http:/
and all the links have http:// …
So I have no idea :S
This only happens when a deisgn is “activated” so i will cause it to go to default (which is what i did before to make me think that it got fixed).
i’ve tried that! Both of the solutions, but i still can’t use my own template!
I can’t see the thumbnail of either my template or kakumeis.
EDIT: I saw what maybe could be the problem. It uses doubleslashes to the link to both Kakumei and my template. Maybe it’s because of that i have my problem? Maybe this could help someone to help me too. (?)
http://localhost/ungodum/bbpress/bb-admin/themes.php?theme=
\webb\xampp\htdocs\ungodum\bbpress/my-templates/ungodum/&_wpnonce=538f668ad4
I just upgrade my bbpress to 0.8. Here is what I did
1. I download the new version and copied to my server to replace all the old files.
2. Then I copied my old directories: my-plugins and my-templates, and I follow the instruction and move all previous my templates files to a subdirectory called mybbpress under my-templates.
3. But my forum is using the default bbpress theme
http://www.travelsuperlink.com/forum/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css
4. and I login to my admin panel, only find Dashboard, Users, Content, cannot find any Presentation Admin panel.
Anybody could help? many thanks.
my forum is http://travelsuperlink.com/forum
Hey. I was having the problem where new registrations to BB was giving the users administrator privileges (bu the default was set to subscriber) — and In the WP userlist, the new bb users were sort of ominously listed below the users who registered through WP.
I saw this mentioned a few times here (sorry for not just adding this in reply to one of those posts, I couldn’t find them)…
Anyways – I realized I have the Role Manager plugin installed in WP.. I de-activated it, and now new users get assigned the proper default WP role.
Cheers.
I guess I don’t really have any ideas off the top of me head here. I guess it is hard to conceptially figure out why it is important to run the wp header in bbPress. Why not duplicate the wp header information in header.php in your bbPress theme (in bbPress format) and then each one automatically calls the content and stylesheet needed for its own content?
Even all the errors that you are recieving with the logged in parts would be gone if you used each header independant of each other. The systems knows the user logged in for both sites through the use of cookies and has nothing to do with the actual system calls.
The only importance would be in you plan on having wp content in bbPress side or vice-versa. But, if the content is only based on each side, the system does this by default.
Does that make any sense? I am really trying to really understand what you need to do a bit better so the solution will just ‘jump out at us!’
Trent
We all know that the AutoMattic guys use their own stuff, but after each site has been skinned with all their CSS magic, sometimes it’s hard to see… I thought we should savour the moment the wordpress.org forums ran with the default bbpress theme 
