[anandasama]

R-a-y: Thank you! The theme is a heavily modified version of Scoun.

Although I am soon to write a new template because of the css/html isnt that great on it.

Just my way of learning the ropes.

About the RSS feeds: I use feedwordpress plugin to feed it into my wordpress. In wordpress then, I put in some arguments to filter out the RSS feed so it won’t show up there. Somehow it still shows up in my WordPress RSS so I need to find a way to filter it out from the RSS too.

The RSS syndication plugin can hold a number of RSS feeds with alot of options and automatically post articles.

Then I use BBpress WordPress Synchronization plugin and when bbpress finds a new post in WordPress it automatically syncs and creates a post in one of my bbpress subforums.

Somehow i dont want all my stuff to go into BbPress so when I write some new article in WordPress I can choose manually wether to sync this to BbPress or not.

One thing I have an issue with is the first page; I want to make an own “Latest Discussions” loop with all forums EXCEPT RSS. And then an own “latest discussions” With only RSS forum.

Problem is When i used this inside the loop

//Show latest discussions with all forums except id 17

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

<?php if( $topic->forum_id != 17 ) { ?>

codeblock

<?php } endif;?>

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



//Show latest discussions but only forum 17

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

<?php if( $topic->forum_id == 17 ) { ?>

codeblock

<?php } endif;?>

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

The pagination gets an error (Shows me fewer posts than the actual limit), and I cant use the same loop (With different conditions) twice.. Then I get a blank page. :S

So how should I do? Have any Idea? Im not so used to the bbpress loop yet..

[chrishajer]

AFAIK, there are just a couple reasons to want integration.

1. If you want users to be able to log in once, and comment in WordPress and participate in the forums, then integrated user data is useful.

2. Some people want to integrate their WordPress footer, sidebar and header, so access to WordPress functions get_sidebar(), get_header() and get_footer() are useful.

3. Sometimes people want to share data between the forum and the blog. Maybe a list of latest forum topics in the blog. Maybe they want a new topic created in the forum for every blog post. Integration is useful for that.

I don’t use integration, but I can understand why some people want it.

[sgchauhan]

chris, i want to be able to insert a first post on certain threads, which i feel need it.

actually, i have a specific idea i want to accomplish, and there are two ways that i can think of implementing it – one that would utilize both wordpress/bbpress – the other would just use bbpress.

chris, could you, or anyone else with extensive wordpress/bbpress knowledge, email me at wldct6[at]yahoo[dot]com so i can describe exactly what i want to do, and help me figure out the best way to do it?

thanks.

[TonyVitabile]

OK I did a little spelunking, and a lot of what I need is actually already in my theme, just not appearing where I want it. I guess I need to move it into a <div></div> that appears after the thread info & is some how set to appear on the right of the page.

There are a few things that aren’t in the theme, though, like the RSS feed link. I think the favorites & thread tags form are there, though.

Time to go searching on google. Though if anyone has any pointers on setting this up so it’s at the top right of my page, under my navigation menu, I would appreciate it.

Tony

[TonyVitabile]

I really like the sidebar that appears to the right of a post while you’re viewing it on the WordPress.org forums. Here’s a screen shot of said sidebar:

Image

I’m a complete noob to bbPress themes. I’ve been able to get my WordPress them modified to work with bbPress, basically by taking a bbPress theme & modifying the stylesheet and pasting code from the WordPress theme into the bbPress files. But I don’t know how to create that sidebar. I figure there have to be functions you can call to do it, but what are they? Where are they?

Thanks for any help

Tony

[TonyVitabile]

Thanks, Ipstenu! That works like a charm!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

This may work for you:

http://www.kevincrafts.com/2008/12/make-your-wp-pages-link-to-any-url/

[TonyVitabile]

Not exactly a problem except I don’t know how to do this.

WordPress MU is in http:// <my domain>/worship/ folder.

BBPress is in http:// <my domain>/forums/ folder.

I have a page in my WordPress MU site that is called Forums. Right now, it displays a link to http:// <my domain>/forums/. What I would like to have happen is that users get taken to http:// <my domain>/forums/ when they click the link for Forums on the navigator bar.

This sounds like some kind of a redirect to me. Is that how this is done? How do I code it?

Thanks

Tony

[TonyVitabile]

It’s gotten weirder.

I noticed on the public, hosted site that removing the lines from wp-config that the bbpress integration plugin told me to add cleared the problem in Firefox. So I tried to do that on my local machine. Now I can’t log into WordPress or BBPress.

I’m confused & have no idea what to do. I can’t do anything with the local website using Firefox, which means I have to do my CSS tweaking on the hosted site. It’s easier & quicker to do it locally & upload a modified CSS file (or other files) to the host when I’m done.

Help! Anybody got any ideas they can share as to how to clear this issue?

Tony

Tony

[_ck_]

I believe wordpress is trying to process the request because you have bbPress nested underneath WordPress which is a less common method of integration.

Try changing that .htaccess to this

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^forums/

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END WordPress

Not quite sure I have that right but give it a go and let’s see.

If it doesn’t work try replacing the forums/ line with this one:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^forums/

[piedpiper21]

Yep, it’s there. Here’s my .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

# END WordPress

[_ck_]

That file is not there like you think it is:

http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css

It’s a 404.

But it might be wordpress interfering with the forums directory since WP is in your webroot.

Strange that it would happen with a static file though.

Triple check that you have

/forums/my-templates/kakumei/style.css

via FTP, make absolutely sure it’s there.

If it is indeed there, download your .htaccess file in your top directory (where WP is) and post it here.

[Gautam]

Hi Guys..

I have just made a new plugin named Social It. The plugin is inspired from the wonderful plugin SexyBookmarks created by Josh & Norman for WordPress (and is almost the same like that)

It automatically inserts itself below the first post of the topic, but you can insert it anywhere on the forums. It will automatically fetch the appropiate feed link, description, etc.

It supports a variety of short URL sites to shorten links, I will improve this feature in the upcoming releases, like managing the links within the plugin itself, etc.

Please report any bugs you face, or request new features.

Here is the link for the plugin:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/social-it/

[TonyVitabile]

OK, this is weird. Just weird.

I’ve got WordPress MU running on <my domain>/worship/ (I’m building a site for a church). I’ve got BBPress running on <my domain>/forums/. I installed WordPress first then installed BBPress. Went though the BBPress set up & configured it to use the same cookie keys a WordPress. All is well.

I downloaded & installed the bbPress Integration plugin for WordPress. Enabled it. It spit out a bunch (shown below) of stuff it told me to put into my wp-config.php file. Which I did.

/**

* These defines are required for the WordPress - bbPress cookie integration to work correctly

*/

define( 'COOKIEHASH', 'blah blah blah' );

define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.<my domain>' );

define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );

/**#@-*/

Everything works fine in Safari on my Mac, but when I go to Firefox, WordPress shows me as not logged in. I click on the Login link & I’m brought to the login page. I enter my user name & password, check off Remember Me & hit Log in. And I’m brought back to the login page again, with no error messages.

No matter how many times I try to log in, this keeps happening. And as I said, it doesn’t happen in Safari.

Any ideas?

[TonyVitabile]

I’ve been busy this weekend with church related activities & I didn’t get back to this post until now. I’ve also found the answer to my own question about getting the current page’s URI.

I still have a problem to lick in that my WordPress theme came with a horizontal drop down navigation bar that works in WordPress. I included that code in the header.php & the styles from the original stylesheet for the theme, but nothing is dropping down on the bbPress side. The theme uses a JavaScript file to handle the drop-down logic that I’m including on the bbPress side, so I don’t get it. When I look at the WordPress output side by side to the output of my function, it’s identical. So it has to be something in the CSS. I think.

Anyhow, I’m going to mark this resolved. Thanks folks

Tony

[Mark / t31os]

Googled, searched the forum, it’s hard to create a specific search for something like the above without getting irrelevant results..

Had a dig and couldn’t find the answer….

bbPress 1.0

I’ve noticed throughout the default themes are references to..

role="main"

Firstly, what does this do? .. In some cases removing this from a template file reseults in the file not working.

Secondly, is there an alternative, these lines are causing invalidtions.

It’s not the end of the world, i can live with them, but some info on what they are for would be most helpful, if one of you lovely chaps could help..

As a side question, and this one again isn’t a huge problem, i find tabbing in code in certain files causes T_ error messages, T_SWITCH, T_CASE, depending on where and what i’m editting.. I like to indent the code appropriately when i’m working on it, but as said i simply can’t do this with particular template files..

Any ideas on that one?

I’m using Notepad++ and Notepad2 for editting, same programs i use for modifying WordPress. I’m using the correct encoding, transfer type etc… i’m use to handling code..

[Sam Bauers]

I thought you all might like to get a look at the new bbPress.org website so far…

http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-front-page.png

http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-topic.png

[Burkie]

I am working on a personal project over at http://noded.org and I was just wondering if there was the possibility of having more control over the topic pages. WordPress allows you to create different templates like category-2.php etc for each category, is there any way to achieve this for topics in bbpress. Guess an if topic 5 use these functions would be the best approach if anyone could help.

[Rohan Kapoor]

@Everyone: Version 2.0 is out!

[teamamy]

Hi chrishajer,

Thank you so much for that detailed response. Application neutral is what I am looking for. The /forums idea is a great suggestion and one I will follow. I haven’t started the install yet, I’m trying to get my ducks in order before I start shooting. I’m reading all I can about bbPress integration with WordPress so I do something I’m going to regret later on.

Sincerely,

Amy

[gravitydk]

Ashfame, if you check the purpose of that plugin, it’s for cookies to work both ways seamlessly; so it’s “native” for database but I don’t think it’s native yet for all cookies.

[chrishajer]

At your web host, you already installed WordPress. So, if you’re using FTP, download bbPress to your desktop, then unzip it. It will be unzipped into a folder called bbpress. Rename that to forums on your desktop. Now, upload that whole folder to your web host, putting it into the same place where the folders wp-content, wp-includes and wp-admin are right now. If you do a directory listing there, you will have these directories now:

forums

wp-admin

wp-content

wp-includes

Now, go to http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/ and you should see your forum installation. If you’ve already started the installation in another directory, you might need to get rid of some tables in the database.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@driftless1

I keep saying that because I have done it without the plugin. I don’t get the point of using anything else when they support integration natively.

[Rohan Kapoor]

It may say that yes but how slow is wordpress is loading anyways? If you are on a site that already has wordpress installed you may as well load it on the forums just for the benefits that it had.

[Rohan Kapoor]

You could also upgrade to 1.0.1 which is much easier to integrate and install.