[walkerevans]

WordPress 2.5.1

bbpress 0.9.0.3

[feastoffools]

Hi there everyone, right now we’re trying to restructure our wordpress blog and bbpress forums to allow blog entries to appear in the forums via Bbsync.

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

Because of this need to have our blog entries appear in the forums, we’re restructuring our forums to tie into the blog entries.

Check it out here: http://www.feastoffools.net/community

Wondering if there is a way for parent forums to show all the entries in their subforums instead of showing entries specifically intended for the top parent category. Am I making sense?

Or is there a way to lock out people from making an entry on a top level forum (allow only subforum

Is there a way to have the top level forums count the entries in the subforums? Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Right now this is the structure we’re looking at:

Feast of Fools

– Podcast (Gay Fun Show) PODCAST

– Video (Our original videos) VIDEO

– Photos (Our original Photos) PHOTOS

– Mini Bites (Audio clips and songs from the podcast) MINI BITES

– One on One (Video Blogs) VIDEO BLOGS

Topics

– About Us (Press, Appearances, Announcements)

– Animals (Our furry and not so furry friends)

– News & Rumors (What’s the Buzz)

– Trends & Tech (How we are changing, technology & the environment)

– Culture & Style (Media, Ideas, Recipies, Looks & Things that are hot)

– Gender & Sexuality (Gay, Lesbian, Straight, Trans, Male, Female, Bi, Trans & Everything Else)

– Health & Wellness (AIDS/HIV, Fitness, STDs, Diet, Nutrition, Mental Health)

– People (Celebrities, Guests, Hotties & You)

– Politics & Activism (Creating Change and the people and ideas behind it)

– Travel & Tourism (where to go, what to see)

Fans & Friends

– Ask for Advice (questions)

– Promote Your Work (links and samples of: Photos, Video, Blog, Podcasts, Designs)

– Your Thoughts (statements)

Support

– Site News (Changes, Upgrades & News About the Site)

– Listening to Shows

– How to Post (Tips and tricks on posting in the forums)

– New Listeners

– Questions

Feedback

– Bugs (Report problems for the site)

– Show Ideas

– Favorite Moment (Time and Episode in a podcast you found fabulous)

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[John James Jacoby]

http://www.delsolownersclub.com/forums/

It’s live with quite a few plug-ins installed. Fully integrated with WordPress. Still some kinks to work out, but otherwise live and functional.

[apocalyptictomorrow]

I started playing with WordPress on December 25th. ApocalypticTomorrow was born on the next day. On that same day, I discovered bbPress and it was then integrated with WP. At the mement it has the included default “blue” theme and not many plugins but as the days go by, I will be modifying it and adding plugins as well as changing the look and feel.

Check it out at http://apocalyptictomorrow.com/bbpress (feel free to join and be one of the first ones in the newly-made community!)

By the way, you can shameless self-promote your personal website at:

http://apocalyptictomorrow.com/bbpress/forum/website-promotion

[John James Jacoby]

I think that site naviation really depends on how much traffic your forum has, how much you want it to have, and in what route you want your traffic to reach its destination.

The typical forum layout comes from catering to new visitors that want descriptions of each category, and from repeat visitors wanting to check if there are updates to that category without having to click into that category.

Tags don’t offer either of these options inherently.

If tags could visually signify if there are new posts for the visitor inside of them, maybe with emphasis or italics or reordering them to the front of the cloud, that would be a neat idea.

bbPress tends to take a different approach on forum/topic importance, by emphasising on the most recently replied to topics right on the front page. I consider this more of a feature of a slow moving bulletin board more than for a large one. I know some large technical forums that would show 20 different posts on every page refresh with this type of last reply based concept.

Tags are interesting because they are user editable and provide a wiki-esque style of topic organization. 99% of users will obey this, but it still requires a bit of moderation and attention. Using categories that users cannot edit allows for you to legitimately categorize your data, rather than have it free flowing any and everywhere. Also, how do you compensate for the “New Topic” screen where there is a category drop-down? If your authors aren’t familiar with the concept and meaning of your forums categories, yet they are forced to choose one, this will result in topics being put into the database almost at random, making it difficult for you to moderate them.

I see how this idea can be appealing, and I see how it could work in some instances, but I think this type of idea is more suitable for a WordPress type blog/CMS than for a forum.

[Fernando Tellado]

I’m finishing my new forum (latest was made with SMF). I’m using bbPress 1.0 alpha 4 with the default theme (in blue and customized) and several plugins (a lot):

– Akismet

– Attachments

– Favourites notification

– Registration notification

– Temporal Ban

– bbcode buttons

– smileys buttons

– Related topics

– Signatures

– bbcode lite

– bbvideo

– post count plus

– support forum

– mass edit

– hidden forums

– active users

– bbpress karma

– terms of service

– human test

– report post

I’ve made the translation of bbPress 1.0 to spanish ( http://ayudawordpress.com/bbpress-espanol-alpha-104/ ) and the forum URL is …

htp://foro.ayudawordpress.com

[uv777bk]

I’m using the popular iNove theme for both bbPress and WordPress here…

Barack Obama UFO

http://www.barackobamaufo.com/bbpress/

Plugins:

bbPress Smilies

BBcode Lite

Cheers!

[wmnasef]

i wrote it assuming the conversion is done on a new empty bbpress installation. then integrating it later with WP. they call it reverse integration on this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17411

[Fernando Tellado]

Buenas

Acabo de traducir bbPress 1.0.4 Alpha al Español. Si queréis descargar tanto el .MO como el .PO los tenéis en mi blog.

¡Feliz Navidad!

[Fernando Tellado]

Buenas

Acabo de traducir bbPress 1.0.4 Alpha al Español. Si queréis descargar tanto el .MO como el .PO los tenéis en mi blog.

¡Feliz Navidad!

[chrishajer]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress are installed?

[displayname]

did you check to see if your wordpress is integrated properly? (the secure auth keys, logged in keys, etc… in bb_config should match the ones in wp_config)

[walkerevans]

I’ve been installing a copy of bbpress for a new site launch for a few weeks now. Mostly it’s been going pretty smooth, but tonight I realized I’m not able to change any of my member profile settings as an admin.

My install is tied into WordPress, and I can change user settings from the admin panel there, but from bbpress I cannot edit any settings for any users but myself. It almost looks as if some required field isn’t being entered when I attempt to change anything. I get no error messages.

I’ve been wracking my brain for an hour on this and am totally stumped. I disabled all of my plugins but the problem persisted.

I need to be able to edit users! Halp!

[John James Jacoby]

@bryan

It appears to me like you didn’t integrate your user registrations or user accounts. I can login to the forums, but cannot login to WordPress. Can you check out your database and make sure you only have wp_user and wp_usermeta user tables, and do not have any that start with bb_?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

So I’m reading this blog post, all about bbPress and WordPress and I realize something. You can link on the WP forums to their wiki.

3. Link to Codex article by using the wiki code of two beginning and ending brackets. Template Hierarchy will create a link to that article in Codex.

I have bbPress. I have a MediaWiki. How did they do that!? I’d like to implement that!

[Malice]

Hi all,

I recently installed the bbpress forum (http://www.holysh1t.net/forum) on the one month old gaming blog http://www.holysh1t.net. The integration with wordpress went nearly flawless, the speed is amazing even on shared hosting and I find many joy in all the plugins! I am definitely amazed at all the work _ck_ has put in to them… he seems to have created atleast half of all the plugins available… kudos

What this post is about is a request to have a custom field in registration, which could be edited in the profile and published as a seperate field in the user info, next to each post. I’ve been looking if such a plugin exists, but could not immediately find it!

Would be great if it could be a feature to be considered, or if someone could show how it could be done (if it’s not too much time of course).

Either way, I love bbpress! Thank you for this great piece of software!

Happy holidays,

Greetings,

Nico

http://www.holysh1t.net/forum

[John James Jacoby]

@biscut

Delete ALL tables in the database that start with your bb_ prefix, and try again.

@bryan

I can assure you that following Sam’s video PERFECTLY yields perfect results. I’ve done it at least 10 times. Can you rewatch the video and take notes on what in your particular case may be different? Like directory location, server settings, unique WordPress plugins or setup, anything like that?

I joined your forum, but then realized that your WordPress login page isn’t the traditional wp-login.php. I get redirected when I try to access it. Also, same goes for your admin area. It looks like you’ve got WP logins pretty well hidden from view. Care to let me in?

[charliestout]

Hey Sam, all the buzz about BuddyPress got me back on the forums here. Everyone seems to say “that’s a good idea for like, three years from now” when I suggest something. I’m either flattered to be thinking ahead or embarrassed to be so disconnected from present reality.

In any event, thanks for the great down-to-earth response to my pipe-dream post from 8 months ago!

It would appear that ease of integration has greatly improved since then!

[chrishajer]

I wonder if it’s because of the integration between themes or with WordPress functions conflicting with bbPress functions? These versions are not *supposed* to work when integrated; maybe this is one of the problems.

If you have access to the database, look at the bb_topics table for a field called topic_open which should be 1 for open or 0 for closed. I’m curious what the value is for the first topic.

[_ck_]

I created a separate database for bbPress with separate users.

You somehow changed your wordpress settings to look at the users in the new, blank, bbpress install. Therefore noone can login. The wrong cookies aren’t helping.

You need to delete bbpress and change your wordpress wp-config.php to point back to the user table in the old wordpress database.

[chrishajer]

Did you try what Trent suggested?

Also, WordPress 2.7 does not integrate with bbPress 0.9.*

[Buca]

I’m using bbPress 0.9.0.2. Yes it is integrated with my WordPress 2.7 blog. No active plugins at the moment.

[bijan23]

I wish it was mentioned in one of the steps of installation process. What can I do now to fix my WordPress?

None of the authors and administrators can login to their account. The admin area is completely inaccessible.

[chrishajer]

WordPress 2.6 does not integrate with 0.9.0.3.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

Do NOT try to integrate WordPress 2.6 with bbPress 0.9 – only use WP 2.5.1 – the reason for this is simple – WordPress has radically changed the way cookies are used.

[chrishajer]

Are you using any plugins?

What version bbPress did you install? Is it integrated with your WordPress 2.7 installation (user logins I mean)?