[kevinjohngallagher]

is it safe to rely on these old plugins

No.

a new version, hopefully is coming soon

It’s not.

In honesty none of us know when it is coming, the “weekly” IRC meetings have not been taking place for the last 6 weeks, 1 bug in the last 3 weeks has been fixed and 20 are still outstanding, etc etc. Matt hasn’t been seen or heard of since threatening to leave the project.

How will backwards compitability be in the future of BBPress

It won’t.

It is not an aim. Never has been.

Will most of these standard functionality-plugins be built in

No.

Mostly because everyone’s definition of “standard” is “plugins i want”.

I have used hours and hours to customize my Kakumei theme, and will all that work go to waste with a new version

Some of it will, some of it won’t.

Will it apply to the next bbpress themes at all

From what i’ve seen in subversion, you won’t need to change to many things in your theme to make sure it is bbPress1.1 compatible. But you will probably have to make some changes – it is the nature of software.

Or am I gonna have start all over again?

It depends on your theme, plugins, and custom code.

I doubt anyone will have to start all over, but some poeple will have more work than others.

In your specific case, given your lack of coding abilities and reliance on the default theme, i doubt youi’ll have much coding to do – but it is likely that some things will have to be changed.

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I say this alot, but bbPress is not currently ready for use for people with no technical knowledge.

Database setup, editing files and FTP are a minimum to get the defaults going.

Some basic web development knowledge is needed to edit your theme.

Slightly above basic knowledge is needed to edit any functionality.

That is just where this software is and will be for a long time. I don’t say this to cause offence, i say this to save people difficulty.

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P.S. Marius,

You also don’t have to upgrade.

Almost all of the issues you bring us could have been solved easier if you were using bbPress0.9

[jtrory]

I want to change my display name from the default “admin” to something else. In the Profile/Edit panel under ‘Display Name As’ there is a little dropdown menu that shows “admin” as the one and only display name and there’s no way of changing it. I can’t figure out how to do this. It’s the only place I can find a way of editing this info.

[johnhiler]

Ah thanks for resetting it to default! Hmm, it definitely looks like an issue with the plugin/version compatibility. I also just tested it on a 1.0 install, and saw a similar issue.

Your best would be to ask a programmer to take a look at the plugin and see if they can spot the issue! I bet it’s a pretty minor one, if everything else works except for that one button.

[Marius-]

Please re-read my edited post above. And yes, the word “Save” for saving. Its all default now.

[Marius-]

Johnhiler, the translation has nothing to do with it. In the admin panel, you can type in what you want there, it doesnt affect the functionality.

The theme IS Kakumei. None of the code is touched, exept for some CSS colors.

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If you turn on Firebug, and you inspect the canclebutton, you will see that there seems to be no code at all for a save button present.

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I have reset the polls to default settings, just to prove that.

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You see at the plugins site here on Bbpress, that more users are having the same problem:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-polls/page/3/

There, user Michael888 says to me that version 1.1 of BBpress might include poll functionality.

Is this next upgrade far away. Am I just wasting my time with this old plugin?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi jansummers,

You’re bbPress install has content being sent to the browser before all the processing is finished.

9/10 this comes from a ‘new line’ at the end of a user created php file (theme or plugin).

The fact you’re getting this error via the Plugin API strongly suggests such an issue is with a plugin. Have you edited one? have you got a new one installed recently?

Without more info, the only suggestion we have can give is this:

1) Change back to the default theme and see if it the bug still occurs.

2) Start deactivating plugins one at a time and see if it still occurs.

3) If you’re using the default theme and all plugins are deactivated, try re-uploading bbpress. Its unlikely that’ll make any difference, but its covering your bases

[Marius-]

I seriously need this to work now.

Is there some other plugin like this?

Im surprised this is not one of the default tool in WordPress, to limit posts counts for each user, as well as post messages.

[jtrory]

I’m working on editing the default bbPress theme and have almost got it where i want it, but I’m having one problem. The base font color seems to be black (which you can’t read against my dark gray background) and while I have edited the CSS of enough of the theme to change most of the colors, certain ones just won’t change. Specifically the bullet points, the [ ] that surround certain things, and the names of Discussions. They are all still black, and I can’t find where this is in the stylesheet. If I add something like color:#fff to the body it changes fonts I don’t want changed. It’s only a handful but I think they must all be controlled together somewhere, I just can’t figure out where.

[johnhiler]

I believe Gravatars are supported by default in v 1.0+.

Because Gravatars are in the core, I remember reading once that it should be easier to create avatar plugins using the Gravatar hooks. I think Bavatar uses these hooks:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bavatars/

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Yes, I am with Chris. Something else is causing the issue.

[chrishajer]

You could rename the tables with the prefix that works, to get around this. But you’d have to update the data in the tables as well, I think there are permissions maybe that refer to the table by name.

Or, you could further troubleshoot connecting to that database and selecting data from the tables with the prefix you currently use.

I’ve not heard of that problem before, but there probably aren’t many people who upgraded from .9 to 1.0 AND had a custom table prefix. The fact that it wants to perform a new installation when the bb_ tables don’t exist makes sense, since bbPress does not know there is a current installation.

I haven’t looked at the upgrade code to see if maybe there’s a bug where the database connection fails due to a non-default table prefix, but you could check that as well.

[elforesto]

Well, I’m open to suggestions. As I noted, changing the table prefix determined whether or not it works. It’s not logical, but it is what it is.

[chrishajer]

Checking the database connection does not involve checking the table prefix. It’s just host, username, password and database name. No tables needed to establish a connection. You have something else going on there, I would guess.

[elforesto]

I’m attempting to do an upgrade of bbPress from 0.9.2 and get the following error every time I attempt to access any bbPress pages:

ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

I did some experimenting and found that when I change the table prefix from the one I’ve been using back to the default of bb_, I’m prompted to perform a new installation. The problem with this is that I don’t want to lose the existing contents of the forum.

Any advice or suggestions would be most appreciated.

[usdavid]

Thank you, but I have an existing install of WordPress 2.9.2, with all the defaults including database names. I am trying to add bbPress 1.0.2. I have followed the instructions on the bbPress site for integrating, some hints I received on the WordPress forum referring me to How To Integrate BBPress with WP (http://www.bestwpthemez.com/wordpress/how-to-integrate-bbpress-with-wordpress-mu-2062/), and finally your tutorial. Your tutorial was a little out of the problem as it is an instruction set for clean installs. I followed the link on your page to “Integrate bbpress forum with your wordpress setup” and attempted the Fix Admin Access plugin, no go. Where is the wp_usermeta table located?

I still have the same problem.

Thanks,

David

[chrishajer]

The blank screen is from a 500 Internal Server Error:

[~]$ curl -I conservativecongress.com/forums/

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:51:12 GMT

Content-Type: text/html

Connection: keep-alive

Server: Apache

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.12

If you have access to logs you can see what’s going on to cause this. Other possibilities are any plugins you might have active, which would be weird since you just installed, or anything else you’ve modified (template files, .htaccess, plugins, etc.) It doesn’t normally happen on a default installation. If you’ve done nothing but unzip and install the files, then maybe you have a corrupt installation, not all the files were properly uploaded or something.

[nakedpersonals]

I used the default kakumei theme to create my own layout and everything works fine except for the following the “post_author_link,” and “post_author_title_link.” No matter what thread I have opened the tags always display the text “Anonymous Unregistered.” (example) I guess there’s sort of code that’s supposed to preface those tags, but I can’t figure out what it is. Any suggestions?

p.s. Don’t let the name fool you, my website is safe for work.

[kadr]

Hey,

I changed this line in my theme:

<p><?php _e(‘Allowed markup:’); ?> <?php allowed_markup(); ?>.
<?php _e(‘You can also put code in between backtick ([…] ) characters.’); ?></p>

to this line

<p><?php _e(‘Allowed markup:’); ?><?php allowed_markup(); ?>`. <?php _e(‘ ‘); ?></p>

And then I got this error on the forum:

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /domains/lijstblanco.nl/DEFAULT/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45

So I changed it back, but the error remains!

Any idea what to do now?

[johnhiler]

Use a program like Beyond Compare to compare (or “diff”) the default theme versus your custom theme:

http://www.scootersoftware.com/moreinfo.php

That should quickly identify the changes between the two…

EDIT: I must’ve left this comment *just* after you edited your previous comment! Glad it worked out for ya…

[imgiseverything]

It was annoying me that by default bb_title() on the topic page didn’t include the name of the forum in it. I wanted

Topic name < Forum name < Site name

but bb_title() default is:

Topic name < Site name

So I wrote this little plug-in and now I’m happier.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Better Topic Titles

Plugin URI:

Description: Add the forum (category) name to the topic title in <title> for the love of SEO!

Author: Phil Thompson

Version: 1.0

Author URI: http://imgiseverything.co.uk/

*/

function better_topic_titles($title){

$separator = ‘«’;

$forum_name = get_forum_name();

if(!empty($forum_name) && strpos($_SERVER, ‘topic’) !== false){

$title = str_replace($separator, $separator . ‘ ‘ . $forum_name . ‘ ‘ . $separator, $title);

}

return $title;

}

add_filter(‘bb_title’, ‘better_topic_titles’);

?>

I’ve not found any issues with using it but I’m sure someone can have a look and improve it; if they think it’s necessary.

[HeroicNate]

Hi, I’m a freelance graphic designer and I love wordpress and I’ve recently started to love bbpress. I’ve been customizing wordpress themes for a while now and I’ve just started getting into bbpress. Since I’ve been using these two so often, I really want to give something back. I don’t really have money or coding skills to contribute, I was hoping maybe I could help by coming up with a shiny cool template/theme that could possibly be included as one of the default themes. I’ve only just begun to figure out theming in bbpress, but I really want to contribute something, and design skills is what I got(i think ). All I’d need is to possibly be informed on new features or functions that I could design for. I could come up with cool mock-ups, and if the community likes it, I could chop it up into a theme.

[chrishajer]

> I also had someone working on the problem and he can’t find anything on my side.

Well, it’s either the host or your side. If the host can’t find anything, then it’s probably something with your software. It’s not something that happens on a default installation.

[chrishajer]

WP Super Cache will not help with bbPress at all.

If everything was OK until December, what happened in December? Did you update and software or plugins? Did the host change something you don’t know about? With a hosting company, chances are they watch things like free disk space and RAM, but that’s worth checking into as well.

Can you dump the databases and see how large they are? Maybe a plugin has gone crazy and is just adding tons of data to the database causing access to take longer. There was a recent WordPress (or maybe bbPress) discussion about this, a typo in a plugin causing tons of garbage to be added to the database causing the database to grow huge.

Do you have access to logs? Depending on what you have access to, you might be able to find something interesting in a log.

Do you have the option to turn off plugins and revert to a default theme to see if the problem still exists?

There used to be a plugin called bb-benchmark that would help with this sort of performance thing.

My guess would be that this is a plugin causing a timeout when connecting to the database. What plugins are you using?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Marius,

My friend, no-one is attacking you here. You’re not using the default theme, you’re using a modified theme. I have the default theme and it doesn’t have a picture of Micahel Jackson anywhere (that i can see at least).

Your issue was a CSS issue, because you had placed attached your CSS code to the wrong DIV for what you were wanting to achieve. It’s nothing to do with BBpress, honestly mate, the issue was a CSS issue with CSS code that you added when you didn’t know what you were doing. A CSS website would make a world of difference to you and your knowledge and ability to edit the themes. I’m not saying that to be cocky, i’m saying it to give you the tools to do these things yourself

When Im asking specifically for location of a code, in the DEFAULT THEME that comes with BBPress, the best place to ask is of course BBPress own forum

That’s the key thing here mate, you were not asking that. You maybe thought you were, but the code that was wrong was in your CSS file, that you added – that’s nothing to do with BBpress.

Given that it was your 2nd thread and your 4th attempt at asking for this solution in under 24 hours, I tried to help out – i gave you the simplest answer because your understanding of CSS was limited . You didn’t understand the simple solutions presented, that’s your web development knowledge, nothing to do BBpress.

No-one is paid to be here matey, we’re all doing this because we want to help BBpress grow But that doesn’t mean we have to be at your beck and call for real time support, nor does it mean that we have to answer basic web design/development questions that don’t have anything to do with BBpress. I’m going to leave this here, clearly we have different opinions, and that’s cool – but for your sake mate, not mine, learning a bit of Web Development skills will make your BBpress life alot easier.

Take care

[Marius-]

When Im asking specifically for location of a code, in the DEFAULT THEME that comes with BBPress, the best place to ask is of course BBPress own forum. Ask the makers, not the interpretors.