[kshengelia]

Hello people,

I am going to open general discussion LOCAL forum with many categories. I am looking at IPB right now but I am starting to think about WordPress & bbPress (with much customization if needed) powered forum.

All I am worried about is how optimized it will be. I think it will need fewer resources than IPB because of it’s simpler functionality, but I need an advice from bbPress “Pro” – local forum, which I should compete with has millions of posts and hundreds of thousands topics (posts for WordPress). So is bbPress right choise for this?

Thanks,

Kote

[katmmad]

Amazing — that would not have occurred to me in a million years but obviously that was the area I should have been looking at first. Thank you, @Lynq! I toggled the permalinks from the Settings page, and toggled the little button in the bbPress settings page also (first unchecked it to NOT give permalinks a topic slug, then rechecked it) and that seemed to do the trick. SUPER annoying that it broke like that, though.

[maf2874b]

A newbie to bbPpress, I would like to build a stand-alone program to display/generate a list of replies to a certain topic using the WP wrapper

require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);

If I include wp-blog-header.php will that include the bbPress environment automatically or do I need to bring in other includes?

I would like something as follows but I need some help on what to include and what functions to get what I need.

global $bbp;

$myreplies = get_replies(‘123’);

foreach($myreplies as $reply) :

$field1= get_the_title();

}

Thanks!

[Se3ker]

How do you set up bbPress to show forum list when accessing url like:

http://localhost:11111/forums/ at my end this is not working, or am I missing something, do I need to create a page and put a shortcode in it??

[Lynq]

Lol yea I don’t play too much Minecraft, but it is certainly fun.

[kristarella]

Ah, okay.

I guess I was looking to see if you had an idea of where I should look next for the issue given the behaviour I’ve noticed. I don’t expect you to troubleshoot my whole system, but here it is as it stands:

* WordPress 3.4

* bbPress 2.1b1

* a Thesis child theme with Thesis 1.8.5

* a bbPress-thesis plugin I wrote to apply bbPress templates in Thesis

(bbPress pages didn’t appear at all with Thesis until a recent change in 2.1)

My child theme is a BuddyPress child theme for Thesis (but I don’t have BuddyPress active right now), it can be downloaded at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/thesis-bp-child_0.3.3.zip

The only difference between that version and the one I’m using is that I’ve added a header.php file that is the same as Thesis’ index.php (which builds the whole page, including the head). I did this because it seemed that if the active theme had no header.php the bbPress template would force a default header, and therefore default page contents too.

The bbPress-Thesis plugin is at http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/bbpress-thesis_122.zip

All the plugin really does is insert the template part into the middle of the page, because Thesis doesn’t use separate page templates, it has one index.php and then specifies the loop contents in a class, determining the page type from the query. So the plugin filters the loop class to add the bbPress loop content.

All of this seems to be working fine except for the visual editor, which looks like this at first:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-broken.png

Then if I make the one change of moving the files from bbp-theme-compat/extras to bbp-theme-compat, it looks like:

http://www.kristarella.com/snaps/Thesis_visual-working.png

I don’t know enough about the bbPress templating to know where to look next for the fix.

Thanks for your replies so far!

[John James Jacoby]

I need more specific information to be helpful. Also, the visual editor isn’t built into the template files, so they should not directly be the cause.

I run bbPress 2.1 at testbp.org with the visual editor on; so something else must be up.

[ccolotti]

I had BBpress installed with another theme. The forums were showing using the default templates. Now this page is fine:

http://www.v-fit.us/forums/

But click on any forums and they are blank pages. Yet the topics work if you can get to one of those.

http://www.v-fit.us/forums/topic/shakeology-receipes/

So I am a little confused.

Any help would be great. I have not moved any template files or anything I just changed Themes from one to another and these stopped working.

[SK]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1669 which was the major blocker for 2.1 has actually been punted to 2.2

So the integration originally planned for BP 1.6 / bbp 2.1 is now scheduled for BP 1.7 / bbp 2.2

Of course, a lot of work has already been done in the background.

[krason]

Thank you Spence! This link saved me. I have been trying to get my forums working again after installing BuddyPress and was about to give up. This pointed me in the right direction and taught me a little extra about the layout of pages and shortlinks for wordpress. Perfect! Thanks.

[Lynq]

You can make CSS changes inside bbpress.css inside the bbpress plugin.

I suggest getting hold of FireBug for firefox, you can right click on the page and inspect an element to see where you need to edit it.

All the best.

Lynq.

[iCloud]

Hey,

I just installed bbPress on my site, http://melbourneskaters.com/forums

But as you can see, the main page is out of alignment for some reason, but it’s fine on other pages. I can’t seem to find where the stylesheet is not sure how to fix this, can anybody shed some light? And lastly, do you guys know where I could change the colour of those header text “Forums””Topics”” and etc that looks invisible.

Thank you for the help.

[enderandrew]

I’ve had similar issues trying to add pages or post with WP 3.4 and I’m not sure what is going on.

[enderandrew]

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3989

[enderandrew]

bbpress 2.1-beta1 was also tagged today.

[SK]

Yay! BP 1.6 Beta is out. https://buddypress.org/2012/06/buddypress-1-6-beta-1/

bbp 2.1 Beta can’t be far behind, considering that lots of people have been using 2.1 SVN for a while and the only major pending issue was compatibility with BP 1.6 and that BP 1.6 and bbp 2.1 are supposed to be released at the same time https://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/topic/1-6-timelines/

Also, in bbp Trac, the BP compatibility etc. tickets are closed and only 1 ticket remains

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=status&milestone=2.1

[John James Jacoby]

Sounds like you’re only overwriting files, and not deleting the directory. Delete the entire /bbpress folder and replace it with the one from Beta 1. Should be good to go from there.

[George]

Hi All.

Please see: http://i47.tinypic.com/z6ays.png

I upgraded to 3.4 and now have a strange spacing in the author box.

Stock bbpress plugin with stock template.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks,

-George

[Andre]

@jjj – When I’m on /wp-admin/tools.php?page=bbp-converter it shows my database password. Should this be masked?

[Reflecting]

I thought that the latest version of bbPress resolved the issues that cropped up with the WordPress 3.4 upgrade. However, some of the admin on our site are still getting the following out of memory error message when trying to add a new post to our site http://www.optionmillionaires.com

Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 15466496) (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /home/optionmi/public_html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-user-template.php on line 558

At first I wasn’t even able to install bbPress, but our web host increased our memory limit to 64M, and I thought everything was fine. I was able to add the forum, several related bbPress plugins, and have been adding forums and topics today. However, I just got word from two of the admin that they received the above message when attempting to post. It eventually lets them, but there’s obviously something going on. Any ideas on a fix?

[katmmad]

I can create new topics on my development site, but if I click on the link to view the topic it takes me to a 404 page. This happens on the front end (http://dev.corporette.com/boards/) and the back end (if I go to the wpadmin dashboard, click Topics, and then click “view” from the menu for whichever topic.

(Once I create a new topic it also automatically takes me to a 404 page, even though the topic has been successfully created.)

Any idea what’s wrong? Thank you in advance. I’m running WordPress/Genesis/Prose, the bbPress that’s in beta (2.1?) and Buddypress as well. Thank you!

[SportsDebatesDotNet]

Hi, I am new to both WordPress and BBpress.

I am trying to figure out how to change the page name from “Sample Page” on the forum breadcrumbs(I think that’s what it’s called). I also need to figure out how to stop the forum index page from being named after my MMA/Boxing/Wrestling forum…

I hope you understand what I mean because I really don’t know the proper terms…

If you go to http://www.sportsdebates.net/forums/ you will see what I mean. In your browser tab you will see MMA/Boxing/Wrestling rather than SportsDebates.Net and where it says “Sample Page › Forums” it should say “SportsDebates.Net > Forums”…

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[craftcore]

Hi! I have bbPress as a plugin on WordPress and BuddyPress powered website. On my WordPress I have users set up as Editors, Authors, and Contributors.

For the forum, I’d like editors and authors to also have forum moderation abilities in addition to their preexisting WordPress capabilities. I don’t want them to *just* be moderators.

Is this possible? I looked at the roles documentation, but I can’t figure it out.

Thanks!

[ahkar83]

@johnjamesjacoby

in this file::

my /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php

thanks for your help!

[ahkar83]

@johnjamesjacoby … Hello,

I did

function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = ‘U’, $translate = false ) {

to

function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = ‘G’, $translate = false ) {

but I see no change.

I’m on PST timezone..

thanks!