[nurturepact]

I have the BBPress installed and am now getting this error with any function I am trying to do. ie change my avitar for example.

Server cannot find the file you requested. File has either been moved or deleted, or you entered the wrong URL or document name. Look at the URL. If a word looks misspelled, then correct it and try it again. If that doesnt work You can try our search option to find what you are looking for.

[highexistence]

@johnconners – Any updates on your plugin? Page caching would be a HUGE help for large BBpress sites like mine.

[varsitysmack]

Change your forum base located here: http://www.yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress

from ‘forums’ to ‘newsroom’.

Uncheck the box next to ‘Prefix your forum area with the Forum Base slug (Recommended)’ if you don’t want the ‘forum’ in the URL as well. Just make sure you don’t run into any URL duplications.

[pparson]

Dear bbPress-Team and community,

I’ve been trying to install the bbPress Plugin to my WP. I tried to do so on my local machine first, and all went fine. When I tried on my web server, everything went fine until I activated the bbPress-plugin in the wp-admin plugin section. WordPress responded with a blank (white) page, and afterwards, I could not even access /wp-admin/ (also responding with a blank screen). When removing the bbPress directory from the plugins directory, everything is fine again. /forums/ responds with the usual 404 in either case.

Unfortunately, I do not have access to my server’s error logs. Do you have any ideas what could be the problem here? The major difference between my local machine and the web server is that the latter cannot connect to the outside world via http – maybe this is mandatory?

Btw: I have double-checked the requirements, my webserver configuration seems to be okay for bbPress:

Wordpress 3.3.1

PHP 5.3.2

MySQL 5.0

I’d be happy about any hints which might help to trace down the problem.

Thanks, best regards,

Peter

[Ben Hayes]

Invalid header issues indicate you’ve installed the plugin incorrectly, or have an incomplete download.

Hmm, OK. I downloaded the zip file from the bottom of https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin and used that for the plugin, which gave me the error. Maybe Trac is not working how it should, or maybe I’ve not understood something. I’m more of a designer than a coder I will see if I can get my head around using Subversion to get the code instead.

It’s possible to use the core templates, but it won’t really work the way you want it to. Why? Because when you view a single forum, you also want to view that forum’s topics. When you view a single topic, you also want to view that topic’s replies. A single flat loop isn’t enough to handle this behavior, no matter what you do.

Right, OK. That makes sense. I hadn’t thought of that.

I still think the whole setup is potentially quite confusing though – mainly having 2 theme locations I think is what throws me. Actually I noticed that in plugins/bbpress/bbp-themes/ it says in index.php “Do not put custom themes here or they will be overwritten”. So I know we’re not supposed to edit the theme in there. But it is still quite confusing that I can activate that theme from within the WP dashboard. This is quite unintuitive, in my view. Because we are encouraged to activate a theme that we are told we should not edit.

[Ben Hayes]

OK I think I see what you’re saying. So WP would continue to use the page.php template to render BBP pages like forums and topics, but we can branch the logic in that page using the BBP template tags.

Just tried this and it works.

In case it helps anyone else, the way to remove the sidebar from BBP topic pages would be using something like this in your page.php file:

<?php if(!bbp_is_single_topic()) { get_sidebar(); }; ?>

[Martin]

Do you know whether it’ll be possible to inject other code into Topics and/or Replies which other Custom Post Types allow but not yet bbPress?

This is like Advertising or Social Media icons.

As an example, I have the WP Socializer plugin installed for Social Sharing. When questioned about it working, the author replied with:

“Please note that WP Socializer works in all pages or places where there the <?php the_content(); ?> function is called in the theme.”

This seems to be the case for any other Social plugin so I’m guessing bbPress post types do not have this included.

Further, I’m using Simple Ads Manager for injecting advertising space as well as other stuff. Works fine by picking a Custom Post Type and bbPress Topics and Replies show up, except nothing is displayed so I presume these aren’t following Custom Post Type convention, in some way either.

Any ideas on these things?

[SK]

@JohnConners: How’s the plugin coming along?

A bit off topic:

@CiaranG, Why do you think was the difference between performance of Super Cache and Quick Cache? Did you try Cache Preloading option in Super Cache?

[varsitysmack]

I’m working on a site that has an issue with the bbPress forums in internet explorer. What is happening is the text area for both replies and topics is not showing up when using internet explorer.

The link to the forums is here: http://www. silverdoctors. com/sd-reader-forum/ (minus the spaces I purposefully put in, obviously).

I think this is a javascript issue, but I’m not certain. I also don’t understand why it’s only occurring in IE and not in Firefox.

I’m using WordPress 3.1.1 and bbPress Version 2.0.2.

I have no other plugins other than bbPress activated.

I did revert the theme back to 2012 and the issue was no longer present. If this is an issue with my theme, I understand this might not be the forum to ask the question if someone could delve into it to try to find the problem, but I’m stumped with the issue and am hoping some of the great bbPress minds can help me resolve the issue.

Thanks for any advice anyone can give.

[John James Jacoby]

Time to dig in the code and look around. The /bbp-includes/bbp-template* files are a good place to start.

bbPress’s template logic works almost identically to the way WordPress’s works, it just needs to do all the same things that WordPress does for specialized content. Just like WordPress has queries and conditions for posts, pages, categories, and tags, bbPress has them for forums, topics, replies, users, topic views, and front end posting and editing.

In many ways, bbPress feels more complex because it is more complex. But, I can assure you, it’s built to the same standard and uses the same conventions as WordPress does.

[John James Jacoby]

Invalid header issues indicate you’ve installed the plugin incorrectly, or have an incomplete download.

It’s possible to use the core templates, but it won’t really work the way you want it to. Why? Because when you view a single forum, you also want to view that forum’s topics. When you view a single topic, you also want to view that topic’s replies. A single flat loop isn’t enough to handle this behavior, no matter what you do.

You can still create those templates, and they will work as you’d expect, but you’ll still need to redo some heavy lifting. Probably easier to follow the bbPress conventions for now until the whole flow makes sense.

[John James Jacoby]

Fixed in: https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3841

Thanks for reporting!

[rossagrant]

Nick, I’m sure the videos are actually controlled by WP.

Go into settings, then media and simply specify a max width. You should be good then!

I’m looking to implement BBPress 2.1, can I have a look at anyone’s install to see how it looks?

[jaredvd]

I’ve installed bbPress on my wordpress-buddypress site.

The forum base is: Forums

when I install just bbPress, and use this as a base, I can navigate to http://www.url.com/forums and it displays the forums properly

I also would like to add it to my navigation. I add a page titled “Forums” at http://www.url.com/forums and add it to my navigation menu list.

then when I navigate to this page, it displays it as a default buddypress page, without the forums, it highlights it in my menu when it is the current page.

I then add the shortcode: [bbp-forum-index] to the page.

It still shows up in my navigation, and goes to the correct page when clicked, which now shows the bbPress forums. However it now does not highlight the “Forums” tab when it is on the “Forums” page.

Is there an easier way to associate bbPress’s “Forums” with WordPress’s “Forums” so that it will display properly in the navigation menu?

Thanks.

Also when on my “Forums” page, the breadcrumb reads “homepage title>forums” I would like it to ready “Blog title>forums”. Any ideas how to do this?

Edit: Turns out the “Forums” page only works properly in the navigation as soon as bbPress is deactivated. With bbPress activated, the “Forums” item in the navigation is not highlighted when the page is being viewed. Shortcode in or not.

Edit: I’ve fixed the problem by making a custom template which adds the shortcode via <?php echo do_shortcode(“[bbp-forum-index]“); ?>

Any ideas on the base slug modification?

[Ben Hayes]

Just realised I probably need to try the 2.1 beta version.

I went to the URL suggested above https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin and downloaded the zip file. However, WP gives me an error saying “invalid plugin header”. Anyone know how to fix this?

[Ben Hayes]

I followed a similar path to harnold007. Worked out that the markup of all BBP pages is being driven by page.php in my active theme directory.

For me though, I want some pages to have a sidebar, but forum pages to be full-width.

This seems difficult to do, because BBP is using page.php to render all its stuff.

Have to say I admire all the work that’s clearly gone into BBP, but the way the themes are working does seem quite complex. I can’t help feeling there may be a better way of structuring it? The problem seems to be that you can *sort of* use your normal WP theme directory, but the options for controlling the layout are very limited.

[Ben Hayes]

About that template hierarchy – my best guess was to use the same filenames as used in the sample BBP theme bbp-twentyten, but put this template in the main (active) WP theme folder. So for example, I tried making a file called single-forum.php there.

However, that doesn’t seem to work for me – the markup still seems to be driven from page.php.

Anyone know how to get different layouts for different pages in BBP?

[Ben Hayes]

As far as I can see, all the BBP pages are output from the template page.php in your main WP theme. I assume there is some kind of template hierarchy we can use to override this (so we can have a specific template for ‘profile’ or ‘single topic’ etc).

I agree it is all pretty confusing to me too

[NickMackz]

This is such an obvious feature (in my opinion) so that it is clear on forums who are the admins, moderators, and members.

I decided to see if I could work out how to add it to my forums using my custom theme for bbPress 2.1.

I managed to get it to work after a bit of experimentation and many errors by adding this:

<?php

$reply_user_id = bbp_get_reply_author_id();

global $wp_roles;

$reply_user = new WP_User( $reply_user_id );

$roles = $reply_user->roles;

$role = array_shift($roles);

printf( isset($wp_roles->role_names[$role]) ? translate_user_role($wp_roles->role_names[$role] ) : false);

?>

into loop-single-reply.php.

Hope this is helpful to anyone else trying to do this.

I believe it was a feature on the standalone version of bbPress so why was it dropped on the plugin version? Is this likely to be re-added at any point?

[kannued]

Yeah, I know, it’s been a while. So I made backups of my htaccess, and config file. Deactivated my plugins. Deleted all folders except my-plugins, and my-templates, htaccess, and config file. Then I uploaded everything, in auto for binary and ascii. When I go to my page, I get a white page. I type in bbpress.php and index.php, just white. Now what?

[Jord5i]

So I just started working with bbpress, and wordpress for that matter. Now I find the profile page not great, it shows stuff like subscribed topics / favorites topics / created topics. I don’t really want any of that.

I have been digging through the files, but I am unable to find out what file actually outputs this, I have a understanding level of php, so I should be able to edit it, if I could just find it.

Thanks

[NickMackz]

I think it depends whether or not you are going to customise the CSS of bbpress. 2.1 uses a table-less layout so you may have to redo some changes after updating.

If you aren’t changing the CSS, I can’t think of anything that would cause problems.

[arturex]

just go to https://bbpress.org/forums/ and besides of the title Topics there is a link that says Start New and click there to star your new topic

[mmraeder]

Hi,

being less than a novice with code, I’ve relied on setting up my WP / bbPress site by using plugins. I’ve some experience with css styles, so I’ve tweaked some of the layout to my liking. My problem is that I can’t seem to find how to style the sub-forums list.

My forum has a hierarchy with 3 levels of forums, and I’d like to only see one level at a time when viewing the main forum page, and the sub-forum pages. Alternatively, the forum overview should be more like it looks from the back-end.

I’d really wish the plugin-interface would let us tweak some this functionality. Like when creating an index page for the forums using [bbp-forum-index], one could use something like [bbp-forum-index subforums=hide]

Or have readily assigned css-classes for the sub-forums list to tweak – I haven’t been able to find them, at least

I would really like to avoid going into the php-code as I unfortunately have no understanding of this. I’ve set up the forums using the 2.1 beta as it almost worked 100% for me, except for this little trick…

Thanks for any advice and help!

[AAShepAA]

When I click on “Forums” or “Topics” in /wp-admin/ I get this error:

You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

I have noticed this:

http://my.website.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=bbpress (works)

http://my.website.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=edit.php?post_type=forum (doesn’t work and this is the one in admin)

How can I resolve this in my Admin section?

Any help is appreciated.

Shep