[hmcgrath]

I see other users have had this issue and I’ve attempted the fixes that have been recommended, but I cannot get the forums to actually show up on the website. I installed bbpress, created the forums, and then to be honest I got a little lost because I was unable to find guidance as to what comes next. I tried creating a page called forums but that didn’t work. I tried deleting and reinstalling bbpress and that didn’t work. I tried resetting my permalinks, and yeah, that didn’t work either.

At the moment, there are two larger forums under the forum tab that cannot be altered or deleted by me in any way. All I can do is add categories to them. In this case I added a category called consumer packaged goods:

http://www.insightalley.com/forums/forum/consumer-packaged-goods

I’m unable to reflect this link on my website as it is not allowing me to use the forums/forum thing.

Please help.

[SharonVW]

Hi

I’m running Pretty Young Thing on my site and am in the process of integrating a bbpress forum. I have installed Genesis and Pretty Young Thing into the bbpress directory, however, each time I attempt to view the page, I get the following error message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_template_directory() in /home/triniqek/public_html/bbpress/bb-templates/pretty/functions.php on line 3

Any idea what I’m doing wrong?

http://trinityheart.co.za/bbpress/

Thanks!

[Jared Atchison]

Everything looks ok, its just your theme isn’t playing nice with TwentyTen.

Personally, since your site is under development, I’d recommend giving bbPress 2.1 a test run using the new bbP Compat theme (instead of the TwentyTen one).

bbPress 2.1 can be downloaded on this page, where it says download zip archive – https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

If you do choose to try 2.1, keep in mind that it is still under development, so you should make a backup of your site before installing.

[mrkgreene2000]

Hey,

I’m using TwentyTen theme on my own server with bbPress running. I can create forums and topics, but when I create a page, I’m not getting any of the bbPress templates in the template pull down.

Site is here: http://megasahd.com/forum

Although you won’t see much.

Why can’t I see the template options when I create a new page?

Thanks in advance.

m

[SK]

This is the job for a bbPress-specific WP plugin…you don’t want to give forum participants access to the backend of your site…

[SK]

bbPress 2.1 is coming soon. (current version is 2.0.2)

JJJ says “it’ll be ready when it’ll be ready” (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/21-release-date-1 ), which could mean “any moment now”, in that he’s probably dealing with 1 or 2 major issues (presumably BuddyPress related) and hence can’t give a timeline, but as soon as inspiration strikes down these roadblocks, we could get a taste.

I understand that JJJ expects to have closed 102 tickets for releasing 2.1 (http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/milestone/2.1 ), and some of these are quite exciting. My favorite new features are:

– Rich editor http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1673

– Switch theme packages http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1802

What do you think are the coolest new features in 2.1?

[SK]

Jared, Thanks! I will check this solution out.

Regarding configurations: I don’t know if 347374 is an actual number or if you use it just to make a point, which I do get. If bbPress included everything in configurations, then there will be way too many configurations, and would delay next releases a lot. That’s fair enough.

But let’s look at it from the perspective of added value and break from forum convention.

bbPress is billed as a lightweight forum. Hence, when it breaks from forum convention to make it lighter (have fewer functions), that is at least understandable. e.g.

– No signatures in core (plugin exists)

– No icons (e.g. http://www.phpbb.com/community/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read_subforum.gif ) by forums and posts showing useful information (ripe for plugin)

– No emoticons in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No attachments in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No “topic started” date in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page)

– No “read count” for topics (ripe for plugin)

– No forum specific search (plugin exists)

– No post count for posters

etc

However, when bbPress breaks with forum convention to add something without evident added value, that is a bummer. e.g.

– Freshness instead of Last post in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page). I don’t understand the reasoning behind this. bbPress is making an additional calculation, bending over backwards, just to calculate how many seconds, minutes or days have passed since last post. Why? Why not simply display the date-time of last post like most major forum software do? I don’t see the reason and I don’t like it this way, but if it is like this then I assume that there are other bbPress users who do. Hence I say…perhaps this should be configurable.

– The notification This forum contains 5 topics and 7 replies, and was last updated by some-author 5 days ago. Why? What is the thinking behind this? What purpose does this serve? I mean, on the same page, topics are listed, there is pagination (and total number of topics) above and below the list of topics, the user can see which post is on top and who last updated it, so why is this notification important to have? I don’t get it. But since it’s there, I assume somebody does, and hence I request that it be a configuration.

– Similarly, I wonder if a lot is achieved performance-wise by not showing the name of OP in lists of topics, considering that date-time of original post is being retrieved anyway.

– Formatting/styling of original post and replies is different by default on the topic page. From a user perspective, I don’t see why. You don’t have different styling for original post and replies on bbpress.org or wordpress.org What makes you think that everyone else would want it? Perhaps there is not much additional work is being put into it because replies have to be assigned a formatting anyway, and this way bbPress users know that this is possible. But if so, then even if styling of replies has to be defined separately, it should be same as that of original posts by default, and users should be able to see in documentation that it is possible for them to have different styling. If, on the other hand, you have discovered that a large number of bbPress users want to have different styling for original posts and replies, then I say make it configurable.

– In freshness, the number of days/hours/minutes is linked. How does that make sense? (yes it takes to the last post, but linking hours is odd…phpBB’s approach where they have a tiny icon next to the date-time is better) If it does to a lot of bbPress users, I say make it configurable.

(Through all this, remember: There aren’t that many bbPress-supporting themes, and most of bbPress users will end up using bbPress with their generic WordPress themes)

Lots of people use WordPress despite the performance hit (as opposed to say, Drupal) because it is so easy to use and customize without having to do (or even know) any coding. All bbPress users are WordPress users and so there is a similar expectation from bbPress.

I know it’s not fair to compare bbPress to WordPress, which has so many more developers and contributors, not to mention forum moderators.

On the other hand, it is a fair expectation, for bbPress is billed as a forum software from the makers of WordPress. If Matt wants this to take on phpBB, vBulletin and SMF, he needs to put some resources behind it, instead of making JJJ toil alone.

[SK]

I assume you mean how to change avatar on this website.

You need to set your avatar at http://en.gravatar.com/

bbpress.org pulls avatars from that site.

[SK]

Thanks guys!

@martin_style: Not quite sure what you mean by “once time load slow, but not loading multiple times”

@jaredatch: How do I nuke the sidebar?

I lied. I am not using

.bbp-forum #primary {

display: none;

}

I am using a plugin that replaces primary sidebar with a bbpress specific sidebar.

But I have 2 sidebars, and I am hiding the 2nd sidebar with CSS

.bbp-forum #secondary {

display: none;

}

So this is the one that I need to remove.

I am guessing that instead of fiddling with the Theme, it might be easier to patch the plugin. Here’s what it does at the moment:

function vp_sidebars_widgets($data)

{

// if bbpress enabled and main sidebar requested

if ($this->is_bbp && $this->is_main_sidebar)

{

// switch sidebar if bbrepss sidebar has some widgets in it

if (!empty($data[$this->sidebar_id]))

{

if (isset($data['sidebar-1']))

{

// uses sidebar-1 as main sidebar in most themes

// set forum sidebar as main sidebar

$main_sidebar_key = 'sidebar-1';

}

else

{

// get first sidebar which should be main in most themes

foreach ($data as $k => $v)

{

if (strpos($k,'inactive')===false)

{

$main_sidebar_key = $k;

break;

}

}

}



// replace main sidebar with bbpress sidebar

if (isset($main_sidebar_key))

{

$data[$main_sidebar_key] = $data[$this->sidebar_id];

}

}



// reset main sidebar request

$this->is_main_sidebar = false;

}



// return modified widgets array

return $data;

}

[Jared Atchison]

You already asked this once. No need to ask again.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/post-author?view=all#post-101224

[Jared Atchison]

I don’t have an answer for you. Are you using bbp-compat or TwentyTen bbPress theme (though that shouldn’t matter).

The fact is I’m running trunk and I see the classes in various places.

[Jared Atchison]

Install bbPress 2.0.2 (the plugin) – it will do all of this out of the box

[Jared Atchison]

You are in the right direction, the theme is just hijacking and overriding bbPress css, so you’re going to have to just tweak it.

[Jared Atchison]

If you are using bbPress 2.1 by chance, you can drop this into your theme’s functions.php and it should do what you want.

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_forum_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

add_filter( 'bbp_get_single_topic_description', 'ja_return_blank' );

function ja_return_blank() {

return '';

}

If we provided a configuration for every request received we would have 347374 configurations and be years from a future release.

Instead bbPress is built extremely flexible so *you* can do these things as you see fit.

[Jared Atchison]

Trunk is simply the latest development version of bbPress. So if jjj committed a patch last night, it’s not going to show up in the latest *stable* version – it will be in trunk.

You can download trunk via a zip file or through SVN – SVN is better because then you can easily sync it down the road.

Make sure you are grabbing the plugin trunk and not 1.x trunk.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin

[MaTaX91]

trunk …… how

I’ve searched and searched, can someone please just tell me how to USE trunk, I’ve downloaded it, I’ve added it to my existing bbpress plugin, I’ve tried running it as stand alone, I don’t understand, please someone just tell me how

[maintenanceguy]

I need a quick, overview of how to install a WP blog with a BBPress forum on the same domain.

I found a couple of tutorials on how to do this with the legacy stand alone version of BBPress and have considered just installing the legacy version but am hoping there’s a way with the newer plugin version.

What I want to do:

(1) Run WordPress from the root directory and use it as the site blog

(2) Run a forum in a subfolder ‘/forum’ (I assume this will require a second installation of WP with BBPress plugin?)

(3) Both the forum and blog should have integrated registrations/login so if you join or log into one, you’re automatically a member of or logged into the other.

(4) Both the forum and blog should be able to share a theme or at least be able to install the same theme on both installations for website consistency.

Thank you in advance for any help.

[CAtchthefloaty]

ok so i have gotten to the point where i need the bbpress forum index, and subforums to use a them that has a sidebar, and where the induvidual topics use one without a sidebar.

im thinking the easiest way would be choosing a template theme for the indexs but that option doesnt show in editor like it does when creating pages.

help?

here is site.

blog.max-encumbrance.com

[mizu no oto]

Greetings from Vancouver, B.C.

I’ve installed the BBPress plugin and want to modify the ‘light blue’ and ‘yellow’ text block colors on the following page.

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums/forum/test-forum

I followed plugin >> bb press >> bbp-twentyten >> css >> bbpress-rtl and bbpress.css

Using Firebug I located in the css where (I thought) I would modify the colors but when I looked in both bbpress-rtl and bbpress.css there was no matching code, at least that I could find.

Same for . . .

http://participatorydemocracy.ca/forums

which I want to modify the header to match the rest of the website.

Any suggestions would be grateful . . .

[jmatthewgore]

Thanks again, rvencu

I do have a Linux host… a CentOS based VPS (managed). Beyond that, I’m afraid that your suggestion is Greek to me. I don’t really know anything about editing the EOL Conversion (or what it is).

However, I can safely say that I’ve experienced my fair share of php errors on this server, and previous ones have not been listed as “line 1”. Also, aside from this comment form showing up, my whole install of wordpress and buddypress/bbPress works just fine, so I’m not sure I understand why changing this line would be a particular problem anyway… maybe it’s just a syntax error?

But are you saying that you don’t see any obvious problem with the code I pasted above?

Many Thanks,

Matthew

[Jared Atchison]

No its definitely still being rendered by the server and the browser, your browser just hides it. Ideally you’ll want to find a way to nuke the sidebar on bbPress pages, but you’ll have to poke around your theme to do that.

[SK]

One feature that I struggle a bit in why bbPress broke from the norm is Freshness. It is customary to have the last column for “Last post” which includes the date-time of last post (topic/reply) and the author of last post.

bbPress has decided to use “Freshness” instead of “Last post” as title. Instead of date-time, it displays time-since. Is there an easy way to change this?

[SK]

#1 Would love to see that as well.

#2 Loved these little things in phpBB and missing in bbpress

#3 have you tried:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbp-signature/

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-bbcode/

bbPress.org plugin repo is useless for bbPress plugin, but you could check out https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/bbpress

These plugins are WP plugins for bbPress, and you can install from WP Admin just like normal WP plugins

[SK]

Yup, feel free to pitch in at GlotPress

[Carlosgr]

Now it worked! the name of the files were false.

I see no everything is translated, so i guess I’ll have to support with more translations.

Thanks!