[upacific1862]

Hi all

I´m Alex and I try to set up a new forum in my webpage. Now is “hiden” to people but you can see at… http://www.mundoferroviario.com/forums/

I installed the spanish language in the bbp-languages and works correctly as you can see in the web.

But I try to install a new theme but not running. I created my-templates folder and uploaded it but I can see the option to activate it.

And occurs the same with the plugins. I uploaded to my-plugins and I cannot activate it.

I´m using last version of bbPress, 2.0.2 and Atahualpa theme for WordPress.

Thanks a lot and Happy New Year for everybody,

Alex

[farinspace]

I have bbPress 2.x installed and running with hybrid theme on wp 3.3, everything seems to be working fine …

I registered a new user, which got the “forum participant” role assigned. But if I click to edit the user profile: “/wp-admin/profile.php” I get a permission warning: “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

I have installed the “members” plugin to view the capabilities of the role which are:

assign_topic_tags

0

edit_replies

edit_topics

publish_replies

publish_topics

[solved]

When I add the “read” capability to the “forum participant” it all seems work!

[Erlend]

I could swear I saw John write somewhere that bbPress 2.0 was successfully working with W3 Total Cache, but don’t take my word for it.

[SK]

Thanks, anointed! That helps.

Can someone please chime in on the caching aspect?

[bjj_pl]

How to change parent forum / category for many posts in bbpress plugin for wordpress? I’ve got much too mmany posts to do the change posts one by one.

Wordpress:3.2, BBpress 2

[Anointed]

There truly is no way to build a plugin like bbPress that would integrate with any theme on the market and take on the themes characteristics perfectly.

Because of that what bbPress has done is to build a very basic structure that is not to difficult to extend to fit your own theme. Yes, it does take a lot of work, but in the end it is very easy and run to work with.

Most of what you are asking for could be accomplished with just a bit of css work. It would take a ton of work to make it look exactly like your forums, but making bbPress look decent in the theme wouldn’t be that hard. Mostly just time is all.

It looks like you didn’t add descriptions to

health, mind, and relationships. If you add descriptions for those ‘categories’ then the descriptions will show up.

The theme by default does not show descriptions of sub-forums on the homepage, though it could be modified to show them.

First time I’ve seen that theme. It’s very nice looking

**I sent you a contact form on your website with a bunch of css you can apply to make bbPress look better on your site

[Martin]

Hey Anointed.

Thanks for your nice reply and offer to help out if you’re able.

Here’s a list of what I find lacking as far as theming goes in my current them.

– the forum descriptions are missing, other than the first one.

– there’s no borders defining the layout of forums and sub-forums

– the styling of the avatars isn’t carried over from the main them

– indented comment threading (though this might be a shortcoming of bbPress itself)

– I’d personally like to get rid of that ‘Freshness’ column too. Reasoning: when you’re trying to get increased activity in a forum that has a lack, seeing a bold indicator that it’s slow has a tendency to keep people away (that’s just a marketing point of view)

– the fonts, Title styling, icons and shadows

– check out the same theme’s style for BuddyPress here – http://para.llel.us/themes/mingle-wp/groups/web-design/forum/

– you can see that’s simply beautiful.

– it’s a great pity there’s so much confusion around BuddyPress, bbPress and how it’s made out that they’re integrated with WordPress until you come to discovering there’s so much that isn’t transferred from WP into a plugin like bbPress.

Anyway, ideally it would have been fantastic if the theme creator had done bbPress as well as BuddyPress however that isn’t going to happen as he says it’s too much work. As a relative newbie to WordPress, I simply wasn’t aware there were these sorts of pitfalls – I naively thought theming was a global site thing [groan]

Thanks

Martin

[bjj_pl]

ebiznet88, yep, converter created 9 individual characters for each post.

Well, I am ashamed to say it, but I used MS Word 2003 to make changes in my sql file.

Seems to work fine and no errors occured later. Coded as UTF-8 text file with no additional MS WORD characters.

I used something like:

find

[/img:^?^?^?^?^?^?^?^?]

replace with

[/img]

and so on.

[bjj_pl]

Hi there,

I’ve got a problem with custom page templates and wordpress pages with bbcode shortcodes.

I’ve created a page “Forum “with shortcode [bbp-forum-index] and made it main Forum Page. Since most of my pages use sidebar, the one with forum index was meant to be fullwidth. I tried to set a custom page template but with no effect. The Twenty One template uses only default theme template and keep displaying sidebar.

I do know how to create custom page templates for wordpress but they just don’t work with bbpress plugin Anyway, I don;t know how to make bbpress work with my custom templates.

Any ideas?

[Anointed]

NO, bbPress really shouldn’t slow your site down any more than adding in the same amount of pages to your site as the amount of topics and replies you have in your forums.

That is the nice part about bbPress. It basically used custom post-types and is totally native WordPress code.

There is no extra code loaded that I am aware of, other than a small javascript file, which is only loaded on bbPress pages anyhow.

No idea on the cache part, so can’t help there as I don’t use cache plugins.

[Anointed]

@Tammy

I don’t think that the template files are currently used, even if placed within your currently active theme. According to JJ< bbPress 2.1 should make this much easier.

Right now, the only way I know how to change the appearance in your own theme is to actually remove the shortcode actions and write your own custom shortcodes.

You can of course add a bbpress.php/forums.php page and place that within your theme to do some basic changes such as removing sidebars.

[Anointed]

@seancam4

Without a link to your site, there is nothing we can do to help out.

@Rastarr

Can I ask what it is about the bbPress theme that you don’t like on your site?

From the quick peek that I took, it does seem to be setup correctly. If it’s just some small tweaks then maybe it’s something I can help with. (not tonight, it’s 3:30am my time, but maybe later).

[Martin]

Yes, I’m in the same situation with the Mingle theme from ThemeForest, for my site at http://www.geekandjock.com

Great theme and styling which looks like cr*p when viewed with the bbPress plugin. Seems like the forum capability for WordPress is still in the dark ages, in my opinion.

I’ve migrated from Drupal to WordPress recently. I’d have thought that plugins would respect and act like child components of any theme being used for WordPress. Sadly, this sort of logic isn’t the case.

I’ve scoured the bbPress forums and styling seems to be the major problem as well as requiring a whole lot of work and effort, not to mention it also appears (to me) to be a convoluted exercise. This is my major regreat in migrating from Drupal to WordPress.

[ebiznet88]

I hadn’t looked into many posts but assumed that the added characters were the same. I thought I could do a simple search and replace in the SQL file, but if it is as bjj_pl says, then this will not work.

I sure hope AWjunkies can jump in here to help us out soon.

Another problem I noticed for my converted forum is that the replies to the original post are missing. So many threads contain only 1 post. Anyone else seeing this?

[il_dandi]

I’ve installed WP 3.3 and BBPress 2.02 but in settings I show:

Lock post editing after minutes

Throttle time seconds

Allow Revisions Allow topic and reply revision logging

Allow Favorites Allow users to mark topics as favorites?

Allow Subscriptions Allow users to subscribe to topics

Allow Anonymous Posting Allow guest users without accounts to create topics and replies

Per Page

Per page settings for the bbPress plugin

Topics per page

Replies per page

… etcc..

Now all you show me!

Thanks for help me!

[bjj_pl]

i do have a question to all of You,

i mentioned that bbcode was generated with some unwanted code:

[img:33mwiaq9]. It is different for each and every post, so I can’t just use simple UPDATE to get rid of it in “wpp_posts” table.

Does anyone know how to do that?

I can’t use:

UPDATE wpp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content,”[img:33mwiaq9]”,”“)

that would only fix one post and not thousands of them.

I’ve been thinking os using something like:

UPDATE wpp_posts SET post_content = replace(post_content,'[b%’,’‘)

but that wouldn’t work either. It is always 8 signs that I have to delete in each bbcode tag.

[Suzanne2012]

Hi, call me a noob but I am running BBPress Integration plugin version 1.0 and a few weeks ago, people cannot upload images, it just says: Attachments

[jpg] [denied mime] bird-collage.jpg (86.2 KB)

when I try to upload a picture in a post. Any solutions? I’m running WordPress 3.3.

[SK]

I have a few sites running on WordPress. I love the simplicity and the expandability. However, I have experienced that the more plugins I add, the slower the site becomes. Techies tell me that this is because WordPress loads all the plugins every time a page loads.

My question is that if I install bbpress, will it make my WordPress site slow? Specifically, when I am on WordPress pages (not the bbpress part), will the bbpress code still be loaded?

Additionally, I have found that buddypress has this fatal flaw in that it wipes out the whole WordPress cache (not just buddypress parts) whenever someone logs in. Is this true for bbpress as well? I use a cheap shared host, and my site can not survive without caching as static, so this is critical…

[SK]

On the download page http://bbpress.org/download/ I see that the WP plugin is available in v 2.0.2 while standalone version is 1.1

No release dates are given for either, and the blog http://bbpress.org/blog/ doesn’t seem to refer to 2 different strains…it simply refers to bbpress 2.0.2…

So, I’m wondering…has the standalone version been discontinued?

[Tammy Hart]

I have a multisite installation with pretty much nothing on it. I installed bbPress, didn’t network activate it, activated it on my main site, and the main forums page works, but nothing else. I just get my plain page.php template, not the bbPress twenty-ten child theme templates.

So I tried dumping the templates into my theme. Still nothing. I switched the site’s theme to twenty ten and all of the pages work great. Switch back to my theme, and it’s not working.

I tried adding the add_theme_support in, nothing. Then I uploaded 2.1-bleeding, still nothing. I put the theme on a non multisite installation, installed bbpress, same results. I installed bbPress on another site using a theme i’ve created, worked fine. So.. I’m missing something somewhere in my theme, and It’s driving me nuts. Any insight at all would be most appreciated.

[John James Jacoby]

Chris – would probably need to access your installation and play with it. It sounds like everything should be working. This will also be easier in bbPress 2.1.

[John James Jacoby]

^ Not very helpful criticism.

What didn’t you like? What was your experience? It’s very possible the problems you experienced weren’t even with bbPress.

[Anointed]

#1 yeah, that’s kinda how it works right now. It’s in need of some love.

#2 https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-no-admin/ removes ability for users to post bbPress content in admin area.

#3 When doing it that way, there is a forum and topic selection dropdown on the right hand side above where you publish the post. The idea being that a user can select the forum and topic right there.

I really think that is more just a quick way for an admin to post a reply, though I can’t see why I would ever use it myself.

#4 probably a bug.

There are also plenty of code snippets online in order to completely remove the admin bar or remove menu’s from the bar if you want. Pretty much just decide what you want to do and check google for the code snippets or plugins.

[Anointed]

Yeah, I’m not sure how to get it to work. I just tried it myself, and while I get no errors, I am not able to use shortcodes in my forum topics. Maybe JJ, or someone will jump in and let us know how to properly whitelist shortcodes.

*I know I have my site setup correctly as I can use shortcodes in my other custom post-types. Best guess is that bbPress has some rather strong filtering going on or something. Which btw is not a bad thing, would just help to know what/why it’s happening.

[bjj_pl]

@ebiznet “I tried editing the post to the original bbcode but it doesn’t work. Does bbPress use bbcode at all? I thought it does…”

I suggest install and activate “bbPress2 BBCode” wordpress plugin.