[master5o1]

Only noticed this since my test site got beta3 the other day.

http://beta.tartarus.co.nz/ is the WP, and /forum/ is a page that uses the [bbp-topic-index] and [bbp-forum-index] with default templating (ie: not Forum Index template).

I’ve got three screenshots which show the bbpress plugin settings for the slugs, the /forum/ “Recent Topics” page, the forums slug /forums/ page when you click Forums in the breadcrumb, and my work around to make it behave how I want it to behave (see the urls too).

So 1.png is the /forum/ page.

http://dump.master5o1.com/files/images/bbp/1.png

2.png is the /forums/ slug page as WP/bbp naturally does it.

http://dump.master5o1.com/files/images/bbp/2.png

3.png is done using /forums/index.php to redirect to /forum/.

http://dump.master5o1.com/files/images/bbp/3.png

If I made the /forum/ page slug be forums then it would show blank page probably because bbpress is getting in there first and showing the forum slug page which is blank -_-

I think that if bbpress returns a blank page, it should tell WP that it hasn’t found anything and for WP to continue to look for the page. But I don’t know how the plugin works much atm.

[mrconkin]

First timer here. I’ve uploaded the bbpress files to my server and was greeted with the installation process. Perfect. Then I am asked for the database name, username, and password. I followed the instructions provided by my hosting service provider to create a new database. Once I did that I was able to create a new user (and password, of course). Next, I inputed this information into the bbpress install form, but when I clicked “Take me to the next step” I received this server error:

“HTTP Error 500 (Internal Server Error): An unexpected condition was encountered while the server was attempting to fulfill the request.”

Did I input the database information in wrong? Do I need to wait for the servers to update? Any help would be appreciated.

[Andre]

@JJJ – In which versions of BuddyPress and bbPress do you expect BuddyPress to use the plugin instead of the stand alone?

[John James Jacoby]

@Patrick – Just audited the usage of bbp_get_reply_url() and bbp_get_reply_position() and made some changes. I’ll be sure to test paginated reply subscription notifications before pushing out RC1.

[tnts]

I’d want to move our 2000+ user forum from bbpress 0.9.3 to bbpress 2 as soon as it’s stable and tested. Will it be possible to save all the internal links as they are now (id-based)? And will the transfer of the 100k+ posts be easy at all?

How about Private Messaging plugin and other extra features which are now run by plugins?

[tnts]

I’d want to move our 2000+ user forum from bbpress 0.9.3 to bbpress 2 as soon as it’s stable and tested. Will it be possible to save all the internal links as they are now (id-based)? And will the transfer of the 100k+ posts be easy at all?

How about Private Messaging plugin and other extra features which are now run by plugins?

[John James Jacoby]

Sorry about that everyone. Typo in the template parts. Fixing asap.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forums' ); ?>

…should be…

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

…as seen here at the trac revision.

[Paul Gregory]

And here. Update to beta-3 and suddenly Forum Index doesn’t display anything.

To clarify, this was a page with the template “bbPress – Forums (Index)”.

Adding a new page with the same template also failed to show the index.

However, adding the shortcode

[bbp-forum-index]

to the page content makes the forum index appear again.

I’ve been a little out of the loop so I don’t know if this is intentional – maybe the index template isn’t the way to do it now and we’re supposed to use the shortcode. Using the shortcode does have the advantage of being able to add text before and after the forum index. Other template pages seem fine though.

In any event, it’s simple to fix.

[sanguango]

Hi, I have wp 313 and bbpress 102. I tried to integrate them following the instructions available at Docs, but I got the famous “User doesn’t exist” error. I tried to find a solution to this problem but those suggested in the forum do not work. What can I do?

[Patrick Daly]

The email notification reply link is fixed in Beta 3. Thanks. A new bug though: that link only works if the reply is on the first of many pages.

For example, the latest reply was emailed to me with this link: http://devpress.com/forums/topics/new-design/#post-2119

Pagination puts that reply on page 2 which means that link doesn’t actually take me to the reply and I have to go to the next page manually.

This is the working link: http://devpress.com/forums/topics/new-design/page/2/#post-2119

Also, that link actually has another bug report

[bradsucks]

There was a conflict noted with the bbPress topic tag slug. I changed it which cleared the conflict but the tag page still isn’t returning any results (“Oh bother! No topics were found here!”).

And ‘forums’ is the root of all the forum permalinks on my setup (everything else is default, I believe.)

[John James Jacoby]

@bradsucks – Topic tag behavior seems to be hit or miss since Beta 1. I’ve added some extra logic into the permalinks to check for conflicts with any other slugs or permalinks. Check your forums and permalinks settings, and see if there are any notes about conflicts. There can be some collisions with blog post tags if you have your topic-tag slug set to “tag” and are choosing to not include the forums archive as the root of all forum permalinks.

[bradsucks]

Just upgraded to beta 3 and my topic tag pages don’t return any results now (on the default theme). Is anyone else having this problem?

Also was there any change in the root breadcrumb behavior? I think I read there was going to be so I held off implementing a fix.

Thanks for all your hard work, bbPress 2 is looking great.

[John James Jacoby]

@Fartlek – The Akismet integration was largely contributed by cnorris23, and Nightgunner5. Props to them

[John James Jacoby]

If you’re not a developer, the time it would take you to learn how to integrate multiple versions of bbPress/WordPress with cookie sharing would most likely not be cost effective.

[John James Jacoby]

Happy to oblige.

[ideoplasm]

Tremendous! I just updated, checked it, and it worked! If only all prayers were answered as rapidly!

[ideoplasm]

DKB, doing this across multiple domains would be even awesomer! To enable something like this, can I get freelancers to do it for me for reasonable money? Or would that be so expensive that I’d be better of doing it myself. You say consult the docs (and thanks, Gautam) but I must stress I know nothing about codey stuff! Can anyone suggest a reliable WP/bbPress freelance coder?

[Fartlek]

Also added Akismet integration to Beta 3. If you have the Akismet plugin for WordPress installed, bbPress 2.0 will now just piggy-back it, and work without any additional config.

I was just going to ask about how soon that Akismet integration would be happening. This is wonderful news. Thanks JJJ for all your hard work.

[John James Jacoby]

Also added Akismet integration to Beta 3. If you have the Akismet plugin for WordPress installed, bbPress 2.0 will now just piggy-back it, and work without any additional config.

[John James Jacoby]

Those of you with custom themes where you’ve moved files around may need to move files one last time, as some changes to the theme compatibility routine and template structure in Beta 3 (based largely on user feedback) have shuffled things around a bit.

If this is you, you’ll want to back up your custom template files (so you don’t lose your edits), copy the contents of bbp-twentyten into your theme (like you did before), then go through the changes and make sure everything is working the way you want it to.

This will be the final theme compatibility change in 2.0.

[John James Jacoby]

Just tagged bbPress 2.0 Beta 3 in WordPress Extend.

Those of you with custom themes where you’ve moved files around may need to move files one last time, as some changes to the theme compatibility routine and template structure (based largely on user feedback) have shuffled things around a bit.

[Anointed]

Ok, now I see what is going on.

The problem is that the bbpress stylesheet is relying upon selectors that are not present in your theme.

To explain:

Open up your bbpress.css file and you will notice that there are a lot of rules that start with the following:

#content

#container

#main

To fix:

1. backup your stylesheet first, very important just in case something doesn’t go perfectly.

2. Do a search and remove all instances of #content, #container, and #main from the stylesheet.

3. Save the stylesheet and upload it, replacing the old one.

Why:

The selectors above do not exist in your custom theme, so the rules are never going to be applied.

Now this is going to get you 90% to where you want to be. There are still going to be a few areas that you will have to manually adapt to your theme to make it perfect. There could also be rules in your theme’s stylesheet that may override the bbpress.css. In those instances you will either need to modify the rules of either stylesheet, or add in your own theme selectors to bbpress.

It is not really that big a job as once you remove the rules so much will automatically work for you.

I hope this helps.

*I’ve talked to JJ about removing the top level selectors from the css to help make it easier for everyone. The changes ‘may’ make it into the download someday, but that is his decision.

[Trevor Green]

I have the members plugin install and modified subscribers to see hidden forums.

This didn’t work.

Hidden seems more appropriate than private. Private tags a forum with Private:. Which I don’t understand at all.

It seems like you have forums that you apply access control to for different roles and they should either see them or not see them depending on the roles.

I understand that you can use the members plugin. And that you could potentially setup different roles with different access levels based upon the existing permissions.

But as I mention above setting “read_hidden_forums” on subscriber didn’t allow the subscriber to see or read a hidden forum.

I don’t have that role set to access anything private. So maybe hidden is a subset of private? I’ll try turning on private access on subscriber.

If hidden works as suspected it seems appropriate to have public be accessable by anyone on the site and hidden for everyone else.

Private would see appropriate, but if 99% of your forums are private its pretty lousy to see a “private:” tag in front of all of them. There appears to be no setting in the bbPress settings to disable that.

I’m not sure what the use case is for bbPress, but it seems pretty narrowly defined to very public forums. Not to a more layered scenario, where you can define role based access to each role for different forums and alter visibilty.

Am i missing something. Is there a forum category based access control method?

I haven’t jumping into plugins because I’m trying to use the 2.x plugin version and since its still beta I’m not confident that there is anything stable out there. There doesn’t even seem to be a way to post photos so it appears to need lots of addons.

Once I can figure out what it is supposed to do I may take the plunge to write some.

I apologize if this post is grumbly, I’m excited about bbPress as a plugin, I’m just dismayed that I’m needing it before the final release and the plugin community piles on to make it better.

[DKB]

How can i get single login for bbpress sites on different domains?