[John James Jacoby]

Not really an optimal fix, since it’s still loading the sidebar. Ultimately if you want a custom theme, you need a custom theme.

[John James Jacoby]

Not really an optimal fix, since it’s still loading the sidebar. Ultimately if you want a custom theme, you need a custom theme.

[zeaks]

This worked for me while using a Twenty Ten child theme.

.forum #primary, .forum #secondary {display:none;}

.forum #content {margin-left:50px; width: 800px;}

[zeaks]

This worked for me while using a Twenty Ten child theme.

.forum #primary, .forum #secondary {display:none;}

.forum #content {margin-left:50px; width: 800px;}

[ideoplasm]

Thanks guys, the ‘Members’ plugin has done more than the minimum that I wanted!

However, it’s now got me thinking of other things!…

Whilst most of my animations/art projects will be for a family audience (Rating ‘U’ or ‘PG’), the main one I am working on right now is more for adults (16 or 18 years-old plus). For this reason, it would be really nice if ‘Categories’ and ‘Forums’ could be have restricted content in the same way that ‘Pages’ and ‘Posts’ currently can.

It would be even nicer if there was a way to get people to enter their age when they Subscribe so that will automatically place them into the user-role with to which the above would be revealed or hidden according to their age. I realise people lie abou their age, but at least I can say I tried my best to provide adult filtering.

Are there any plans to build in the above features I mention any time soon?

[zaerl]

Hi softinfo. What you’re trying to achieve can be very challenging cause bbPress developers haven’t included such feature in the software. On index.php topics are obtained with get_latest_topics, forums with bb_get_forums.

The current page (for topics) is collected from a $_GET variable called page which have its own rule in the .htaccess which in turn is parsed by bb_get_uri_page (functions.bb-core.php) called from BB_Query::fill_query_vars (yargh).

Now you must do the same thing with forums but in order to do this you must change too many core files and we don’t want our soul damned for eternity.

I don’t have much time at the moment but I can give you some hints.

You need a new page variable that should be different from the default (which is used for posts’ page) together with its own .htaccess rule: RewriteRule ^forum-page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum/index.php?forum-page=$1 [L,QSA]

You should create a new fake paginate function bb_latest_topics_pages for forums bb_latest_forums_pages, a fake get_page_number_links with /forum-page/%#% instead of /page/%#% and other things here and there.

And last but not least you need a custom query (with a LIMIT) on the $bbdb forum query.

As I said it can be very challenging and there’s room for a very interesting plugin but I don’t write plugins anymore because of the current fragile status of bbPress standalone.

If you will try to write a plugin I will be happy to debug and/or code (a portion of) it.

[Anointed]

@lykketrollet

No, there is no way to manually change user permissions within the bbPress core. Well more specifically, not without a ton of hacking of the code.

Someday, I am guessing there may be a bbPress plugin built for this purpose.

I know I keep talking about the members plugin, and I do so because it is the perfect tool for the job at the moment. It really is built so well that you can set it once and ignore it.

Who knows, maybe after seeing just how powerful and simple it is, you may just end up finding other great reasons to use it as well.

*The real problem with having this in core would be group permission collisions. Meaning, if I use members to set permissions for a specific group and also have bbPress doing it then there can be problems if the permissions are not exactly matched up.

**The opinions of this commentator do not necessarily reflect the views of the network

[tooltrainer]

Yep I’m just gonna sit tight. Like I said, no user has screamed about it or anything so, I’ll just accept it for a little while longer.

Furious indeed… maybe they should rename this project “bbPress – the Faster & the Furiouser!”

Jonathan

[Anointed]

@Lykkotrollet

There are a number of really great member management plugins available. Justin’s is one of the best out there and does a great job for bbpress.

IMHO this type of functionality best remains outside the core of bbpress. Say bbpress did have this in the core, then users who utilize plugins like members could run into conflicts and collisions.

JJ has built in the needed hooks for members management to easily plug into, as evidenced by seeing how easy it is to get the members plugin working.

[Anointed]

@tooltrainer

JJ has made it really easy to remove the link to the website ‘home’ page via a function call. From his comment it sounds like he is going to make it even easier than it is now, so I would hold off until beta3.

Right now you would have to modify every template that calls the breadcrumbs. As bbpress beta is changing so fast, it is probably easiest to wait for his new solution.

Development is on a furious pace, so expect an easy solution soon enough.

[Anointed]

@Ramiuz

No, you are actually able to use your current theme for bbpress. There is a ‘fair’ amount of work involved in initially setting it up however. Shortly after bbpress goes gold then, if JJ hasn’t already done so, I will post a how-to guide on theme forum integration.

Every wp theme is a bit different, so there is a bit of tweaking to do in order to make it perfect, but it is really not all that hard.

[Anointed]

@Ramiuz

No, you are actually able to use your current theme for bbpress. There is a ‘fair’ amount of work involved in initially setting it up however. Shortly after bbpress goes gold then, if JJ hasn’t already done so, I will post a how-to guide on theme forum integration.

Every wp theme is a bit different, so there is a bit of tweaking to do in order to make it perfect, but it is really not all that hard.

[Giulio]

@Fartlek: ok, I’m sorry, you were right. Resolved with the Widget Logic plugin

Thank you.

[tooltrainer]

Please no one eh? Now that’s a novel approach! LOL Does this mean if someone likes it, you’ve failed?

Anyway, at least I know that I’m not missing something. I’ll go in and modify it as needed, or maybe hold off until beta 3. None of my users have mentioned it, but I noticed it and wanted to fix it.

Thanks!

Jonathan

[Spiralspeaks]

@JJJ I installed it on a test site.. with 2 forum categories.. General Talk and Talk Happiness

found a bug got

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

but it gives in title tag the archive mode and shows like this

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

supposed to be this one:

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

and this “Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename” should be only shown at

site com/forums/forum/talk-happiness/

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

Archive Slugs

Forums Base forums

Topics Base topics

Single Slugs

Forum Prefix Yes Incude the Forum Base slug in single forum item links

Forum slug: forum

Topic slug: topic

Topic tag slug: topic_tag

Reply slug : topic_tag

Reply slug:reply

User base: user

View base : view

Permalink Settings

Custom Structure: /post/%postname%/

Another one…

Case 1 If Forum Prefix is set to yes (this is ok)

site//forums/forum/happy-talk/

site/forums/topic/topicpost/

site/forums/users/name/

Case 2 If Forum Prefix is set to no (this is not ok)

site/forum/happy-talk/

site/topic/topicpost/

site/users/name/

when people directly go to site/forum/ they will be lost… 404notfound

and I want to recommend this… its better to have this for forums links pages

Forums Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: forum base, the forum board, the topic)

not this one loosing forums base page.

Website Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: website base, the forum board, the topic)

bug in topic_tag

site/forums/topic_tag/talk

<br />

<div id="topic-tag" class="bbp-topic-tag"><br />

<h1 class="entry-title">Topic Tag: <span>talk</span></h1></p>

<p>					<div class="entry-content"></p>

<p>						<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://bbpress.org/">Home</a> › <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/">Support Forums</a> › <span class="bbp-breadcrumb-current">Why choose happiness with bbPress?</span></p></div><br />

it gives the latest topic on it..

[edited:added this one bug in topic_tag]

my next question is…

is there a way to change all the head title tag to this formats to improve user experience… for wordpress and bbPress plugin:

For Main Forum Base

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

For forum categories

<br />

<title> Talk Happiness (Forum for single/Board for forum category)| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

For forum post

<br />

<title> Why choose happiness with bbPress? |page#| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

it is sometimes annoying to have the word “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” all the head title tag before every forum pages.

Removing this “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” could help to market wordpress and combination of bbPress plugin… to be fantastic combination of blog&forum software..

I found that vBulletin sites head title tag structure for forums gives more emphasis on why people will read it, why people should comment to it (# pages = means hot topic), and the brand for the website/forum site [when people search via google, yahoo or any search engine people sees good head title tag structure, more often people will click it and read it]

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sorry, asked questions… and i have to comment on how to improve bbpress plugin

[John James Jacoby]

Nope. Definitely not a bug; that’s the desired behavior.

The thing about these breadcrumbs is everyone wants them to do something different, because everyone configures their sites differently. I’m aiming for a ‘please no one’ approach now.

If you want to remove the home link, you’ll need to filter the breadcrumb with a custom function in your themes functions.php file, or write a plugin to remove the link or change the text. I’ve made it pretty easy to do, and it will be easier for Beta 3 which should be out in a few days.

[Malfunction]

Slightly offtopic, but the title fits the following question though:

Maybe a bit early, but is there a listing of 2.x plugins somewhere?

If not, maybe a sticky topic on here with a first post that gets updated when someone adds a new plugin or something would do? People can post their contributions in the topic then.

I search for them in this way at the moment: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=bbpress&sort=new

but I don’t know if there are more? A list would be nice?

[tooltrainer]

Not sure if this is a bug or what but I just noticed it.

The top level of the breadcrumbs is linking to whatever my blog front page is set to be. In my case, my site’s front page is called “Sales Page”, so all my breadcrumbs look like this:

Sales Page › Discussions › Beginners

When someone clicks on “Sales Page” they are taken to the root of my site, which is in fact my sales page but is definitely not the top level of the forums. I would expect it to be something like:

Forums Home › Discussions › Beginners

where “Forums Home” would link to mydomain.com/forums/ since my forums “page” is called “forums”.

Do I have a setting wrong somewhere maybe?

Thanks,

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

The plugin itself should work without a hitch. You will need to adapt it to work correctly within your bbPress powered forums however, so chances are something like that will not be turn-key simple.

[John James Jacoby]

I will +1 the members plugin. It does exactly what you need it do.

[morgan-wick]

@Chrisdfr: It sounds like you’re installing the plugin to integrate bbPress standalone with WordPress, not the forum itself. bbPress-as-plugin is only a beta right now, so despite what kai says I don’t know if it can be installed from within WordPress.

The name of the plugin should be just “bbPress”.

[Ramiuz]

So if you use another theme for your blog, you have to edit two themes?

The normal WordPress theme – AND the BBpress plugin theme?

[Ramiuz]

So if you use another theme for your blog, you have to edit two themes?

The normal WordPress theme – AND the BBpress plugin theme?

[Anointed]

@Pawel

Good catch, I’m sure JJ will look into this one

[Anointed]

@ramiuz

Install the plugin just like any other wordpress plugin by adding it to the plugins folder and activating it.

It does not appear as a page as this is a complete system. The theme comes bundled with the twentyten theme and all the needed templates for it to work in that theme.

It uses the same db as wp. Basically beta2 uses custom post-types for wp, so it is about as native wp as you could ask for.

There is some type of importer script to ‘upgrade’ from the old forum system to the new one. Sorry, I am not familiar with it as I have not used it.

I do know that JJ is working on the import system to make it as user friendly as possible. Documentation will probably proceed the stable release.