[yzgulec83]

I have a language file for 1.0.3 version of bbPress. May I use this for 2.0 beta version?

If yes, how can I change language option? I uploaded language file into bbp-languages but yhere is no bb-config.php file for plugin version to modify language settings.

[DuncanCox]

I am using this bbpress from last 6 months still I have not found any plugin regarding this. if You find it then please share with me.

[Paul Gregory]

Yeah, that specific function’s not at all the right one, it seems to be a well-meaning but naive tip on kai920’s part.

But the basic idea of having a Register link within the bbPress Login Widget is sound, and I’m a bit concerned that it seems to be problematic.

There needs to be a good bundled method of having a link to Register that does NOT show up when a user is already logged in, and the Login Widget is the most logical place to put it. (Obviously it’s trivial to add a Register link to a menu or widget area that would be present all the time).

Two naff, but workable, solutions:

1) Add a field in the bbPress Login Widget for the registration page URL, with “/wp-login.php” set as the default. When the Login Widget is displaying the Log In details, display the registration link (if not blank and if registration is enabled). When the Login Widget is displaying the current user details and log out link, don’t show the registration link.

2) Encourage users to install a pair of simple widgets. I don’t know if decent ones exist, but they’d be called something like Logged In Text and Not Logged In Text, which as their names suggest are like Text widgets but only show their contents if is_user_logged_in() condition is true or false. It’s then simple to add a Register link or whatever to a Not Logged In widget, which could be placed above or below the bbPress Login Widget. If I can’t find an existing pair I’ll knock them out myself soon, although I suspect what I’ll end up doing on most sites is conditionally displaying one entire sidebar or another.

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The reason both are naff is that it seems pretty clear that there should be a function or method that returns the correct (custom) login page, and the absence of it is causing problems.

Is WP completely unaware of custom registration pages? It seems so. There should be somewhere central that the URLs (or page IDs) of custom Register and Login pages etc are set – and that this should be site based rather than theme based, much like you can set the front page and posts page in WP Reading Settings.

Of course, that’s arguably a WP issue not a bbP issue, but bbP as plugin is at liberty to extend WP in useful ways because that’s what plugins do.

From what you’re saying it sounds like this isn’t part of immediate bbP plans.

I don’t know whether I’m missing a setting, or if it’s something you’ve fixed since b2 but: having registered using a bbPress registration page, the email that people get with their password includes a link to /wp-login.php rather than my /log-in page that uses the bbPress login template. Using that leaves people in an inappropriate interface that they are probably not intended to see, and will confuse (and lose) users.

Am I expected to override this myself with a plugin or in my template? That would mean hard-coding page references. It doesn’t seem right.

I think bbP should just bite the bullet and allow users to specify their login and register pages under Settings. And indeed specify the View Profile page etc. It seems to me that bbP really needs to know where the login page is, and searching for a page with either the bbPress Login template or the Login shortcode (the “magic” method) seems prone to error.

All that said, I don’t want to seem too negative – I am liking bbPress 2.0 a lot and thank you (and everyone involved) for your time on it.

[Daaaaaave]

I tried changing the physical to something crazy. same problem.

Trying standalone bbpress 1.0.3

thanks for your help

[kai920]

Do you have a /forums physical directory on your server? If so, try renaming it.

Are you trying to install bbPress standalone (1.0.3) or bbPress Plugin (2.0 beta 2)?

[Daaaaaave]

Sorry if this is confusing. I installed buddypress through the wordpress plugins page. I then installed bbpress through buddypress. I have since uninstalled buddypress and bbpress and i am trying to now install bbpress on my server. Once loading all the files to my directory mysite.com/forums/ i then go to load the directory. The installing instructions do not come up i come to a bbpress page which shows “page not found”.

I am guessing the old install of bbpress is interfering? maybe in the database?

Thanks in advance.

[John James Jacoby]

@Chip – That’s probably the easiest way, yes. If you’re familiar with WordPress themes (which I am fairly certain you are) this should be pretty painless.

[John James Jacoby]

@Chip – That’s probably the easiest way, yes. If you’re familiar with WordPress themes (which I am fairly certain you are) this should be pretty painless.

[Chip Bennett]

@annointed:

Is there any documentation anywhere for converting a bbPress 1.x custom Theme to a bbPress 2.0 custom Theme? I have a fairly comprehensive Theme I developed for 1.x, and would like to convert it. I suppose I should just start poring through the bbp-twentyten child Theme template files?

[Chip Bennett]

@annointed:

Is there any documentation anywhere for converting a bbPress 1.x custom Theme to a bbPress 2.0 custom Theme? I have a fairly comprehensive Theme I developed for 1.x, and would like to convert it. I suppose I should just start poring through the bbp-twentyten child Theme template files?

[selise]

many thanks jjj! (you just saved me a bunch of time trying to track down my mistake)

[John James Jacoby]

@kai920 – Please don’t bump topics, especially if they’re still on the front page.

I’m against the idea of using wp_register(); since it redirects you to wp-login.php to sign-up instead of using a registration page in the theme. Also, the idea with community sites like bbPress and BuddyPress, is usually to keep members out of the admin area. Promoting them to enter it seems counter intuitive.

[John James Jacoby]

@selise – that will be fixed in Beta 3

@Syrhen – Only forums can have topics. Categories cannot. I’ll likely add a note to the metabox before release.

[kai920]

Any opinions on the above? I personally think it would be good to include a “Register” link in the login widget. Curious to hear others’ opinions.

“This tag displays either the “Site Admin” link if the user is logged in or “Register” link if the user is not logged in.”

[Syrehn]

Firstly I’m very glad to see this project going.

I’ve been playing around with the beta, using beta 2 at the moment, and maybe it’s me doing something wrong but if I create a forum, and then create a category it will not allow me to create a topic under that category. Only under it’s main forum. Is this intentional?

I’m very much looking forward to the final release of this plugin. Thanks!

[selise]

so sorry, another breadcrumb question to add to the thread….

installed are: wp 3.1.3 and bbp beta-2

(first bbpress plugin install was pre-alpha and have been updating every few days as development has progressed — many thanks for a great plugin!)

my setup is:

forums base archive slug is “forums”

single forum slug is “forum”

forum prefix is not included (button unchecked)

for mydomain.com/forums/

where the forums “page” uses the template “bbPress – Forums (Index)”

and there are three individual forums (example: forum1, forum2, forum3)

the breadcrumb on each of the individual forums seems correct:

site › forums › forum1

site › forums › forum2

site › forums › forum3

i’d expect the breadcrumb on the “forums” index page to be:

site › forums

but instead i see:

site › forums › forum1

where forum1 was the first forum created.

…..

is this the desired behavior? my set up error? a bug?

[John James Jacoby]

Nope. Both sound like plugin territory to me.

[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