[MelloMoose]

My blog post tags were giving a page-not-found notification when clicked. To get them to work again, I had to deactivate the bbPress plugin and re-save my permalinks. When I reactivated the plugin I got the same error. My permalinks setting looks like this: /%category%/%postname%/ (this scheme was recommended for ComicPress).

Is there a way to get them both working?

Thanks.

– Jeff

mellomoose.com

[morgan-wick]

This is a problem with the “oh, we can make it a plugin” approach used for bbPress standalone: a good chunk of the userbase won’t upgrade until the plugins are upgraded too. I was going to start a bbPress 1.0 forum but I was dependent on so many _ck_ plugins that I basically decided to wait for 2.0 (though inability to make the theme match my site and getting too busy to even work on my blog were also contributing factors). Luckily WordPress has taken steps to prevent this (though I have a plugin that’s been basically abandoned that’s been keeping me on the 2.9 series, but it’s not a particularly popular plugin, as evidenced by the fact that it’s gone through at least three different incarnations as developers have stopped working on it).

On that note, my bbPress standalone installation was formally integrated with my WordPress installation in every way, but because I never really “launched” the forum I’d like to completely uninstall it and start over when 2.0 comes out of beta. However, I’m a little concerned that bbPress may have left some clutter in my WordPress database that I’d like to completely get rid of. How easy would that be? I’m the only user account on my site and I cut off any registrations on my bbPress installation so I’m the only account there too.

[engin1984]

Example: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-form-quicktags

plugin works on normal WordPress posts comment forms but doesn’t work on bbPress2’s reply forms.

[engin1984]

Hi! Is there any wysiwyg reply form on bbPress 2, like zaerl Editor or BBcode Buttons Toolbar? I tried TinyMCEComments plugin for WP but i didn’t work on bbPress 2

[tooltrainer]

Aha… I had read somewhere that _ck_ had gone “underground” and kinda disappeared. Not sure if that’s actually the case but either way I would sure love to have a Views column. Thanks!

Jonathan

[Gautam Gupta]

kai920: That probably means that the first posts weren’t cached properly by bbPress standalone (when it was asked to do by the importer). It might fix if you restore your backup and run the import again.

[Gautam Gupta]

tooltrainer: That was a plugin by _ck_. I might port it over if she doesn’t.

[tooltrainer]

I just noticed there is no “views” column so members can know how many times a particular topic had been read. Are there plans to add this? It’s a much-desired feature.

Thanks!

Jonathan

[Kye]

The addition of shortcodes will most certainly make it easier for users to embed the forums as they please and see fit….

One thing I would like to see though is the addition of a shortcodes icon within the page/post editors for ease of use, this could be extended to allow you to select the specific forum to build a shortcode string.

When used within a multisite environment it would also lower the amount of confusion as it would most likely also do in single installations. Although shortcodes are simple enough, not everyone is so web savvy.

Simplicity with a forum shortcode insert button would certainly make it much easier and eye pleasing without to much more code. Please!!!!

Thanks for all the great work here!

[Kye]

The addition of shortcodes will most certainly make it easier for users to embed the forums as they please and see fit….

One thing I would like to see though is the addition of a shortcodes icon within the page/post editors for ease of use, this could be extended to allow you to select the specific forum to build a shortcode string.

When used within a multisite environment it would also lower the amount of confusion as it would most likely also do in single installations. Although shortcodes are simple enough, not everyone is so web savvy.

Simplicity with a forum shortcode insert button would certainly make it much easier and eye pleasing without to much more code. Please!!!!

Thanks for all the great work here!

[kai920]

With the new plugin importer, I am noticing my imported threads all have an empty first post. Is there a query I can run to delete all first posts, or a way to troubleshoot the import script at what I might have done wrong?

[janoochen]

When I change this line:

function bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead = false ) {

to this:

function bbp_show_lead_topic( $show_lead = true ) {

the reply form disappears.

Is this a bug or a feature?

(This happens with a fresh bbpress install).

(I’m using bbpress 2.0 beta and wordpress 3.1)

[sarahhic]

I am not tech savvy by any means, we had a programmer develop a WP based site about a year ago, we want to incorporate a bbpress blog into this, so I created a new test site so I didn’t botch it (thank god because I DID botch it).

The test site is http://www.hersheyicecream.com/forum

I installed bbpress (www.hersheyicecream.com/forum/bbpress) and went through the integration process because I want it to pull from my WP user listing, unfortunately right after I did this all hell broke loose.

At this point I am not only showing up on the forum I created as Anonymous Unregistered, it also will not allow me to retrieve my password saying no user exists, and I have NO other users. It also will not allow me to log in to my site http://www.hersheyicecream.com/forum, instead it redirects me (not sure how) to my actual site http://www.hersheyicecream.com/dealers…

I have no way to access my “.com/forum” WP site and no way to log in to my “.com/forum/bbpress” forum.

HELP!

[Milan Petrovic]

Ah, I didn’t see that one. Thanks.

[Milan Petrovic]

Ah, I didn’t see that one. Thanks.

[Daniel Juhl]

Have you used the tool in the administration to recount bbPress?

[Daniel Juhl]

Have you used the tool in the administration to recount bbPress?

[Milan Petrovic]

I have tested imported with latest bbPress plugin version, but after import, counts of replies and topics for all forums are incorrect. If a forum has 0 topics, count shows 0, but if a topic has more than 1 it always shows 1. I checked in postmeta table, and the wrong counts are written there.

[Milan Petrovic]

I have tested imported with latest bbPress plugin version, but after import, counts of replies and topics for all forums are incorrect. If a forum has 0 topics, count shows 0, but if a topic has more than 1 it always shows 1. I checked in postmeta table, and the wrong counts are written there.

[John James Jacoby]

Rock solid.

[hlwinkler]

Gotcha. Any pointers to where I should start reading in order to do the manual labor? Even if I don’t switch over now with the beta, it’s pretty important to me to switch over eventually so I’d like to start that db migration process.

[John James Jacoby]

@Halle – The importer can’t merge two sets of user tables together, it can only pick which set to use. In situations where both WP ad bbPress have two different sets of users, you’ll need to do some manual labor in the DB to make things exactly how you want them.

[Susan Hope]

Starting a new thread here at the request of John James for any issues with iThemes Builder.

Some information from my previous report:

QUOTE

Yes, the actual shortcodes themselves appear on the published page on the site and I think I should have said, I am using iThemes Builder with a child theme, up to date version of WP..

Also, the actual forum when you click to view it from the main index one (which is appearing fine and where it should) is appearing at the top of the site above the header, which is why I am trying the shortcode route. In my case though I have used “Widget Content” which comes with builder to create the header area.

I have two other plugins that produced the same kind of thing, in that they appeared fine where they were meant to, “sexybookmarks” at the end of a post BUT also would appear in any location I had used “Widget Content” which was the header area and sidebar areas and also a paypal plugin and to get around that I added this code to the end of my child css:

.widget-content .paypal-form {

display: none;

}

Which stopped it appearing in content widget areas, so the first thing I tried for this was the same code but changing the “.paypal-form to one for bbPress – I had used firebug lite (chrome) to try and find the correct name that should go there and I don’t think I found the right name.

Yep shortcode helper would be good, thanks John.. do you need any more info?

Sue

UNQUOTE

Hope that is enough information for my particular problem John?

Thanks

Sue

[hlwinkler]

Thank John. Will I be able to import my users if I first do bbpress/WP integration? Or will that not change the fact that my bbpress users are on the separate bbpress db?

[John James Jacoby]

@jarledb – One of the unique challenges of creating a plugin with a large volume of users is catering to the 80% of users that want to turn it on, and not really mess with it. Different people will want different kinds of login and registration areas on their sites, and everyone with an opinion about where to put them why, is right. Some say sidebar, some say in the content area to draw attention to it, some say tuck it in a drop down menu, etc… All great ideas, but what’s the majority? The majority want it easy, and I think widgets are the easiest way to go right now without making everyone have a login/register page on the forum index of their sites.

Regarding ip-banning/anti-spam, you’re probably safe to hold off for a little bit. There’s no doubt these solutions are going to be needed eventually, and if someone takes the liberty of making an awesome plugin to help out, I’m all ears on how I can help bbPress core work better with it.