yes copied. I am using a child theme. where do I add that code?
If you *moved* all the page templates out of the bbp-twentyten folder, and did not *copy* them, then exactly what you’ve described will occur.
If you copied them, and did not explicitly add this snippet to your theme, exactly what you’ve described will occur:
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
If your permalinks were flushed by another plugin, it’s possible that bbPress’s rewrites got missed. This is a known issue, and I’m working on a fix. Visit Admin > Settings > Forums, and save them, which will force bbPress to flush the rewrite rules again.
i thought it was miller time but no dice. I moved the page template into my themes folder which I had not done and create a forum page.
http://crosseyedgaming.com/forum/
That gave me what looks more like a forum although I had that look within my theme at one point.
So looks good and off I went clicking on one of the forums. None of the links work!
I am sure this has to do with the setting as I believe I put forum or something in for the base. I notice though changing the slugs kills all the links???
Is this real?
That would suck to kill all the links in ones forum but it seems that is what happen. Please confirm if this is the case and if there is a fix.
Thank you.
Also, the code itself is very heavily documented. If you’re curious about the inner workings, dive in and take a look. Honestly, documenting bbPress.org will be largely a community effort once I get things setup here. I’ll contribute to get it off the ground and will always be around to help, but it’s hard to build everything and document everything too. The WordPress codex is the culmination of years of hundreds of developers chipping in, and both bbPress and BuddyPress will eventually have something similar.
Categories are basically just forums you can’t post to. This mirrors existing bbPress behavior, and not existing (other forum platform) behavior. This is mostly just a presentation issue, so if you figure out a way to make it do what other platforms do, drop a patch in Trac. 
I don’t imagine it will difficult to make it do what you want, since it’s just opening and closing elements in the loop, but things will get confusing when nested and multiple child/sibling elements come into play. I remember this from my old phpBB days. 
What about deactivating and reactivating bbPress? It sounds like your caps aren’t being applied correctly.
To be clear, there are subscribers posting over at testbp.org/discussion perfectly fine, and it’s running exactly the same code you are. Your video was helpful, and it’s really odd that it’s happening for you like that.
What versions of WordPress are you using? I suppose it’s possible it’s a WordPress 3.1 issue, since I’ve moved on to testing with WP3.2 the past two weeks or so. I’ll revert back to 3.1 and see if that changes anything.
What about deactivating and reactivating bbPress? It sounds like your caps aren’t being applied correctly.
To be clear, there are subscribers posting over at testbp.org/discussion perfectly fine, and it’s running exactly the same code you are. Your video was helpful, and it’s really odd that it’s happening for you like that.
What versions of WordPress are you using? I suppose it’s possible it’s a WordPress 3.1 issue, since I’ve moved on to testing with WP3.2 the past two weeks or so. I’ll revert back to 3.1 and see if that changes anything.
@tooltrainer – As a bit of advice, these forums don’t have enough traffic to necessitate bumping your topic after only an hour or two of no response. It’s also really draining to read really long replies that only repeat your frustrations instead of providing any more insight. I can tell this is something you’re experiencing and obviously very passionate about, but no one else has experienced this so far. Remember this is *prerelease* software. If you’re relying on it to function 100% correctly all the time on a live site, then you’re breaking rules #1 and #2 of test-club.
If it’s a bug, then it will get fixed. If you have access to IRC and want more personal, live help, join #bbpress on freenode and I can try to help you there when we’re both around.
It sounds like it’s a permalink problem. Go to Admin > Settings > Forums and resave your settings. Let me know if that fixes it?
@tooltrainer – As a bit of advice, these forums don’t have enough traffic to necessitate bumping your topic after only an hour or two of no response. It’s also really draining to read really long replies that only repeat your frustrations instead of providing any more insight. I can tell this is something you’re experiencing and obviously very passionate about, but no one else has experienced this so far. Remember this is *prerelease* software. If you’re relying on it to function 100% correctly all the time on a live site, then you’re breaking rules #1 and #2 of test-club.
If it’s a bug, then it will get fixed. If you have access to IRC and want more personal, live help, join #bbpress on freenode and I can try to help you there when we’re both around.
It sounds like it’s a permalink problem. Go to Admin > Settings > Forums and resave your settings. Let me know if that fixes it?
This is a tough one, and would probably take an additional plugin to piggy-back bbPress to make go. You could do it easily enough with custom post_meta values; one for admins and one for moderators. Save them serialized, and build some meta boxes to help you assign the users.
Ideally something like BuddyPress will handle this in the future, and that would probably be the approach it would take.
This is a tough one, and would probably take an additional plugin to piggy-back bbPress to make go. You could do it easily enough with custom post_meta values; one for admins and one for moderators. Save them serialized, and build some meta boxes to help you assign the users.
Ideally something like BuddyPress will handle this in the future, and that would probably be the approach it would take.
@JJJ
LOL, I’m an idiot,,,,(should have remembered that from my bp theme days)
Working exactly as expected now.
@JJJ
LOL, I’m an idiot,,,,(should have remembered that from my bp theme days)
Working exactly as expected now.
backpress? I think that’s something else completely… I’m using this:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3147/branches/plugin?old_path=%2F&format=zip
Thanks for your efforts!!!
Jonathan
backpress? I think that’s something else completely… I’m using this:
https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3147/branches/plugin?old_path=%2F&format=zip
Thanks for your efforts!!!
Jonathan
You’re doing it wrong.
You need to tell bbPress that your theme is going to override the theme compatibility. Sadly we can’t really have that cake and eat it too.
Add this to your functions.php for your theme and it should work exactly like you want it to.
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
You’re doing it wrong.
You need to tell bbPress that your theme is going to override the theme compatibility. Sadly we can’t really have that cake and eat it too.
Add this to your functions.php for your theme and it should work exactly like you want it to.
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
I’ve tried a number of user management plugins to see if there is any way I can assign moderators and administrators to individual forums. So far I have had no luck finding a combination that works.
What is the best way to assign user group permissions that work with the bbpress plugin?
*once I have members assigned as moderators etc of each forum, I would then like to display their user info on the sidebar of each forum.
I mention that, because I would need to know what function to call which will pull those mods/admins of each forum etc…
Scenario:
I am building my own custom bbpress theme. I started by moving all of the theme files into my current theme and also adding in the needed functions from the functions.php file into my current theme.
problems:
I have copied the /theme/bbpress/ folder into my current theme folder.
It seems that any modifications I make to files within MYTHEME/bbpress/ are not being picked up by bbpress. If I go into the actual plugin folder and modify the files in the theme/bbpress/ folder there, then the changes occur.
–requested solution
Please change the loading structure so that bbpress first checks the active theme for all needed bbpress theme files including those in the bbpress folder. If none are found then default back to the plugin theme directory.
It would almost be like treating the currently active theme as a child theme of bbpress. This would make modifications much easier to maintain, while still being able to safely update bbpress.
Well it is a plugin, not sure who said it wasn’t? Not to be confused with the bbPress standalone software, which is totally different but bears the same name.
I simply install the plugin, create a page called “forums” so it can function, create a forum, create a user with role of “subscriber”, and login in as that user and attempt to post a topic in the forum.
I’m told I’m unable to create topics at this time.
Jonathan
Well it is a plugin, not sure who said it wasn’t? Not to be confused with the bbPress standalone software, which is totally different but bears the same name.
I simply install the plugin, create a page called “forums” so it can function, create a forum, create a user with role of “subscriber”, and login in as that user and attempt to post a topic in the forum.
I’m told I’m unable to create topics at this time.
Jonathan
I tried to help you out by going to my own WP install and attempted to use the plugin and got an error “The plugin does not have a valid header.” which, when researched, the answers say that the bbpress plugin is not actually a plugin, so color me confused! What step did you use to incorporate your bbpress with your WP?
I tried to help you out by going to my own WP install and attempted to use the plugin and got an error “The plugin does not have a valid header.” which, when researched, the answers say that the bbpress plugin is not actually a plugin, so color me confused! What step did you use to incorporate your bbpress with your WP?
@anointed it does not work with bp group forums. I learned this from testing and breaking everything twice. Then JJJ confirmed earlier in this post when iasked about it.
I had setup groups with forums and integrated with bbpress. Work and looked nice. Converted by vbulletin sitr to phpbb the bbpress. Destroyed my integrated group forums and while all the data and users were there it looked terrible. No category structure at all. It also deleted all my WP users with the imported ones. Locked me out from admin as well. Not fun.
Since that I did it two other times with minor changes in how I did it and knowing what was goint to happen. I got the groups back working which for me is something I want for the groups. The forum will be a seperate componet once I get a handle on how to modify the phpbb to bbpress converter. I need it ti not import users. Or do so without killing my wp users.
Cleaning the forum data prio to import is also on the list. Once done I will use bbp to bbpress converter to make the final connection. That is where I am now with trying figure out the plugin and conversion process.
I actually tried converting bbpress to bbp with the integrated group forums. Got a page of notices and errors that could fill a novel. Surely I didn’t do it correctly as well as various other factors.
If we get a little guidance on the category and overall flow of things it will be helpful. I personally can wait to see this thing working on my site as some vbulletin reps were not very kind when I mentioned my move 6 months a go. They said you will never get your data moved and if you did it will never be as good.
My site is not even close to being up to par but is already better thab it was.
