[John James Jacoby]

I am definitely outside of your immediate circle, and am running the bbPress plugin over at testbp.org/discussion. A site with over 22k subscribed users that are able to post in those forums with no issues.

Not saying there isn’t a bug somewhere, just saying it hasn’t manifested itself on my installs yet.

Also, the bug isn’t in WordPress 3.1, or 3.2. It’s probably in how I’m handling the query differences between the two versions, as some of the advanced meta type queries are being fine-tuned.

[John James Jacoby]

In your functions.php file for your theme.

[Rick Lewis]

yes copied. I am using a child theme. where do I add that code?

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[Rick Lewis]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

@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?

[John James Jacoby]

@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?

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[John James Jacoby]

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.

[lucianofiorini]

Hi, i’m trying to resolv this problem but i dont find de solution.

Mi problem is that i want to change themes and add pluguins on de bbpress but i dont see part of the administrator menu.

i have de integration with wordpress. this is a pic of mi menu in bbpress: http://infokioscos.com.ar/img/foro.gif

I very much appreciate any suggestions or help

Thanks

[Anointed]

@JJJ

LOL, I’m an idiot,,,,(should have remembered that from my bp theme days)

Working exactly as expected now.

[Anointed]

@JJJ

LOL, I’m an idiot,,,,(should have remembered that from my bp theme days)

Working exactly as expected now.

[tooltrainer]

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

[tooltrainer]

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

[John James Jacoby]

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' );

[John James Jacoby]

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' );

[Anointed]

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…

[Anointed]

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.

[tooltrainer]

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

[tooltrainer]

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

[Fartlek]

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?