Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.
It’s complicated. 
All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.
Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.
It’s complicated.
All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.
@JJJ
Yeah the code looks much more user friendly than before. I was actually meaning to ask how this is going to work with bp as that is my ultimate goal. Hoping we don’t have to wait till 1.4 or something… I have not been paying attention to any bp/bbpress news lately, so way behind the times.
I just found bbp_custom_template so needless to say I am in heaven. So long as I have an easy way of using my own template files for each custom bbpress area, life is good.
p.s.
Are there plans on adding in post taxonomies metadata for things like turning forum posts into ‘questions, answers, suggestions, etc’ like getsatisfaction does?
(If not then I’ll do it myself, just don’t want to recreate a wheel already built)
Cool. I’ll play with flushing the rewrite rules some more, and see if I can make this more automated. There’s a sweet spot that needs to be found with these, and I’ve managed to miss it so far.
You really shouldn’t have one WordPress installation inside another. That’s a recipe for exactly the kind of disaster you’re experiencing, since it’s most likely conflicting .htaccess files trumping each other.
“Running nested WP installs” is different than “Running WP in a subdirectory” because of exactly what I mentioned above. If you install WP in a subdirectory, it won’t care where it is (or what its path is) as long as you install WP correctly. Once you nest several installations on top of each other, you’re setting yourself up for headaches unless you’re able to fluently track down and alleviate the rewrite issues you’ll run into.
An important piece of missing information, do both of the WordPress installs work independently without bbPress activated on either of them? Pretty permalinks turned on, on both, etc… Once you get that to behave first, then it’s time to try adding things into them.
You really shouldn’t have one WordPress installation inside another. That’s a recipe for exactly the kind of disaster you’re experiencing, since it’s most likely conflicting .htaccess files trumping each other.
“Running nested WP installs” is different than “Running WP in a subdirectory” because of exactly what I mentioned above. If you install WP in a subdirectory, it won’t care where it is (or what its path is) as long as you install WP correctly. Once you nest several installations on top of each other, you’re setting yourself up for headaches unless you’re able to fluently track down and alleviate the rewrite issues you’ll run into.
An important piece of missing information, do both of the WordPress installs work independently without bbPress activated on either of them? Pretty permalinks turned on, on both, etc… Once you get that to behave first, then it’s time to try adding things into them.
But the plugin will? That’s impressive! I can’t wait until the plugin comes out. I just installed a test bbpress on a dummy site to see how it looks. It’s pretty smooth. I really think bbpress has the potential to dominate the forum industry if people get behind it like they do WordPress.
You’re running the alpha version now, correct? Then comes the Beta and then the stable?
But the plugin will? That’s impressive! I can’t wait until the plugin comes out. I just installed a test bbpress on a dummy site to see how it looks. It’s pretty smooth. I really think bbpress has the potential to dominate the forum industry if people get behind it like they do WordPress.
You’re running the alpha version now, correct? Then comes the Beta and then the stable?
@JJJ – nice catch…
As soon as I went into Setting-Forums and clicked Save, that same forum link is now working.
I added a topic from that page, worked fine. Seems ok now.
I began posting here:
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-updates/page/27?replies=793#post-87320
Still don’t know what’s going on, but I’m wondering if it’s related to running one copy of WP underneath another. My setup is:
webroot/ (production site is here with bbP active and working)
webroot/new/ (test site is here where bbP does not want to work)
‘new’ is just that – brand new 3.1.2 WP install with vanilla everything. But bbP simply will not work within it no matter what I try. If I have permalinks on default, any visit to domain.com/new/forums/ redirects me to domain.com/forums/ and if I set permalinks to /%postnam3%/ then I just get a 404 error with any request for /new/forums/.
Don’t know what else to try. In the other thread, Ryan also found the problem with permalinks, but not the other problem. This is why I’m wondering if it’s related to having 2 installs, one below the other.
Can anyone confirm/deny that this kind of setup doesn’t work?
Thanks!
Jonathan
The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work.
For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…
So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.
The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work.
For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…
So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.
@ryan – Can you try visiting the Settings > Forums screen, and saving your settings again after you’ve changed your permalinks? I wonder if the rewrite rules aren’t being flushed correctly.
Could you also
global $wp_rewrite; var_dump( $wp_rewrite );
somewhere, so I can see what it thinks it should be looking for?
The regular bbpress installation won’t do that, you think? I should wait for the plugin?
The regular bbpress installation won’t do that, you think? I should wait for the plugin?
@anointed – Excited to see what you come up with. I know you’re quite familiar with BuddyPress, so hopefully you’ll 1.) feel comfortable and see the similarities, and 2.) see how bbPress has improved on those similarities, and see what’s going back into BuddyPress.
You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible.
You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible.
thank you kindly sir!
Have to say I am quite impressed with what I have seen so far. Not to deep into this yet, but so far so good. Already have bbpress into a fluid 1040 grid working properly including media queries.
Now it’s time to get a bit hardcore with the template changes… 
@anointed
add_filter( 'bbp_template_include', 'foo' );
function foo( $file ) { return 'forum.php'; }
All of the funky theme compatibility bits are at the bottom of bbp-general-template.php.
@tooltrainer – I take that back, once I change permalink to /%postname%/ it’s goofed up.
this is ok:
http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/sample-page/
this link, from the widget, is a problem:
http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/forums/forum/abc/
result of above link
Not Found
Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.
I’m one of those guys with a tricked out page.php file.
Is there a ‘global’ bbpress forum identifier that I can use?
I was thinking about doing something like this on my page.php
if page is a bbpress page then load file forum.php
else continue loading page.php
This would easily allow me to use a custom forum.php page for styling the forum pages, while still maintaining my ability to use a custom page.php file for everything else.
Anyone have a snippet that does this?
–or a better idea?
thanks
@tooltrainer – I’d ask if you have this much going on, that you probably create your own topic to post things in. To be honest, I can’t really keep up with everything you’re trying to do, so I don’t really know what to tell you.
I’d suggest just starting completely over from scratch, and comparing the two installs to see what’s different.
@Rick – Even if you get your old forums converted into the new plugin, BuddyPress still hasn’t been updated to integrate with the plugin version of bbPress, so your group forums either need to stay how they are, or you need to build what eventually will be in BuddyPress core.
ok so from there how would you get the group forums which is integrated with bbpress merged together? Plug in seems to work well though on its own. I have a custom theme and it seems ok with that.
@tooltrainer – seems to be working on a shared hosting server:
http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/?forum=abc
vanilla WP 3.1.2 installed to an empty folder, and there’s nothing in the root.
set theme to: bbPress (Twenty Ten) 1.1 by WordPress and bbPress teams
unzipped branches_plugin-3138 and uploaded to:
/public_html/inadir/newdir/wp-content/plugins/bbpress
added a couple of emtpy forums, added ‘bbPress forum list’ widget
no errors, appears normal.
hope this helps.
