Hi everyone!
I´m sorry in advance if something stays confusing-english is not my mother tongue, but I´ll do my best.
I have a problem that seems to be quite common, but I can´t find a solution. My tecnical skills aren´t too good, but I´ve been reading through different posts almost all day long and nothing I´ve tried helps. I have downloaded bbpress, put it in a forum folder, checked the db name,user ect a hundred times but still nothing. When I go to the link where my forum should be this is what I get:
Page not found!
I’m sorry, but there is nothing at this URL.
Forums is proudly powered by bbPress.
So I can´t even see the installation page. I thought that maybe it has something to do with my theme(it didn´t work very well with buddypress). I tried to change the theme, but the problem stayed the same. Also I use the same database both for wp and bbpress. All other pages, beside forum, work just fine.
I am very, very thankful for any help you can give me.
I am thinking I want to give this thing a whirl. I got the zip downloaded, change the name and uploaded the directory. Currently I have a standalone bbpress forum with the BP group forums integrated. I have activated the plugin and see my options in the admin panel. I added a forum which I only see the Title for at the /forum page. I know there was a converter from the stand alone but can’t recall where that thread is or what to do with it once I get it.
Is there a quick what to do next somewhere or is it to early on to be asking for some help getting it setup?
I will point out that I am come from the hell of vbulletin world and converted everything to phpbb then to bbpress on my tests sites and now looking to finish it all off with this plugin. Truly not something I want to ever have to do again!
Thanks for all the help and support here and elsewehre on these forums.
I was looking for those too and found this:
from bbp-includes/bbp-shortcodes.php:
bbp-forum-index
bbp-single-forum, pass id attribute
bbp-topic-index
bbp-topic-form
bbp-single-topic, pass id attribute
bbp-topic-tags
bbp-topic-tag
bbp-reply-form
Is there a good shortcode reference sheet available for the plugin?
Hey there everyone! I am going to be installing bbPress to my WordPress blog but just have a few questions before jumping into anything straight away. I’ll list them so it makes it simpler and easier for you guys to answer and avoids any and all confusion.
1. Do you recommend that bbPress is installed in the same directory/folder as my WordPress blog? Please explain why (advantages/disadvantages, if any).
2. In order to integrate it to my blog, will my current theme (K2) work with bbPress (take a look at my blog if you don’t know what K2 is)?
3. On this page, listed under the title ‘Functions (optional)’, do you recommend that I do it or no? Again, advantages and/or disadvantages please.
That’s all the questions I’ve got at the moment. Hoping to get answers as soon as possible to get my forum set up. Thanks guys!
@JJJ re my broken theme. Flaky ftp client I guess, 14 files failed to upload including style.css. All set.
I guess showing you the site without being logged in as an admin is kinda useless though! I’ll try reading these forums thoroughly and seen what the go is.
Hey guys,
I recently installed the plugin but i’m having a few issues.
This sites theme is based on the TwentyTen theme, so i should have all the “core” files needed to run this plugin on my customized theme?
I installed the plugin and created two forums, general and private. Here is a link to the general forum: http://stephenjohnmartin.com/spa/forums/forum/general-forum
Apart from a few styling issues, is this working correctly? I then assume that /forums/forum/ would be the forums main page, which would show both the general and private forum, but stuffs up.
I’m kinda new to WordPress so it’s confusing me a little.
Cheers.
jonkristian: Will take a look into that, worked for me though.
JJJ: I’ll give that a shot. 
jonkristian: Will take a look into that, worked for me though.
JJJ: I’ll give that a shot.
Yes I really don’t see this as a real solution, but we are at a loss as to what is causing the problem. And it’s been very difficult for me to stay up on the latest bbP trunk because every time it updates I have to re-integrate all my changes.
Do you have any pointers at all on what we might need to look at? Right now starting over from scratch and figuring out how to re-integrate bbP with my theme isn’t really an option as it will take too long and potentially break too many things. But I have absolutely got to get topic creation working again, and fast…
Thanks,
Jonathan
bbp_exclude_forum_ids()
is used all through-out the bbPress plugin to exclude the forum id’s that the currently logged in user doesn’t have the capabilities to view. This includes forums, topics, replies, everything. So, I wouldn’t consider the fact that it’s doing what you want it to do, a fix. It’s just masking a bigger underlying condition.
Well the thing is, this theme is nothing like the typical WordPress theme. It’s a marketing theme specifically and can create single landing pages, squeeze pages, membership sites, minisites, sales pages, and a variety of other things. Oh yeah and it’ll make a blog too. But it’s so uber-functional that it doesn’t have any of the standard theme-fare, like a nice simple header.php, footer.php, single.php, etc. It’s something of a monster really.
I may try to add bbpress theme support to it at some point but actually I’ve spent over a month on this to get it to where it is, and just need to get my site live. Was probably slightly insane of me to choose an Alpha forum for my production site but hey… I like to live dangerously!
Thanks again, will keep poking around and trying to figure this issue out. If we were to leave it with the current “fix”, are there any dire consequences you can think of?
Jonathan
Also, you shouldn’t need to use your franken-theme anymore. bbPress comes with some pretty cool theme compatibility now. Make sure you *don’t* have
add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );
in your custom theme, and bbPress *should* still work and fill in the blanks. You’ll just need to style your CSS to taste.
As an example, http://testbp.org/discussion/ is using the standard bp-default BuddyPress theme, with no template files moved or shifted around. bbPress is just putting itself where it thinks it should be. I’m using some short-codes on the front page to display everything, and some custom CSS to make it match a little more nicely.
Check and make sure you’re using the new
bbp_current_user_can_access_create_topic_form()
and
bbp_current_user_can_create_topic_in_forum()
functions.
They consolidate a bunch of complicated logic that doesn’t belong in the template files. They are used in the bbp-twentyten/bbpress/form-topic.php template file.
Nope, no private, no hidden.
Jonathan
Hah simultaneous post. It is a commercial theme, ProfitsTheme, that has had the twentyten bbP elements ripped out and put into it. I lovingly refer to it as FrankenTheme. 
But for the most part it’s working like a champ. Except for this…
It was working before just fine, then it didn’t so I updated to the latest trunk and re-integrated all my changes… then it worked great. Till today when it suddenly stopped again. Very confused…
Jonathan
Are you setting forums as private/hidden?
OK, my coder commented out $r = bbp_exclude_forum_ids( $r ); in bbp_user_template.php but we don’t understand why that did the trick. Subscribers are now able to create topics and everything seems fine, but I’m hesitant to just semi-arbitrarily comment out something like that…
Jonathan
@tooltrainer – Custom theme, or using bbp-twentyten? Possible it’s a custom theme and you’re not checking caps correctly?
Check bbp-includes/bbp-caps.php. It relies on meta capabilities to match up bbPress caps with WordPress caps. If you altered the core caps for specific core WP roles, they could be all wacky. Also, caps are stored per user, and per role, so if you adjusted them in the middle of a live site, you might have some users with different caps than others.
@JJJ
I’m not quite understanding what you mean.
I assume that you mean setup a function where if it is bbp_get_topic_last_active then display the date/time.
Is there anyway you could start me off on this?
