Oh… and before you ask, I realize the BBPress folder is not in the root. I was unable to place it there because this site is hosted with a provider that is primarily windows based and the dont allow .htaccess files so I using an ISAPI work-around.
Good afternoon!
I am receiving the following error when I try use the “Retreive Password” feature:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘,’ in E:webpublic_htmlbjdewwp-contentthemesACESbbpressbb-templatesCongressForumpassword-reset.php on line 12
I am sure that this error is relevant to other pages as well, this is just where I discovered it. Has anyone had experience with this problem before?
Incidentally, this is where you can find that page and error:
http://aces.lfchosting.com/wp-content/themes/aces/bbpress/bb-login.php
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Nevermind that last message! I figured out what I did wrong. 
The positioning of the avatars is already in WordPress comments, so that is not new. but they are not in the ‘form’, which is why I paid them little attention.
Circular images made from existing gravatars would be ok, but just rounding the corners may make them more appealing. But making them circular could completely miss the main part of the image, mine isn’t central and it would actually lose it’s appearance if made circular.
´Did I miss something then? looks fairly ordinary to me.´
Then yes you did miss something.
A troublesome trend in internet design these days, is that everything looks so square.
Everything takes the form of squares, because that makes most sense, both codingwise and when it comes to image formats.
This comment form however, challenges this trend by having avatars round. And goes further by having them float assymetrically on the Y-axis, as opposed to the avatars on this very forum for instance – where all avatars and name boxes are on the same line.
Combining this assymetry with round pictures, is innovative and unusual. That little line from each picture, going into the users message, connotates to speech bubbles seen in comics.
That functionality is made for young kids because it´s easy to understand who says what. But still this CSS-tricks has avoided in looking like a comic website, and kept the minemalistic color theme, and vague contrasting colors, and has a modern look to it with the border radius boxes.
Okay, I’ve tried everything, but nothing works! I’m trying to install bbpress on its own page, not taking over my entire WordPress blog. All of these GoDaddy-specific instructions work fine for me up until #17. When I deleted “-sample” the installer wouldn’t work. When leaving that portion in the file name the installer comes up. I enter all the right database info and it creates a config.php file successfully. Then when I click to go to step two I get:
500 (Internal Server) Error
…that we’re working furiously to correct. Things will be up and running again soon. Thanks for your patience.
I’ve tried all kinds of trickery, but the same thing keeps happening – error page at step two.
Can anyone please help me with this?
– Windows 7
– paid hosting account w/GoDaddy – Windows/Shared Hosting
– PHP 5.x
– attempted with newly-created database info as instructed here and attempted with already-created wordpress database info, same outcome
You are forgetting Guest posting.
I was hoping for something a bit more definite now that work’s really being done on it.
@JJJ – Excellent, thanks.
@Ryan Gannon – Go to page 13 in this thread, you’ll find some information there.
Any idea when we’re going to see a release beat or otherwise? It’s cool that it’s get updated a lot but it makes doing anything awkward.
For WP comments it makes sense, but doesn’t a bbPress form just needs a textbox and a tag input box?
Did I miss something then? looks fairly ordinary to me.
I also want to try to create my own bbpress plugin
I am listed as an admin actually and the WP install is not linked to bbpress.
I installed the software in /discussion and am using this as the login:
/discussion/bb-admin
As I said, other than:
Forums
Topics
Posts
Users
I have no other settings that are visible.
I am listed as an admin actually and the WP install is not linked to bbpress.
I installed the software in /discussion and am using this as the login:
/discussion/bb-admin
As I said, other than:
Forums
Topics
Posts
Users
I have no other settings that are visible.
@rootside – Placeholders for the login and registration pages are in the current bbp-twentyten theme, but they don’t work yet. The goal is for the bbPress plugin to include these pages as WordPress page templates and short-codes, to allow for maximum flexibility in configuring your site.
Sorry to just barge in and shout out a random question, this has probably been answered before:
Will the plugin come with a front-end login/signup form? Or will it make use of existing WP plugins?
I’m running the latest version in a test environment, and this function seems to be missing – or is it me who missed something?
Thanks
1BadApple,
Did you ever get an answer on your first question? I got the same “you are not allowed to change your password” message at the reset link. If it helps, I finally found my old password in an email from wordpress.org. The term “bbpress” was not in the email, which is why I had trouble finding it.
Wow, thats indeed a real nice comment form. Really like the slide effect. Hope someone can integrate this into bbpress
those are great instructions! i tried to reinstall and got the login page, but still the error that it can’t connect with the database. i’ll have to wait and see if it is a problem just because of the preview dns. hopefully by the morning the site will actually be up so i can see!
thanks for your help by the way!!
Still a work in progress, we had to get it up ASAP, converted from phpBB.
http://www.herdhaven.com/forum/
Integrated with our WordPress blog
http://www.herdhaven.com
We’re playing with some stuff, trying to do some things with the forums, etc.
This ia big THANKS for the ninja-awesome inline documentation. It makes reading the plugin files significantly easier
Also, I see above that there may be an alpha released in the next week or two. Do you think that would be suitable for running on a live site? I’m not adverse to having to fix bugs and problems here and there, so long as I don’t find myself stuck eternally on some old version without a semi-easy upgrade path. I don’t mind minor upgrades on upgrading, templates malfunctioning etc., but losing usernames, passwords and/or posts/topics would be quite disastrous.
I’m contemplating launching a forum within the next month and would rather use some semi-dicey alpha software than having to use one software for a few months, then upgrading to bbPress once it’s more stable.
