Do you have a separate theme to access your forums directly, or are non group members able to access those forums/topics from within BuddyPress?
The solution in this post will resolve your problem.
Tons of Depreciated Errors
It involves editing a bbPress file called bb-load.php.
The error is because your host is using a very new version of PHP (5.3.2) and the way bbPress is doing this has been “deprecated” (made obsolete) in the new version of PHP. Everything will still work, but in the future PHP may change and these functions will error out.
The latest trunk version of bbPress also includes a fix for this.
If you can specify a PHP version lower than 5.3, like 5.2.something, that will hide the errors as well.
The solution in this post will resolve your problem.
Tons of Depreciated Errors
It involves editing a bbPress file called bb-load.php.
The error is because your host is using a very new version of PHP (5.3.2) and the way bbPress is doing this has been “deprecated” (made obsolete) in the new version of PHP. Everything will still work, but in the future PHP may change and these functions will error out.
The latest trunk version of bbPress also includes a fix for this.
If you can specify a PHP version lower than 5.3, like 5.2.something, that will hide the errors as well.
I use bbpress for forums on my BuddyPress website. The problem I have is that some of the groups are hidden and their forums needs to be hidden too. They cannot be veiewd on the site by those who are not members of those hidden groups but the conversations in the group’s forum can be viewed on the forum itself.
How can I hide the bbpress forums that belong to the BuddyPress hidden or private groups? Can it be done automatically?
Hey,
I have currently converted my IP.Board site over to bbPress but having a bit of a design issue.
I am current looking for a way so that on the index page, only one level of sub forums are shown in a row. So basically like this.
Main Forum
– Sub Forum 1, Sub Forum 2
I have found some examples that shows how to list the sub forums like that but I have played about with it and I haven’t been able just to get it to show just one level of sub forums.
My current index code is as follow. I would be very grateful if someone could help me with this.
http://wordpress.pastebin.com/8Gt738EP
Thanks.
open up plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php do you see:
/**
* Plugin Name: bbPress
* Plugin URI: http://bbpress.org
* Description: bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
* Author: The bbPress Community
* Author URI: http://bbpress.org
* Version: plugin-bleeding
*/
open up plugins/bbpress/bbpress.php do you see:
/**
* Plugin Name: bbPress
* Plugin URI: http://bbpress.org
* Description: bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
* Author: The bbPress Community
* Author URI: http://bbpress.org
* Version: plugin-bleeding
*/
http://wordpress.elfden.co.uk/forum/ updated – everything cleaned out for everyone to start playing again.
adding a postmeta key/value for each topic and reply of ‘_bbp_topic_last_active’ and ‘_bbp_reply_last_active’. The time should be in ‘mysql’ format in the DB.
Worked like a charm and thanks for getting the Freshness problem fixed.
After the installation screen to upload the plugin, there’s a screen that gives you a report of the installation and there’s a link below the report that says activate plug-in. When I click that I get that error message. Maybe it’s not compatible with the Theme Atahualpa 3.4.9? It’s really confusing.
After the installation screen to upload the plugin, there’s a screen that gives you a report of the installation and there’s a link below the report that says activate plug-in. When I click that I get that error message. Maybe it’s not compatible with the Theme Atahualpa 3.4.9? It’s really confusing.
Set permissions on copy of plugin in my plugins. Still no effect. I got rid of the other copies as well.
Another issue I saw is that if you log in on the wordpress site, you have to log in again on the bbpress site. I would have thought they would be pointing to the same cookie after integration. What am I doing wrong here?
Set permissions on copy of plugin in my plugins. Still no effect. I got rid of the other copies as well.
Another issue I saw is that if you log in on the wordpress site, you have to log in again on the bbpress site. I would have thought they would be pointing to the same cookie after integration. What am I doing wrong here?
how did you try to activate if it doesn’t appear in your list of plugins?
how did you try to activate if it doesn’t appear in your list of plugins?
Hi,
I’m a first time user of bbPress and I downloaded the plug-in and installed through the WordPress platform. Anyway – when I try to activate the plug-in I get this error:
The plugin does not have a valid header.
And it doesn’t show up in my plug-in list on my Dashboard. Can you help me understand if I’m doing something wrong or need some other plug-in’s to accompany the bbPress to use it properly and have it install correctly? By the way – the plug-in does show that it’s installed on the server in the WP-Content folder under plug-in’s but it still doesn’t show up on the Dashboard under the list of plug-in’s for whatever reason.
Thanks,
-Josh
I am pretty much in the same position as the OP but don’t need to go live for a few more months (March-ish). So I think I’m going to wait a bit. After looking at phpBB, vBulletin, and a few other options, I am going with bbPress because of the way it will integrate with WordPress and BuddyPress which I’ve chosen as the basis for the two sites I’m building.
I am pretty much in the same position as the OP but don’t need to go live for a few more months (March-ish). So I think I’m going to wait a bit. After looking at phpBB, vBulletin, and a few other options, I am going with bbPress because of the way it will integrate with WordPress and BuddyPress which I’ve chosen as the basis for the two sites I’m building.
nah trashing is fine by me – I’ll get that done in the next day or so and update.
Rich – I trashed all my topics and replies and started over, yes. If your posts are important for some reason and you have to save them, adding a postmeta key/value for each topic and reply of ‘_bbp_topic_last_active’ and ‘_bbp_reply_last_active’. The time should be in ‘mysql’ format in the DB.
plugins need to be in my-plugins folder under bbPress root with permissions 755 and not under wordpress plugins folder.
and regarding the users, I think you have did something wrong and the users are still there but WP or bbP is not looking at the right place.
plugins need to be in my-plugins folder under bbPress root with permissions 755 and not under wordpress plugins folder.
and regarding the users, I think you have did something wrong and the users are still there but WP or bbP is not looking at the right place.
Thanks for that John. Will have a look on Trac and see what I can help with.
Thanks for the reply 
are saying it is better to flush the database before installing the new version?
Well first off keep an eye on https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-updates/ where details of what is happening with regard to the plugin is being posted.
If you need a live forum now, then go standalone, if you can wait a few months – then the plugin may be ready for use.
Spam is a regular thing with <string>all forums, so i don’t believe bbPress has been targetted at all. Plus akismet will be available as a plugin.
But with regard to that I intend to port over my sole plugin for bbpress standalone, to bbPress plugin – a way of marking individual users as trustworthy, ie they don’t need to go through the akismet check.
Plus if I’m able to I plan on adapting a plugin I developed elsewhere that adds in additional restrictions for guests/new members[1]. I’ll start work on that as soon as I feel that bbPress is fairly settled – no point doing it to early as things might change.
[1] restrictions include length of post, number of links etc.
