[raving-drifter]

@Rixos: Go to the database, find the “bb_meta” table, and kill the blog url, table prefix and blog ID. Then your bbPress will return unintegrated.

Hi everyone,

I have this problem, too. Not only keymaster but all user accounts in WP and bbPress can’t login to bbPress anymore after integrating user DB. Same symptom as Rixos’. My bbPress says the user does not exist while trying login with any user accounts.

I think my bbPress somehow just can’t find the WP user DB and is disconnected with the existing bbPress user DB. Therefore I can’t make any new registrations successful either after user DB integration.

Any idea to fix this problem? BTW, my WP 3 is MU enabled and runs BuddyPress plugin.

[raving-drifter]

Google custom search is an alternative..

[raving-drifter]

Google custom search is an alternative..

[bbailie]

If it makes no sense to you, why post a reply?

Our server is on one of the largest corporate web hosts in the world, Peer One. They could resolve it, but professionally managed servers incur some fees when we have to have them go in.

Somebody must have written the script to create the folders, and done so without the correct user auth. I see this has been discussed on this forum in regards to others’ plugins. It appears to be the same issue.

My thought was that I’m not alone in having this issue with the current install, so maybe it would make sense to someone. Or perhaps they already wrote an uninstall script for it to test on a clean server.

Apparently many users had old copies of bbPress required manual creation of those folders. Thus, when installing a new version, the problem would not manifest itself.

TIA

-Brian

[bbailie]

If it makes no sense to you, why post a reply?

Our server is on one of the largest corporate web hosts in the world, Peer One. They could resolve it, but professionally managed servers incur some fees when we have to have them go in.

Somebody must have written the script to create the folders, and done so without the correct user auth. I see this has been discussed on this forum in regards to others’ plugins. It appears to be the same issue.

My thought was that I’m not alone in having this issue with the current install, so maybe it would make sense to someone. Or perhaps they already wrote an uninstall script for it to test on a clean server.

Apparently many users had old copies of bbPress required manual creation of those folders. Thus, when installing a new version, the problem would not manifest itself.

TIA

-Brian

[Justin Tadlock]

Thanks to JJJ for pointing this topic out to me.

Right now, my forum plugin isn’t planned for public release. I’d much rather see a community-supported plugin because a lot more can get done. The plugin could simply be better developed and have better support if it’s a community-run project. Make no mistake, a plugin like this is massive amounts of work, more than one person can realistically handle. Honestly, I don’t want to be the only person developing and supporting a forum plugin.

The reasons I’ve been doing my own thing rather than fully devoting my time to bbPress:

1) I just wanted to see if I could do it for fun.

2) I had some projects that needed basic forum functionality that couldn’t wait for alternate solutions.

3) Everybody wants something, mostly things I don’t believe belong in a lightweight forum plugin.

4) I’ve been hesitant to get more involved in bbPress because I don’t want to deal with all the drama here.

I just finished three months of intense writing for a WP plugin book, so my time has been limited for a while. I’ve still got book-related things this month as well. Once this process is done, I plan to devote more time to the bbPress plugin.

What we want:

These are the things I believe most of us want, which is the reasons I put together a plugin and the reasons for the bbPress plugin. This comes down to two things:

* A plugin that easily integrates into the WordPress user/role and login system.

* Forums that can be managed from our WP admins.

It’s basically about being able to run forums without a lot of hassle.

The direction I’d like to see the bbPress plugin go:

* Stick with the philosophy: lightweight and basic.

* Allow plugins to extend anything needed beyond basic forum functionality.

* Use the functions WordPress provides where possible.

* Forget backwards-compatible hooks and functions. Build a new system.

[Justin Tadlock]

Thanks to JJJ for pointing this topic out to me.

Right now, my forum plugin isn’t planned for public release. I’d much rather see a community-supported plugin because a lot more can get done. The plugin could simply be better developed and have better support if it’s a community-run project. Make no mistake, a plugin like this is massive amounts of work, more than one person can realistically handle. Honestly, I don’t want to be the only person developing and supporting a forum plugin.

The reasons I’ve been doing my own thing rather than fully devoting my time to bbPress:

1) I just wanted to see if I could do it for fun.

2) I had some projects that needed basic forum functionality that couldn’t wait for alternate solutions.

3) Everybody wants something, mostly things I don’t believe belong in a lightweight forum plugin.

4) I’ve been hesitant to get more involved in bbPress because I don’t want to deal with all the drama here.

I just finished three months of intense writing for a WP plugin book, so my time has been limited for a while. I’ve still got book-related things this month as well. Once this process is done, I plan to devote more time to the bbPress plugin.

What we want:

These are the things I believe most of us want, which is the reasons I put together a plugin and the reasons for the bbPress plugin. This comes down to two things:

* A plugin that easily integrates into the WordPress user/role and login system.

* Forums that can be managed from our WP admins.

It’s basically about being able to run forums without a lot of hassle.

The direction I’d like to see the bbPress plugin go:

* Stick with the philosophy: lightweight and basic.

* Allow plugins to extend anything needed beyond basic forum functionality.

* Use the functions WordPress provides where possible.

* Forget backwards-compatible hooks and functions. Build a new system.

[master5o1]

^ I have noticed on my HTC Legend that when I look at http://dump.master5o1.com/mobi it shows it differently to http://m.tartarus.co.nz/

Not sure why that is, they’re the same code and the same css.

Tell me if it looks better in http://m.tartarus.co.nz/

[master5o1]

^ I have noticed on my HTC Legend that when I look at http://dump.master5o1.com/mobi it shows it differently to http://m.tartarus.co.nz/

Not sure why that is, they’re the same code and the same css.

Tell me if it looks better in http://m.tartarus.co.nz/

[Rich Pedley]

Adding a child theme is incredibly easy, check the really minimal one you can have:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Example_of_a_basic_Child_Theme

But if you’ve developed a custom one yourself, then adding the necessary files/functions to that theme would be easy as well.

[wildkyo]

Ooops… I’m not using a child theme and I’m not planning to use it because my theme is done from scratch and for performance reasons. I hope BBpress plugin will be compatible anyway!

[Rich Pedley]

If needs be I’ll take a look when the time comes. Child themes aren’t that difficult

[ortixia]

i believe that atahualpa would be very difficult to make into a child theme due to the huge amount of option pages. instead of editing .php files, we add these in a page called CSS and HTML (php etc.) inserts, as well as specific pages on before and after the loop.

i am asking around though.

[John James Jacoby]

The plugin will have shortcodes and widgets to attempt to ease people in to integrating bbPress into existing themes, but because you can’t easily introduce completely new functionality into a theme that isn’t designed to handle it, there will be limitations to that method.

For the most mileage, you’re better off copying the files out of the bbp-twentyten theme and into your existing child theme and modifying the HTML and CSS to taste. (You are using a child theme, right? )

Topic and reply counts are next on my list of todo’s. They are the biggest source of confusion right now, justifiably so.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@ortixia

The standalone ver will live on

[Rich Pedley]

I deleted part of my reply before I posted…

the child themes will be easy enough to do(or add to an existing child theme), but it is too early in the process for others to be created.

I’m sure full instructions on how to achieve this will be forthcoming down the line, just not yet.

[ortixia]

i understand it is early. your site was lovely. but on my iphone, i think i would need a stylus and a magnifying glass to work it. perhaps a more condensed styling.

For example it appears on the surface to be a two column table, one with the topic and one with the username of the person starting the topic.

perhaps if they were both in the same column. The topic larger, the username smaller below. i noticed in other iphone apps, like wiki, the page width is fixed rather than leading off to the side.

[ortixia]

i understand it is early. your site was lovely. but on my iphone, i think i would need a stylus and a magnifying glass to work it. perhaps a more condensed styling.

For example it appears on the surface to be a two column table, one with the topic and one with the username of the person starting the topic.

perhaps if they were both in the same column. The topic larger, the username smaller below. i noticed in other iphone apps, like wiki, the page width is fixed rather than leading off to the side.

[ortixia]

i use atathulpa as well, but my site is not live yet. I am just switching it over to the child theme when testing the plug-in.

though topics and posts are showing up as 0 count, the posts are coming up in my forum, i believe, that they are working on this (i saw the code in an earlier post.)

@rich- i am in communication with the sharedaddy people over the plugin, it was mostly ironically funny, because i am finding the sharedaddy to be a bit of curse everywhere.

overall, as i do use atahualpa for my site, i will probably need to move to a different forum platform all together, or use bbpress stand alone. i wonder if the stand alone will continue to be worked on once the plug-in is official.

however, as i have time, i am willing to experiment a bit, because i feel that bbpress is worth the investment.

[Rich Pedley]

Yep, and it certainly isn’t ready for use on a live site as yet anyway.

[Laurent Matignon]

OK thanks !

So I guess I’ve got to wait for these instructions to be done as I’m using Atahualpa Theme for WP…

[Rich Pedley]

you need to activate and use the twenty ten child theme for bbPress, it should be available on your Appearance page.

Instructions on how to create child themes for other Themes are not yet done.

[Laurent Matignon]

Hi,

I’ve just started to test bbpress plug-in on a brand new website :

http://windows-mobile.fr

I installed, activated and created a new forum and a new topic inside this forum.

My problem :

http://windows-mobile.fr/forum >>> 404

http://windows-mobile.fr/topic/test1 >>> 404

(it redirects to http://windows-mobile.fr because of the WP plugin ‘link juice keeper’)

When I check my dashboard I can see :

Forum : test

Topics : 0

Replies : 0

I guess this is the problem. However I don’t understand it because when I look at the topic page it’s correctly linked with its parent forum. Am I just a stupid froggy or what ?

I’m using WP 3.0.1

My theme : Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll

Any other info needed ?

Thanks for helping !

Best regards to all of you people,

Laurent

[Rich Pedley]

Iit should be possible to disable it for the custom post types of bbPress.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve had a check-out for a while, but nothing of his has made it in yet.

Because there are only so many ways to do the same thing, our code is very similar with a few different methods here and there. His code is more mature in a few areas (mapping WordPress meta capabilities, topic/reply counts, additional query caching…) and it’s almost time to cherry pick his code and give props where due.

He started out using taxonomies for forums, but a lack of taxonomy meta thwarted that idea. We talked before either of us made too much progress on how to best do things so we would be loosely compatible with each other. I committed early on to using post types for data storage for everything to allow for easy forward compatibility with things like forum/topic/reply thumbnails, excerpts, revisions, etc… Justin and I both agreed it was the quickest way to go, we put our noses down and wrote some code, and we met a month or two ago in #bbpress on IRC and exchanged more code and ideas.

It was really cool for Justin to volunteer to share his code and approach. He spent countless hours getting things dialed in and that time is going to be greatly appreciated real soon.

It would have been even cooler to have him contribute patches directly to trac, but from what I recall of our talks he had some previous obligations that prevented it. I’m sure if I’m wrong Justin will catch wind and chime in.

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Edit: I saw a reply in the above linked topic about him ‘turning over’ code to bbPress, but I don’t really see it like that. His code is always his, and he’s free to continue developing his plugin if he wanted to. No hard feelings.

The bbPress trac is public and the code is visible for everyone to see, versus Justin’s forum code which to my understanding isn’t something he wants openly available for download, or else I imagine he’d probably have it that way. I know from experience that supporting something as large as bbPress on top of other obligations can be a challenge, so I wouldn’t blame him for not wanting to volunteer additional time.

Either way I’m honored to have his respect and be able to have someone attempting to do something similar at the same time. It’s one of the first times in my professional career I’ve had what most people would consider ‘friendly competition’ without ever feeling like we were against each other in any way… not that I’ve ever had unfriendly competition… but you get the idea.