[gerikg]

Okay this topic is resolved because it has a solution but not resolve because that site is still up.

this is the website btw. I thought I put it in the original post: http://www.bbpressthemes.net

[Marius-]

BBpress doesnt have integrated avatar support, but gravatar.

This means that users on your forum must completely leave your forum and resort to a different service to create their picture. Then they must go back, and combine these.

To most people, this is too much work to bother with.

Most people just wanna upload their picture into their profile page (which is way too hard to find) and be done with it. They even prefer not having to do any resizing. The forum should do this for them.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

All themes are here as I promised (I know I am late) – http://bbninja.com/bbpress-themes/

[vshal]

I uploaded the bbpress files to the root of my sub-domain and checked the permalinks it shows the following in the namebased option. I guess it didnt work ?

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/forums/first-forum

thanks again, please help me with this issue.

[vshal]

I installed bbpress integrated to my wordpress site on a subdomain, the problem I have is the following.

The forum is working in the following way

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/forums

what I want is to make it work like this

http://subdomain.mydomain.com/

What do I need to do for the above, I am a newbie so please excuse my ignorance if it is a quick fix.

Thanks in advance.

[SusanJohnstone]

Thanks for that. I’m not quite sure how that could be affecting bbPress, since all it does is direct non-logged in visitors to the login page on the WP side.

And I didn’t upgrade to 3.0.1 at all. It’s a brand new site and so it started out with that version.

What’s so weird about this, is that I was able to log into the dashboard Friday night and I didn’t log in again until Sunday night, when I discovered that all users were showing as inactive and the admin link was gone.

In that time, one new user registered and posted twice and then when she went back in the next day she couldn’t post anymore even though she was logged in and was told she didn’t have the permission to start a new topic.

Is there any way the activity of a single user could cause something in all the user roles?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Sorry Robo, i know it’s confusing, apologies if i wasn’t clear. You’re not using bbPress.

bbPress is a standalone forum that can integrate logins/users with WordPress. It sits in its own folder.

You’re installing the bbpress plugin for buddypress which is a plugin for wordpress. (yes, it’s a nightmare that they have the same name)

“http://lostinsound.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/”

If you’re in “wp-content/plugins” in any way shape or form, we can’t really help on this forum. I know it’s confusing because someone at autoMATTic decided to keep the same name for a totally serarate project, but thats where we are.

Anyway, the Buddypress folks are top notch, and they’ll sort you out v quickly

[robo523]

I installed bbpress and buddypress, I am not having a problem with buddypress integrating with bbpress, I am having a problem getting bbpress to work so the forum to be on is this bbpress forum.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’d hasten a guess that “registered-users-only” is more than likely the issue here.

When did you upgrade to WP3.0.1?

If something changed in teh last 6/7 days, thats most likely it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Robo523,

This bbPress is not the BuddyPress plugin called bbPress, although that is based on this bbPress (it’s bbpress without backPress).

Your best bet is to ask on the Buddypress forum.

Good Luck

[robo523]

Hey,

I installed bbpress and got through all the steps and it brought me to a blank page when the install was done.

http://lostinsound.org/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/

After I did the install it told me that it had installed but with some errors. I assume that this is why i see a blank screen. I think I messed up entering some of the Salt things because I couldn’t find two of them my admin panel.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

RObbie

[RedBull]

I believe all of these options are available as plugins. Search the plugins page:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/

[jebro]

I’m building a forum/community and we have a few requirements and I’m hoping you guys can fill in the blanks on whether I can accomplish this with bbPress/buddypress or some solutions of the sort.

Here are some of the requirements:

Question and Answer functionality — Marking a post as an ‘answer’

Stats – Members in forums, total posts, etc

Stickied threads

Vote up/vote down — Stack Overflow like functionality.

Thanks!

[RedBull]

Hello juboe,

_ck_ has developed an “instant password” plugin. The link is: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/installation/

As he suggests you may want to install the “Human Test” plugin: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

as the instant password will automatically log you in upon registering.

Create a folder titled my-plugins. Upload the plugin to the folder. Go to your bbpress admin interface and activate. You will now see a password field in your registration page.

Hope this helps!

[SusanJohnstone]

bbPress came with Askimet, bozo and hello dolly, none of which I activated. I only installed and activated zaerl visibility.

On the WP side, I installed ‘registered-users-only’, bbPress-integration and ‘audio-player’ and also activated Askimet.

That’s it.

[zaerl]

What plugins have you installed?

[SusanJohnstone]

Thanks for your response. As you’ll notice in my first post, I already tried adding a line in phpMyAdmin to set user_id 1 to keymaster with the code that you said. There was already a line in the database that had originally set that role for me and it looks like it was never changed. (I don’t know if added a line to do it again was right or not). And I also set that user role for the second admin I created which had never previously had a bbPress role assigned. Neither worked.

Re: the visibility – everything in all forums was fully visible from the moment I started working on this and saw that the users were all inactive. I tried all the fixes around creating new users and editing roles in the php first. Everything was still fully visible to me as an “inactive” user throughout.

Removing the visibility plugin from the folder and the database was my last resort and unfortunately it didn’t help or fix anything, so it may have nothing to do with the plugin at all.

As you mentioned, I saw in your FAQ that your plugin wasn’t designed to hide a whole forum. I saw the next FAQ right under that, however, which says:

“How do I create a forum that is visible only to registered users?

Select “Inactive” and “Blocked” roles hide rules.”

That’s all I needed, so that’s what I did on each forum. It worked great. The problem is, I don’t know what has changed now to make this stop working or how to get into admin to fix it.

Any other thoughts out there?

[zaerl]

I’m locked out of my admin, remember?

Open phpmyadmin -> open the usermeta table -> find the row called bb_capabilities with user_id == 1 and change it to a:1:{s:9:"keymaster";b:1;}.

I deleted the line in my bb_meta table that set the values of zaerl-visibility and also the line that activated that plugin and then deleted the zaerl plugin file from the bbPress plugins directory

…

Now that my role is ‘inactive’ I would expect to not be able to see anything, so something about how the visibility is being generated has clearly changed.

As it seems you have deleted the plugin from the plugin folder. Given this it’s perfectly normal that you can see everything.

Addendum: my plugin hasn’t been created for hiding an entire forum: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/faq/ the line “zaerl Visibility doesn’t allow me to hide all forums.”

If you want a plugin that hide an entire forum install mr_pelle great swirl unknowns: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/swirl-unknowns/

[SusanJohnstone]

OK, I understand what you’re saying about what the plugin does.

Can you give me any clues about why all the forums are now completely visible, now that I’m inactive? I had set all forums as not visible to ‘inactive’ and ‘blocked’ users like you suggested in the notes and that worked perfectly until yesterday.

Now that my role is ‘inactive’ I would expect to not be able to see anything, so something about how the visibility is being generated has clearly changed.

All 8 of the forum users have posted at least 2 posts upon login and all were showing as members, not ‘inactive’ ’til yesterday.

And I was the most active in the forum, but I’m now ‘inactive’ as well.

How would you suggest that I double check the role mapping? I’m locked out of my admin, remember? And when I go to the page you suggest, I’m redirected back to the main forum page.

Any other suggestions will be most welcome. I don’t mean to tear down your plugin, I’m just looking for help here.

[zaerl]

So I’m suspecting the zaerl plug-in as the cause.

Absolutely not. My plugin doesn’t change roles, doesn’t change permissions neither it attempts whatever action that invole writing of data nor it install nasty things on any of the bbPress tables. It just read and write a single bb_meta value in which there are packed all the visibility rules. Nothing more.

Keep in mind that a user that hasn’t posted anything is actually inactive and become active only when he will post something. Also double-check that role-mapping on /forum/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php.

[zaerl]

Just use the gravatar service http://www.gravatar.com

bbPress and WordPress has integrated gravatar support. No need for an additional plugin.

[maxbmx]

all right! I found this:

require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/../wp-load.php’);

insert into

bb-config.php file and than bbpress has access to wp functions (for exemple for widgets)

[maxbmx]

How to add sidebar from wordpress to my bbpress?

[SusanJohnstone]

I’m running bbpress 1.0.2 and had it successfully integrated with WP 3.0.1. WP is on the subdomain http://wisdom.theheartsvoice.com/ and bbPress is in a folder on that subdomain /forum/. They are sharing a SQL database.

I have the bbPress integration plugin installed in WP and all the secret keys are copied over from wp-config.

I had mapped the user roles successfully and all my users (only 11) had registered on WP as subscribers and were successfully being added as members in bbPress as soon as they logged in there.

In order to create both a private site and forum, I had installed the “registered users only” plugin on WP which is still working fine. And then to make the forum private I installed the “zaerl visibility” plugin, and set it up so that “inactive” and “blocked” users can’t see any of the forums. The roles ‘member’ ‘administrator’ and ‘keymaster’ all had full visibility.

This all worked brilliantly for at least 6 days and there have been no changes that I know of to anything – no one has permissions on my admin, etc but me.

Tonight, I tried to log into the forum and discovered that I’m not getting an admin link anymore and I’m unable to reply to anything or start topics. Then I realized that me and all the other users have been set to “inactive”. They are all still showing as “subscribers” in WP.

However, as an inactive user now I shouldn’t be able to see any of the forums and all of them are fully visible. So I’m suspecting the zaerl plug-in as the cause.

I’ve reviewed most of the threads on this topic here and haven’t found anything that applies.

I’ve tried:

– clearing my cache and my cookies.

– created a new admin user in WP and clicked over to the forum, hoping the role would automatically be translated into keymaster there. No. (And when I checked the wp_usermeta table there had been no new line of code added on login to assign a role for that user_id, so I suspect the role mapping has stopped working completely.)

– logged in directly to the forum with both admin accounts, no admin link appeared, no change in user status.

– I deleted the line in my bb_meta table that set the values of zaerl-visibility and also the line that activated that plugin and then deleted the zaerl plugin file from the bbPress plugins directory (I’m not really a coder, so may be in WAY over my head trying to use phpMyAdmin!)

– I inserted a new line of code in my wp-usermeta table to reset my bb_capabilities to keymaster, by copying exactly what was set before to my user_id.

– I did that also for the second admin user I created.

None of these things has worked and since I can’t get into my admin I can’t reset any of the users from inactive to member and so my forum is essentially dead (and it’s week 1 of a 5 week class)

The WP and bbPress integration is still working fine and I’m still an admin on the WP side and when I get to the forum, I’m still logged in already, but I’m inactive.

How can I get back in and get the roles reset?

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

I had this issue (with single user however) and it turned out I was missing the WordPress plugin for bbPress integration.