@Gautam I tried renaming kakumei something else and the forum displayed an error message and would not load so I switched the name back.
@chrishajer Here is a pic of my ftp and permission for my-templates: http://guywingfield.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Ftp-.png
Also, there are no spaces in the folder names.
Try renaming kakumei folder and see if bbPress still displays that or not.
Ah, OK, I get it. I didn’t realize that the window.open stuff was a javascript method (I told you I’m a novice!). Thanks for the clarification.
I think I also found another way to get the target=”_blank” code to validate (sort of): I noticed that my main site (www.scopedin.com) doesn’t return errors on that same sidebar code. I think it’s because the DOCTYPE at the top of the page is 1.0 transitional. I suppose I could use this in my bbpress header as well?
Thanks again for the help.
Do any of the folder names have spaces in them? The Internet hates spaces.
This was the discussion of mod_security changes by Hostgator causing (admittedly different) problems:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/suddenly-getting-error-when-posting-videos
I think either or both you you (cillian and TrishaM) need to find someone you trust who may be local who knows what they are looking at. It’s difficult to troubleshoot without being able to look at things first hand.
Can you post a screenshot of an FTP listing of the files and directories, showing permission and ownership?
Also, do you have access to error logs? It’s possible some sort of PHP function is turned off that is required for accessing these files.
FWIW, I use 1and1 as well and have no problem on several servers.
I have 1and1, I use dreamweaver and it doesn’t change permission smoothly. SOmetimes I need it change it through admin.1and1.com
I heard back from Network Solutions about this issue. Their response was basically:
Our SSL proxy doesn’t allow server-side variables to detect HTTPS (secure). All server-side coding will always detect HTTP (non-secure), and for programs that attempt to redirect non-secure connections (http://) to a secure connection (https://) will result in an infinite loop and server error after 30 seconds (newer technology browsers such as Firefox will detect this loop almost immediately and give up before 30 seconds). We cannot change this setting on our servers.
There is a 2nd paragraph with their recommended workaround, which is similar to my approach above of looking for ‘https:’ in the scheme of the URL.
I’m going to see if the bbPress developers would include the above code in their core. Seems like a worthwhile addition, or maybe they are aware of this and intentionally do not include it for various reasons.
I have godaddy linux hosting. My situation is exactly the same as TrishaM’s
Yes, the my-templates folder and its two sub-folders are set to 755. I did find that suggestion when searching for a fix, and made sure of that before posting my question, but it did not make any difference – I still can only choose from the two default (kakumei) themes……
I use 1&1 for hosting, and I don’t think they’ve made any changes but if I knew what to look for I could check that specifically – also, the my-templates folder was fine before I upgraded from 0.9.0.2 to the latest 1.0.2
What I’m doing in the meantime is just modifying the default kakumei theme, but that is not ideal because I’ll have to remember to keep it backed up and not overwrite it on the next upgrade…..I’d prefer to find a solution to the problem.
I’m grateful for any help anyone can offer.
I’d be curious to find out what is causing this. It’s a pretty simple system. Only a few things can go wrong (that I know of)
1. permissions of the my-templates folder
2. location of the my-templates folder
3. permissions of the individual folders inside my-templates
4. improper header
Maybe it will be something else in either of these cases and we can add to the list. Maybe there is some server function that is not present or the host recently changed a configuration. What hosting do you use?
mod_security being locked down recently at a couple hosts has caused problems for some people.
You may install the trunk version of bbPress (it has that feature in-built) or install this plugin by _ck_ – https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/subscribe-to-topic/
@Gautam: yeah sorry, I suggested that because I’m testing with no users db sharing, so I’ve to use bb_is_user_logged_in() instead of WP’s function.
Hi. I’m new to bbpress, and I seem to be having the same problem. The theme folders in my-templates do not show up on the Appearance page of my bb-admin. I’ve tried the 755 fix to no avail. Only the two default themes show up 
We are running bbpress 1.0.2 and we have had several user requests for a function that will let users subscribe to a topic or get an email notification that another user has replied to a post. I’ve looked through the extensions here but cannot find anything on this.
You can use is_user_logged_in() WordPress function for that, like:
<?php
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) {
// Logged in HTML here
} else {
// Login form HTML here
}
?>
The solution suggested by Pelle would work, but would add a lot of load on your blog.
Before calling the bbPress function just add:
<?php require_once ABSPATH .'/forum/bb-load.php'; ?>
Are the subfolder permissions 755 as well?
They should be in my-templates, my-templates should be 755, and then each theme in its own folder, and that folder 755 as well. Any files inside the folder can be 644, but any folders should be 755.
For the duplicate copies of themes showing up, have you hidden any theme folders? I do that sometimes and I end up with multiple copies all looking the same.
Since this is not a common problem, it’s either something completely weird that’s not yet been reported, or it is the permissions problem, which has been reported.
Not sure which two errors you received, but here are the two I received:
Line 31, Column 12: there is no attribute "clear"
That’s true. It needs to be <br style="clear:both;" /> to be valid.
Line 93, Column 50: there is no attribute "target"
That’s true as well, but who cares? It brings me to one of my favorite _ck_ quotes of all time: “throw off your shackles of validation”
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22throw+off+your+shackles+of+validation%22
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There are a couple of solutions there.
1. drop the attribute altogether (let the visitor determine where they want the link to open)
2. use Sam’s javascript solution
3. use _ck_’s route and just run with it. Who cares if it validates? It works just fine and has no negative affect on anything
…on my site.
http://www.scopedin.com/bbpress/
Both errors point to code that looks right to this novice. The generated source has an interesting occurrence (a couple, actually) of the » in my head section; in fact, the code there doesn’t seem to match up with what’s in my header.php file.
Can someone shed some light on this for me? Thanks.
Here’s the link to the validation I ran, if you’re interested in that:
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.scopedin.com%2Fbbpress%2F
After lots of tried back and fourth I managed way that worked great.
After the database was moved, I just registered a new user. Then I manually made that new user an admin via phpMyAdmin. I then logged in to the bbPress admin and manually created a password for my original user.
I’m however the only one on the forum that doesn’t get an email. I suppose it’s because I had the ID of 1.
Anyway, thanks for all your help.
I had the same problem. After I had transfered all my bbPress users over to wp_users, I just logged back into the bbPress adminpanel, went to WordPress integration settings and just clicked saved again.
Then all the user roles was correct and updated when I refreshed the WordPress adminpanel.
I am using bbPress 1.0.2 and WordPress 2.9.2.
I originally did hardcode the menu items however the dropdown menu did not seem to work when hardcoded so I went back to including the header.
I will give hardcoding another try.
Thanks,
David
would be far better to start a new thread.
