[cillianjoandidioninfo]

I have godaddy linux hosting. My situation is exactly the same as TrishaM’s

[TrishaM]

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.

[chrishajer]

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.

[Gautam Gupta]

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/

[mr_pelle]

@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.

[GW]

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

[kevinator]

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.

[Gautam Gupta]

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.

[mr_pelle]

Before calling the bbPress function just add:

<?php require_once ABSPATH .'/forum/bb-load.php'; ?>

[chrishajer]

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.

[chrishajer]

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

Open Links in new window

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

[mzimmers]

…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 &raquo 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

[mikkelsen]

I’ve managed to integrate everything perfectly between my WordPress and bbPress site except this last part. I want to call up <?php login_form(); ?> from bbPress and show it in my WordPress header.

The reason I want to do this because I have a “Login” and “Register” button that changes to something different if the user is logged in. Like this;

http://drp.ly/112xb3

http://drp.ly/112y6d

Is this possible? Thanks for all help so far. The bbPress community has been very helpful so far

[mikkelsen]

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.

[mikkelsen]

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.

[cloudadmin]

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

[Rich Pedley]

would be far better to start a new thread.

[rcplanes]

im wondering how to recover the admin password, i lost it and im stuck,

thanks guys, sorry for the off topic post, seems like you guys know how to get around bbpress

[TrishaM]

Hi Gautam – thanks for your response.

Below is what is at the top of my custom theme’s style.css – I did compare it to the default (kakumei) theme to be sure something hadn’t changed there with the new version of bbPress, but this should be working. It was working fine before the upgrade, but after the upgrade bbPress no longer ‘sees’ the two themes in the my-templates folder (the other is a testing theme I occasionally use to test new things). It does find the my-plugins folder just fine, just not the my-templates.

/*

Theme Name: TWE New

Theme URI: http://www.tech-kitten.com/

Description: Custom bbPress theme to match TWE site.

Version: 1.02

Author: Trisha Miller

Author URI: http://www.tech-kitten.com/

*/

[kevinjohngallagher]

What version of bbPress are you using ?

What version of WordPress are you using?

Are you using “deep integration”?

That said, I’d hardcode them if I were you. Given that you know you’re going to be on your forum page, and therefore dont need to having anything dynamic or highlighted, you can just hardcode it to work.

Not an ideal solution, but its one that you can control completely

Good Luck

[chrishajer]

I’m sure someone with more CSS knowledge than me will be able to fix it using this additional information. Thanks for posting it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Different text sizes on homepage:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbPress_defferent_text_sizes.png

Edit area messed up:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_edit_area.png

Difference between yours and mine:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_kevs_view.png

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_chris_view.png

(basically, i have 2 or more words per line squeezed into same space on some places)

Hope this helps whoever is looking after the theme, apprecaite the help as always (especially Chris – first on hand as always).

Kev

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ok, so I noticed a small bug when posting this (because I went to edit and the edit link is tiny).

Line 99 of the stylesheet has “font-size:0.8em” (which seems accurate) but according to Firebug it thinks that the 960 reset is loaded afterwards as its loaded via 3 different @import commands (fyi – madness) because of how the browser handles loading of child stylesheets (it’s not concurrent). The 960 reset states that “font-size:100%” for everything.

So firebug, and chrome tools will all show that they’re applying “font-size:100%” which in essence they are, they’re just applying 100% of the 0.8em.

EDIT: ok, so a bit more investigation turns out that “em”s were decided to be used for some of the links and things on the left under the avatar, while “%”s were used elsewhere, and “px”s were specified for other text – so its really a bit of a mish mash that has high potential to look different on every system (especially as the css reset is loaded 3rd or 4th by the browser); compunded by a choice to use different looking fonts per system.

On line 103 of style.css we specify the font for the actual forum post text:

#bborg-discussion #thread div.post {

font-size:12px;

}

Now according to Firebug and chrome dev tools the font-size:12px is scored out (as if it’s being overwritten) because the reset is loaded after. But if you click on it in firebug to actually disable it, hey presto, the font actually grows to the default size.

Oh and more of an FYI as to why it’s hard to debug, after we apply our reset and our styles, we then have this added by the 960’s text stylesheet that will mess with the base units:

body{font:13px/1.5 Helvetica,Arial,’Liberation Sans’,FreeSans,sans-serif}

We basically play about with the font-sizes all over the shop in the stylesheets, and the fonts used too (i can see about 10 fonts listed).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thanks for that Chris, v helpful.

Your text seems a tad bigger than mine but I think i might have found some of the issues.

1) The stylesheet specifies “Lucida Grande,Tahoma,’Bitstream Vera Sans’,Arial,sans-serif” and I’m not sure it was tested on all of those fonts.

There’s quite a large difference between the way Lucia Grande and Tahoma look on windows (and people with Safari on Windows can now have Lucia Grande; but its not there by default), and at 12px and above Tahoma and Arial start to look differently too…

2) In comparing what I can see on the forums and your screenshot, I’m getting 2extra words per line.

Either way, it’s a drop in text size of a considerable amount. And a drop in the amount of space that the text is given in comparison to the old theme (not that an increased avatar doesn’t help the conversation but…)

3) On the forum listing, since last week, some of the text has been of a bigger size than others. Specifically:

#bborg-discussions table td div {

font-size:14px;

}

Edit: I have no extrnal css stuff going on, which i put down to laziness

[chrishajer]

Here’s a screenshot of this page in Firefox 3.0.19 on Ubuntu. Looks the same to me with Chrome on Ubuntu and Chrome on XP as well. Not sure what’s causing the problem for you. I can’t replicate it.

Screenshot is 1.7MB

http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/bbpress-text.png

Were you using an external CSS mods with the old theme that might be affecting the new theme?