[cloudadmin]

Hi All,

I am in the process of getting at WP theme applied to bbpress and so far have had some luck..The headers and Footers are visible to the most part.

However the menu items are not coming across from the WP menu system.

Site: http://www.cloudosity.com

bbpress: http://www.cloudosity.com/forum

I get the two hard coded menu items but it looks like none of the WP variables can be called from the bbpress page. I am using get_header(); to pull in the header but the WP header code such as <?php echo $page_menu; ?> does not appear to work.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible to resolve?

Thanks,

David

[Gautam Gupta]

Please paste the first 8-10 lines of your theme’s style.css here.

[batrachoid]

Love the new look and the fact that _ck_ is around but damn my avatar is ugly that close up.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Is there any update on the insanely small text?

It appears (according to firebug) that the font size is set to 12px, but then it’s been made smaller by some later style. For me it’s currently looking like a 8 or 9px font size (which is incredibly difficult to read since we dropped the amount of space the text is in by almost 40% to 540px).

The margins and spacings look a bit weird/forced as well, almost like it’s using the old version of the 960 grid.

Also, as soon as the discussion includes more than 2 posts, 20-30% of the screen becomes useless whitespace.

Anyway, I’m testing this on Firefox3.6, latest Chrome and Opera 10 on Windows 7 and vista – and my iPhone.

Thanks,

Kev

P.S. The blog section’s a total disaster area also, good thing it’s not been updated in over 4 months now – otherwise people might look there for info!!! haha, don’t worry, thats not likely.

[TrishaM]

I’ve just upgraded to newest version 1.0.2 and now can no longer access my “my-templates” folder with my custom theme files. In addition, it thinks that there are three versions of the default kakumei theme even though there is only one instance of that theme folder in the bb-templates folder.

It won’t even recognize my custom theme if I put it into the bb-templates folder – although the theme has worked perfectly before the upgrade, I have no way to choose it now.

I’ve searched for hours and cannot find any fix for this (and yes I did make sure that my permissions are set correctly to 755). I followed the upgrade instructions to the letter.

Has anyone else run into this problem and found a solution?

[JCrosby]

OK thanks. I have unmodified the config file. The phpbb folder is directly above it.

So if I go 2 directories deep for setup, can I specify the URL of bbpress once it is installed?

[Ben L.]

bbPress looks in its folder and the folder directly above it for a config file. If you move bbPress out of the phpBB folder or move bbPress into something like [phpBB folder]/bbpress/test/[bbPress folder], it should work. Don’t modify the phpBB config file.

[JCrosby]

I am currently running PHPbb in the root directory, but want to install bbpress as I have used WP for years and love it.

I want to be able to import current posts and users from phpbb, so to keep it ‘easy,’ I installed a new directory and new db for bbpress. I go to that URL, and get the installation start page. On the second page, I get this error:

Oh dear!

An old config.php file has been detected in your installation. You should remove it and run the installer again. You can use the same database connection details if you do.

The config file is NOT in this directory, it is in the root (for phpbb). I tried editing in the info directly into the config file, but then the db can’t connect. I went through these steps, but no luck. How can I tell phpbb what db to use?

Is there a better way to do this?

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Not going to happen for WordPress 3.0. I wouldn’t plan on it any time soon.

[chrishajer]

They’re included in the 1.0 branch. I suppose it depends on the template you use to display the avatar.

[Marius-]

I want BBPress to be a standalone program. But I want it to be possible to include it as a page in WordPress.

[Marius-]

Is Avatars integrated as basic functionality?

[Anonymous User]

I would love to see bbPress as a WordPress plugin.

[vpsBible]

well, I guess the title is sufficient!

any news gratefully etc, thank you.

[zaerl]

This is one of the most important thing of GPL (the famous “free as in freedom” and not “free as in free beer”.) http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

[Gautam Gupta]

Please download the plugin again and upload it properly in the plugins directory. As you can see on the trac, there is an includes folder in the plugin – https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/after-the-deadline/tags/1.6

[Ryan Hellyer]

You are totally incorrect.

There is nothing in the GPL license which prohibits you from selling GPL licensed themes.

WordPress.org even has a page dedicated to promoting the sale of various GPL themes … https://wordpress.org/extend/themes/commercial/

[gerikg]

I found this:

http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/nav.html?bb-plugins/bbxf/exporter-bbpress.php.source.html

Does do that help any coders?

and Sam’s post on the subject:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/exporting-bbpress-to-phpbb2#post-18830

[chrishajer]

I’m not sure why, but the fonts look fine and comparable to other sites here, for me. This is with Chrome 5 on Windows or Linux. FWIW.

CTRL+ takes care of font resize if I need it without any trouble. But I’ve never had to do that here.

Now THIS site has really small fonts on my system: http://faustltd.com/

For some reason design and architecture firms always seem to want those tiny fonts.

[k.fallman]

word .. i agree

[_ck_]

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against paid, premium themes for bbPress.

There are now a handful out there, which is a good sign.

But I want to point out something to a couple of the authors which I will not name at this time.

You should not start with an existing free theme that is GPL and modify it if you are going to sell it. (added: without making it GPL)

(edit: changed “cannot” to “should not”, moral vs legal)

GPL requires you to disclose the source if you are going to distribute derivative works. This means, for example, if you start with the kakumei theme and improve it, you cannot sell it to others. You can give it away and maybe charge for support, but in itself has to be free.

(But on the other hand, this does NOT mean you have to give away your work if you modify a theme for your own site. GPL cover that, it says if you don’t distribute, you don’t have to make source available.)

TL;DR If you are going to sell a theme, start from scratch, not another free theme or you’ll get in trouble eventually.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I think in the long run, that rather than porting bbPress to a WordPress plugin as a “straight port”, there will be a halfway house of using WP3.0’s custom post types and taxonomies. I’m guessing at this, but haven seen some attempts at this on the beta already, it seems to make alot of sense.

EDIT: found justin tadock’s example @ http://justintadlock.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/forum-post-type.png

(sorry for the number of spelling mistakes, i simply can’t read these hideously small text they’ve forced on us by using font-size in pxels)

[kevinjohngallagher]

Wasn’t BBXF abandoned _ck_ ?

I’m going on memory rather than fact here (so am happy to be wrong), but wasn’t the last bbxf bit of code added before or around the time that bbPress0.9 came out?

It may still work (fingers crossed), but I’ve not seen anyone mention it here in a good 18 months.

[gerikg]

I noticed something with the WP integration setting in the bbP dasboard. When it’s filled out it uses the wp_user & wp_meta tables, when it’s not used it uses bb_user & bb_meta tables. If you started your bbp with the integration bb_users & bb_mate are never created. I don’t know if that information is useful. It’s something to think about because of people who have an existing bbpress and wants to add WP.

Check you tables in your SQL and see what’s listed under the bb_user & wp_user tables.

[gerikg]

Thanks you two, I forgot I asked this question before:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/anyone-used-bbpress-exporter-01a