[_ck_]

Huh. Who runs that bbpressthemes.net ?

DO NOT INSTALL THEMES FROM THAT SITE

THEY ARE ALL INFECTED WITH A SPAM LINK (in header.php)

They copied all my carefully collected (and slightly modified) themes from bbShowcase, edited them all and are presenting it like they did all the work.

Oh hell, it’s too late:

http://www.google.com/search?q=bbpress+kamagraoraljelly

So many people are getting their themes from there, I need to contact Google Safe Browsing group asap

[chrishajer]

my-templates is where you put any templates that you add. Chances are the permissions are 750 instead of 755. They were being created with the wrong permissions for a while but that issue is fixed in trunk now. Check the permissions with a shell or FTP program and make the directory permissions 755 and it will work.

[_ck_]

Yeah someone is slowly straightening out things.

I guess it was virtually impossible to test before it went live so this is unavoidable.

We probably need to give them overnight to get it stable.

[johnhiler]

Woah, a lot to absorb!

When I click on the forums tab from this topic page btw, I get sent to this relative link I think:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums/

[_ck_]

If whomever is doing the changes finally returns, please note there are many page “stalls” (blank page) and the plugin section has many broken links.

I know the plugins are a custom mod of bbPress so that might take some time to straighten out, just making sure someone is aware.

ps. ah the link to the plugin section just disappeared so I assume it’s a work in progress…

[_ck_]

I like my meta on the right hand side instead of the left.

Since there is no toggle in this theme, you can use the Stylish plugin for Firefox to change it:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);



@-moz-document domain("bbpress.org") {

.grid_3,.grid_4 {float:right !important;}

}

You can probably do something similar with GreaseMonkey but I am not certain exactly how.

[_ck_]

Hiya Chris, glad to see you!

[chrishajer]

Hi _ck_

[_ck_]

This is bbPress.org 2.0

Nice to see the change!

This seems to be based on Sam’s work but someone has done some tweaking.

Matt apparently either remembered or rushed the update after my complaint on WPTavern following his (negative) comments about bbPress over the weekend at WordCamp in his keynote.

Gravatars are a bit staggeringly huge, takes some getting used to and not sure I really care for them that big.

[truthlighthouse]

I was wondering the same thing Steepstone. I uploaded a template to my-templates and it would not install properly. Then I loaded it to bb-templates and worked like a charm. Anyone have any ideas what the purpose of the my-templates folder is for?

[belaldesign]

Thank you, but that topic refers to reversing the order of posts whereas I’m trying to reverse the order of topics. Regardless, I tried using the suggested code anyway and it doesn’t work for changing the order of anything. (I have the latest version of bbpress.)

[truthlighthouse]

Scratch my last part about the admin panel not looking like wordpress. It does. It just had a weird login screen at the initial part. But now it looks like the good ole wordpress dashboard….even on the free server.

[Mark McWilliams]

While Matt would appear to be burned out on bbPress, it would appear now that he’s working on a few things here and there for v1.1 which would be good. Yup, it sure is nice, and if you’re reading, let us know who’s got the new design going!

Only time will tell…!

[chrishajer]

Ah yeah, good point. I saw the #wcsf code sprint, but figured it was WordPress only. I saw in Matt’s state of the Word that he was sort of burned out on bbPress. Nice to see someone interested in it again.

[truthlighthouse]

It took way too long to find the necessary instructions on how to install on Godaddy. The instructions listed with the download of this software was not sufficient. When people asked questions, it had an issue resolved there, one resolved here, but nothing complete. Finally I got it to run so I thought I would share a complete instruction manual on how to do this.

First, I would like to point out that I installed it on their free hosting service if you buy a domain name through them. However you can install it on their paid hosting service the same way I am pretty sure. In fact, I installed it on their free service for now while I test things and will install it on their paid hosting service in a bit so I can edit this if it turns out to be different.

1) download BBPress. Unzip it.

2) Log in to Godaddy services. Click on the Home tab at the top left -> the sub-tab hosting -> then click on hosting under the “my products section” on the left. If you have already bought hosting or had the free version set up, you should see a list of your domain names that are set up for hosting.

3) Click on manage account next to the domain name you wish to install this bad boy on.

4) The first thing you need to do is create a database. So click on databases at the top and then mysql.

5) The click on create database on the upper center right.

6) Type in a description name (maybe forum or blah or whatever)

7) Type in the same thing in mysql database user name box

Type in a password that you can remember and then retype it in in the next box. Skip the last three boxes and click ok.

9) It will take forever and a day for the database to set up. Not really but maybe 20 minutes. In the meantime, lets go ahead and load the files onto your godaddy server. So click on the content tab at the top next to the databases tab you just selected and then click on FTP client.

10) Scroll down a bit and you will see two side by side panels. On the left is your desktop. On the right is the files on your domain name. Even if you just set up the hosting service, there will be files already on there.

11) Now you have two options. Do you want to install it at http://www.yourdomain.com/bbpress or do you want to install it directly on your main domain name http://www.yourdomain.com? If you want it directly on your domain name, then you need to transfer all the files within the downloaded folder from BBPress and not the actual folder with all the files in it. So in the left panel, you will navigate to your BBPress folder and double click it to view the contents. When you see all the files within that folder, hold the control key down and select all the files and folders within that folder. Then hit the little arrow in the center that points to the right which should move those files to the right panel and onto your domain name. If you wanted it at the http://www.yourdomain.com/bbpress, then just upload the actual folder with all the files in it versus opening up that folder and moving each file over individually. Also, you can rename the folder BBPress to something different and it will give it a different extension on your domain. For example if you renamed it Forums and loaded the entire folder onto the server, then you would have http://www.yourdomain.com/Forums.

12) Now we need to change some information in there. But first we need some information from the database you set up early. Probably it is still not set up yet and is pending setup. To check, click on databases tab at the top and then mysql. It will be listed as “setup” or “pending setup” under the status column. If it is pending setup, then grab some popcorn. Once it is ready, click on the pencil icon under the action column and you will then see the host name. It will likely start with yourdomain and then some numbers and dots and other stuff. Copy it.

13) Now click the home tab at the top.

14) Then click on the big button called “your files” under the tabs at the top.

15) Now locate the file that is called bb-config-sample.php. Check the box next to it. Then click edit at the top. A new window should pop up.

16) Scroll down and change BBDB NAME to the name you gave your database earlier. Change BBDB user to the same thing. Change mysql password to the password you set up earlier (if you used caps, you must use it here too). Then change mysql hostname (which is probably currently listed as local host) to the name you copied just a bit ago from the database pencil menu that had numbers and dots and other stuff. Then hit the save button at the top left.

17) Now this step, I forgot to do and it still works. I was just building a test site anyways so I will fix it when I attempt to load it to my real site. But you need to change the name of the file you were just editing. You should still have bb-config-sample.php still checked. Up at the top, click rename. Rename the file to bb-config.php. Essentially you are just dropping the -sample part.

18) Now navigate to your domain name where you installed the BBPress.

19) It will prompt you with the installation (or should). It will tell you that it recognizes that it is the first time and needs to be installed and then ask you to proceed. You will then enter all your information including database name, mysql user name (which was the same as the database name), and the password (with the necessary caps if you used them). But ONE PART THAT IS HIDDEN AND NEEDS to be adjusted is in the advanced section. So click the little check box. Now paste that host name you copied earlier with numbers and dots and other stuff. Now proceed onwards.

One thing I noticed is that I would proceed through the installation process at that last part and it would revert to the beginning again. I think this was because I was hosting it on Godaddy’s free server and they put ads at the top which was causing it to loop. After several times (probably 5) of clicking the buttons over and over again and retyping the information, it finally worked. Also the login screen is very basic on the free server. I don’t know if this is normal but I will let you know when I try on my paid server. But it was my understanding that the dashboard of the forum should be similar to wordpress. Maybe that is after integration between the two. Not sure.

Anyways, hope that helped. Thanks

[Mark McWilliams]

Yeah, cool, somethings happening!

Could it be Matt himself, I read we could be looking at bbPress 1.1 RC very soon!

[Geekaholic]

Thx, hab das gemacht und es hat funktioniert

[chrishajer]

gerikg, I know. bbPress in general needs better search.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-it-just-me-or-does-the-plugin-search-suck#post-59069

[gerikg]

Change Post Order Question

(Note to admin(s): we need a better search function on this site)

[Samara]

I just applied the fix listed above (here: http://bestservedcold.com/news/bbpress-and-wordpress-magic-quotes/comment-page-1 ) on line 632 of wp-settings.php hash out $_POST = add_magic_quotes($_POST ); and it works on all new posts. I am wondering though if this will cause issues with any of the other plugins or the way wordpress itself functions.

[vanesta]

I saw from wordpress showcase (http://wordpress.org/showcase/slashgear/) slashgear.com is using wp+bbpress. can anyone tell me which theme they are based on?

http://discuss.slashgear.com/

[Anonymous User]

Hi Geekaholic,

you moved the phpbb user to the bbPress user table (e.g. bb_users). The users are still there. After the user integration you must copy the users from bbPress user table to the WordPress user table – and also copy the user_meta information.

If you had some WordPress users before the transfer form phpbb to bbPress/WordPress – it is possible to merge the users by hand. I do this within the phpMyAdmin.

Markus

[Geekaholic]

Hi,

I’m using phpbb3 right now but want to move to bbpress. So I installed bbpress on my server and was able to import all the posts and users from the phpbb3 to the new bbpress forum. Everything worked great. But now I would like to integreate the wordpress user database with the bbpress database. When I’m using this build in integration method, all the users I transfered from phpbb3 to bbpress disapear…

does anyone know how to fix that or is the bbpress user databye deleted by integreating it to wordpress?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Sandar,

If you’re using StationPro, a premium theme, then I’d suggest asking in their forum’s first. BaseStation, the company behind StationPro, claim that all their themese are bbPress compatible, and indeed sell bbPress themes which should work with the WordPress theme.

BaseStation also, out of the kindess of their hearts, will sell you a bbPress component to make it all work (side effects include: it still may not work as you’d hoped and loss of $50).

Either way though, bbPress is not a WordPress theme nor a Plugin, and should not be placed in the WordPress theme nor plugin directory. Hopefully it’ll all work for you after that.

Take Care,

Kev

[gerikg]

bbPress is not a theme or a plugin.