[gauthamns]

First of all I thank ppl behind bbPress for its easy extensibility. With little tweaks I was able to modify my forum to give it a nice look: http://geeksforgeeks.org/forum/

And was also able to customize it for my own needs: http://geeksforgeeks.org/forum/view/company-interview

I can release it as a theme if needed.

[DavyB]

I recently moved my hosting from US west hosting to European hosting. I.E. Next door rather than 1/3 way round planet on the far side of North America. I copied backups of the old databases to the new hosting.

Now I cannot get bbpress running now the old dns and hosting have been switched off.

I get error message “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection” I had wp and bb integrated and syncing. wp is working fine. I can use phpMyAdmin to read the database. BBPress will setup fine with a new database but its a bit of a pain to setup all the forums and synced topics and I’d lose the topics that were only in the bbpress forums.

Any help and advice welcomed.

[gerikg]

make sure the folder is called “my-templates” I have trouble setting permission trough Dreamweaver. I always have to go through my ftp program to do it right.

[driz]

@psycheangels

Looks like some of that code could be useful. I’m not a PHP whizz though. Would you or anyone else be able to help me *rewrite* it to what I am wanting to do above?

Much appreciated.

[mr_pelle]

“Nicer Permalinks” now available!!

[Anonymous User]

Hi gerikg,

I will test it tomorrow on my new server (playground for bbPress, Plugins, Themes) …

Markus

[johnhiler]

Sure, I used both of them here:

http://support.weddingbee.com

[frooyo]

@johnhiler

Is there anywhere I can see a demo of either Support Forum or Best Answer.

I’ve looked around at the plugins and couldn’t find either a screenshot of it working or a demo.

[johnhiler]

You should be able to use Support Forum and Best Answer to mimic similar functionality!

* https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forum/

* https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/best-answer/

[frooyo]

I really like how 37signals made their simplified Q&A site:

http://answers.37signals.com/basecamp

In review, it occurred to me that it’s essentially just a forum site with a few specific functions that make it act more like a Question & Answer site.

Does anyone know how I can mimic 37signals simplified Q&A implementation using bbPress?

[psycheangels]

maybe this will help ?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nested-topic-list-code-snippet

[psycheangels]

there is no documentation of default roles, but if you want to add or edit roles you can use this plugin

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/role-manager

[psycheangels]

no wait until matt make bbpress to wp plugin, but now you can use wp function in bbpress using this method

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/seemless-wordpress-integration

or other method in this forum, cek sub forum theme

[jc99]

Is it possible to call bbpress from a page in wordpress?

[jc99]

What do I assign for User Role Maps in bbpress wordpress integration…

WordPress Administrator: I assume this is Keymaster

But the rest I am unsure of….

WordPress Editor, Author and Contributer: Moderator?

WordPress Subscriber: Member?

Is there a place I can read up on the different roles (Key Master, Adminstrator, Moderator Member)

[driz]

From what I can tell it’s gonna require a foreach statement to do what I want.

[Anonymous User]

ok – I see – this is the standard settings for topics, posts and tags.

With the plugin from _ck_ it is possible to set different count limits for nearly every bbPress page:

• front-page
• forum-page
• topic-page
• view-page
• tag-page
• tag-page
• search-page
• feed-page
• profile-page
• favorites-page
• stats-page

Markus

[driz]

Okay here is how I want it to work:

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>



<!-- FOR EACH TOP LEVEL CATEGORY BUILD A DIV WITH A H3 AND OL -->



<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>



<div class="box">



<?php if (bb_get_forum_is_category()) : ?>



<h3><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a></h3>



<?php endif; ?>



<ol>



<!-- FOR EACH FORUM BUILD A LI (only show top level children not children within those) -->



<li class="arrow f_unread">

<a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>">

<strong><?php forum_name(); ?></strong><br />

<?php forum_topics(); ?> Topics / <?php forum_posts(); ?> Replies

</a>

</li>



</ol>



</div>



<?php endwhile; ?>



<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

I only want top level cats and forums to show on the front page, clicking on those will show the sub-forums when you view in the individual forums.

Can anyone help?

[driz]

@kevinjohngallagher

I missed read you post earlier. Yeah getting bbPress to display like phpBB would be an awesome starting ground for me. If you could find those files/links that would be much appreciated.

[gerikg]

Any way to do it via plugin folder, functions.php, or theme folder without putting the file in the root? If bbpress upgrades (don’t laugh too hard) I will forget about it.

[tdfahrney]

I’m having the same issue here. I’ve downloaded two themes from the web site and installed in the directory my-themes and gave the directory 755 permissions and none of the themes are visible except the standard installs. Any ideas on what I am doing wrong ?

[Anonymous User]

Look at this plugin:

Plugin Name: Topics Per Page

Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/topics-per-page

Markus

[Mortgage Reverse]

Man I can’t wait for this to go online! Out of curiosity are there any existing SEO plugins or sitemap plugins for BBPress? Gracias in advance!

[kevinjohngallagher]

I think i can shed a little light on this, but apologies if i’m off a little.

1) you need to decide if you want to have parent/child relationships with categories or not. If you want categories, then all forums need to have a parent category. Its a world of hassle otherwise.

2) bbPress doesn’t actually handle in any way shape or form a parent / child relationship. Its key to remember this when processing the data, especially in the bb_forums() loop. Remember it’s just a plain list of names with no corrolation.

3) The “category” is not marked on the forum list or forum database table where you can query it easily as a 1 to 1 relationship. Instead, a hack of _CK_’s forum as a category plugin for bbPress 0.8/0.9 has been rolled into the core. Thats not a complaint against Sam, its the fact that it doesn’t solve the problem, it merely “fakes” a category to the end user.

4) bbPress doesn’t consider a category to be in a Parent/Child relationship, it considers a category to be one that topics cant be written to AND that has a child forum. So if down the line you make a forum read only for some reason – bbPress will think its a category.

Here is a long (sorry) post I wrote about it in September 2008:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/parent-childrelationship-in-forum-loop

And in the end I made this as an example:

http://kevinjohngallagher.com/___alpha/bbpress_as_phpbb/

Basically, I had to do a major rewrite of the bb_forums() loop.

[driz]

Okay changed all forums to have cats, but I need each block of forums with a cat to have this setup:

<div class="box">

<h3>CAT</h3>

<ol>

<li>Forum</li>

<li>Forum</li>

</ol>

</div>

At the moment it’s repeating the div and ol for each forum and not containing the forums within a cat inside just one div and ol.

ALSO

But because I have categories within categories it will become messy nested. So I only want to show top level forums and not the sub-forums/cats within.