I’ve installed and integrated bbPress with WP for the first time, and user synchronisation seems to work perfectly. But for some reason, after i install bbPress and setup the integration, the icons in the WordPress admin disappears. I’ve checked that the png files are still in place, and this is the second time this has happened.
As far as I can tell it doesn’t affect any other aspects of the site, but still I’d really like to find out what’s going on.
Screenshot: http://s3.kjetilostereng.no/wp-icons.png
Using BBPress 0.9.0.4. I can’t figure out how to make one particular post stick. Very frustrating! It looks sticky when I look at it here
http://www.monarch.org.nz/monarch/forum/forum/butterflies
but not here:
http://www.monarch.org.nz/monarch/forum/
Any ideas?
Jacqui
Are you referring to this plugin? Because that is not ready yet and not supposed to be downloaded: “Don’t install this, it isn’t ready.” bbPress remains being a stand-alone package for now (which you can download from here). It is planned to become a WordPress plugin though, and John James Jacoby started the initial process of porting it to the extensions platform of WordPress.
@dragunoff
In one of the first meetups there was some brief talk about designing a better features section for bbpress.org (https://bbpress.org/about/features/); that is just a simple working mockup of that.
Hi there, I’m trying to be productive by sharing thoughts and ideas in this awesome forum
what i know to install any bbpress plugin is to put the plugins in
bbpress/my-plugins folder
unless the author declare something else
try to put it there and feed us back please
actually he was cooperative and tried to explain as simple as he could but i’m not that clever to catch him up 
I may be on to something here !
It seems to be working partially now.
I was using the steps described here http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/getting-rid-of-forums-and-topic-from-bbpress-permalinks-updated-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-37 .
I tried it with the htaccess rules from here http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-remove-forum-and-topic-keyword-from-bbpress-url/ instead those from the plugin dir.
Now i will try:
1. admin-backend link
2. the rss thing that you mentioned somewhere at the middle of the post.
Thanks!!!
UPDATE!
Admin link also working!
Did you follow the steps decribed in this topic?
Did you install the plugin?
Did you change the permalinks to “name” before activating the plugin?
Did you change the codes in your htaccess?
Did you write as rewrite base /?
Thats what I have in the htaccess of my wp-frontpage:
RewriteBase /
So it really must work. I am pretty sure.
Already tried it! The fact that I am posting here is a result of me not being able to do it straight at the root of a domain after trying this for about a week.
The front page loads fine but when I try to open any link (forum, topic …..) it appears to be broken.
Thanks, somehow, it didn’t work for me or I’m missing something obvious…
Before you activate the plugin you must change the permalinks to “name”.
In my opinion you can use the hack straight at the root of a domain.
example:
When your domain is: http://www.domain.com/
Your rewrite base in this case should be as follows:
RewriteBase /
Try it out!
The rewrite base is from where the rewrite starts. So if the base is /forum/ it starts from “http://www.xxx.com/forum/”
When the rewrite base is / it starts from “http://www.xxx.com/”
I think that you might misunderstood what my intentions are.
I already have preety permalinks enabled. I need the rewrite in order to make a custom page (http://domain.com/index.php?pagina=$1), which I create from some of the content on the front page, be availiable from http://domain.com/something.
I would like to thank you for your support and for your quick responses.
Regarding your second question:
1st
Go to the admin backend
2nd
Go to “settings”
3rd
Go to “permalinks”
4th
click on “names”
OK thank you very much for your information!
I was pretty sure that I cannot use this hack while using bbpress straight at the root of a domain.
Do you have any clue regarding the second question?
What you can do is what I have….
http://www.dailytalk.ch/forum
1st step
Download the plugin, you find on the link bellow and follow the instructions on that site:
http://blog.markroberthenderson.com/getting-rid-of-forums-and-topic-from-bbpress-permalinks-updated-plugin/comment-page-1/#comment-37
2nd step
If the name of your forum is “forums” you need to name the RewriteBase /forums/
RewriteBase /forums/
If the name of your forum is “community” your RewriteBase is /community/
RewriteBase /community/
etc.
3rd step
After you have followed the steps of that site you will find some bugs. To solve them do the following:
To solve the major bugs you need to do this:
I found a solution for the admin-backend link!
Just ad the following code
RewriteRule ^bb-admin/$ – [L]
before this code
RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ topic.php?id=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]
and it works!!! Cool.
I found another mistake. The “topics-RSS” where missing because you deleted one rewrite mod too much. To repair this you need to put the following code just after the mod rewrites for “view”
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
original code:
RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /forum/rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]
Than also the rss-feed for the topics should work.
Hello!
Question Number 1
Dailytalker do you have any idea if i have any chance of using this if i want to use this if i have http://domain.com/ the exact address of the forum?
I need something like http://domain.com/name-of-forum/title-of-topic.
I know that i may be asking too much so … my expectations are way low … but I still would like to know.
Question Number 2
Can anyone help me rewrite(htaccess) this http://domain.com/index.php?pagina=$1 into http://domain.com/something
Hi,
I have wordpress at the root, bbpress in a folder called forums. I had to specify a host for my provider, so I connected to the db, but the second step in the install results in a “unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING” error on line 19 of the config file. I’ve looked at other references to this error and they seem mostly to be that someone mistyped something, but I’m using the one generated by bbPress. I haven’t typed anything at all. Has anyone else had this problem?
Thanks
I think there are a number of big architectural hurdles to get over. In WP I bind a given slug to a page on a 1-to-1 basis, and that’s what is used to resolve a given URL. If I have a forum I would want “virtual page slugs” where anything starting with (say) “/forum” is passed to my plugin for resolution of the rest. The URL processing in WP is messy (to say the least) and is a perfect example of the opposite of the “Open/Closed” OO design principle – “Closed to modification but Open for extension” – I imagine that a rewrite of that code would go a long way to improving WP itself.
If bbPress were hosted on a single page using a WP shortcode, then the entire GUI needs to be re-coded to run fully AJAX as the user will need to remain on that particular page.
Or, like me, you can grep the bbPress source for “do_action” and “apply_filter” to see what the code does. In any case, the code itself is the best documentation.
@Dainis ~ I’ve answered this question in the appropriate buddypress forum.
Hi,
Since I could not find an “Add new forum” button, and I also want to categorize my forum (make boards, stickies and such), I’d like to know if you can share with me where I can administer bbPress within the BuddyPress install.
I tried surfing over here:
…/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-admin/admin.php
I checked my WPMU dashboard, and I just can’t seem to find an admin panel where I can set up boards and administer bbPress.
Best,
Dainis
I’d like to know the same thing…
