[Michael]

Greetings

I recently installed bbPress as phpBB and SMF did not work for me. Everything’s working peachy, except for one.

I uploaded a theme into the my-themes directory, and I now cannot access it. At all. I also cannot access the my-plugins folder. Their permissions both are 0750 (drwxr-x—). Because of that, it gives me a 550 error, stating that I do not have permission to access the folder. I can’t even change the permissions.

Is there a solid way to fix this?

Thanks in advance,

Michael

[chrishajer]

johnhiler, why do you suspect it doesn’t work here? Try this search:

https://bbpress.org/forums/search.php?q=i18n

Check the Relevant Posts results. Some of the links are incomplete, results 1, 4, 7, 8, 9 when I searched. Not all are broken, just some.

[johnhiler]

It sounds like an issue with the search.php file in your template. You may be using a template from 0.9 that isn’t compatible with bbPress version 1.0 (or vice versa).

Try either deleting it, or replacing it with the standard template from Kakumei:

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei/search.php

[chrishajer]

I’ve seen it here and also experienced it at Justin Tadlock’s Theme Hybrid forums.

I don’t rely on bbPress built in search too much since it’s so bad. I just use google site:bbpress.org/forums whatever to search. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t fix it, but it does not appear to be the only thing wrong with bbPress search.

There was recent discussion of the quality of bbPress plugin search too:

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

[johnhiler]

Try this plugin?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/terms-of-service/

[steadman0953]

bbPress Version: 1.0.2

Plugins:

Admin add user | Version 1.0 | By Thomas Klaiber

Akismet | Version 1.0 | By Michael Adams

Allow Images Version 0.7.1 | By Michael D Adams

Avatar | Version .73a | By Joshua Hutchins

bbPress Mobile Edition | Version 0.73 | By Trent Adams (Alex King Code)

BBPress Private Messaging | Version 0.73 | By Joshua Hutchins

Bozo Users | Version 1.1 | By Michael Adams

Censor | Version 0.1 | By Michael Nolan

Fix bbPress | Version 0.8.1-1 | By Michael D Adams

Fix Logins | Version 0.0.1 | By Scott Steadman (Based on howtogeek plugin)

Ignore Member | Version 0.06 | By _ck_

Indicate New Posts | Version 0.8 | By fel64

Online List | Version 1.4 | By Thomas Klaiber

Post Notification | Version 1.3 | By Thomas Klaiber

Quote | Version 0.1 | By Michael Nolan

Usernames I18N Fix | Version 1.0 | By Sewar

Please let me know if there is any more information I can provide.

[Mark-k]

But since there is an Hebrew translation at http://bbpress.mywebspace.co.il/ , you don’t really need a solution

[chrishajer]

did you quote the filename?

require_once('/absolute/path/to/wp-load.php');

[kirkpatrick]

The following will work to give the registration you want, and to hide the forums from unregistered eyes.

1. Integrate WordPress and bbPress (install the WordPress plugin bbPress integrate), so users are the same. This includes setting up a page in WordPress (title “Forums”) whose permalink is the path to the forums (so the bbpress folder, whatever you call it, should be inside WordPress, parallel with wp-admin).

2. Do surgery on your bbPress theme so there’s no registration prompt on the sidebar; do all registrations from WordPress.

3. Install a WordPress plugin (like Register Plus) that provides email verification of registration.

4. Install a bbPress plugin (like hidden-forums) that allows you to hide forums. Set it up to hide the school forum.

4a. If you are going to hide all your forums, be sure to fix the bug in bb-includes/functions.bb-forums.php, line 83: put “(array)” into that line the same way it’s in line 82.

5. Install WordPress RoleScoper plugin. Edit the page “Forums” that you created, scroll down to RoleScoper fields “Readers”, click Restrict for Page, and check all the groups under “eleigible groups”. (This makes the page invisible, then makes it visible to all registered users.)

This works — I did it just this evening. I’m really thankful you asked, because it forces me to document what I went through. Many things can go wrong (some people have trouble with integration, though I’ve done it a number of times without difficulty).

To get it to work for several forums, each with a separate set of parents, is a second stage of development. My approach would be:

Use RoleScoper to set up a new role/group for each school’s parents. Then hack hidden-forums.php to get it to handle RoleScoper roles. (That little sentence carries great possibilities of frustration and trouble. But that would do it for your problem.)

An alternate approach, which would be less technically difficult, but perhaps much more trouble in the long run, would be to set up a separate WP-BBP site for each school, perhaps as subdomains of your main WordPress site. Parents of a school would register at one of the sub-sites, which would have only one forum. Then district-wide material would belong to the main site, and each school would have its own website and private forum.

The third approach, the easiest: Trust all parents equally — allow any parent to visit any forum. No secrets among schools.

I hope this is of help to you.

Kim Kirkpatrick

[johnhiler]

Yup, you can use the same database as your current wordpress install – in fact, you have to in order to integrate the user data:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

“bbPress can share user data with an existing WordPress installation. All you need to do is specify the location of that database on installation or afterwards in the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin.”

[Abhinav Sood]

Hi all,

I am Abhinav. I am facing a slight problem deep integrating the latest stable versions of WordPress ( 2.8.6 ) with bbPress ( 1.0.2 ) on a website – I have completed the user and cookie integration and it works perfectly. All the settings are configured and saved properly. However after I add the line :

require_once(/absolute/path/to/wp-load.php);

to the top of bb-config.php .. Forums page goes blank! No errors, no warning messages.. Just a blank page with no code at all..

Before installing the bbPress live on the server, I developed the theme on my system locally and tested deep integration thoroughly a few times – everything works just fine locally but it’s creating trouble live on the server.

I have checked echoing values from the WordPress files that are loaded into bbPress.. that confirms that WordPress is being loaded properly.. But why isn’t bbPress loading after that !

I suspect that having WordPress installed and running since a long time already is causing the problem!

I have deep integrated various websites where WordPress was already installed and running for quite sometime without any issues..

Can it be a plugin conflict? The website is using 37 ( ) plugins at the moment..

( Should I post a list of plugins being used? )

Can anyone help me out, please?

I’d be very grateful..

Regards..

[adonis827]

My fault. There is this option for wordpress admin not bbpress.

[johnhiler]

Yes, and there are translations available here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/chinese

I’m using it to power a traditional chinese forum, and it’s working great!

[Greg]

I have a strange problem. When I’m on the forum front page or a forum page, the timezone is set to “America/Los_Angeles “, but when I go onto one of the topic pages, it is “Etc/GMT+7”.

I am checking by using the PHP function “date_default_timezone_get()” in the header right after the <body> tag.

These two are different by an hour because of daylight saving, which is causing an issue with the simple-onlinelist plugin.

Where in the initialization of bbPress is the timezone set? Any ideas why it would be set differently depending on the bbPress page that is loaded?

If it matters, I have deep integration with WordPress MU 2.8.4a, which also has the timezone at “America/Los_Angeles”.

Thanks.

[t_shea]

How about lots more theme choices like WordPress. Also, is there a plugin that places a ‘pinned’ button at the bottom corner where you could add a link to ‘post’ or ‘top of page’?

[johnhiler]

I believe this plugin should cover that situation?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

[johnhiler]

There’s a forum permissions plugin here – I’ve used it on a number of bbPress installs, and it is really great!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

[johnhiler]

bbPress is not a forum plugin for WordPress; it’s its own separate program.

What are the basic features of a forum you’d like to see? Let us know, and we can help steer you in the right direction!

[thezachperson31]

I’m looking for a good forum plugin for WordPress, and bbPress seems like a good choice. The main thing I like about bbPress is its simplicity. Dead-simple to use, with no confusing toolbars to intimidate users. However, aside from installing numerous plugins, it lacks many of the basic features of a forum. In my view, if I’m spending more effort to get something to work as well as another solution, I’ll go with the alternative.

The forum will only be used for basic discussion, so advanced functionality is not needed, but its helpful and attractive to include a few anyway. Keeping it easy and intuitive yet functional for first-time forum users is key.

Right now I’m leaning towards bbPress, but do you have any additional suggestions?

[rb-cohen]

I’m thinking of creating a forum permission plugin until it becomes a part of bbPress officially. Before I start, I was wondering whether a similar plugin already exists? From a search of these forums, and on Google, there is nothing out there that will allow somebody to limit posts by user group.

Is this because nobody has tried yet, or because its impossible?

[chrishajer]

Are you using a default theme, and what plugins are you using? What version of bbPress and is it integrated with WordPress (and the version there too if so)?

[jefferisp7]

Yeah, having trouble with W-P Forums. But not ready to start over the entire installation from scratch, which I would have to do I think with bbPRess…

I’m looking for these features in WP: User registrations required for posts in forums, the ability to add images to forum posts, and possibly a link to a user image gallery…

Got any ideas? Or do I need to go back to joomla or drupal?

Thanks

Jeff

[johnhiler]

bbPress is its own standalone program, similar to how WordPress is its own standalone program. It’s definitely not just a plugin to WordPress… although there are a few WP plugin forum plugins! Sounds like you’re already playing around with one of them.

[jefferisp7]

Hi folks Something that is most basic that is not quite spelled out on the home page. Is bbpress a plugin to a standard WP site, or a REPLACEMENT for a WP site? As I read the install instructions, it seemed to be a total replacement and I’ve already got my WP site up and running. I was just looking for better forum software to add than the W-P forums which don’t seem to allow image attachments…

Jeff

[fifthhouse]

Thanks for your help. I am using a custom template. But can you tell me where I would find it in the bbpress template and then I might be able to move it over to my template?