[chrishajer]

Then it says that “You will be greeted with the bbPress installer”

Of course this didn’t happen.

If that didn’t happen, then the host is configured wrong or you visited the wrong URL. You need to figure out where you installed the software. Then you can work on the configuration.

What does the file structure look like, and what is the site URL and bbPress URL?

[jeffreyw4]

Hi,

So I uploaded the uncompressed files as instructed. Which of course come wrapped in a folder. Not being instructed otherwise, I uploaded the entire folder, wondering silently how the server would know how to handle the files.

Item number 4 carries the rather cryptic instruction to “Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site” which I think means to go to the website to which the bbPress files have been uploaded. Which I did.

Then it says that “You will be greeted with the bbPress installer”

Of course this didn’t happen.

Okay, so I figured you must have to remove the containing folder after all. So reupped the files now in unwrapped form.

Having done this a screen did appear which queried for database info. I entered all of that and it said that it “couldn’t establish a connection with the database”.

So I went into godaddy and created a new one thinking perhaps the password was wrong (though I checked it three times).

Maybe this was my undoing: I looked at the Godaddy instructions for installing bbPress. They claim you should edit the bb_config file directly. So I put in the database info for the new database. The sticking point is always the host name which everyone defaults as ‘localhost’. But that doesn’t work with Godaddy. So I pulled the hostname from the Server variables and settings and put that in the quotes. I upped that and….

Now it is saying I have to edit a table prefix which I assume is this line:

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

I really have no idea what would go here.

Any ideas??

Thanks for any help.

Jeff

[jurasiks]

Telepat requested.

Please provide more info: old bb-config? old database?

[jackie911hk]

I also have this problem on the installation of BBPress. Please see below screen print-out.

http://www.jackie.net/error.jpg

[jackie911hk]

I also have this problem on the installation of BBPress. Please see below screen print-out.

http://www.jackie.net/error.jpg

[youreviltw1n]

I have tried twice now to install BBPress and for whatever reason it does not work. After going through the installation process, I get this message: “Forum could not be created!”

When I go to the address of where my forum should be, I get this message: ” Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?”

When I click “upgrade script” nothing happens. Any advice?

edit: Nevermind, I did some voodoo and somehow it all worked.

[buddha-trance]

I am using this plugin, with just normal integration, to call the forum latest posts in the sidebar of my blog, and it works great.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/

[buddha-trance]

I believe that the issue was the reverse, that is: how to add the blog menu onto the forum.

If this is the case – the way I have done it – you edit header.php of your forum theme and add the menu tabs there, to match the ones of your blog. Make sure it is a custom theme and add it to my-templates folder, or you will lose it when you upgrade bbPress next time (if left as the default Kakumei).

Just after

<div id="header" role="banner">

you add the html for the tabs (for id “navigation” add it to the style sheet). For example:

<div id="header" role="banner">

<ul id="navigation">

<li><a href="blog url" title="Main Blog">Blog</a></li>

<li><a href="forum url" title="Forums">Forums</a></li>

<li><a href="another page url" title="Whatever Page">Whatever Page</a></li>

<li><a href="contact page url" title="Contact Me">Contact Me</a></li>

<li><a href="about page url" title="About">About</a></li>

</ul>

</div>

Hope this helps.

[chrishajer]

There was this:

http://bbxf.org/

I don’t think there is an export feature in bbPress. What sort of importers exist for the forums you’re looking at?

[InvTrdr]

I am looking for control over which links can be “follow” and which can be “nofollow”. A plugin will render them all “nofollow”. Is there a way to make bbPress accept rel=”nofollow” next to the a href tag?

Thanks.

[mdolf]

I’ve skinned up the BBPress Kakumei theme and am running into a layout issue that I can’t problem solve.

As you can see on this screenshot, the title “Latest Discussions” above the ‘Latest’ table is getting pushed to the right of my screen (i put in a red box to show the problem). On Safari it acually pushes the whole table as well.

http://www.aists.org/images//problem-screenshot.jpg

I have scoured my html and css and am not expert enough to figure this out. Can anyone suggest how to resolve this?

Thank you very much

[miletjs]

I really need a way to export posts from bbpress to punbb / fluxbb

can someone help me point to the right direction?

[chrishajer]

You do not need integration at all to put a link to your forum in your top menu.

How to put a link to forums on my WordPress navigation menu

But it’s even simpler than that. If you put your bbPress installation in a folder (subdirectory of where WordPress is) called “kitty-cat-talk” and you create a WordPress page called “Kitty Cat Talk” with a slug of “kitty-cat-talk” – the link will be in the menu, and clicking the link will send visitors to your forum. The way WordPress .htaccess and mod_rewrite works with pretty permalinks is that it looks for a folder first (or a file) and if a folder with that name exists, serve that. So that is what happens with a page like this. Your WordPress page will have no content, it will just send people to your forums, assuming the Page slug and the folder you installed into are the same.

There also also ways to call the page whatever you want, and do a custom redirect to your forum. That is detailed in the link I sent. There are a couple plugins that can do that for you.

http://txfx.net/wordpress-plugins/page-links-to/

http://www.nathanrice.net/plugins/custom-field-redirect/

And then there is the template way someone linked to in that thread.

It’s pretty easy and you do not need integration at all to just have a link in your WordPress menu to your forum installation.

[fifthhouse]

I am going to install a bbpress forums with my wordpress blog. I am trying to understand something.

I want to have the menu from my blog appear in my bbpress forums. My question is: Does this mean I have to do “deep integration” as described in the documentation on integration where it says:

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. This integration step is also known as “deep” integration, “

Does my wanting to have the top menu from my blog appear on my bbpress forums fit into the category of “WordPress’ functions?” as described above?

[fifthhouse]

Thanks for this link!

[chrishajer]

Read up:

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

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-nofollow-to-links#post-17523

[InvTrdr]

How do I add a space between lines or paragraphs in the stock theme that I am using? I tried adding the tag
and it does not add a space between lines or paragraphs. See this link “http://invictatrader.com/bbpress/topic/momentum-trading-a-practical-day-trading-strategy-to-get-profits-from-hot-stock” for an example.

Thank you.

[InvTrdr]

How can the attribute “rel=no follow” for links be added to links in a topic? Is there a plugin in bbPress that renders all links or a chosen few to “rel=no follow”? When I used it like this <a href="http://........."rel="nofollow">.....</a> my stock theme removed it and made the link non-clickable.

Thank you.

[InvTrdr]

Thanks.

[johnhiler]

There is a plugin available that lets you delete users:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/

[jimgozieo]

Thanks for telling me about BBPM plugin – I will look into that.

Do you know of any plugin for Comment Length limiting that I can use on a bbPress forum e.g. limit a posters text to say 1,000 characters per post.

[hpguru]

Yes, i use bbPress 1.0.2 and Human Test work.

Check this http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/register.php

Human test is 6 + 8 = ? etc.

[Marius-]

Is Human Test plugin compitable with BBPress 1.02?

Is it one of those hard “write in this word” type of things? Those are impossible to read!

I don’t see screenshots anywhere. I don’t want registration to be even harder.

[Marius-]

Are they timed bombs? Will they one day mutilate my forum with spam? Or what is it that they do? None of them have posted anything.

I use bbpress 1.02, will that plugin work for me?

[johnhiler]

Sounds like it!!

Try this plugin by ck… it really helps cut down on spambot registrations:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/