[xarzu]

I am a newbee. Don’t laugh at my stupid question.

How do I install a bbPress theme? I created the “my-templates” directory and I unzipped my theme into a folder in that directory. But when I go to my bbPress dashboard, the screenshot for my new theme shows a blank space with a red X in the upper left corner. When I click to “Activate” the theme it shows a featureless version of bbPress with no theme at all.

[rich! @ etiviti]

quickly note some of the important things

1) documentation, examples, and more documentation – from plug-ins to core. it is very difficult to ramp up and extend the functionality of bbPress when you have to spend considerable time researching how to hook into things. php is not my first language but i’d be more enticed to extend if there is something to fall back upon.

2) cohesiveness of technologies used in other automattic products – bring bbPress into the fold and create a common experience; UI. why do we have a scaled down editor in bbPress for example. IMHO, it should be the same as WP – if i’m using another automattic product, i’d like the same experience as those are the reasons why i use it. …i understand the lightweight approach (which i like) but its also important to consider the expectations.

2a) IntenseDebate – to me this is just a forum add-on to a blog post (topic). frankly the feature subset of ID is what a lot of forum administrators like (Comment Threading, Reply-By-Email, Email Notifications, Moderation/Blacklisting, Reputation Points & Comment Voting, +openid/etc login). again, just common experience of automattic.

3) the whole standalone, bbpress => wp, bbpress <= => wp thing (if i want bbpress and wp to talk to each other, this should be a core level thing instead of a plug-in to cross pollinate content – sometimes it is just easier to shy away from bbpress and opt for ID – in this instance buddypress is too much for a small community) but i need another cup of coffee before i can touch further on this subject

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I just realized that i miss a “quote” button in bbPress

There’s <blockquote> actually bbPress uses regular HTML syntax, not bbCode.

The future? Optional integration, but DEEP integration. If I didn’t have to re-theme my forums every time I make a change to my blog, I’d be happy. Honestly, it works as much as I need it to right now, but the reason I picked bbPress has jack to do with integration and all to do with simplicity.

I came from the Invision/phpBB/SMF world and I was always turning off options I didn’t use or want. Much like WordPress, the best thing about bbPress is that it’s little and you can add on if you want.

That said, much like how people can (and do) port Akismet to other platforms, bbPress has to decide if that’s it’s future too. To whit:

Is bbPress going to be a sibling to WordPress (intended to be used with it, but available as stand alone) or a cousin (available to be used with or without WordPress)?

Right now it’s a kissing cousin (legal only in the backwoods), trying to be both. If we keep along the currently available integration path, it will become the cousin. That said, if it moves on to the sibling, being tied in like … Akismet (available from the get-go, but optional), then you’d probably get a lot more pick up from WordPress users.

Integration with WordPress, knowing that WP and WPMU are in route to becoming the same thing (unless the rumors are a lie, it’s just what I heard), would really make things like BuddyPress be a home run.

Of course, if we get better integration, we need better user management. A way to flag users as bozo is nice, but banning people would be even better.

I’m going to get more coffee and think more about this. Mostly, I’m happy we’re not forgotten.

[CyrixInstead]

I’m having the same problem as Croyd, plus as CitizenKeith says, there is no longer a specific ‘WordPress Integration’ plugin with the latest version of bbPress.

Any ideas anyone?

~Cyrix

\Edit – I came across a fix that works for me (http://bestservedcold.com/news/bbpress-and-wordpress-magic-quotes/comment-page-1). I also have both WP & bbPress integrated, and I commented out the line $_POST = add_magic_quotes($_POST); in wp-settings.php in my WordPress installation. I tried a test post in the forum and one on the blog and they both worked fine.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

$out = preg_replace( '|/!]*?[^[*?]|si', '', $out );

That should take bbCode out, put it after $out = strip_tags( $out ); . Not tested it, but it’s adapted from a function I found on Google

[Andy Peatling]

But does it work out-of-the-box already? It doesn´t for me.

When did you last try? This is new to 1.1 and works for most people with one click.

[KillerSneak]

http://test2.cell-systems.net/forums/topic/testing-forum-software/page/3

I’m running a custom Editor on my test site and will move it to my normal site this weekend works wonders

[darxmac]

Hi All

I have a bbpress install that is deep integrated with a wordpress MU 2.8.4. Everything is working perfectly, except that when i try to change the default language. When i remove the deep interagtion hook and use the default theme it works.

I can see in trac (ticket/1096)that this is supposed fixed (maybe) but could it be because i’m using wordpress mu instead of the regular ? … any ideas/workarounds ?

/thomas

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

@merlin214365: As a golden rule, most functions will return a string by putting get_ in front of the function name, rather than echoing (which is just an alias for the get_ anyway). Most functions you’re likely to need are in functions.bb-template.php too, so have a read through that and I’d recommend getting an editor like Programmer’s Notepad to be able to search through bbPress’ code all at once to understand usage.

strip_tags will take out all HTML and PHP tags, so no need for an extra str_replace

[merlin214365]

@psycheangels just add some more filters to

if ( $posts ) {

$out = $posts[0]->post_text;

$out = strip_tags( $out );

Like this one

$out = str_replace( '<br />', '', $out );

there might be an easier way but im still learning.

[merlin214365]

I should have pointed out im still learning php and bbpress functions still mystify me but thanks Kawauso for cleaning up the code i appreciate it.

[chrishajer]

Inside the folder that as WordPress, put a folder with all the bbPress files in it. So maybe you have this:

/public/html/wordpress/

add a new folder:

/public/html/wordpress/forum/ (or forums or discussion or bbpress)

then access your new installation at http://www.example.com/forum (or whatever you selected) assuming WordPress is accessible at http://www.example.com/

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Cripes, no need for all that object-based markey, bbPress has functions to pass as a string rather than echo…

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Meta Headers

*/



function meta_heads() {



global $posts, $tags;



if ( $posts ) {

$out = $posts[0]->post_text;

$out = strip_tags( $out );

$out = str_replace( array( "n", "r" ), ' ', $out );

$out = substr($out, 0, 200); // only display the first 200 characters of the first post

}



if( empty( $out ) )

$out = 'Default description';



echo "n".'<meta name="description" content="'.$out.'" />';



if ( !empty( $tags ) ) {

$keywords = '';

foreach ($tags as $t) {

$keywords.=$t->raw_tag.', ';

}

echo "n".'<meta name="keywords" content="'.substr($keywords,0,-2).'">'."n"; // displays any tags associated with a topic as keywords

}



}



add_action( 'bb_head', 'meta_heads' );

That will strip HTML, but not bbCode

[Jeff]

I want to limit the number of conversations/discussions that show on the front page under Latest Discussions > Topic. I found a plugin that might have helped but I can’t log into the admin panel (/forum/bb-admin redirects me to /forum).

The plugin is http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

But is there a way to manually edit a bbPress file to change this setting? Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

[psycheangels]

thanks, but meta description not working because it will insert embed code and image code to header if the first line of the post have markup code. thats a bad thing ryt?

[alekseo]

“Thanks for stopping by Andy. “

second that

I just realized that i miss a “quote” button in bbPress

But what i came here to say is that i miss the possibility to show/hide subforums and make then show up as links beneath the description for their parent.

I must say that im really a fan of this forum software and that it got plenty which i have missed from other forums.

Hope to see more ongoing core development for bbPress in the future. Is this a goal for you?

[kenney]

I am just getting started with bbpress…I am not sure where I am supposed to upload BBPress to…In my file manager I uploaded to the folder I installed my WP to but it doesn’t show up anywhere when I go to that domain…So really I am just totally lost…thanx…Kenney

[Daniel Juhl]

Hi,

I’m building the community on a portal around bbPress, but how can I check if a user is logged in to bbPress and how to get the basic informations about the user?

I’ve managed to do this with an earlier version of bbPress, but after upgrading to bbPress 1.0.2 I can’t get the result I’m looking for. I’ve tried to require bb-load.php, but it gives me the following error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function suppress_errors() on a non-object in /PATH-TO-BBPRESS/bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php on line 63

Has anyone successfully integrated bbPress with their website (non-WP)?

[johnhiler]

You can always create a new username… and then change the old posts to use your new username using this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/edit-post-attributes/

If there are a lot of posts using your username, you’ll have to use a query to change them all at once!

[InvTrdr]

How many Keymasters can be had in bbPress? Is the admin’s user name always displayed under profile?

Thanks.

[InvTrdr]

Is it possible to change the user name that was chosen the very first time while installing bbPress?

Thank you.

[InvTrdr]

Is it possible to block the profile of an admin or a user in bbPress?

Thank you.

[yangers101]

I currently am running bbpress 1.0.2. I am trying to insert a google adsense code on my right column/sidebar. My right column/sidebar is currently blank. However, no matter where I put the code, it always displays on my main/left column.

I read somewhere about putting an “includes” function to fetch the sidebar for wordpress. I’m not sure if it will work here?

Does anybody have any ideas they can share?

Thank you!

[yangers101]

I currently am running bbpress 1.0.2. I am trying to insert a google adsense code on my right column/sidebar. My right column/sidebar is currently blank. However, no matter where I put the code, it always displays on my main/left column.

I read somewhere about putting an “includes” function to fetch the sidebar for wordpress. I’m not sure if it will work here?

Does anybody have any ideas they can share?

Thank you!

[chrishajer]

That is how Akismet works in bbPress – can you post a screenshot of your admin? The Posts tab, then there is a drop down with the following choices: All, Normal, Deleted, Spam (if you’re using the Akismet plugin.) Is that not your experience?