[arpowers]

Hey everyone,

Just started with bbpress.

I have been trying to do an integration with WP, but as soon as I set it all up and saved it…

I visited the test ‘forum’ and logged in (with WP log in info) and now I can’t figure out how to reach the forum admin,. It’s disappeared.

What’s going on?

[chrishajer]

please start a new topic for your new issue regarding tags.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Abbpress.org%2Fforums+bb_tag_heat_map

The tag will never show up twice. Try adding the same word to a topic and see what happens, and try adding that same word to another topic and see how the relative size in the tag cloud grows.

[chrishajer]

I think you could probably add it an allowed tags, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen it.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-can-post-anything/

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-using-the-strike-tag#post-3709

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/allowing-html#post-5279

To align the text, you’re going to need to allow a div or span I think, with a limited number of attributes.

There was some recent discussion too, with someone posting a lot of code, but I can’t find that reply right now.

[chrishajer]

That’s the best way of doing it. I think I would concentrate on why it wouldn’t allow you to do what is a normal function in bbPress.

[johnhiler]

The tag cloud would show “sample” only once, but it would be larger than the other, lesser-used tags.

You can see an example at the top of the bbpress forums, under the section entitled “Hot Tags”:

https://bbpress.org/forums/

[InvTrdr]

I was talking about duplicate tags. For example if ten users had “sample” as a tag, I do not want to see it under Tags ten times also. Is that possible where bbPress will let me see duplicate tags and give me an option to delete them too?

Chris did you mean it will “grow” in size only if used once already and not repeat itself several times under Tags? That might work too. Just want to make sure if “sample” is the only tag used by a hundred users it does not show up a hundred times under Tags.

Thanks.

[dustin999]

Hey guys! Just wanted to get some feedback on my newly redesigned deals and coupons site, bargainjack.com. I’m using wordpress, coupled with a lot of customization/plugins, as well as BBPress for all of my forums. I’ve even integrated feedback on each product/deal landing page which goes directly to bbpress.

Please let me know what you think, or if you have any suggestions!

Thanks,

Dustin

[johnhiler]

Are you installing bbPress as a plugin in a WordPress site? That would trigger an error like the one you reported…

[marjolein]

Nope, they don’t work….. Anyone has this themes online yet?

[masonictraveler]

I am attempting to install bbpress as a forum for an already existing site thechinaboxer.com. Essentially, I want to integrate it into the site itself. When I do the .zip install, it goes through the motion of intallation, completing the process, but when I hit activate, it flips to a blank screen that says:

The plugin does not have a valid header.

Any ideas or suggestions on what I’m missing or on what’s not installing right?

[Mark]

@olaf, muchos appreciado senor, but I’ve already written my own workaround. Just more of a suggestion based on situations I’ve ran into, something to consider as a future feature to make it easier for those who aren’t at home with PHP.

The problem with simply truncating such a thing is you could wind up with a front page description of something like “The following forum is a good place to…” or something of the sort. I’ve looked at a lot of other bbPress sites in the last couple of months, and they all seem to be fairly out of the box setups, so I’m not so sure this is really widely being sought out, just something that would be fairly easy to implement and might aid in future scalability of bbPress installations.

[gerikg]

part 1. This will work in BBpress only: <?php if ( !in_array( bb_get_location(), array( 'login-page', 'register-page' ) ) ) login_form(); ?> put that in the header.php I’m not sure how to do it in WP to make it work.

part 2. edit the logged-in.php in your bb theme

[nada122]

I have bbpress integrated with my wordpress… and I’m trying to have a register link and log in with username and password box at the top of my homepage like this: http://www.thefrozencake.com/wp-content/themes/urbanelements/images/Picture%201.png next to my logo above my navigation here: http://www.thefrozencake.com/wp-content/themes/urbanelements/images/Picture%202.png

I also want it to say Logged In | (view profile page) when a user is logged in. And I want the register link to take the user to a register page that I create (with more than just username/password.) I only want people to log in when they want to post to the forum, but they can leave comments on posts and read all they want.

How do I go about coding that and where? As you can tell, I’m definitely new to the php thing and learning as I go along. Any help would be great!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I explained this on my blog some time back – http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/09/show-content-logged-in-status-users-bbpress/

[AphelionZ]

I need to create a few urls from my forum root at /community like so:

/community/forums/ – shows just a simple list of all forums

/community/leaderboards/ -custom functionality

/community/achievements/ – more custom functionality

It’s easy enough to achieve this with a query string and if statements in front-page.php, but I’m trying to use .htaccess to achieve this like so:

RewriteRule ^forums/$ index.php?view=forums [L,QSA]

I was getting the bbpress 404 page until I drilled down into bb-admin/functions.bb-core.php and changed line 667 from

$issue_404 = true;

to

$issue_404 = false

It worked fine but I’m not comfortable changing the core code like that, as it’s indicitave that I’m doing something wrong – but what exactly? What should I change about my approach to get the page to serve correctly?

[adrianomelobbpress]

I have modified the original script to work with a bbpress integrated with wordpress. but the password is not working!

http://svn.adrianomelo.com/labs/Wenetus/phpbb3tobbpress.php

– uses the table wp_users instead bb_users

– the users in the wp_users are not lost!

– conficts resolved (user exists on wp database and phpbb database)

PROBLEM: the phpbb password is not working when imported to wp database

[snails07]

When somebody visits my bbpress forum http://storeeboard.com , they are presented with the login form at the top of the page. Once they login, the form disappears and what appears is the ‘Welcome, *username* | Logout’ information.

My question is, how do I get other text on the page to ‘disappear’ once somebody has logged in.

I have a ‘Sign Up’ link on the page that I would like to disappear once a user logs in.

My php skills aren’t all that great but I know my way around xhtml and css.

[Gautam]

Now you can download the plugin from here:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/ajaxed-chat/

The above download link for beta version is now dead.

[gerikg]

what are they user level in bbpress?

you might need to use this: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/

[Mark]

Just an idea for the future, I wonder if it wouldn’t be an idea to have a seperate ‘excerpt’ and ‘description’ for forums.

A lot of existing bbPress forums, including my own, have chosen to display a list of forums in the sidebar of their template. For this to remain readable and uncluttered, you pretty much have to include a 10 word or less description (give or take).

Now while I realize this is our choice to do it this way and it’s also in no way a limitation of bbPress, it might be a welcome addition to have the two fields. This way on our forum list we could use the excerpt, and on the forum page itself call a much more detailed description (especially when you’re running support forums or the like).

Anybody else?

[Navin]

The down part of that plugin is, that you can’t add custom titles/description for topics.

[Navin]

WordPress + bbPress is not always easy, but sometimes, unavoidable…

[copperblade]

I still have a phpBB2 forum I need to convert over… does this script work on the current versions of bbPress?

[Navin]

I think webmasters that run a forum, and wanna have “normal” pages for information, should look for a different way, for creating single pages with a reply form, integrating with WordPress is not a good thing IMO.

The reason why I’m saying this is, is that WordPress is under a constant development, but bbPress not, atleast that’s what I read. If WordPress gets updated and bbPress doesn’t and if that breaks the integration, you’ll be stuck on that for a while for support.

[boone-g]

r-a-y, you’re a lifesaver. I was having the same problem (and pounding my head against the wall) until I found this post. Thanks.