[Stealth Employed]

You are correct. I downloaded it from https://bbpress.org/latest.zip and there it was. Strange that it doesn’t come with the .zip package from the trac site.

On a new note there is now a new installation error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /XXXXX/StealthEmployed/forum/bb-config.php:64) in /XXXXX/StealthEmployed/forum/bb-includes/functions.bb-pluggable.php on line 232

I have a feeling this is probably easier to fix than the last one. Any ideas?

[InvTrdr]

I am using the default K theme in bbPress.

Thank you.

[brightcoconut]

Whoops, my bad – I missed it. The link in the first post still works – reposting it here just in case. (You should still read that first post, though, for the directions…)

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

So it works similar to WP but just that you cannot do it through Editor in WP, rather do it directly in the files on the server, correct?

Correct. There’s no theme editor built in to BB at this time, so you have to edit the template file.

And you can use the same GA code from WP to BB without changing anything, but as it’s a different page, you have to edit the bbPress and WordPress templates separately.

[chrishajer]

InvTrdr, you will find most of the functionality you want to add is available as a plugin. Check here:

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

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/allow-images/page/4/

There was a problem with it working with 1.0 though. I thought someone posted a fix in the comments.

[chrishajer]

Do not upload to bb-templates of bb-plugins. Make two new folders, if they’re not already there, called my-templates and my-plugins, and put your unzipped templates and plugins in those folders. There is no upload in the admin for themes or plugins, like there is with WordPress.

bbPress for a while was coming with those two folders, empty, but with the wrong permissions. Follow the link from ashfame to see how to fix the permissions issue.

[chrishajer]

If you browse the sidebar tag here, you will find people who’ve added a sidebar. You can do it in your template files.

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

If you just want a link up top in your header, to the website home page, just add it, wherever you want, in your template’s header.php.

[InvTrdr]

Is it possible to have a sidebar or a small navigation menu in bbPress that can have a link pointing to the main site or pages on it?

Thank you.

[InvTrdr]

Is it possible to add Google Analytics code to a bbPress forum? Did not see Editor under Appearance.

Thank you.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Instead of uploading to bb-templates folder, create a folder my-templates in the bbPress root and upload the theme to my-templates folder.

Then you can activate it under the Appearance options.

If you face issues, then fix out their permisison issue by following this tutorial : http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/09/fix-my-templates-my-plugins-folder-not-working-bbpress/

[chandersbs]

Copy and paste this code and save it as allow-images.php

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Allow Images

Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/#

Description: Allows <img /> tags to be posted in your forums. The image must be a png, gif or jpeg.

Author: Michael D Adams

Author URI: http://blogwaffe.com/

Version: 0.7.1

*/

// You can add more tags here

function allow_images_allowed_tags( $tags ) {

$tags = array(‘src’ => array(), ‘title’ => array(), ‘alt’ => array());

return $tags;

}

function allow_images_encode_bad( $text ) {

$text = wp_specialchars( $text );

$text = preg_replace(‘|
|’, ‘
‘, $text);

foreach ( bb_allowed_tags() as $tag => $args ) {

if ( ‘br’ == $tag )

continue;

if ( $args )

$text = preg_replace(“|<(/?$tag.*?)>|”, ‘<$1>’, $text);

else

$text = preg_replace(“|<(/?$tag)>|”, ‘<$1>’, $text);

}

$text = preg_replace(“|(.*?)|se”, “‘' . encodeit('$1') . '‘”, $text);

return $text;

}

function allow_images( $text ) {

if ( preg_match_all(‘/<img(.+?)src=(“|’)(.+?)\2(.+?)>/i’, $text, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER ) )

foreach( $matches as $match )

if (

preg_match(‘/src=/i’, $match[4]) // multiple src = someone’s trying to cheat

||

!in_array(substr($match[3], -4), array(‘.png’, ‘.jpg’, ‘.gif’)) // only match .jpg, .gif, .png

&&

‘.jpeg’ != substr($match[3], -5) // and .jpeg

)

$text = str_replace($match[0], ”, $text);

return $text;

}

remove_filter( ‘pre_post’, ‘encode_bad’ );

add_filter( ‘pre_post’, ‘allow_images_encode_bad’, 9 );

add_filter( ‘pre_post’, ‘allow_images’, 52 );

add_filter( ‘bb_allowed_tags’, ‘allow_images_allowed_tags’ );

?>

Upload it to your my-plugins folder, create if it doesn’t exist. And activate it.

[chandersbs]

Unzip and upload it to your bb-templates folder, login as admin and go to Appearance, there you will see all your uploaded themes, click to activate.

[InvTrdr]

I did not see a way to upload new themes into bbPress like as in WP. Is there a way to upload new themes downloaded from the web in bbPress and activate them? I saved a couple in zip format and cannot see where to upload them.

Thank you.

[InvTrdr]

The error message was “DB Error: cannot find”. Figured out that for some reason the database name filled in during step1 was not caught by the bbpress-config.php file as you can see in the code above. The BBDB_NAME has been left “bbpress” as in default. Changed it in the file and it worked. Now onto Step2.

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

I just checked out 1.0.2 via svn and I see backpress is included as an external:

Fetching external item into 'bb-includes/backpress/pomo'

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/mo.php

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/app.php

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/languages

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/languages/app.pot

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/languages/bg.mo

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/languages/app-side.pot

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/languages/bg-side.mo

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/languages/bg.po

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/sample/languages/bg-side.po

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/po.php

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/streams.php

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/entry.php

A    bb-includes/backpress/pomo/translations.php

Checked out external at revision 191.

It’s actually included in the packaged download here too:

https://bbpress.org/latest.zip

https://bbpress.org/latest.tar.gz

I don’t think using trac to grab the source is the same as actually downloading the package. Maybe that was the problem?

[chrishajer]

Interesting. I recall a while back that backpress had to be added manually, but I thought that was resolved. backpress has it’s own trac:

http://backpress.automattic.com/browser/tags

Maybe you can grab it from there and create a backpress directory in bb-includes and put the files there? Maybe an svn:external failed? It’s a weird error that I have not seen before, at least not since the alpha versions of 1.0.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/beta-problem#post-23312

[chandersbs]

Guys,

Which things (hacks, plugins, tweaks), will make a forum the most bad-ass forum out there.

I usually go around and see what other sites have and try to incorporate some of the things I like. Sometimes I come with own ideas.

Its always nice to hear from other webmasters what they think are the bad-ass things.

So, question is, how can we make our bbpress forums, more user friendly?

[morgan-wick]

I’m trying to install a new bbPress forum at http://forums.morganwick.com. The “wrapper” div is set in style.css (the only file I’ve changed) to have position:static. It appears to be absolutely positioned, and I don’t see anything in either style.css or in the code that appears when I “view source” that would overrule style.css (the only places in style.css where anything is absolutely positioned either have “display” set to “none” or don’t appear on all pages) unless I have to go hunting through JavaScript. Having to deal with absolutely positioned elements is a pain for an amateur developer like me, and I’d much rather have elements appear as part of the normal flow, like I can do in WordPress; what’s the problem here?

UPDATE: I just removed the background image from “wrapper” and added it to “header”, but it doesn’t show up at all. I’m trying to make it look as much like http://www.morganwick.com as possible.

[Mark]

Those are all questions that are best answered by yourself, actually.

Do you want to share users between wpmu and bbpress?

Do you want to (or even need to) access any WordPress capabilities from your bbpress install?

-In addition to wrapping bbPress with your WordPress template, do you actually need to use any WordPress built in functionality, or would it be easier to recreate the theme in bbPress and avoid the additional overhead of loading the entire wpmu system when your forums are accessed?

If you answered yes to the first question, then yes you should share the database. If you answered yes to the second question, explore the third before deciding on whether to integrate or not. If you decide to integrate, then the process is handled as you are installing, the part you would do after is ‘deep integration’ and you can’t do this before, it has to be done after the bb-config.php file is created.

[Mark]

I wonder if a key/legend somewhere conspicuous on the page wouldn’t be a benefit?

[Mortgage Reverse]

I should probably clarify; I recently installed bbpress and it seemed to be working fine, however, there were no rss feeds, so now I am reinstalling

[Mortgage Reverse]

I’m currently running WPMU and am installing BBPress. Should I use my existing mysql database that I created during WMPU installation or should I create a new database and new user for BBPress.

Also, should I install BBPress Integration prior to installation or after?

[johnhiler]

Try this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/customizing-profile-fields#post-37041

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

That’s for support tickets, IIRC.