[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.

[gerikg]

delayedinsanity,

It’s not a bbpress plugin, it’s a WPMU. It might work for WP.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wpmu-enable-bbpress-capabilities/installation/

[Mark]

Honestly can’t say I’m a fan of the green, and I’m not too sure what the red, green and white dots are for either?

I don’t want to be the only person with issues, but I’m sure you guys are capable of handling criticism. Outside of those two things, I think it’s looking pretty darn snazzy. Can’t wait to see it go live!

[Stealth Employed]

I checked my directory and there is no ‘/XXXXX/StealthEmployed/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.bp-log.php’. There is not a backpress folder in the bb-includes folder. I went to https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/1.0.2 and verfified that it didn’t come with the bbpress download. At the bottom of that page it shows:

Property svn:ignore set to

bb-config.php

my-templates

my-plugins

my-languages

.htaccess

is there supposed to be a backpress directory or is my bbpress installation supposed to access it from somewhere else?

Also, here is line 107 of bb-settings.php if it helps:

“require_once( BACKPRESS_PATH . ‘class.bp-log.php’ );”

[chrishajer]

That very simple error means that the file is not there, or maybe it’s there but has wrong permissions.

Is this file present:

'/XXXXX/StealthEmployed/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.bp-log.php

If not, FTP the files up there again maybe one was missed. I don’t think it has anything to do with WordPress because it’s bb-settings.php complaining about a missing bbPress file.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

I couldn’t find anything that’s password-based, but you use Hidden Forums

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

That lets you control by user ID and type who can see what forums

[chandersbs]

Too bad.

Just so you know, I’m not using WordPress. It’s just bbPress only.