[_ck_]

Doing it through bb_get_template simply fires an extra filter – but nothing else is aware of sidebars in bbPress yet so it’s pointless. Plus I wasn’t aware you could use require on a function. Then bb_get_template uses another include/require so it’s massive overkill (or just wrong in the first place).

[grassrootspa]

@chrishajer, no database upgrade is needed.

[chrishajer]

Have you found any working plugins for older versions? I don’t see chat come up too often.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integrating-ajax-chat-how-to-reuse-an-existing-session-cookie

https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/live-chat

I’ve never heard of anything working. Exactly what are you trying to accomplish? Just have a chat function that a logged in member could use, without having to log in again to something else?

[chrishajer]

I would think that would be useful as a plugin for people wanting to integrate their WordPress page navigation into bbPress. has anyone tried it out?

[chrishajer]

How about the “Topics per page” plugin?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

It lets you set the number of topics to be returned for many bbPress pages/views.

[chrishajer]

For upgrading from version 1.0.1 to 1.0.2, is there a database change that would require you to run the upgrade script? I would like to know rather than have to log in and check each install individually. FWIW, one I did so far did NOT have an upgrade message in the backend, so I am assuming I do not need to, to go from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2. Just checking.

[Josh Leuze]

Thanks for the info _ck_, glad to hear that I’m not way off track.

Yeah, I have been loading the sidebar after the content, but just above the footer include, rather than in the footer, so that I can use different sidebars easily.

I wouldn’t want to take credit for Ryan Imel’s work! Only linked to Theme Playground as an example, but you’re right, he did an awesome job on integrating the forums into the rest of his site.

Now that I scroll down and read the comments on his post a little closer, I see that Justin Tadlock mentioned another way to add a sidebar, but it looks to have the same end result as a regular include:

require_once( bb_get_template( 'sidebar.php' ) );

I’m not sure if I can match Ryan’s quality design, but I’m going to try to do a few fresh looking bbPress themes to share with the community.

[_ck_]

You should mention if you are using 0.9 or 1.0

Do a full recount from the admin menu and see if the problem is fixed.

If you are using the Topics Per Page plugin you should disable it and see if the problem is fixed. Otherwise it’s an internal bug and should be filed on http://trac.bbpress.org

[_ck_]

Using include is fine and fastest. Remember to try to load the sidebar AFTER your content if you care about things like SEO where content should come first. This would imply doing the include in the footer and floating the main content left and the sidebar right (or visa versa).

Nice work on your theme, seamlessly integrated.

[Dreamcolor]

bbPress 0.9.0.6 Simplified Chinese Translation.

You can download it with the URL below.

http://wpcn.googlecode.com/files/bbPress.0.9.0.6.Simp.Chinese.pack.only.v1-wpcng.zip

bbPress 1.0.2 Simplified Chinese Translation.

You can download it with the URL below.

http://wpcn.googlecode.com/files/bbPress.1.0.2.Simp.Chinese.pack.only.v1-wpcng.zip

There maybe still have some translation bugs. So please let me know and I will fix it.

You may use the bbPress Admin Fonts Beautifier plugin too…

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-admin-fonts-beautifier

[jurasiks]

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/203/wtfg.gif

Can’t find anywhere in bbpress folders and database…

is that some easter egg? how to change that color from # 666?!

[citizenkeith]

Just set it in the various places in your theme.

In a previous thread, I was advised to change the size in template-functions.php:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-gravatar-size

Needless to say, not the solution I wanted but it worked.

[woopstash]

see: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dashboard-left-bar-menu-not-displaying-in-ie

[TonyVitabile]

FF 3.5.1. Running on a recent MacBook with OS X 10.5.7.

I deleted all of the cookies in Firefox & cleared the cache. No difference in behavior.

The hosted site is definitely working right. Could it be some kind of rights issue on the local files?

Tony

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

What version of FireFox?

Have you dumped your cache and flushed your cookies?

[r-a-y]

Can somebody with forum categories setup on their bbPress 1.0.2 install check to see if forum category RSS feeds are working for you?

eg.

Parent category <– check this RSS forum feed

–Sub-forum 1

–Sub-forum 2

Example RSS URL :

example.com/forums/rss/forum/parent-category

example.com/forums/rss/forum/parent-category/topics

Thanks!

[woopstash]

I’m having the exact same issue too, although I’m using bbpress 1.0.2. IE6 it’s missing, FF 3.x works.

From what I’ve gathered, its an issue with #bbAdminMenu negative margin in the bb-adminstyle.css file.

I can’t seem to figure anything out that fixes it (I can get it to show, but formatting is awful) and I really don’t want to have to dive into the actual markup.

Edit: Just found a solution/hack

Due to the IE6 double margin bug, you’ll need to do a little css hacking. In bb-adminstyle.css:

add: _margin-left: -83px; to ul#bbAdminMenu {…}

add: _margin-left: -25px; to body.bb-menu-folded ul#bbAdminMenu{…}

note the ‘_’ before the css. this is for IE6 to read it but no other browser as far as I know.

[hpguru]

Yes.

1. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/114 – bbCode Buttons Toolbar

2. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/93 – bbCode Lite

[TonyVitabile]

I like the way that WordPress.org’s forums have buttons for inserting the allowed mark-ups. Did they just add those buttons themselves? Is there a plugin that does that?

While I’m at it, I’d like people to be able to insert links to images in their bbPress posts. I don’t want anyone uploading their images to my server, but if they want to put a picture up on Kodak.com or photobucket.com or wherever & link to it, I’m ok with that. Are there any plugins that do that?

Tony

[TonyVitabile]

Friendly bump.

I know it’s summer & times are slow. I cannot use Firefox to view the local copy of my website when I am making changes. If I am using Firefox, I have to make my changes locally, upload them to the host, and then I can test the changes. This is a lot slower than doing everything locally — just from the increased number of steps.

Thanks

[Josh Leuze]

I’m working on my first bbPress theme and I am going to have two columns on most pages. I will likely vary the content of this second column depend on which page you are on.

I’d like to use a separate sidebar just like WordPress so that I can create a few different files that I could load.

These sidebars need not draw any content from WordPress, I don’t need deep integration or anything. I’m just wondering what would be the best way to go about doing this.

Theme Playground’s bbPress forum has it’s sidebar added to the footer.php file, which sounds like a good idea, but seems a bit impractical for multiple sidebars.

I also found this simple sidebar plugin in the forums which adds the “bb_get_sidebar()” function to bbPress. A neat idea, but I hate to frivolously add extra plugins, especially when it is essential for the theme to work properly.

So what I have done in my theme is to simply use an include like this:

<?php include ('sidebar.php'); ?>

This has been working fine for me and I don’t see any reason not to do it like this.

But does anyone else have a different method that has some advantage? Or is there plans for, or already an official function like “bb_get_sidebar()” that I am unaware of?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

It should be possible but I don’t know of any tutorial written to do so. I’d be inclined to say make your regular website with WP and integrate them, but that would be the lazy way 0:)

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Make sure you flush all your cookies and then double check that the keys from wp-config are correct in bb-config. Usually that’s a cookie missmatch.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Not for bbPress 0.9. From 1.0 on there can be.

[anandasama]

In WordPress you need to Rewind posts for faking multiple loops but it doesn’t exist in BbPress?

@tom thanks for the core hack. I will try it, and then write a custom query for forum 17 with no pagination.