[edwinfoo]

It’s been over a year since from scratch, I set up and integrated BBpress & WP installation. At first, the idea of having an forum and blog integrated sounded really cool because it was unique feature that no one else offered. Sometimes integration can be a hassle but once it’s up and running, so what?

Other than registrered members being able to post and comment seamlessly, what’s the benefit of having them integrated? I really don’t get it.

[sgchauhan]

chris, i want to be able to insert a first post on certain threads, which i feel need it.

actually, i have a specific idea i want to accomplish, and there are two ways that i can think of implementing it – one that would utilize both wordpress/bbpress – the other would just use bbpress.

chris, could you, or anyone else with extensive wordpress/bbpress knowledge, email me at wldct6[at]yahoo[dot]com so i can describe exactly what i want to do, and help me figure out the best way to do it?

thanks.

[michaelmindes]

I am looking to have a custom BBpress theme made. The goals are fairly simple:

1. Optimized for 1024 pixels with a 571 pixel content area on the left and a 339 pixel sidebar area on the right.

2. Designed to have similar looking header to http://tastyminstrelgames.com with the same navbar + login

3. Place for me to easily update the navbar (a separate PHP file or knowing where the code is is sufficient)

4. Lightweight theme.

5. Do follow links inside of the forums (I think)

I think that is all I am looking for. Please contact me with proposals.

Thanks,

Michael

[Sam Bauers]

ps. avatars look a tad huge?

Yes, they do

[TonyVitabile]

I really like the sidebar that appears to the right of a post while you’re viewing it on the WordPress.org forums. Here’s a screen shot of said sidebar:

Image

I’m a complete noob to bbPress themes. I’ve been able to get my WordPress them modified to work with bbPress, basically by taking a bbPress theme & modifying the stylesheet and pasting code from the WordPress theme into the bbPress files. But I don’t know how to create that sidebar. I figure there have to be functions you can call to do it, but what are they? Where are they?

Thanks for any help

Tony

[grassrootspa]

AWESOME! You the man, Sam.

[r-a-y]

Nice bbPress site, anandasama!

I was looking over your site and was wondering how you’re pulling in RSS feeds into one of your forums.

[dan90036]

I need to add the emails addresses (thus the domains of my sites) in gravatar and that solves the issue. It is elegant and beautiful bbPress

Thank you

Dan

[dan90036]

I have created a gravatar, I have the hash and the link but don’t know how to make it work in bbPress. I did look through the forum, installed the bb-avatar but it only creates my gravatar for anyone and playing with the settings in the bb-avatar and with the settings in Settings/Discussion in bbPress didn’t cut it.

What is the scoop here?

Thank you,

Dan

[TonyVitabile]

Not exactly a problem except I don’t know how to do this.

WordPress MU is in http:// <my domain>/worship/ folder.

BBPress is in http:// <my domain>/forums/ folder.

I have a page in my WordPress MU site that is called Forums. Right now, it displays a link to http:// <my domain>/forums/. What I would like to have happen is that users get taken to http:// <my domain>/forums/ when they click the link for Forums on the navigator bar.

This sounds like some kind of a redirect to me. Is that how this is done? How do I code it?

Thanks

Tony

[TonyVitabile]

It’s gotten weirder.

I noticed on the public, hosted site that removing the lines from wp-config that the bbpress integration plugin told me to add cleared the problem in Firefox. So I tried to do that on my local machine. Now I can’t log into WordPress or BBPress.

I’m confused & have no idea what to do. I can’t do anything with the local website using Firefox, which means I have to do my CSS tweaking on the hosted site. It’s easier & quicker to do it locally & upload a modified CSS file (or other files) to the host when I’m done.

Help! Anybody got any ideas they can share as to how to clear this issue?

Tony

Tony

[_ck_]

I believe wordpress is trying to process the request because you have bbPress nested underneath WordPress which is a less common method of integration.

Try changing that .htaccess to this

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !^forums/

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END WordPress

Not quite sure I have that right but give it a go and let’s see.

If it doesn’t work try replacing the forums/ line with this one:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^forums/

[Gautam]

Hi Guys..

I have just made a new plugin named Social It. The plugin is inspired from the wonderful plugin SexyBookmarks created by Josh & Norman for WordPress (and is almost the same like that)

It automatically inserts itself below the first post of the topic, but you can insert it anywhere on the forums. It will automatically fetch the appropiate feed link, description, etc.

It supports a variety of short URL sites to shorten links, I will improve this feature in the upcoming releases, like managing the links within the plugin itself, etc.

Please report any bugs you face, or request new features.

Here is the link for the plugin:

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/social-it/

[TonyVitabile]

OK, this is weird. Just weird.

I’ve got WordPress MU running on <my domain>/worship/ (I’m building a site for a church). I’ve got BBPress running on <my domain>/forums/. I installed WordPress first then installed BBPress. Went though the BBPress set up & configured it to use the same cookie keys a WordPress. All is well.

I downloaded & installed the bbPress Integration plugin for WordPress. Enabled it. It spit out a bunch (shown below) of stuff it told me to put into my wp-config.php file. Which I did.

/**

* These defines are required for the WordPress - bbPress cookie integration to work correctly

*/

define( 'COOKIEHASH', 'blah blah blah' );

define( 'COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.<my domain>' );

define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );

/**#@-*/

Everything works fine in Safari on my Mac, but when I go to Firefox, WordPress shows me as not logged in. I click on the Login link & I’m brought to the login page. I enter my user name & password, check off Remember Me & hit Log in. And I’m brought back to the login page again, with no error messages.

No matter how many times I try to log in, this keeps happening. And as I said, it doesn’t happen in Safari.

Any ideas?

[TonyVitabile]

I’ve been busy this weekend with church related activities & I didn’t get back to this post until now. I’ve also found the answer to my own question about getting the current page’s URI.

I still have a problem to lick in that my WordPress theme came with a horizontal drop down navigation bar that works in WordPress. I included that code in the header.php & the styles from the original stylesheet for the theme, but nothing is dropping down on the bbPress side. The theme uses a JavaScript file to handle the drop-down logic that I’m including on the bbPress side, so I don’t get it. When I look at the WordPress output side by side to the output of my function, it’s identical. So it has to be something in the CSS. I think.

Anyhow, I’m going to mark this resolved. Thanks folks

Tony

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

My first thought is “That’s cute!” It’s both cute and professional and it looks like a site to be proud of. Yay!

[Gautam]

Cool one Sam… Really Nice…..

[taboo]

It looks great! Looking forward to using it

[_ck_]

Now that’s something to be proud of and look forward to – fantastic!

Great work Sam!

ps. avatars look a tad huge?

[Mark / t31os]

Googled, searched the forum, it’s hard to create a specific search for something like the above without getting irrelevant results..

Had a dig and couldn’t find the answer….

bbPress 1.0

I’ve noticed throughout the default themes are references to..

role="main"

Firstly, what does this do? .. In some cases removing this from a template file reseults in the file not working.

Secondly, is there an alternative, these lines are causing invalidtions.

It’s not the end of the world, i can live with them, but some info on what they are for would be most helpful, if one of you lovely chaps could help..

As a side question, and this one again isn’t a huge problem, i find tabbing in code in certain files causes T_ error messages, T_SWITCH, T_CASE, depending on where and what i’m editting.. I like to indent the code appropriately when i’m working on it, but as said i simply can’t do this with particular template files..

Any ideas on that one?

I’m using Notepad++ and Notepad2 for editting, same programs i use for modifying WordPress. I’m using the correct encoding, transfer type etc… i’m use to handling code..

[sdv1]

Looks great Thanks for sharing snaps. btw, when it will be live?

[Sam Bauers]

I thought you all might like to get a look at the new bbPress.org website so far…

http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-front-page.png

http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-topic.png

[_ck_]

Wait, I take that back, it’s in the theme, so you can definitely edit it.

It’s in register.php and assuming you are using the default theme, it’s under bb-templateskakumei

What you should first do is copy that directory to a new directory and make a directory called my-templates at the same level as bb-templates, so it would be my-templateskakumei

Then edit the new copy of the files instead of the original and have bbpress switch to your new theme. That way when you upgrade you won’t lose your changes.

[DKB]

Is there a working chat plugin for bbpress 1.0.1 so that existing registred users can log in?

[_ck_]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-theme-some-error-pages