[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

[_ck_]

I got tired of waiting for error pages that don’t crash the user into the default bbPress theme and logo so here’s a plugin that makes an empty post error message actually stay within your custom theme. I’ll make it into a formal plugin as soon as I make it a bit more robust.

Let me know of other common error pages and I will see if they can be addressed via plugin vs a core hack.

http://pastebin.com/f2e46536d

(direct download, save as themed-error.php)

[_ck_]

It’s easy to control what template loads, just override it at the end of your header.php and include any other template with any other name from there – then just make sure to load the footer manually and exit before bbPress does the rest of it’s own routine.

[Anonymous User]

Hi Piedpiper,

there is one plugin from _ck_ for the creation of instant password at registration:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password

Works perfect for me in 1.0.1

[Burkie]

I am working on a personal project over at http://noded.org and I was just wondering if there was the possibility of having more control over the topic pages. WordPress allows you to create different templates like category-2.php etc for each category, is there any way to achieve this for topics in bbpress. Guess an if topic 5 use these functions would be the best approach if anyone could help.

[_ck_]

There isn’t a line long enough to support the extra long tags. What you can do, is UNDO the   that bbPress replaces the spaces with, which will force everything to wrap. I don’t think it will look too good but it’s your call.

Add this to a file called functions.php in your theme folder.

(make a new file if it doesn’t exist)

<?php

add_filter('bb_get_tag_heat_map','wrap_tags');

function wrap_tags($heatmap) {return str_replace("&nbsp;"," ",$heatmap);}

?>

[_ck_]

Also see this list here:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-professionals-advertise-in-this-topic

[Rohan Kapoor]

@Everyone: Version 2.0 is out!

[teamamy]

Hi chrishajer,

Thank you so much for that detailed response. Application neutral is what I am looking for. The /forums idea is a great suggestion and one I will follow. I haven’t started the install yet, I’m trying to get my ducks in order before I start shooting. I’m reading all I can about bbPress integration with WordPress so I do something I’m going to regret later on.

Sincerely,

Amy

[Rohan Kapoor]

I would disagree. I haven’t seen any problems in many sites that are using this, including my own. For now, I think it really is a matter of personal opinion.

[gravitydk]

Ashfame, if you check the purpose of that plugin, it’s for cookies to work both ways seamlessly; so it’s “native” for database but I don’t think it’s native yet for all cookies.

[piedpiper21]

Okay, let me rephrase. I want to install my forum on roadtoanimation.com/forums/

When I upload the forums to the /forums directory, I can install bbPress. However, during the installation it insists that the link be roadtoanimation.com/forums/bbpress/. If I try to modify the address during installation, I get the Page Not Found error later on.

How can I install it so that my forums appear on roadtoanimation.com/forums/ ?

Edit: Yes Chrishajer, I followed that earlier on. The problem is that the assigned URL becomes roadtoanimation.com/forums/bbscript. How do I remove that /bbscript from it?

[chrishajer]

At your web host, you already installed WordPress. So, if you’re using FTP, download bbPress to your desktop, then unzip it. It will be unzipped into a folder called bbpress. Rename that to forums on your desktop. Now, upload that whole folder to your web host, putting it into the same place where the folders wp-content, wp-includes and wp-admin are right now. If you do a directory listing there, you will have these directories now:

forums

wp-admin

wp-content

wp-includes

Now, go to http://roadtoanimation.com/forums/ and you should see your forum installation. If you’ve already started the installation in another directory, you might need to get rid of some tables in the database.

[Josh Leuze]

Thanks for the tip incirus, I’ll check that out.

Yeah there is something about the minimalism of bbPress that I find very liberating!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

To have forums in sub-directory, upload the bbPress folder to your root, rename it and then install. You should be fine this way.