[Tommie Hansen]

Good day,

There is a topic about this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nicer-slug-url-rewrite-plugin-done?replies=18#post-41386

I can’t get it to work properly with bbPress 1.01 though.

[Tommie Hansen]

Hm, this doesn’t seem to work that well with bbPress 1.01 unfortunately. Posting new posts seem to go to hell and it just redirects one to FORUM-URL/

Any updates?

Forum:

http://www.callofduty.se/forum/

[sonnygahir]

IIS is configured for several websites, each with it’s own ip address allocated. The URL I’m using to configure bbpress is http://newintranet.savethechildren.org.uk/forums/bb-admin/install.php

The ‘newintranet’ website is allocated ip address 10.1.10.49

The mysql settings in the bb-config file is as follows:

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘bbpress’);

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘Forum’);

// the user Forum has been granted all privileges to the bbpress db

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘Forum’);

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

// mysql is installed on the same IIS server listening on ip 10.1.10.53 standard port 3306

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ‘utf8_general_ci’);

[shiznaught]

There seemed to have been some earlier discussion on editing the permalinks structure of bbpress (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permalinks-slugs-modification-removing-forum), and I’m wondering if things are different in version 1.01.

What I would like to be able to do is have all of the posts look like domain.com/g/post-name. The reason for this is that I have a vanity url, with the idea that the complete url will spell out a sentence.

So far, the best I can do is domain.com/g/topic/post-name. Is there a way to either get rid of the “topic” part of the permalink structure, or otherwise hardcode it to be “g” isntead of “topic?”

Thank you.

[chrishajer]

What version of bbPress are you using? Those instructions are for 1.0.1. Also, are you using a stock theme?

Basically, you need to find, in whatever template file you want to change, the bbPress function that shows that text (it won’t be immediately clear because the function has a default text which is used if you don’t send it anything else. The default text is set in the core file bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php.) Just look in the source of the generated page and try to get some context for where in your template file this function will be (top, middle, bottom, in a table cell, near a unique css id, etc). Then, try adding your text in comments inside the parentheses, instead of them being bare. So, from this:

bb_do_whatever()

to:

bb_do_whatever('Add New Essay')

[chrishajer]

2. of my reply covers your second problem.

<?php bb_new_topic_link('Add New Essay'); ?>

bb_new_topic_link is called without parameters in your front-page.php template file, but if you pass it the string ‘Add New Essay’ you will see the text in your displayed site change. You are overriding the default text which is in the bbPress core.

The reason you don’t find it in a template file is because it’s not there. The function is there, and is called without parameters. The default text is in the core, but you can override it in your template.

1. I cannot help you with and I questioned the desire to even do something like that. Why would you want an “add new” page indexed when it has no content? What benefit does it give your site?

I imagine you could probably do something to change that using mod_rewrite and your .htaccess file, but I don’t know how to do that.

[r-a-y]

I’ve fixed my problem.

Turns out my bbPress xmlrpc.php was the wrong filesize.

I uploaded the xmlrpc.php from the release package and now all is fine and dandy again!

[mdtreo]

still no luck. i created the “forums” folder and i go to http://mydomain.com/forums/bbpress for the installer. all i’m entering is the direct info for database name and user name. for instance, database name is mydatabase12345678 (this is the name my host set up) and my user name is the same as the datbase name. i then enter the password and i get the same error. a note, my site is url is http://mydomain.com/wordpress. i don’t know if having it located at the wordpress folder makes a difference or not. regardless, i don’t know what move to make next.

[jdschu]

I’m using _ck_’s plugin and I’m running bbpress 1.0.1

[johnhiler]

Which read-only forum plugin are you using? And which version of bbPress are you on?

[jdschu]

I have both the read-only forum and private messaging plugins installed. They both work fine independently, but when I have them both activated (with regular users not allowed to reply in any forums) users without admin privileges cannot send private messages. They can receive them, but the “send pm” link says to login even when they’re logged in, and going to the pm page and clicking the link to compose a new message brings up a blank page.

I tried this with and without the security hack on the private messaging plugin.

Any idea how I could fix this?

[Paul]

I have a link to my forum in my global nav by creating an empty page with a slug that is the same as the directory name as where I have bbpress installed.

But I also load the wp-load.php file in my bb-config.php file

define('WP_BB', true);

if ( !defined('DB_NAME') ) {

require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . '/../wordpress/wp-config.php');

}

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; // your wordpress db prefix is

$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.trashfilmorgy.com/wordpress';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.trashfilmorgy.com';

Then I went into my bbpress theme and changed every instance of bb_get_header() with get_header(), and bb_get_footer() with get_footer().

Since I want to have my wordpress sidebars show up in the forum, too, I also added get_sidebar() right above the call to get_footer().

I could also add other sidebars, too – the theme I use adds two columns below the main content area and uses the dynamic sidebar functionality to add them in to each page. I could see how adding other or more sidebars and going in to the templates could be really useful

[TonyVitabile]

OK, I resolved this. I don’t understand why this worked like this, but here’s what I did.

I did a search on Google for “bbpress admin panel”. The very first results link I got back was to this article in the Troubleshooting forum. Turns out all I had to do was log out then log back in. Now everything works fine.

Thanks anyway.

Tony

[sonnygahir]

Hi, I’m attempting to install bbpress on Windows Server 2003 Ent SP2, IIS6, MySQL 5.1.34 community, PHP 5.2.9-2:

I have followed this guide to installing & configuring PHP: http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html

Step 1 – bb-config.php succeeds

Step 2 – skipping wordpress integration as don’t have this installed

On clicking Goto Step 3, the installation doesn’t get anywhere and the browser returns:

“Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:

You are not connected to the Internet.

The website is encountering problems.

There might be a typing error in the address. “

Any help please?

[TonyVitabile]

I have a website on which WPMU is installed. I downloaded BuddyPress & installed it. I went to set up a group & I was told to download & install bbPress. So I did.

I originally installed it in the bbPress folder, and I went through the install process. Then I decided I wanted the folder to be named forums, so I ended up deleting the bbPress folder. I used phpMyAdmin to remove the bbPress tables from my WordPressMU database. Then I created a forums folder, copied bbPress into it & went through the setup process again. Everything completed with no errors.

I set up the integration of database & cookies with WordPressMU. No errors were reported.

I can go into the one forum that the install process created & I can read it. Haven’t tried adding any posts to it or replying to the one post it created. I did, however, try going into the Admin page. It won’t open. I just keep getting sent back to http://churchonhigherground.org/forums/.

Any ideas?

Tony

[Nicolas]

Hi there,

Since I see a lot of activity about Tiny MCE recently and I needed such a plugin myself, I have created a simple Tiny MCE integration:

http://www.longwindyroad.com/2009/07/19/bbpress-plugin-tiny-mce-3-2-5/

It installs all the necessary hooks in once place and is easy to upgrade.

[_ck_]

bbPress is NOT a plugin. You do NOT add it from your admin panel.

You install it as a separate program.

[cederholm]

I just followed the installation wizard:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

What do I do wrong?

Sincerely,

Carsten

[Arturo]

yes Tom, and they correspond!!!! i’ve put the exact code from the bbpress integration plugin… any idea?

[deadlyhifi]

Have you posted this in Trac? > https://trac.bbpress.org/

[deadlyhifi]

I’ve just reported this issue of HTML characters being displayed in edit post in Trac. (https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1158).

It looks like a minor bug in bbP rather than an issue with the plugin… although it could affect people who are trying to type HTML characters out in their code examples. That rarely happens on my forum though.

[Wattskemov]

I have already installed the plugin bbPress Integration for WordPress. I can’t find anything wrong during my installation. I think maybe I need to upgrade my WPMU to 2.8.

sign~~

[John James Jacoby]

So I was able to take hybrid bits and pieces of what you posted above, and the .htaccess for 1.0.1, and get the forums working, but still no .css and no .js, and no access to the admin panel or any directory either. Seems if I navigate to the physical URL domain.com/forums/bb-admin/ I can get in, but forums.domain.com/bb-admin/ gives an internal server error and a 500.

Still troubleshooting.

[lamentira]

ok thx

[johnhiler]

Are you trying to install bbPress as a plugin in WPMU?

It’s a separate program… you have to install it separately.