Yes, thanks for the vanilla tip, very nice! I might stick with it. It’s the correct colour and simple!
No, that’s how the theme comes, to fit 800×600 I think. I altered the background image to make it wider, then changed the container width in the css, but it didn’t suit my user group.
Prof, you might like to try my new theme at http://getfiles.letsdoo.org – it’s a very clean layout, with some (very slightly) modified plugins to give a consistent user interface, and also fits 800×600 but doesn’t look squished. Same procedure; just FTP the bbVanilla folder to my-templates, then enable it in Admin. You can always delete it if it doesn’t suit, but looking at your site I think it’d go well with the academic content.
I’m not sure either. But the stylesheet is showing up now! The design is a bit more narrow than the one on bbpress, but hopefully that’s a change you made!
Well,,,,I looked in header php and found that the style sheet it was looking for was my-templates/bbpress etc… but I saw that on my server it is bb-templates/bbpress etc…. So I just changed ‘my’ to ‘bb’. But I’m not sure why I had to do that…
OK I’ve read that. I have checked bb templates on my server and all the files have 755 permissions.
Still weird though:
http://englishforuniversity.com/forum/bbpress/
chmod is a way to change your file permission settings. More on that here.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions
I am also sticking with v 0.9x for now! If your site is working nicely now and you’re happy with how it’s going… there’s no need to change your platform.
I hear that version 1 will have better post-level meta data support? That’s exciting and something I’m looking forward to. Other than that, this is what Sam wrote about version 1.0:
“There is no feature list as such. In fact, you will find that not much has changed at this stage on the front end. The main difference is that we are now using the BackPress library for core functionality. There are some other “under the hood” changes as well, like the introduction of WordPress’ taxonomy structure for storing tags and the creation of a global meta table which can store metadata for forums, topics and posts as well as site options. The global meta table can also store custom meta from plugins.
The major cosmetic difference is the new admin area which is modelled on WordPress.”
erm…”make sure you’ve the chmod 755 to my-templates/ ” can you explain what that means please?
… and the folder the forum is in, come to that. (Mind you, an error there would perhaps stop anyone seeing anything at all..?)
make sure you’ve the chmod 755 to my-templates/
Yes, I uploaded everything. In fact I have deleted it and done it again a few times and it still does the same thing. It is from the place you suggested. Is there something else I have to do?
Well, I got to step 2 in configuring it:
http://englishforuniversity.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php?step=2
and it says page not found.
This is the third time this happened.
Hi.
Have uploaded bbpress to a folder in my server.
It’s at: /public_html/bbpress-0.9.0.4 and I have wordpress in that folder too.
So I just want to visit ‘the intended url’ but it’s not there. Have tried it a dozen times. What am I doing wrong?
I’m curious about the upcoming v1 bbPress, and what advantages it may have. Not that I expect a release any time this year from the news, but I’m interested to know what experienced users and programmers see as its main advantages.
I’m happy with 0.9.0.4 now, and have all the plugins I need to get the results I want (blessed be the name of _ck_). Does anyone think sticking with a sound and working v0.9x into next year is a good idea..?
Looks like a missing or damaged stylesheet to me. Did you upload the entire theme folder into a folder called my-templates in bbPress? (ie., my-forum-path/my-templates). Also, where did you get the theme from? I tried this one too, but had a manky version from somewhere. I think the working one was from http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes
Hi,
I really like the look of these pages in bbpress support forum. I found a theme called “bbOrg0.01 theta-beta by Bryan Veloso” and uploaded it to my server and it came up on my list of themes in bbpress admin. But when I choose it, it looks like this:
http://englishforuniversity.com/forum/bbpress/
but I thought it would look like the page I am writing on. What more do I need to do??
Thanks
Nope! bbPress has its own signin, and its own theme/plugin system… you can use it as a standalone no problem!
Hi.
Is wordpress required for installing bbpress?
I’m also having this issue. My collation was set to something different so I thought I had found the issue, I changed the collation on the DB using phpMyAdmin>Operations however even after setting the DB to utf8_general_ci I still get the same error.
bbPress 1.0-rc-1
Wordpress MU 2.7.1
BuddyPress 1.0
Can we leave the collation blank in the wp_config.php and while installing bbPress? What is this for?
Yep, know what you mean. Do install Human Test too – the simple math question stops bots, which can’t answer.
Can you check to see if you have the latest version of “My Views” installed?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/my-views/
You need at least 0.1.1 for Hidden Forums to work properly… I remember I used to get an error from Hidden Forums until I upgraded the My Views plugin.
If that’s not the issue, I’m officially stumped!
Thanks JohnHiler.. I just installed the following:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
If there are any problems I will report it here.
Hi Michael: My forum is not likely to have anyone at least not for awhile….I just don’t want to have to deal with a very potential problem if it does attract users. We can’t eliminate the jerks on this planet, but we can at least try to avoid contact with them.
Hi!
Just released a new bbPress theme called ‘Ikon’. Three-column, customisable rotating image header with three info blocks, collapsible header section. Try it out.
Demo
Download
Thanks, keep up the good work!
Richard