[_ck_]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/restrict-registration-for-bbpress/

[bruinfelix]

The creators of bbPress, are putting their head in to the sand, the function most people wants (theme integration) isnt still available in bbPress, and that’s a big shame!

[Eleeist]

Hi, is there any site with themes for bbPress?

[chrishajer]

In the directory of your current template, you want to add it to the file called footer.php. Just put it right after this line:

<?php printf(__('%1$s is proudly powered by bbPress.'), bb_option('name'), "http://bbpress.org") ?>

Before the closing </div>.

[Eleeist]

Hi, how can I add something below “Forum name is proudly powered by bbPress.” (footer)?

Thanks in advance

[john32]

Hey,

I was wonder if anyone out there has cookie sharing between WP and bbPress working, has WordPress 2.7 (NOT 2.7.1) installed, is using bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6 and using the bbPress Integration 1.0-alpha-4.1 PLUGIN.

Would it be possible for you to go in to the WP Admin section and under settings click on bbPress Integration. For the “Manual Cookie Settings” can you post what yours states?

I’m trying to anrrow down a cookie sharing problem I’m having and this may be it.

Mine says,

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

but that’s under WP Admin. Under the bbPress Integration settings in the bbPress Admin section, it has this,

define(‘COOKIEDOMAIN’ , ‘ ‘;

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/forums/’);

Shouldn’t they match or since, according to the pulgin site, my WP is 2.7.1 the plugin doesn’t work correctly since it only goes up to 2.7?

Thanks for any help I can get.

[john32]

Can anyone who has successfully got both WP and bbPress to use the same cookies please post what code you used in your wpconfig and bbconfig to them to work?

I understand there are countless thread with this information but I’ve tried different various combinations of the code to no avail.

Thanks!!

[fazcue]

Hi there!… for the last weeks I have been working re-designing my site and integrating it with BBpress.

You can see it running here: http://www.Mazcue.com.ar/foros/

Any suggestion is welcome.

[Zanti]

I can not seem to find a way to delete a repeated word in my forms category title. I have a repeated word and not sure how I got it.

But, here is what is happening. I have bbPress 0.9.4 and WP 2.7.1 integrated using Anne’s plugin. No problem there. Most of CK’s plugins, no problem there either. In the Category title of my forums I have a repeated worked and don’t know how to remove it. What I mean by the category tile is, like the title of Latest Discussion, and the discussions below it my issue is the title above the forum categories. Hope that explains it well. The repeat is Forums Forums. My site is still a work in progress, so there are no post, except test ones.

Thanks for the help.

[kevinjohngallagher]

THANK YOU detective!

(also thanks to _ck_ and Ipstenu – i’m sure we would not have gotten there without you).

So in idiots terms (so i can understand ;-] )…

All functions hardcoded into BBpress’s template-functions can be overwritten, but only if they are on a hardcoded list within the core?

And if you want to write a plugin to overwrite one of these template functions that’s hard coded into the core, and not on another the hardcoded list in the core, we have to include a file in the theme directory and not the plugin directory?

Am i the only one that thinks that this hampers theme development with all this hardcoded stuff? Anyway, as long as this works it’s cool with me – thank you all for your help!

[_ck_]

I assume this is just a typo in your example and not what you are really using:

add_filter('topic_pages', 'output_what_i_want, 11');

because the quote should close before the 11

add_filter('topic_pages', 'output_what_i_want', 11);

There’s nothing wrong with the action or filter triggers in bbpress (only that there are not enough of them or in the right places). The code for that is taken right out of wordpress and works fine. My dozens of plugins kinda prove they all work.

[_ck_]

Very nice conversion and I am very partial to the blue vs default green of bbPress.

[kevinjohngallagher]

HI _ck_,

thanks for this. I’m not trying to stop something being called with an add_action, but i’m sorry if i didn’t phrase it well enough. What I have found is that i cannot either get an added filter nor an action to add to certain functions in BBpress. Thats the issue i’ve hit.

Nor am i wanting dynamic theme’s, as your wonderful plugin covers that.

My plugin does this:

ON activation checks for wordpress integration.

If wordpress integrated copies the header file form the wordpress template to a directory.

Inserts BBcode Hooks into the new file.

Now that bit works well and dandy; but what i want in this instance is to overwrite the function BB_GET_HEADER as it’s hardcoded in the template_functions.php file.

So here is my question, how can i/we overwrite the BB_GET_HEADER function ?

1) can we overwrite functions in the template-functions.php file?

2) how?

3) is there an example of this anywhere?

I ask not to be pedantic, but because i think you answered my post based on what you think i’m trying to do with my plugin rather than the issue at hand – namely that i can over write some functions and not others.

You are pretty much the authority on this, so i really appreciate any help insight you might have on how to overwrite the BB_GET_HEADER function. thank you!

[kevinjohngallagher]

I hardly think that it is fair to imply that I don’t ‘care for BBpress (sic) development’

I didn’t say that nor suggest it, i said that “Name calling, on an anonymous internet forum, is hardly the way to get help, and i think that’s a true statement. If you call people “dick” and “bitch”; you are less likely to get help. I don’t think that is a false statement, and if you’re taking more from it than i had intended then i think you’re just trying to look for a fight rather than apologising for calling me a “dick” for trying to help you.

After all, i did try and help.

English is not my first language (nor my second – so my tone may be very off), but i wasn’t being intentionally rude or argumentative. I think it’s fair to say that people who have English as a non-primary language sometimes write sentences in a way that people some people find harsh or blunt – especially on internet forums where tone and intination do not come across. If that’s not something that you or anyone else who reads this agrees with then i’m sorry, it’s my experience that some cultures say things in a different way to others.

As for the unasked for advice, it was asked for. You asked what your next step should be, and in my honest opinion it should be to test everything on a development enviroment. You may think it “self righteous” of me to say so, but there have been many examples of people on these forums who upload and install on a live environment first (there are 3 on the first page of this forum btw), so i was being honest and offering you and answer to the question YOU ASKED. I didn’t get bored and decide to write you an email, you asked for help and i took time to answer. If you think that was unasked for, then i apologise.

You know man it’s like this, folks like me try our best. We try and asnwer in the best way possible in a language thats not our own, and if you go around picking out phrases out of context and saying things like we “tried to imply” – you’re reading way too much into simple sentances. If i wnted to say something i would, i wouldn’t hide behind an implication or worse, hide behind an attempted implication of something i really wanted to say. It’s hard to post here in English and we do our best. We dont expect to be called a “dick” or suggesting that we’re a “bitch” for doing so. And if you think that’s acceptable behavior to someone who was trying to help, then thats your own thing man, frankly i think it’s a little uncool – but if you think swearing at someone who is trying his best to help you is cool then there’s nothing i can add to that. Namecalling never got anyone anywhere, and i’d be surprised it if got you help on this forum either.

Good luck in your endeavours.

[wiseacre]

I have a general question. How updated language files can be uploaded to

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/

?

[_ck_]

My theme switcher plugin is capable of doing this quite easily, it already allows each visitor to select the theme they want.

All you would need to do is change the cookie support code into session support code so the server controls which theme is seen instead of the visitor.

Should take all of an hour to convert for someone who understands cookies and sessions.

Actually if the domain is fixed you can just use $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] or $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] to determine the theme to use which makes it even easier.

[_ck_]

You need a basic understanding of filters vs actions in WordPress before you can get this done.

You can’t replace anything via add_action(‘post_form’… because it’s an action and not a filter. Calling it as a filter doesn’t change the fact that the hook itself is an action.

Filters give you the opportunity to change the data passed.

Actions are just points in the processes that you can inject activity into, but you can’t change what was before or what is coming after. No data is passed to you, no data is taken from your activity.

You cannot change forms this way on the fly, it’s impossible (unless maybe via javascript).

If you want dynamic themes, start with my theme switcher plugin and find some way to keep track of what theme is used without cookies (maybe sessions instead).

[pierrottorreip]

kevinjohngallagher,

I run six installations of bbPress – so I hardly think that it is fair to imply that I don’t ‘care for BBpress (sic) development’ or that I was trying to ‘bump’ my website views. I honestly couldn’t care less about the one or two views I might get from this forum. Furthermore, it is an annoyance to have Google bring up this post – so if anything I am generally inclined not to include the link – except that a) I thought it might be helpful to see the set up and b) as I said, people usually bitch when I don’t include a link.

I do think you need to learn how to show a little restraint though. On top of going too far in your first post you go on to imply that I am trying to bump my views, have bad forum decorum, don’t care about bbPress, read English insensitively and perhaps most incorrectly, say things on this forum that I wouldn’t say in person.

I thanked you for the step by step – for which I am sincerely grateful. Unfortunately, it came with a condition – a little unasked for advice and a little self righteousness.

I don’t want to fight with you though. You think I was in the wrong + I think you were in the wrong = nothing gets solved.

Thanks again for the help, I’ll try it out soon.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Wow,

PierrottorreiP, i was only trying to help, i think you could drop the attitude man. Rest assured, i’ll not try to help again.

My first point, about using a development environment, is a sound technical point. The point of doing things locally is to plan/develop/test until it’s right then push live. If as you said you “I did put the site together locally and realized that I wanted them to talk to each other after I made it live.” that just shows poor planning, and it’s not my fault for not realising that you had decided to make things on your live server different from your testing environment.

That said, your site currently has 1 user, you, so taking down the forums until you fix it locally isn’t going to be a disaster.

As for my suggesting you only include a link when needed, again, it wasn’t to persecute or “bitch”, but was honest advice. If you have something you want us to look at please include a link by all means, but make it a link to your forums and or the page you’re having an issue with. ‘bumping’ your website via views from a BBpress support forum aren’t going to help (of the top 10 google links form your website name are from this website – and many people have tried to bump their site this way before which is why i mentioned it).

You also have to accept that English isn’t everyone’s first language, and while not bad at it myself, taking offence because of the way something is worded – especially in a post that gave you step by step instructions on how to fix your issue – is frankly very bad form.

Name calling, on an anonymous internet forum, is hardly the way to get help from those of us who care for BBpress’ development.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Rather than using the crazy structure of BBpress’s header.php file – actually while i’m on that can i ask why BBpress DID NOT use the same div nesting as WP so that integration was simple? madness – if you use this one, your BBpress forum should automatically look 90% like it’s in your WordPress page if you use the default theme, default K2 or sandbox.

You will have to tweak bits of course, this isn’t fool proof, but in terms of the basics, it makes life alot easier.

I mentioned these changes back in October, so i’m used to the copying and pasting of them now as it doesn’t look like making thing easy for the end user is part of the goal here; hence the plugin. I too hope we get an answer on the bug soon

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Vernal,

In terms of integration in a software sense, you have to answer yourself this:

1) Do they need to look the same?

2) Do I need shared login ?

3) Do i need shared wordpress functions (menu, sidebar, otehr cool wordpress stuff) ?

If you answered yes to 1) and no to 2) and 3) you only need to make your style sheets and HTML look similar and dont need any integration.

If you answered yes to 1) and 2) and no to 3) then you should be able to use the latest alpha and latest wordpress and all should be fine. Personally, i’d not ouch with with a bargepole and i’d use BBpress 0.9 and WP 2.7.1 with _ck_’s Freshly Baked Cookies plugin (link coming up in a bit).

If you answered yes to 1) 2) and 3) then you need to use Ann’s plugin (again link coming up).

In terms of fixing your BBpress to integrate into your wordpress theme easily, that one is simple. Replace the code in your header.php file with this:

<body id="<?php bb_location(); ?>">

<div id="page">

<div id="wrapper">

<div id="header">

<div id="headerimg">

<h1  id="blog-title"><!-- PUT YOUR WP LINK HERE --></h1>

<div id="blog-description">

<div class="description">

<!-- PUT YOUR WP DESCRIPTION HERE -->

</div>	<!--	#description -->

</div>	<!--	#blog-description	-->

</div>	<!--	#headerimg -->



<!--

K2 USERS

THIS IS WHERE YOU PUT YOUR MENU CODE

-->

</div>



<div id="access">

<div class="skip-link"><a href="#content" title="Skip to content">Skip to content</a></div>

<div id="menu">

<!--

SANDBOX USERS:

THIS IS WHERE YOU PUT YOUR MENU CODE

-->

</div>

</div><!-- #access -->



<div id="container">

<div id="primary">

<div id="current-content">

<div id="content">

<div id="post">

<div id="main">



<h1><a>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a></h1>

<?php if ( bb_get_option('description') ) : ?><p class="description"><?php bb_option('description'); ?>

<?php endif; ?>



<?php login_form(); ?>



<?php if ( is_bb_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?>

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

bbPress isn’t, by nature, designed for that. You’re kind of looking for blog functionality in a forum. Looking at the related functions, I see there’s a way to get first and last, but the posts aren’t sequential. Or rather, they are but they aren’t directly consecutive so you can’t just get the first post and add 1. There’s nothing built in, or easily hackable for that.

[DTI]

Chrishajer, thank you for your detailed help.

Before I installed the bbpress, I have created a database as below:

1, mysql> create database MyForum_database;

2, mysql> show database; it is displayed.

3, to create a dbconnect.php file to test it,

<?php

$con = mysql_connect(“localhost:3306″,”myname”,”mypassword”);

if (!$con)

{ die(‘Could not connect: “.mysql_error());}

else

echo “Successful connect.”

mysql_select_db(“MyForum_database”, $con);

?>

4, to run this dbconnect.php file in the

http://localhost/mrm/bbforum/dbcon.php //mrm is root of my website

To get the “Successful connect.”

This means my website host is “localhost” and the database is on the same server as the web site, then this probably should remain localhost in Database Host.

5, my web site host is ‘localhost’ in my Apache setting in my server.(We have static IP address)

6, please see my setting in bbpress installation:

Database name: MyForum_database

Database user: myname

Database password: mypassword

Database host: localhost

Database character set: utf8

Database character collation: forum

bbPress cookie secret key: skyisblue

Table name prefix: f_

Where is I wrong? My MyForum_database has been connected, why bbPress installation can’t connect it.

My database and website are on same server, same host.

So I wander why…

Please help again.

[Postmatic]

Hey kevin,

Thanks a lot for your great info. I hope that someone in the know picks up your request.

In the meantime, is there anything you could point me to that will at least get me started in allowing some WordPress template tags to function from within bbpress? I’m using a shared database, 2.7.1, and the latest bb alpha.

Does that still work?

And of course, I ‘d love to hear more about your plugin if things get fixed up on it.

Best,

Jason

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi GGwarpig,

It is possible with my “themer” plugin, which has an option to dynamically load a different header/footer file or just a different stylesheet depending on the domain you’re looking at. While this doesn’t load in an entirely different theme, it incorporates most of the changes you’re looking for.

Sadly it can’t be released until we get an answer to this (what appears to be) bug in the core: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/overwriting-template-functions