[_ck_]

Yup “order by rand()” is very handy.

I used it for a mod for WordPress years ago to make a “random” category which is very useful.

It could even be done to make a “random topics” view in bbPress but not sure how useful that would be.

It’s fine for casual use but keep in mind for larger tasks it’s very slow and makes mysql purists shudder.

[deadlyhifi]

As an aside, some hosts such as GoDaddy can take around 30 minutes for the .htaccess file to be read and implemented.

[frank1000]

Hi chrishajer,

Thanks!

I added the additional Options line and it works now.

Regards

Frank

[chrishajer]

Yes, that’s permalinks and what you did is what I expected would fix it. Are you having any other problems?

If you ever want pretty permalinks set up, you can follow this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/created-a-new-forum-but-profile-viewedit-not-working#post-24005

[chrishajer]

There was also this more recent discussion. Read the post from sambauers:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/important-notice-about-10-alpha-7-and-_ck_-plugins#post-23813

[chrishajer]

Sounds like several problems that are all fixable. First, I would turn off permalinks until you set them up properly:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/created-a-new-forum-but-profile-viewedit-not-working#post-24005

I would do that first so you can actually work with your forum.

Also:

1. What version bbPress did you install?
2. Did you integrate with WordPress and if so, what version?
3. Does this happen with the stock them?
4. Does this happen with no plugins enabled?
5. What server software, PHP version, MySQL version are you using?

If you can start with the permalink issue (I think) and then answer some basic questions, I think we can get it sorted without reinstalling.

[patrick10128]

Hi,

I’m looking for someone who has had a bit of experience with theming bbPress to help me port a HTML/CSS template (which I have also made into a WordPress theme) over to bbPress. It should be relatively easy seeing as the design is simple and already coded.

Please contact me at patrick.devivo [at] gmail.com if you know someone or are willing to help me out.

[Mr. Grim Reaper]

Is there anyway to define a custom URL structure? Specifically, I was looking to get rid of the “topic” and “forum” directories.

I found it shortly after from another topic: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/hack-to-remove-forumsforum

[jmilli]

Greetings,

I just installed BBPress today and was totally psyched because I have heard such great things about the WordPress products.

But . . . I am having major problems:

– New user testing – password doesn’t work. Login failed.

– I created forums and when I select the topic I get a “The requested document was not found on this server.” error.

– When I select a user profile (including mine) I get the same error.

– This is where it is strange and makes me think that maybe I need to reinstall the whole thing. I can’t create a new post. Nowhere does it say “Create post” on the forums.

I did install the Approve User Registration plugin by Aditya Naik, but I deactivated it and I am still having the above problems.

Thoughts?

thanks in advance,

Jeff

[_ck_]

FYI, the if ($i <= 4) { is not needed because you already do a LIMIT on the query.

Related topic:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-show-bbpress-info-inside-wordpress-without-full-integration

[dpante]

Hello,

I installed BBPress yesterday, and it’s working great. The only problem I’m having is that it won’t let me log out (when I’m using Safari)! When I click the “Log out” link, it refreshes the admin page, but I’m still logged in as admin. In Firefox, I can log out fine- it’s just in Safari that I’m having troubles.

Any ideas to log out would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Derek

[dcole07]

I’m developing a WordPress Theme and I’d like it to work with BBPress too. My theme uses a function ( get_container(); ) to get all the information to go within the body. To change the content, within that container, for a particular page in WordPress, but leave the header, sidebars, and footer, I can reference a custom function to be added in there.

So for BBPress, I would like to do the same thing. The get_container(); function will be called and it will get the custom function defined in each BBPress template file. The problem is, is that when I do this BBPress says I’m logged out and will not allow me to login, because it can’t find the forums. Why is this? I do get the header, sidebar, and footer defined in my get_container();. But for some reason the custom function that get the BBPress forum messes the variables for the forum.

[johnhiler]

One note: I was using Private Forums for several years, and it had an occasional bug where if I saved my admin settings… the private forums would intermittently become public! I had to check the private forums every day to make sure they hadn’t been compromised…

The Hidden Forum plugin seems much more stable since I switched to it a few weeks ago, and there are no reports that I’ve seen of similar behavior:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

Just a heads up!

[chrishajer]

What other plugins are you using, and what version of bbPress are you using?

[djmky]

Hey everyone,

I haven’t completely finished pimping my bbpress forum, though I thought id share it with you at this stage. Let me know what you guys and gals think, good or bad feedback is always good.

WordPress: http://www.flowfm.net/

BBpress Forum: http://www.flowfm.net/forums

Look forward to your responses,

Mark

[starlucent]

I have bbpress installed in a subdirectory (http://www.domain.com/forum), with WordPress in the root, and I’m using a Private Forums plugin (among various others) and it was all working fine until this morning, when suddenly I am unable to login. I have two accounts, but can’t log in using either of them. (I have sent an email out to find out if I am the only one with this issue or if it is more widespread).

Symptoms are that I get the login page, so I login and am immediately presented with the same screen again.

I’ve tried disabling the Private Forums plugin, which makes the discussions visible, as you would expect but I still can’t log in, and I can’t post, so I’m not logged in ‘behind the scenes’as it were.

I’ve requested a new password, but that hasn’t helped.

I haven’t integrated with WordPress, I haven’t uploaded any new bbpress plugins, or run any upgrades. I am very puzzled.

So does anyone have any suggestions as to what might have changed, or what I can do to restore functionality?

[rockin]

I’m looking for talented coders/designer who can help me theme a bbPress forum to my needs.

Contact me directly at:

andreas [at] jaxvine.com

[comput]

Hi,

1st of all, thanks for this screen-cast.

I have followed your screen-cast and succeeded with integrating WP 2.7.1 and BB 1.0 alpha 6 in different directories.

http://mydom.com/wp/ (WordPress)

http://mydom.com/board/ (bbPress)

My issue is that logging in and out is working fine as long as WP handles log-in and out! And not the other way when logging out from BB.

Issue 1:

When I log-in to my WP and go to BB log-in works fine, also the other way from BB to WP.

But if I log out fron BB and go back to WP – I’m logged out but the META link is not updated and WP thinks I’m still logged in (which I’m not!)

How can I make the log-out work through BB aswell.

Issue 2:

Registering through BB gives me no role inside WP!

I have bbPress integration plug-in (wp) installed and everything else is working fine! Roles are made inside BB-WP integration just like in the screen-cast.

Can someone please help!

Thanks.

[teddyc]

Got this error script url right under my “add this topic to your favorites” option:

(/(false|true|and|or|xor|__FILE__|exception|__LINE__|

array|as|break|case|class|const|continue|declare|default|die|do|echo|else|elseif|empty|

enddeclare|endfor|endforeach|endif|endswitch|endwhile|eval|exit|extends|for|foreach|

function|global|if|include|include_once|isset|list|new|print|require|require_once|

return|static|switch|unset|use|var|while|__FUNCTION__|__CLASS__|__METHOD__

|final|php_user_filter|interface|implements|extends|public|private|protected|

abstract|clone|try|catch|throw|this)([ .”‘{(;&<])/g)

It links to this URL: /forums/profile.php?id=3&tab=favorites

When I click on this: “Subscribe to your favorites’ RSS feed.” which links to this: /forums/rss.php?profile=3

It is just a blank screen.

This just started showing after I removed a signature from my profile. No idea if they are related…

Using BBpress 1.0-alpha-6

[chrishajer]

Try this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/created-a-new-forum-but-profile-viewedit-not-working#post-24005

[philgons]

The WordPress plugins directory has improved searching now with Sphinx. See here: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/new-and-improved-plugins-directory-search/. Will bbPress get Sphinx too?

[suzkaw]

Thanks for the comments. I have just released v1.1 to hopefully fix the block issue:

http://ericlbarnes.com/projects/toonewsy-for-bbpress/

[circuit]

we dropped vanilla because of lack of support. things were going out of date when wordpress was being upgraded so the integration was starting to break. we also need PMs and the system on vanilla was extremely unsecure. we’re much happier with bbpress as it’s a lot easier to customise.

[bohemeprincess]

With bbPress, Can you categorize people into groups? eg. investors, entrepreneurs, etc? so that you can ask questions directed at a specific group?

~Thanks in advance

[chrishajer]

Can you check your Apache access log and see what the browser User Agent is, so you can detect that and then craft some CSS specifically for that (or all) browsers?

This thread covered someone detecting mobile browsers and then serving up a different theme:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-theme-if-mobile-browser-detected#post-19618