[pschena]

Super noobie to bbpress, and currently setting up an install for a client at: http://brainwave.org.au/forum

Got most things working to a point where I am semi happy with to start with, but having a couple of problems that need help with.

1. When logging out of a topic or forum page, I get taken to a default page. Would like to get back to the forum landing page – any ideas how to do that?
2. Same as point 1 when using Terms of Service plugin and tick box not ticked. Looks like all error pages use the same template – can this be changed?
3. Client wants a private, locked down forum, and needs to ask more questions at registration time. Is it just a process of adding fields to the form and database? Which file should I be editing?

These would set me well on the way to appeasing the client.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Cheers,

Paul

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

What part isn’t working?

If you login to bbPress, what happens on WordPress? What happens when you log out?

Please be descriptive. “It doesn’t work” is near impossible to debug (I spent my day arguing that there is a difference between ‘The page gave me a 404 error’ and ‘your webserver is broken!’ and the latter was nearly useless to me)

[ganzua]

You can either use this wp plugin;

http://www.atsutane.net/2006/11/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wordpress/

or you can follow the guidelines provided here;

Here’s how to show bbPress info inside WordPress without full integration

sorry for the triple post! I have no idea what happened

triple-response available upon request if needed

[ganzua]

Having profile pages indexed, doesn’t that devaluate once’s website/forum rankings?

Oops, this is quite interesting, does anybody have a “SEO friendly” robots.txt for bbpress? Any suggestion on what should be disallowed?

[elizawhat]

Hey everyone. Right now I’ve got a WP installation and a bbPress installation, each in their own directories. I also have a second WP installation in my root directory, with a custom template. I’d like to get the 5 or whatever most recent forum posts to display on the index page.

Anyone know how to accomplish this as painlessly as possible?

[elizawhat]

Hey everyone. Right now I’ve got a WP installation and a bbPress installation, each in their own directories. I also have a second WP installation in my root directory, with a custom template. I’d like to get the 5 or whatever most recent forum posts to display on the index page.

Anyone know how to accomplish this as painlessly as possible?

[Jamie Welch]

I am using WPMU 2.7 and bbpress 1.0- alpha. I cannot get cookie integration to work. any suggestions?

[wiseacre]

johnjamesjacoby – This is my second attempt. First time His Majesty didn’t answer me. Next time I will ask Matt.

Or may be Wikipedia

[paulhawke]

You wrote

WordPress didn’t have decent documentation until many years after it was around, don’t expect bbPress to be any different

I am on the verge of writing something about my experience of creating a bbPress plugin as a set of guideposts for others to make use of. Not sure how much it would count as “documentation” so much as a quick-start to get someone rolling.

[_ck_]

You can’t document something until it’s in a stable state.

bbPress 1.0 is twice the size of bbPress 0.9 and constantly changing, even in the alpha.

Database functions have been mostly the same except the entire meta changed.

But the fundamentals are identical to how WordPress works so you can use the WP codex for that.

Oh and WordPress didn’t have decent documentation until many years after it was around, don’t expect bbPress to be any different. Unless someone volunteers for free, Matt is unlikely to waste paid employee time on documentation.

[slambert1971]

So am I to assume there is no way to add pages to bbPress? Oly the default pages can be used? Darn, might have to look for something else.

[slambert1971]

I am working on a project where I will use bbPress in a large corporate environment and styling it very differently then a standard forum. Sorry, I can’t show it to you because it is part of our Intranet. I have the front end layed out almost exactly as I want it and presented the prototype to our CIO. He likes the front end, but did not like the back end (admin) area.

The problem is that he manage forums page is not very intuitive to the non-technical person. Because we will have non-technical people managing the forums, I need to change how the manage forums page looks, without editing core code if possible. I will also be adding links in the front end to those people who have access to manage a given forum to edit the forum details.

This leads to the second part. Each forum is supposed to have a short intro, long intro and an associated photo. Are there any plugins that add fields and/or photos to a forum, or will I need to write that? I have searched here but haven’t found any yet. The less code I have to right the better, just need to know where to start this process.

Thanks.

[wiseacre]

Are you working for Automattic, Sam? Is it your job bbpress developing? I’m asking because of

1. http://bbpress.org/blog/2008/01/the-future-for-bbpress/
2. There are 18 open bugs – http://trac.bbpress.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=!1.5&type=defect&order=priority
3. 5 days there are NOT any code uploads – http://trac.bbpress.org

[ganzua]

a nice substitute for some weighty bbPress documentation in the meantime

Actually some of us are looking forward the next chapter This one should go to the “documentation” section as an entry or something like this.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

There’s this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Can you get to it if you go directly to the admin site?

http://yourdomain.com/bbpress/bb-admin

It’s possible that you didn’t set up user integration correctly, and you are no longer the admin of your bbPress site.

[wwc]

Thanks, hoppie, everything works now! I found some code in bbPress that looks like it’s meant to warn users when the PHP MySQL libraries are missing, but I wasn’t getting the warning message. I’ll look into filing a bug report about this.

[chrisgoat]

Got everything to Integrate with no errors and everything seem to of went fine.

When someone registers, the username and password is good in both the forum and wordpress.

But is the integration supposed to work for login and logout, I mean if a person logs into WordPress are they supposed to be logged into bbpress at the same time.

If they are it seems to not be working for me, I can log into the forums and still have to log into WordPress same thing logging out am I missing something.

I know it was a clean and no error install and followed the tutorial completely.

Thanks for all your hard work man.

Chris

[martenk]

Mostly the ability to bridge it to other scripts. Such as Coppermine etc.

It could probably be done, but I don’t really have the time to write a bunch of scripts for it. Which is too bad because I’ve really come to like bbPress and will most certainly recommend it to other people seeking a light forum without the extra bells and whistles phpBB and the likes offer.

[johnhiler]

Just out of curiosity… which features are you wishing to see in bbPress?

[mzimmers]

Here’s a first approximation of a right sidebar.

http://scopedin.com/bbpress/

As you can see, I need just a little more room on the right than I’m getting with the current defaults for the theme. I tried altering the width parameters in style.css, but that quickly became a rat’s nest. I concluded I wasn’t approaching it correctly.

It’s really preferable (from my perspective) to shrink the width of the tags and/or discussions sections, so the right sidebar can fit. That way, the right sidebar can remain consistent between the forums and the blog.

Chris: I was unaware of the wealth of other themes available; thanks for the link. Do you have any idea whether some of those might be more flexible?

[martenk]

We’ve decided to move on from bbPress to a more developed forum system. bbPress is good but lacks some features we need.

Hopefully bbPress will grow and in the future we’ll switch back, I really do like how easy you can customize bbPress and extend it with plugins…

Anyway, the questions: Will the old md5-insecurity plugin do the trick and change all passwords to regular md5 for easy conversion to new forum?

How do I force all users to drop their cookies and log in in order for all passwords to be renewed?

[martenk]

I think a plugin that puts the bbpress admin panel in the WordPress one would be nice.

Speaking of admin panels…

[Arnan de Gans]

for what it’s worth, i love the 1.0 dashboard of bbpress. much better than the crappy wp2.7 thing

[_ck_]

This is already how wp-super-cache works. Just port it to bbPress.