[aboutonlinetips]

I have uninstalled bbpress forum. Which version should I install now

[Anonymous User 1502623]

Not yet – that discussions2 div class was something I made in an attempt to change the look of the links that the latest discussion plugin displays. I’ve decided to have a go at validating these errors before I attempt anything else.

[chrishajer]

Did you resolve it? It’s in your WordPress theme CSS.

[Anonymous User 1502623]

Yeah I keep meaning to look at them. I just assumed that because I’m using bbpress as the forum on my site, with the bbpress latest discussions plugin, it would’ve had something to do with bbpress. Oh well.

[chrishajer]

You mean the “Community” section on your WordPress site?

You need to change your .discussions2 style in http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk/wp-content/themes/revolution_magazine-40/style.css:

.discussions2 {

font-weight: none;

}

There’s no such font-weight. You want:

font-weight: normal;

It pays to validate your CSS:

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?profile=css21&warning=0&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.audioscribbler.co.uk%2F

You’ve made the same error in other places as well.

Also, this has nothing to do with bbPress really, it’s more of a Revolution Theme or WordPress question.

[Anonymous User 1502623]

hi guys, site is http://www.audioscribbler.co.uk

Basically, I’ve got the latest discussions plugin active in the sidebar, but I can’t find the necessary code to edit to customise it. I’ve create a custom DIV class (this managed to change the line-height) but I can’t get rid of the bold properties, I can’t change the font – I’ve looked on the widgets.php page and can’t find it, and editing the plugin itself doesn’t seem to work. Anyone got any ideas? thanks

[romerocw]

I’m trying to make my front-page.php template look a little more like a conventional vBulletin type theme by displaying the “last post title and link” in a column next to the “forum title.” The problem is that topic_title() isn’t giving me what I want inside the loop. I guess I need some sort of nested loop or an alternate function.

Here’s an example of a vB style i’d like to emulate:

Main Car Forum (This is a top level forum)

Car Forums by Brand <– this is a bbPress category forum w/ subforums per car brand.

— Honda Forum 1…………………….. last post: my car broke down

— BMW Forum 2…………………….. last post: new tires?

The problem is when I play w/ the front-page template I can only get the last post info for the “Main Car Forum” not the brand subforums and even that isn’t actually giving me what I think it should.

Here’s what I have in my 2nd HTML column of my modified template:

<td class="topicTitle"><a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?> </a>

<br /><span class="lastPoster">by <a href="<?php user_profile_link($topic->topic_last_poster) ?>"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></a></span>

</td>

The topic_last_post_link and topic_title() aren’t giving me the expected results. For topic_last_post_link it’s actually returning the last topic/thread link not the last post link and that’s for the “Main Car Forum.” For the subforums it’s displaying the same exact thing as it does for “Main Car Forum” it’s not actually displaying the topic/post info for the correct subforum.

TIA,

-Charlie

[chrishajer]

Please post the version of bbPress you’re using. I haven’t heard of this issue in a long time.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/1970-issue

[bdenn]

my site is bdennstudios.com/forum and i used bbpress-0.9.0.3 which i think is the latest version.

[domstie]

1. No I don’t recieve an error. The System is translated, but only 1 from 10 words.

2. I read about it here in the forum: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/language-changed-without-any-action#post-8054 … not sure if this is the same issue?

[chrishajer]

Please post the URL to your forum so people might register and try to use the system and see what happens. Also, what version of bbPress did you install, and is it integrated with WordPress? If it’s integrated, what version of WordPress did you install?

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Also, if you do attempt to upgrade either bbPress or WordPress, be sure to make a backup (database and filesystem.)

[chrishajer]

In general I try to keep up with WordPress releases as well. The upgrade from 2.5.1 to 2.6 included these bug fixes:

https://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.6

In 2.5.1 the AUTH keys thing was really sorted out, so they changed that in 2.6 and that’s the main reason 2.6 is not compatible with the 0.9.* branch of bbPress.

If you don’t require integrated logins between the forum and the blog, then you don’t have to upgrade your bbPress to use the latest WordPress. If you do need integrated logins, then you probably need to wait for the 1.0 branch of bbPress to upgrade WordPress to the latest.

[mikey1]

Hi again, and thanks for the reply, I visit the wordpress forums a lot and have only heard that 2.5.1 is insecure, have no reason why though, its always been very good while I’ve been using it. I’m just trying to keep up with develpements before I upgrade this blog to 2.7, and hope fully my bbpress 0.9.0.2 forum will still work.

all the best.

mike.

[rjeevan]

Hello whoever you are…

I already begin playing around with alpha version of bbPress for some time now… and trying to put together some plug-in’s to make it work properly…

There seems to be quit few Plug-in’s working with the Alpha version already… Now: i was looking for a Moderation Plug-in… There is only Quit few available and the one called BB MODERATION HOLD seems to be working fine, excerpt that It doesn’t Display the Post back to User or any other message to confirm the Post has been Taken into account and awaits moderation… So I was trying to append and make it display message on POST and Also, Show the Post BACK to user (and admins / Moderators) in LISTING with others with simple mark of awaits moderation.

There is not a Clear documentation available like wordpress for available Filters and Action…

For now, I want a Filter to Append the Query when it’s Querying For the Topics in Forum, Latest Topics, Sticky Topics and each so I may Append the Where cause to List the Awaiting moderation Post to Owner (User) and Moderators / Admins.

It would be great if anyone may give me a List of WORKING filters available to use i Current TRUNK version (Alpha 6)…

original Plug-in: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/

Thanks

Rajeevan

[Famous]

Thanks Ipstenu, it helped, now it works–so far…

[bdenn]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-signatures/#post-492

That is what i used.

[Fender]

I am looking into both options and trialling both, allowing my mod team to make a decision.

So whilst I am progressing WordPress, I’m still pretty keen to find out how I can make http://www.domain.com/bbPress/topic.php?id=2 display as http://www.domain.com/bbPress/. Hell, if I wanted to I could just do an Apache rewrite on / to be topic.php?id=2 or stick a redirect in place of the existing index.php, but I am concerned that this will break other things.

[chrishajer]

This problem has come up a couple times in the past couple days:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-alpha-6-released#post-22750

The function do_action exists in ./bb-includes/wp-functions.php. Do you have that file and is it complete? Is there a line (around 641, in 0.9.0.4 anyway) that starts with:

function do_action ($tag, $arg = '') {

Is it possible that not all the files were properly uploaded?

[chrishajer]

If it were me, (which it’s not ) I would use WordPress for this. Everything seems easier except for the comment moderation, but searching for comment moderation plugins for WordPress turned up a few options. So, I think I would narrow my search to WordPress plugins rather than trying to strip out 85% of the functionality that exists in bbPress.

My 2¢

[Fender]

I have an alternate question on this now.

I want http://www.domain.com/bbPress/ to always be what would normally be displayed at http://www.domain.com/bbPress/topic.php?id=2.

I know how to manipulate the templates sufficiently to cripple the navigation and make it look like there is only one page, but I don’t know how to change front-page.php (as referred to in index.php) to essentially be topic.php?id=2 so that is the default index view.

Any ideas?

[aboutonlinetips]

Chrishajer,

I was able to pull out log files..

/home1/aboutonl/public_html/bbpress/error_log: [05-Jan-2009 10:59:26] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function do_action() in /home1/aboutonl/public_html/bbpress/index.php on line 6 [05-Jan-2009 11:08:16] PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function do_action() in /home1/aboutonl/public_html/bbpress/index.php on line

What should I do now?

[Sheer Progress]

I know all about databases, I’ve been working with MySQL for years, have had 3 different sites, all with autonomous forums. I’ve had occasions to uninstall and reinstall after removing database tables. Plug-ins shouldn’t leave hidden files like that. Once you remove the tables, they should all be gone, and that’s not the case here. There are still items in my tables that have %bb in them and I’m afraid to delete them because they are so integrated with word-press. I switched to Simple Press and have found it much more user friendly and their support outstanding. I’m having a couple little issues and I’m convinced they have to do with the installation of this plug-in.

I appreciate what goes into development, so please don’t get me wrong. I just think people should heed the warning before proceeding.

[Fender]

I’m not even considering Joomla for this. Joomla is for the news part of our site and not a consideration for this at all.

I’m basically tossing up between bbPress and WordPress.

I like the bbPress plugin bbPress Moderation Suite because it will allow my moderators to ban users for a period, generate an email and automatically remove the ban once it expires. However, I’m yet to find a way to reverse the order of posts in a topic so it’s most recent to least recent.

However, I find it easier to limit WordPress to only showing a “single topic” because, essentially, I can just post a single item and have the Comments do the rest. With some minor tweaks I can have the default WordPress page as the single post and remove other navigation features. I have the plugin for reversing the sort order so that’s covered too. But the user moderation features don’t appear to match that of “bbPress Moderation Suite” and I’m keen to have that for my moderators.

Basically, I’m looking for forum-like features with the following constraints:

• a single topic and viewing it is the default page
• descending sort order
• no user private messaging

If I can then add poll and live chat plugins, as well as some basic filtering options by allowing posters to tag their posts, that would be a bonus.

[ganzua]

This will never happen because it’s physically impossible as the code is designed.

Ok then the plugin will have to put wp inside bbpress but I still think that it will be a bbpress plugin.

I even could think in another solution; turning wp comment system into a forum. You only had to allow all members to post in the wp blog, make a custom category for them and a custom template for that category. There would be no front-page though.

BTW, _ck_, could you please tell us how did you add pagination to front-page latest posts in your bbpress showcase?