[suzkaw]

This theme has just been updated and you can get the latest version (v0.3) from here:

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

Changes Include:

1. Moved search to nav bar.

2. Added support for js sub navigation

3. Moved login to sidebar

4. Added bbpress logo to footer. Thanks to Paul.

[John James Jacoby]

I think that site naviation really depends on how much traffic your forum has, how much you want it to have, and in what route you want your traffic to reach its destination.

The typical forum layout comes from catering to new visitors that want descriptions of each category, and from repeat visitors wanting to check if there are updates to that category without having to click into that category.

Tags don’t offer either of these options inherently.

If tags could visually signify if there are new posts for the visitor inside of them, maybe with emphasis or italics or reordering them to the front of the cloud, that would be a neat idea.

bbPress tends to take a different approach on forum/topic importance, by emphasising on the most recently replied to topics right on the front page. I consider this more of a feature of a slow moving bulletin board more than for a large one. I know some large technical forums that would show 20 different posts on every page refresh with this type of last reply based concept.

Tags are interesting because they are user editable and provide a wiki-esque style of topic organization. 99% of users will obey this, but it still requires a bit of moderation and attention. Using categories that users cannot edit allows for you to legitimately categorize your data, rather than have it free flowing any and everywhere. Also, how do you compensate for the “New Topic” screen where there is a category drop-down? If your authors aren’t familiar with the concept and meaning of your forums categories, yet they are forced to choose one, this will result in topics being put into the database almost at random, making it difficult for you to moderate them.

I see how this idea can be appealing, and I see how it could work in some instances, but I think this type of idea is more suitable for a WordPress type blog/CMS than for a forum.

[chrishajer]

Ignoring the debate over whether it’s a feature or a bug, good or bad, you could just remove the capability from the member role. It’s coded in bb-includes/functions.bb-capabilities.php line 170, “edit_tags”. You could delete that line and members would not be able to edit tags any longer. I’m not sure if that means they can’t add tags to their own post or not though.

Also, instead of modifying a core file like that, you could probably use a plugin to remove that capability from the member role. Or you could create a whole new role that does not have that capability. I think there was a plugin related to custom roles:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/disable-posting-and-registration#post-11696

[wiseacre]

@chrishajer – I am not using unfinished software – I’m preparing for the future.

@Ipstenu – Thanks!!! I can do this but average key master … I don’t know. I thing bbpress needs a setting for this.

@ All – Merry Christmas!!!

[dirge2000]

Dunno what’s going on, but I’ve just installed bbpress at http://www.corvidaid.org/forum/ and for some reason extra characters are being added into the page just at the start. View the source code and you see “ousep” just being spat out at random. I have no idea where it’s coming from or what to do about it. Help!

[Fernando Tellado]

I’m finishing my new forum (latest was made with SMF). I’m using bbPress 1.0 alpha 4 with the default theme (in blue and customized) and several plugins (a lot):

– Akismet

– Attachments

– Favourites notification

– Registration notification

– Temporal Ban

– bbcode buttons

– smileys buttons

– Related topics

– Signatures

– bbcode lite

– bbvideo

– post count plus

– support forum

– mass edit

– hidden forums

– active users

– bbpress karma

– terms of service

– human test

– report post

I’ve made the translation of bbPress 1.0 to spanish ( http://ayudawordpress.com/bbpress-espanol-alpha-104/ ) and the forum URL is …

htp://foro.ayudawordpress.com

[chrishajer]

Would this tip have helped?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-use-bbpress-outside-the-bbpress-directory

[ganzua]

Hi Istelie! Thanks for your answer

I came across before the post that is suggested in your thread;

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permanently-deleting-topocs-and-posts

but it is not exactly what I want because I can edit myself the database using phpmyadmin, I don’t need any script.

What I want is to substitute topic_delete_link() function in my template for a new function that can permanently delete a post.

I can’t believe there isn’t any. Can’t you use bb_delete_posts() to do this?

[lstelie]

Hello,

It’s a classic

Have a look here : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/10-trunk-1806-how-to-delete-deleted-messages

BBPress has a very nice frontend, a fantastic engine, but no real admin (alpha level so work in progress..), hopefully, Santa got us PhPMyAdmin….

Luc

[TechGnome]

Hot Dang! I finally got my radio station web site up and running using bbPress! You can see it here: http://tannagh.com … as you can see, the front page isn’t your out of the box bbPress front page. It’s actually driven by a completely different database on a different server all together. It rocks! Getting that one page to work as it currently does was a big pain. I still have some work to do on the site, like getting the search and request functionality working, but just getting what I did was a big hurdle. I’ve now got a handle on how bbP works, the rest should be fairly smooth. *crosses fingers…. arms…. legs…. hairs… knocks on wood*

Go ahead, take a look, poke around a little. Just don’t sign up for the forums, as I’ll be clearing them out again after some testing. To get to the forums themselves, click the link in the left hand “TR Listener Forums”. The new front page was rendered using a plugin that I’m developing to integrate with the station’s database, creating a new file in the template to display the info, and creating a new root file “forums.php” which is an exact copy of the original index.php file. Index.php is then routed to the new front page file in the template.

Some stats:

Template: BlackLetterhead by Ulysses Ronquillo

bbPress Version: what ever stable I downloaded about two weeks ago.

Running SpacialAudio’s SAM Broadcaster 4.3.6

Licensing via LoudCity

Rendered using new & customized template and root files

Driven by samPHPWeb-bbPress plugin

-tg

[uv777bk]

I’m using the popular iNove theme for both bbPress and WordPress here…

Barack Obama UFO

http://www.barackobamaufo.com/bbpress/

Plugins:

bbPress Smilies

BBcode Lite

Cheers!

[TechGnome]

I’m not sure if this is a rant, a request for help, or a general gripe.

I want to replace the default front page with something else. I’m building a website for an online radio station, and when visitors first hit the site, I want them to see current info, like what’s playing, what’s up next, and the last few that played. From there, there would also be a “Listener Forums” link that would take them to another page that would be the forums’ front page.

Trying to be smart about it, I took index.php from the root, copied it, and renamed it “forums.php”. Then I went into the template, copied front-page.php and renamed the copy “station.php”. So far, so good. Then things went wrong from there.

Back at the root, I opened the index.php and changed it to call station.php instead of front-page.php. I then went to my website, and made sure that index.php was still working, which it was. Again, so far, so good. At this point station.php and front-page.php are exactly the same, as are index.php and station.php, with the one exception. But I should still get the exact same thing from both index.php and forums.php (or so I thought). When I visited the forums.php of my site…. I noticed it was….. off… and not a little, the layout as a whole was jacked with very little in the wrong place.

Careful scrutiny of the source for both pages led me to find out that on the forums.php version, I was missing the ID off of my body tag. Eh? I finally found the location in the bbPress file that returns the body id…. and sure enough…. because my “file” doesn’t fit into the list… I’m not getting a body id…. well, this isn’t very flexible. My first thought was to create my own version and include it in my functions file…. but that’s hardly a solution.

So, am I stuck? Do I need to consider something else? How do I get around this? I’ve got other files I will be adding to my site like this… so this is just the first of several times this is going to happen to me. I’m just glad that I didn’t fully finish the plugin I was working on. I would hate to have wasted my time on something that I can’t use.

annoyed and frustrated,

-tg

[winmutt]

This one actually works. bbpress in /forums/

“^/forums/forum/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/forum/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/forum.php?id=$1”,

“^/forums/topic/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/topic/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/topic.php?id=$1”,

“^/forums/tags/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/tags/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/tags.php?tag=$1”,

“^/forums/tags/?$” => “/forums/tags.php”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/favorites/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=favorites”,

“^/forums/profile/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/profile.php?id=$1”,

“^/forums/view/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$” => “/forums/view.php?view=$1&page=$2”,

“^/forums/view/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/view.php?view=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/?$” => “/forums/rss.php”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/forum/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?forum=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/topic/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?topic=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/tags/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?tag=$1”,

“^/forums/rss/forums/profile/([^/]+)/?$” => “/forums/rss.php?profile=$1”

[sbouazza]

I don’t have finished the template ( I only made the design in The GIMP ), so I don’t have it online now ( because I need more ideas, and this is one of those ) .

I want only know if users prefer to navigate with the classical categories or with the bbpress tags ( I think it offers a more attractive way, an infinite number of “categories”, and users are free to create their own ) .

[sbouazza]

Hello !

As I don’t like the classical forums layout, I want to make something newer and original ( almost all BBPress forums have the same layout, except some original ones like 9rules, Punaji etc… ), I’m almost done with the design .

And as I want it to look more “web 2.0”, I decided to hide the categories list and to force the user to use only the tags for navigation .

What do you think ?

PS : Sorry if this is the bad place for this thread !

[wmnasef]

i wrote it assuming the conversion is done on a new empty bbpress installation. then integrating it later with WP. they call it reverse integration on this post https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17411

[ganzua]

Buen trabajo! (automatic translation; Good job!)

[Fernando Tellado]

Buenas

Acabo de traducir bbPress 1.0.4 Alpha al Español. Si queréis descargar tanto el .MO como el .PO los tenéis en mi blog.

¡Feliz Navidad!

[Fernando Tellado]

Buenas

Acabo de traducir bbPress 1.0.4 Alpha al Español. Si queréis descargar tanto el .MO como el .PO los tenéis en mi blog.

¡Feliz Navidad!

[chrishajer]

What versions of bbPress and WordPress are installed?

[Buca]

It turns out that the problem was caused by removing the “pick a section” bit of the post-form.php file. Thanks for the help guys.

[thewebdev87]

Ok so, I followed this tutorial exactly but, still received an error when installing my bbpress. Here is a screenie of what the error looks like. http://www.premdesigns.com/error.jpg It seems to be the exact same error as biscuit had. I’ve tried to install by following the video each time. Each time I start with a new database and I seem to get the same error every time. Did anyone have a fix to this problem?

[displayname]

All I need to do is change the link for the topic as the first post’s content.

Here is the original in the topics table on front-page.php

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a><?php topic_page_links(); ?></td>

It needs to become

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a><?php topic_page_links(); ?></td>

(saying I put a url in the post’s content) but post_text doesn’t work. Any way to get around this?

[John James Jacoby]

I would think this would be best acheived with the post meta plugin. Sure its possible but I bet theres better software out there that might be more suitable for this type of task.

[walkerevans]

I’ve been installing a copy of bbpress for a new site launch for a few weeks now. Mostly it’s been going pretty smooth, but tonight I realized I’m not able to change any of my member profile settings as an admin.

My install is tied into WordPress, and I can change user settings from the admin panel there, but from bbpress I cannot edit any settings for any users but myself. It almost looks as if some required field isn’t being entered when I attempt to change anything. I get no error messages.

I’ve been wracking my brain for an hour on this and am totally stumped. I disabled all of my plugins but the problem persisted.

I need to be able to edit users! Halp!