[zulan]

I follow this with great interest since I have almost the same problem. I dont even see the admin admin, I only have one admin and that is my account since if I try to use it I get to edit my profile. I’ve tried entering the path http://www.zulan.se/bbpress/bb-admin/ but it only takes me to the first page

I have checked my AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY AND LOGGED_IN_KEY and they are for sure the same since I havent changed them. So both my wp and bb config says like this:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.

[TrishaM]

I actually have a closely related but slightly different need – I need bbPress to NOT strip out the target if I manually enter it into an <a> tag and, ideally, to also not strip out the rel=”nofollow”

This plugin does add the rel=”nofollow” to links, but I wouldn’t want that added to my internal links, just external ones. But it is not adding the target=”_blank” and bbPress is still stripping it if I add it manually. Again, I wouldn’t want it added for internal links, just external (we want ALL internal (on-site) links to open in the same window, but want ALL external links to open in a new window).

The only way I know of to get this granularity of control is to do them manually, but dang it bbPress keeps removing them.

I agree totally that it’s not good to mess with core files, and I try to avoid it at all costs, but this is a very important issue for us – so if there is no plugin to add this level of control, how can I modify my file(s) to do this? I would happily add a functions.php to my theme and put it there, but am not a good enough coder to write this function myself.

Any suggestions?

[chrishajer]

There was also this recent discussion:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mass-email-function

[chrishajer]

Would there be any content at all from the forums? The reason I ask is that instead of using bbPress for the newsletter, you could just sign people up for a newsletter service like AWeber if no content is from the forum. Under 500 subscribers is $19/month.

http://www.aweber.com/

[chrishajer]

So, when members join, they can opt in to your newsletter. You want to use bbPress as sort of a member database. But the content you send out would not be bbPress topics and replies necessarily, but maybe something written by you, with links to topics in the forum you found interesting, or topics with no replies, or topics with lots of activity?

Just trying to get a clear picture of what you want to do. Thanks.

[danbbpress]

I know this issue has been raised several times before (example posts: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/newsletter-by-email#post-3596 , http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-request-weekly-newsletter#post-16847 ).

I too would find it very helpful to have a way of sending out a newsletter to forum members (with the option to opt in at signup). I do not use WordPress on my website so integrating BBPress with WP is not an option. Is a newsletter plugin for BBPress going to be developed?

Thanks.

Dan

[danbbpress]

I just installed this plugin http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/ that automatically adds new posts to an author’s favorites. However, in order for the post’s author to receive a notification email for a new post he/she must also turn on email notifications in the admin area.

My question: is there a way to change the code to have these email notifications turned on by default?

[_ck_]

update: I’ve now included this functionality in the topics-per-page plugin so use that instead which is maintained and not this mini-plugin which will not work properly with 1.0a

Here’s something I had made a mental note of quite awhile ago but forgot to do, add pagination to the front-page for the latest discussions. You can see a demo near the bottom of http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

(the following two functions are included in the 0.0.4 version of topics-page-page plugin, so don’t use them if you have that)

add_filter('get_latest_topics_limit','front_page_pagination',999);

function front_page_pagination($limit="") {

global $page;

if (is_front() && $page>1) {$limit.=" OFFSET ".($page-1)*bb_get_option('page_topics');}

return $limit;

}

function front_page_pages() {

global $page, $bbdb;

echo get_page_number_links( $page, $bbdb->get_var("SELECT SUM(topics) FROM $bbdb->forums"));

}

1. add to your front-page.php template

<div class="nav"><?php front_page_pages(); ?></div>

AFTER

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

</table>

2. If you use rewrite slugs you MUST add the following rule to your .htaccess file

RewriteRule ^page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/?page=$1 [L,QSA]

anywhere before </IfModule>

where /forums/ is the path to your bbpress install.

[chrishajer]

If you are using WordPress, you need to read this about WordPress integration, to have access to WordPress functions like get_footer, get_sidebar and get_header.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/#func

[chrishajer]

bbpress/my-templates/front-page.php is the template file that controls the look of the front page. You might want to put it right before the “discussions” div.

[chrishajer]

You can create a full plugin out of it, then activate the plugin, or _ck_ likes to create a single plugin for all the miscellaneous tweaks or mini-plugins, then add this to that file. Adding this to a file of other mini-plugins means you cannot activate and deactivate this independently. That works for tweaks you will always want to use.

A plugin header will need to look something like this:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: bbPress Tweaks

Plugin URI: http://www.example.com

Description: Various tweaks to bbPress

Author: You

Version: 0.1

*/

Add the above code after that, and call the file bbpress-tweaks.php, put it in my-plugins, then activate it in the bbPress admin. It should look like this when you’re done:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: bbPress Tweaks

Plugin URI: http://www.example.com

Description: Various tweaks to bbPress

Author: You

Version: 0.1

*/

function meta_keywords() {

global $tags;

if (!empty($tags)) {

$keywords="";

foreach ($tags as $t) {

$keywords.=$t->raw_tag.', ';

}

echo "n".'<meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="'.trim($keywords,", ").'">'."n";

}

}

add_action('bb_head', 'meta_keywords',;

?>

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Those plugins come default for 1.0alpha2 under the plugins tab, you have to turn them on. I suspect it’s POSSIBLE if you downloaded the alpha version, they might work in a non-alpha install, but it’s untested.

But really, if you’re just moving your domain, you can pretty much do what you’d do for WordPress or any other PHP/SQL driven site. You have two basic options.

1. Download a copy of the main bbpress files from your OLD server to your hard drive and edit wp-config.php to suit the new server.
2. Go back to your OLD forum and go to options and change the url (both of them) to that of your new site.
3. Download your database (but keep the old one just in case), upload this new database and the copy of the wordpress core files with the edited bb-config.php to your NEW server.

Or…

1. Install a new forum on the new server.
2. Export the forum content from the OLD server into a BBXF file
3. Import the data into the new forum.

[vadi]

Where can the above code be stuffed, _ck_?

[keress]

We are setting up a private forum and need to have a few paragraphs show, describing what it’s about and who should consider registering. At this point, to the unregistered/unlogged in there’s no text at all

http://www.addiva.net/bbpress/

How do I go about adding it? What file in the template is controlling this?

[random73]

I am super new at this so please be gentle.

I copied the database info from my wp-config into the bbpress config but i am getting these errors.

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ” (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/wpb0776/public_html/bbpress/bb-config.php on line 7

Warning: Unexpected character in input: ” (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/wpb0776/public_html/bbpress/bb-config.php on line 8

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/wpb0776/public_html/bbpress/bb-config.php on line 10

I have no idea what this means? please any help would be great.

Thanks

[Ben L.]

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/automated-forum-moderation/

Blocks common (and sometimes accidental) human-generated spam automatically.

[vadi]

I need to move bbpress forums to another host. I’ve looked about for an import/export function in the Admin area, but didn’t find one.

Is there any solution besides manually tinkering with the database?

Thank you.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Jorja Fox: Online and the Forums are finally done.

I’ve had the blog up for a couple years (it got taken down and revamped when it crashed my server with bad code and bad bandwidth usage). No ‘hacks’ involved, though I did tweak some plugins.

Using:

• Akismet
• Allow Images (commented out two lines to allow for images without blowing up code)
• Bad Behavior (the generic file provided by the creator, with a plugin header added to allow it to be pluggable)
• bbPress Smilies
• Comment Quicktags for bbPress (added in my spoiler tags)
• Mass Edit – Moderate Posts
• Spoiler Tags
• Unread Posts

The design is based on the Dignity Theme, and then hacked to kingdom come to make it, among other things, variable width.

[chrishajer]

_ck_, I think the “Options -MultiViews” is a 1&1 specific thing (turning that off so you can use the good rewrite rules.)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16050

[_ck_]

timskii, that makes a nice little plugin:

function meta_keywords() {

global $tags;

if (!empty($tags)) {

$keywords="";

foreach ($tags as $t) {$keywords.=$t->raw_tag.', ';}

echo "n".'<meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="'.trim($keywords,", ").'">'."n";

}

} add_action('bb_head', 'meta_keywords',;

[_ck_]

I believe 1.0 has 404 support like WP does but the unthemed die page is something I’ve complained about for over a year now to no avail. They just don’t want to add a hook for it so you would have to hack the core to change it unfortunately. It’s really unprofessional.

essentially in functions.php

find function bb_die( $message, $title = '' ) {

and change

bb_install_header( $title );

to

bb_get_header();

then change

bb_install_footer();

to

bb_get_footer();

One easy way for them to solve this is to move bb_die into pluggable.php, so Sam if you are reading this?

[agitainment]

Hi, there.

I have been able to get numeric pretty permalinks to work on my bbpress site (http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/) but not the name-based permalinks, which is what I’d like to have.

I’m using 1and1 hosting, and I followed the setup at http://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks. I added Options -MultiViews to the top of the code generated by /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php in my .htaccess file (as detailed at http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dropping-multiviews-support#post-16050). In addition I have set $bb->mod_rewrite = true in my bb-config.php. My forums are in the same database as WordPress.

Any idea on how to get the name based permalinks working?

Cheers.

[agitainment]

Hi, there.

I’m trying to figure out how to get my theme (http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/) to use the 404.php page that I’ve styled to fit with my theme. Currently all 404’s are using the default provided by my host or the bbPress die page.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

[agitainment]

Hey, there.

Well I finally got around to validating my feeds. They do in fact validate, but I’m still getting the document tree intermittently on Firefox 3.0.3 for Mac OSX. I don’t seem to be having a similar problem on Safari (though I haven’t tested it as extensively). Here’s the output for the feed at http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/rss.php?forum=3:

<!– generator=”bbPress” –>

−

<rss version=”2.0″>

−

<channel>

−

<title>

Agitainment Forum: Forum: Stan and Jess – Recent Posts

</title>

<link>http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/</link&gt;

<description>Pulse-Pounding Agitainment Letters-Page and Forum!</description>

<language>en</language>

<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 17:36:29 +0000</pubDate>

−

<item>

<title>admin on “Stan and Jess is on the way!”</title>

−

<link>

http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/topic.php?id=14#post-30

</link>

<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:57:57 +0000</pubDate>

<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>

<guid isPermaLink=”false”>30@http://agitainment.com/ics/forum/</guid>

−

<description>

<p>If you haven’t already been to stanandjess.com, there is currently a place-holder cartoon on the site. Rest assured, the real cartoon is coming soon and will be updating weekly. I’ll be sure to let you all know when I roll out the first strips.

</p>

</description>

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

As I mentioned before, if I page back on the browser and hit the feed again, it usually works.

Is it possible this is a Firefox issue?

Any ideas?

[chrishajer]

OK, the little “admin” is your username, the big “Admin” is the link to your administration area. That’s the screenshot I am looking for – when you click “Admin” what does the screen look like. Does it look like this?

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/admin-dashboard.png