[tdrinker]

Thank you for your help.

I have set everything right, except I can’t find how to increase the size of three fonts:

the font used when a person is in the process of typing a post

and the tiny little font for for “posted # days ago”

the “send post” font

I want to make the font large enough for geriatric eyes

I am comfortable going into all the templates files and fooling around with them. my site, http://www.bookofmatthew.org demonstrates the extent of the rough surgery

I do wish I could keep a sign giving credit to bbPress, but unfortunately I was unable. perhaps there is a nice graphic saying bbPress I can put somewhere? I cannot write the code to put a sign at the bottom saying, “powered by bbPress”

I would like to cut out the “member” etc. designations given below the name of the poster

How can I tell how large to make the font and page?? It would seem to depend on the setting of the person’s computer, which is variable. On a Mac, if you hit command+ or command-, everything is enlarged or decreased

[chrishajer]

Yes, please keep your modifications restricted to files in the template folder. If you think you need to modify something outside that folder, it’s probably already possible with a plugin. If it’s not possible with a plugin, you’re getting into modifying the bbPress core, which is a very bad idea for keeping up with new releases.

I recommend copying all the stock theme files over to a new theme and then modify those files. That way, you can always refer back to the original if you break something, or you can even revert to the stock theme if you really break something.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/

Or this more recent explanation:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/deleting-allowed-markup-info-below-posting-field#post-19960

[tdrinker]

I know where the CSS code is for my bbPress site, but what parts are relevant for the following simple adjustments?

larger font size throughout

more narrow margins and a wider text area

taking out tags and other things like that

maybe even adding a big announcement at the head of my page?

taking away titles such as “member”

replacing the text ‘be brief and descriptive’

many thanks to anyone who can tell me

[Bharat Karavadra]

Just for information and perhaps integrity debates, I would like to tell you all that I currently only allow registration from WordPress.

I noticed a few messages about usernames with spaces and have found that WordPress allows registration with usernames with spaces, and bbPress does allow login with the same.

However, I have found that the general normal condition on the Net is that usernames do not have spaces.

This could be seen as a great advantage of WordPress and bbPress or it could disturb the status quo.

Everyone’s feedback would be appreciated.

[Vivid]

I haven’t attempted this alpha 2 install yet, but I will sometime this weekend hopefully, however, in regards to the issue that bharatk was seeing in alpha 1… I was seeing the same thing. When integrating with WordPress 2.6.2, from the looks of it, you are only able to be logged in AND access the admin page of either WordPress or bbPress at one time. It seemed to work fine as a normal user to log into both entities at the same time and retain function, but I can double check that again before I upgrade. It just seems like the Admin functionality is limited to being logged in to either WordPress or bbPress at one time. If you log into one and then want to go to the other, you have to log out of the original one you logged in to. Let me know if you want any additional information before I upgrade and I can get it for you.

[Tom Lynch]

I have investigated some more it seems that new users of mu which own blogs get assigned as inactive on bbpress, dispite the role map being set to give them member level or higher for all levels on the role map.

Any suggestions, theres no error codes it just plain doesn’t like wpmu’s role map

[Tom Lynch]

I have just tried again now using alpha 2.0 and while the integration was easier and the keymaster seems to work fine user role maps still are not coming across from wpmu

[chrishajer]

Did you try installing it? Since bbPress is beta software and has undergone lots of changes in the past year, a lot of the early plugins don’t work without modification.

There was a reply recently by sambauers about subscribing yourself to the new posts feed and front page feed (I think) via an RSS to email service like Feedblitz. Then you could get notification in your email rather than RSS.

I think the creators of bbPress have gone down the path of RSS rather than email, for notifications. Adding back in the functionality for delivery via email is most likely going to always be via a plugin. Just my opinion.

[chrishajer]

I’ve seen a bunch of replies today regarding things you’re unhappy with being missing from bbPress, things that are handled by plugins that should not be. I think your idea of forum software is different from the creators ideas for bbPress. I don’t think all the functionality you are missing in bbPress is ever going to be in the bbPress core. I have no official word on the subject, but from watching the replies over the past two years regarding topic like this, I don’t think these things will ever be part of the core, but will be available as plugins.

Also, bbPress is alpha or beta software, depending on the version you installed, around two years old, where phpBB is something like eight years old.

bbPress isn’t for everyone. That’s why there are lots of forum packages out there. Something for everyone.

[chrishajer]

I don’t want those things in the bbPress core – I would never use them. That said, normally things like this can be added via plugins, which are optional and I wouldn’t have to install them. Best of both worlds.

I am curious why you selected bbPress over phpBB if these core features are already present in phpBB but not in bbPress? Not a flame, an honest question.

[eclipsenow]

Why on earth is there an image plug in? Why isn’t it a standard part of the main install? It seems that the BBpress logo should be…

“BBpress, the bulletin board that looks deceptively lean because… it is! Everything you take for granted isn’t there until you add a plug in”.

Surely email notification, email notification by forum subscribed to, images, WYSIWYG formatting, are all soooooo important and standard on other bulletin boards they should be part of the standard install?

But, I may never know the answer because I won’t get an email if someone replies to this thread.

[chrishajer]

Your users probably want to mark a topic as a favorite if they want an email when there is a reply. A topic created by a member does not automatically subscribe them to it as a favorite (I think in some versions of phpBB that’s how it works.)

For buttons, you probably want one of these two plugins:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-buttons/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quicktags-4-bbpress/

You’ll find with bbPress that most of the things you want to do can be accomplished with plugins.

[eclipsenow]

Personally, what I want from an email notification service is:-

1. To notify me of when someone replies, but not EVERYONE that replies.

I love the fact that in phpbb.com the email notifies you, you click on the url and go to the next reply to your last post, and then you note that there are 20 other replies that you can read through neatly on the BB, but NOT 20 other emails to delete! The whole point of BB’s is that they save email stress. I’d hate to lose this function just because we decided to go with bbpress not phpbb.

2. Being able to subscribe to not just threads, but FORUMS is also important for some users. In some large forums, some specialists need to know everything going on in that forum and might be so busy that they’d appreciate an email every time someone started a thread.

This sort of functionality should be standard in bbpress. I’m an activist spread very thinly over the internet, and RSS just doesn’t cut it. I might see a thread, register, comment, and then forget about that whole forum until someone eventually replies. The email keeps me going back. With so many bulletin boards and forums to reply to and keep track of — that ALL pretty much notify of reply by email — why would I bother messing around with RSS as well? My email box is king, only it grabs my attention. This function should not be a plugin.

3. There should be a function in my profile where I can just click an automatic email generator, so that ANY time I reply in ANY thread, I am automatically emailed if someone replies.

This is standard, basic bulletin board protocol and absolutely has to be in the standard installation.

[eclipsenow]

Hi all,

I’m used to phpbb.com software. Does BBpress have an email notification function that lets members know of replies to threads (instead of RSS)? I’m introducing a bunch of email list users to Bulletin Boards for the first time, and am really hoping this software works well.

Also, they are not very technical. Does BBpress have easy to use buttons for customising posts?

[blankpoint]

Looks great. What versions WP and BB are you using. If the most recent of each, how did you get the cookies to integrate? Right now, I and most other people it seems, can’t get it all working correctly. Logging in on one side results in only partial access and functionality in the other, it seems.

[xyhn]

Here’s my recently launched WordPress/bbPress site.

http://nightsed.com/

http://nightsed.com/forums

The custom design is integrated between the two sites. I’m using several bbPress and WordPress mods, but there is also some custom php work.

Cheers!

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/ was for the older version of bbPress. Not sure how well it works with 0.9.0.2. If you browse the bbsync tag, you will see some discussion.

[chrishajer]

On that page you sent, I can navigate forward and backward with the page number 1 or 2 and the next and previous links. So what is supposed to be broken? Looks like there are supposed to be 22 posts in that topic and I see 20 on the first page and 2 on the second page.

There was another topic that had 21 posts and it had two pages, 20 on the first page and 1 on the second.

I am focusing on the bbPress generated links at this point.

Maybe it’s different when you’re logged in? I was not. Also, FF3.

[epiphone]

To benefit fully from intergrating bbPress with my WordPress, I downgraded and went to WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.2. Now I know a plugin that allows you to display the last topics/discussion on your blog exists for bbPress 1.0, but I was wondering if something like this has been made for bbPress 0.9.2?

Thanks,

James

[mciarlo]

http://www.cairoshell.com/forum/topic.php?id=888&page=2

I’m using a page link plugin for the main page, but the links inside the thread are bbPress.

[-javier-]

I have found a problem with the login between WordPress and bbpress. Alpha 1 didn’t have this issue.

It’s the same as @bharatk reported.

[-javier-]

Any news about it? I have the same issue. May be downgrade to alpha 1 can be a solution?

[chrishajer]

Do you have a link to the page that’s a problem?

And is the link you’re clicking generated by a plugin or by the bbpress core?

[grenoli-dk]

I am having problems with the phpbb2bbpress converter (http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/).

When I run the file I just get this message. There isnt a sql-file to download or a file created on my server.

1: I downloaded the file from: http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/

2: I edited the lines I have written in bold.

Code:

define(‘DB_PHPBB_USERNAME’, ‘[strong]databasename[/strong]’);
define(‘DB_PHPBB_PASSWORD’, ‘[b]databasepassword[/b]’);
define(‘DB_PHPBB_DATABASE’, ‘[b]databasename[/b]’);
define(‘DB_PHPBB_TABLEPREFIX’, ‘phpbb_’);

define(‘DB_BBPRESS_HOSTNAME’, ‘localhost’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_USERNAME’, ‘[b]databasename[/b]’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_PASSWORD’, ‘[b]databasepassword[/b]’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_DATABASE’, ‘[b]databasename[/b]’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_TABLEPREFIX’, ‘bb_’);

I only have one database on my server, so the databasename and password is the same on the phpbb and bbpress part

Code:

define(‘EXPORT_TO_FILE’, true); // Should the converted DB be exported to a file ?
define(‘FILENAME’, ‘/tmp/phpbb_imported.sql’); // Which one ? (Ensure this path is writeable by the server)
define(‘AUTO_IMPORT_EXPORTED_DATA’, false); // Should the script automagically import the converted DB ?

3: I created the folder tmp at the root and used chmod on it.

4: I uploaded the file to the root and tried to open it but I couldnt. So I removed the s in .phps and it worked. But i only got this message – but nothing really happened. I cant download a file, and there is nothing on my server. What am I doing wrong?

Q! wrote:

phpBB to bbPress database converter

This script can convert a PhpBB 2.0.X (www.phpbb.com) forum database to bbPress “Bix” 0.73 (www.bbpress.org) format.

Developed by Jaime GÓMEZ OBREGÓN from ITEISA, based on the previous work of Bruno Torres and The phpBB Group.

The latest version of this file can be found on http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/.

Starting conversion

1.

Connected to the phpBB database host

2.

Selected the phpBB database

3.

Exporting forums…

4.

Exporting users…

5.

Exporting user metadata…

6.

Exporting topics…

7.

Exporting posts…

8.

Sending all your database e-mails to all major world-wide spam sending mafias…

‘strong’dsfgds’strong’

[wizzard1981]

Hello,

I’m having troubles with the bbPress 1.0-alpha-2 when removing in the admin page some posts.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php on line 527

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php:527) in /usr/home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 214

Cheers,

Kris