[Erica S]

If there’s nothing on your forum yet, then just do a clean install. You have to rename the folder before you install it.

[jimmie65]

Currently, I’m using myBB on my website (http://forum.compassionatechristianity.org). Is it possible to switch over the current database to BBpress?

[springnet]

I did exactly the same thing and pffft. So I had to rename it back from forum to bbpress on http://spring.net/bbpress (for now!) until I can get it to work at http://spring.net/bb/ (hopefully soon)

[dallasbpeters]

Ok. I got an error when looking for the config file because I did not have an .htacess file in the root. So I manually uploaded the config.php file and now it seems to be working without the .htacess file.

[dallasbpeters]

Same problem. No luck here.

MySQL 4.0.23

PHP 4.4

Hmmm.

[841434]

OK, I’m not sure this is the right place for this but here goes.

I’ve already set up my site. My home page is a wordpress blog that is integrated with bbpress. The bulk of the site is plain html pages. I find that when I pull a post out of wp and put it in a streamlined html page google does a better job of picking adds that match the content and I get more clicks on advertising. Now the question/problem. I want to keep the comments at the bottom of each post after I’ve moved it over to html. They are still there in bbpress and I can place a link to the forum, but I would much prefer to have the comments visible at the bottom of each post. If this is going to be too much work for someone literate in html, semi-literate in php and illiterate in css, then is there someone that can and will write a hack for it?

[dpeeples]

i followed your instructions as well as i could but got a messed up page after inserting the

$bb->uri = ‘http://your-domain-name.com/forum-path/’

portion in the config code.

Where exactly should it go?

thanks much for the help.

[chrishajer]

Read this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-i-renamed-my-bbpress-file-directory-name

This topic is so similar, I actually thought it was the other one.

[dpeeples]

oops….no go. it worked good to navigate to the forum main page, but it messed up any folder under the bbpress/forum folder.

any ideas?

[dpeeples]

thank you much….so just rename the file? here goes….

[Erica S]

Yes you can do this, I did the same thing.

[dpeeples]

can i just rename my bbpress folder to forum to get my forum url to indicate “forum” instead of “bbpress”?

thanks…probably been answered countless times, i just can’t find it.

[775251]

Hi Detective —

I just tried installing this plugin, and adjusted all the settings per your instructions, but I can’t seem to get it to work.

I see the input field in profile-edit.php now, but once I upload a photo into it, it does not appear in the wp-content/uploads/user-photo folder, nor does it appear on the page.

I’m using:

userphoto_display_selector_fieldset($user->ID);

in profile-edit.php, and calling the photo via:

bb_get_photo ( $user->ID );

in profile.php.

Any advice on how to get it to work?

[davidbaldwin]

ok, i downgraded from wordpress 2.6 to wordpress 2.5.1, and now I’m getting a “This username does not exist.” in bbpress when I try and log in. I can log into wordpress just fine, just not bbpress.

http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/

what gives?

[_ck_]

You’re seeing it wrong.

The core files of bbPress should never be touched so they can be easily upgraded whenever a new version or security fix comes around.

my-plugins and my-templates keeps all your stuff seperate from bbPress’s stuff on purpose for very good reason.

Don’t get crazy about one extra folder.

[chrishajer]

I just tried this same thing to see if I could recreate the problem. I renamed my bbpress folder, then navigated to the new URL. The forum came up. I tried to log in; I was redirected to the OLD url and got a WordPress 404 page since there is no page there.

Then, I added the line that _ck_ recommended in bb-config.php:

$bb->uri = ‘http://your-domain-name.com/forum-path/’;

And I navigated to the new URL again. The forum came up. Then I tried to log in, and I logged in fine. In the admin, in the settings tab, the new URL is there (the one I entered in the bb-config.php, per _ck_’s suggestion.)

If this was not your experience, maybe you have a problem with permalinks or mod_rewrite rules. Try turning permalinks off and navigating to the forum again.

p.s. I didn’t do anything with the cookies, and I do not have an integrated installation. Just a WordPress site with a forum in a sub-directory.

[thion]

@_ck_ – you of all people should know that you can do amazing things with bbPress .

@gio500000 – nice and clean design – I like it.

[djp]

Hi all

After much tweaking & relatively extensive style changes, I finally went live with my website.

I needed to make bbpress fit in with the clean, simple style of the rest of the site & to be completely honest, I think I did a great job. Please have a look at the forum as well as the rest of the site to get a feel of what I mean by ‘fitting in’.

Comments are most certainly welcome, good & bad

http://www.mastercleanse.co.za/forum

[deltaqo]

thanks for the reply _ck_.

i tried your suggestion, and i’m still being redirected to my blog homepage when i try to access mysite/forum/bb-admin.

i’m wondering whether my BB_PATH settings got messed up when i switched the folder name manually?

also, how would i do a forced change of my cookiepath (as you suggest above)?

[gio500000]

ck – I am very happy with bbPress because it was painless to install, modify and develop around our brand. The only feature or plugin I wish was available was a way for users to easily follow forum topics via email. Something as easy as check this box to receive emails about this topic.

Thank you,

Gio

[810798]

thanks _ck_,

It seems to be a problem with when you include the wp-config… There must be a check somewhere in one of the files included in it that checks if that has been registered or is a banned blog, and wp-admin must be hardcoded in somewhere to be a safe directory.. i just havent had time to go through and look for where that happens.. been making a bunch of other customizations instead, as this problem can be solved by just using sub-domains..

James

[_ck_]

That wpmu tag is going to be your best friend:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/wpmu

Not many people with wpmu experience here.

I know Trent Adams uses it though (he’s also on IRC)

Also, wpmu 2.6 is a no-go with bbPress 0.9 because of cookies.

[_ck_]

Very nice! For a moment I was almost going to accuse you of advertising a non-bbpress forum here, LOL. It fooled me

[_ck_]

bb-plugins is for plugins that come with bbpress

It was created starting with 0.9 at my request to make akismet and bozo into plugins instead of automatically loaded with bbPress.

my-plugins is for your own plugins

Same concept with themes.

[Null]

Recently, there is a standard plugin folder called bb-plugins. Why is that? What is the difference between this plugin folder and the good old my-plugins folder?

Can we delete this old one and put all plugins in teh bb-plugin folder? I would like to know this so I can keep my bbpress folder clean and not having X folders containing different plugins.

So why do we have 2 plugin folders and can we delete my-plugins?