[_ck_]

If you have an .htaccess file in your bbpress directory, remove it or rename it temporarily and see if the 404’s go away.

[_ck_]

ah you are right

Opened a TRAC ticket on this.

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/785

[deesdogcare]

Sorry about the site name, _ck_! I agree with your decision, much easier to get it right when I type it in!

I’m so glad you knew where to find Omegacool ~~~ that theme is perfect!

Thanks so much!

D

[_ck_]

Omegacool has a wp.com site too, there are download links there as well:

http://mundoarroba.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/theme-misty-para-bbpress/

(ps. it’s bbShowcase.org I decided bbpressshowcase was just too long and too many sss’s

[t3ch33]

by mass edit/delete, i mean edit/delete multiple posts at once (with a checkbox). I don’t want to click each one, then click the pop-up dialogue boxes that ask me to confirm the delete.

[sessionx]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to also furnish a few colleagues a German assistance side approximately over bbPress, so that the German users also an approach place to have and can exchange itself, because on bbPress.de already for a long time nix more is the matter, so that we want to take over the support. Now is my question whether correct it is and whether the name may be used bbPress in the Domaion? I would be pleased much about a positive answer. Yours sincerely

[deesdogcare]

Anyone know what happened to Omegacool??? Ican’t get this theme, but I saw it on http://www.bbpressshowcase.com and loved it! I think I would be able to work my own site’s theme into it fairly well.

Thanks!

D

[_ck_]

If you cannot get into admin panel it’s one of two reasons:

1. cookie hashes & paths don’t match

2. you do not have the proper role set under bbpress as administrator

The 404’s may be caused by turning on slugs without multiviews or proper mod_rewrite rules. If you have slugs turned on, turn them off temporarily (in your config.php) until you solve the other problem. ie.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

I am betting on the role not being set in bbPress that’s preventing you from getting to the admin panel. This can be inspected/fixed via phpmyadmin. I’ve been meaning to write an auto-load plugin to fix this issue automagically.

UPDATE:

I’ve whipped up a little plugin to restore proper admin access roles for both bbPress and WordPress without having to tinker in phpmyadmin:

http://bbshowcase.org/plugins/fix_admin_access.zip

Copy this to your plugins directory in bbPress OR WordPress (not both). Then access bbPress or WordPress (whichever you used). Then test you can access admin panel. Then DELETE the plugin off your server. There is no reason to leave it there.

(you MUST leave the leading underscore “_” on the plugin name which makes it auto-load without having to activate it first. I have not tested it from the WP side but in theory should be fine.)

[_ck_]

If you look in your admin panel under content, you should have the new content->posts feature where you can search for posts by specific users, content, etc. Then you can delete via the list.

should be under the admin panel under content, or

/forums/bb-admin/content-posts.php

[t3ch33]

This code is supposed to go in bb-admin/install.php for the plugin that allows users to post anonymously. My bbpress was already active when I discovered the plugin, so, of course, i didn’t want to run the install file again. So, can you translate this for me so that I can possibly make the changes manually? Thanks. The code is as follows:

bb_update_usermeta( '0', $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities', array('anonymous' => true) );

[t3ch33]

hans3, thank you. that worked.

[t3ch33]

is there a way to mass edit/delete posts?

where do if ind bbpress themes?

Thanks.

[hans3]

You create a my-plugins folder where your forum is installed and put them in there.

[t3ch33]

where do you place plugins in bbpress?

[cart3r]

The notions about the fold and some other things finally got through me. I just changed things around further; requiring registration to see the content, among other things.

I really like how easy it was with BBpress to make these changes possible – literally less than 20mins. To make things show up only when a user is logged in, I used a bunch of these:

<?php

if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {

include ‘path/to/include.php’;

}

else {

echo ‘ ‘;

}

?>

[t3ch33]

This is almost working for me. My bbpress was already active, so i didn’t want to run the modified install file. Here is the code that’s in the bb-admin/install.php file:

// Anonymous User

$now        = bb_current_time('mysql');

$bbdb->query("INSERT INTO $bbdb->users (user_login, user_registered)

VALUES ('anonymous', '$now')");

$bbdb->query("UPDATE $bbdb->users SET ID = '0' WHERE user_login = 'anonymous'");

bb_update_usermeta( '0', $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities', array('anonymous' => true) );

Since my bbpress is already active, I have manually updated my users table by following the guideline in the above code. But, I have no idea what the last line of code means: bb_update_usermeta( '0', $bb_table_prefix . 'capabilities', array('anonymous' => true) );

Can you modify it so that I can manually update the db or do whatever needs to be done to make it work? Thanks.

[_ck_]

Note there’s a similar (but slightly different situation) here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/key-master-is-not-allowed-to-add-forums?replies=3

and here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/key-master-doesnt-have-permission-to-add-forum

Are you using the “use display name” plugin?

That may be the culprit, try deactivating.

[hans3]

The original KeyMaster created on install has suddenly lost the ability to create new forums. The following error message is displayed.

“You don’t have permission to do that.”

I created a new user and bumped it up to Keymaster and it does have the ability to create new forums.

With some guidance from _ck_ I went into phpmyadmin and compared the bb_capabilities between the two users. There was a slight difference (which I stupidly didn’t record), so I copied the capabilities from the new keymaster and pasted them in place of the old keymasters capabilities.

Unfortunately this did not resolve the problem. Both keymasters have identical usermeta now, and its still not working.

I have bbpress integrated with WordPress, so the user data is shared between the two systems.

Any ideas?

[t3ch33]

This is still an issue for me. I downloaded bbPress a few days ago. I don’t have a reply form when viewing single topics. When I click the >> next to Reply, I get the following path: topic/13?replies=1#postform (I’m using pretty urls)

What is the correct path to the reply form?

[howtogeek]

It’s absolutely based on the traffic of your forum… my forum seems to have new content indexed within about 12 hours, but sometimes it might be up to a day.

[chrishajer]

Requirements

MySQL 4.0 ( I would look for 5.x for futureproofing)

PHP 4.2 ( Again, I would look for 5.x here)

Apache with mod_rewrite

That’s all your host needs to offer. I would expect to pay less than $10/month. It might be a lot less if the host does not offer shell access (just FTP.)

[johnwade]

I learned from a search on The WordPress forums that my “Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted” can be addressed via an edit of php.ini. However I don’t think that is an option as I’m on a shared server and it is pre set and the host won’t budge.

Additionally I also learned they are running a very old version of php and have no plans of upgrading.

So I think it will be time to make a change.

I lack the experience and ability to have a broader view as to what my needs are and will be regarding seeking a new host and would like some guidance from people not only more experienced but with an eye to the future development of bbpress and wordpress.

In short, what minimum features should I be looking for, who do you recommend, and what should I pay? I will need a company with good tech support as I’m a dog trainer first and site manager second and that’s a really distant second. It wouldn’t be possible at all without the assistance these forums provide.

jw

[chrishajer]

bbPress does not create the .htaccess file. You have to manually create it with a text editor either on the server, on locally, then upload it. The file can contain one of two things:

1. Options +MultiViews

or

2. visit http://website.com/dir/bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php

That script will generate the rules you need to put in your .htaccess file. Use this if the first option does not work.

If you cannot get permalinks working, just change the mod_rewrite line to false in your config, so you can at least use your forum until you get permalinks working.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

[chrishajer]

I noticed that it depends on how much traffic the forum gets. If the forum has lots of activity, it gets indexed more quickly. It also seems to matter if you use the Google webmaster tools like the sitemap. I notice that soon after logging into the webmaster tools to check on *whatever*, Google crawls most of my sites.

I also see a direct correlation between how busy the forum is and how many spam registrations there are. More legitimate activity, more spammers register every day.

[mikeyc]

I’ve had a look through the forum and this seems common, but my problem seems different.

The forum is there, but almost everything I click on goes to a 404 page.

I’ve tried changing the config.php back to mod rewrite = false, and I’ve tried deleting the database and starting again.

I’d be grateful for any help and advice.

It’s at http://www.gudbux.com/community/bbpress

Thank you.

MC