[Sam Bauers]

The files and folders need to be writable by the webserver user. You may have changed the permissions when you edited the files that exist there already.

The easiest approach (but insecure on shared hosting services) is to chmod the files.

chmod -R 777 bbpress-root/my-plugins

.

Or you can change ownership on those files to the webserver user, usually “www” or “apache” depending on the setup.

chown -R www:www bbpress-root/my-plugins

.

Remember that the upgrade facility of the plugin browser won’t maintain your manual changes to the plugins. You will need to re-edit the new versions.

Plugins that are installed normally will happily co-exist with those installed by the plugin-browser. Just keep them outside of the pb–xxxx folder structure.

[jolaedana]

Excellent idea! You’re bookmarked. Thanks.

[jolaedana]

Hello all,

I’m using the Plugin Browser by SamBauers.

I have a few plugins that I was using, and installed through this plugin (great stuff, btw) that I had modified the files on slightly. Main example here is the Page Links plugin- I had changed the page icon graphic to be different colors. I would like to overwrite the file in the Plugin Browser installation of the file, however it tells me I don’t have permissions to overwrite the file- or change permissions on the folder or files inside it.

Is there an easy work around for this, or should I just go back to the non Plugin Browser version? Thanks!

[Jim S.]

I just wanted to mention that I’ve finished up my bb-Bluesands theme as a complement to my Bluesands theme for WordPress. Feel free to download and test it out – and let me know if you run across any bugs.

[andajus]

When I add the line

require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);

to my bbpress “config.php” file in order to give access to WordPress’ functions: my forum doesn’t load and I get the following message instead:

Warning: require_once(path/to/wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/thewayev/public_html/forums/config.php on line 12

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/thewayev/public_html/forums/config.php on line 12

It doesn’t seem to matter what line I put the code on, and as far as I know I’ve carried out every other integration procedure listed with no problems. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

[citizenkeith]

I found the culprit: the Front Page Topics plugin.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3?replies=15

[oledole]

I have changed the encoding in my database, from latin 1 to utf8, and everything is ok except for the display of the usernames set in wordpress “display name” and brougt in to bbpress with the “use dispaly name”-plugin. When I use special characters like swedish å, ä or ö, or e.g. é, they show up like �.

I notice that in the bbpress database, special characters that I use in posts are stored with what I think is utf8 in the DB (e.i. they look strange), but/and they all look ok when displayed in the forum. Names in the wp_users “display_name” however are stored with the latin character but show up wrong.

The conversion was made following this manual: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/06/23/how-to-convert-character-set-and-collation-of-wordpress-database/

Any thoughts on this, anyone?

[Leo Plaw]

Thanks Fel64.

That’s what I ended up doing. I figured out the changes to the function names ect from WP to BB.

So now I’ve successfully converted the Tiger Sytle Admin and the Admin Drop Menus to BB.

When I’m finished the last details on them, I’ll make them publicly available.

Where should I announce these plugins?

[walkingisoverrated]

hey guys,

i have little coding experience, i could do a fair pimp of my myspace page but that’s about it – this php stuff is all new to me. I’ve just installed bbpress as a subdirectory of my wordpress blog, and I want to do something really simple: I want to change the color of the rollovers when you mouse over the forum topic. On this guide I read, it said to change this line:

#latest tr:hover, #forumlist tr:hover, #favorites tr:hover { background: #330099; }

(specifically, the ‘background’ tag), but as you can see, although I’ve entered in a bright color and re-uploaded the style.css file, it remains a vague greyish sorta color.. where am I going wrong here?

Thanks in advance folks..

[Graeme]

I’ve now installed the theme switcher plugin on bbpressraw.com forums. Use the drop-down list at the bottom of the page to view each of the available raw / blank bbpress forum themes.

[chrishajer]

Did you add anything related to cookies in your config.php or wp-config.php? Line 37 of pluggable.php deals with cookiedomain so I am just wondering if you are doing anything with cookies at all, for that to error out like that. The “cannot modify header” errors are coming because something printed an error that was unexpected.

[fel64]

Not much documentation for bb, but it works exactly the same way as writing plugins for wp. So grab an existing bb plugin or look at the wp documentation: https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin

It’s often trivial to convert a plugin; you just need to use a slightly different API and change the hooks and filters that you use.

[fel64]

Hey, did you see the bit about bb being open-source? Yeah? So fix it.

[kblog]

I just installed bbPress into the same database as my wordpress blog. Now I get an error when trying to use it.

test blog: http://www.kidoinfo.com/stage/

forum: http://www.kidoinfo.com/stage/bulletinboard/

Maybe it’s because I don’t understand the difference in one of the setup parameters:

“If you’ve installed bbPress into a subdirectory of your WordPress installation, define $bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl as your WordPress blog address and WordPress address”

-I think they have the same address: http://www.kidoinfo.com/stage/

(not this is a test version of the site that is password protected) NOTE: if it’s not possible to troubleshoot this error because the test site is behind a password, let me know and I’ll go ahead and put it in the public site, but I’d rather not until it’s all set up.

Here’s the error I’m getting:

You can check the settings in wp-config.php and see if they’re the same.

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/kidoinfo/public_html/stage/bulletinboard/config.php:1) in /home/kidoinfo/public_html/stage/bulletinboard/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 37

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/kidoinfo/public_html/stage/bulletinboard/config.php:1) in /home/kidoinfo/public_html/stage/bulletinboard/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 37

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/kidoinfo/public_html/stage/bulletinboard/config.php:1) in /home/kidoinfo/public_html/stage/bulletinboard/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 164

and here’s the config info for WordPress blog and for bbpress:

WordPress:

wp-config.php

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘kidoinfo_wrdp3’); // The name of the database

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘kidoinfo_wrdp3’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxx); // …and password

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

// define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

// You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique prefix

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to wp-content/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to wp-content/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define (‘WPLANG’, ”);

bbPress:

config.php

You can check the settings in wp-config.php and see if they’re the same.<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘kidoinfo_wrdp3’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘kidoinfo_wrdp3’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxx’); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://www.kidoinfo.com/stage/bulletinboard/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Kidoinfo Bulletin Board’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘douglas.itkin@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘slugs’;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 30;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = -5;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ”);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ‘xxxxxxxxxxxx’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.kidoinfo.com/stage/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.kidoinfo.com/stage/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

Thanks in advance for any assistance people can provide.

[edwinfoo]

Would just like to share my new site with you. GlamRock.com is a community for people into Glam.

The blog is WordPress and the forum is an integrated bbPress installation.

I did the design and all the html stuff myself but for the the php stuff, I contracted IndianElite.com out of Calcutta to install, mod & skin both the blog & forum.

Generally speaking, I’m quite happy with bbPress. While it was too basic straight up, the plug ins do make it more sophisticated yet easy to administer. Actually, administration is so simple and is easier to drive than notepad.

So far, it’s working out OK. Would certainly welcome your feedback as I’m thinking about V2.

ed

[Leo Plaw]

Why have the authors of BBPress been so daft as to not add a “my-plugins” directory to the default installation of BBPress?

It was my first question, just like everybody else on the forum, “where’s the plugin folder”.

Hey, it might seem obvious to those of you who know the BBPress, but for heaven’s sake make it easy for the newbies. You did it for WordPress, so why not BBPress?

Get with it and think of the users you programmers!

[Leo Plaw]

Is there any docs where I can read up on how to write a plugin for BBPress?

How hard or easy is it to convert a WP plugin to BBPress?

Leo.

[fel64]

Nope. Looks like a bug. Tell the dudes about it on http://trac.bbpress.org.

[fel64]

Yup.

require_once('path/to/bb-load.php');

in your wp config file.

[fel64]

Good idea. Suggest it on http://trac.bbpress.org.

[fel64]

I don’t understand. Can you be more specific? URL of the problem? Screenshot of the problem?

[jthomps]

Man, I can’t believe that I forgot to reactivate the plugins after reinstall. chrishajer, Thanks! bbPress Support Forums do “Rock!”

[chrishajer]

Sounds like that pm plugin is not working or not activated, but it’s still being called by the template?

It’s a good practice to call plugins like so, to prevent these sort or fatal errors if the plugin is not available:

if ( function_exists('pm_fp_link') ) {

// then call the function

}

Then there won’t be a fatal error if the plugin is not available.

[jthomps]

Anyone know how to correct this error? “Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pm_fp_link() in /hsphere/local/home/jamtho/southernillinoiswatcher.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php on line 70”

[chrishajer]

Sounds like your problem was discussed here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/db-access-problem-in-the-first-installation-step?replies=15

Check out the patch that is attached to this ticket:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/745

It worked for another user. Good luck.