[fel64]

You may have to add

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

to your config.php if it doesn’t work straight away.

[Trent Adams]

If you have the same domain so it should be simple. Keep in mind that bbPress will use the WP users after doing this and both programs have to be installed in the same database:

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

// If you're not, just leave the rest as it is.



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

$bb->wp_home = www.nyquistcapital.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash.  Example: 'http://example.com'

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'www.nyquistcapital.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: 'http://example.com'

Trent

[Trent Adams]

The favorite topics is part of the core and available with every bbPress installation. You can also find plugins and templates at Pro Forums.

Trent

[Inquirer]

I just installed bbPress.

Now, I need to learn how to customize the forum’s appearance.

Apparently, a lot of customization done through plugins.

I found the following:

Using Plugins

To use a plugin, simply create a directory in your main bbPress directory called my-plugins and put the plugin file in it. bbpress does not currently have a plugin activation/deactivation interface like WordPress’. Any .php file in your /my-plugins directory will be run.

Looking for plugins? Try our plugin browser http://bbpress.org/plugins/

I like adding the ‘This topic is one of your favorites’ feature.

How would I find if this is an available plugin?

If so how would I find where to download it?

[Andrew]

http://www.nyquistcapital.com and http://www.nyquistcapital.com/forums

[oledole]

Thanks! That fixed it.

[fel64]

Did it not say what the fatal error was?

In any case, at a hunch putting

if( !function_exists('force_balance_tags') ) {

in front of ck’s code, and

}

before the add_filter(... bit, could fix it. I don’t run it myself so this is a long shot.

[oledole]

Looked like a nice tweek-plugin, but it produced a “fatal error” when I activated it. Looks like it has something to do with this suggested code:

add this to a plugin

function force_balance_tags($text) {return balanceTags($text, true);}

add_filter(‘pre_post’, ‘force_balance_tags’);

When I added this to the bbcode plugin it resulted in the same fatal error when activated…

[Inquirer]

I dropped the bbPress tables in my database and did a reinstall.

The installation went fine.

I discovered my original installation falied because of a typo

I had entered ‘http://mywebsite.com/forums/’;

I should have entered ‘http://mywebsite.com/forum/’;

On this install I didn’t want to integrate with the WordPress database.

Now I need to learn how to customize the forum’s appearance.

Is there a way to change the forum name within Administration or will I have to edit the config.php file and FTP it?

Is a lot of customization done through plugins and php templates?

I found this online.

[The best way to start off is to create a new directory inside the root folder of the bbpress install called “my-templates”. Any php templates place in this folder with the same name as in “bb-templates” will override the original files. For example, if you modify front-page.php and upload it to “my-templates”, bbpress will pull the customized front-page.php file.]

Fore instance I like adding the ‘This topic is one of your favorites’ feature.

[fel64]

Should be. If they are on the same domain, it is certainly possible. In a small set of cases you will need to add two simple lines of code to your bbpress config.php. What URLs do you (want to) have bbpress and wp at? Tell us and we can tell you what code to add.

[Andrew]

I’ve read through multiple posts about WordPress/BBpress integration but cannot find the answer to one question.

Is single sign on supported?

I understand that the same username and password is shared between the two sites, but if I log into WordPress do the same cookies automatically log me into BBpress?

[talbina]

Posting jobs from company websites (NOT job boards) is fine. Infact, you are doing them a favour.

Job postings are like advertisements.

[fel64]

I don’t know. But they have 306 plugins http://lussumo.com/addons/index.php?Sort=Recent.

Looking through the documentation, it’s quite interesting but you’ll find writing plugins much more difficult. It really requires you to understand, or at least work with, OO (extending classes and the like), whereas in bb you can do well with just functions.

[citizenkeith]

_ck_: Thanks for the Tweaks plugin. Very useful!

[fel64]

I’m not sure I understand. Is this a technical problem with bb or a conceptual problem with your idea?

If you make fake accounts so you can post threads with the right dude’s name, and the right dude turns up later, just give him your fake account. That’s not automatable by default, you would have to manually edit the profile to set their email and then let them set their own password. But it would work.

Do you have the right dude’s permission to post his jobs?

[fel64]

Changing the width of the theme is easy; all it takes is a single change in a CSS file. If they hard-coded the width into the HTML, they deserve the extra work.

I think that if you use they backticks on an inline basis the overflow is hidden, but if you use it for paragraphs (specifically: backtick is in line above your code, I think) the overflow remains.

For example, a really long path like var/www.mywebsite.com/htdocs/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/template-functions.php or whatever will be cut off. If there had been spaces, it should wrap.

But a paragraph of code will have the scrollbar.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: o/

*/

function withareallylongnamethatjustneverstopsandthefunctiondoesn'tevendoanythinguseful() {

return true;

}

[talbina]

Sorry i meant wordpress.org

[Trent Adams]

wordpress.com is the hosted blog service of wordpress. Go to https://wordpress.org/support/ to search

Trent

[talbina]

Ok.

No offence to the wordpress.com people. But i just went on the wordpress.com support forum and searched for ‘CMS’ and almost everyone there has a lot of trouble making wordpress.com into a CMS.

All the reply posts about CMS on there have all been just ‘advice’, no real action to build on.

[talbina]

Can you please show me some websites that use WordPress, that are not blogs?

Something with some functionality in them.

Thanks,

Talbina

[talbina]

Hello ck,

thanks for the help.

I keep on thinking that wordpress is a blog software, but i guess its just like any other CMS.

Furthermore, what im trying to do now is reduce cost. That means, try to use the software that has the most features that i need already.

BBpress already has categories (different job types) , posts (job posts) , users (companies) and avatars (for logos).

Just way too confused for a person like me who doesnt know anything.

[Trent Adams]

I am not sure, but how big is the development community on Vanilla?

Trent

[_ck_]

Yeah the only problem I can foresee is that the plugin browser looks like a semi-custom job and I am uncertain if it’s hard coded into the template.

(In other news I finally figured out how to use SVN last night and posted my two little plugins directly… we’ll need to have a “100 plugins party” when bbpress hits that many…

[LMD]

A new version of Avatar Upload is now available – for changes see the plugin browser thread:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/46/page/2?replies=34#post-373

[Detective]

Hi!

I run a vanilla board. I think Vanilla is a very complete, fast and stable forum software. The only problem i have is that none of the add-ons i programmed work the way i wanted. This is because the design of Vanilla is extremely object oriented so there are rules that you have to follow.

BBPress doesn’t have that. Instead you have a lot more freedom to do things, and that’s what i wanted, so i’m moving to BBPress.

Of course the object oriented structure of Vanilla is extremely well designed. I just don’t think extreme OO is completely adecuate on this kind of software.

Another difference is that in Vanilla you just enable an add-on and it works. You don’t have to add code nor modify files (again, this is because of the structure of Vanilla. This is a very good feature, specially if you don’t have experience in PHP). In BBPress mostly all of the time you’ll have to modify files in your template to use some plugins (i like this, because i have more control over what’s happening).

In short, Vanilla is excellent, but it’s not for me