Not sure what the DXX theme is, but if it’s the one you’re using on your site yeah it’s ultra-easy.
First of all, don’t try to force bb into the WP theme … that rarely works. Your best bet is to open (or make if it doesn’t exist) your my-templates folder and start a new theme by making a new folder (call it dxx or something). Go back up into your main bb folder, open bb-templates > kakumei and copy style.css, then paste it into your new my-templates > dxx folder.
Using CSS you can then modify how your page looks (not what’s on it though). The basic way to do css is like this:
html element {
property: something;
}
For example, the code to colour links red with NO underline is like this:
a {
color: red;
text-decoration: none;
}
To change the way your forum looks, you therefore open the copy of style.css you made and change properties like that. There’s much more info at http://www.w3schools.com/css/. That is all you need to know.
So for example, what you would do for your theme is make links blue and no underline, make the header green, change the background of the page and put a border on the main div element. Some knowledge of HTML will be helpful but you can also pick this up.
Is it possible with a plugin (or existing functionality?) to create a bbpress forum topic everytime a new wordpress posts is made? And everytime a visitor writes a comment in that wordpress posts, it will appear as a post in that bbpress forum? (and vice versa)
Cheers all!
Just through plugins I think. I know mdawaffe is using more wordpress functions in bbPress and maybe there might be more things that would be considered tighter integration. The bbPress-Post plugin already has the comments of WP controlled by bbPress, so that is why I speculate that it will be done through plugins.
Trent
This one too:
http://www.informedbanking.com/resources/forums/
Its not nearly as big as Technorati but I’ve been tweaking it slowly but surely, integrating it in with a custom CMS / Wiki, WordPress, and now bbpress.
Thanks for the awesome software. I sent in a patch of themes.php last night – it needs a urldecode() in the current subversion revision.
If anyone is using ‘ Avatar pluginsuleiman, here’s a hack I use to show the WPMU’s avatar in BBPress:
In post.php, after the <small><?php post_author_title(); ?></small> bit I use the following:
<?php
$userid = get_post_author_id();
$wp_avatar = '/full/path/to/public_html/wp-content/avatars/' .$userid. '.jpg';
$wp_avatarURL = '/wp-content/avatars/' .$userid. '.jpg';
if (file_exists($wp_avatar)) {
echo '<img class="avatar" src="'. $wp_avatarURL.'" />';
}
?>
Probably not the most elegant, but it works:
http://blognola.org/forums
Vincent
Well I think I may pass at doing that one myself. I am working on a much simpler site and am using the DXX theme (my site is http://www.maconcardeals.com ). How would I make this theme work for bbPress? Is it easy? I mean for an ultra rookie?
Nice work. I just downloaded bbpress today. Actually I’ve been downloading forums all day. This is the first one that seems simple and uncluttered. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.
I also think people should realize that bbPress isn’t dsigned to be a plugin for WP in any way and the developers should keep in mind to not develop too much towards this too.
It’s a standalone forum, fast and light and should stay this way 
in wordpress ofcourse yes. in bbpress there is not polish lang file (as i know).
yes i have plugin and js in my-plugins folder. tomorrow i’ll check it in my default.
in my wordpress, in adminpanel i also don’t have quicktags panel in visual mode in my adding post site. may it has something in common with bbpress plugin?
No Maintenance Mode for bbPress. Could be a pretty simple plugin to write though. Any takers?
Trent
I know that you are frustrated cool2sv because WP and bbPress both use different AJAX, but it really only matters when you are doing what you are trying to do with running them both at the same time. Most users won’t be affected by this same problem you are having.
I am not saying what the developers of bbPress has done is 100% the right direction with AJAX in the core, but it was designed to be standalone and work that way. The WP integration was with logins and not developed to have them sharing libs. I have passed this on to mdawaffe, but the redesign of bbPress and its use of AJAX in the core most likely won’t be the #1 priority. WP uses AJAX in the core and so does bbPress. So which one should be blame? Automattic developers like AJAX in the core!
**Edit** As well, you could sent your request into the bbDevList as well. Just head over to the about page for the address!
Trent
I answered your other thread about this. There seems to be packages out there that automatically install all 3 components for you and to be quick (detailed explanation over other thread), no, bbPress and WP will never be a single install unless someone 3rd party does it (say a web host).
Trent
If you have a local computer with windows or a Mac, you can always have the install of WAMP or an install that is similar. Do a search for apache, php and mySQL local windows install in google and you will find that there are many packages out there that can run them on your local computer instead of IIS. Packages like WAMP have all the packages together and a walkthrough on getting them all installed.
As for bbPress and WordPress installation together, I am involved with WP as well and can for sure tell you that they will never be packaged together for a single install unless someone makes their own release of the 2 packages together, but will not happen from Automattic because they are run completely seperate.
Does that help?
Trent
I’ve encountered with this error very recently, it didn’t happened before.
When a reply is posted (So far, by me the Key Master) the Topic closed message appears with no reason.
I have these plugins installed:
allow-images
bb-avatar
bb-memberlist
bb-post-count
bbpress_bbcode
fix-bbpress
forum-restriction
front-page-topics
There’s an easier way to do this, just put in the right domain.
//cookies
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.2diabolos.com');
Or
//cookies
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', 'forum.2diabolos.com');
If you go with the first, in my opinion neater version, you also need to add this to bbPress’ config.php.
//try to sync cookies
$bb->cookiedomain = '.2diabolos.com';
$bb->cookiepath = '/';
Then clear your cookies, log out and in and see if it works across your site.
Have I missed something, or is there no Maintenance Mode for bbPress?
I hope development team had a look on this thread:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/867
and on this:
http://forum.mootools.net/viewtopic.php?id=2337
Why?! Cause i’m not sure bbpress made the right choise on integrating javascript in the core of bbs! It is really hard to develop new templates especially to port some templates that use different ajax libs!
I am in no way even considering using something like phpbb. I’ve had too many bad experiences with it.
What I am using my forum for (still looking to switch from Vanilla to BBPress possibly) is a support forum for a web design company. Each client has a specific category. Either, they are new clients that we are showing designs to or they are existing clients who sometimes have tech support questoins that require screen shots to be attached, or they want to upload pdfs, docs, fonts, etc to be used on the maintenance of thier site.
I’d love to see an attachments feature. It would help my decision of moving to this software.
Version 0.1 of BB-Ads is now available.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/1024?replies=1
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
I made a plugin that allows you to change wordpress cookie path&domain (and even cookieHash) to suit the need of bbPress.
My configuration was not “simple” :
wordPress : http://www.2diabolos.com/blog
bbPress : forum.2diabolos.com
everything is explained here.
http://www.2diabolos.com/blog/2007/04/06/nouveau-plugin-setcookieparams/
BUT I have a problem :
on my local server (for tests), I tried my plugin.
it works … for bbPress front-page and admin page, but not for topics and other “deeper” pages.
I put “cookie domain == false” (because cookie must not have domain when you are a “local server”, that what I understood from the standard)
I don’t understand why the frontpage appears nicely, and why, when I try to go into a topic, Firefox tells me that the server redirects the request in way that can’t go nowhere. And IE does not achieve anything (I prefer Firefox, it better for debugging…)
Firefox tells it can be a problem with cookie acceptance or desactivation.
I feel that bbPress is making a round (infinite) redirection ….
No idea. I doubt they’d announce features before they’re ready – that’s a fairly stupid strategy for software. Check out trac if you want to see what’s being worked on and download the latest SVN releases if you want it early (and potentially buggy).
This sounds like a bozo problem. Go to your Profile page, click on Edit, and look at the value of the bozo field. If this value is “1”, you require a minor fix: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/822?replies=10
What kind of features will bbpress have say in a year’s time? Considering it does not want to go down the path of a ‘bloated forum’, are there any useful features which will become standard in a future release?
I would love this feature. Basically, we’re a small web design company that does a lot of communication between our design team and the client, as well as our technical support team and the client.
Right now, we’re using a different forum setup to function well, but not as well as we would like. THIS idea would be AWESOME for what we need.
Especially since we’re working with a lot of other smaller companies who can barely find their website using AOL let alone get used to a forum setup for their communication. If we could set it up so that they could read posts sent to their email and then respond to them via that email, it would make things a lot easier for them to get right into it.
Plus, all of the communication would also be stored in the one location (the forum) for us to access.
There is definite interest for this type of function, and I’d push for us to move from what we are using to bbpress if this was introduced.
i’m not sure that you understood what i mean. i mean i want a buttons , , [img]etc like on wp bbpress.
