[fel64]

I’d have to read the forums, once again, to figure out what you mean.

Or you could just ask us here. A large part of these forums is just for help making it work. You’d be happier with bbPress in the long run.

The markup thing for example is quite simple; I struggled with it initially but a random guess worked out, and the quicktags certainly help. Any text between two backticks (on a European/English keyboard, the button just above tab) will be rendered as code. The ‘markup’ thing refers to HTML, so to make that work you do this:

<em> makes your text italic </em>

<br />
like so will create a single new line.

<ul> or <ol> will create a ‘list’ structure. Simply put <li> and </li> around each seperate list element. End the list by putting </ul> or </ol>.

To create links, you do this: <a href="www.example.com/linklocation">link text</a>.

[wmarcy]

// ** MySQL settings ** //

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

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

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

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

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

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

// If your bbPress URL is http://bbpress.example.com/forums/ , the examples would be correct.

// Adjust the domain and path to suit your actual URL.

// Just the domain name; no directories or path. There should be no trailing slash here.

$bb->domain = ‘http://www.wetworx.com’; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com’

// There should be both a leading and trailing slash here. ‘/’ is fine if the site is in root.

$bb->path = ‘/forums/’; // Example: ‘/forums/’

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘WetWorx Forums’;

// This must be set before running the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘wetworx@wetworx.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

// 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 = ‘**********’; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// 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 = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com’

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com’

[wmarcy]

I have previous successful installs of bbPress under my belt, and honestly, there isn;t much to it. Problem is, after uploading all the files into their “forums” subdir, running through the install script (And entering all the info), I go follow the link to the forums to login and the forums refuses to log me in, (Copy and paste on the password from the intro email).

The first post is in the forums, the keymaster is set in the metadata table, but having done this 6 times now I can’t figure out what the problem is.

Tried registering another user, and the same thing happens to that login.

Any Ideas?

bbPress 0.8.1 on a linux server.

[crosinski]

I admire the idea of bbpress … I really do. After several hours of work, I’ve finally got a forum up and running on my site. There is so much more work to be done to make it usable for my visitors, though, that I just don’t think I can do it. Every installation has been a struggle for me. I don’t know php. The config file took me an entire day to get right. Each and every plugin I installed required further tinkering.

Here’s a small example that represents my large frustration:

Allowed markup: a blockquote br code em strong ul ol li.

Put code in between backticks.

That’s not enough information for me. I can’t make that work. I’d have to read the forums, once again, to figure out what you mean. And I’m just too exhausted to do that, so I’m going to install another forum for now.

I’ll keep checking back to see the improvements that you make and, when you get everything worked out and as easy to use as WordPress, I’ll try again.

But, for now, installing bbpress requires too large a learning curve for me.

Good luck and carry on,

C.R. the Exhausted

[Null]

That is the problem with this plugin, it uses blockquotes. I suggest the plugin builder uses <quote></quote> for this (some users want to use the quoteblocks and also want to quote stuff.

But yourproblem (Keith) is that bbpress can’t handel nested blockquotes (I think)

[citizenkeith]

I’d like to have the post number shown for each post. I’m hoping that bbPress already has this functionality, and I would need to do is insert some code into my template. Or do I need a plugin?

[citizenkeith]

I’m running bbPress 0.8.1 with the Fix bbPress Plugin. I installed Michael Nolan’s Quote plugin, version 0.2.

It works fine if you quote simple post. But when you quote a post that already has a quote in it, things get weird. This is what my edit box looks like when I do that:

<blockquote></blockquote>

<blockquote>

This is text that was quoted in the post that I am quoting.



</blockquote>

This is the text that I am quoting directly.

It looks as though the plugin doesn’t like nested blockquotes.

My forum is here:

http://www.citizenkeith.com/forums/

[fel64]

Yo.

Open your folder containing all your bbPress stuff, including the config.php file. Make a new folder and call it my-templates, if it doesn’t exist yet! Open my-templates and make another new folder, and call it anything you like. This folder will house your forum’s theme.

Now go back to the main bb folder, and open bb-templates > kakumei. Copy the style.css file into the folder you created a minute ago.

Open style.css, and look for this (it’s right at the top):

body {

margin-bottom: 50px;

background: #fff;

font: 62.5% 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial;

}

Those are the fonts that will be used, in order from left to right (if someone doesn’t have, for example, Trebuchet MS they’ll then try to use Lucida Grande). The font they use here is Georgia.

Change that part to:

body {

margin-bottom: 50px;

background: #fff;

font: 62.5% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;

}

Save it and put the my-templates folder and everything in it on your server in the main bb folder.

Now, open your forums, go to the admin panel, go to Presentation, and click on your theme’s name. Your forum should look the same as before, but with the new font.

[Trent Adams]

bbPress is brought to you by Automattic, the corporation. Not sure if there is a place to donate to this project or not…..I don’t think anyone has ever asked!

Trent

[Griffology]

The theme appears to be a custom one done to match the rest of their website.

[wmarcy]

I would really love to know what theme they are running.

[webscratches]

Hello,

I just installed BBPress but some links appear to be broken. I tried to make new posts in order to test the forum but they would not show up either

My forum is located here:

http://forum.webscratches.com

Does anyone knw where this could be coming from?

thank you very much

[Trent Adams]

Added to the list! If you see another big player using bbPress, let us know!

Examples

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Try this thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/700?replies=64#post-4792

It might be a localhost issue with the backslashes. There is a plugin I reference in there that might help.

Trent

[midnightsun]

hey,

this doesn’t seem to be working at all!! The first time I used it, it worked work but ever since it just hasn’t.

any ideas?

[boomanfloral]

Cool! Congratulations!

[citizenkeith]

Version of the plugin?

1.3-fix

bbpress version?

version 0.8.1 with Fix bbPress Plugin 0.8.1-1 installed

Have you tried setting $mysql41 to false?

Not yet.

Very strange … can you provide an link to your forums? …

http://www.citizenkeith.com/forums/

[thomasklaiber]

Version of the plugin? bbpress version? Have you tried setting $mysql41 to false?

Very strange … can you provide an link to your forums? …

[fel64]

You have tried the plugin that’s meant to fix this? It worked for me. https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/822?replies=10

You could also try upgrading to the most current version off SVN, but you have to be prepared to get your hands dirty and face other bugs to do that. Get something like Tortoise SVN and go to the downloads page here.

[Trent Adams]

Just wanted to let you know the some big players like our product!

http://support.technorati.com/

Trent

[tgpuckett]

I am, supposedly a fix is in the works: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/643?replies=46

[Arlo]

Re-reading the baptiste thread, I see that commenting out add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_filter_kses', 50); in default-filters does the trick. It solves all my problems at once!

I guess bbpress needs to do better conflict checking againt wp when wp is included.

[Arlo]

This is the site: http://automatorworld.com/bbpress/

I’m wrapping my whole WP site around bbpress. It’s more than just styling, as you can see. I though this wasn’t supposed to present problems, but I guess this whole “kses” thing is one, eh?

[Trent Adams]

I have a TRAC ticket already about this!

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/610

Trent

[chrishajer]

Member baptiste here had a similar problem although it was with 0.75:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/641

Maybe your issue is similar?