[Nate]

Wow. Who’s the man?! I’ve yet really to dive in and understand all the technical issues in play here–it’s probably beyond me, to be frank–but all the same, your persistence is quite impressive. Many thanks. I think you’re right in guessing that others are going to benefit. Hopefully some of the more capable among them will join forces with you to keep pushing forward the larger integration magic.

[fulltimecasual]

hi, i’m sure this is a really obvious mistake, just installed bbpress, changed everything i thought i had to, and when i got to the login page @ http://www.fulltimecasual.com/forums and entered my user name and password, i got an error message:

The requested URL /forums/bb-login.php was not found on this server.

looking at the address in the bar, it is:

http://forums.fulltimecasual.com/forums/bb-login.php

surely it shouldnt be both forums.fulltime as well as fulltime/forums, so that where i assume the mistake is. how do i fix this?

thanks

[mrpapasworld]

I have looked at the private forums plugin, but it seems to be an all or nothing deal based on the user being logged in…

I didnt find anything when I searched, but wondering if anyone knows of or is working on forum access based on membership in a group? So basically, you would allow forum access to certain groups and you would assign users to various groups (or roles in wp/bb terms). Gives you much finer control over who can access which forums…

also, any way to make bbpress inherit the roles as defined in WP? or maybe just add new roles to bb? easy enough to do hacking the code, but I havent looked at the bbpress plugin structure yet…

thanks…

[Trent Adams]

The plugins will not show up in the admin as they are not like WP in that way. Our plugins go into a folder /my-plugins/ off the root (as you mentioned) and just work. There is no admin CP for plugins in bbPress (yet) and nothing to activate. They are activated the minute that you upload it to the my-plugins/ directory.

Trent

[Tweek]

Thanks, got it working again however I can’t seem to access plugins in the admin CP still (can access the template stuff). I created the plugins folder in the bbpress root dir or is it supposed to go somewhere else? Not sure why I can’t see the installed plugins in the admin cp

[Trent Adams]

Take a look at this thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/185?replies=6

Then, if that doesn’t help, maybe check out this thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/462?replies=4#post-2607

That first thread is about key masters getting downgraded to administrators and the second thread is about getting a user upgraded to key master through the database and the bb_usermeta or wp_usermeta depending on if you are integrated with WordPress or not.

Trent

[Trent Adams]

The long and the short is, I am not sure why they are not working and what you need to do exactly to get it working. One of the lead developers has a post in the following thread with unsupported characters in tagging and should give you a place to start and a TRAC ticket to add to.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/433?replies=9

The ticket would be here

Trent

[Trent Adams]

If you are talking about this page with the hyperlinked >> then it would be a bug and I will file a TRAC ticket for it:

https://bbpress.org/forums/?new=1

Trent

[macwise]

I have come across a link in the forums that seems to do nothing past 404’ing out. I thought it was only present in my forum since I’ve been heavily reconfiguring it. However, even posting this message I see the bug here, unless I don’t understand it correctly. Above this post box, there is an h2 element with a post-form class which says “Add New Topic »”. Only the “»” is hyperlinked to:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/#postform

(which 404’s out). This behavior is consistent on my forum as well. The offending??? code is in:

bb-includes/template-functions.php

Search for $h2 and you should be able to find it.

I found this applies to the “Add New Topic” message, as well as the “New Topic In This Category” message, but only if there is no current topic in that category.

Is this a bug, groundwork for a future feature, or am just not catching the vision of something earthshattering?

[Null]

Or use my bbMenu plugin when it is released

Btw in the first post: your forum’s profile links is bugged

[ardentfrost]

mdawaffe’s plugin isn’t as cool as mine

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/21?replies=1

j/k about mine being cooler, but it may work in a way that you like better

[Jim S.]

Ok, you can download the template from here:

http://open-dialogue.com/blog/2007/02/13/navigation-for-bbpress/

Please let me know how I can tweak it to make it better.

[Trent Adams]

The problem with localhost will be addressed in the next version for sure, but it always helps to check out this ticket for reference to any problems with localhost installs:

https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/575/

Referencing this file:

https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/575/path-to-url.2.php

Trent

[twelliott]

Very nice, Sabutay. Saved me a bit of time but you left out the “page_item” function as in:

<ul class=”menu”>

<li class=”page_item”>Home

<li class=”page_item”>About

<li class=”current_page_item”>Forums

You can check it out here.

Now on to get the admin menu added… thanks!

[Sam Bauers]

This plugin has been merged with the original Support Forum plugin.

View this topic for more info.

[Sam Bauers]

The Support Forum plugin has been upgraded to version 1.2.

It now includes the features of the Visual Support Forum plugin as options.

Download via the plugin browser.

[Sam Bauers]

I’ve committed and tagged version 1.2.

Moving it to version 2.0 seemed a bit excessive to me. I even considered 1.1.1 for a second there…

Anyway, the plugin site should have this updated soon.

[Sam Bauers]

I’ve just updated the previous patch file to address the WordPress integration/function naming issues.

Download from here – categories-build701.patch

You should read the relevant comment about the updated patch.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

That version of the plugin should work fine, but the most recent version (Front Page Topics 0. is a bit more configurable.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3

[mrpapasworld]

okay Sam, some serious wordpress integration issues here… below are the clashes with wordpress and the offending files…

get_category()

get_categories()

root: forum.php, topic.php, index.php

admin: content-categories.php, content-forums.php, bb-category.php

bb-includes: functions.php, template-functions.php, cache.php

is_category()

bb-includes: functions.php, template-functions.php

get_category_link()

bb-includes: functions.php, template-functions.php

category_description()

template: category.php, front-page.php

bb-includes: template-functions.php

get_category_rss_link()

bb-includes: template-functions.php

whew… after adding bb_ to the front of all those items in bbpress, I finally got it to run the upgrade script, which worked…

now to see if it works as something looks a bit odd in the display of the category…

[chrishajer]

Does this topic help at all?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/701

[jefgodesky]

This is now a full-fledged plugin. It could certainly use some expansion and improvement, but this satisfies my requirements, and I suspect it will satisfy many others’ requirements, as well.

I’ve decided that I’m OK with two separate logins against the same user table, as spencerp’s solution leaves us with. I’m further integrating them now with OpenID. The VerseLogic WordPress OpenID plugin works perfectly, but I have not yet installed the MediaWiki OpenID extension, which will remain necessary since logging in will still be handled by MediaWiki itself.

After that, we’ll get to a level of integration I’ve yet to really even think about: user preferences and profiles. My initial thoughts on that are to point the bbPress profiles to the MediaWiki User pages, and develop an extension to display forum user information. Editing preferences might be easier by learning how each program stores that information and writing a whole new script to handle it. I’m certainly open to alternative ideas.

[isza]

Hello!

My question is about embedding the bbPress into the WP.

I’d like my WP to work like this website.

I’ve installed the WP, bbP and the integrater plugin (activeted) you advised in an article.

Can you advise me what should I do?

Many thanks guys!

[marky]

I recently installed bbPress to localhost to experiment before I put it on a live site. Strangely, the stylesheet was being ignored. Looking at the source brought up this:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://localhost#support/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css" type="text/css" />

Edit: OK, I can’t seem to type a backslash here, but the # symbol in the above code snippet is actually a backslash (opposite of /)

I have no idea why the slash after localhost is backwards. It appears correctly in all other locations. For what it’s worth, here is the relevant section of my config.php file:

// 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://localhost'; // 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   = '/support/';               // Example: '/forums/'

Any help?

[Jim S.]

I’ve made my first attempt ever at theme-building by trying to port the Navigation theme for WordPress over to bbPress. You can see it in action on my test setup:

http://open-dialogue.com/bbpress

I’m not entirely happy with the way the forum tables display. It looks ok on a 1024×768 resolution, but they mass to the left a bit too much for my liking on higher resolutions (I use 1280×1024). I’m at a bit of a loss, though, to know how to stretch them out enough to fill out the extra white space to the right. I’d be open for suggestions on how to tweak the stylesheet further.

I’m also not real crazy about the login form location, but I’m not sure of a better place to put it.

Everything else seems to look and operate alright. Any suggestions and tips would be greatly appreciated. I’m still figuring out some the latest nuances in stylesheeting (it’s been a few years since I’ve done much site design).