[davidbessler]

Any news on the roles-based forum permissions. It is the only feature holding me back now … I have been exploring all sorts of options involving more advanced forums (smf, phpbb etc …) but those involve crappy bridges, none of which work well or look nice. I love bbpress’ simplicity … so, any way to restrict certain forums to certain users? I don’t even need it to be roles-based. I’m OK just selecting users individually to have access to a specific forum.

[davidbessler]

If I’m not mistaken Trent, I think that plugin notifies the ADMINISTRATOR of ANY post to ANY topic. Since it does not add any visible subscription option to any forums, I can only assume that’s what it does. The only other possibility is that it emails EVERYONE when ANYONE posts ANYTHING ANYWHERE on bbpress, which would be a disaster. Can anyone verify what exactly notify_all does? I installed it, but could not see a difference.

[Trent Adams]

I think the following will do what you are hoping. It is referenced 2 or 3 times in this thread.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/313?replies=34#post-1784

Trent

[Staffan]

Alright. I’ve done some investigations and I think I know why I get a blank space: when a new user registers through bbPress it seems like he’s not given any “display name”.

[spencerp]

For the UTW problem, do what this guy said here once, see if that helps. Good luck!

spencerp

[Trent Adams]

$bb->path = '/bbpress/';

I am also assuming that you don’t want to integrate the logins with WP then as you don’t have your wordpress information for integration.

Trent

[chrishajer]

Your forum is at http://ward3brighton.ca/bbpress/ not http://ward3brighton.ca/forums/ . It’s unstyled since the path is wrong. It seems to me that you changed the config.php to put the forum in a directory called forums but left the folder name as bbpress when you unzipped it.

Can you check that and rename the bbpress folder to forums?

[freelantz]

Thanks, I was just about to give up.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘#####’); // 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://ward3brighton.ca&#8217;; // Example: ‘http://bbpress.example.com&#8217;

// 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 = ‘The Street’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘######@ward3brighton.ca’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

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

$bb->page_topics = 20;

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

$bb->edit_lock = 30;

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

$bb->gmt_offset = -4;

// 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&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

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

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

?>

[freelantz]

I’m able to successfully install the bbpress. I’m installing it in a subdirectory of my PUBLIC_HTML

directory. So I have:

public_html/bbpress

public_html/wp-content

public_html/wp-admin

etc.

I run domain.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php

Everything seems okay. Then I log in at domain.com/forums and bam!… nothing but Error 404 – Not Found.

I find it strange after I login I’m directed right to my WordPress template with the 404 error. Initially I tried integrating with WordPress, but now I’m trying to get this running very simply: no mod_rewrite, no integration, disabled any plugins that might be interfering (home page control), etc.

I uninstalled (dropped all bb_ tables) and reinstalled several times but same result.

Any advice?

[Atsutane]

Correct me if i wrong .. by default when a user is regis. WP will set the “display name” equal to “username”. I try the code already and i dont get a blank name Anyway maybe i will change the code to do a double check.

[Null]

Does any one has a template test page already up? or is there a plugin, so you choose a template from a ddlb and the page shows the forum in the chosen template…

[pschmitz]

I only had bbpress integration installed on word press. disabling it. upgrading to .75, turning off my-templates, have not solved the issue.

[ear1grey]

Any plugins installed?

See also: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/236

[larmir]

No, we haven’t. Chrishajer’s (Chris) been graciously helping me off the forum since I’m working with a private forum. He’s spent quite a bit of time on this and hasn’t found a solution. He had some great ideas, they just didn’t work. My next step is to contact my host and talk with them. They host WordPress so perhaps they know something indepth about bbPress. If I find a solution, I’ll let you know.

I do want to thank Chris for all the time and effort he’s put into this for me. Thank you, Chris.

[Trent Adams]

It is simple enough to change back if you want to. Just don’t want a bunch of ‘complete’ bbPress clones out there.

Trent

[Staffan]

Great. Thank you! There’s only one little problem: if the user haven’t entered a nickname no name at all is shown. I guess it should be written so that if the user has a nick name – show nick name; if the user dosen’t – show username.

[Atsutane]

I update the plugin already .. Now it gonna show “display name” instead of “username” like before. Tell me how it going

[Null]

Like it, only put the original bbPress logo in it instead of yours: https://bbpress.org/bbpress.png

[yooakim]

This theme is a lot nicer that the old default theme.

It works but there are a few issues.

When i click on “View your profile” the menu choices goes off way out to the right…

Great work!

/Joakim

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

This should fix it. Thanks!

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/608

[chrishajer]

Hi, I see a couple things.

You’ve made the div #header 800px wide, but the div #main below it is only 760px wide – they need to be the same if you want the header image as wide as the div below it. Also, the left and right margins should be auto to match the div below (handles screen resolutions down to 800×600 that way, and is centered on anything bigger.)

So, this in your div #header in the style.css:

margin: 0px auto;

width: 760px;

That makes the header graphic spots.gif as wide as the ‘table’ below it. If you want it to be as wide as the page, that’s something different altogether.

Since you removed the bbPress circle logo, you might also want to move the #header h1 over to the right a little bit:

right: 10px; instead of the 59px there now.

Hope that helps.

[JzL]

thank you bbolman.. I was placing the code after that line, not before. That did it… but I had to disable “Ultimate Tag Warrior” plugin to keep from getting any errors.

Now, on to trying to customize the look of bbpress. Thanks again.

[bbolman]

I’m working on porting the Tarski theme to bbPress. You can see it in actions here: proforums.palmansworld.com/forums/ Anyways. For some reason, I cannot get the header image and the welcome text and sign in box to match up. I’m wondering if anyone could take a quick look and see if they have any ideas to help me try to center the forum name and the login stuff inside of the header image. Any help is much appreciated.

[bbolman]

Yeah, I think the localhost bit might be your problem. I’m hoping soon bbPress will get an automatic installer like the newer WordPress has. That would save everyone a ton of support questions effort I feel.

[Null]

Perhaps an upgrade.zip can be made for a quick fix…