[Nicki Faulk]

Yeah, I know that once theming ability is added to bbPress, I’ll probably be fixing several things on this theme! LOL

But hey, it’s yet another toy for me to muck up, I mean, play with.

[Null]

Hi,

My plugin has a post form. It works all great, but seems to conlfict with every other post form from the forum. Only the form from my plugin works, all others (like posting a reply) will generate errors.

If tried to resolve this by adding an hidden field:

<input type=”hidden” name=”portalforum” value=”1″ />

so this form is only used when value is 1:

if ($_POST['portalforum'] == 1)

This seems to resolve the problem, but ow i get another error:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by etc etc

Any ideas of how to fix this? Or to only use the form when in the admin area?

Thx

[Nicki Faulk]

I’ve tried to match it up as close as possible to the main site without looking too “off” and feel that I’ve done a pretty good job.

http://www.nowwerecookin.org/bbpress/

You’ll need a p/w and username: test/test

Plugins used:

• Allow Images 0.7.1
• Avatar .73a
• bbEmoticons version 0.72
• Memberlist .73a
• Google Sitemap Generator .6
• BBPress Private Messaging 0.73
• Use Display Name 0.7.2
• Online List 1.3-fix
• WordPress Integration .7

(all plugs found via these forums )

Feedback would be greatly appreciated. I’ve checked on Firefox 2.0 and IE 6.0 but would love to hear from users of other browsers!

Thanks in advance, and a huge thanks to those who’ve posted these plugins, as well as the FAQ and other solutions. Skinning this thing has been a bear, but everything else has been relatively easy as pie.

[Nicki Faulk]

Very nice!

Worked perfectly the first time. One tiny detail I would add: users whose bbpress install is in a directory named anything other than “forums” will need to change the RewriteRule in order to reflect the correct path. I almost missed that part.

[griso]

Hi there…

i nearly completed an italian translation for bbPress (using the last SVN, so it should be the most updated).

I’m keeping it updated and i’m going near completion today or tomorrow.

If you want to have a look at it or use it, feel free to check HERE

This is just a test forum… it’s not yet released to users

Bye!

[spencerp]

YES! Once again gerd damn-its, testing a bunch of crap out the arse.. for Josh there.. it’s FINALLY working both ways now.. whee!!

http://spencerp.net/forums/

http://spencerp.net/forums/mlist/

http://spencerp.net/forums/mlist.php

Now, maybe, hopefully, some time soon here.. I’ll be able to actually work on MY theme’s for the blogs… because I’m already 7 months behind on the crap.. sigh..

spencerp

/It’s fun though.. being the guinea pig .. of a bbpress plugin pimp! lmao

[Nola1974]

I wasn’t talking about your programming skill, I was commenting that saying “f’ed in the A’ isn’t a very appropriate thing to put in code that will be appearing on other people’s sites. I didn’t mean for it to be a personal attack.

I have pretty permalinks turned up, but not sure if my .htaccess file is working like it should. WHenever I add new plugins, they dont seem to work with pretty permalinks. (pm, mlist etc…) I tried going to bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php but it just redirects me to the main page. Perhaps bb-press is assuming I’m in a bbpress directory?

there’s a .73b? I’m running .73 currently. I’ve looked all over the site and cant find a mention of downloaing a .73b version.

[Nicki Faulk]

Not sure why, but I had to make these changes to get the PM links to work for me:

if ( $bb->mod_rewrite )

$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "message" . ( '' != $tag ? "$tag" : '' );

to

if ( $bb->mod_rewrite )

$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "message.php" . ( '' != $tag ? "$tag" : '' );

and

if ( $bb->mod_rewrite )

$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "pm" . ( '' != $tag ? "$tag" : '' );

to

if ( $bb->mod_rewrite )

$r = bb_get_option('uri') . "pm.php" . ( '' != $tag ? "$tag" : '' );

Works great though!

EDIT: I get this error when I add the pm_user_link bit to my post.php

“bbPress database error: [Table ‘CENSORED_DB_NAME’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM bb_users WHERE ID = 1″

I never could figure out why I was getting that, so I just deleted that bit, but otherwise seems to be working fine.

[satellio]

@pompilos and lstelie

I guess the change password bug (and general user-account editing bug) in the translated versions are triggered by the translation of this line in the bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php file:

$profile_menu[0] = array(__('Edit'), 'edit_profile', 'edit_users', 'profile-edit.php', 'edit');

If you translate 'Edit' by 'Editer' or 'Modifier', for example, users won’t be able to save their password change, and administrators won’t be able to save a role change for an user; the last part of the edit link — …/edit— will be changed to either …/editer or …/modifier. The page will display, but when you click on the save button, changes to the user’s profile won’t be saved.

[lordcoder]

Ok if my PHP/MySQL knowledge is still good , the plugin must , on the first use , add a new collumn to bb_topics table ( named for example cat_id ) , and a new table titled bb_cats .

On each use of the plugin , it must check if everything is good ( the collumn cat_id , the table bb_cats ) before continuing , and if not , it must display the default structure of the forum .

To perform this last , there must be new template tags which can be ignored if the plugin installation is wrong , so the plugin needs its proper template file …

We know that the goal of BBPress is to be light and fast , so if you code all the things above and use them on a plugin , BBPress will be slower , i think like PunBB …

So my tip is ; don’t use categories , try to remove no useful forums , merge some forums if they are similar , and you’ill have a good order without categories .

[chrishajer]

Maybe this will help:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/462?replies=4

p.s. glad you figured the first part out.

[JaneLitte]

I just realized that there was information regarding a person with an external database. My wordpress database was different than my bbpress database. So I needed to add the following information

// This is the information about wordpress database. bbPress will look for users in this database

define(‘USER_BBDB_NAME’, ‘wordpress_database’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_USER’, ‘wordpress_database_username’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘wordpress_database_password’);

define(‘USER_BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

The problem is now that I don’t have admin privileges at bbpress.

[chrishajer]

The site issue and the database issues do seem like separate things. That was the first thing that caught my eye though (the URLs.)

my database has bbpress_ tables (like bbpress_forums, bbpress_posts, etc) and wp_ tables (like wp_links, wp_users, wp_usermeta etc)

My config.php (bbpress) has this for the DB stuff:

$bb_table_prefix = 'bbpress_';

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

And mine just works with user integration like that. Is is possible that including the ‘http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/wp-config.php&#8217; is overwriting something? I didn’t have to include that, and just have the one other require there. Why is that included for yours (did you read something I didn’t maybe?)

Looking at your original error:

'dearauth_bbdb.wp_users' doesn't exist

the table prefix there is set to dearauth_bbdb somehow. Maybe you forgot to close a quote or something? Or did you edit your config before posting it (i.e. it’s not the actual, but it’s edited without the same error maybe?) You didn’t post the MySQL and bbpress config stuff from the top of the config.php.

Just guessing, but maybe we’ll get it.

[JaneLitte]

I have tried that. It seems to me that it is not looking at either the right database (ie., the wordpress database is different than the bbpress database) or it needs to have the “bb_” prefix instead of the “wp_” prefix.

i.e., when I change $bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; to $bb->wp_table_prefix = 'bb_';, I no longer get the error, but then I am also not getting the wordpress users either.

[chrishajer]

Hi Trent, Merry Christmas. I did install it and it apparently was working since someone got blocked :yikes: I could not find any logging anywhere, and to fix it yourself with the code provided

> Your technical support key is: 0000-zzzz-yyyy-xxxx

>

> You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

you need to log in to the ioerror/homelandstupidity site here:

http://www.ioerror.us/ip/

But with the IP that was blocked. So, with no logging and no way to know why this legitimate user was blocked, I disabled it. I was looking at the logging a bit (using bad-behavior-wordpress.php as an example as suggested) but I haven’t figured it out yet. I was hoping there was a config section with four lines like WP or BB, where I could enter the DB details, but it’s not there

So, turned off for now. It was doing something though, I just don’t know what or why.

[JaneLitte]

I am having problems with the integration. I installed the bbpress_integration on my wordpress blog which is installed at dearauthor.com/wordpress.

I have a redirect that makes the blog address dearauthor.com

I then installed the bb forum at dearauthor.com/forum.

I set the bbPress Integration as bb_

I have this in the config.php file for bbPress

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; //

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://dearauthor.com&#8217;; //

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://dearauthor.com&#8217;; //

$bb->cookiedomain = ‘dearauthor.com’;

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

require_once(‘http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/wp-config.php&#8217;);

I am getting this error.

bbPress database error: [Table ‘dearauth_bbdb.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE ID = 1 AND user_status % 2 = 0

Anonymous`

Thanks.

[Trent Adams]

The standalone version doesn’t have the ability to log, so it is difficult to test it without having someone do something that Bad Behavior doesn’t like! That being said, I am 99.9% sure it would be working if you are still able to bring up your forums because if you install it incorrectly, it will not let you access your pages and block everything until you get it right.

The good thing about Bad Behavior is, install and forget about it!

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I would suggest using the following to stop the avatar plugin from working in the mobile version until I can figure out a way to make all images smaller or non-existant with this plugin.

Put this over the code for the avatar plugin in post.php in /my-templates/

<!-- Diable Avatar for BB-Mobile -->

<?php if ( mobile_check() ) : ?>

<!-- <?php post_avatar(); ?> -->

<?php else : ?>

<small><?php post_avatar(); ?></small>

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- Diable Avatar for BB-Mobile -->

I have now tested this out and know that it works on my site.

In fact, any code that you do not want shown or changed in the mobile version of your site can be elminated or changed with the following structure!

<!-- Code for BB-Mobile -->

<?php if ( mobile_check() ) : ?>

CODE YOU WANT SHOWN ON MOBILE

<?php else : ?>

CODE YOU WANT SHOWN ON MAIN SITE

<?php endif; ?>

<!-- Code for BB-Mobile -->

Trent

[chrishajer]

This has been covered in the forum before: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/439?replies=2

Seems like the problem is with the CSS:

#profile-menu {

list-style: none;

position: absolute;

right: 0;

}

The position:absolute and the right:0 cause it to be anchored all the way over on the right side of the screen. Not much that can be done with it on bbpress.org, but if you are using the same template, you can fix your own CSS.

[topiq]

Hi folks!

I do experience some kind of display error if i access the VIEW YOUR PROFILE tab. the profile, edit & favourite do not look like they are supposed to.

Does sum1 else experience this kind of “bug”?!

Greetz & Merry Xmas,

topiQ

Screenie:

http://img487.imageshack.us/img487/5053/dsplerrormt6.jpg

[kensav]

After I installed and got into the first page I noticed there was no styles.

Seems every link points to: http://www.kensavage.com/forums/forums/

I figured I added a trailing slash or something but it seems ok. When I take the extra forums/ out of any link it works fine including the css. Any ideas?

My config file:

// 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.kensavage.com/forums&#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 = ‘Making IT in Massachusetts Forums’;

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

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

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = ‘true’;

// 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 = ‘false’;

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

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.kensavage.com&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash

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

/* Stop editing */

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

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

[chrishajer]

Trent, I installed this and the install went smoothly. How can I test this or know that it’s actually working? What differences would I see? I didn’t see any testing procedure in the FAQ at http://www.homelandstupidity.us

Thanks for sharing the procedure.

[ardentfrost]

One of the guys on my forums suggested disabling images (somehow) when using mobile bbpress.

[Trent Adams]

Customization is really not bad once you get the hang of it. All the template files are in /bb-templates/ and the main ones you will most likely want to change will be:

header.php

footer.php

front-page.php

style.css

There are other ones, but with header.php you can put in your links to other parts of your site or anything else you want displayed on every page. This can include your images. Footer.php is where you will put in more information on closing your style tags you opened in header.php and your footer information. Front-page.php is where the meat of your forum is, whether you want to move around the hot tags or just want to add in a link to a plugin off the main page.

The real meat and potatoes of customization is done through CSS in style.css. That is where you can tweak where you want things placed and what colors you use. If someone knows CSS, you will find it not so bad!

Once you change a file, what you want to do is create a folder called /my-templates/ and add the edited files there. That way, if you make a mistake, you can delete the file off the server to fix it and bbPress will go back to using the one in /bb-templates/ until you upload to /my-templates/ again.

The future will have a system much like WordPress, a kind of drop and drag themes approach, but we have this for now!

The starting point would be to read:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/customization/

Trent

That should get you going. Once you understand changing around the stylesheet in style.php, it doesn’t seem so bad!

[warrenivan]

Hi,

We’re just now using bbPress instead of xennobb which we had customized and plopped into a large table cell (like the rest of our sites content). We did this by customizing the main.tpl file in xenno. It looks like bbPress doesn’t use any kind of tpl file, and so customizing has proved very difficult. Especially for me since I am new to this stuff. But even the php guy we have working on it doesn’t seem to be making much headway.

Any ideas for dropping the functionality of bbpress into an existing template? Is there an easier way to do this?

Thanks, Can’t wait to see bbpress evolve.

W/