[chrislegend]

I’m having the same problem. I copied my htaccess file into bbpress/bb-templates and still no luck…

My forum’s url = http://chrislegend.net/bbpress

[snowcrash]

Not having email notifications is the only reason that stalls me from using bbpress with WP.

While a lot of effort has gone into RSS integration, as others have said, it’s not straightforward for many ordinary users. Email is still dominant.

I hope email notifications will be developed, or least a plugin please

thanks

[ear1grey]

gnawph wrote:

The bbPress designers would look foolish changing all of their IDs to Classes and wouldn’t conform.

I’ve already stated that: “I’m not advocating the removal of any of the ID’s from templates”. I am, however, conscious that the reliance on ID based formatting in the default template is more likely to run in to integration problems in the long run.

“Latest and Popular are different tables and shouldn’t be labeled the same”.

Yes, latest and popular are different tables (their ids are different), but they are both examples of a certain kinds of table that show an ordered selection of items based on some kind of score (be it date or rating). So it’s better to define what that kind of table is, so use a class.

“If code redundancy is an issue you could always go:#latest, #popular {“

Yes, this does have a similar effect, but, if I’m writing a plugin with UI elements then for it’s output to be shown correctly in TemplateX, either:

1. I have to add CSS to the plugin which might work with TemplateX, but be incompatible with TemplateY, or
2. The authors of X&Y must alter their css to cope with my plugin.

This potential hassle just becomes less likely if template designers take an extra few minutes to consider what the more abstract classes in the design should be!

BTW: class="tableonmainpage" might be better described as .mainpage > table {}

[lstelie]

Hello earlgrey

The 06rc1 version seems to work very well

(note : line 21 $version=0.6rc1; must be replaced by $version='0.6rc1';)

The version number is still 051 in the xml file so it may be hardcoded somewhere in the code.

By the way the correct link is 0.6rc1

[lstelie]

Hello earlgrey

This is exact, I don’t use permalinks (for some strage reason, they work fine on my wordpres install but no for my bbpress install both been in subdirectory of the same account.. strange..)

I didn’t make any change (the only one is the path to the xml file), perhaps I made a type when copy-pasting the content to the php file

The link to release 0.6rc1 seem broken

[M]

I’m glad to have happened upon this thread, after reading it I decided to check my own and found if I registered through the forum the user was set to Administrator in WordPress.

While I’m no coding expert, I’ve enough experience working with WordPress and all it takes to set things up to be quite sure I have not made an error somewhere.

Just as hasund said above, the new user is listed in a separate section under Authors & Users in my WordPress Dashboard – at the bottom under all admins, subscribers, editors, etc. Their

I’m using the Role Manager plugin, could that be causing the trouble? The only step from bbPress that I did not follow was the Pretty Permalinks; every other step, plugin, etc. I followed to a T.

This is a very serious issue, my entire site would have been vulnerable had I not found this thread and gone ahead and opened my forums this weekend as planned. I’ve removed my register.php file for the time being. I already have some people using my forum, but they are trusted friends who already have some access to the main site anyhow, thank goodness.

[Atsutane]

Actually i don’t know what do you mean by “how the bbpress front page works?” Do you mean the page structure or do you mean the url structure?

[hywl51]

Thank Atsutane.

I set pretty permalink and got bbpress working.

I am a newbie for PHP and eager to know how the box work behind the page. Can you please give me some advice or link about the question I mentioned before–how the bbpress front page works?

Thanks

hywl51

[gnawph]

Users should have to rethink their CSS. Not using a ID selector just because a “newbie” doesn’t realize there can only be one element attatched to them is lame. The difference between ID and Class is one of the fundamentals of CSS. The bbPress designers would look foolish changing all of their IDs to Classes and wouldn’t conform. These selectors carry semantic meaning and without them your HTML code becomes less proffesional and harder to read.

Latest and Popular are different tables and shouldn’t be labeled the same. If code redundancy is an issue you could always go:

• #latest, #popular {

-or-

• <table id=”latest” class=”tableonmainpage” >

If somebody is going to be digging around and making their own theme they should really take 5 minutes to read a CSS tutorial.

[gnawph]

Right. I’m sorry, but I don’t understand your point.

I like the ID elements, much easier to understand the page.

I’m doing a quick check of bbpress’s default templates and I don’t see too many IDs I’d even consider repeating inside the code.

Is your poing that styling more than one ID with the same colors, padding, whatever, is redundant?

[ear1grey]

A small question, your XML shows plugin version 0.51, but I only have obvious records of versions <= 0.5, so if you’ve made changes/improvements please describe them here since it may help work out what’s up!

In the mean time, try 0.6rc1 .

The “debug hook” is enabled so you can force it to regenerate the sitemap by adding something to your favorites list.

[gnawph]

Using classes for everything is pretty sloppy. When start hacking up the bbpress theme and come across an ID I know exactly whether or not that element is going to be repeated. When I work with a design that has strickly class based selectors I go crazy.

Something like “class=header” is completely insane. There really should only be one header inside the site and you use an ID to signify that elements usage.

For example when I take a look at /bb-templates/font-page.php and see <table id=”latest”> I already have a good idea of what all the code contained inside that <table> tag will be.

Also if my page gets larger I can put “jump links” to those sections and help my users navigate my site.

There are other properties of ID tags that do fancy stuff with javascript but I’m not quite sure what they are.

[ear1grey]

This should work as described, but… firefox 2 has a major failing with SVG at the moment: it can’t be used in an img tag for content negotiation… so there would have to be some browser recognition and hocus-pocus coding to get it to work.

still, it all helps bring about an end to the use of px in css, so as you suggest, lets rock.

http://boakes.org/images/star2.svg

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>

<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

<svg width="10cm" height="10cm" viewBox="0 0 270 240"

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">

<desc>bbPress inverted star by ear1grey - GPL</desc>

<g fill-rule="evenodd" stroke="#2e6e15" fill="#888888" stroke-width="3" >

<path d="M 135,000 L 164,086 254,086 182,130

208,226 135,175 062,226 088,130

016,086 106,086 135,000

M 0,-15 L 0,240 270,240 270,-15 0,-15 z" />

</g>

</svg>

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

ergate, you’ll need to write a plugin.

[Sonika]

Yes, I did it.

I think my problem is how I try integrate blog and bbpress.

When I write in config.php (to allow bbpress use wp functions such as <?php get_header(); ?>):

---

if(file_exists("../wp-settings.php"))

{

//loads the functions and wp config

require_once "../wp-config.php";

require_once "../wp-settings.php";

}

---

buttons in bbpress — ADD NEW» and edit profile — don’t work

[ear1grey]

Thinking aloud…

if delete doesn’t actually delete, then if any companies are considering using bbPress then there may be issues with data protection legislation such as the Data Protection Act in the UK.

My understanding is that for a company to comply with the act it must be possible, if necessary, to remove all personal information, so it would be necessary for the delete function to blank out all the personal details as well as setting a deleted flag, if the user record was to remain in the DB.

[ear1grey]

mdawaffe wrote:

As an aside, that site will soon open up to anyone wanting to host the plugins they write.

I’ll pop the Google Sitemaps plugin in for a start.

[ear1grey]

mdawaffe wrote (in the readme for the bb-ratings plugin) :

If anyone can create better star images (SVG would be super cool), contact the author of this plugin.

See it at: http://boakes.org/images/star.svg

…just play with the width and height values to change it’s size.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>

<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">

<svg width="10cm" height="10cm" viewBox="-15 -15 270 240"

xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" version="1.1">

<desc>bbPress star by ear1grey - GPL</desc>

<polygon stroke="#2e6e15" fill="#888888" stroke-width="1ex"

points="120,000 149,086 239,086 167,130

193,226 120,175 047,226 073,130

001,086 091,086" />

</svg>

[Aaron]

“Read More” is handled by a filter on post_text.

Is this pluginable, or something that can be done via templates in my-templates?

The RSS feeds display topics instead of posts. This involves the bb_rss.php_pre_db hook, the $bb_db_override global, and some voodoo.

Nice to know, this helps solve some issues I have on a site design I am working on.

[kannued]

In this 74 forum, will we have private forums? And if so, any idea of timeline?

If the timeline is too distant, I will have to use a password protection directory and install a separate bbpress to handle the privacy issue. It would be nice if I didn’t have to do that (less work too), and could just incorporate privacy features into my existing bbpress forum.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

“Read More” is handled by a filter on post_text.

The different topic sorting is accomplished by creating custom functions with the right SQL queries.

The RSS feeds display topics instead of posts. This involves the bb_rss.php_pre_db hook, the $bb_db_override global, and some voodoo.

All of this is part of a set of fairly involved plugins (and more) that listen to changes in the SVN repository where the plugins are stored.

As an aside, that site will soon open up to anyone wanting to host the plugins they write.

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

If you set $bb->mod_rewrite = true; have you also set up Pretty Permalinks?

[ear1grey]

<p class="soapbox">

Having hacked at the default bbPress template I’m conscious that it makes extensive use of element identities for it’s formatting.

i.e. elements have an id="xyz" or a name="xyz" attribute, and in the css there is a corresponding #xyz { color: #FFF; }.

With a pluggable base model such as bbPress it makes sense to specify “how to render things like this” rather than “how to render the thing called this”.

Thus my request and suggestion is that anyone considering designing bbPress themes in the future seriously considers using CSS classes instead of IDs for formatting.

The use of classes has the same effect as id’s, but there is a key benefit: an ID can only appear once on a page, so if a page element is repeated, and it’s formatting is based on an ID, then the template breaks.

</p>

[operacional]

ok!

[Aaron]

thats exactly what I was refering to. I should have put in the link.