It will indirectly fix the problem with page numbers.
Doesn’t actually fix the bbPress internal issue but avoids it instead. I still don’t understand why I can’t reproduce the error on my installs.
You are probably getting an internal server error because of a conflict with a rule in the root htaccess. Make sure you don’t still have the old rewrite rules in the root one. You can also post that root htaccess here for me to look at. Be sure to put it between code backticks.
You need to make sure the .htaccess is in /Forums/ and not the root of the entire site. Your host’s directory structure is a little strange but I don’t think it will interfere with mod_rewrite.
There is a possibility that there is a rule in the root .htaccess that is interfering the lower .htaccess. But let’s first make sure it’s in the correct directory.
By the way:
/Forum/topic/forum-guidelines-please-read
is correct.
/Forum/forum-guidelines-please-read/
is wrong.
bbPress needs to know that the string following is a topic, otherwise it doesn’t know what to do with it (it might be a forum). /Forum/forum/forum-name is also legit.
Yep I downloaded the most current version of the plugin, and did not modify it in any way at all.
I did try using the mod_rewrite instructions (called the file rewrite-rules.php from my browser, copied and pasted the resulting rules into my .htaccess file, and then went to settings and chose the pretty permalink), but it just results in 404 errors when I click on any of my links.
I’m certain that’s because the rewrite rules are adding in to the URL an extra level as such:
what should be /Forum/forum-guidelines-please-read/ becomes /Forum/topic/forum-guidelines-please-read
Same for the forums – it is inserting and extra /forum into the path. Unfortuanately I don’t know enough about mod_rewrite (okay really nothing at all about it) so I am not able to correct the rules myself. OR if the problem is not with the rewrite rules but something in the core code, that’s beyond me too. I just know it’s adding something to the path that shouldn’t be there.
Hmm that’s a really strange problem that I am going to have to explore a bit later.
You are using the final copy of the plugin correct?
And you didn’t modify it at all?
Even though I can’t reproduce the problem on my copies of bbPress, this may be an internal bug since I can workaround the issue by doing this (note the ?& )
http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/?&page=2
ps. the best way to do pretty-permalinks is to use the .htaccess method with “rewrite” where you have to copy and paste the rules that bbPress offers here:
http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/bb-admin/Forum/rewrite-rules.php
Once you do that, then you have to turn on the option in your bb-config.php
Hi _ck_ – thanks for helping.
Here is a link from the front page to a topic:
http://www.travel-writers-exchange.com/Forum/topic.php?id=43
I reported it working because the numbers showed up exactly how I wanted to see them, but I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t actually “click” on the numbers at that point to be sure they actually worked correctly.
I didn’t change the plugin in any way. It does work perfectly on the other pages – the individual forum list of topics (forum.php) and the topic itself with the posts (topic.php)……I only get this error if I click on the additional page numbers on the front page.
(p.s. – I would LIKE to use pretty permalinks, but have not been able to get that working, even after reading everything I could find here on the subject and trying all of the suggestions – I’m hoping a future version of bbPress will fix this issue, but for now I’m stuck with the ugly permalinks)
Any shared host worth their salt will automatically, immediately and permanently suspend an account sending that many emails per hour anyway.
Any site sending that many messages needs a dedicated email server with an IP that’s registered on whitelists (costs $$$) so major providers will accept that kind of traffic. http://goodmail.com http://www.senderscorecertified.com http://www.isipp.com are examples of popular whitelist services. You also need to make sure the server has rDNS, SenderID, SPF and DomainKeys.
With some additional code and the use of cron, Detective’s code could be made to send only a few emails per minute, and track that the same domain does not get an email again within a few minutes. That might slow down the banning a little but we’re getting into spammer territory there and I’m not making such a tool available (also phplist does all that anyway).
On this forum “Started 5 hours ago by jabberwock” appears. So, there are functions to do what you want to do. Maybe it’s just not in the theme you’re using. This is in my topic.php:
<li><?php printf(__('Started %1$s ago by %2$s'), get_topic_start_time(), get_topic_author()) ?></li>
Those are your functions. The get_topic_start_time returns a time elapsed sort of thing (i.e. “5 days ago”) rather than a date. There is probably a function to return the topic start date instead of time elapsed as well. Maybe it’s topic_time or get_topic_time or topic_start_time. All the functions are pretty reasonably named.
In forum.php and front-page.php, the latest poster for each topic is identified. Is it possible to also identify the first poster– ie the person who started the thread and perhaps also when the thread was started? After sifting through code for several hours, I’m not sure if I’m overlooking something, or if I simply cannot find something that is not there. Thanks.
That’s because your topic is already stuck 
Click on Unstick topic. Then you get the options again.
Just use a little php. What type of code are you trying to insert?
Zulan: this error says you have the path to the file wrong in your bb-config.php.
Warning: require_once(../wp-blog-header.php)
[function.require-once]: failed to open stream:
No such file or directory in
/var/www/www.zulan.se/bbpress/bb-config.php
on line 41
What path do you have listed to wp-blog-header.php on line 41 in your bb-config.php?
I don’t know where it is in the code. Does it not appear at the bottom of the topic when you are logged in as keymaster?
I like the akismet spam filter 
Where would this option be located in the code? Can’t seem to find it. Thanks for your post.
I thought the options for sticky were like this:
[Stick topic (to front)]
Where “to front” sticks it to the front page, and “Stick topic” just sticks it in its own forum. I haven’t done it in a long time so I am unsure if that is the case any more or not. If it’s already stuck, I think you have to “Unstick topic” then re-stick it to the front page.
It’s meant to mark the page as it being a sticky post. You can move it around on your template. I have mine show up after the number of replies so it would be Forum Rules (1 post) [sticky]
Look for <?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> in your topic.php file.
globetrotterdk, you have to look into your wp-config.php file.
On bb-config.php I added in:
define('AUTH_SALT', 'AUTHSALT');
define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'LOGGEDINSALT');
Which is exactly the same as in my wp-config.php file. And, obviously, it’s not actually set to AUTHSALT but something like UYwE]&We3#
Hi there,
My bbPress forum (0.9.2) has been theme and databased intergrated, I’ve just decided to test sticky topics, and this occurs on a sticky topic:
http://www.james-blogs.com/forum/topic.php?id=3
What is this [sticky] code doing, Is this meant to be how a sticky topic is identified to someone or is broken bbcode?
Regards,
James
I follow this with great interest since I have almost the same problem. I dont even see the admin admin, I only have one admin and that is my account since if I try to use it I get to edit my profile. I’ve tried entering the path http://www.zulan.se/bbpress/bb-admin/ but it only takes me to the first page 
I have checked my AUTH_KEY, SECURE_AUTH_KEY AND LOGGED_IN_KEY and they are for sure the same since I havent changed them. So both my wp and bb config says like this:
define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘put your unique phrase here’); // Change this to a unique phrase.
I can’t believe I’ve not seen phplist around before. 
Thanks!
I actually have a closely related but slightly different need – I need bbPress to NOT strip out the target if I manually enter it into an <a> tag and, ideally, to also not strip out the rel=”nofollow”
This plugin does add the rel=”nofollow” to links, but I wouldn’t want that added to my internal links, just external ones. But it is not adding the target=”_blank” and bbPress is still stripping it if I add it manually. Again, I wouldn’t want it added for internal links, just external (we want ALL internal (on-site) links to open in the same window, but want ALL external links to open in a new window).
The only way I know of to get this granularity of control is to do them manually, but dang it bbPress keeps removing them.
I agree totally that it’s not good to mess with core files, and I try to avoid it at all costs, but this is a very important issue for us – so if there is no plugin to add this level of control, how can I modify my file(s) to do this? I would happily add a functions.php to my theme and put it there, but am not a good enough coder to write this function myself.
Any suggestions?
I just installed this plugin http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-notification/ that automatically adds new posts to an author’s favorites. However, in order for the post’s author to receive a notification email for a new post he/she must also turn on email notifications in the admin area.
My question: is there a way to change the code to have these email notifications turned on by default?
Also, if you’d like to dynamically add some text to the left (or even the right) of the page links without hacking all your templates, you can use this trick:
// add "pages:" to page links
function text_topic_pages( $text ) { if ($text) {$text="pages: ".$text;} return $text; }
add_filter('topic_pages', 'text_topic_pages');
add_filter('forum_pages', 'text_topic_pages');
This way the word “pages:” appears before the page number links only if there actually are any pages for the results.
You can create a full plugin out of it, then activate the plugin, or _ck_ likes to create a single plugin for all the miscellaneous tweaks or mini-plugins, then add this to that file. Adding this to a file of other mini-plugins means you cannot activate and deactivate this independently. That works for tweaks you will always want to use.
A plugin header will need to look something like this:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress Tweaks
Plugin URI: http://www.example.com
Description: Various tweaks to bbPress
Author: You
Version: 0.1
*/
Add the above code after that, and call the file bbpress-tweaks.php, put it in my-plugins, then activate it in the bbPress admin. It should look like this when you’re done:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbPress Tweaks
Plugin URI: http://www.example.com
Description: Various tweaks to bbPress
Author: You
Version: 0.1
*/
function meta_keywords() {
global $tags;
if (!empty($tags)) {
$keywords="";
foreach ($tags as $t) {
$keywords.=$t->raw_tag.', ';
}
echo "n".'<meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="'.trim($keywords,", ").'">'."n";
}
}
add_action('bb_head', 'meta_keywords',
;
?>
