[fel64]

No. No updates until the summer.

Also, on an unrelated note, the f in fel is always lowercase.

[chrishajer]

Wrap the whole thing, from beginning to end, in a div with this style: <div style="width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;">

Put that before the beginning table tag, and then close it after the ending </table> tag.

You can separate the style from the template html by calling the div something like <div id="wrapper"> in your template then adding this to your style.css:

#wrapper {

width: 800px;

margin: 0 auto;

}

In either case, the margin is 0 top and bottom, and auto left and right, which means it will be centered horizontally in the browser no matter what the size of the browser viewport.

[chrishajer]

I was checking my Google sitemap stats and saw this recently for my bbPress sitemap:

URLs not followed

When we tested a sample of the URLs from your

Sitemap, we found that some URLs were not accessible

to Googlebot because they contained too many redirects.

Please change the URLs in your Sitemap that redirect

and replace them with the destination URL (the redirect

target). All valid URLs will still be submitted.

Further reading led to this:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=48551&hl=en

So my questions are:

1. What is the reason this is a 302 header (temporary redirect) vs a 301 header (permanent redirect)?

2. Can it be changed in the code or with a plugin to generate a 301 header so Google will follow the URLs?

3. If this is not possible, what would the proper permanent URL be for a tag URL like http://www.example.com/forum/tags.php?tag%3Dghosts

BTW, I am using the Sitemap plugin for bbPress by Richard Boakes. http://boakes.org/talk/topic/31

I can modify that to write the proper permanent URLs to the sitemap if that’s the easiest way to go about it. Or, maybe tags URLs should not even be in the sitemap (they are just pointers to content that exists elsewhere anyway.)

Thanks.

[chrishajer]

Well, when I validate the page, there are errors around line 318 which is where a bunch of td/tr/table end tags are located. The fact that they are improperly nested (i.e. they are closed here but are not open) means they were probably improperly closed (or not closed) elsewhere.

But, just adding the style="display: block;" to the <img> tags as sambauers suggested should take care of it without you having to fix the improper code. It should look fine when you do that and replace the stylesheet reference.

[Sam Bauers]

I think adding:

style="display:block;"

.

To the images will work

[missbossy]

Thanks for the help

[Amaury Balmer]

Hello all,

You can find the latest french translation on

http://bbpress.fr/

and i publish a french pack for 0.8.3.1 and soon 0.9 !

I search voluntary for write french documentation and post on blog

Contact me !

[Amaury Balmer]

Hello all,

You can find the latest french translation on

http://bbpress.fr/

and i publish a french pack for 0.8.3.1 and soon 0.9 !

I search voluntary for write french documentation and post on blog

Contact me !

[Craig]

As some of you know, I’m new to WordPress and bbPress altogether and as I learn more I am also getting really amp’d for the new releases of both. However, after looking at the trac roadmap…

I see WP 2.5 still has A LOT of open tickets where as bbPress 0.9 has 0 tickets open. Is it just not updated or is today’s release not realistic?

[aitheterrible]

oh thats nice

[testosteron]

wich data i have to include to use wordpress functions? and

when i only login bbpress i have to type my data in wordpress to write a comment ( is that “fixable” ?

greetz

[howtogeek]

That plugin didn’t work quite right for me, but I was able to hack together my own hard-coded version for both bbpress and wordpress.

Thanks!

[crazlunatic]

I added the code but nothing changed:

http://vistarewired.com/test2/bbpress/

[howtogeek]

@chrishajer

Thanks for that… I’ve been meaning to look that up, but looks like you did it for me

[Rahul Bansal]

chrishajer is right about issue with ‘slugs’

only false option works…

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

are they rectifying this in next version??

[chrishajer]

It looks bad because the path to your style.css is wrong. The stylesheet should be here, but it’s not:

http://vistarewired.com/test2/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

So, where is it really? I suspect the path in the config.php and the URL you are using to access the forum are not the same, and that’s why you see the forum without any styling.

Wait – it’s actually here:

http://vistarewired.com/test2/bbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

So, in your config you called the directory forums but you actually installed it in the directory bbpress. You need to fix your config.php.

You have this:

$bb->uri = ‘http://vistarewired.com/test2/forums/&#8217;;

It needs to be this:

$bb->uri = ‘http://vistarewired.com/test2/bbpress/&#8217;;

(or, you can leave the config alone and change the name of the bbpress directory to forums.)

Fix that and everything will look as it should. You may need to do a hard refresh or clear the cache in your browser to see the effect of the changes. CTRL SHIFT R in Firefox.

[chrishajer]

Your server responds that it DOES support PHP:

(uiserver):u12345678:~ > curl -I www.infotainmentcenter.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:01:32 GMT

Server: Apache

X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.1

Try putting this into a file and making it accessible at your domain:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

Save that as info.php and try accessing it http://www.infotainmentcenter.com/info.php . Maybe you will find that the server supports PHP.

If the host does not support PHP, I suggest you get a new host. I have seen forum software that can run with flat files instead of a MySQL database, but none that are done without a scripting language like PHP.

[_ck_]

Separate db vs one table is something new for 0.9 I believe.

Those are constants that have to be defined in bb-config.php just like any of the other constants. ie.

define('USER_BBDB_NAME','blahblah');

If you are just now installing bbpress and not already integrating an existing install, if you wait for the 0.9 release on monday, it will do most of the integration for you.

There are endless instructions for integration, I’ve gathered most of them here (though that list is getting outdated for 0.9)

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/better-bbpress-wordpress-integration-the-missing-faq

[crazlunatic]

Hmmm. I think that might have helped but my forums looks reallly bad

http://vistarewired.com/test2/bbpress/

Edit: Actually now when I log in, it takes me here: http://vistarewired.com/test2/forums/bb-login.php

And yes I did make changes like adding the functions code, but I don’t think I need to use it, do I?

[chrishajer]

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”

–Benjamin Franklin

I hope you were making changes with each subsequent installation. If so, what did you try?

Try setting permalinks to false instead of true or slugs, in your config.php, like this:

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

If that works, then it’s a pretty permalinks issue.

[kehlers]

I’m just following up – I posted this bug a while ago, and when I didn’t hear back, I researched and found the solution. (wahoo!)

PROBLEM:

If private-forums plugin is installed, users below moderator capabilities will have a BLANK Pick a Section dropdown on post-form.php. If they go ahead and try to click “submit” on their post, they get an error: Forum topic is closed. (error is bogus, obviously, because they are trying to post a NEW topic).

SOLUTION

In the /my-plugins/private-forums.php, replace line 294:

$new_forums[] = $forum;

with:

$new_forums[$forum->forum_id] = $forum;

WHY IT WORKS

The $new_forums array replaces the global $forums array with just the forums that user is permitted to see. The $forums array uses the forum_id as the array index. Without this fix, the $forums array will have the default index, i.e. 0, 1, 2, 3…

If your forum ids are (a) ordered numerically by their id and (b) no numbers are ‘skipped’ in the ids, you may not notice this issue. However, in my case, my forum ids are in the order “6, 7, 1, 10, 9” because we have added and deleted and reordered them over the life of the forum.

Hopefully this helps someone.

Cheers,

k

[fpslabs]

oh wow, lol I didn’t even see that. I told you I might be stupid Thanks man

[gkp99]

Nevermind – I was using the wrong relative URL it would seem.

I settled for this:

require_once($_SERVER."/forums/config.php");>/code>

and it works now

Garry,

[gkp99]

Hello everyone!

Here is my setup:

WP blog = http://www.cocoadummy.com

BB forums = http://www.cocoadummy.com/forums

I have set the config.php values as required. I have enabled the bbPress-integration plugin in WP and configured it. I have added

require_once('../wp-blog-header.php');

to my bbPress config.php file. (This seems to work as I can call the WP bloginfo(‘name’) function in my footer.

When I try to go to the forums admin I get the following error:

Warning: require_once(../wp-blog-header.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.omaha/gkp99/www.cocoadummy.co/forums/config.php on line 4

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../wp-blog-header.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/.omaha/gkp99/www.cocoadummy.co/forums/config.php on line 4

Also, I have added the following line of code to wp-config so that I can import functions from bbPress into WP (I want to add the online list to my WP sidebar):

// Import bbPress

require_once(‘../forums/config.php’);

I have added it beneath this code:

// Get everything else

require_once(ABSPATH.’wp-settings.php’);

(although the error is the same wherever I put it).

When I goto my blog homepage (www.cocoadummy.com) I get this error:

Warning: require_once(../forums/config.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/.omaha/gkp99/www.cocoadummy.co/wp-config.php on line 34

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘../forums/config.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/php5/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /home/.omaha/gkp99/www.cocoadummy.co/wp-config.php on line 34

What am I doing wrong?

Garry,

[chrishajer]

It can be done with PHP.

I’ve never done the random thing, but the Cutline theme for WordPress offers this functionality. You can read about it here:

http://cutline.tubetorial.com/totally-random-header-images-for-cutline/

I think you could adapt that for your uses.

In WordPress, for a specific background tied to a specific page, I just do something like this in header.php:

<div id="container" style="background: #fff url('<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/<?php echo $post->ID; ?>.jpg') left top no-repeat;">

That gives the container div the background image of the post ID.jpg, so if you were viewing post 52, you would have a background image of 52.jpg. You could easily adapt this to bbPress calls by using the forum number and $forum_id, whichever div you want a background for (#wrapper or #main?) and then the proper location of your images (whether they are stored in your template folder or your forum root or something.) It fails OK too since there is a color code for the background and that is used if the image cannot be found (I think that’s what happens anyway.)

Let me know if that makes sense. This is how I’ve done it in WordPress, but the same approach will work for bbPress I think.