[itissue]

I know there’s a way to hide a certain part of the front page by using this:

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

INSERT HIDDEN CODE HERE

<?php endif; else : // $forums ?>

but I was wondering if you could have a section that only nonregistered users can view. This will make more sense after visiting my site:

http://tapestry.endless-sonata.net

At the bottom, I have a table that contains Hot Tags, Views, Users Online, and Top Posters. What I want is for that view to be only visible to registered users. Then, when a nonregistered user views this site, I want just the Hot tags to show in an expanded version, not off to the left. Is there a way to do this? I tried entering the alternate code after this:

<?php endif; else : // $forums ?>

but it didn’t display anything.

[itissue]

I tried changing the date format using fel64’s wonderful plugin. It works great except the time is inaccurate. I have the timezone displayed. It shows the eastern time zone apparently. The problem is, the time displayed is obviously off by a lot. It says I posted something at 3:22 PM EST when in reality I posted it at 9:30 AM central time, which is 10:30 AM eastern time. Does anyone have an explanation for this? To see what I mean, go to http://tapestry.endless-sonata.net . Hover over the freshness to see the exact time.

Edit: The timezone is supposed to be GMT, but apparently it’s displayed as EST. Strange. Is there a way to display the time zone selected by the user or hardcoded on config.php?

[chrishajer]

1. Validate a couple pages of your site here:

http://validator.w3.org/

2. I think you’ll find this font tag is invalid (missing a quote):

<font color=white">

Every browser deals with invalid markup in a different way.

[aabd]

Thanks. i have the same problem!

[mettled]

I just got the same error message on my forum as well. Obviously I was entering different copy, but everything else was the same. I’ve posted on my forum before without any problem. I haven’t changed anything that I can recall, so this was totally unexpected. I’m not a coder so any help would be great. My bbPress is version 0.8.3.1.

[horrorshow]

nolageek,

In WPMU, did you put the bbpress-integration.php in the “mu-plugins” directory or the “plugins” directory?

I want only the site admin to be able to activate the “bbpress Integration” plugin, but it shows up for all users giving them an option to activate the plugin. That’s not good.

On the bbPress side, I found that the wordpress-integration is not necessary (I’ve asked about this, but no replies so far), and display name plugin requires some code changes to the BBPress code for it to work properly. It causes permission problems, and I had to dig around the forum where it shows you which code to change.. In retrospect, it probably wasn’t worth the trouble. (Gurus, please correct me if I am wrong, as I am new to BBpress)

If you want me to look for that thread again, let me know.

To get single sign-on working properly, you need to make code changes on the bbPress side to bb_cookie() and bb_logout() in pluggable.php along with the config changes I mentioned (which you’ve done already).

function bb_cookie( $name, $value, $expires = 0 ) {

if ( bb_get_option( 'cookiedomain' ) ){

setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, bb_get_option( 'cookiepath' ), bb_get_option( 'cookiedomain' ) );

}else{

setcookie( $name, $value, $expires, bb_get_option( 'cookiepath' ) );

}

}



function bb_login($login, $password) {

if ( $user = bb_check_login( $login, $password ) ) {

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'usercookie' ), $user->user_login );

bb_cookie( bb_get_option( 'passcookie' ), md5( $user->user_pass ) );

do_action('bb_user_login', (int) $user->ID );

}

return $user;

}

I hope this helps, and please let me know how it works out.

[howtogeek]

A workaround would be to use feedburner to burn the feed, because it’ll display the friendly page. Would require some theme hacking, I’d think.

[Nola1974]

I’m not able to get this working in WPMU/bbpress:

Using newest versions of both (fresh install 3 days ago)

Site: http://geekdc.com

bbpress: http://geekdc.com/forum

bbpress config.php :

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';  // WordPress table prefix.  Example: 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://geekdc.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://geekdc.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: 'http://example.com'



//if ( isset( $bb->wp_table_prefix ) ){

$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser’;

$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass’;

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.geekdc.com';

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

//}

/* Stop editing */

Stock WPMU wp-config.php

Using the following plugins on WPMU:

bbpress-integration.php

https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/bbpress-integration.0.74.zip

Using the following plugins on bbpress:

wordpress-integration

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-integration/

display name

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/display-name/

Is there anything else I need to do?

When I first log in to WPMU I get the following cookies:

geekdc.com wordpress_test_cookie (content:’ WP+Cookie+check’)

geekdc.com wordpressuser (content username)

geekdc.com wordpresspass (content: hash)

I go to the forum, and I’m not logged in.

I log into bbpress and I get two more cookies, exactly the same execept for the expiration dates. The WPMU expires at the end of session. The wordpress expires in one week. I do not get another wordpress_test_cookie.

[chrishajer]

What version bbPress are you using? Looks like mismatched quotes are causing a problem inserting this post into your database. I inserted that text into a post on my installation and it is inserted fine. Of course, I might be missing some of what you tried to insert before it erred out.

This is what I posted:

Internet. I've taken to not answering my phone lately, and I like it. And Eh@ the laptop-- it's nice to have, but I don't need it. The internet tho, is a lifeline How would you get on the internet without your laptop?

Was there something before “Internet”? Can you post a link to a plain text file that contains the whole text of the post? Maybe some characters in there are causing this problem.

[chrishajer]

If the browser can’t handle the feed, just use one of the feed readers from the dmoz list.

[chrishajer]

I guess trying to view the RSS feed without a feed reader is kind of like trying to view a HTML page with notepad. You see something other than what’s intended because your client doesn’t support the content coming your way.

[howtogeek]

I’m sure the problem is that McKrazie is still on IE6, which displays RSS feeds as xml documents, since there’s no reader built in.

Sadly many companies have not upgraded yet.

[chrishajer]

http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Internet/Clients/WWW/Feed_Readers/

[chrishajer]

Yes, you need a feed reader. IE7 has one built in, Firefox does too, and you can add RSS feeds to a Google personalized homepage (which is what I took a screenshot of.)

Autodiscovery works fine for your site. Here’s your latest posts feed: http://www.hooligans-gaming.net/forums/rss.php

Google Reader is a feed reader as well. Try viewing your feed there.

http://www.google.com/reader/view/

Really, I can’t find any place it’s NOT working:

Google Reader

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-Google-Reader.png

Firefox 2

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-Firefox.png

IE7

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/Hooligans-IE7.png

[chrishajer]

Oddly, all the stuff over there is using the same CSS, which is a little weird. I think I would prefer to have .threadauthor .name, .threadauthor .post_count_plus, .threadauthor .status, .threadauthor .membersince, but that is not there now. If it were, it would be easy to add to style.css and style each item individually. But it’s not.

So, I just added this to .threadauthor in style.css:

font: 13px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

So now that block looks like this:

.threadauthor {

margin-left: -110px;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

width: 95px;

font: 13px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

}

That worked for me. There are probably better ways to do it, by adding the proper classes to the template file or whatever generates that HTML, but barring that, this one line addition worked fine for me. If 13px is too small still, make it a larger number. You might also need to adjust the width after that.

[Craig]

Internet Explorer at my work

So, you can’t just view the rss.php page that is linked in the profiles? You need an external feeder to read it?

[chrishajer]

Works fine for me with Firefox and my Google homepage. See this after I added your feed:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bbpress/iGoogle.png

No problem at all. Where are you trying to view this feed?

[Craig]

Alright, I will fully admit I am a complete newbie to RSS feeds and while I’m trying to learn more… I have a weird error I think.

When you have an active RSS feed on my forums it just shows a page with a white background and expandable/collasping script.

Forums: http://forums.hooligans-gaming.net

Help a brother out!

[janellers]

just don’t belive in my last post please help me!

[horrorshow]

Hi beaulebens,

I like your site!

Which version of wpmu and bbpress are you running? Which plugins are you using for the integration. (I had to modify some cookie setting code in bbpress to get the single signon working properly: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookies-subtle-bug-single-sign-on-bbpress-and-wordpress)

BBsync doesn’t work with WPMU, btw.

What other things have you customized? Thanks for sharing!

[horrorshow]

I fixed the problem by making changes to the bb_cookie() and bb_logout() since wpmu and bbpress set cookies differently: (the expire times are different). If anyone wants to me to post the code, please let me know.

Also, I added the “cookiedomain” to the config.php

Here’s the full list relevant to the integration.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://achillesblog.com';

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.achillesblog.com';

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

[itissue]

That looks like it should work. I have this in my-views.php though

$my_views_prefered_order=array(

"latest-discussions","no-replies","untagged","my-topics","my-posts","most-views","most-posts","least-views","least-posts",

"installed-plugins","available-plugins","installed-themes","available-themes","statistics"

);

The problem is, every time I put /view/latest-discussions/ or /view/latest-discussions/page/2 , it redirects me to the index page.

[_ck_]

I had not seen this posted before and I just (finally) figured it out so I thought I’d share.

If you’d like to give the user a friendly redirect back to the topic (or forum) they were at just before they logged in (instead of the front page) simply open the login-form.php template in your theme and add this BEFORE the final </form>

<input type="hidden" name="re" value="<?php echo "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"].'?'.$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]; ?>" />

<input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="<?php echo  bb_get_option( 'uri' ) ?>" />

Should work on anything except maybe IIS.

[howtogeek]

You have to make sure that it’s listed in the my-views.php plugin file in this line:

$my_views['prefered_order']=array(      // force views to list in the order that you desire

"latest-discussions","no-replies","untagged","my-topics","my-posts","most-views","most-posts","least-views","least-p

osts",

Usually the link is something like /forum/view/latest-discussions, for instance mine is here:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/view/latest-discussions

If you wanted to link directly to the second page, it would be something like this:

http://www.howtogeek.com/forum/view/latest-discussions/page/2

[horrorshow]

_ck_, I cleared all the cookies for this domain when doing the test. I also closed all open pages, and started fresh.

The three cookies that I see generated when doing this test on both BBPress and WPMU are:

wordpressuser

wordpresspass

wordpress_test_cookie

I’ll look at the code for logging out of wpmu, and also see if anything gets changed in the database. I’ll then compare that to how BBPress logs out and see if it makes any changes in the database too.

Thanks for the link, but he basically added:

‘

$bb->usercookie = ‘wordpressuser’;

$bb->passcookie = ‘wordpresspass’;

‘

And I’ve already done that.