I’m guessing get_post_text() would be your best option. post_text() doesn’t return a value, it just pastes the text onto the page.
I’m in the process of theming bbPress not to look like a forum, but rather a blog with multiple posters 
. The one thing I’m stuck on, and there doesn’t seem to be any documentation on how to do this. How do you put excerpts in the front? The best example would have to be 9rules, I was wondering if that was custom code, or is there a plugin or a simple solution to achieve that? Thanks in advance.
Hello all,
I tried to realize a plugin that would allow me to replace some words by others in the post. I created the DB contained the words to replace and the word to put instead, i created the function and all is working fine, BUT, I don’t find how to use it on BBPRESS.
My function is something like
echo replace_words($TextToBeTransform,$WordToReplace)
, and the function use the DB to see what is be put instead of the $WordToReplace. As I can see, the post are printed out from the post.php of the template we do use.
I got this:
<?php
$tset="A trial phrase.";
$WordToBeReplaced="trial";
?>
<div class="threadpost">
<div class="post">
<?php echo replace_words( $test,$WordToBeReplaced); post_text()?></div>
<div class="poststuff">
<?php printf( __('Posted %s ago'), bb_get_post_time() ); ?>
">#
<?php post_ip_link(); ?> <?php post_edit_link(); ?>
<?php post_delete_link(); ?></div>
</div>
It print me exactly as I want the “A trial phrase” replace trial by “new” (from the DB).
The problem is that when I want to apply this to the text of the post, post_text(), it won’t work at all. I see that this post_text() is actually applying filters and others to the text, which my cause my function to fail (no error, it just don’t replace the words).
Could someone tell me where should I apply my own filter replace_words() for it to be taken into account?
Thank you very much.
How should I modify my .htaccess to accomodate a bbpress install in a /forums/ subdirectory? The install worked but permalinks aren’t.
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
Wouldn’t a better fix for this be to apply a filter in the “WordPress Integration” plugin? I’m not sure the exact syntax but something like:
if (function_exists('wp_head')) {
// or another check to see if WordPress has been included
add_filter('get_topic_title', 'stripslashes');
add_filter('get_post_text', 'stripslashes');
}
To me this is exactly what a WordPress Integration plugin should do.
You have managed to come across a bug since you have a “username” that is a number. bbPress is searching for the 850th user which is that user and not your profile. I will let the “powers above” know. I will try and figure out your user ID number so you can at least see the profile until they fix this 
Trent
I logged in here on the bbPress forums to view my profile so that I could find my topics that I created a couple weeks ago. When I view my profile, it doesn’t show my posts or topics and my profile information is someone else’s:
crisdias
Member Since
January 21, 2004 (3 years)
Location
Rio
User Activity
Recent Replies
No more replies.
Threads Started
No more topics posted.
That’s not me, I’m not from Rio.. and I’ve only been a member for a year or so.
Also, I’m not able to edit my profile here.
How would I have known that….read the title of this post? *slaps himself for not reading it* ! How does that plugin add the polls now? Through code or buttons in create post and replies? That might help others think of possible solutions.
Trent
Unfortunately I’m not much of a coder, I get by, but hacking code to make it work in a specific way is a little over my head. Regarding the poll-plugin I was referring to that, wondering if anyone got it to work in this manner.
Looks like you got past the part where it creates the tables, so I would guess the permissions are OK.
Looks to me like there is a problem with the username you used when you did the installation. All the fields related to username are empty in that error you pasted.
topic_poster, , <-- why empty?
topic_poster_name, '', <-- why empty?
topic_last_poster, , <-- why empty?
topic_last_poster_name, '', <-- why empty?
None of those can be null. So, did you do something weird when creating the username, or use a weird character, or are you using integration with an existing user or maybe a display name plugin?
Something is going on with the username. It’s not present, so the INSERT failed.
Check out your config.php again.
Hi,
Don’t know if anyone knows how this works, but I though, let’s give it a shot.
I currently have the following code (javascript) to get a hash:
function serialize(s)
{
serial = $.SortSerialize(s);
alert(serial.hash);
};
Now this has as output:
sort3[]=links&sort3[]=images
I want it to output:
links,images
How to do this?
sort3[]= needs to be filtered
& needs to replaced by ,
I’ve tried things like:
function serialize(s)
{
serial = $.SortSerialize(s);
alert(serial.hash);
var hash = serial.hash;
var temp = hash.replace(new RegExp( "sort3[]=", "gi" ),'');
and
function serialize(s) {
serial = $.SortSerialize(s);
var hash = serial.hash;
var temp = hash.replace(/sort3[]=/gi,'');
alert(serial.hash);
};
But none worked 
Hope you guys can help.
Many thx,
Null
Here it is:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: My own tweak for my forums
Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/
Description: Fine tuning codes for my forum
Author: Your name
Author URI: http://www.myforum.com/
Version: 0.1
*/
add_filter('post_author_link', 'bb_rel_nofollow');
?>
Basically, you can put many fine tuning codes within one PHP files, and this file is for your forum only. Remember to activate this plugin.
Look at the rendered source of the page (the HTML source) and look for <br /> or <p> tags – those will cause line wrapping. The other possibility is that the container that is holding the search form (the div) is too small, so it wraps.
I haven’t watched this video yet, but I think an idea for another one would be how to write a plugin 
You can simply add that line into bb-includes/default-filters.php
or
create your own plugin file with that line.
Please–can you tell me specifically where to add this? What file and which lines? (Sorry, perpetual noob, trying to learn.)
Hi!
I made a new podcast show and the first episode’s topic is “Integrating bbPress into WordPress.” This is my first video, so I’m really need your suggestions. Maybe you can tell me what are you expecting in such podcast show? I am looking forward to hearing from you!
PS. I haven’t decided what’s next episode and when will it be released.
PS2. You may want to download .ogg (I might convert .ogg to .flv and .mov without appropriate parameters, so the qualities are not good).
For the size of the input text box, you need to change this in your theme’s search-form.php:
<input size="38" maxlength="100" name="q" value="" type="text">
Change the 38 to something smaller and the size of the box displayed will be smaller.
Then, right below that in the file, you need to change this:
<input value="Search »" class="inputButton" type="submit">
to this:
<input value="Go!" class="inputButton" type="submit" >
To get everything on one line, you need to remove all the paragraph tags around those two form fields in your search.php. Each form element is in its own paragraph
<form action="<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>search.php" method="get">
<?php _e('Search:'); ?>
<input type="text" size="23" maxlength="100" name="q" value="<?php echo attribute_escape( $q ); ?>" />
<?php if( empty($q) ) : ?>
<p class="submit"><input type="submit" value="<?php echo attribute_escape( __('Go!') ); ?>" class="inputButton" />
<?php else : ?>
<p class="submit"><input type="submit" value="<?php echo attribute_escape( __('Search again »') ); ?>" class="inputButton" />
<?php endif; ?>
</form>
Can you post what you did and what resources you used, so others with the same problem might find this post when they are searching for a solution to their problem?
Basically though, you would install WordPress first, then use the same database for bbPress, but with a different table prefix for the bbPress tables. Then there are configuration options in config.php in the bbpress folder. Some of those can only be answered AFTER installing WordPress, like these:
$bb->wp_table_prefix = '';
$bb->wp_home = '';
$bb->wp_siteurl = '';
I wouldn’t put them in bb-templates at all (no good reason for saying that other than “they don’t go there.”) Just drop them into my-templates.
The my templates folder should be 0755.
The template folder itself should be 0755.
The files in the template folder should be 0644.
(well, that’s what they are in my installation, by default, and they work)
If those permissions are correct, then is it possible you didn’t create a folder under my-templates? Should be something like:
my-templates (directory)
-crystal (directory)
- all the php and css for the crystal theme here
-superbold (directory)
- all the php and css for the superbold theme here
The other thing is that the style.css needs to have a line in it like this:
Theme Name: Crystal
If the Theme Name is not unique, I think bad things happen. At least you see what appears to be a theme of the same name in multiple places in the admin panel. I know WordPress doesn’t like themes with the same name too much, and I suspect bbPress is similarly picky.
Please post when you find the solution because I am sure it will help other people. Thanks.
That’s what I did, when using the generated bbPress htaccess code it works, but not with MultiViews.
Thing is, everything worked just fine with MultiViews, except that Next link.
Ah well, resolved now. Thanks for the help guys!
About MultiViews, I recently re-read FAQ. There is a note for not working MultiViews.
3. Try it out. If it doesn’t work, your web server does not support MultiViews. Instead, you’ll need to remove that line from your .htaccess file and replace it with the several lines bbPress generates for you when you browse to your bbPress installation’s /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php.
Maybe you can try it and let us know if that works?
Thanks for your input, I’ve resolved it!
It was a mod_rewrite problem. After disabling it everything worked fine, so I took the long road and went and generated a htaccess file, instead of the one using MultiViews etc. That did the trick.
Weird though, why shouldn’t MultiViews work with pagination, when it works with everything else?
Ah well, it’s A-OK now, so thanks for the help!
The quickest (and dirtiest) solution might be to change line 91 in bb-settings.php to:
require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'db.php');
.
I haven’t tested this, but it should work.
It will force bbPress to use the MySQL PHP extension instead of MySQLi
