[_ck_]

Actually, now that I look at theirs, mine uses a completely different technique and might be better in some ways…

Coming soon:

Theme List / Preview module for “My Views” plugin

[airdrawndagger]

I’m sorry I don’t. It works on my version of IE, but not the ones at my job. Which also makes this quite tough for me to tackle. I was hoping now, with CSS being quite new and all, the different browsers would embrace using the same standards

Anyway, maybe the overflow-y: hidden is what hides the content below?

[fabianzaf]

Thank you louisedade! I really appreciate this!

[thrawn]

hi,

this runs bbpress:

http://support.technorati.com/

as does this:

http://support.technorati.com/faq

i had to change a lot of bbpress auth/cookie code in order to integrate w/ technorati member authentication, member profiles, member profile pics, global templates and so on; but these bbpress installations have been up for six months or so without a hitch. thx!

[_ck_]

Nice! Looks cairoshell inspired.

(oh and yay Wales! Go Cardiff!

[_ck_]

The RSS icon is actually CSS

All you need to do is remove it from the stylesheet.

I guess I could move it to the bottom somewhere.

[Sam Bauers]

My advice is don’t try to change bb_repermalink().

Just to qualify myself, I rewrote bb_repermalink() a while back to implement slug-based permalinks. It’s a tricky beast, and the most complex part is the profile-page case.

But if you must, then you should start by turning debugging on $bb->debug = 1 in config.php should do it. Then when you hit your link you should get some readable debug info at the top of your page.

The critical part of stopping the redirect is on line 1708 of bb-includes/functions.php, you have to make that condition happy to stop the redirect to it’s preferred permalink location. That may involve simply modifying the get_user_profile_link() and also the get_profile_tab_link() functions, but I’m not 100% sure about that.

[fabianzaf]

Awesome! I learnt something new ([^/]+) .. very cool.

Ok the rewrite worked.

Now just to figure out this repermalink…

Any ideas guys? I’ll go look around myself in the meantime

[_ck_]

Found my fix after some digging.

edit forum.php

see where this part is near the top

</table>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( $topics || $stickies ) : ?>

change it to this:

</table>

<? global $forum; $forum = get_forum( $forum_id );    // fix for 0.8.2.1 sub-forum bug ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php if ( $topics || $stickies ) : ?>

it’s related to this bug which is fixed in the trunk (supposedly)

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/704

[_ck_]

Notepad.exe

But more seriously some people like TopStyle.

There is also one or two Firefox plugins that let you change CSS dynamically – as you edit it, the page updates so you can see it in realtime. Very handy.

[chrishajer]

Hmm, searching brought me to this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/using-rss-feeds?replies=5

Sounds like you’d be happy with a hack, which is really a bad idea, and this is really better suited to a plugin, but I am still looking for where you’d make the exact change in the core.

In looking at this, I realized the RSS feeds for my forum are broken, so I’m not much help. Searching the code at trac.bbress.org for things like get_recent_rss_link (which is where the URL for the Recent Posts RSS feed comes from I think doesn’t give me any results. It seems the search there does not search the code, just the tickets? I read the help but it wasn’t telling me what I wanted to hear

Maybe I’ll check out a new copy and grep through it to see where to hack. Sorry I can’t be of more help. I don’t know the answer but I’ll try to help.

[chrishajer]

I use a similar setup with the root folder of my domain as wordpress, then a subfolder for bbpress. So I have:

http://www.domain.com/

http://www.domain.com/bbpress

In my WordPress Control panel under options, both URLs are set to http://www.domain.com with no trailing slash. I noticed in your config this URL has a trailing slash:

$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.subventions.fr/';

Maybe that is causing a problem?

[chrishajer]

In fact, in the source of your WordPress site, there are a bunch of links that result in a 404, and they all have wordpress in the URL.

404 Page Not Found:

http://subventions.fr/wordpress/

So, in your WordPress control panel, I suppose this could be wrong:

Options->General: WordPress address (URL)

I think your problems exist with the WordPress setup, and they are showing up now with bbPress integration.

[chrishajer]

This does not appear to be correct:

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.subventions.fr/wordpress';

Your wordpress site comes up at http://www.subventions.fr/ so the wordpress part is superfluous. I think you’ve got a path problem somewhere. Normally you install bbPress like this:

/var/www/subventions/wordpress/

maps to http://www.subventions.fr/

/var/www/subventions/wordpress/forum/

maps to http://www.subventions.fr/forum/

forum is a subdirectory of wordpress in a typical integrated setup. Is that your setup? If so, then your config is wrong.

[Sam Bauers]

Add this to your sites root directory .htaccess file.

This assumes that your bbPress install is in a subdirectory of your sites root called “forums”.

These rules need to be added before any WordPress rules.

The rewrite will work, but bb_repermalink() will change the URL so that it appears as it normally would.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^users/([^/]+)/?$ /forums/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

</IfModule>

[mr_cynical]

I want to create a new user role on my forum, as a basis for fiddling with the private forums plugin. Essentially I want to be able to give some users on my forum a specific role (in addition to ‘member’) that will allow them to access specific forums without giving them mod/admin powers. I’ll need more than one new role (it’s for a Guild Wars alliance forum, and each guild needs to have its own private section).

I’m fairly confident as to how to modify the private forums plugin to enable what I want – all I need to know is how to create the new user roles to enable this.

I’ve managed to establish that add_role is the bbPress function I want, but (knowing absolutely no php) I have no idea how to use it. Can anyone help me out? Thanks

[benbeltran]

Not that I know of, I was looking for one and was planning one as my first plugin before we decided not to use the system on my forums .

I say go for it , my current bbpress motto is: “If _ck_ did it, it’s good”… So I trust you more than I trust myself.

[mciarlo]

http://cairoshell.com/forum

How about mine .

[chrishajer]

I guess after re-reading, you are not sure what files to modify. Each of the php files in the template folder are used to display SOMETHING. When I first started out, I had no idea what file was used to display each page, or view, or whatever. So, I usually found a page I didn’t like the look of, just by looking at it in the browser, then I found a word on that page that seemed distinct enough that I could grep through all the template files for that word. In a lot of cases, I would find one file or maybe 3 files where that word occurred. That’s how I knew what page to modify. I’m sure someone with more knowledge could tell you that forum.php is used to display a single forum, or that topic.php is used to display a single topic.

One thing I did right off the bat to see which php pages were actually displayed and not called from other php files was to look in the template folder for something called header.php. There’s always a header.php and a footer.php, it seems. So, there is indeed a header.php. Now, since that is the header for each page, that has to be called from any page that is displayed in the browser. So, I grepped through all the php files in the template folder for header.php and found there are no files called header.php. I know they have to call header.php somehow, maybe it’s a function. So, I grepped through all the files for header without the php, and it returned a ton of files with header in them.

shell:~/forum/my-templates/mytheme > grep -i header *php

edit-post.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

favorites.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

forum.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

front-page.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

header.php:             <div id="header">

login.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

memberlist.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

password-reset.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile-base.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile-edit.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

register-success.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

register.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

rss2.php:<?php header('Content-type: text/xml'); ?>

search-stock.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

search.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

stats.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

tag-single.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

tags.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

topic.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

view.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

OK, so they call the header with a function called bb_get_header. I grepped again for that, to eliminate the other places the word header appears (div id=”header” for example.)

Now, I have a list of every page, I think, that’s used to display some content to the user in a browser. If you are trying to change the structure of a certain page, it’s going to be one of those php files listed there.

If you’re just trying to modify the look (not the actual structure) you might just be able to make a change to the style.css. Find the id or class of the element you want to change (view source in your browser to see what’s being used currently) then change that element in the style.css.

One thing I did right off the bat was styled the blockquote. By default (when I installed a year ago) there were no styling rules for blockquote. No indent, no different font, no border, no color change, nothing. So, I added a definition to the style.css for blockquote.

In some cases you’ll be modifying existing rules, in others you’ll be created new ones for things that might be unstyled.

I find Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Toolbar add on for Firefox invaluable for modifying CSS.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

You can make a change while viewing the page and see the effect right away. Then, you can make the change permanent by modifying the style.css. The changes made in with the web developer toolbar are local only, they’re not saved. Play all you want there, you won’t break anything. Make a change you like, then make it permanent in the style.css.

[chrishajer]

> A few silly questions:

> Changing or adding hot tags. Whats the procedure?

When a topic is added, the user can add tags upon creation. I think each user can also delete tags they have added themselves. As admin, you can add or delete tags on any topic when viewing the topic. So, you can delete or add a tag. Was there something else you needed to do?

> Looked through dashboard and can’t seem to find how

> to change or add new topics. Forums can be added but

> don’t know about topics.

To create a new topic, just create one as a user or as the admin user. There’s no specific place in the admin panel to do it. It’s just done in the forum.

> Last query: Again I ask about the changes made to

> structure in the html. I looked through all files and found

> nothing. Many scripts I have used in the past have one

> file called index or something that can be access to the

> html. Just creating or changing the style sheet does not

> allow for the changes I want to make. I like the default

> but some changes to reflect my website is key.

I guess it depends what you are looking to do. I know from other posts you have seen what other people have done to change the look of their forum. So, anything is possible. You want to avoid changing core bbPress files so that when you upgrade those changes aren’t lost.

You start by changing the template files. Default template files are found in bb-templates/kakumei/. To create your own template, create a directory called /my-templates/ (on the same level in the filesystem as bb-templates). Then, in there, create a folder which will be the name for your template, so maybe something like ronjroy. Your directory structure would look like /my-templates/ronjroy/ .

In that folder, put a copy of whatever file you want to modify, or put a copy of all the files from the default theme. I think at a minimum you need to have a style.css in this folder. IMPORTANT: modify the name of the theme by changing it at the top of the style.css file. Maybe you want to call it “Ron J Roy”. Change this line (at least) at the top of style.css:

Theme Name: Ron J Roy

(I copied all the files over from the default theme, but I know now that’s redundant. If you are not making a change to a file, you don’t need a copy of it. You need style.css and then any file you want to modified. The file present in my-templates/{whatever} override the stock files. If a file is not present in your theme, the stock one is used.)

Now, select your new theme in your admin panel (Presentation > Themes, or navigate to bb-admin/themes.php). If it’s not showing up in the admin panel, then something is wrong in the files you copied over. Maybe you made a mistake in editing the style.css.

Now, you should see your new theme there by name anyway. Select it. Now, because your theme is just a copy of the stock theme with a new name, the screenshot is identical (you just copied over screenshot.png), and when you use your new theme, the forum will look exactly the same as the stock theme. That’s OK. The files in the my-templates/ronjroy/ are being used to display the template, but they’re unchanged from stock, so they look the same. At least you’re using your new theme. Now the fun begins.

Pick a file, any file, in my-template/ronjroy. Make a change to the HTML in a PHP file or to the CSS in style.css. Save it. Now refresh your forum. It should look different. If you broke something, fix it in your theme, or just change the theme back to stock and go back to stock, then figure out what you broke.

These are not official docs by any means. It’s stuff I figured out from using the software in the past year. Some of it may have changed in new versions since I started. One thing I have learned about installing forum software though: if you find that you can’t understand the software enough to modify it, move on to another project. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I mean, if you’re not able to do the things you want, the way you want them, then why bang your head against the wall? Just install something else. It’s not worth the hassle. The hassles I was having with other software is why I ended up with bbPress. I grok it, I like it, and we get along fine.

(haha – longer reply to a long question)

[benbeltran]

works wonderfully … now to see if I can make it work for the bb-signatures plugin .

[_ck_]

Let’s start with are you using front-page-topics?

If so, deactivate/delete it and then download this:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/change_topics_per_page.txt

edit the limits per page near the top as desired

rename .txt to .php

install and activate it

[mciarlo]

Website Updated! Comments welcome.

[_ck_]

In your .htaccess file put

AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1

Actually, I’m seeing in the header.php template

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Which would have to be edited directly.

[Sam Bauers]

Did you not see this?

From config.php:

// Your Akismet Key.  You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet's powerful spam blocking, you'll need one.  You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ''; // Example: '0123456789ab'