[jolaedana]

http://www.musemart.com

I’ve recently launched a forum attached to my personal portfolio and blog as a resource and critique center for writers, artists, and designers. So far, it’s just myself, my husband, and a few friends, but if you’re interested in commenting on work or showing your own, you’re welcome to stop by and join up.

Thanks to BBPress for making such a simple forum- I got this up and running with the info I’d gleaned about WP in less than a day, and skinned it in a grand total of two hours using the styles I’d already come up with for my WP templates.

It’s bright, but we like it! Hope to see some of you there.

[Trent Adams]

Try adding the following to your bbPress config.php:

$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser_full.hash.number";

$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass_full.hash.number";

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Try something like this:

#profile-menu {

list-style: none;

position: absolute;

left: 200 px;

}

Trent

[silverwing]

Is there a way to add an include in a bbpress theme? I want to add some content in the pages that will change, and I just want to change one file instead of multiple ones.

Something like this <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/featured.php'); ?> from my wordpress theme. But have featured.php in my bbpress theme folder.

[Andrew]

I think I see the problem now. BBPress is setting a different MD5 hash than wordpress. This must have to do with the fact it is installed in the subdirectory. Why is my install generating the wrong hash…

My config.php is set up as above. Ive pasted it below. I included the full URL coding where as you used only the http://www.xxxx.xxxx – I can’t imagine that makes a difference.

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

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://www.nyquistcapital.com/’; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com’

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://www.nyquistcapital.com/’; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com’

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’; // Added per BBPress Forum Suggestion to ensure WordPress user sharing

---

wordpressuser_ed93838a3c2677b2a3d53669c26b039b

Path: /

Content:admin

wordpresspass_ed93838a3c2677b2a3d53669c26b039b

Path:/

Content:<HASH>

And for BBPress

wordpressuser_34c5633735768bf923be82cd0042b16a

Path: /

Content:admin

wordpresspass_34c5633735768bf923be82cd0042b16a

Path:/

Content:<HASH>

[Inquirer]

The Profile Edit links are displaying off the right side of web page

How doe the postion code need to be set to move the links back onto the web page?

#profile-menu {

list-style: none;

position: absolute;

right: 0;

}

#profile-menu li {

font-size: 1.1em;

background-color: #eee;

padding: 4px 7px;

display: inline;

border-top: 3px double #9e9e9e;

position: relative;

top: -10px;

}

#profile-menu li.current {

background-color: #ddd;

border-top: 1px solid #9e9e9e;

}

[Trent Adams]

Right off the cuff, I would do the following until you have it installed correctly:

1) Remove:

$bb->WP_BB = true;

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

2) Change to false:

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

Once you have bbPress installed and integrated with wordpress (logins), then play around with the permalinks and the including bbPRess functions with WP.

Trent

[fel64]

You may have to add

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

to your config.php if it doesn’t work straight away.

[Trent Adams]

If you have the same domain so it should be simple. Keep in mind that bbPress will use the WP users after doing this and both programs have to be installed in the same database:

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you're not, just leave the rest as it is.



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

$bb->wp_home = www.nyquistcapital.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: Blog address (URL) // No trailing slash.  Example: 'http://example.com'

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'www.nyquistcapital.com';  // WordPress - Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // No trailing slash. Example: 'http://example.com'

Trent

[oledole]

Thanks! That fixed it.

[fel64]

Did it not say what the fatal error was?

In any case, at a hunch putting

if( !function_exists('force_balance_tags') ) {

in front of ck’s code, and

}

before the add_filter(... bit, could fix it. I don’t run it myself so this is a long shot.

[oledole]

Looked like a nice tweek-plugin, but it produced a “fatal error” when I activated it. Looks like it has something to do with this suggested code:

add this to a plugin

function force_balance_tags($text) {return balanceTags($text, true);}

add_filter(‘pre_post’, ‘force_balance_tags’);

When I added this to the bbcode plugin it resulted in the same fatal error when activated…

[fel64]

Should be. If they are on the same domain, it is certainly possible. In a small set of cases you will need to add two simple lines of code to your bbpress config.php. What URLs do you (want to) have bbpress and wp at? Tell us and we can tell you what code to add.

[citizenkeith]

_ck_: Thanks for the Tweaks plugin. Very useful!

[fel64]

Changing the width of the theme is easy; all it takes is a single change in a CSS file. If they hard-coded the width into the HTML, they deserve the extra work.

I think that if you use they backticks on an inline basis the overflow is hidden, but if you use it for paragraphs (specifically: backtick is in line above your code, I think) the overflow remains.

For example, a really long path like var/www.mywebsite.com/htdocs/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/template-functions.php or whatever will be cut off. If there had been spaces, it should wrap.

But a paragraph of code will have the scrollbar.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: o/

*/

function withareallylongnamethatjustneverstopsandthefunctiondoesn'tevendoanythinguseful() {

return true;

}

[_ck_]

Yeah the only problem I can foresee is that the plugin browser looks like a semi-custom job and I am uncertain if it’s hard coded into the template.

(In other news I finally figured out how to use SVN last night and posted my two little plugins directly… we’ll need to have a “100 plugins party” when bbpress hits that many…

[Detective]

Hi!

I run a vanilla board. I think Vanilla is a very complete, fast and stable forum software. The only problem i have is that none of the add-ons i programmed work the way i wanted. This is because the design of Vanilla is extremely object oriented so there are rules that you have to follow.

BBPress doesn’t have that. Instead you have a lot more freedom to do things, and that’s what i wanted, so i’m moving to BBPress.

Of course the object oriented structure of Vanilla is extremely well designed. I just don’t think extreme OO is completely adecuate on this kind of software.

Another difference is that in Vanilla you just enable an add-on and it works. You don’t have to add code nor modify files (again, this is because of the structure of Vanilla. This is a very good feature, specially if you don’t have experience in PHP). In BBPress mostly all of the time you’ll have to modify files in your template to use some plugins (i like this, because i have more control over what’s happening).

In short, Vanilla is excellent, but it’s not for me

[_ck_]

Be sure to see my nifty update at the end of that thread.

I suspect 4.01 will be out shortly

I really like this plugin, gives bbpress a higher end forum feature.

[Trent Adams]

You mean having a template that is completely ‘auto’ driven so that it adjusts to each browser window width? I know that I constantly get users a little mad at me because I like ‘big resolution’ on my computers and my users are still at 800 X 600 screens so my sites have a tendency to have to be scrolled.

Not sure about the overflow as I don’t use the default theme myself. Anyone else?

Trent

[_ck_]

Any chance you’ll switch to the new wider template here?

Narrow templates require too much up/down action and look kinda 1990’s-ish – might be turning off some potential new <s>victims</s> users.

Also, did the overflow:auto get removed for posts? I am noticing this week that posts with wide code seem to be overflow:hidden and the text gets cut off. Didn’t do that before… used to get scroll arrows…

[fel64]

Can you please report this bug on trac? Thank you

[_ck_]

bbPress’s auto-close tags is broken by default – though the code and filter is in there, it’s not passed correctly:

add this to a plugin

function force_balance_tags($text) {return balanceTags($text, true);}

add_filter('pre_post', 'force_balance_tags');

or if you don’t know how, use my tweaks plugin:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/

[_ck_]

If anyone is interested I have a much higher speed routine that runs on mysql instead of the ip2c flatfile. For highly active forums the extra speed is a must. I benchmarked the firestats way against the mysql way and mysql is 4-5x faster in all cases because it caches.

(Omry is working on a memcached version of his 500k flatfile, so eventually it might beat mysql but not anytime soon – his cached java version is 100x faster than mysql but that doesn’t help us)

I don’t have it packaged as a plugin and would have to write the code to automate the database table creation for the data from webhostinfo.info but I’d be willing to sit down and do it if there is serious interest.

I just love putting little flags next to my forum posts to show off how international the forum is, but that’s just me.

ps. “country” is spelled wrong in this topic’s title

[citizenkeith]

Today, one of my users didn’t close his strong and em tags… which made the everything after his post bold and italic!

If you update the plugin, you might want to consider auto-closing all bbcode tags.

[Inquirer]

At the top of the config.php files of bbPress and WordPress these values will be the same.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ”); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ”); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

Trent wrote:

[For bbPress and WP to be integrated you have to configure your config.php before install to have your WP specific data in it (there is a portion near bottom) and then install bbPress in the same MySQL database regardless of where the physical files actually reside (your case /blog/ and /forum/).}

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

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

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://mywebsite.com/blog/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://mywebsite.com/blog/&#8217;; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

---

I already have WordPress installed in my public_html directory in a folder named blog.

Above, I put in examples of how to fill-in ‘examples’

Apparently it would be wp_home = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

and wp_siteurl = http://mywebsite.com/blog/

Apparently, only the WordPress has to have the bottom portion filled-in?

If this is correct then I would have to fill-in bottom portion of the WordPress config.php and FTP it before I reinstalled bbPress.

[regardless of where the physical files actually reside]

I was thinking of the physical storage of the files.

[Does that make sense?]

I think so.