[fel64]

I see the corners, they just looked pixelated to me. I just prefer them smoothed out with anti-aliasing and I thought Gimp does that. :S

Ahh, excellent. Another oversight

[ardentfrost]

I did round the corners. Do you not see them? Err, which corners are you talking about? I rounded all containers using gimp.

Memberlist is one of my plugins. It actually has the most updates https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/17?replies=4

[fel64]

Very much so

Good that you’re back, then. The memberlist thing looks quite cool; feel like sharing it as a plugin? I really like the little menu you have there.

Your forums look good, but I think it would help if you rounded those corners using Photoshop, Gimp (free) or Paint.net (also free), which should add anti-aliasing to them

Also thanks for the IE min-height hack, that’ll be useful.

[ardentfrost]

Hey guys, remember me?

I got slammed last semester with classes, working full time, changing jobs, being newly married (and all the stuff that comes with that… if you’re married, I’m sure you know what I mean)… so I completely had to lay off playing with bbpress (hence, none of my plugins have been updated in a few months).

Well, once the semester was over and things settled down for a week, I decided to revamp my site. My site is a home for 6 blogs, forums, mail, etc… and it is all tied together via the front page. Once I got that looking good, I moved to the forums which I just made live today (which means I’m sure I’ll find more stuff that needs to be adjusted over the next week).

I revamped the whole nav system for the forums. It’s all done through a simple and small menu at the top. Of course, if you login you can see more icons. If you have an unread PM you are notified by the normal icon blinking.

This summer looks to be continually busy, especially at work, but I still hope to update some of my plugins soon. Sorry to those of you who have made requests that have gone unanswered.

The link: http://www.rayd.org/forums/

[fel64]

It is possible but I don’t know of any plugins to do it. You can probably do it yourself fairly easily though . You need to make a WordPress plugin that will call the data and display it. You can get the data by using something like

global $wpdb;

$latestusers = $wpdb->get_results("MySQL query");

but the wordpress wpdb reference and plugin writing reference will be of more help.

[fredvee]

Yes I understand now, and your observation makes very much sense. I’m just not much into the structure of bbpress. That’s why I wanted feedback

It would change the plugin, but triggering this substitution by the tags of a topic instead of the website’s content translates into: “make good topics not exclusively about your website AND choose good tags for what you’re posting and you’ll get links back”. Will work into that direction

[fel64]

I don’t mean that in a bad way It’s just a new concept to me.

Fair ’nuff.

Yup. It’d be interesting to see how it turns out.

The later at night, the more interesting the idea

[fredvee]

Well yes, it’s not exactly “serious” or “poetic”…

I don’t understand what you mean by using those tables. Watch out, calling them tags might have been misleading from me. Maybe keywords was better, cause they are supposed to be related to the content of the user’s website.

It’s all about traffic. What the topic poster might get is one more link back to his site. The price to pay is to post topics on your board… Now I see that this might lead to topics just about his website content…

I dunno, maybe it was too late at night for me that night It was the intellitxt concept that inspired me.

[fel64]

It’s an interesting concept. I can’t see it working personally or understand why you’d want it … but it could lead to some interesting behaviour It seems almost game-esque to me.

I don’t understand why you didn’t use the bb_topics, bb_tagged and bb_tags tables in unison. Surely you could look up what topic had which tags that way? Or did I misunderstand something?

Best of all still is bigbreastsforum.com

[lipo]

Same Problems here, any news on this?

[fel64]

Got a problem on my hands. I’m trying to simplify a lot of things by require’ing bb-load.php and then using the bb API. However bbdb loads with a fatal error if I do this when wordpress has fully loaded, but it works perfectly fine if I require bb-load when the plugin is run.

What I mean is require( 'path/to/bb-load.php' ) works fine if placed anywhere inside the main code of the plugin. If I call it using the wp hook init it no longer works, nor does calling it by other hooks (that I’ve tried) or through function calls in templates and the like.

I went through wp-settings.php and require’d bb-load systematically until I found that it only worked once wordpress had loaded general-template.php (line 153). It worked from any point onwards, including after do_action('init'); (which I don’t understand at all). Using the init hook in my plugin to require it does not work.

I suspect this means that the init hook in wordpress maybe does something or other, then loads plugins, then does something else that stops bb being included, then runs any other funtions registered with the init hook – but my wp mojo is not impressive. I tested this with all other plugins deactivated.

The output if bb-load is required too late in the code:

Fatal error: Call to a member function get_row() on a non-object in xampphtdocsforumsbb-includesfunctions.php on line 1224

That makes me think bbdb is not created, but I can’t see why it wouldn’t be.

Can someone help me with this please? I’d much rather use the API than duplicate functions.

[neziniux]

all right, i will sleep well then

[fel64]

The #1 thing to do is to backup regularly. You can’t be 100% sure that you’re safe – but if you have a backup it’s not a particularly big deal. If you use WordPress use the backup plugin for that and include the bb tables too.

If someone else users your computer and you’re still logged in, then they have access to everything you have access to. You can’t do much damage through bbPress; deleting posts etc. isn’t permanent, for example. What you should be concerned about (if you reckon someone nasty is going to get to your computer at all) is your FTP, database and hosting admin access.

[neziniux]

Thank you. Well, if it is save enough, then i should leave it as it is. I am just worried about the server because i am expecting a few dosen of members. My 1st website was overwritten once (aaaaahhh!…), therefore i am interested in all the measures against bad luck.

I wonder if there is some code in bbPress where i can change its cookie’s life duration? I think i came accross it somewhere in but cannot remember now where exactly.

[neziniux]

Hello, i trying to integrate the avatar function. However, when i choose the picture and press Upload, i get a following error message: "The image file does not appear to have been uploaded - did you select an image?"

The default folder is avatars/ and the default picture shows up too. I even chaged the avatar folder permission to 777 but the message remains the same. Where elese can i change something?

Thank you.

[fel64]

Plugins for bbPress have to go in /your-bbpress-folder/my-plugins. They will not work in any other place. If the my-plugins folder does not yet exist, you have to create it.

[kennethhung]

forum url:

http://www.GasZappers.com/forums/

The Gas Zappers forum documents the entire creation process from brainstorming to finishing of the GAS ZAPPERS- an online game about Climate Change/ Global Warming. You can check out the site at http://www.GasZappers.com

We want to make this game totally open-source- not only technically but also creatively. We need your input to make this game totally kick ass. This is a communal project and thats the sole purpose why this forum exists. So please go nuts with your creativity! You can basically post any ideas here! Open dialogues close misconceptions

GAS ZAPPERS is NOT-FOR-PROFIT. We want to make a game that will help people understand the big freaking fuss of Global Warming, and in the same time, create a game that is action-packed, challenging and fun to play with.

Alrighty, Thnx for checkin. Peace Yo!

Kenneth Hung

[fel64]

Rather than filling up pages of this forum, it would be nice if you could use something like pastebin.

That’s not your only stylesheet. Style declarations for your forum are also made in http://www.bozzysworld.com/wp-content/themes/k2, which is where you need to make the changes to .secondary and so on. Since you have several different stylesheets referenced they may be conflicting. Changing that stylesheet may have knock-on effects on your main site’s theme. Are you using your wordpress header? It may be easier to recreate your header for bbPress but with seperate stylesheets, so that modifications for your forums will not affect your front page.

[bozzy]

I’m not sure I get it… here is what my css file looks like:

/*

Theme Name: K2 for bbPress

Theme URI: http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/253/k2-for-bbpress/

Description: A port of the famous k2 to bbpress

Version: 0.01 theta-beta

Author: Nick [LINICKX] Bettison

Author URI: http://www.linickx.com

*/

/*

Derrived from Bryan Veloso orriginal style sheet that ships with bbpress, added a little style from the sheet availble from http://getk2.com, copyright of that to the people at http://binarybonsai.com !

*/

/* Globals

=================================== */

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

body {

font: 62.5% ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; /* 62.5% sets 1em to about 10px */

background: #EDEDED;

color: #444;

text-align: center;

margin-bottom: 30px;

}

a { color: #27d; text-decoration: none; }

a:hover { color: #27d; text-decoration: underline; }

.alt { background: #fff; }

code { font: 1.0em Monaco, ‘Courier New’, monospace; }

p { margin-bottom: 1.0em; }

.left { float: left; }

.right { float: right; }

.delete:hover {

background: #c00;

color: #fff;

}

h1 { font-size: 2em; }

h2 { font-size: 1.5em; }

/* Structure

=================================== */

#wrapper {

width: 780px; /* controls the main width of the page, if changed also change #content and .sidebar */

margin: 0 auto;

background: white;

text-align: left;

}

#header {

padding: 0;

margin: 0;

position: relative;

height: 200px;

background: #3371A3; /* header color default is #3371A3, for images – background-image: url(example.jpg); */

}

h1, h2, h3, h4 {

font-family: ‘Trebuchet MS’, Verdana, Sans-Serif;

}

#header h1 {

font-size: 3em;

font-weight: bold;

letter-spacing: -1px;

margin: 0;

padding: 75px 0 0 40px;

}

#header p { margin-bottom: 0; }

#header h1 a, #header h1 a:visited { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; }

#header h1 a:hover, #header h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

#main {

font-size: 1.2em;

width: 760px;

margin: 10px auto 25px;

position: relative;

}

.bbcrumb {

text-transform: uppercase;

font-size: 0.9em;

letter-spacing: 1px;

}

#footer {

margin: auto;

color: #666;

font-size: 1.0em;

letter-spacing: 2px;

text-transform: uppercase;

padding-top: 10px;

clear: both;

text-align: center;

width: 760px;

}

#footer a:link, #footer a:visited { /* more link link color fixes for nav & admin stuff */

color: #777;

text-decoration: none;

font-weight: bold;

}

#footer a:hover, #footer a:active {

color: #000;

text-decoration: underline;

font-weight: bold;

}

.notice {

border: 2px solid #4c9545;

background: #abd8a2;

color: #4c9545;

font-size: 1.1em;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 10px 15px;

margin: 0 0 1.1em;

}

.notice p { margin-bottom: 0; }

/* Login Form

=================================== */

.login {

color: #000;

margin: 10px 40px;

}

.login a, .login a:visited { color: #000; text-decoration: none; }

.login a:hover, .login h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

.login p { padding: 0 0 5px; }

.login label {

display: block;

float: left;

padding-right: 10px;

}

.login #submit {

font-size: 1.2em;

margin-top: 13px;

float: left;

}

p.login {

font-weight: normal;

font-size: 1.2em;

}

form.login input {

margin-top: 3px;

border: 1px solid #999;

}

/* Front Page

=================================== */

#front-page #hottags {

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

width: 150px;

overflow: hidden;

}

#front-page #discussions {

margin-left: 0px;

width: 500px;

float: left;

}

.frontpageheatmap {

font-weight: normal;

line-height: 30px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

#front-page #main h2, h2.post-form, #userlogin, #currentfavorites, #register {

color: #333;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;

margin: 0 0 10px;

padding: 0 0 5px;

}

#front-page #discussions ul { padding: 0 0 0 14px; }

.sticky {

background: #EDEDED;

}

/* Topic Page

=================================== */

.infobox {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

border-width: 1px 0;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.infobox ul {

margin: 10px 0 10px 12px;

padding: 0;

}

.infobox ul li { padding-bottom: 3px; }

#topic-tags {

border-left: 1px solid #ccc;

float: right;

margin-top: -2em;

padding: 0 1em 1em;

}

.nav {

margin: 15px 0;

padding: 12px 0;

}

.nav span { font-weight: bold; }

.nav span, .nav a { padding: 6px; }

#thread {

background: #eee;

list-style: none;

margin: 0 0 0 100px;

padding: 0;

width: 500px;

}

#thread li {

padding: 1.5em 1.0em;

line-height: 1.5em;

}

#thread li ol, #thread li ul { margin-left: 40px; }

#thread li ol li, #thread li ul li { padding: 0; }

.threadauthor {

margin-left: -110px;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

width: 95px;

}

.threadauthor small { font: 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }

.poststuff {

border-top: 1px dotted #ccc;

margin: 10px 0 0;

padding: 5px 0 0;

font: 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

text-transform: uppercase;

width: 500px;

}

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

}

.postform {

background: #fff;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.postform textarea {

height: 12em;

margin: 5px 0;

padding: 5px;

width: 500px;

display: block;

}

.postform label { display: block; width: 500px;}

.admin { padding: 10px 0 0; }

#manage-tags {

margin: 10px 0;

list-style: none;

}

#manage-tags li {

float: left;

width: 200px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

.submit { text-align: right; }

.topiclink { display: block; }

.topictitle {

font-size: 26px;

font-weight: normal;

display: inline;

}

/* Other

=================================== */

#content .frontpageheatmap a {

font-weight: normal;

text-decoration: none;

}

#content .infobox li { margin-bottom: 2px; }

#content .nav a {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

font-weight: normal;

}

#content .nav a:hover {

border: 1px solid #999;

}

#content a:visited {

font-weight: normal;

}

#front-search {

float: right;

margin-top: -8px;

}

#latest td, #forumlist td, #favorites td { padding: 5px 10px; }

#latest tr:hover, #forumlist tr:hover, #favorites tr:hover { background: #cbd9e4; }

#latest th, #forumlist th, #favorites th {

/* border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; */

background: #3371A3;

color: #fff;

padding: 5px 10px;

text-transform: uppercase;

font-weight: bold;

}

#latest th a:link, #latest th a:visited, #latest th a:active {

color:#fff;

}

#latest, #forumlist, #favorites {

background: #f7f7f7;

margin-bottom: 2em;

width: 100%;

}

.bozo { background: #eeee88; }

.alt.bozo { background: #ffff99; }

.deleted { background: #ee8888; }

.alt.deleted { background: #ff9999; }

/* Profile Page

=================================== */

#profile-menu {

margin: -35px 0px;

padding: 0 0 30px 0;

float:right;

}

#profile-menu ul {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

position: absolute;

bottom: 0;

left: 20px;

width: 90%;

}

#profile-menu li {

display: inline;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu,

#profile-menu li a {

padding: 5px 15px 6px;

}

#profile-menu li a {

font-size: 1em;

color: white;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu li a:hover {

background: #333;

color: #eee !important;

text-decoration: none;

}

#profile-menu li.current a,

ul.menu li.current a:hover {

color: #333 !important;

background: white;

text-decoration: none;

}

#userinfo { margin-top: 10px; }

#userinfo dt { font-weight: bold; }

#userinfo dd { margin: 0 0 5px; }

#useractivity { margin: 15px 0 5px; }

.user-recent { margin: 0 0 10px; }

.user-recent ol { margin: 5px 0 0 28px; }

.user-recent ol li { margin: 0 0 3px; }

/* Profile Edit

=================================== */

fieldset {

border-top: 3px double #ccc;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;

border-left: none;

border-right: none;

padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;

margin-bottom: 15px;

width: 500px;

}

legend {

font-weight: bold;

padding: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table {

text-align: left;

margin: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table td { padding: 2px 0; }

fieldset p {

font-size: 11px;

margin: 10px 16px;

}

/* further additions by Nick */

/* this is for my 48 x 48 avatars */

.post {

min-height: 60px;

}

Can you tell me if it’s right?

[lira]

De-activated, re-activated and it can’t even feed the database. I’m hacking it now, but I can’t figure the problem out at all… oh well, I’m going to ask the author for help, and I’m sure looking forward to seeing your plugin, fel64

[fel64]

1. Unfortunately there’s nothing I can find. No-one on these forums has posted about switching from vBulletin yet, presumably because they’ve invested in it. I can’t help since, well, it’s licensed. Maybe you can look at the data structure yourself and write a converter?

2. No idea, but my guess is far better for performance. That’s one of the main reasons for bb’s existence – to provide even faster forum software than the best the WordPress people could get their hands on.

[fel64]

You certainly need an absolute path like GTim said. Now your forum seems to work, how’d you get it to be so?

I should also say that in my config.php I have the path to wordpress’ wp-config.php, nothing else.

[fel64]

That’s easy enough to do; it’s implemented already in the bleeding-edge not-officially-released version of bbPress (which is actually perfectly stable and bug-free for me). This direct link will give you the currently newest version, revision 817. To activate these super-pretty permalinks, open your config.php and set the pretty permalinks option to 'slugs' instead, then if applicable (you’ll probably know if it is) change the contents of your .htaccess file to whatever /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php tells you to.

[fredvee]

Hello!

I’ve been working on my first plugin for a while, and I don’t even know if it’s useful! It deals with users with websites to promote for fun or for profit. The concept is this: users can specify tags in their profiles possibly related to their website. Then, in the topics they start, everytime another user use one of those words in their posts inside the topic, these words are wrapped in a link to the topic poster’s website.

Am I clear? Now you too can have annoying intellitxt’s on your forums without the thousands of visitors! And you’re not referring to big advertising companies but to your dudes with a web presence. It is a give and take thing. Cause you might raise their pagerank like this, but they have to come to your site and post good topics and take care the discussion goes along etc. It might even be a socializing exercise in tricking the posters to type the tags you’ve specified! Cause they are not visible to the public.

And here comes the reality check part. I’ve been just “hacking around ” with this thing and I’m aware things should look prittier than they are now. First things first, it requires the ra_custom_profile_keys plugin as an easy way to add a field in the registration. Which is not a so bad thing after all. Good plugin. But more importantly I needed a way to hide the tags field in the profile view and I only managed to do it by modifying one of the template-functions, which I know is absolutely an ugly thing to do, even if I just added a line.

It’s all in the code

and you can see it in function here. (I was hunting for a marketable domain name, sue me).

Btw, if you happen to try it out and things go wrong… I really hope I could help you about it but don’t hold your breath.

Ciao

[gtim]

I think that you need need to require bb-settings.php, too. However, that doesn’t explain your error messages. The //../ part is odd. What if you try an absolute path? E.g.

require_once( '/home/ceciliabjerling.com/www/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php' );