[fel64]

Hey Henry, unfortunately it isn’t working for me. Going to your forum and clicking on the Chinese tab gets me an error page in FF but not in IE7:

The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

*   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

No idea why!

[wittmania]

He does make a good point, though. Most people can’t/won’t figure out how to use html code in their posts. Heck, for many people who use my forum, the bbcode in phpbb was too difficult for them to figure out. It’s not that the people installing/administering BBP can’t figure out what they are doing (although his post does make me a little nervous about his ability to maintain a board), it’s the general public using the board that are likely to have trouble.

The quicktags are nice, but you still have to know a little about opening/closing tags (and what they all mean) in order to use them appropriately. This is one area that I think many plugins will address as BBP becomes more popular and stable.

[fel64]

Bah, this is bb (and WP) trying to be clever. It’s annoying; they both mess with your code too much. >_< Although at least WP can handle nested blockquotes.

[fel64]

I’m surprised you have the page parameter at the end of URLs linking to topics, I never had that.

[fel64]

I’d have to read the forums, once again, to figure out what you mean.

Or you could just ask us here. A large part of these forums is just for help making it work. You’d be happier with bbPress in the long run.

The markup thing for example is quite simple; I struggled with it initially but a random guess worked out, and the quicktags certainly help. Any text between two backticks (on a European/English keyboard, the button just above tab) will be rendered as code. The ‘markup’ thing refers to HTML, so to make that work you do this:

<em> makes your text italic </em>

<br />
like so will create a single new line.

<ul> or <ol> will create a ‘list’ structure. Simply put <li> and </li> around each seperate list element. End the list by putting </ul> or </ol>.

To create links, you do this: <a href="www.example.com/linklocation">link text</a>.

[crosinski]

I admire the idea of bbpress … I really do. After several hours of work, I’ve finally got a forum up and running on my site. There is so much more work to be done to make it usable for my visitors, though, that I just don’t think I can do it. Every installation has been a struggle for me. I don’t know php. The config file took me an entire day to get right. Each and every plugin I installed required further tinkering.

Here’s a small example that represents my large frustration:

Allowed markup: a blockquote br code em strong ul ol li.

Put code in between backticks.

That’s not enough information for me. I can’t make that work. I’d have to read the forums, once again, to figure out what you mean. And I’m just too exhausted to do that, so I’m going to install another forum for now.

I’ll keep checking back to see the improvements that you make and, when you get everything worked out and as easy to use as WordPress, I’ll try again.

But, for now, installing bbpress requires too large a learning curve for me.

Good luck and carry on,

C.R. the Exhausted

[Null]

That is the problem with this plugin, it uses blockquotes. I suggest the plugin builder uses <quote></quote> for this (some users want to use the quoteblocks and also want to quote stuff.

But yourproblem (Keith) is that bbpress can’t handel nested blockquotes (I think)

[citizenkeith]

I’d like to have the post number shown for each post. I’m hoping that bbPress already has this functionality, and I would need to do is insert some code into my template. Or do I need a plugin?

[citizenkeith]

I’m running bbPress 0.8.1 with the Fix bbPress Plugin. I installed Michael Nolan’s Quote plugin, version 0.2.

It works fine if you quote simple post. But when you quote a post that already has a quote in it, things get weird. This is what my edit box looks like when I do that:

<blockquote></blockquote>

<blockquote>

This is text that was quoted in the post that I am quoting.



</blockquote>

This is the text that I am quoting directly.

It looks as though the plugin doesn’t like nested blockquotes.

My forum is here:

http://www.citizenkeith.com/forums/

[fel64]

Okay, so turn off pretty links and take that out from your .htaccess file so we can find out if that’s the problem.

[fel64]

Yo.

Open your folder containing all your bbPress stuff, including the config.php file. Make a new folder and call it my-templates, if it doesn’t exist yet! Open my-templates and make another new folder, and call it anything you like. This folder will house your forum’s theme.

Now go back to the main bb folder, and open bb-templates > kakumei. Copy the style.css file into the folder you created a minute ago.

Open style.css, and look for this (it’s right at the top):

body {

margin-bottom: 50px;

background: #fff;

font: 62.5% 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial;

}

Those are the fonts that will be used, in order from left to right (if someone doesn’t have, for example, Trebuchet MS they’ll then try to use Lucida Grande). The font they use here is Georgia.

Change that part to:

body {

margin-bottom: 50px;

background: #fff;

font: 62.5% Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;

}

Save it and put the my-templates folder and everything in it on your server in the main bb folder.

Now, open your forums, go to the admin panel, go to Presentation, and click on your theme’s name. Your forum should look the same as before, but with the new font.

[boomanfloral]

Thanks! I did it!! So happy.

Is there a place where I can donate $?

[Trent Adams]

It is done through CSS and blockquote. We don’t have it in the stylesheet here in these forums, but can be done easily. The image for the quote is here. Just download a copy of it to put in on your server. The CSS for that particular one would then be:

.post blockquote {background: url('/path-to-your-image/quote.gif') no-repeat;margin-left: 175px;padding:5px;border:1px solid #a3a3a3;}

Trent

[bedbugger]

HI Trent,

Thanks for the replies. I tried the default theme and replacing forum.php. They did not work. THEN I found that there was a “forum” folder inside the forum directory, containing a “bb-admin” file. I have no idea where it came from (maybe I was sloppy with Transmit?) but it looks like a serious case of user error.

Anyway, up and running once again

Thanks!

[boomanfloral]

I’d like to find the plugin that allows to make the nice box and quotation marks that you can see here http://thehathorlegacy.info/forum/topic/109

Maybe BetaCandy can help ?

Thanks!

[Griffology]

The theme appears to be a custom one done to match the rest of their website.

[boomanfloral]

Hi!

I want to change the font in my forum. I like the one you are using here, my forum shows a different font and smaller. I like this size and type. How can I do it?

Thank you for all your help!

[boomanfloral]

Cool! Congratulations!

[tgpuckett]

Nope, it didn’t work . I’m still a bozo and the field besize User is a Bozo: is still a field, however it says “0” instead of “1” now.

[tgpuckett]

fel: I wasn’t aware of that, I’ll try it and report back. Crossing fingers

[citizenkeith]

Just tried changing $mysql41 to false. Didn’t work.

[yooakim]

I have the same trouble. Also running with Apache2 & PHP5 on Windows Server 2003.

With version 0.8.1 I am not able to choose the Kakumei theme. Because the theme path is set to a local path in the server:

E:\Sites\markusfagervall.se\forums/bb-templates/kakumei/

Thinking that this may be because of bad config values in the database I tried this:

http://xxxxxx/forums/bb-admin/themes.php?theme=/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/

And I am asked if I am sure I want to switch themes… I answer Yes and then I get the “Theme not found. Default theme applied.” again.

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Joakim

[Null]

Hi sul,

I also think your problem is a php or sql version issue. I have 2 testservers at different hosting providers and it works great on both I will take a look at the version nrs perhaps you can upgrade/downgrade then…

But that’s not the problem of this topic, I need to get rid of this double content showing

[Trent Adams]

No issues at all! Just thought if you all add to that ticket it might get fixed And no duplicate TRAC tickets as well! As well, not sure what fixed it, but the 37 Years Ago part is gone with the recent TRAC version….

Trent

[Arlo]

Re-reading the baptiste thread, I see that commenting out add_filter('pre_post', 'bb_filter_kses', 50); in default-filters does the trick. It solves all my problems at once!

I guess bbpress needs to do better conflict checking againt wp when wp is included.