[tooltrainer]

This is an issue I’ve seen several times with my heavily customized production site, and I have assumed it was related to my custom work. I decided to start a fresh install and see about re-integrating with the current trunk, and “do it right” this time.

However, with a brand new bbP install, running the included 2010 theme, logged in users with the “subscriber” role, still can’t create topics at all. In fact nobody but admin can.

Does anyone know what is causing this? Users just get the

Sorry!

You cannot create new topics at this time.

error on any forum page.

Thanks!

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

You & me both my friend, you & me both!

Now back to the fun stuff… letting my coder work really hard and solve all my problems for me! *snort*

But seriously, I’m optimistic now.

Actually on a somewhat related note… how would you generally recommend people work with the SVN repo for bbP? I checked it out the other day but I’ve only used SVN for my own projects where I’m intimately familiar with the code and I’m also doing checkins. I’ve never worked in a “read only” fashion, where the changes I make must NOT be checked in. Been having a hard time wrapping my head around a good way to stay current using the repo but not lose my changes. Any advice there?

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

You & me both my friend, you & me both!

Now back to the fun stuff… letting my coder work really hard and solve all my problems for me! *snort*

But seriously, I’m optimistic now.

Actually on a somewhat related note… how would you generally recommend people work with the SVN repo for bbP? I checked it out the other day but I’ve only used SVN for my own projects where I’m intimately familiar with the code and I’m also doing checkins. I’ve never worked in a “read only” fashion, where the changes I make must NOT be checked in. Been having a hard time wrapping my head around a good way to stay current using the repo but not lose my changes. Any advice there?

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

Phew.

I really hoped I wouldn’t need to trouble shoot more complicated permalink issues.

[John James Jacoby]

Phew.

I really hoped I wouldn’t need to trouble shoot more complicated permalink issues.

[John James Jacoby]

Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.

It’s complicated.

All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.

[John James Jacoby]

Correct: alpha, beta, stable. Here at bbpress.org, we’re still running the stand-alone installation of bbPress. We are (kind of) following my own advice and not running pre-release software on a live environment. Instead, we’re running the latest trunk version of bbPress stand-alone which will eventually be 1.1.

It’s complicated.

All you need to know, is the plugin version sounds like it’s exactly what you want, and it is only a few days away from being a public alpha.

[Anointed]

@JJJ

Yeah the code looks much more user friendly than before. I was actually meaning to ask how this is going to work with bp as that is my ultimate goal. Hoping we don’t have to wait till 1.4 or something… I have not been paying attention to any bp/bbpress news lately, so way behind the times.

I just found bbp_custom_template so needless to say I am in heaven. So long as I have an easy way of using my own template files for each custom bbpress area, life is good.

p.s.

Are there plans on adding in post taxonomies metadata for things like turning forum posts into ‘questions, answers, suggestions, etc’ like getsatisfaction does?

(If not then I’ll do it myself, just don’t want to recreate a wheel already built)

[John James Jacoby]

Cool. I’ll play with flushing the rewrite rules some more, and see if I can make this more automated. There’s a sweet spot that needs to be found with these, and I’ve managed to miss it so far.

[John James Jacoby]

The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work.

For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…

So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.

[John James Jacoby]

The regular bbPress installation won’t do that without much, much work.

For example, here at bbPress.org, we have 1 unified theme, that both the blog and the forums use. It’s a completely custom theme, on top of a very complicated installation that integrates with shared user tables over at wordpress.org, several themes and plugin repositories, etc…

So, it can be as simple or as complicated as you need it to be, but the plugin version of bbPress will give you a huge head start.

[John James Jacoby]

@anointed – Excited to see what you come up with. I know you’re quite familiar with BuddyPress, so hopefully you’ll 1.) feel comfortable and see the similarities, and 2.) see how bbPress has improved on those similarities, and see what’s going back into BuddyPress.

[John James Jacoby]

You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible.

[John James Jacoby]

You’ll want to use the bbPress plugin with some custom template files, and customize it to taste. Anything is possible.

[Anointed]

thank you kindly sir!

Have to say I am quite impressed with what I have seen so far. Not to deep into this yet, but so far so good. Already have bbpress into a fluid 1040 grid working properly including media queries.

Now it’s time to get a bit hardcore with the template changes…

[Ryan]

@tooltrainer – I take that back, once I change permalink to /%postname%/ it’s goofed up.

this is ok:

http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/sample-page/

this link, from the widget, is a problem:

http://inadir.ryanserver.net/newdir/forums/forum/abc/

result of above link

Not Found



Apologies, but the page you requested could not be found. Perhaps searching will help.

[Anointed]

I’m one of those guys with a tricked out page.php file.

Is there a ‘global’ bbpress forum identifier that I can use?

I was thinking about doing something like this on my page.php

if page is a bbpress page then load file forum.php

else continue loading page.php

This would easily allow me to use a custom forum.php page for styling the forum pages, while still maintaining my ability to use a custom page.php file for everything else.

Anyone have a snippet that does this?

–or a better idea?

thanks

[John James Jacoby]

@tooltrainer – I’d ask if you have this much going on, that you probably create your own topic to post things in. To be honest, I can’t really keep up with everything you’re trying to do, so I don’t really know what to tell you.

I’d suggest just starting completely over from scratch, and comparing the two installs to see what’s different.

@Rick – Even if you get your old forums converted into the new plugin, BuddyPress still hasn’t been updated to integrate with the plugin version of bbPress, so your group forums either need to stay how they are, or you need to build what eventually will be in BuddyPress core.

[tooltrainer]

Hey at this point I’d actually TAKE that trade! Errors & notices I can deal with because they give me something to debug. But just “page not found” doesn’t give me anything to work with.

Tried reinstalling several times, de/reactivating, etc. Doesn’t matter, no matter what I do the forums just plain aren’t accessible… if they even exist at all. Bizarre.

JJJ, any ideas?

Thanks!

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

Well after setting my permalinks to /%postname%/ I now get a nice pretty “page not found” error page instead of the DB error. But am no closer to having bbP work, and I really don’t know why. There’s not much to it (which is why I’m using it in the first place! Just upload plugin, activate, create forums, and away you go. Have never seen any issue like this evern with having done several test installs before. I’m using the stock bbP 2010 theme also.

Jonathan

[tooltrainer]

Yep… early adopter blues indeed. But, I want things how I want them so, I’ll just have to deal with it!

SO in an effort to understand how integration should work, I’ve set up a fresh install of WP 3.1.2, ProfitsTheme, and bbPress. I want to have my coder attempt an integration on a totally clean slate and see what happens.

Problem is very strange now… if I try and access my bbP forums, I get “Error establishing a database connection” and that’s it. No idea why… any suggestions?

Thanks!

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

@tooltrainer – that’s the price you pay for having something so customized. In the future any custom plugins won’t be able to drop in, and will all need customization. You’re sacrificing ease of use to have something totally unique. You need to ask yourself if you want to keep babysitting your site whenever anything outside of your control gets updated, or if you can make things work with something you have less control over.

Regarding converting from stand alone to plugin, make sure you have a solid backup and restore plan incase something goes wrong.

Regarding theme comparability, bbPress defaults to using the page.php of your theme and replacing the title and the content with what bbPress expects to be there. If your custom theme has page.php all tricked out, you’ll want to find/hire a developer to show you how to bypass it.

Eventually we’ll have a codex here with examples, similar to codex.wordpress.org, until then it’s up to you early adopters to go hunting for solutions and post them up in the forums, for everyone to learn from. I’ve tried to dream up every possible way for things to be filtered and manipulated with this version of bbPress, so you should never need change anything in the core files.

[Notnasiul]

We are using the Private Forums plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-forums/#post-33

although we have just discovered that it doesn’t disable rss feeds, so your post are still visible in a rss reader

I shall try a different one…

[Notnasiul]

We are using the Private Forums plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-forums/#post-33

although we have just discovered that it doesn’t disable rss feeds, so your post are still visible in a rss reader

I shall try a different one…

[tooltrainer]

Is there by chance any info anyone can point me to on how exactly to make a theme bbP friendly? Since my theme is not based on TwentyTen even the tiniest bit, and is also nothing like the typical “blog” oriented theme, I’ve had to do tremendous amounts of code hacking to get the two to play together. But it sounds like the latest builds of bbP have added a lot of stuff for theme integration.

I’d really like to let one of my coders loose on a fresh install of my theme and the latest bbP, and have her integrate the two “properly” so that future updates to either of them will require a lot less manual hacking. I’m just not really even sure where to start, what files from the bbP theme are required, how to integrate them with my theme (since it doesn’t have the usual suspects like a header file, footer file, single-post file, etc. Nearly everything about it is dynamically generated by the theme admin panel in WP).

Just kinda desperate for a little guidance… thanks!!

Jonathan