[John James Jacoby]

@whitehats – You should never, ever, modify any core files. The WordPress actions/filters system is in place to let you inject code and modify existing values as needed. Anywhere you feel the need to hack the core, there should be another way.

The only times when hacking core files makes sense are specifically when fixing a bug in the software or when creating new features to be inserted into core.

[John James Jacoby]

@whitehats – You should never, ever, modify any core files. The WordPress actions/filters system is in place to let you inject code and modify existing values as needed. Anywhere you feel the need to hack the core, there should be another way.

The only times when hacking core files makes sense are specifically when fixing a bug in the software or when creating new features to be inserted into core.

[whitehats]

Thanks. The error I get is call to undefined function add_meta_box() in bbpress.php, so was wondering if it was supposed to be differently.

Sorry about noobish questions! I am learning most of it.

[whitehats]

Thanks. The error I get is call to undefined function add_meta_box() in bbpress.php, so was wondering if it was supposed to be differently.

Sorry about noobish questions! I am learning most of it.

[christopher jon]

“Did you have to call any additional function to add meta boxes? Have you tried that yet?”

Nope. Using the default wordpress code should work. Just remember to set the correct page type (forum/topic) or you wont see it.

Here is part of my code so you can see where I changed the page type to the “topic” custom post type.

$meta_boxes[] = array(

‘id’ => ‘forum_options’,

‘title’ => ‘Forum Options’,

‘pages’ => array(‘topic’),

‘context’ => ‘side’,

‘priority’ => ‘core’,

[christopher jon]

“Did you have to call any additional function to add meta boxes? Have you tried that yet?”

Nope. Using the default wordpress code should work. Just remember to set the correct page type (forum/topic) or you wont see it.

Here is part of my code so you can see where I changed the page type to the “topic” custom post type.

$meta_boxes[] = array(

‘id’ => ‘forum_options’,

‘title’ => ‘Forum Options’,

‘pages’ => array(‘topic’),

‘context’ => ‘side’,

‘priority’ => ‘core’,

[John James Jacoby]

@miruru – Thanks for the kind words. Right now shortcodes are pretty limited to major template functions, like complete single forums, single topics, etc… I’m open to more shortcodes, but we should assemble and break them into template parts or functions as needed (to make overriding and customizing them easier.)

[miruru]

The plugin is looking fantastic and so far no issues.

Is there a shortcode to display the author name of the topic. I have tried everything but cannot display the name. Ive managed to display the WordPress username (author/name) but not the bbPress username (user/name) as they both display two different pages.

Thank you for all the hard work to everything working on this plugin.

[whitehats]

Thanks. I realize I will have to modify a lot of core files to do that. Anywho, I might be wrong but I will report back the changes I made and the results of it.

[whitehats]

Thanks. I realize I will have to modify a lot of core files to do that. Anywho, I might be wrong but I will report back the changes I made and the results of it.

[Gautam Gupta]

frankdamienzoe: Sorry, but I can’t help you out with your posts being marked as spam. That is handled by Akismet. Please run this sql query in your database via phpMyAdmin (it’s very easy, there are many tutorials available for this):

http://pastebin.com/0pm4SrKH

[Gautam Gupta]

frankdamienzoe: Sorry, but I can’t help you out with your posts being marked as spam. That is handled by Akismet. Please run this sql query in your database via phpMyAdmin (it’s very easy, there are many tutorials available for this):

http://pastebin.com/0pm4SrKH

[frankdamienzoe]

Thanks you guys…

I’m out of here,.. nothing personal but bbpress (as far as I am concerned) is Bugged Like Hell.

If you ask “normal users” like me, myself and I to start fiddling with the SQL tables and adjust a tiny bit of PHP code here and there, then, and trust me, you have got a BIG problem.

After my third install (intent) on a localhost MAMP server that runs 2 instances of WP and an instance of JOOMLA – all flawlessly – I got this nice little message:

Database error: [Table ‘fdzforum.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]
INSERT INTO bb_posts (topic_id,post_text,post_time,poster_id,poster_ip,post_status,post_position,forum_id) VALUES (‘1′,'<p>First Post! w00t.n</p>n’,’2011-05-08 11:05:12′,’1′,’::1′,’0′,’1′,’1′)
Caller: BB_Install->BB_Install, BB_Install->process_form, BB_Install->process_form_finalise_installation, bb_insert_post

Database error: [Table ‘fdzforum.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT p.* FROM bb_posts AS p WHERE p.post_id != ‘0’ AND p.topic_id = ‘1’ AND p.poster_id = ‘1’ AND p.post_status = ‘0’ ORDER BY p.post_time DESC LIMIT 30
Caller: BB_Install->BB_Install, BB_Install->process_form, BB_Install->process_form_finalise_installation, bb_insert_post, BB_Query->BB_Query, BB_Query->query, bb_cache_posts

Database error: [Table ‘fdzforum.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT DISTINCT poster_id FROM bb_posts WHERE topic_id = ‘1’ AND post_status = ‘0’;
Caller: BB_Install->BB_Install, BB_Install->process_form, BB_Install->process_form_finalise_installation, bb_insert_post, bb_update_topic_voices

So cheerio, gimme a call when you have an install that works,

Frank

[frankdamienzoe]

Thanks you guys…

I’m out of here,.. nothing personal but bbpress (as far as I am concerned) is Bugged Like Hell.

If you ask “normal users” like me, myself and I to start fiddling with the SQL tables and adjust a tiny bit of PHP code here and there, then, and trust me, you have got a BIG problem.

After my third install (intent) on a localhost MAMP server that runs 2 instances of WP and an instance of JOOMLA – all flawlessly – I got this nice little message:

Database error: [Table ‘fdzforum.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]
INSERT INTO bb_posts (topic_id,post_text,post_time,poster_id,poster_ip,post_status,post_position,forum_id) VALUES (‘1′,'<p>First Post! w00t.n</p>n’,’2011-05-08 11:05:12′,’1′,’::1′,’0′,’1′,’1′)
Caller: BB_Install->BB_Install, BB_Install->process_form, BB_Install->process_form_finalise_installation, bb_insert_post

Database error: [Table ‘fdzforum.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT p.* FROM bb_posts AS p WHERE p.post_id != ‘0’ AND p.topic_id = ‘1’ AND p.poster_id = ‘1’ AND p.post_status = ‘0’ ORDER BY p.post_time DESC LIMIT 30
Caller: BB_Install->BB_Install, BB_Install->process_form, BB_Install->process_form_finalise_installation, bb_insert_post, BB_Query->BB_Query, BB_Query->query, bb_cache_posts

Database error: [Table ‘fdzforum.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT DISTINCT poster_id FROM bb_posts WHERE topic_id = ‘1’ AND post_status = ‘0’;
Caller: BB_Install->BB_Install, BB_Install->process_form, BB_Install->process_form_finalise_installation, bb_insert_post, bb_update_topic_voices

So cheerio, gimme a call when you have an install that works,

Frank

[Gautam Gupta]

Namaste!

Recently, even I installed bbPress on MAMP and it gave an error that the bb_posts table could not be created, a simple change in the query solved the problem though. Can you please check if you actually have the bb_posts table there?

[Gautam Gupta]

Namaste!

Recently, even I installed bbPress on MAMP and it gave an error that the bb_posts table could not be created, a simple change in the query solved the problem though. Can you please check if you actually have the bb_posts table there?

[John James Jacoby]

@christopher-jon – Fixed.

[welshmullen]

I am really struggling with adding plugins

[welshmullen]

I am really struggling with adding plugins

[christopher jon]

“Glad (sortof anyway to hear I’m not the only one who saw the missing Forums in the menus page.”

The quick fix is changing line 514 in bbpress.php to…

‘show_in_nav_menus’ => true,

It’s currently set to false.

[tooltrainer]

Yeah I didn’t exactly expect a “yes” to #1. I just wish it had SOME kind of unique moniker we could all adopt to refer to it ass… “bbPp2” maybe, or something. ANYTHING! There’s actually more stuff about it than you might expect, it’s just super duper hard to find.

Deactivating the forums could work I suppose, hadn’t thought of that. Maybe temporarily re-slug the page containing it and put up a “Down for Maintenance” page instead under the old slug. That would probably work nicely now that I think about it.

Glad (sortof anyway to hear I’m not the only one who saw the missing Forums in the menus page. I’m potentially days away from my site going live and I really need to add a few forums to my nav, so I hope you might be able to track this one down fast.

Thanks as always for the speedy response!

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

1. No. The stand-alone 1.x branch of code will still be actiely maintained as needed, and is still a great piece of software. The plugin version will (most likely) get inflated to 2.0 to give us something better to refer to it as. A new generation of bbPress doesn’t change the spirit of the project, just the ease of integration with WordPress.

2. If you deactivate the plugin, your forums will essentially be deactivated too. A dedicated maintenance mode sounds like a good idea for a plugin though.

3. I’ll take a look at this. Noticed it myself a few days ago, so it’s on the radar.

The bbPress plugin for WordPress isn’t showing up on search results because there just isn’t a lot of buzz about it yet. That will (hopefully) change after it’s released into the plugins repo and is available to a larger audience.

[John James Jacoby]

For topics, you’ll want to do a meta_query using ‘_bbp_forum_id’ as one of the keys. The code could probably use some cleaning up to simplify this, but that’ll come with time.

[John James Jacoby]

For topics, you’ll want to do a meta_query using ‘_bbp_forum_id’ as one of the keys. The code could probably use some cleaning up to simplify this, but that’ll come with time.

[christopher jon]

It works but it might not be the ideal solution.

I’m still working my way through the core forum code to get a better understanding of how it all works.

Ideally, I’d like to be able to grab topics from specific forums along with some additional query options. Similar to what the current widgets are doing but with greater flexibility.

Digging through the bbp-includes, all of the pieces are there, I just need to figure out what does what.