[Gautam Gupta]

padams: I think JJJ is thinking of getting them into the alpha or the first major release of the plugin.

[Gautam Gupta]

padams: No, forums are made using custom post types. bbPress will soon introduce its own feeds.

[christopher jon]

Sounds good.

I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.

The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.

This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.

The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.

[christopher jon]

Sounds good.

I’ve found working with the plugin to be pretty easy. Beneath all of the code, it’s still wordpress at heart.

The next thing I want to try out is modifying the single topic loop to display certain topics with a different style, something similar to a featured post on a blog.

This is where the meta box was needed, adding a check box to notify the loop to use a different style for those topics.

The default theme has something similar already in place with the first topic posting having slightly larger text than the replies. An additional conditional check should do the trick.

[whitehats]

Never mind the stupidity! I was jumping the gun too quickly.

Will post my solution for a completely custom Topic a bit later.

[whitehats]

Never mind the stupidity! I was jumping the gun too quickly.

Will post my solution for a completely custom Topic a bit later.

[whitehats]

Chris –

Actually I do have an event post type working. I think I am only confused because the hooks I add in the function.php of bbbTwentyten theme do not affect the plugin files at all. So I went ahead and modified the files in my comment above.

I do believe there is a better way of doing it. But probably will not realize until I break some stuff.

[whitehats]

Chris –

Actually I do have an event post type working. I think I am only confused because the hooks I add in the function.php of bbbTwentyten theme do not affect the plugin files at all. So I went ahead and modified the files in my comment above.

I do believe there is a better way of doing it. But probably will not realize until I break some stuff.

[miruru]

@JJJ – that’s okay. The shortcode was to be used so that I could create a list of new forum topics that displays the following:

[Topic Title] Posted in [name of forum] on [topic date] by [topic author]

unless the bbPress topics/replies list can be modified to display the above info. I’m currently using the Query Posts plugins to do this as it allows me to display the page the topic is on etc, and when i used [entry-author], it displays the wordpress user (author/name), not the bbpress user (user/name).

[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?