[chrishajer]

You could just replace the contents of your template’s front-page.php with this code to redirect the visitor:

<?php

header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");

header("Location: http://www.example.com/forums/forum-slug");

exit;

?>

Just change http://www.example.com/forums/forum-slug to the URL where you want people to end up.

[chrishajer]

For issue # 1, you might want to try hidden forums:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

For # 2, in the “started by” data column, just use this in your template’s front-page.php:

<?php topic_author(); ?>

You said “started by” right, since “last poster” is already there, right?

[Olaf Lederer]

Best wordpress hosting I have ever seen: webfaction.com

must be good for bbpress too

[hpguru]

No problems there now. Thanks for read.

[yaysloths]

I, too, would find an example of that page code phenomenally helpful…

[yaysloths]

Hey all –

Just started playing with bbpress last night & I am both totally hooked and somewhat frustrated, which seems to be my standard reaction to new software. I’m fluent in HTML, conversational in CSS and have worked with WordPress code before so I’m not completely in the dark, but there’s enough of a learning curve here that I have a few things I’d love some help with, if someone had a moment. Here’s the first two:

1. I would like my forum to be completely private – i.e., people would have to register or login on some sort of splash page before they reached the forum. In searching around these boards I found this plugin, but I just get a big ol’ 404 Not Found when I try to download it (and it looks like it’s a ways behind bbpress v1.0.2 anyway). Is this what I should be using instead? And if so, where exactly would it go, and on what page(s)?

2. I’m trying to add a “topic started by” field to the list of threads; I can get it to show up in the header row but I can’t get the fields in the actual table to show up. See what I mean? That’s no good. It’s probably some stupid PHP thing missing a thing (man, PHP is unforgiving) but I just can’t find it. Here’s the code I’m using:

<?php if ( $topics || $stickies ) : ?>



<table id="latest">

<tr>

<th><?php _e('topic'); ?> — <?php new_topic(); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('started by'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('posts'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('last poster'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('last post'); ?></th>

</tr>



<?php if ( $stickies ) : foreach ( $stickies as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_author(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>"><?php topic_time(); ?></a></td>

</tr>



<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

Lord knows I have more questions, but let’s start with those. Any help would be very much appreciated…thanks!!

[quasiamodo]

Just similair problem as yours…. may be the same….

I installed the latest version of WordPress on one of our servers, and thought it would be a nice thing to get it cooperating with bbpress.

Accordingly you have to install bbpress and configured it to cooperate with wp.

Then on wp you have to install a plugin called WordPress-bbPress syncronization and configure that thing too.

On top of this module you will find a box asking you for the directory of the bbpress installation.

Now given the right address of the bbpress installation, it will build up a link between both by using the

/bbpress/my-plugins/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/bbwp-sync.php program, as there is obviously needed some code to execute syncronization.

In my case this file and directory is completely missing, so even with everything coded the right way, missing the program nothing can happen.

I have even set permissions to up to 777, meaning readable, executable, writable for whoever, but the file is neither generated nor downloaded nor extracted.

Accordingly I guess it is missing in the installation package, or the routine to write that thing hangs somewhere…

Hope it was clearer…

In any case as soon we get an answer here ,and if you need assistance , it will be a pleasure to help…

Regards

Quasiamodo

[Olympus]

No one to check my code please ? ( it’s less than 10 lines if we don’t count the comments )

Thanks !

[Ken]

thanks you chrishajer for your quick reply. The CSS code above really did what I wanted to do but the footer moves up after changing the code (don’t worry I backed up the original style.css . Here’s the CSS code for the footer

#footer {

font-family: Georgia;

font-style: italic;

border-top: 1px solid #ccc;

margin: auto;

color: #666;

font-size: 1.0em;

padding-top: 10px;

clear: both;

text-align: right;

width: 760px;

}

Please help if you can

[chrishajer]

I have a 1.0.2 installation and the forum_description call looks like this by default:

<?php forum_description( array( 'before' => '<small> – ', 'after' => '</small>' ) ); ?>

Did you try modifying that array to send before and after nothing?

<?php forum_description( array( 'before' => '', 'after' => '' ) ); ?>

Worked for me, on the front page. Or are you looking to modify something else? This modified the forums listed in #forumlist at the bottom of the front page.

[chrishajer]

In style.css, you would just switch the width and position of the #hottags div and the #discussions div. Instead of what is in style.css now, you would have something like this:

#front-page #hottags {

margin-left: 610px;

width: 150px;

overflow: hidden;

}



#front-page #discussions {

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

width: 590px;

}

That’s untested, but that’s basically the procedure. You’re just moving the tags right and the discussions left. You could do it with floats as well but it’s not done like that now.

[Ken]

Hi:

How do I align the HOT TAGS section to the right?

I’m using Kakumei Blue 1.0 theme for bbpress

thank you

http://www.movielakay.com/forums/

[regisfrey]

I’m running the current trunk version (checked out today) and forum_description(''); still produces the dash. I added a space and found that forum_description(' '); kills the dash but puts a space into the html markup. This space doesn’t seem to affect render but, being a perfectionist and a little annoyed that forum_description does any text manipulation at all, I’d like it gone. Suggestions, solutions?

I figured resurrecting this thread gave it context.

[Olympus]

bbPress because it’s the only forum software I know that can be easily customized . In phpbb, VB, IPB etc… you have to browse lines of code juste to change the HTML structure, you even have to hardcode something in the core files, which is not the case with bbPress because you have powerful things like hooks, templates etc…

But of course, you need some knowledge in HTML and Php ( at least some basics ) in order to make your bbPress really unique .

All in all, I think that bbPress is the best forum software for web developpers looking to customize ENTIRELY a forum and make it really unique . Just take a look at the lame phpBB2 boards out there, they are all identical, except the headers, nothing unique, the same structure etc…

[Olympus]

Okay, I’ve done something really simple, and I need some advices ( security, XSS vulnerabilities etc… ) as its the first hook I write for bbPress and I don’t want my future maths board to be hacked at its launch :

EDIT : as bbPress escapes some characters, I posted my code on pastebin : http://pastebin.com/f4e5653cd .

[danfuh]

yes, but how can i disable wrapping for

& uuml ;

& auml ;

….

inside ?

Here is an example:
http://websitebaker-cms.de/foren/topic/265-1#post-1468

and this is the old one:
http://www.websitebaker-cms.de/forum/t22-265.html#ipe64

I try to migrate my old forum content into a bbpress and this is nearly the only one problem i have.
bbpress is realy a great tool!

regard Daniel

[code] ?

Here is an example:

http://websitebaker-cms.de/foren/topic/265-1#post-1468

and this is the old one:

http://www.websitebaker-cms.de/forum/t22-265.html#ipe64

I try to migrate my old forum content into a bbpress and this is nearly the only one problem i have.

bbpress is realy a great tool!

regard Daniel

[chrishajer]

Hmm, backticks converts just the numeric entity, converts both numeric and named. Weird.

[code] converts both numeric and named. Weird.

[chrishajer]

& # 228 ; ä

& auml l ä

& # 246 ; ö

& ouml ; ö

those are wrapped in , just testing.

[code], just testing.

[chrishajer]

& # 228 ; ä

& auml l ä

& # 246 ; ö

& ouml ; ö

those are wrapped in backticks not , just testing.

[code], just testing.

[danfuh]

Hello,

i want to post umlauts inside a code section ,
but when i post umlauts in html-format like this:
& auml ;
& ouml ;

the umlauts change to ä ö.
How can i change this?

[code],

but when i post umlauts in html-format like this:

& auml ;

& ouml ;

the umlauts change to ä ö.

How can i change this?

[hpguru]

http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/

I have http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/forum/pelit etc. without any topics, this is main forum. I have subforums with discussion. In index page i have a main forum with zero post and subject (main forum). I don’t want them zeros. Kakumei don’t display zeros there.

http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/forum/pelit is nonwork, no subforums list. Can i disable link to this page from index? Bad english, but i wish that you help me out.

Theme is http://urbangiraffe.com/themes/guangzhou/

To theme developer: awesome theme! Use too in my blog.

[chrishajer]

You need to change localhost to this can0932412570712.db.5237484.hostedresource.com since that’s the name of the host your database resides on. It will work fine after that, assuming the password is correct.

[Michael]

Not to worry – I am simply uploading to the bb-templates instead. Works fine.

[Michael]

Greetings

I recently installed bbPress as phpBB and SMF did not work for me. Everything’s working peachy, except for one.

I uploaded a theme into the my-themes directory, and I now cannot access it. At all. I also cannot access the my-plugins folder. Their permissions both are 0750 (drwxr-x—). Because of that, it gives me a 550 error, stating that I do not have permission to access the folder. I can’t even change the permissions.

Is there a solid way to fix this?

Thanks in advance,

Michael

[chrishajer]

I’ve seen it here and also experienced it at Justin Tadlock’s Theme Hybrid forums.

I don’t rely on bbPress built in search too much since it’s so bad. I just use google site:bbpress.org/forums whatever to search. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t fix it, but it does not appear to be the only thing wrong with bbPress search.

There was recent discussion of the quality of bbPress plugin search too:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-it-just-me-or-does-the-plugin-search-suck