[Andre]

I’ll see if I have the same problem on my test installation.

[citizenkeith]

I’m trying to import one of my standalone forums to the plugin. I use bbpress 1.1 and latest bbpress plugin. I ran the importer and got this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class BPDB in /home/forum/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 39

I found this thread:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-is-the-importer

Following scribu’s lead, I added this to my bb-config:

define('BB_DATABASE_CLASS', 'BPDB');

define('BB_DATABASE_CLASS_INCLUDE', false);

I got the same errors that he did:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for BPDB::__construct(), called in .../forum-svn/bb-settings.php on line 197 and defined in .../plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/importers/bbpress.php on line 29

Warning: Missing argument 3 for BPDB::__construct(), called in …/forum-svn/bb-settings.php on line 197 and defined in …/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/importers/bbpress.php on line 29

Warning: Missing argument 4 for BPDB::__construct(), called in …/forum-svn/bb-settings.php on line 197 and defined in …/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/importers/bbpress.php on line 29

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare bb_cache_users() (previously declared in …/plugins/bbpress/bbp-admin/importers/bbpress.php:103) in …/forum-svn/bb-includes/functions.bb-users.php on line 39

When I went back to the importer I see “It looks like you attempted to convert your bbPress standalone previously and got interrupted.” I chose “Continue Previous Import” and still get the error. I went back to bb-config and removed the items that I had added. Now I get this error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class BPDB in /forums/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 39

I believe I tried deep integration at one point and abandoned it. I was running the bbPress Integration plugin, not sure if that has anything to do with it:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/

Any ideas? I’d be happy to let a developer (JJJ) take a look at things if they’d like to troubleshoot it.

[John James Jacoby]

Not exactly a problem with the tool, bu could be running out of memory. Will look into it and run some more tests.

[Arturo]

hi, i’m switching my standalone installation with bbpress plugin… i need the forums list like the one on testbp.org or bbpress.org but i don’t know the file to edit…

ATM i’ve:

Forum title

Forum description

Leave a comment to Forum title

i need only:

Forum title

Forum description

thanks for the help…

[shooo]

Thank you for your answer,

But I can’t integrate the widget as I wish in my design.

Indeed, I can’t integrate the excerpt of the replies, I can’t properly control the CSS and I can’t (of course) include the latest comments in the last forums’ replies.

I started by looking at the widget code by default, but I can’t decrypt properly.

query_posts is very simple and I usually use it in my templates; is much more customizable.

[citizenkeith]

I’m getting the same errors that scribu described. I added his code to the config file, and I’m still getting that error.

bbpress 1.1 and latest bbpress plugin (as of today).

Standard integration, all plugins off and themes set to default.

[citizenkeith]

I’m getting the same errors that scribu described. I added his code to the config file, and I’m still getting that error.

bbpress 1.1 and latest bbpress plugin (as of today).

Standard integration, all plugins off and themes set to default.

[Gautam Gupta]

You all may try out a plugin made by @kristarella – http://kristarella.com/snaps/bbpress-thesis.zip and see if it works. (I haven’t tested it out myself)

[niqlaz]

I installed Buddypress. Everything works great.

I also installed the group forum in the buddypress settings panel. But than i realized it isn’t realy a public forum.

So i installed the wide one (bbpress 2.0) actived the plugin, i can make forums, topics, reply in the dashboard. but i cannot view them on the website.

I can go to a recent topic but i only see the Title of the topic and the message. I don’t see icons, no forum table, nothing. (see link below)

http://www.joeristallaert.be/comm/forums/forum/testing-new-forum/

Do i need to create pages? if so, what kind of content/code i need to insert.

I also don’t understand the settings : Archive Slugs and single slugs. what do in need to fill in, in those fields.

I tried changing permalinks, but i can’t otherwise my full buddypress won’t work.

btw It should work with my Theme. Because the official Demo of this theme bbpress is integrated.

Thank you.

[ChrisOGwynne]

Hello

I’m having trouble with this plugin. I’ve installed it fine, and am able to ignore/un-ignore a user. However, testing it out on my demo forum, when I ignore the last user in the thread it then sends me back to the main page and assumes that that thread doesn’t exist so I’m not able to view/access it.

Anyone can help with this?

[globetrotterdk]

I just created a new WordPress site (3.2.1) and installed the latest bbpress plugin (version 2). I have two questions:

1) Where can I find documentation specifically about the plugin, or does everything (plugins and widgets) that works with WordPress and bbpress also work with WordPress and the bbpress plugin?

2) I would like to be able to display not only the root forums, but also the subcategories – in order and indented. I am currently using the bbpress forum list widget, but it doesn’t appear to be able to display the root forums with subcategories indented underneath. It only show root forums, or everything all mixed together.

[amirsaam]

In the Standalone I jus use this <?php bb_latest_topics_pages(); ?> for what you wanted Maybe you can use it by changing bb_ to bbp_ like something else that it worked!

[funhomeparties.com]

The test profile that I created cannot Reply to a comment or post a new topic. However they can post a comment in WordPress. Under the User tab in the Admin panel the profile is listed as having no role. When I update the users role, click save and return to Admin user tab they still have no role. In the bbpress/wordpress intergration tab All wordpress roles are marked as member (aside from admin). What is going on?

How do I fix this?

[John James Jacoby]

Despite the inflammatory remarks from their team in the topic you linked me to, I tweeted the Pagelines guys about getting access to their forums or getting things figured out together.

Considering you are paying them for support, I think the ball is in their court. If there’s a problem with their theme and bbPress they need to put a guy on it and send me a theme to test, similar to how StudioPress and Genesis handled it for the 2.0 release.

If bbPress is doing something that’s causing headaches, I’m happy to fix it – the difference being that bbPress’s code is immediately accessible to them, and their themes are not to me.

[Keith Kelly]

It seems that the bbPress 2.0 plugin is using my blog posts setup for forum topics and forums list. This is an issue to me because I do not want to have post author information or the comments section to display in the forum topics.

Here is an example: http://www.fanoop.com/forums/topic/one-more-test/

I am using Pagelines Platform Pro theme. I have also posted this topic on their forums (http://www.pagelines.com/forum/discussion/14742/bbpress-2.0), but it seems that it is an issue between the plugin and WordPress…

Is there a way to separate the forums from the blog post style? I obviously don’t want to turn off commenting site wide, but this is an issue.

[alieninformer]

I figured since I was asking for help on something here:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/function-calls

I would at least give a little something that I believe some people may find useful. I may not explain this well so please feel free to ask questions and I’ll do my best to help you.

I needed to create a whole new sidebar for my forum page and after some research and using the old noggin I came up with the following. Please note that this should be a good common usage for most themes but your situation may be unique. Adjust as needed.

First, open your functions.php file and copy the following in there:

// Forum Sidebar Widget Area. Empty by default.

register_sidebar( array(

'name' => __( 'Forum Widget Area', 'twentyten' ),

'id' => 'forum-widget-area',

'description' => __( 'The Forum Widget Area', 'twentyten' ),

'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget-container %2$s">',

'after_widget' => '',

'before_title' => '<h3 class="widget-title">',

'after_title' => '</h3>',

) );

Again, each case may be different but generally this will work. What this will do is create a new Widgetized sidebar area (located under Appearances >> Widgets)

Alternatively, You can copy your existing widget code in functions.php for widgets but be sure to rename the areas, especially id, as I have above (forum-widget-area was originally sidebar-widget-area).

Take note, as well of the class= and id= I have. Those are useful for my blog but you may be using different tags for yours. Adjust as needed.

---

Then Create a new file and name it anything you want, for our testing purposes we’re going to use forum-sidebar.php

Copy and paste your code from sidebar.php into your new forum-sidebar.php file.

My original looks like this:

// A Sidebar for widgets

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'sidebar-widget-area' ) ) : ?>



<div id="sidebar" class="widget-area" role="complementary">

<ul class="xoxo">

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'sidebar-widget-area' ); ?>



</div>

As you can see, I have two spaces calling the sidebar-widget-area that was previously declared in functions.php. Yours should be very similar to this or at least easy enough to figure out.

What you need to do is rename the two fields within the () areas to what you declared when setting up your code in functions.php, mine is

// A Sidebar for widgets

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'forum-widget-area' ) ) : ?>



<div id="sidebar" class="widget-area" role="complementary">

<ul class="xoxo">

<?php dynamic_sidebar( 'forum-widget-area' ); ?>



</div>

Notice how I changed sidebar-widget-area to forum-widget-area ?

We do this so that when your forum page is called, it shows the widgets you’ll setup later.

---

Now, Open your Page Template and find:

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

Or something similar. generally this is at the bottom of the code.

Replace that with:

<?php

$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if ( strpos($uri,'YOUR-FORUM-BASE') !== false ) {



include(TEMPLATEPATH . '/forum-sidebar.php');



} else {



get_sidebar();



}

?>

“forum-sidebar.php” is the file you created earlier and YOUR-FORUM-BASE is the “Forums base” you have defined for your forums settings (in Settings >> Forums). Also please note the / before the file name. With this code you’ll need it.

What this does is calls your primary URL http://yoursite.com and then attempts to detect if it’s on THIS URL or ANOTHER.

So if yoursite.com/YOUR-FORUM-BASE then SHOW THIS else SHOW THAT.

Using this code you can have an entirely seperate widget area for your forum page so you can make better use of the bbPress widgets without overdoing it with your current sidebar setup.

Someone may have a better or more elegant way of achieving this but this has worked for me and it works well. I hope anyone finds it useful.

[David]

After creating a new forum “NFL” (as a forum, not a category) and entering a couple test topics via the admin panel it displayed on the forum index (archive) correctly and correctly showed that the forum contained 2 topics. From the admin account and a public account I could read those topics on the front-end just fine. However, from a non-admin account the single forum index (forums/forum/nfl) displayed the notice that there are no topics yet. When I created a topic from the front-end form as a non-admin it would take me to a 404.

I’ve read about the need to resave the Forum Settings page at different stages so I tried that but it made no difference. I also tried renaming the slug to nfll but it didn’t fix things either.

I’ve since deleted the forum and recreated it which took care of the problem but I’m wondering if there is an issue that comes up when Topics are added to a forum from the admin (or maybe the first Topic of a forum?), or if something else triggered the problem.

Anyone else familiar with this?

[Anointed]

My bad, I thought he was asking about displaying topics, should have read it better. I’ve done that part as well, although it is not as straightforward an answer.

[Gautam Gupta]

No, he actually wants to have threaded forum table so that the recent topic of the subforums is displayed too, instead of just topic and reply count in parenthesis. Am I right?

[Anointed]

Sorry, I meant change your entire website theme to twentyten and test. I would also suggest disabling all other plugins.

If that fixes the problem then I would reactivate plugins one at a time and see when the problem comes back. If it doesn’t then activate your current theme and see if the problem comes back. If the problem comes back, then you know if it is your theme or a plugin that is causing the problem.

[Anointed]

Actually it was quite easy to do:

Modify archive forum:

<div id="forum-front" class="bbp-forum-front">

<div class="entry-content">



<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

<br><br>

<h3>Recent Topics:</h3>

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-topic' ); ?>



</div>

</div><!-- #forum-front -->

Notice I am simply calling the content-archive-topic template.

**Obviously there is more to it than simply modding a core file which is not good. I am going to assume that you are using a custom theme/child-theme and modifying the templates from there.

[antonchanz]

The latest versions now have admin settings in the dashboard that allow the admin to create additional whitelists of supported tags. It also detects Viper’s Video Quicktags and allows all those tags to be added to the whitelist via a single checkbox.

I’ve implemented a means by which other shortcode plugin developers can make their plugins get automatically detected by the whitelist, declaring which safe shortcodes they support, and giving them the same single checkbox ‘add to whitelist’ functionality that I’ve currently done with my bbPress BBCode plugin and Viper’s Video Quicktags.

[Gautam Gupta]

You would actually need to modify theme files, particularly the forum loop and CSS files to do that. It involves a bit of time and no one has tried to do it yet. I’ll see to it when I get time.

[Playstation Vita]

Anyone?

[rossagrant]

Thanks for the reply.

This isn’t just happening on my setup though, it’s happening over at http://www.testbp.org too.

If you get an account, sign in and favourite any topic, then click on favourites… it won’t show any topics or anything.

Same happens if you reply to or start a new forum topic. this doesn’t show up in the BP profile tab which is labelled ‘Forums’ in your profile.

I’m guessing it should, but no such luck so far.

Anyone using this with Buddypress and have a similar experience?