[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?

[rossagrant]

I know this sounds basic guys, but adding a topic to favourites doesn’t seem to do much on my install.

It adds it okay, but when you then click on the resulting link which changes to ‘favourites’ it just takes me to my BP profile.

The favourite doesn’t appear under the ‘favourites’ tab in my profile or under the ‘forums’ tab in my profile.

What is supposed to happen and what is the forums tab on my profile supposed to show?

This is happening over on testbp.org too?

Surely these tabs should be populated by my topics started and favourite topics?

Cheers guys!

Ross

[antonchanz]

Well I can confirm that the latest and compatible versions of both these plugins are now definitely available on wordpress.org

I’ve set up a test forum with pretty much just these two plugins active and you can see the results here:

http://bbpressbbcode.chantech.org/forums/topic/testing-shortcode-whitelist/

[Playstation Vita]

Dears,

Is it possible to show the the latest topic title in a sub forum on the frontpage? See image below for example:

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2676/schermafbeelding2011101v.png

This is normally with every forum software and i can’t get this to work.

If been looking for this a couple of weeks now on this forum and Google but with no results.

Can anyone please help?

Thanks in advance!

[Darren_Mooney]

Bump & Update

I’ve looked into the possibility a plugin is causing this, disabled one by one, testing after each is disabled, no change.

I’ve also tested removing all custom functions with no change.

I would really appreciate some help with this, it has really been annoying me, I can’t figure it out.

Thanks.

[djoep]

A new host! That seems like a rediculous constraint.

BTW, with bbPress 2.0 plugin (site wide bbPress), it does not use a separate DB or separate tables. It uses custom WP Posts inside the WP dB.

As far as I can tell, BuddyPress does not use bbPress 2.0 plugin for group forums, instead, it uses an internal version of bbPress 1.x. It also uses separate dB tables.

If you are using bp 1.5 with group forums, you should have a set of db tables with the prefix that includes bb_. You should also have a file called bb-config.php

The file bb-config.php has settings for the bbPress (1.x) database name, user, and password, and table prefix. I’ve not tested this but conceivably you could create a separate db for your bbpress tables and modify the config file accordingly.

It does not appear that the buddypress tables themselves are so easily separable.

I would strongly recommend that you not try separating the databases until you have successfully done it in a test environment. Also, as always, do a site and dB backup before you do anything just in case.

joe

[PureRover]

Travis,

Thank you for responding to my earlier question eventhough it’s a mute point now since I am beta testing another forum plugin.

Our team needs a simple forum that can be plugged right into a full-width page. The template we are using was built with that in mind.

The only problem we found with BBPress was it’s lack of one shortcode for the entire plugin. Why implement short-codes for bits and pieces of a software package and not the whole?

We implemented BBPress into a full-width page. Looked good until we clicked on any link inside the forum. When it was redrawn, it would leave the full-width page and revert back to a normal width page with sidebar widgets being displayed.

Modifying our template to fit a plugin is out of the question. Our template works with every other plugin we have installed and should not have to be modified to make a plug-in work. The plugin should work, regardless. If we start modifying a template everytime we load a plugin, we would be in trouble.

In other words, you need a short-code for the entire forum, not section.

We are currently beta-testing simplepress which uses one shortcode for the entire plugin.

BBPress has a lot of potential but doesn’t quite meet the requirements for a seamless forum plugin.

-Mark

[djoep]

Hey Andrew,

I took a look at bbPress Post Toolbar but it seemed to add bbcodes either by hand or by clicking a button. With “normal” wordpress, and inside the buddypress group forums, if you just enter the url as text, with no added adornment, it just shows up as embedded video. I believe the same is true for image urls but haven’t tested recently.

Also, I’m confused. On both the WPplugin directory as well as the master501 website, it shows the latest version as being back in August, not today???

Thanks,

joe

[djoep]

OK, after a bit of testing this seems to work in my site-wide bbPress 2.0 forum but it does not seem to work in the bbPress froums embedded in budddyPress 1.5 groups.

to get the groups to show the editor I tried several different element identifiers including #topic_text which is the ID for the text entry area for new posts… no joy!

Any ideas as to what could be causing the difference in behavior would be greatly appreciated!!!

joe

[AWJunkies]

Joe thank you so much for your info pasted above to help assist people. I just want to let everyone know I have a new version 1.2 coming out probably tomorrow which will speed up everything IF your mysql account for WP has access to add tables. It will also fix issues with non UTF8 WP tables. Also fixes cleaning to be faster.

Now onto smf my advise is to look at invision and other examples in the convert folder that showing the tags grab which uses the join tables code.

If you give me the two names OR dump me a database for SMF I can do the convert file or tell you what to put within minutes. These convert files I can create within 30min. It is the testing that is more time consuming. Once I release the next update I will start creating more convert files. Sorry again for the delays. I am ALWAYS available on skype and other messengers for immediate help.