[traveljunkie]

On the user and view pages the body tag has a class of error404, which kinda messes with the layout on my particular setup. I’m using the latest SVN trunk of BBP and the latest trunk of WP 3.2.

[Anointed]

@Giulio

That feature is not yet currently available. Actually from my basic understanding of wp user roles, this is going to be a really tough one to tackle.

In general, the way wordPress works is to use actions like read_hidden_forums() where you can then assign that to a specific wp group. The issue comes into play with granular control, i.e. individual forums. Understanding how to extend the control is beyond my knowledge, but will probably be looked into someday.

My own personal plan of attack to solve this is to use buddypress groups to manage the permissions. Each buddypress group can easily have their own admins and moderators. And since each group can have its own forum, then the problem is somewhat solved.

I have not yet done this because I am in no ‘real’ hurry, and personally prefer to wait for buddypress 1.3 before I jump into another huge project.

As the projects mature I think we will start to see many new options popping up.

p.s.

If you are feeling somewhat adventurous, Justin has just released a new beta vs. of members.

http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/06/01/members-plugin-beta-testing

[zhonghao]

I just downloaded and installed bbPress 2.0-beta-2.3 so that I may use it’s forum capabilities in BuddyPress (downloaded the latest version today). However after activating the bbPress I can not access my website – I get the message as follows :

Fatal error: Call to undefined function is_post_type_archive() in /home/bodyw/public_html/healthworks/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-core-compatibility.php on line 446

Does anyone have the slightest idea of what this may mean ? I have tried deactivating all my other plugins to make sure there is no clash but same result. i am using WordPress 3.1.3

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Regards

Richard

[zaerl]

Hi softinfo. What you’re trying to achieve can be very challenging cause bbPress developers haven’t included such feature in the software. On index.php topics are obtained with get_latest_topics, forums with bb_get_forums.

The current page (for topics) is collected from a $_GET variable called page which have its own rule in the .htaccess which in turn is parsed by bb_get_uri_page (functions.bb-core.php) called from BB_Query::fill_query_vars (yargh).

Now you must do the same thing with forums but in order to do this you must change too many core files and we don’t want our soul damned for eternity.

I don’t have much time at the moment but I can give you some hints.

You need a new page variable that should be different from the default (which is used for posts’ page) together with its own .htaccess rule: RewriteRule ^forum-page/([0-9]+)/?$ /forum/index.php?forum-page=$1 [L,QSA]

You should create a new fake paginate function bb_latest_topics_pages for forums bb_latest_forums_pages, a fake get_page_number_links with /forum-page/%#% instead of /page/%#% and other things here and there.

And last but not least you need a custom query (with a LIMIT) on the $bbdb forum query.

As I said it can be very challenging and there’s room for a very interesting plugin but I don’t write plugins anymore because of the current fragile status of bbPress standalone.

If you will try to write a plugin I will be happy to debug and/or code (a portion of) it.

[Pomy]

Hi zaerl, hope you’ll be fine, doing good and still helping people here…

I’m using zaerl Visibility for private discussion. And I’m using one forum for per user. In other words, Whenever a user register, I create a forum for him….

So when a user enter in forums he can view latest discussion and his private forum in front page something like

---

Latest Discussion

---

1 – Lasted Topic one —

2 – Lasted Topic two —

3 – Lasted Topic three —

4 – Lasted Topic four —

25 – Lasted Topic 25 —

---

Main Theme

---

1 – Private Forum Name & Descirption —

So, Its a user view, but for Admin, I can see all forums

Like

---

Main Theme

---

1 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 1 —

2 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 2–

3 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 3–

4 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 4–

100 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 100–

So, for my view I can see a longest front page….. That’s why I want a pagination for forums, exactly like topics pagination…. Is it possible?

Something like

---

Main Theme

---

1 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 1 —

2 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 2–

3 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 3–

10 – Private Forum Name & Descirption for user 10–

---

Next 10 forums || Previous 10 forums

---

Also please see this screenshot for better understand what I’m taking about.

Thank you so much,

Kind Regards

S.

[Spiralspeaks]

@JJJ I installed it on a test site.. with 2 forum categories.. General Talk and Talk Happiness

found a bug got

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

but it gives in title tag the archive mode and shows like this

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

supposed to be this one:

site com/forums

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

and this “Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename” should be only shown at

site com/forums/forum/talk-happiness/

<br />

<title> Forum: Talk Happiness | Sitename </title><br />

Archive Slugs

Forums Base forums

Topics Base topics

Single Slugs

Forum Prefix Yes Incude the Forum Base slug in single forum item links

Forum slug: forum

Topic slug: topic

Topic tag slug: topic_tag

Reply slug : topic_tag

Reply slug:reply

User base: user

View base : view

Permalink Settings

Custom Structure: /post/%postname%/

Another one…

Case 1 If Forum Prefix is set to yes (this is ok)

site//forums/forum/happy-talk/

site/forums/topic/topicpost/

site/forums/users/name/

Case 2 If Forum Prefix is set to no (this is not ok)

site/forum/happy-talk/

site/topic/topicpost/

site/users/name/

when people directly go to site/forum/ they will be lost… 404notfound

and I want to recommend this… its better to have this for forums links pages

Forums Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: forum base, the forum board, the topic)

not this one loosing forums base page.

Website Home › Talk Happiness › Why choose happiness with bbPress?

(Structure: website base, the forum board, the topic)

bug in topic_tag

site/forums/topic_tag/talk

<br />

<div id="topic-tag" class="bbp-topic-tag"><br />

<h1 class="entry-title">Topic Tag: <span>talk</span></h1></p>

<p>					<div class="entry-content"></p>

<p>						<div class="bbp-breadcrumb"><p><a href="https://bbpress.org/">Home</a> › <a href="https://bbpress.org/forums/">Support Forums</a> › <span class="bbp-breadcrumb-current">Why choose happiness with bbPress?</span></p></div><br />

it gives the latest topic on it..

[edited:added this one bug in topic_tag]

my next question is…

is there a way to change all the head title tag to this formats to improve user experience… for wordpress and bbPress plugin:

For Main Forum Base

<br />

<title> Happy People's Forum | Sitename </title><br />

For forum categories

<br />

<title> Talk Happiness (Forum for single/Board for forum category)| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

For forum post

<br />

<title> Why choose happiness with bbPress? |page#| Happy People's Forum </title><br />

it is sometimes annoying to have the word “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” all the head title tag before every forum pages.

Removing this “Forum:”, “Topic:” or “Topic Tag:” could help to market wordpress and combination of bbPress plugin… to be fantastic combination of blog&forum software..

I found that vBulletin sites head title tag structure for forums gives more emphasis on why people will read it, why people should comment to it (# pages = means hot topic), and the brand for the website/forum site [when people search via google, yahoo or any search engine people sees good head title tag structure, more often people will click it and read it]

Negosyo para sa mga “busy at mahiyain” – Page 31 – PinoyExchange

why/why not go to Accenture? – PinoyExchange

benefits and perks in accenture? – PinoyExchange

sorry, asked questions… and i have to comment on how to improve bbpress plugin

[John James Jacoby]

It would take a small plugin to piggy-back on top of bbPress. It would hook into the ‘bbp_has_replies_query’ filter, and switch the ‘order’ argument from ‘ASC’ to ‘DESC’.

Or, you can drop something like this in your functions.php file. (Note: Not tested, so this code might not actually work.)

function bbp_reverse_reply_order( $query = array() ) {



// Bail if no query

if ( empty( $query ) ) return;



// Change the order

$query = 'DESC';



// Return the adjusted query

return $query;

}

add_filter( 'bbp_has_replies_query', 'bbp_reverse_reply_order' );

[BaraBajen]

latest version, updated today

[John James Jacoby]

A piggy-back plugin could be created, to monitor the blog post entry, check which category it’s going into, and then at the same time create the topic. It would need some kind of interface to map blog categories to forums, and you’d need to figure out how to handle edits, etc…

An easier solution, might be to use your blog posts AS the forums, and attach the topics directly to them instead. That should be possible too, although I haven’t tested it extensively.

[John James Jacoby]

Afraid I won’t have much time to test this in the coming days. If someone wants to help collaborate on that one, have at it.

[BaraBajen]

How do you change the order that replies ends up when reading a topic. Is it possible to change order of the replies, so that it shows the latest reply on top (reveresing order).

[John James Jacoby]

Your first core contribution on day 1. Not a bad start.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3257/

[John James Jacoby]

If your host is controlling what parts of your site what words are allowed where, to the point where it’s censoring genuine conversation, that’s a conversation to have with them.

There are a few things you can do to confirm, but it depends if they’ve white listed those locations or not.

1. Can you post a blog comment with that same content?

2. Can you create a reply within /wp-admin/ with the same content?

Your members are “unimpressed” because they’re frustrated, and because your site is unfinished because bbPress has only had a handful of testers in recent months. You’re opting to be a tester, which is *great* of course… but making the decision to let other people use an unfinished site never goes well.

Your feedback is invaluable, and their unhappiness is going towards a good cause. If you communicate that to them clearly, in my experience that usually calms them down.

[mouratidis]

When using the functions provided by the Popularity Contest plugin to display a list of the popular posts, I get the following error:

Warning: Missing argument 2 for bbp_query_post_parent__in() in /home/user/site.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-general-functions.php on line 886

[Kevin Muldoon]

I’m getting the same issue. It runs fine in my test area but when I activate it on my live site the admin area goes white. Will look into what plugin is causing this

[tooltrainer]

Just because I find it interesting, here is the shortest string I could come up with that would trigger ModSec:

create piece from scratch

Odd combination of words to trigger…

Jonathan

[Anointed]

@tooltrainer

Keep in mind that this is only beta2, and there are very few people using this plugin so far. It is NOT intended for a live site as noted many times.

*one last set of tests if you don’t mind:

1. Try to create a new topic with the exact same string you are trying and see if that works.

2. Try to create a new reply with the exact same string you are trying and see if that works.

That will tell me if it is the replies or topics part of the code to look into.

Finally, understand you have tried this same string a number of times, so it could be a hidden duplicate in the db. I would check your db tables to see if any of these attempts managed to save in a cell behind the scenes.

JJ has been working on this plugin non-stop, check the change-log, and you will see he never sleeps LOL

I still think it may have something to do with mod-rewrite. I am 100% that is what happened to me, although it could be different for you.

What you really need is some server logs in order to really help track this down. If you have a half decent host, then it should only take them 2 mins to track down any errors.

*It is a good idea to ask your host how to access your own error logs for server, security, and php

[tooltrainer]

Sure thing, happy to let you peek around. I can even give you admin access to a hidden forum for testing purposes, along with some specific content that refuses to post.

Let me try a fresh copy too… I’d kinda rather wait till late late at night since that’s when there’s the least chance of anyone being active on the site.

I’ll PM you more info. Thanks!

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve been tweaking the breadcrumbs, trying to find the sweet spot. There’s starting to be a lot of possible ways to display the forum archives now. With page templates, archives, shortcodes, etc… it’s hard to know what is the actual root and where.

I think I’ve got it dialed in for Beta 3. I spent the majority of last night testing all of the above scenarios.

[John James Jacoby]

@Jonathan – Since you’re actively testing and tweaking things, I feel like it might make more sense for you to continue using the SVN checkout or plugin zip file from Trac. Fixes are going in nightly as reports come in, so some of what you’re experiencing might be already be addressed.

[John James Jacoby]

@tooltrainer – The “quick solutions” are still no reason to modify core files. Trust me when I say, and stress, very heavily, that modifying the core files is only going to cause headaches.

@jamesmarsland – Timeline is probably July or August. Right now you can run them together, and turn off the BuddyPress forums component, and things will work perfectly. Here are a few scenarios:

1. Install bbPress 2.0. Keep both BuddyPress and bbPress 2.0 active. Have two separate, disconnected forums. One using the same old way with group forums, the other specifically for your site. This is how I am currently running http://testbp.org.

2. Ditch BuddyPress Group Forums, and don’t allow new groups to create forums. Use the bundled import tool in bbPress 2.0 to move your existing group forums into bbPress 2.0, and systematically/manually edit each forum down so everything lives where you want it to.

3. Wait until we’re able to update BuddyPress to talk directly to bbPress 2.0, and take control of it like it does now with bbPress 1.0.

Ideally BuddyPress will come with a very generalized “forum” component in the next version, that will act as an API for any forum software to connect to it. There are only a few functions that it needs to use, so it shouldn’t take too long to switch up.

[Fizzwizz]

Hi

I’ve installed bbpress, activated it, and ceated a test forum.

http://www.finditinspain.biz/forums/

However, when I follow the forum link it just gives a blank page.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[DigitalGdn]

This is one basic feature that I wish was included as standard.

Only way currently is to use a plugin, there are three but none look like they’re actively being updated.

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

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/

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

Not tested any yet, will be doing so soon. Zaerl is the most recent so that’s the one I’ll try first.

If anyone could feedback any experiences with using these on bbPress beta2 that would be great.

[tooltrainer]

But that’s just it – all I did was run the update from within my WP admin. That’s all. I was running a stock bbP beta 1 install (my customizations are just to the various template pages and a few minor edits to files within mytheme/bbpress). When next I looked, the folder was gone.

Nobody at all was working on the server during this time but me, and nothing else happened in between. I ran the update, saw it completed, walked away, came back after a couple of hours, and the directory was gone.

I suppose I could back it up now and try again just to test it, but I’d really kinda rather not. I can’t come up with any logical explanation of how my entire theme directory could have spontaneously deleted itself right after running the plugin updater.

If I’m the only person this ever happens to, then great… we can write it off as an unexplained mystery. Personally though I’m never updating again without first backing up my theme directory.

Jonathan

[Anointed]

I’m no sysadmin, so understanding what is happening is a bit beyond me right now.

Here’s what I was doing to cause the 403 error:

1. I wanted to test to see what bbpress does with a really long forum post title, so I tried the following:

Let’s create a really crazy long title name to see if the table properly removes any extra text from the title or not

The body of the post says:

Well I hope that title above was long enough, I can’t imagine any forum titles being longer than this one.

When I click submit, I get a 403error below:

[Fri May 27 20:21:10 2011] [error] [client 76.121.8.129] mod_security: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match ":space:+(select|grant|delete|insert|drop|alter|replace|truncate|update|create|rename|describe):space:+[A-Z|a-z|0-9|\\*| |\\,]+:space:+(from|into|table|database|index|view):space:+[A-Z|a-z|0-9|\\*| |\\,]" at POST_PAYLOAD [severity "EMERGENCY"] [hostname "mysite.com"] [uri "/forum/prayer-requests/healing/"] [unique_id "TeA-9kUuJUQAABVAGuk"]

I am unsure of how to interpret the error, and what steps I need to take in order to resolve the problem. Hope this error helps identify something.