[KentonMr]

I understand where you come from in that statement.

However, in some forums (especially one of the forums on the site I am building I do not want users repeating the same topic and would want them to add to the topic that has already been started.

Ideally with a user friendly warning or a redirect to that previously started topic.

Anyway a bit of hard coding and some reuse later I have a working button on the main site

using bb_get_forum() to check that the forum exists before

testing $bbdb->get_var($bbdb->prepare(“SELECT topic_id FROM $bbdb->topics WHERE topic_title = %s”, $topic_title));

seems to resolve this issue.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Well, one login works really well if you follow the steps. Don’t rely on the old “5 minute install” or whatever its called these days.

And email notifications has been working as a plugin for about 2 years, and recently Matt decided that it was key to roll it into the core, so you can actually get it working out of the box with teh latest trunk version (which is actually good/stable and an upgrade on bbPress1.0.2).

[_ck_]

Neither is “add your plugin”

It’s also missing the tag cloud.

Hopefully they will test and fixup the plugin section soon!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Wallis,

Could you be so kind as to give us some more information?

bbpress version?

PHP versionon server?

I think this is the bug from the latest version of PHP, but i can’t be sure yet.

[Rich Pedley]

all i did was a did a link to: view.php?view=latest

It works without anything else required.

[gerikg]

Anyone else can help with this?

[perrym]

Wow, I downloaded the latest bbPress 1.0.2, unzipped it, copied it to a folder /bbpress off my main directory, types in http://www.mysite.com/bbpress and bbPress asked for my user name and PW.

I entered my user name and PW for my site and I then get a blank page.

Come on guys – I installed Simple:Press and had users posting in just 15 minutes.

I’m using bbPress with BuddyPress but guys you’ve got to do better than a blank screen.

If anyone can help me I’ll take the help, if not I’ll chuck this program and have users up and posting in 15 minutes with Simple:Press.

This is really disappointing….

P.S.

When I get your log-in screen I get the “Page not found” 404 error if that helps.

And yes I’m using WP 2.9.2 and I’ve used WP for 3+ years now so I know what I’m doing.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Four little bugs with the theme:

1) Pagination duplication on Profile page:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_duplication_of_pagination.png

2) Pagination on Profile page:

Posts started will only appear/work on the first page. As soon as you move to page 2 or above, it says you’ve not started any ( haha, we all know I’ve started more than i should have ;-] )

3) bbPress Edit area:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/bbpress_edit_area.png

It’s not been looked at in the slightest. Even teh default styles haven’t been applied.

4) bbpress Edit area:

If you write some code in a <code> tag. and edit your post, bbPress now puts in <p> and <br /> tags into your code on every line. If yuo’re syslexic like me and struggle with the small font, and edit code based posts a few times to remove errors, you get alot of added code.

5) RSS feed:

The new RSS feed has new/added HTML. If you’re RSS reader is a mail client (say google or windows live mail) then it strips these extra tags, but if you’re not using an overly sophisticated RSS client, you see everything wrapped in a <p> tag.

From what I can tell, and this may be down to the latest trunk version rather than the theme, it appears to wrap each paragraph twice in the <p> tags.

Thanks to Noel or whoever at Automattic is working on fixing these, we apprecaite it

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ok, lets see what we can do here:

1) What version of WordPress?

2) What version of bbPress?

3) Are they integrated (share login cookies)?

4) Are they “deep integrated” (can call functions in the other program)?

5) Do you have the latest version of akismet on both WP and bbP?

6) What happens when you log in and post?

7) What happens when you log in and post as a new user (i.e. not as you)?

Are you using buddyPress?

9) Have to tried disabling all plugins and trying again?

10) Are you using a premium (paid for) theme?

11) If so, have to tried switching to the default theme?

12) When you say things appear in your akismet que and then akismet

13) Are comments getting through akismet on wordpress?

I selected the check box next to “Create a page that shows spam

statistics” on the Akismet page. The page showed there was 26 post in the spam section.

I selected spam in the drop down box but the messages do not show up even

after I click on filter. I don’t know of any other way to get to the

messages to see if they are all spam

Um, is this on the wordpress side or the bbPress side?

[leander8728]

Yes i have done that

This is the result, i don’t have testing it. But when i have enough time i will do that: https://buddypress.org/community/groups/requests-feedback/forum/topic/wordpressmu-buddypress-bbpess-same-avatar/#post-55137

[chrishajer]

So, what happens when you try to log in?

Can you register a new user there and log in like that (just as a test)?

[chrishajer]

This topic has been derailed and I am going to delete the off-topic posts.

The design of bbpress.org will not be made available for download, that I know of. It didn’t happen with the last design, but there were many duplicates created.

If you would like to download the latest version of bbPress for testing, you will find it here:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk

There is a link at the bottom center to “Download Zip Archive”, but I believe if you do that backpress does not get installed.

If you can install with subversion, you won’t have any trouble like that, as all externals are installed at the same time.

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ ./bbpress/

Will install the latest trunk version by subversion into a directory called bbpress.

[jbrzr3]

Would love constructive feedback as we just just switched our whole e-zine over from JOOMLA.

http://latestartermusician.com/forums/

Thank you

[jbrzr3]

Hello,

When my members post, their I.P. addresses show on the side of their usernames. How do I stop this from happening?

http://www.latestartermusician.com/forums/topic.php?id=2

Thank you.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Coding:

I’ve found NotePad++ to be quite invaluable in the past year or so.

I’ve use both Komodo and the PHP plugin for Eclipse in the past; but frankly once you use Visual Studio and intellisence, i find half-assed IDE’s to just annoy me. Thats purely personal ofcourse, but it’s lead me to keeping the NotePad++ installer on my USB stick just incase i have to work somewhere on the move (how sad is that???).

Somethign else that won’t endear me to anyone, when outputting tables or visually formatted HTML, Dreamweaver makes life so much easier. I can’t count the amount of time i’ve saved by churning some HTML out on Dreamweaver and then just finxing the code with one or two saved Reg-Ex’s.

FTP:

Filezilla

Images:

Fireworks is still awesome. I thankfully haven’t had to touch Photoshop for any theming in years and years. I’ve not tried the latest version of GIMP, but it’d have to be something special to overtake FireWorks.

UML / Process / User Flow

I use Visio.

Edit: Ok I realise that i’ve just mentioned both Adobe and Microsoft products, so i expect the comments to come flying in Night all!

[mr_pelle]

mikkelsen said:

I want to call up <?php login_form(); ?> from bbPress and show it in my WordPress header.

I thought bbPress were not yet loaded in his WP header…

Hardcoding is not a good choice IMHO, because it means you have to update many pages everytime you change your mind just on a single line of code. Not to mention that the code you suggested does not handle login errors…

I’ve successfully completed a “deep integration” and I’m currently testing another pretty integrated installation, without users db sharing and it works fine.

Why do you think bbPress and WordPress don’t play that nice together (reguardless of what the front page of this website says)? Wasn’t bbPress born for this (and more)?

[TrishaM]

@chrishajer – thanks for the tip on the folder names – even though the older version of bbPress did not have trouble with a space in the folder name, the latest version does – so I used an underscore in place of the space, and that fixed the problem for me…..many, many thanks again for your help!

[TrishaM]

Yes, the my-templates folder and its two sub-folders are set to 755. I did find that suggestion when searching for a fix, and made sure of that before posting my question, but it did not make any difference – I still can only choose from the two default (kakumei) themes……

I use 1&1 for hosting, and I don’t think they’ve made any changes but if I knew what to look for I could check that specifically – also, the my-templates folder was fine before I upgraded from 0.9.0.2 to the latest 1.0.2

What I’m doing in the meantime is just modifying the default kakumei theme, but that is not ideal because I’ll have to remember to keep it backed up and not overwrite it on the next upgrade…..I’d prefer to find a solution to the problem.

I’m grateful for any help anyone can offer.

[mr_pelle]

@Gautam: yeah sorry, I suggested that because I’m testing with no users db sharing, so I’ve to use bb_is_user_logged_in() instead of WP’s function.

[TrishaM]

Hi Gautam – thanks for your response.

Below is what is at the top of my custom theme’s style.css – I did compare it to the default (kakumei) theme to be sure something hadn’t changed there with the new version of bbPress, but this should be working. It was working fine before the upgrade, but after the upgrade bbPress no longer ‘sees’ the two themes in the my-templates folder (the other is a testing theme I occasionally use to test new things). It does find the my-plugins folder just fine, just not the my-templates.

/*

Theme Name: TWE New

Theme URI: http://www.tech-kitten.com/

Description: Custom bbPress theme to match TWE site.

Version: 1.02

Author: Trisha Miller

Author URI: http://www.tech-kitten.com/

*/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thanks for that Chris, v helpful.

Your text seems a tad bigger than mine but I think i might have found some of the issues.

1) The stylesheet specifies “Lucida Grande,Tahoma,’Bitstream Vera Sans’,Arial,sans-serif” and I’m not sure it was tested on all of those fonts.

There’s quite a large difference between the way Lucia Grande and Tahoma look on windows (and people with Safari on Windows can now have Lucia Grande; but its not there by default), and at 12px and above Tahoma and Arial start to look differently too…

2) In comparing what I can see on the forums and your screenshot, I’m getting 2extra words per line.

Either way, it’s a drop in text size of a considerable amount. And a drop in the amount of space that the text is given in comparison to the old theme (not that an increased avatar doesn’t help the conversation but…)

3) On the forum listing, since last week, some of the text has been of a bigger size than others. Specifically:

#bborg-discussions table td div {

font-size:14px;

}

Edit: I have no extrnal css stuff going on, which i put down to laziness

[kevinjohngallagher]

Is there any update on the insanely small text?

It appears (according to firebug) that the font size is set to 12px, but then it’s been made smaller by some later style. For me it’s currently looking like a 8 or 9px font size (which is incredibly difficult to read since we dropped the amount of space the text is in by almost 40% to 540px).

The margins and spacings look a bit weird/forced as well, almost like it’s using the old version of the 960 grid.

Also, as soon as the discussion includes more than 2 posts, 20-30% of the screen becomes useless whitespace.

Anyway, I’m testing this on Firefox3.6, latest Chrome and Opera 10 on Windows 7 and vista – and my iPhone.

Thanks,

Kev

P.S. The blog section’s a total disaster area also, good thing it’s not been updated in over 4 months now – otherwise people might look there for info!!! haha, don’t worry, thats not likely.

[Ben L.]

bbPress looks in its folder and the folder directly above it for a config file. If you move bbPress out of the phpBB folder or move bbPress into something like [phpBB folder]/bbpress/test/[bbPress folder], it should work. Don’t modify the phpBB config file.

[paulhawke]

Coming at this as a software engineering problem I cant see why a both/and rather than either/or situation shouldn’t prevail. Let me explain, as it’s not particularly outside the box for it to happen.

I write a lot of automated tests for the code I produce day-to-day and that means I need to isolate the most important pieces of business logic from how they are invoked. For instance, a given request comes into the a webservice telling it to create a user for the system. I would separate the code that handles the webservice part (pulling parameter data from the incoming HTTP request, etc) from the code that then creates the user. I would isolate the steps, wrap automated unit tests around each, and be done.

Applying the same thing to bbPress, there is some core code that handles the management of forums containing topics, that contain posts by users. This code is packaged into a clean unit of deployment – the WordPress plugin – and there is absolutely no reason why the code shouldn’t also have a second wrapper that allows for its deployment stand-alone from the main body of a WordPress installation.

Just as I might have a webservice making calls to a body of well-tested code in my day-job, I dont see why a cleanly written WordPress plugin shouldn’t make calls into the tested bbPress core code. The body of WordPress code provides additional services that another wrapper could also provide – the core of bbPress should be unaware of the actual physical storage mechanisms being employed, or how it’s being invoked (assuming its written correctly).

At the end of the day the conversion to a WordPress plugin should bring health to the codebase – a level of focus on what is most important (managing structured conversations in a forum/topic format), and an abstraction from what is not important (that is, the underlying physical storage, web-hosting, etc).

[circuit]

yep they said it’s mod_sec. I’ll report back when I’ve retested it.