[Ben L.]

Oh! I see the problem! (Or at least one of them)

Try <?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = current( get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ) ); ?>

[gerikg]

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

<td><?php forum_icon(); ?> <?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><b><?php forum_name(); ?></b></a><br /><?php forum_description( array( 'before' => '<small>', 'after' => '</small>' ) ); ?><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>

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

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

<td class="lastp"><?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ); ?><small>by <?php topic_last_poster(); ?><br />on <a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>"><?php echo date("D M j Y G:i:s", strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?></small></a></td>

</tr>

results in

by

on Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00

[chrishajer]

gerikg – please post what you find. Maybe it’s a simple mistake that everyone is making, or you can show how the integration documentation needs to be updated to make this easier for everyone.

I know it’s sometimes easier to just go and fix stuff yourself instead of going back and forth in a forum trying to figure out what’s wrong, but I really do hope someone posts a procedure for integrating logins that will work for everyone. alpacino85 did what I think most reasonable people would do: download the most recent version of both software packages and then follow the latest integration instructions (even though they’re out of date), but that doesn’t seem to work. Lots of people have the same exact issue (logging into WordPress logs you our of bbPress or vice versa) so I hope there’s on little “gotcha” or “ah ha” that can be posted to take care of this for most people. Thanks.

[plutopsyche]

I tried the following:

<?php $topic = $GLOBALS = get_latest_topics( array( ‘number’ => 1, ‘forum’ => get_forum_id() ) ); ?><?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>

But all it returned was:

http://bookclub.plutonica.net/topic/#post-

Is there any documentation on the tags available with bbPress? I’ve tried searching this site and Google, but I can’t seem to turn up anything comprehensive.

Thanks.

[Ben L.]

Add <?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ); ?> before the snippet you posted. (Untested, but I think it will work)

[Gautam]

Michael, I am already working on bb Cumulus, and it is almost completed.

You can see it active on my test site – http://forum.gaut.am/

[buddha-trance]

OK, here is a possible quick workaround for now. Really late at night here, so I don’t have enough neurons to come up with a different solution.

The popular tags feature has a limit of 80 tags.

If you create another template and call it all-tags.php, put it in the forum directory, and use the call for the popular tags, but without the limit, it should work.

all-tags.php

<?php

require('./bb-load.php');

?>



<?php bb_get_header(); ?>



<div class="bbcrumb"><a href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a> &raquo; <?php _e('All Tags'); ?></div>



<p role="main"><?php _e('This is the list of all tags that are currently used on the forums.'); ?></p>



<div id="hottags">

<?php bb_tag_heat_map( 9, 38, 'pt' ); ?>

</div>



<?php bb_get_footer();

then call for youdomain.com/forums/all-tags.php

or the path where the file is

I don’t have that many tags, so I can’t test it.

At least, this is the principle, maybe there is another template code for that, like bb_get_tags or so…

[grassrootspa]

Just finished reading up…ecstatic to see this chat.

Random thoughts (from someone who has been periodically messing with this for a year and still learning the ropes):

-Don’t like the idea of eliminating bbPress’s stand alone ability and REQUIRING it be a WP plugin (some of us just want to run stand-alone forums without having to install WordPress first.) Prefer to keep it as a separate project.

-Love the idea of adding new OPTIONAL features to the bbPress core (bbPress 1.1) . Here are my top 6:

(1) Optional TinyMCE addition

(2) Ability to edit plugins and templates from within bbPress admin

(3) Ability to add widgets to certain areas without having to mess with the template (will be handy for easily editing ‘sidebar’ stuff from the admin page rather than having to play with the template code each time

(4) More Avatar/Gravatar options, such as easily adjusting their size on Profile pages and including instructions on how to get a Gravatar built into the ‘edit profile’ pages. People want to customize their forum character. Make it easier for them to do it right out of the box: display a click-able link to Gravatar.com!

(5) To combat spam registrations, build optional ‘Human Test’ and ‘Terms of Service’ registration page features (which can be further modified and tweaked by plugins/user modifications). I’m sure everyone else there has noticed ‘Spam’ user signups. A built-in human test and/or TOS box to check will go a long way in eliminating them!

(6) Better bozo management notification on the admin page (have numbers pop-up like for new comments and plugins in case a legitimate user has been marked as a bozo. I’ve had this happen a couple times because I didn’t check the bozo list.

-Pleased to hear bbPress.org design will be revamped and include Codex

-THRILLED to see folks from the message board helping bbPress.org and the overall project in various areas

-In summary, EXCITED about bbPress 1.1

[sockmoney]

Here is my latest forum:

NewParents.org

[Michael]

Greetings

I guess I could do the show off thing. Here’s mine: Dev:station

It has quite a lot of plugins installed – and everything works – though there may be a few bugs that I don’t know of.

Plugin List:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

I know the address to this forum isn’t that great – I’ll be getting a .com domain for it some time next year (hopefully January).

Enjoy!

Michael

[Michael]

Hi Ben

I’m running quite a few:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite (obviously )

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin, not the problem – have tested it extensively)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

Unread Posts (I should disable this one as I already have Indicate New Posts enabled)

I have gone through and disabled each one – this did not solve the problem.

Any help would be great. Thanks

[Michael]

Hi

You need to open the PHP file and edit the settings in there.

[Michael]

Greetings all

I hope someone can help me here.

I have a strange feeling there is a function for this, but I can’t find it. I’d like to add a column into my Latest Discussions on the front page that shows the forum that the topic resides in. I’d like to do this so that users don’t have to explicitly state it in the title itself. I have a large structure for my new forum, and I’d like it to provide as many neatened features as possible.

Kind Regards

Michael

[myfairmissy]

Hi all, needed some help with wordpress.

my wordpress add is at http://www.myfairmissy.com/janie/

my bbpress add is at http://www.myfairmissy.com/janie/forums

followed instructions for the cookies and still resulted in me loggin in 1 side and auto-logout on the other.

also would like to know which plug-in should i use for the wordpress if i want ,primarily to…

– i want my wordpress homepage to show 5 columns x 5 rows of latest post image, which will be grabbed from a few specific forum in BBpress. i also need a few buttons to sort or filter results by recent,by view counts, by specific forum

-i want my wordpress to have a few horizontal navigation bars at the header instead of the default ones at the side.

-i want to be change the default header image to my own and able to make my left/right sides blank like this forum. the left/right sides should be easily customized with my preferred wallpaper.

i hope i’m not asking for too much.

thanks in advance

[buddha-trance]

Interesting, I never looked into this before (due to the higher number in my settings), now that I tested it it looks like one can only have one setting for both the topics in the front page and the actual posts in a topic. Wondering if it’s possible to have them set differently… For example, if the posts are long bodies of text, one may want to show only 10 posts per page, but 25 topics listed on the front page, so the layout doesn’t look too short…

[buddha-trance]

Well, there is a way I just tested, by modifying core code (which I really don’t like doing).

If pointing out where the change occurs could help someone to come up with a way to change it via a plugin, here it is…

functions.bb-capabilities.php

line 166

$roles->add_role( 'member', __('Member'), array(

change to

$roles->add_role( 'member', __('Info'), array(

same goes for the other roles in the same file (Moderator, etc.)

Hope this helps.

[Michael]

Hi all

I installed bbPress Moderation Suite two weeks ago. It was working perfectly for a good amount of time, until 3 days ago, when I appointed a new moderator for my forum.

It seems that the Moderation Suite is only allowing key-masters to access the moderation control panel. I have a funny feeling that this my have something to do with one of my other plugins. The minute the new mod was appointed, he went straight in to have a browse around my modified admin panel. He told me at that point that he had access to the Mod Suite – but now it seems he doesn’t.

I have created a test user and changed the levels between Moderator and Administrator – nothing worked. It’s only letting Keymasters in.

Any ideas?

Kind Regards

Michael

[littleoracle]

Hi gang,

I’m an enthusiast of all things WordPress and would love to help out if I can.

Being unemployed right now, I’ve definitely got some TIME.

My php/javascript skills are kind of entry level, my html/css skills are fairly advanced. That being said, I’d love to get my hands dirty with the code end of things and I’m more than willing to do any testing that’s necessary or write up some documentation.

Just point me at a problem and I’ll get to work.

[chrishajer]

You came to the project either a little too early or a little too late, depending on how you look at it. The project is in transition right now so there’s not a lot of visible stuff going on with it. There is quite a bit of discussion behind the scenes.

To address your specific points:

1. yes, the idea is to keep the core light and add plugins to establish the functionality with plugins.

2. https://bbpress.org/plugins/

3. there used to be a site called bbshowcase.org that listed many bbPress sites. That site was recently taken down. You can see people posting about their sites here https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/pimp-your-press and with a little creative googling you can find bbPress forums as well http://www.google.com/search?q=%22powered+by+bbpress%22

If you need functionality that is included in a plugin, be sure to check the version compatibility to be sure it works with the version of bbPress you want to use. There are not currently many plugins for 1.0: most were written to be compatible with 0.9 or earlier. If you want login integration bbPress 0.9 with the latest WordPress, there are plugins to make the cookies compatible between the two versions.

[sublimeblog]

Look the following image; it’s a fatal error with social-it 1.4.

http://s2.subirimagenes.com/imagen/previo/thump_3676975fatalerror.png

I have tested with the other versions, but the problem continues. I have wordpress 2.8.6

Any solutions?

Sorry for my English level, I am a Spanish student.

[DeMBones]

Hello,

I am aware that there have been several topics in regard to this subject. I am also aware that none of them solved my problem. I wish to have bbPress add target=”_blank” to all external links. I have tried _ck_’s plugin, but it results in an empty anchor: <a >url</a>. I am using the latest version of bbPress. Help is much appreciated.

Ryan

[chrishajer]

For # 1, just modify your front-page.php template and remove the secti0n that has the “latest discussions”. You can show only the forums if you want. Unless you’re talking about creating a new page that lists only forums?

For # 2, you will have to do some work on the front-page.php again. Just move the hottags div to wherever you want to show it in your template, and then modify the CSS to make it the size you want.

Both things are certainly possible.

[ootes]

Currently i have a sidebar inside my ‘footer.php’ .

Inside my sidebar, i have a ‘latest post’ widget.

The latest post widget needs to be shown only on the front-page.

kan someone help me out?

[buddha-trance]

I have a workaround for the navigation issue.

This does not solve why some plugins are not working with integration (which would still be nice to know, and what code would fix it), but allows to have consistent menu tabs when integrating the theme. It involves using theme options for excluding pages, rather than a plugin.

Incidentally, my theme already comes with the option to exclude pages from navigation, but I still used PageMash for other handy features… Then it occurred to me to test if the options would be reflected into bbPress, and sure they were!!! This way, no core code changes, all is controlled from within the theme.

@arpowers – I am sure you already know how to do this. Posting links just in case, for others as well.

To create the theme options page, there are tutorials, showing code to add to functions.php

http://forthelose.org/how-to-create-a-theme-options-page-for-your-wordpress-theme

http://blog.themeforest.net/WordPress/create-an-options-page-for-your-WordPress-theme/

in the arrays to exclude the pages, this is what I have:

array(	"name" => "Main Menu Settings",

"desc" => "The navigation menu tabs at the top.",

"id" => $shortname."_admin_heading",

"type" => "info"),



array(	"name" => "Exclude",

"desc" => "Enter a comma-separated list of Page IDs to be excluded from the main menu tabs (example - 5,9,22).",

"id" => $shortname."_exclude_pages",

"std" => "",

"type" => "text"),



array(	"name" => "Sort by",

"desc" => "'<strong>menu_order</strong>' - sorts the Pages by Page Order<br /> '<strong>post_title</strong>' - sorts Pages alphabetically (by title)<br /> '<strong>post_date</strong>' - sort Pages by their creation date.",

"id" => $shortname."_sort_pages",

"type" => "select",

"std" => "menu_order",

"options" => array("menu_order", "post_title", "post_date"))

I hope this helps!

[buddha-trance]

@Alex Luft – Focused intent within a community can move mountains!

@Michael888 – As of now, BuddyPress works only with WPMU. It does not run as a standalone, because it is built as a set of plugins. Rumors said that the code for WP single user and WPMU would merge soon. I still have a test community area with everything installed and it’s the ideal combo. Didn’t transfer the blog there because of the announced merge… have been waiting for a year now. If the social network capability is urgent for you, you may want to use WPMU for the time being, and merge later.

BuddyPress is another good reason why I don’t see bbPress coming to an end. A forum is an integral part of the social networking (group forums, etc.). BP itself relies on bbPress currently. From their site:

Groups also include a group forum (bbPress), and wire where group members can engage in discussions.