1. Just move the blocks of code in your template’s front-page.php to put the forums up top and the latest discussions on bottom.
2. There is a space for first name and last name in the profile, it’s just not required and not part of the sign-up. Why not direct them after signing up or logging in to change their password, and to complete their profile. Just provide them with a link to their profile page.
If you’re looking to make that information required, or part of the sign-up process, I’m not sure how to do that.
I’m attempting a few things here.
First, I’m trying to get the forums to show above latest discussions on the landing page. How can I go about doing this?
Second, when a user signs up, I’d like for them to be able to add their first and last name so we can capture all that data. Is this possible?
Thanks for the assistance!
Yes, I was receiving emails when I was using WordPress from the same server. So it’s not the problem with the server side.
I am using latest version of bbpress (bbPress 1.0.2) I am using English language. I have not integrated WordPress with this bbPress.
So what is the problem With email sending?
I would stop using the Mass Delete Users plugin. I suspect it’s doing something that’s incompatible with 1.0 and something is going on with the users it deletes and the ones that are left behind. I would stop using that then do a recount in the admin. I’m not sure if recounting fixing user-related things that might have gotten borked.
I don’t think Allow Images, either BBcode plugin, BBvideo or Social It would cause any problem like this. Unless the problem occurs on threads with (or without) images or threads with (or without) video.) The Social IT appears to be on every post.
I’m not sure about Human Test for 1.0 – I don’t think I’ve ever tried it. I do have it working with a 1.0RC, I forget which version though. All you can do is try it. If it activates without error, that’s good. If you try to register and it prevents incorrect answers and allows correct answers, and the registration goes through, then it works.
I don’t think disabling Mass Delete is going to make everything better right away. I have a feeling that it’s doing something to the user data in the database, and that will remain there even after you deactivate the plugin.
The other possibility is something going on with the host. But if all the other software is running fine there, that’s probably not a problem.
chrishajer, I use the following plugins:
Allow Images
BBcode Buttons Toolbar
BBcode Lite
BBvideo
Mass Delete Users
Social It
These are vital for me though, I got many users depending on these as core functions already. This problem did interestingly enough, occur after I had installed Mass Delete Users. Not imediatly though.
Deleting users works, but maybe it does something else that I can not see – that fucks up something else?
Do human test work for 1.02?
What if an incompatible plugin is creating problems for you? The problems you’re having are not normal. I noticed that the mass delete users plugin is good up to 0.9 only, but you posted there that it works with 1.0.2.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/
How about preventing the spambot registrations with the Human Test plugin instead, and not trying to mass moderate users? Maybe it’s deleting some references to the users, but not all? Or there are stranded posts or something, and that throws off the numbering or something?
hpguru, what plugins are you using?
Marius-, what other plugins are you using?
It doesn’t happen by default in an installation with very few plugins running, so it might be a problem with a plugin, or could be a problem with the server. Software sometimes acts weird when a partition or MySQL runs out of space or memory.
Been debugging a while now.
I can stick a topic, it shows up correct in the admin interface and is marked as sticky. However it does not show up as sticky in my latest discussions. Noticed that get_sticky_topics() is not returning my sticky topic. Echoing the sql executed gives the answer: “get_sticky_topics()” returns topics where topic_sticky=2, while my sticky topic have topic_sticky=1. All other (non-sticky topics) have status topic_sticky=0.
Running bbPress 1.0.2
What is wrong here?
Hi, what about the theme I am using?
I have little knowledge in webdesign. Therefore I just modified the Kakumei-Theme as good as I could.
I was looking for a simple theme which is userfriendly, offers a lot of opportunities for google ads and an overview over the different categories (=main forums).
It also has a drop down menu. If you move with the cursor on the menu to forum you will see some submenus which direct you to the different categories. In my opinion an easy way to keep the overview.
Problem: I have no idea if it looks well on all browsers and all different screens. I only tested it with FF, Safari and IE7 and with the screen of my laptop.
Another problem: I had to remove the footer because it moved to the top of the page and I wasn’t able to keep it at the bottom.
Further I am looking for a way to show the last authors avatars on the topic and discussion boards of the front page and the forums pages.
I am having the same issue. I am running 1.0.2 sharing cookies with WP 2.8.5. If a user is not logged in, and selects “add new”, they are routed to my WP 404 screen. Instead of using the hack above, I’ve done the following hack so that the redirect is maintained. Note that it just strips the “http://” out of the redirect. Hopefully a real fix can be put in place for this.
I’ve done some limited testing and this seems to work.
In functions.bb-template.php I created the following function:
function hackfixurl ($url){
$url= str_replace(“http://”, “”, $url);
$url= str_replace($_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”], “”, $url);
return $url;
}
Then, on line 1590 of the same file, wrap the url with the new function like:
$url = bb_get_uri(‘bb-login.php’, array(‘re’ => hackfixurl($url)), BB_URI_CONTEXT_A_HREF + BB_URI_CONTEXT_BB_USER_FORMS);
Regards–
“the latest forum posts on the right hand side are visable on your wordpress pages. Was this achieved by calling bbpress header after wp header?”
no, it’s a plugin called bbpress latest discussions.
i dislike unhelpful meanies who hang around on techy forums, and i don’t mean to be one of them, but you honestly need to search the forum (and google) because the answers are out there! if you don’t do the research you’re going to waste time on things that have been done for you already.
just migrating my wordpress+bbpress install to MU+buddypress+bbpress took me around 30 hours. that’s not including the initial setup of wordpress+bbpress, or the re-theming of template files to acommodate the upgrade. most of that 30 hours was spent searching google for plugins and hacks and reading around.
thanks for the compliments on my site. believe me, i am not a coder, i am just persistent!
I’m a little confused, please bare with me 
. If I put in a topic id wouldn’t that just read out the same forum name by the file under: ?
To clarify I will be putting the code in the topic template as well as the front-page template which will show the latest discussions. Problem is if I put in a topic id wouldn’t it just read that all the topics are under one category?
It seems most of the Buddypress / WPMU / BBpress tutorial floating around the web are out of date now, e.g. they refer to separate bp-themes folders etc.
Is there any update for latest BBpress plus BP 1.1.2 …? I am most concerned about backwards recognition users that registered before BBpress was installed.
I found with BP/WPMU that there is a complete lack of backwards recognition and had to manually remake a number of blogs.
Thanks.
@circuit: i’ve looked at your website, and im genuinely impressed. the latest forum posts on the right hand side are visable on your wordpress pages. Was this achieved by calling bbpress header after wp header? Im wondering if this is an option as I have read some now about it being doable. It seems the code you have included brings in the latest posts in your forum, correct? My aim is to bring in latest posts in a specific forum on my catagory pages, with each forum included different dependent on catagory.
Does anyone know if what Im trying to do is possible with this software? Im going to be trying to do this with the header method for the next few days, so anyone who has some info on the subject would be a god send. I have a few threads from this forum that I’ve got saved, but they are very dated.
I apologize if this is elsewhere, but I am in a panic and have to go do my real job for a few hours. I upgrades to the latest version of bbPress over the weekend and everything went fine. Today I got greedy and tried to create a WordPress blog and then link to it. I followed the instructions on bbPress “Settings” and also installed the plugin on WordPress. I was trying to check the four user things that had to match. I am sorry I can’t quote them, but I can’t log in to see that info again. It was in the “WordPress Integration” area. I had both config files open and found the mentions in the WP, but BB had a line about “Secret” instead. I swear I closed both without saving and bam, I was kicked out of bbpress. When I attempt to login it says, “user does not exist.” I have tried password reset and it sends a new one to my e-mail, but it still says that I don’t exist. I can still see, my forum, but cannot login.
Please help. I do not know .php, but I typically take things slow and careful and follow the directions. I am sure I boogered something up, but I am not sure what.
http://www.mocog.com
Thanks in advance,
-Shoe
Make sure your cookies are set properly and match between bbPress and WordPress. Usually, if you have to login when going between the two, the cookies don’t match. Also, when testing this, make sure you delete old cookies from your system as they may be causing a conflict.
Akismet will catch some (the plugin comes with bbPress). Or, use the human test plugin to prevent most spammers from registering in the first place.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
Would anybody know how to display parts of bbpress in wordpress? My wordpress category pages are the same as my bbpress forums. Would it be possible to include latest 10 posts from bbpress forum ‘apple ipod’ on an apple ipod category page in wordpress?
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Further thought, possibly the other way around? Display wordpress posts from ‘apple ipod’ category above the bbpress forum ‘apple ipod’?
Posted this in the bbRating plugin section, but figured my issue would have more exposure if I posted here.
I have bbPress 1.0.2 on a test server with bbRating 0.8.5.
bb_rating() and bb_rating_dingus() work correctly on IE8 and Safari, and oddly does not work in FireFox. Firefox simply doesn’t show anything, looking at the source code it shows the same thing as IE8 and Safari, with my limited coding knowledge I’m not sure what the issue could be.
Also bb_top_topics, which I assume lists the highest rated threads doesn’t do anything on any of the browsers.
Thanks.
There’s some conflicts in the bb seo tools plugin with human test. This is the error:
Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /web/htdocs/www.alegria.it/home/forum/my-plugins/bb-seo-tools.php on line 178
I am using this plugin, with just normal integration, to call the forum latest posts in the sidebar of my blog, and it works great.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/
Thanks to you both. Yes it was to have links in my forum back to the blog. OK great, I think I can do this (not versed in code but this looks quite straightforward).
If I could take the question one step further, within my blog, would I then be able to create a widget “latest forum posts” with a list of several, which would link to the posts in the forums? Or would this require deeper integration?
This would give me everthing I need in terms of functionality.
I’ve skinned up the BBPress Kakumei theme and am running into a layout issue that I can’t problem solve.
As you can see on this screenshot, the title “Latest Discussions” above the ‘Latest’ table is getting pushed to the right of my screen (i put in a red box to show the problem). On Safari it acually pushes the whole table as well.
http://www.aists.org/images//problem-screenshot.jpg
I have scoured my html and css and am not expert enough to figure this out. Can anyone suggest how to resolve this?
Thank you very much
Yes, i use bbPress 1.0.2 and Human Test work.
Check this http://keskustelu.hpguru.net/register.php
Human test is 6 + 8 = ? etc.
