[Jeff]

I want to limit the number of conversations/discussions that show on the front page under Latest Discussions > Topic. I found a plugin that might have helped but I can’t log into the admin panel (/forum/bb-admin redirects me to /forum).

The plugin is http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

But is there a way to manually edit a bbPress file to change this setting? Thanks for any help anyone can offer.

[chandersbs]

I’m having the exact same problem. Akismet blocked a lot of replies, which I had to manually search hard in the database to put it back. But via the interface, it shows a nice chart, but no where, where you can see, which posts, topics or user accounts it has blocked.

Last night me and a user, who was blocked, after doing a lot of testing at 2 a.m. discovered that his posts are not appearing in some topics.

I prefer to have Akismet, but I also prefer to see in the backend if posts are being marked as spam, which posts exactly. Just like in WordPress.

[johnhiler]

Ah ok.

1) Your first step is going to be to get all of the installs to use the same users table. Technically, you’ll want to follow steps similar to the ones described here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/successful-reverse-integration-steps

However, your job will be greatly complicated by the fact that each install will have overlaps in terms of userid and usernames. For example, userid #5 on bbPress install #1 is going to refer to a different user than userid#5 on bbPress install#2. You’re going to have to address that – this link will help greatly:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integration-of-established-wp-and-bbpress-installations

2) Phew, it’s good that they’re all in the same database… hopefully your WordPress install is also in the same database. This will simplify things a bit.

3) Ok, good to know.

I can’t offer custom help – I’m just a volunteer! But I’m glad to try and help you here, so others can learn from the discussion…

Here’s what I would recommend:

1) Your first step would be to backup all of your data.

2) Then, I’d setup a test environment exactly like your current environment and put your data there. That way, you can work on the integration with much less stress.

3) Then I would figure out how to deal with the userid and username overlap described above. This will probably be the hardest part!

4 ) Once you’ve figured that out, you’re all set to integrate all the installs to use the same usertable.

5) Finally once that’s done, you can also integrate the cookies so users only have to signin once!

If this sounds waaay too hard, you may want to hire a consultant or expert to help ya out! Here’s a list of people who are available:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-professionals-advertise-in-this-topic

[sinans11]

ok well basically i have a news website. and I put on new news on the website constantly. The latest 6 posts are displayed on the index as hot news. however I also want to display the anoth 10 more posts on another secton on the homepage but this time not showing the latest 6 posts but starting from the last 7.

so it would show from the latest post 7 to 17 and exclude the latest posts from 1-6.

Thanks for replying by the way

[whey]

still the same verdict… gah

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Take out the whitespace from the plugin PHP file(s), and try again?

[whey]

so is there any way to stop a forum from reaching the latest discussion without any problems?

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

The Warning message is because forwards depend on sending headers. Different headers are sent automatically however if there’s any text returned by a PHP file that’s loaded, which is a common problem created by whitespace around the <?php ?> tags. If text headers are sent, you can’t send a redirect header, thus the warning and the breaking of redirects.

[whey]

I have no idea, it is quite confusing to me seems it screws up any kind of forward (even those that have nothing to do with posting, plugin deactivate, edit/change appearance, logout, etc).

Might it have somthing to do with this part of the plugin:

{ $where.=” AND forum_id != “.$forum.” “; }}

return $where;

because it does not seem to be working, does this need to be changed to something else in order to function in 1.0.2?

You can see for yourself what happens by registering:

http://voices.snailface.com/register.php

Starting to bug me a bit, nothing I try solves the issue.

[citizenkeith]

Nevermind… I figured that part out.

@HSeatSleeper: Can you talk a little bit more about the special care you gave to the admin account? When testing, I got locked out of my blog as well, and couldn’t figure out why (my wp_1_capabilities were set correctly, as was user_level).

Can you easily list the steps you took to secure the admin account? Thanks!

[chrishajer]

What is the plugin supposed to do with regard to those things? I thought the plugin just excluded replies from certain forums from the list of latest discussions. I didn’t know it was related to redirection or forwarding.

[InvTrdr]

In CSS I use /*………*/ for a few lines of code or ……..// for just a line so that code is skipped or avoided. Will this work in a .php file also? I would like to skip code to test it out without deleting the original code. Just want to mask the original code so I can go back to it if I make a mistake.

Thank you.

[PickledPC]

Alright I have my site at pickledpc.com and the forums at pickledpc.com/forums/

I’m trying to apply my wordpress theme to the forums to make it all look the same. I haven’t the slightest idea of where to start. I have tinkered with the style.css but can’t get anywhere. Any pointers? A good place to start?

Thanks

[fifthhouse]

I am interested to display my forum categories at the top of my forums rather than the latest discussions. Is this possible?

[whey]

Even with all those things changed the plugin does no redirect or allow you to logout so I guess something is messing up with the forwarding?

[chrishajer]

If you have full access to the server, it’s good practice to log PHP errors and warnings rather than display them to the browser. That’s done in php.ini.

[chrishajer]

Are you using permalinks? Did you already have an .htaccess and add the error handling lines to it?

[whey]

Okay I added Htaccess and now the error does not appear however when i post it does not forward me back to the forum is just gets stuck on a white screen on the bb-post.php screen….

[whey]

Got full access to the server. What is the best means of doing this but only affecting only this site? The plugin makes an error for any change not just posts (ie any kind of update) gives a similar warning.

[chrishajer]

Here’s one way:

http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/01/14/advanced-php-error-handling-via-htaccess/

I’m assuming you’re on shared hosting. If you have more control over the server, there are better ways to do it than with an override in .htaccess.

[whey]

How can I do that?

[chrishajer]

I have the same problem in one browser, no problem in another browser (I had the warnings showing in Firefox but not in IE.) If it’s just a warning and it works, maybe you just need to not display warnings to visitors?

[whey]

Yes it states:

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /public_html/voices/my-plugins/exclude-forum.php:13) in /public_html/voices/bb-includes/functions.bb-pluggable.php on line 232

That is with or without any other plugin installed.

[chrishajer]

Does the error message you are seeing say “Warning:” at the beginning of it?

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

You have a space or a line return around your code tags.