The full template can be confusing to non-coders.
This concept has been covered several times around here, it’s quite simple.
Just replace
<?php topic_last_poster(); ?>
with
<a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></a>
in the front-page.php, forum.php, view.php and tag.php templates
Sometimes forum topics are so interesting that they get many replies and bbPress v0.9.0.2 does not have any links to the latest reply when you go to a topic.
So I created one as you will see when you go to any of the topics in the Set Forever forum.
Here’s a link to the code update to the Kakumei theme for the topic.php file:
http://www.setforever.org/blog/2008/bbpress-v0902-how-to-add-a-link-to-the-latest-posted-reply-message-in-a-topic/
Have you tested it in Firefox on Windows?
The column float is not working correctly and pushes the middle down below the left.
I know what is SVN, man 
And use it every day, for bbpress tests too. But alphas are good for bug reports, help others and wordpress integration testing. We sould discuss one named pie of code. I love digits (rev numbers are digits too), it’s my job, but the people is normal guys collection.
Hi John,
That sound like a nice feature… two ways to use a sticky.
Unfortunately, that was not the problem. It wasn’t stuck to the front originally.
I did unstick at your suggestion and click “stick topic” and it shows up in the latest discussions and not in it’s forum.
I unstuck it again… click “to front” and it displays differently in the latest discussion section – The word stick appears next to it and the font is bigger and no it doesn’t display in the forum.
It appears the “to front” is functioning fine… but not the basic “stick topic”
We still have a problem.
Thanks
Ann
Ok, guis, WP 2.7 is here. Give us bbpess alpha 3 to test it.
Because of … there are only 59 active tickets 
I’m new to using bbpress and installed version Version 1.0-alpha-2
In one of the forums, I did a post and made it sticky… I other forums the sticky is always the first post(s) with all the other post underneath.
The main forums is showing 1 topic and 1 post. When I click on the forum, it isn’t there…. The only place the post sticky shows is in the latest discussions and not in forum area.
Is there some way to make the sticky topic show up in its forum?
Thanks
Ann
I would like to only display 10 topics on my front page, but 40 when viewing each forums individually.
Is there an easy way (within the theme maybe?) to limit the front-page.php latest discussions to a smaller number than the items per page assignment in the admin panel?
It isn’t about it being a regular basis, it’s about it being possible.
In my testing and installing of bbPress, I usually bounce back and forth between a KeyMaster, an Admin, and a Member test account, and sometimes I am logged in and make a post under the wrong one.
It’s more for convenience and possibility sake than it is for daily use or practicality.
Forums with many users would just have a million entries in the drop down. Heck I dunno man I just thought of this idea!
I have it working ok with the plugin, but testing reveals it fails to work with multipage threads, eg:
http://domain.com/forums/test/your-first-topic/page/2
breaks and redirects to //
I had a look at the rewrites and similar but it seems ok (though I am not an expert), so I am at a loss. Is anyone else having this problem? Any ideas on a fix?
The approach Digg uses is very simple and would not need such an advanced plugin like “promote to front page”.
All you need to mimic Digg is allow voting on topics and then replace the part of your front page that shows the latest-discussions with the list of topics by highest rank.
In fact there is already a topic voting plugin that does that, you’d just have to edit your front-page layout. You could then go further like Digg does and restrict highest rated by date – 24 hours / 7 days / 30 days / all time
Looks good enough to me, although I haven’t checked the source to see exactly how you did it.
One plugin that I’ve been meaning to create for quite some time is a “promote to front page” tool where admin can mark a topic for special promotion, with their own custom summary that superceeds the title and first post and replaces (or suppliments) the Latest Discussions on the front page with the list. The list could then be re-ordered even further, independent of topic time.
I think such a plugin would change how bbPress is used in a positive way. Just can’t decide how to best interface it with how topics work and how to give the admin full access to existing formatting tools and other plugins within the summaries. It would probably be mostly like Wiki Post.
Let’s put that all together – this should work right inside any wordpress template:
<h2>Latest Forum Discussions</h2>
<ul>
<?php
global $wpdb;
$query="SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10";
$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);
foreach ($results as $result) {
echo "<li><a href='/forums/topic.php?id=".$result->topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a></li>";
}
?>
</ul>
Did you already figure this out?
They look very well matched.
Also, using Firefox 3, the page loads with the top of the page displayed, not the bottom where the named anchor would be, I suppose because the anchor is not there. When it’s working properly, it loads with your latest reply in view. When the reply is not there, the page loads with the top of the topic visible.
Same problem here, with an Apache server on Windows. Latest versions of all applications. I will try your solutions and see what happens.
So I got my bbpress theme looking great. The only problem is that I can’t login to my BB Admin. I am using the latest unstable version with wp 2.6.5. I used the require_once (wp_blog_header.php) trick then added get_header/get_footer to the necessary files in my bbpress theme.
Hey everyone, hows it going. I’m trying to find out how to match my current wp theme to my bbpress theme. How can I accomplish this?
Thanks
Heres my wp installation
http://kauaihypnosis.site90.com/
and bbpress
http://kauaihypnosis.site90.com/bbpress
I also have this problem, but I do have a lead… What I did is the following:
Install WP 2.7 (latest build)
Install BBPress 1 Alpha 2 but it skipped steps 2 and 3, went straight to the forum index
Did all the settings manually like described in https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integrate-wp27-and-bbp10a2
Go into WP, log in with admin account
Go to BBPress
At the top I see “Welcome, admin! | Admin | Log Out”
So far so good, but when I click on “Admin” to access my admin page, nothing happens. So thats exactly the same as the others, but when I press the “Log Out” and then try to log back in with the admin account, I get a “User does not exist” message. So I guess its not reading my WP tables correctly.
Note: My database is fully up-to-date, BBPres states that there is nothing to upgrade when I go to /bb-admin/upgrade.php
Okay, I did some testing of
$bb->wp_home = 'http://ipstenu.org'; and $bb->wp_home = 'http://ipstenu.org/bblog'; and ffft.
So. This doesn’t really bother me much, since I don’t mind people double-logging in. It’s only annoying in the realm of I hate when code doesn’t work right!
WP 2.6.3, BP 1.0-alpha-2
bb-config
// WordPress cookie integration speedup
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://jorjafox.net/blog';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://jorjafox.net';
$bb->cookiedomain = '.jorjafox.net';
$bb->cookiepath = '/';
$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_DELETED';
$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_DELETED';
$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';
$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-admin';
$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/bb-plugins';
$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums/my-plugins';
$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';
$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/blog/wp-admin';
$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/blog/wp-content/plugins';
// End integration speedups
WP-config
// Cookies
define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.jorjafox.net');
define('COOKIEPATH', '/' );
I’ve also tried with no cookie settings in my wp-config. Right now it’s commented out. It’s sharing the admin cookie, since I can get into WP-admin if I log in with BBpress, but I don’t show up as a user (if I go to make a comment, it gives me the screen anon users see). If I log in via WP, I’m only logged into WP.
I tried changing the Tag Clouds values on my forum with
<?php tag_heat_map( 10, 30, ‘px’, 40); ?>
The first three attributes work as expected, however the last setting (40) which should influence how many Tags are displayed doesn’t change a thing no matter if I set it to 1 or 100.
I’m on Alpha 2 and latest WP.
let me clean up what i said above
i just did another test
it happened that, if you created abc123 from bbpress
you can’t login wordpress (it will turned to cookie error, i am using firefox)
you will have to first use admin account, and then go to site-admin -> users, and make abc123 from No role to one of the role, let’s say editor.
now, you can login
and also, i can’t login at the same time
i can’t login abc123 in wordpress but bbpress is still not login yet.
why
hey klarko, thanks a lot
just another quick question
everything went fine, i did everything in the admin panel
now, when i tested registration in bbpress, it worked, but i tried to login from wordpress, doesn’t work
i mean i created a new user name abc from bbpress
it worked in bbpress,. but i can’t login in from wordpress mu
is that the case? or something went wrong?
