[_ck_]

I am beginning to test some code I have written to pre-configure a CPANEL based website to auto-install bbPress. Barring any extreme problems (or unforseen events in my life) I should have an early beta to test by the weekend.

It will only require a few simple inputs such as your username and password (same as you’d use on FTP or cpanel access) and from there it will do everything – create the database and tables, download bbPress, install it and take you to it’s configuration options.

It may be possible to eventually get it working with other types of hosts. I plan to investigate doing it on dreamhost and perhaps a couple of the other most popular hosts.

[_ck_]

When you go into a forum, it should show you all the sub-forums available. If there are no topics in that forum however, it may just immediately jump to add new topic – that may be a bug in how bbPress works. Try creating a test topic in the main forum that has sub-forums.

If your forum has topics and still does not show sub-forums, you edited your theme somewhere and removed it or you are using a theme that removed the feature. If so, put into pastebin your forum.php page from your theme and show it to me.

[_ck_]

If you are asking what I think you are asking, I think I have made the subtle change you need. The sub-forums will no longer be shown on the front-page.

http://pastebin.com/m5ce19f4b

Line 53 is really all that’s needed.

if (!$forum->forum_parent) {

This is untested however.

Topics from within the sub-forums will still showup in the latest discussions however.

[uwemekpenyong]

Found the answer!

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/limit-forums-included-in-latest-discussions

[uwemekpenyong]

Hello,

Can someone help me with listing the latest topics but excluding one of the forums from the list?

Thanks,

uwem

[_ck_]

You can use this plugin by just installing it and my-views.php, you don’t need the others if you don’t want their features.

I’ll be revisiting this plugin once I get my User-Track plugin done sometimes in March.

[thierryyyyyyy]

Can we have this page without installing the “big plugin” My_views ?

Perhaps I can download this “module” and look at the code, and make a small plugin. Or just make a link that shows this page.

I forgot to say : wow ! nice plugin

exactly what I want to see.

[t3ch33]

It’s just for convenience, and right now I’m doing a lot of test posts, so it’s quicker to delete those posts with the checkbox. I was deleting them in phpmyadmin, then read _ck_’s post about the plugin. If you don’t mind, can you explain how my deleting posts and topics through phpmyadmin would affect a plugin? So far, though, I only have the anonymous user plugin.

[_ck_]

If you cannot get into admin panel it’s one of two reasons:

1. cookie hashes & paths don’t match

2. you do not have the proper role set under bbpress as administrator

The 404’s may be caused by turning on slugs without multiviews or proper mod_rewrite rules. If you have slugs turned on, turn them off temporarily (in your config.php) until you solve the other problem. ie.

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

I am betting on the role not being set in bbPress that’s preventing you from getting to the admin panel. This can be inspected/fixed via phpmyadmin. I’ve been meaning to write an auto-load plugin to fix this issue automagically.

UPDATE:

I’ve whipped up a little plugin to restore proper admin access roles for both bbPress and WordPress without having to tinker in phpmyadmin:

http://bbshowcase.org/plugins/fix_admin_access.zip

Copy this to your plugins directory in bbPress OR WordPress (not both). Then access bbPress or WordPress (whichever you used). Then test you can access admin panel. Then DELETE the plugin off your server. There is no reason to leave it there.

(you MUST leave the leading underscore “_” on the plugin name which makes it auto-load without having to activate it first. I have not tested it from the WP side but in theory should be fine.)

[_ck_]

Commas work fine on other installs.

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/test-title-with-a-comma-testing

There may be a plugin conflicting?

[t3ch33]

On my site, if you enter just a comma in the “topic title,” the error “No input file specified.” appears.

Any plans on fixing this?

I also tested it on this site, and the error “This topic has been closed” appeared. (So, I hit the back button and entered a real post-this one. Once I posted this post, I realized that it was marked as “resolved.”)

Is this a security issue? Are the forums at risk of sql injections?

[_ck_]

I may modify my “human test” plugin to also work on posts.

[qienkuen]

Test again,how about this one:

http://www.districtadministration.com/pulse/commentpost.aspx?news=no&postid=49281

[chrishajer]

Do you have a link to your forum so we can try a test post? I can’t find it on the website, possibly because I cannot read the language there. Sorry.

[tmeister]

Hi there.

Well, here is my new plugin.

Description

Provide users with a live comment preview before submit. show it in the same page using Ajax

Tested on :

Firefox 2.x & Beta 3

IE 6 & 7

Safari

More info and Downloads

http://klr20mg.com/bbpresslive-comment-preview-plugin/

Also, you can see the demo on my dev site

http://www.klr20mg.com/dev/bbpress/

User : testuser

password: e6b4b5

See ya..

[chrishajer]

Joke:

A man calls his doctor’s office to make an urgent appointment. He argues with the secretary and finally the doctor agrees to make a few minutes to see him. The man arrives, clearly distressed. He tells the doctor, whenever I push on my bellybutton, I faint, my nose bleeds, and my feet go numb for an hour. The doctor turns pale and rushes the man to the hospital, where the man is kept for a week while all kinds of tests are run by numerous specialists. Finally, the doctor returns, and the man begs him to give a diagnosis. The doctor says, I don’t know what’s wrong with you, but I have found a cure. The man, desperate, begs hims to continue. The doctor says, “Don’t do that anymore.”

[319]

The server that Chris tested did have a few of plugins running at the time (Allow Images, Avatar Upload, Quote, Comment Quicktags) but regardless, the second test forum has no plugins and has the same errors.

As far as why i’m running wp and bbpress, thats so i don’t have to change multiple files whenever there’s an update to the header, footer, sidebar etc. and so i can use wordpress functions in sidebar to show recent posts, etc. Its one website so i’d like it to have just one set up templates.

[_ck_]

The command line test Chris made shows a PHP session.

bbPress by iteself without plugins does not initiate PHP sessions.

So what’s causing the sessions?

[319]

On the second test site i have setup i am not using any plugins in bbpress. I think the problem might be bigger than just IE, as indicated by the command line test Chris made and also since validator.w3.org is returning a 404 every time.

[lucaiz]

many thanks Chris! I have tested your second example (pluggable.php, row 361 etc.) was exactly what I needed!

I agree with you that a plugin would be nice, and also it would be even nicer to be able to set new users default role somewhere in the admin interface, but for the moment your suggestion just work.

thanks again!

[darkling235]

I have the code to work with the new field in the DB all ready and tested. To test it I just created a new column in the user table manually. Is there a way to do it automatically on install?

I.E. bbpress creates a bunch of tables and fields when it is first activated, how can I alter what tables are created and what columns they possess?

[319]

To test things further i did a fresh install of bbpress on a different server (this one hosted by hostgator) and again did the require_once wp-blog-header.php etc… and i’m getting a similar problem with these weird 404 errors. They occur much less frequently than the last forum but they are still there. And further, I just ran it through http://validator.w3.org and its giving me a 404 just like the other forum did. Here’s a link to this second test forum i just setup: http://formatmag.com/bbpress

I think this might be some sort of incompatibility between WordPress 2.3.3 and BBpress 0.8.3.1, since those are really the only similarities i can think of between these two test forums, since they are seperate domains and seperate servers and have the same problem.

[kernow]

I had a problem with WordPress in IE7, and I installed the latest version of IE7 which cured the problem. There has been several beta versions of IE7, and it could just be that you are running an old version. Worth a check….

[chrishajer]

noyz319: need a URL to test your site.

[319]

Hi, i have a wordpress integrated bbpress forum (sharing the same database and users) and everything works great except 95% of the time the forum pages come up as “404 – Page Not Found” errors when using IE7. This only happens in IE as i’ve tested things in Safari, Firefox and Opera on both a mac and PC and have no problems at all. The Internet Explorer 404 errors happen when trying to load any forum page, including all admin screens. Once in a while a page might load up proper and usually you can get the 404 to go away on a page if you sit there and refresh it about 6 or 7 or 30 times.

The main wordpress backed site (2.3.3) is domain.com and the bbpress install (0.8.3.1) is in domain.com/bbpress. To try and track down the problem, i did a seperate install in domain.com/bbpress2 using a separate database, not the WP one, and this weird IE only problem starts happening as soon as i add the require_once(‘/home/content/domain/html/wp-blog-header.php’); bit to the top of the bbpess config.

The wordpress site itself works just fine in IE7 and never serves up these seemingly random 404 errors, its just the forum that is the problem. Any help figuring out what could possibly be causing this would be extremely appreciated! This strange error is driving me nuts, i hate IE!