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Hello,

I had someone setup the BBPress Forum integration with my WP blog. I have it setup as a private Forum. It was all working until mid December.

Now I get database connection errors and it lags a lot. Sometimes you click on something and it will fly through to the next page like it is supposed to work and other times it just sits there and it eventually times out and gives just a blank screen or you get that Database Connection error like this

“ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”

I am using GoDaddy with a Deluxe hosting account. I don’t have a huge amount of readers on the site but they are there most of the day. Still I believe my hosting account should be able to handle this setup.

I have contacted GoDaddy everyday for the last 2 weeks. They said that I have two separate databases, one for the blog and one for the BBPress install so there shouldn’t be any strain on the databases. They also test their server everytime I call and don’t see anything significant. I upgraded the account to get more simultaneous connections.

I also installed WP Super Cache to help and that did nothing.

I also had someone working on the problem and he can’t find anything on my side.

Maybe there is some setup incorrect on my site?

Has anyone had this problem who could help?

Wendy

A while ago I brought up the idea to make a “Sandbox” theme for bbPress:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sandbox-theme

I ended up doing that and a bit more. I updated Sandbox for WordPress and built a bbPress theme at the same time, so they work well together and if you skin one you can import the styles to the other quite easily.

http://selfevidenthotdogs.com/bones

It’s not as spare as Sandbox, but the colors are easy to remove and the semantics are there. Here’s the bbPress demo

http://selfevidenthotdogs.com/forum/

Let me know what you think.

Hi:

I discovered an issue that I just wanted to share:

I installed bbpress in a subdirectory of WordPress without integrating. I used a new database and did not touch cookie integration. There are no plugins or content, as this installation is just for building a new child theme.

My WordPress child theme was designed using the Thematic theme framework. Now, I’m trying to design a bbPress child theme with the Hybrid theme framework.

However, my bbpress child theme will only refer to my WordPress Thematic child theme stylesheets in a completely different directory. This was even true when I tried to hardcode the @import lines in the bbpress child theme functions.php file.

I don’t know the solution, here, but thought I’d share for anyone else. If you want to test a child theme on your server, make sure you don’t install bbpress in a subdirectory of WordPress. I don’t know yet if it will work when I integrate WordPress and bbPress, but I assume it does since so many have already done that.

I was hoping that someone could point me towards BBpress or Automattic’s official stance on this. From what I’ve read, the PHP code that interacts with WordPress/BBpress should all be released under the GPL, but HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Images are not.

I bring this up, because a fellow developer (an old Bbprogress contributor), pointed me towards this piece by Jeff Chandler: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/02/08/where-is-the-line-drawn/

The main thing that caught my attention was the comment of Chip Bennet , who states that:

[a] plugin uses a separate library – and it is that library (presumably not released under GPL) that requires purchase if it is used on a commercial site.

This practice is perfectly acceptable under the GPL. Whether or not it is acceptable under the double-secret probation, unwritten, subjective rules of the plugin repository is anyone’s guess.

Can anyone shine some light on this from a BBpress perspective?

I’m going to quote Matt here:

…that themes link and use lots of internal WordPress functions, which make them linked under the GPL and subject to being a GPL-compatible license.

If a theme (or a plugin) used no internal WP functions or APIs, then it could probably be considered independent, but that would be really really hard for a theme.

Basically, I’m asking because BBpress, probably more than WP (at least if you’re only using WP as blog platform) has potentail for premium theme’s and plugins at this moment in time. Getting some clarification would make things alot simpler.

My real concern here is one that won’t go down well…

BBpress forums have 1 current/active moderator

I ask for two reasons.

Should a premium theme/plugin be created and sold, and given that BBpress currently has 1 active Moderator, what is there to stop someone posting the code here or reusing the code that is NOT under GPL?

Not a huge concern of mine just now, but it seems like a likely question of anyone supporting premium BBpress additions.

When someone answer a post, tell the creator with a email.

Which function has to change?

Hi,

I have a small problem

Situation: I have a WordPress 2.9.1 installed / and bbPress 1.0.2 installed /forums/ of my website.

Problem: When I’m logging on the WP Admin and I go after to bbPress admin I’m redirected to /forums and not /forums/bb-admin/ but I’m connected to bbPress…

But if I do the opposite: I’m logging to the bbPress admin and go to the WP Admin all it’s work.

Have you an idea?

Thanks a lot for your help

Hi.

I have just made a new background for my forum on www.michaeljackson.no/forum

It is that tiny 300px picture in the right corner there.

When you scroll down, the white background of the footer really mess it up. It covers half of the picture. Where is the code for this in the stylesheet?

Do any of you know if such a plugin exists?

To display an excerpt of the title of the last discussion in the same row of the forum name in forum index?

Making an own background in BBpress is not as easy as it sounds.

I have an image that is locked in the bottom right corner. But it wont show until I place this div in the right file:

<div id=”michael-j-pic”></div>

This needs to be in the body of the index file. It has to be in the wrapper, and in firebug, it looks like this:

http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/5281/bilde4e.png

See? Between Body-id and Wrapper. But which file is this?

I want to add a new field into profile page.

I figured that out how to add a new field via functions.bb-core.php but I couldnt find how to add a textarea.

I integrated WP and bbPress and I need to show the biography of the user on their profile page.