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The complexity of discussion boards simply exceeds my patience level for user “Unfriendly” software. I have played with a few of them (phpBB, SMF,bbpress) and have concluded that they are just to damn difficult to integrate into a web site. Most will install easy enough, and the default themes are about as ugly as you can get. Every one of them claims to have easy configuration etc. What a pile of crap. The worst of the lot is the BBpress board. Which is surprising since their blog is so easy to install and changing themes is a snap.

The “how to” support pages for all of them must have been developed by computer geeks who rarely speak English. Instructions which should be simple are garbled and about as user friendly as a wet cat.

My intention was to attempt to integrate a discussion board with my blog (http://woodlandstar.net/WSblog/): something Word Press should have developed a long time ago. How difficult can it be to extend Comments into a simple discussion board? Until something is developed that easily installs and easily integrates with the existing web site, I will hold off on using BB.

I tested Vanilla for a while, and liked its simplicity, as do one group I’ve set up a forum for. One neat thing Vanilla has is a Sticky Order plugin. It allows you to drag-move sticky topics in Admin, so that important ones stay where you want them. I can’t find anything like this for bbPress. Is anyone up to creating it? (Hey, _ck_!)

Vanilla’s plugin modifies the sticky db field from 0/1 to 0-9, then uses the value in outputting sticky topics. I’m not up to coding it, but I’m sure many would find it very useful.

is there a way to do a direct quote when replying to a post???

Please can anyone help. I tried to integrate bbpress with my wordpress blog by going into bbpress admin page and doing something with -wp admin

Now none of my users or me as admin are recognised and it won’t even send me an e mail.

Is there any way back in?????

I just installed bbPress and created a username and entered my e-mail address on the install screen. Everything installed fine, but I cannot login with the password they gave me. I copied and pasted the password directly and entered it with the correct username, admin, but it will not work. Also, I never received an e-mail, neither the first one or the password recovery e-mail I requested, and I am sure I entered the right e-mail address.

I need help very badly.

Hi,

I have a wordpress mu install + buddypress. All the stuff works fine. I have installed bbpress. As it was difficult to tune the installation, I don’t know if what I can’t do if the consequence of a bad installation or only a limitation of bbpress.

I thought bbpress was buillt to work with wordpress mu : then I should be able to automatically enable a forum per blog created. But it is not the case : there’s one forum belonging to the first blog wp mu, and other blogs do not have one’s.

I don’t know if I am clear so I describe what I need.

Let’s say I create a WordPress MU on example.org.

I install bbpress to the example.org/forums path. Ok, it works.

Now, I create another blog, let’s say myblog.example.org.

When I enter the url myblog.example.org/forums, I should get a new forum space, not the forum that belongs to the main blog.

How to do that ?

Regards,

Fred

I reinstall 0.9.0.4 without languages and plugins.

When I try to add a new forum it does not work and shows this message:

Not Acceptable

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /foros/bb-admin/admin-ajax.php could not be found on this server.

Apache/1.3.41 Server at flisol.aprendamos.org Port 80

I do not understand if the problem is in apache or if there are something to change in file permissions, or a problem in the file admin-ajax.php or what? I tried to find something similar in these forums but I do not find anything.

Some help please! What I have to look and change?

Thanks

1. I’ve read through some posts on changing the font size in the tag cloud, and it’s as I want now. However, when I go to the tags page, the small ones are the right size, but the large ones are huge! Any ideas as to where to fix that?

2. Having created my forums in Google Chrome, I’ve just checked them in Firefox and IE7. In both of those, the fonts are all a little larger, resulting in an ugly look – the discussion text looks like it’s bold. I’m sure I saw a post regarding this somewhere, but after trying for ages I can’t find anything. Needs sorting out, as many of my users will be on IE, but not all. Help!

I worked through the screencast to integrate bbPress with wordpress and all seems to be working well.

The thing is I can not figure out how to get bbPress to work within my theme, I want the wordpress theme to be a kind of ‘wrapper’ for the forum, putting just a link in the header to the forum, then for bbPress to come up on the page.

Is there a simple code tag I can put on a page to make this happen or else how do I do it?

I’m interested in anti-spam measures that the moment, with just setting up two forums. I use Akismet and the Human Test plugin. I guess this berk was human (almost), but Akismet hasn’t flagged it as spam and removed it. I get the impression from their site that it should. If it doesn’t flag it, does an admin have to mark it as spam and delete it..?