[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

first time anyones said that

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@inkblottest firstly thank you for attempting to help out on this thread – the config file needs to reside in the doc_root though.

Secondly I can see why you felt the last paragraph was justified but I draw issue with many of it’s points and I’ll address them later but not on this thread as it will take it off topic – oh and I’m also a tech veteran and with considerable experience working on technical forums catering to both experienced and inexperienced

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

?bump? we’re waiting on you aren’t we? did you try what Boone suggested? I’m thinking though it’s a possible issue with bb-config but you will need to try and locate that file, you must have some sort of access to your account? cpanel or plesk file manager that you can use to look through the directories, ftp?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

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[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

You still haven’t confirmed whether you have located your config file and that it has the right info and is in the right location!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Enough already with those damned bumps pleeeeese

Thank you for the info, as Boone advises above now please. fwiw in the other thread where I went over these issues I covered a little of what Boone mentions above, when hit this issue examining the pertinent DB tables showed that the forum_id hadn’t been created creating a fresh group and enabling a forum for it demonstrated that the process did work so that took me back to the advise earlier in re-saving the groups details to kick that forum_id into life.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

In fact in one of those other old threads you post the same question twice and with a 2 minute interval I fail to see that it could have been an error. Please observe what Boone has said above and do not post in this manner any further. the old posts shall be set to read only.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Sorry have no idea but it shouldn’t be hard to determine, download it and check it’s stylesheet comments, or even try and install it you should soon know if it’s BP compatible.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

You’ll need to run the template pack plugin on it

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

I can’t recreate this issue on a clean 1.2.6 / 3.01.

If you do think this is an issue with BP and there are no custom themes or plugins running that may conflict with JS then you will probably need to create a ticket in Trac so that one of the core devs can look into it.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Jenny remove the blog signup section from the BP register page.

also adjust the WP footer links to something non standard as that is also a keyword search.

Other than that there have been some very long threads on this subject of spam signups and all possible tactics have been covered in those so do do a search for that info.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

You should robots.txt exclude these files

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

The forums component of BuddyPress i.e the forums available under / within ‘Groups’ is provided by a bundled copy of bbPress, so now the extra detail (this is why it’s so vital to supply all pertinent info from the start) you provide somewhat changes the nature of things:

And little more info on the problem, is I am not using the current version of BB, because the latest version just put me on more problems
<snip>because, as an experiment, I switched to the BB default theme!

BB theme? do you mean BP theme?

I think you are going to need to clarify – in detail – your site setup, so were clear on what were dealing with.

So do we take it that you have installed a separate copy of BBpress? of so I suggest that you uninstall / deactivate it and re-run the buddypresss forum install as a fresh install, but I’m not 100% on that as I’m not sure really exactly how you have set things up @mercime may have some thoughts on this so best to wait for further input.

You do need to establish how your site is set up, what paths and directories it uses and as to how you access them well that for most folk is normally via ftp and ftp connection will generally log you into your server root, that is the level above your doc root, you would then normally see a few directories listed. On a Linux server your doc root can variously take names such as html_docs, www, html_public, http_public, htdocs but it’s this directory, however named, that contains your main site files and in WP/BP case it holds the main config, index, and other startup files including bb-config. We can’t really tell you how you access your site that is really something you must work out, you must have got the files up there in the first place or was this one of those script installs?

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Also please refer back to my comment on where bb-config is meant to be located, confirm whether it is indeed in the place it ought to be – please make sure to check all the things we suggest as Mercime says this is troubleshooting mode and things need to be tried, confirmed or otherwise and crossed of the list, suggestions are based on what has been tried or not and lead on to alternate suggestions.

Another little note never post your server path on a public forum it’s not a good idea to expose this sort of info just do /****/ on server path and leave in the web directory path info.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

I’m not telling you do anything I’m suggesting something to try and it’s ‘Save’ thats the important part not checking/unchecking the checkbox.

I posted on this subject in another thread and outlined this possible solution and others, might be worth you doing a search through the site and seeing what other threads you can find that might help.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

There can’t be a pure CSS method CSS is a presentational layer and a requirement to alter something like timing belongs to the behavioral layer, browser side that means browser side scripting – WP already carries extensive JS libraries so the approach would be to run up something in jQuery or search the jQuery plugin repository for something suitable.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Try, as admin, going into a /the group click on ‘admin’ select ‘Group Settings’ ensure ‘Enable Forum’ checkbox is checked and re save the page then try creating a topic.

bb-config is generally located in the doc_root of a site.

N.B can we not bump threads too soon, standard forum practices are followed – wait ~24 hours.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

It’s a very good example of what can be done with BP, the feel and layout is great and yes I love the colour scheme too

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

@redstone5561 if you’re having a problem you must provide as much detail as possible that relates to your issue specifically, there isn’t much we can do with the comment same problem here also please don’t tag onto old threads you should always start a fresh one this is six months old and could possibly refer to outdated issues resolved in newer versions.

That said if your issue is on activation you have a white screen and cannot get back into the admin, rename the plugin via ftp which will force a deactivation of that plugin and should allow access to the site once again.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

This is nearly always a owner/group issue and these need to be set correctly from the server – also and importantly make sure PHP Safe Mode is not enabled which I’ve mentioned in a few threads here.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Think the new menu arrangement will not be included until 1.3, it will be better to wait on WP 3.1 anyway for the fixes it will make to menu aspects.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

I don’t think anyone will confirm one way or another but I would personally doubt very much that this will figure in 1.3 but I’ve said all that on one of the other many threads you have posted on this subject, in all honesty continually posting about this isn’t going to make it happen.

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

Search for a thread as someone did post an updated version recently

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

You have a redirect to login page for non registered members so we can’t view your issue with the nav!

[@hnla Participant 15 years, 11 months ago]

find /forums/forums-loop.php scroll down to around line 21 and look for a table that should have a class of ‘forum’ to that add ‘zebra’ if it doesn’t exist.
So:

<table class=”forum”>
<table class=”forum zebra”>