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Opened 13 years ago

Closed 13 years ago

#3641 closed enhancement (duplicate)

Revise "Forums" instructions

Reported by: boonebgorges's profile boonebgorges Owned by:
Milestone: 1.6 Priority: normal
Severity: normal Version: 1.5
Component: Administration Keywords: 2nd-opinion
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Description

I haven't researched it very much, but I understand that there are some problems with the way that Site Wide Forums (bbPress 2.0) works out of the box with BP. If I understand it correctly, the problem (so far as it is a problem) is: if you allow BuddyPress to auto-create a page with the slug 'forums', and then you activate SWF, bbPress attempts to use the default slug 'forums'. But the WP page 'forums' wins this fight, so you can't see the bbPress forums.

In the future, when bbPress forums are a bit more integrated, we can probably do a robust fix for this potential conflict. But in the meantime, for a bugfix release, maybe we can consider doing one of the following:

  • adding a bit of language to the Forum Setup tab, under the SWF section, warning about this
  • at admin_init, sniff out bbPress's forums slug, and see if there is also a published WP page with that slug, and if so, bp_core_add_admin_notice() about it.

Either (or both) of these things seem harmless enough that they should be easy to implement in a bugfix release. Thoughts? (Especially jjj ;) )

Change History (7)

#1 @r-a-y
13 years ago

  • Component changed from Forums to Administration
  • Summary changed from Revise "Site Wide Forums" instructions to Revise "Forums" instructions

I'd also like to revise this sentence:

"You may use an existing bbPress installation if you have one."

Now that bbPress 2.0 -- the plugin -- is out, we should make a note that the existing installation option requires a bbPress 1.x install.

I've amended the related codex article to state this:
http://codex.buddypress.org/buddypress-site-administration/using-an-existing-bbpress-installation/

#2 @johnjamesjacoby
13 years ago

Ideally there would be more/some/any collision detection on the BuddyPress side. bbPress 2.0 has this built into it, and it's ready to be ported into BuddyPress when the time is right. At least then there will be some kind of warning that there are overlapping slugs.

#3 @mercime
13 years ago

http://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/installing-group-and-sitewide-forums/
Step-by-Step Guides for review/comments

  • Set up new Forums for Groups only,
  • Use Existing Installation of Forums for Groups only (if upgrading from BP 1.2+),
  • Set up Sitewide Forums only (new in BP 1.5), or
  • Set up Forums for Groups and Sitewide Forums
  • Forums Frequently Asked Questions

#4 @DJPaul
13 years ago

  • Milestone changed from 1.5.2 to 1.6

#5 @marcella1981
13 years ago

If BBPress installed, the button (when visiting admin.php?page=bb-forums-setup) continues to read "Install Site Wide Forums". Maybe this could change also.

#6 @johnjamesjacoby
13 years ago

Going to close this as a duplicate of #3598. It's a valid issue, but will be addressed when bbPress 2 is the canonical forum engine used through-out BuddyPress.

#7 @johnjamesjacoby
13 years ago

  • Resolution set to duplicate
  • Status changed from new to closed

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