Figuring out a way to make a template with in Hybrid News that allows Users to easily merge bbPress with WP and the Hybrid theme.
That said, I'm having zero luck in getting anything to work which integrates my Hybrid News header and footer, and maybe even the subsidiary, with my bbPress. I've tried to follow steps here, as well as elsewhere.
I'm not sure I follow but I'm going to say ditto, assuming we are looking for the same thing. LOL!
I was really bummed out when Options got turfed, because I invested lots and lots of time getting myself set up with it! Part of that investment was (with Justin's help of course) was getting a compatible bbPress theme set up. So needless to say when Justin posted that he was (for the time being) stopping work on bbPress it was it was another hit and something to death blow of refining/developing our site. I just couldn't bring myself to re-investing time on technical side of things. I guess I did this out of a fear that that same thing would happen again. Not that Justin owes me anything but just saying how some of his decisons have effected us.
Anyhow, that being said I hope that Justin or maybe others (with Justine's permission) can resurrect the bbPress project and start working on Hybrid Theme ports or some other solution.
I know that I would be happy to help in anyway that I can. I'm waiting on the bbPress end things before I switch the entire site over, so hopefully this idea isn't dead in the water.
Ok! All of that just to say that I second jw's challenge!!!
I'm just perplexed that bbpress and WordPress aren't able to easily be seamless. Simple Press seemed to accomplish it, but it's pretty bloated.
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The problem, as it fumbles around in my mind, with porting over the HTML is two things:
1) It didn't work for me "out of the box", so to speak. I don't recall the issues now, because you told me this directly earlier, but it had a lot of layout issues. A lot.
2) As much as I can interpret, it wouldn't support changes as I made them in my site.
For those who know coding pretty well, of whom I'm not, I can't imagine it being too tough to port over a header, a footer, and a sidebar with functionality. I have tried deep integration, but I can't seem to get it to work. Even to use the basics of...
require('/home/jwrbloom/public_html/wp-blog-header.php');...along with get_header() doesn't produce anything. Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but THAT appears to be pretty straight forward only to not work. I'm pretty tied into Hybrid News, if for no other reason, I like how it looks, and I like the template system and what it allows me to do.
I'll try and keep this here as opposed to starting a new topic. I'm having trouble getting the Hybrid News header over to my bbPress. In my bb-config file I have the following:
require('/home/jwrbloom/public_html/wp-blog-header.php');
require('/home/jwrbloom/public_html/wp-load.php');I've called the get_header and get_footer for what appears to be about 18 files within my bbPress theme. The navigation links aren't coming over with it. I can see the background design features but no functionality. Also, my title isn't coming either.
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I keep getting told to talk to the theme creator. What is keeping the navigation from being carried over when I call get_header from my Hybrid News theme? Maybe the better question is what else do I need to "get" if I want the navigation links/code to come with it?
I can't just copy over the HTML. It won't reflect any changes I make.
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I guess it's enough that it carries over the design of the header but not the navigation.
I now have this at the top of my bb-config.php file:
require_once('/home/jwrbloom/public_html/wp-load.php');
require_once('/home/jwrbloom/public_html/wp-content/themes/hybrid/functions.php');
require_once('/home/jwrbloom/public_html/wp-content/themes/hybrid-news/functions.php');You must be a logged-in exclusive member to view this reply.
I seem to be following protocol on deep integration, but there is something in the more complex Hybrid News theme keeping the navigation from being called.
Ok...after further testing and striking out, here is what a guy helping me and I have found out. We go through the 'deep integration' process, requiring the wp-load.php file in bb-config.php. Then we change all the bb_get_header(); with get_header();. That passes through the Hybrid News header's style information but not the navigation.
When you link directly to the front-page.php, it shows the whole header, which is navigation, a banner ad I have in the header, everything. The same applies when you link directly to any of the affected pages in bbPress. However, it stops executing from there. So you just have the header and that's it. There aren't any errors showing up either.
So using my limited knowledge of PHP and my only slightly more developed since of deduction, one thing we can think which is different is we are bypassing:
path to bbpress / index.phpHere is that code:
<?php
require('./bb-load.php');
bb_repermalink();
$bb_db_override = false;
do_action( 'bb_index.php_pre_db' );
if ( isset($_GET['new']) && '1' == $_GET['new'] ) :
$forums = false;
elseif ( !$bb_db_override ) :
$forums = bb_get_forums(); // Comment to hide forums
if ( $topics = get_latest_topics( false, $page ) ) {
bb_cache_last_posts( $topics );
}
if ( $super_stickies = get_sticky_topics() ) {
bb_cache_last_posts( $super_stickies );
}
endif;
bb_load_template( 'front-page.php', array('bb_db_override', 'super_stickies') );
?>This has to be easy (for those who really know PHP and WP). Right? Sadly, I'm not that kind of guy. It's a bummer to have this kicka$$ WP theme and not have it be able to merge thematically with bbPress.
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Like I said, it would take someone who really knew WP. I want my site's functionality, which appears to be what isn't getting carried over.
Simple Press has managed to do it seamlessly, but it's way too bloated for my needs, not the easiest to alter, and in the long wrong, I'm betting bbPress has a more robust set of options.
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I'm just trying to make my site have a single look, carrying over some functionality. You've clearly done it here, and I'm looking for a direction on how to do that.
That said, my site is a daily updated site, so porting over HTML isn't an answer, as it wouldn't reflect the changes I make.
If/when I start releasing bbPress themes, they'll be standalone themes and not meant for the type of integration you're trying to do.
No!!!!!!!!!!!
Sir, Jut the when! I'm banking on you to release at least one that will match your (or i can easily get to match) Hybrid News.
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Still no pathway on how to do what you've done here?
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That link says download does not exit.
Hey Justin.
Thanks for the clarification!
As a side note, I sent you a Facebook message last night. Any chance he can get back to me on that? I thought it was a question best asked off the forum. However, if you prefer I can re-ask it here.
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Aside from uploading it and activating is there something else needed to set it up? It basically crashed bbPress, so to speak. I had to delete it from my server.
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Yeah, I did forget to get rid of the wp-load.php require in bb-config. I don't see where this theme is going to carry over functions from my site. I just don't know enough about it.
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Ok. I get that now, but for some reason, the way your theme is created makes it tough to pass through functions. The method proposed on bbPress.org keeps coming back with check with the guy who designed the theme. Two people who have already done "deep integration" have tried with my site. Short of letting them overhaul my, they have not been able to get it done.
Going back to my SMF forum days, carrying over some functions to my PHP home page via Server Side Includes, the idea of "get_header" should work pretty easily. I just want my site's navigation to be on my bbPress. It doesn't seem like that much to ask. : )
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