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Warning/Deprecated Error in bbPress

After installing bbPress, if you get a Deprecated/Warning error message then please check your php Version. bbPress don't seem to support latest version of php. bbPress is doing this, has been "deprecated" (made obsolete) in the new version of PHP. Everything will still work, but in the future PHP may change and these functions will error out. Steps: 1. locate bb-load.php , go to line 25: 2. Change From error_reporting( E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE ); to error_reporting( E_ALL ^ E_DEPRECATED ^ E_NOTICE);

Changing The Site URL in bbpress

Like wordpress you can also change the Site URL of bbpress. Steps: 1. Login to phpMyAdmin. 2. Click the link to your Databases. A list of your databases will appear. Choose the one that is your bbPress database. All the tables in your database will appear on the screen. 3. From the list, look for bb_meta . Note: The table prefix of bb_ may be different if you changed it when installing. Click on the small icon indicated as Browse. A screen will open with a list of the fields within the bb_meta table. 4. Under the field meta_key , scroll down and look for uri . Click the Edit Field icon which usually is found at the far left at the beginning of the row. The Edit Field window will appear. In the input box for option_value, carefully change the URL information to the new address. Verify this is correct and click Go to save the information.

Install bbPress and new theme

Download latest version of bbPress from bbpress.org . Unzip it rename it and upload in the root directory of the HTTP Directory, normally it is the directory where you put your website files and so on. After that follow the step, and it will ask you the database name, so make sure that you create one before. When you install custom theme for the bbpress, upload it in the my-templates folder, if there is no such folder then create one. The folder should be create where the file bb-config.php is located and the folder permission should be 755. Now go to the admin and activate the New Theme for freshly installed bbpress. Happy forum...