I figured they were two different topics (this one was kind of ‘case closed’ already), but alright.
Okay I’ll incorporate the on-site GPL page back into the article.
Gah, just noticed I typed the link to the examples page wrong. Here’s the proper link:
http://bbpress.org/about/examples/
I just finished a draft of my proposal for bbpress.org’s license page. I don’t think a dedicated GPL license page is necessary when there’s a nice public page for it and plenty other trustworthy “mirrors” in case of downtime.
I basically copied the WordPress License page, updated it with mentions of bbPress and alternatively licensed forums, and merged it with a summarized version of the domains warning.
Your thoughts please.
Yesterday I offered to help write some copy for bbPress.org, so this is the first of many such posts in a series of sorts as I work my way through the pages and contents in question.
Today I’ve been looking at the examples page. This page is not linked to yet, but we’ll sort that out once we’re happy with the page itself.
Also, down the line bbPress should simply have its own “flavor” on the WordPress Showcase site, coupled with a custom page on bbpress.org that pulls information from there, much like how the BuddyPress showcase probably already works. But since that might take a while (all I know is it’s beyond my capabilities) I figured a static page would serve as a good substitute in the meantime.
Styling
I realized that a common question that’s going to be popping up as I work on these pages is “Changes to bbpress.org vs Changes to my article formatting“. So when I give this feedback, know that I probably have a reasonable workaround for it in mind already if you don’t agree with the proposed changes.
- Page headers – Either make them take charge of the page (more prominent than h1) or don’t show them at all. One of my favorite examples of a beautifully dominant page title is WooThemes’ Optimize.
- On my test site (also where my images are currently loaded from because I don’t have that privilege here yet) I used captions to achieve some simple compartmentalization. It seems the bbpress.org theme doesn’t have any styling for captions yet. Furthermore, on hover they expand slightly instead of highlighting in some other way (e.g. a shadow overlay), making the content below shift downwards slightly, which looks weird.
- The showcase codex page should be retired.
Your input is most welcome, including my choice of “featured” items.
This is a gorgeous looking forum site! Is it running bbPress 2?
@netweb if you read this, I tried checking the source but this one didn’t have bbpress in it. Got any other tricks up your sleeve? Well, the permalinks, the anchors, the widgets.., it all points towards bbPress 2, so I’m gonna go ahead and add it to the examples page.
Re: Markdown
Feedback should be directed towards the WP-Markdown support forum.
Re: Search
wpmudev.org has got a very elegant forum search set up on their site, including an alternative Google search. Maybe they’ll share the code. I’ll refer them to this thread and try get a conversation going.
Re: Breadcrumbs & Tags
Agreed, I’ll do some mockups.
Thanks mate, I found it already and it’s on my list 
I scoured the “Pimp your press” category and I’ve made note of 14 different forums.
A simple report button would indeed still be nice.
Hey @janoochen . I’m putting together an examples collection of bbPress 2 forums. Can you just confirm that your forum is running on the bbPress 2 plugin, not the older bbPress 1.x or 0.9 version?
aaaand I now have access to posts, but not pages 
Cheers!
Small problem: I’ve tried accessing the admin (via top bar as well as manually typed) and I keep getting redirected to the front page. Same thing for for post-new.
I’ll get right on that copy then
bump! 2.1 is out, along with a brand spanking new bbpress.org. If there ever was a time to introduce the WordPress community at large to bbPress this would be it 
Loving it!
Some “could be nice”s:
Frontpage: I think the 1-3 latest blog posts ought to be shown prominently somewhere on the front page.
Forum: Have you considered using the excellent WP Markdown plugin for this forum? I find it to be a really clever, future-proof alternative to bbcode.
Wow there, it’s only been 8 hours. For all we know, every developer available could still be sound asleep. We’ve been getting daily RC releases based on users’ bug reports; I hardly think there’s any reason to complain.
I could swear I saw John write somewhere that bbPress 2.0 was successfully working with W3 Total Cache, but don’t take my word for it.
Just another thought thrown in here, although it doesn’t really tie into P2.
What if nested replies were made possible by BuddyPress activity replies? That’s already made possible via the activity view, but it’d be super cool if those replies could be integrated into the post view.
For what it’s worth, removing “topic” should have no effect on SEO.
If you have a “General” forum, i.e. at /forums/general , wouldn’t you rather avoid the confusion if a user starts a thread called “general”? I actually don’t know what would happen in this scenario…
mrtonny8 is a spambot. Please ban.
Thank you kindly for your input Joe. In fact, your conversion process is identical to ours; we’re currently running a BP forum that was previously converted from SMF, using that same plugin (which one of our developers, Normen, actually programmed for that exact purpose. Maybe he could work his magic again, but our own software needs some lovin’ too).
I’ve got some questions that I hope fall under the requirements of your disclaimer:
- Did you ever experience any issues with memory loss / timeouts? If so, how did you bypass them?
- After the successful conversion, did you have a new forum for each individual group? (i.e. Are the group forums all technically a single forum behind the scenes?)
- What exactly is the date & time issue? It’s a rather critical fix in my opinion.
I have not yet tackled the issue of getting rid of all the groups and group forums that the other plugin created.
You mean cleaning out the existing groups & group forums in BuddyPress, created by using the “Site wide forum” option? I would expect that to have a wizard or at least a doc page for it, but I’ve not found any post, doc or code relevant to it yet.
I guess I can compile my questions into an e-mail later, but wouldn’t you rather answer them in public so you don’t have to answer the same questions repeatedly? I greatly appreciate you taking the time to talk to me, but you won’t be able to build a community on your site if you prefer 1-on-1s.
It’s been about a week since we heard from you guys. I tried to get some discussions going on your own site, but it’s completely silent there.
On more idea:
You could merge “Unresolved/Resolved” with “Unassigned/Assigned to: {}”.
I realize it might make the coding easier, but on the front end there would be one less element to care about, which can mean a lot. Thing is, an issue being assigned to someone is pretty much equal to being “accepted” or “in progress”, i.e. the intermediary between ‘Unsolved’ and ‘Solved’.
Erlend Sogge Heggen.
