http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress support forums Tag: profiles en Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:27:39 +0000 http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-21162 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:59:32 +0000 chrissydunno 21162@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>where in the code do you add your redirect hook exactly? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/privacy-forum-is-it-really-private#post-18772 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:39:14 +0000 _ck_ 18772@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Cookies have nothing to do with reading the forum (unless there's a hidden/private forum). Cookies are about identifying yourself as a registered member and giving you the ability to post. But a secure login method and cookie means that no-one else can pretend to be you.</p> <p>The mini-plugin is to prevent Google from showing a "cache" link on your pages when people find results from your website. They'll have to visit your site directly, and if it's a hidden/private forum, they won't be able to just read it through Google's cache (which can't see it anyway, unless someone changes "Hidden Forums" behaviour). </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/privacy-forum-is-it-really-private#post-18764 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:00:49 +0000 chrishajer 18764@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I don't see how the cookie has anything to do with google indexing your pages. Forums hidden with the "Hidden Forums" plugin won't be indexed either. If you want to prevent anyone (including search engines) from seeing certain forums, protect them with the Hidden Forums plugin. If you want to prevent search engines from <strong>caching</strong> public forums, then use the mini-plugin that _ck_ posted.</p> <p>To use it as a plugin, just create a plugin file. The only difference between what _ck_ posted and a full blown plugin is the header.</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php /* Plugin Name: No Archive Description: Prevent some search engines from caching your forum */ function noarchive() { echo &quot;\n&quot;.&#39;&lt;meta NAME=&quot;robots&quot; CONTENT=&quot;noarchive&quot;&gt;&#39;.&quot;\n&quot;; } add_action(&#39;bb_head&#39;, &#39;noarchive&#39;); ?&gt;</code></pre> <p>&nbsp;<br /> Now, save that as a file, something like "noarchive.php" and save it in your my-plugins folder. Active the plugin in the admin and then load a forum page and check the headers to see if it worked.</p> <p>_ck_ likes to create one plugin called bb-tweaks.php that contains all these little function tweaks. Then you just need one header and all the little functions can be dropped into the one file. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/privacy-forum-is-it-really-private#post-18759 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:21:04 +0000 kannued 18759@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>CK, if the password/cookie in 1.0 is the most secure, than that means I wouldn't need the miniplug for the private area to restrict from Google and other search engines like Alexa?</p> <p>I have installed Human Test. Now, to the task of deleting all those bozos.</p> <p>The miniplug, do I put that into my template header.php? Or does it go into the directory/folder that I want as strictly private? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/privacy-forum-is-it-really-private#post-18753 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:39:07 +0000 _ck_ 18753@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Oh and as far as the rest of bbPress security, the bbPress password/cookie method has never been more secure than the method used in 1.0 (and WP 2.6) It's based on a security researcher's design (first implimented incorrectly in WP 2.5 and bbPress 0.9) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/privacy-forum-is-it-really-private#post-18752 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:26:30 +0000 _ck_ 18752@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>If you don't want Google to make a cached copy of any your forum pages, use this mini-plugin (Google will still scan and return results for your site, it just won't show the "cache" link)</p> <pre><code>function noarchive() {echo &quot;\n&quot;.&#39;&lt;meta NAME=&quot;robots&quot; CONTENT=&quot;noarchive&quot;&gt;&#39;.&quot;\n&quot;; } add_action(&#39;bb_head&#39;, &#39;noarchive&#39;);</code></pre> <p>Note that some search engines won't obey "noarchive" and give away a cached copy anyway. This includes Alexa and others. Also note that installing this plugin doesn't make existing "cache" links disappear instantly, Google has to re-scan your site (eventually) and <em>then</em> "cache" will disappear. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/privacy-forum-is-it-really-private#post-18750 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:19:11 +0000 _ck_ 18750@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>There's no hacking involved in that process.<br /> It's just a simple workaround.</p> <p>The foolish forum operators are allowing anyone with the user-agent of "GoogleBot" into their private forums. And/or they are allowing Google to cache their private forums. The reason why they do this is they want Google to send them traffic and the only way they can do that is to let google see the content of the hidden forums.</p> <p>bbPress doesn't do this by default and no known plugin does it either, certainly not my "hidden forums" plugin.</p> <p>My Mini-Track plugin can tell you the difference between real Google and people pretending to be Google. It's very easy, you just do a rDNS on the ip and see if it goes to a google owned ip block. rDNS is very slow (1-5 seconds) so people don't normally do it by default.</p> <p>You wouldn't have to delete the spammer profiles if you didn't let them on in the first place. Install my "Human Test" plugin and 99.9% of them will never register. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/privacy-forum-is-it-really-private#post-18747 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:50:58 +0000 kannued 18747@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I came across these articles that says usernames and passwords do not necessarily mean privacy thanks to Google's cache system. If you have the knowledge, these private areas are easy to hack. I'm wondering how bbpress's privacy plugin stacks up against this hacking. </p> <p><a href="http://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=25040" rel="nofollow">http://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=25040</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/accessing_restricted_sites/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/accessing_restricted_sites/</a></p> <p>On a slightly related issue:<br /> I have noticed that ALL profiles in any forum are public. If you keep sequencing then, you can see each person's profile, which means even the spammers that are blocked can still be viewed with their websites, emails, and interests. This unintended promotion bothers me. If I start deleting the spammers profiles, I will just have a lot of work to do. The perfect world is that profiles that are approved should be the only ones available by sequencing.<br /> ie.<br /> <a href="http://www.example.com/forums/profile/1042" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/forums/profile/1042</a> </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profiles-and-rankings#post-17772 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:44:37 +0000 hostpanic 17772@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>metafilter.com would properly be a similar site. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profiles-and-rankings#post-17691 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:17:20 +0000 _ck_ 17691@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>You can skip the blog software altogether and use some custom coding to simply place selected topics by selected authors on the front page. Or you could use bbSync. The users rating each other would use the Reputation plugin. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/profiles-and-rankings#post-17679 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 14:01:34 +0000 cfreview 17679@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>After a lot of research, and looking at tumblr, then wordpress, then joomla, and now wordpress and bbpress, I think I almost may have made a decision. I want to create a site that is a blog on the front end, with the blog topics becoming forum discussions. Technically I don't need bbpress to do this, but it seems to me that bbpress will facilitate better discussion. First, are there other sites that are already doing this, I would love to see how they operate?</p> <p>Second, and maybe most important to me are the user profiles and the ability to let other users ranks each other posts to comments. I'm looking for some opinions on which extensions do this the best. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-view-oredit-userprofiles-get-wp-404-error-page#post-16705 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:43:11 +0000 DailyTestimony 16705@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I just installed bb press at dailytestimony.net/forums with the latest stable version of WPMU in the root directory. When I goto a page such as dailytestimony.net/forums/profile/user I get the main blogs 404 error page. Do I need something in a .htaccess file or something?</p> <p>EDIT: I get it with trying to view forums too, I am using name based permalinks.</p> <p>EDIT2: Ok it seems the answer is simple I just needed to RTD (Read The Documentation), Options +MultiViews<br /> &lt;rant&gt;IDK why they just couldn't distribute a .htaccess file with that line with bbpress. Save people the trouble because they mention it in the documentation here but at the verry least it should like to the documentation where you set permalink options. &lt;/rant&gt; </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-have-they-done-these-ace-member-profiles#post-16349 Tue, 20 May 2008 18:57:59 +0000 rhyswynne 16349@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hiya :)</p> <p>I'm basically thinking out loud, and felt this was the best forum to post in.</p> <p>I was browsing through _ck_'s top 100 bbpress forum (well, the first one at least <a href="http://www.greedyorneedy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.greedyorneedy.com/</a>), and had a look at the site's forum and member profiles such as this:-</p> <p><a href="http://www.greedyorneedy.com/users/view/id/7412" rel="nofollow">http://www.greedyorneedy.com/users/view/id/7412</a></p> <p>They look brilliant - facebook esque, and would love to implement something similar to my site (well one of my ideas anyway)</p> <p>What I <em>suspect</em> is that it is a Wordpress/Wordpress MU plugin, but still if anybody has any ideas to how they achived this, I would love to hear them :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-16123 Sat, 10 May 2008 17:36:46 +0000 Detective 16123@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>If you have a WP profile (like the author archive or some other profile) you can redirect the bbPress profile using this hook:</p> <pre><code>//add_action(&#39;bb_init&#39;, &#39;profile_redirect&#39;); function profile_redirect() { if (is_bb_profile() &#38;&#38; $_GET[&#39;tab&#39;] != &#39;edit&#39; &#38;&#38; $_GET[&#39;tab&#39;] != &#39;favorites&#39;) { $user = bb_get_user($_GET[&#39;id&#39;]); if ($user) wp_redirect(&quot;http://www.example.com/member/&quot; . $user-&gt;user_nicename); } }</code></pre> <p>I did this using <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/el-aleph/">this plugin</a> for WordPress profiles, so even users who don't have published posts have a profile. It works but you miss the profile edit messages (like "your profile has been updated"). </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-16113 Sat, 10 May 2008 06:56:57 +0000 mrhoratio 16113@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Perhaps this idea of a single profile page for both Wordpress and bbPress will be part of the recently accounted backPress.</p> <p>It would great to have a profile link such as:</p> <p><code><a href="http://www.example.com/member/username" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/member/username</a></code></p> <p>that works for both Wordpress and bbPress. Instead of separate ones at:</p> <p><code><a href="http://www.example.com/forums/profile/username" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/forums/profile/username</a></code> or<br /> `http://www.example.com/author/username </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-13963 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:02:07 +0000 hans3 13963@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>That may have come across wrong.... The posts don't matter because I am using your plugin, and that feature is already working for me. :) However I feel two profile pages is a bit confusing for users. Do you think a link in the wp profile page would suffice since its rather difficult to have only one profile page? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-13962 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:24:30 +0000 hans3 13962@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>The posts don't really matter to me. I just one one place for my users to have a profile. When they sign up for an account it takes them to the WP profile. They still need to go into the BB profile to change that info. Maybe I'll just hack the wp profile page and add a link to the bbpress profile page. Think there is a better way? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-13961 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:13:01 +0000 _ck_ 13961@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Without direct edits to the the profile template it's very hard to extend it, if not impossible. I've managed to add post count to the profile without template hacks via my post-count-plus plugin but putting in an avatar or gravatar is impossible without a hack.<br /> example: <a href="http://bbshowcase.org/forums/profile/_ck_" rel="nofollow">http://bbshowcase.org/forums/profile/_ck_</a></p> <p>But it's easy to add tabs to the profile section via plugins.<br /> You can make supplemental pages.<br /> Just make a new tab to list all WordPress posts/comments. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-13960 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:41:00 +0000 hans3 13960@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Did we get anywhere on this topic. I am in the same boat. Looking to have one profile page... Preferably bbpress's profile. Am I just not noticing the plugin? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-9695 Wed, 01 Aug 2007 03:24:33 +0000 MaryJane 9695@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>This is a very good idea! I would like this. I dont really like wp's dashboard profile page. This would make wp and bbpress more intergrated! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7921 Thu, 07 Jun 2007 16:12:13 +0000 ganzua 7921@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I'm trying to find a solution for this same issue and I know that it can be done because it has be done before here; :)</p> <p><a href="http://www.babyquestions101.com/signup/" rel="nofollow">http://www.babyquestions101.com/signup/</a></p> <p>unfortunately I don't know exactly how. I guess all wordpress login links has been removed and replaced for bbpress login. The problem is that you lose access to wp control panel :( and that you are depending completely on the bbpress installation. </p> <p>I wish we could integrate; </p> <p>login<br /> profile<br /> avatars<br /> ranks<br /> message counts<br /> signatures<br /> forms toolbars<br /> emoticons<br /> ...</p> <p>I presume there isn't any project to build a bridge like this, is there any? :) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7667 Sat, 26 May 2007 23:57:52 +0000 bbx 7667@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Hi guys</p> <p>Great idea you have here. If you have any info about the development of such plugin, please warn us.</p> <p>bbx </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7577 Tue, 22 May 2007 05:26:19 +0000 vilimaunula 7577@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for the input, guys! </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7556 Sun, 20 May 2007 23:20:25 +0000 Trent 7556@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Since with integation you are having bbPress use the WP users, it would be easiest to write a plugin for either WP or bbPress to use the other's profile page. It has the same userID, so I think that pulling a WP user page would be the easiest, but it might not be hard to do the opposite and have WP use bbPress's page. Whichever 'profile URL' is the most pluggable I would guess.</p> <p>Trent </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7513 Sat, 19 May 2007 18:50:32 +0000 fel64 7513@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I think that using a completely whole new user page will cause a lot of difficulties. It's better to go with bb (or wp) just for the API, which makes it a lot easier. In the end it might even be easiest to simply port your wp plugins to the bb profiles; wp plugins may expect certain things that just wouldn't be available to bb or your new user page and either require loads of coding to make them work or just a little bit of rewriting. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7512 Sat, 19 May 2007 18:34:36 +0000 vilimaunula 7512@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I would personally prefer to have a completely new profile page, not just a revamped bbPress one. The ultimate solution would of course be to allow the admin to choose whether to use the Wordpress, bbPress or completely new page for user profiles. But that would again make the whole thing even more complicated.</p> <p>It's a good point about redirection -- the plugin should indeed make sure that all links to profile pages would go to the one set by the admin as the one to be used. (Whether Wordpress, bbPress, or a totally separate page.) </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7509 Sat, 19 May 2007 17:03:25 +0000 HowToGeek 7509@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I've been struggling with exactly the same problem myself.</p> <p>I tend to think that the bbPress profile is the correct place to store and edit this information. Here's what I see as the requirements:</p> <p>1) Plugin for Wordpress to redirect the "Profile Edit" link to the bbPress profile edit screen, as well as link the profile view to the bbPress profile view.</p> <p>2) Plugin for bbPress to allow for editing of WordPress profile fields as well as a customizable list of new/extra fields. I believe that there is a plugin that does at least part of this already.</p> <p>3) The bbPress plugin would need to either know about WordPress settings like notifications, or would need to run the wordpress plugin filters that apply to profile edit. I'm not sure that the latter would be easy. </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-profile-page-to-rule-them-all#post-7508 Sat, 19 May 2007 08:03:58 +0000 vilimaunula 7508@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>If you have integrated your bbPress with Wordpress, you must have at least once thought about the problem of your users having two separate interfaces for modifying their profile settings.</p> <p>Furthermore, if your bbPress and Wordpress both use a good deal of plugins, you end up with a situation where some settings (say, email notifications for new Wordpress posts) have to be set on a Wordpress profile page, whereas other settings (for example email notifications for new forum topics or replies) must be set through the bbPress interface. This will confuse your average user so much that they will simply not use any of your website's fancy features at all.</p> <p>It would therefore be good to have just one user profile page that would merge everything from the two together. Preferably, this should also be a page that could be displayed within the website template, so that it would really look like being part of the website, and not behind a completely different-looking interface as is the case with Wordpress user pages. (Those also scare people.)</p> <p>Would this be doable?</p> <p>I am personally not much of a coder, so I don't know all the details of what is going on when the Wordpress and bbPress profile pages get served, and how various plugins get to modify that process by adding new fields and buttons on those pages.</p> <p>I assume, however, that the most difficult thing for a "one profile page to rule them all" sort of an approach that I am thinking about here would be to keep track of additions to those profile pages. It should somehow be able to notice that some new bbPress or Wordpress plugin has modified one of those user profile pages, and incorporate those changes to the merged profile page that is actually displayed to the end user.</p> <p>I would love to hear some input from those of you who know more than I do about the behind-the-scenes activity when it comes to user profiles in bbPress and Wordpress. What do you think, how difficult would a plugin like this be to code? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/close-but-404-on-topics-and-profiles#post-7458 Wed, 16 May 2007 00:28:58 +0000 hartlrobert 7458@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>I had the same partial 404-links.<br /> For me the right htaccess solved the issue.<br /> It was really the missing <code>Options +MultiViews</code> in the .htaccess (root or bbpress-folder - both works). So maybe You've a further look? </p> http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/close-but-404-on-topics-and-profiles#post-1243 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:11:32 +0000 berberber 1243@http://bbpress.org/forums/ <p>Solution :<br /> in includes/template-functions.php<br /> replace<br /> switch ( bb_find_filename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']) ) :</p> <p>by<br /> switch ( bb_find_filename($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) ) : </p>