#2 http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-no-admin/ removes ability for users to post bbPress content in admin area.

#3 When doing it that way, there is a forum and topic selection dropdown on the right hand side above where you publish the post. The idea being that a user can select the forum and topic right there.

I really think that is more just a quick way for an admin to post a reply, though I can't see why I would ever use it myself.

#4 probably a bug.

There are also plenty of code snippets online in order to completely remove the admin bar or remove menu's from the bar if you want. Pretty much just decide what you want to do and check google for the code snippets or plugins.

[1] I've created a page, called it 'Register', and put the shortcode [bbp-register] in it. When people visit the page, they can fill out their username and email address and click 'register', but after submitting the form there is no confirmation back to the user that anything actually happened. They simply see the form again. Is this the expected behavior?

[2] When a user is logged in, by default their account allows the 'Toolbar' when viewing the site. This is handy so they can edit their profile, logout, etc.... but there are also links to create a new topic or a new reply. This takes them to the wp-admin section of the site which feels strange. Is there a way to force people to only create new topics and replies from the "front-end" of the site?

[3] Along similar lines, people can create a 'New Reply' from this toolbar without even viewing a thread. What exactly are they creating a reply to?

[4] Right now all of the forums are marked as 'Closed'. When viewing the site from the homepage everything looks good and users cannot create topics, replies, etc. However if they use the toolbar to go into the wp-admin section they can create new topics there. Is this a bug? Since all forums are 'Closed' the topic doesn't get assigned a forum and doesn't appear on the main site, but it is still there with "(No Forum)" assigned.

A well written post too!

Thanks! Just a bit too many links for Akistmet though ;)

And of course it could not be seen in action on my forum, because it is visible only to logged in users... silly me :)

The bbpress.org forums could also use a simple toolbar. Not so sophisticated but at least like the one on wordpress.org

A well written post too!

I've been using _ck_'s bbCode toolbar plugin but it lacked buttons for adding colors and changing font-size, so I decided to swap it for markItUp. It turned up quite nicely and the code is dead simple. Here it goes:

First, download markiItUp, along with the necessery bbCode set
http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/downloads/download.php?id=releases/latest
http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/downloads/download.php?id=markupsets/bbcode
http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/downloads/download.php?id=addons/bbcode/colors
* the color set is seperate by default, so you'd have to merge it to the bbCode set later

Upload the downloaded files to a directory on your server (my choice was my-plugins/scripts) and include them in your template. You can do that using bb_head in functions.php of the theme (bbPress 1.x) or as a mini plugin (bbPress 0.9.x)

/*
Plugin Name: markItUp! for post form
*/
function mark_it_up_init() {
	echo '
	<!-- markItUp! scripts -->
	<script type="text/javascript" src="' . bb_get_option('uri') . 'my-plugins/scripts/markitup/jquery.markitup.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" src="' . bb_get_option('uri') . 'my-plugins/scripts/markitup/sets/bbcode/set.js"></script>
	<script type="text/javascript" >
		jQuery(document).ready(function() {
			jQuery("#post_content").markItUp(mySettings);
		});
	</script>
	<!-- markItUp! stylesheets -->
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . bb_get_option('uri') . 'my-plugins/scripts/markitup/skins/simple/style.css" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="' . bb_get_option('uri') . 'my-plugins/scripts/markitup/sets/bbcode/style.css" />';
	}

add_action('bb_head','mark_it_up_init');

* Or you could just add that code to your header.php (without the PHP function wrap-up).

And last but most important - include jQuery before markItUp! in your template. That is best done using <?php bb_enqueue_script('jquery'); ?>

You can see it in action on the forum that I manage:
http://comicsbistro.net/forum/?new=1

Hope that this will be useful to someone :) Cheers!

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-signatures/

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-buttons/

I just wanted to look at those two plugins and didn't really feel like searching for them.

Are there any other signature plugins aside from the one _ck_ created?

Am curious how others might handle signatures...

I'm hoping there might be another way to truly load bbpress signatures last, so I won't mark this "resolved" yet.

I just wish there was Async loading in PHP so it could perform loops without having to wait for anything.

EDIT: I know this can be done in jQuery, however. Though I wouldn't know if it could be integrated with the bbPress system in any way.

Some of my users have images in their signatures... they are "top 10" charts from last.fm. The charts are loaded directly from the last.fm website. Unfortunately, the signatures load before the rest of the page is finished. So you have to wait for last.fm to load before the bbCode toolbar.

Is there a way for bbPress to load bbpress signatures last, or at least after the toolbar?

There's no way anyone would have censored that. There's a lot of great commentary in that post.

but i still doubt that many people will be up for documenting a version of BBpress that is likely to be replaced realtively soon

@kevinjohngallagher

I know I'm not interested in doing it. I imagine anyone who developed a plugin for 0.9 or earlier felt the same way about the move to 1.0.

And I do think somewhere 3 links is built in to the black box that is Akismet. Maybe that's variable, but I've seen posts with two links get through but three get caught.

And finally, I think the feature poll was a little premature if it was ever needed. A better question in my mind would be "what does bbPress need" - not features, but what is most needed.

Just wanted to clarify as an unbiased third party (I have zero affiliation with WordPress/Automattic and am not a mod on this board) that your post being flagged as spam was almost certainly just Akismet acting up again.

Posts with links are often flagged by Akismet - it's happened many times on this forum:
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/akismet-4-link-limit-in-posts-or-whitelist
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-is-the-option-to-allow-more-links-in-a-post

On a separate note... I don't think it's helpful to refer to the future direction of bbPress as a "WordCrapPressy Bloaty Piece Of Unuseable And Totally Overloaded Shit". I'm super worried about bloat and feature overload too - it's just that inflammatory language tends to shift the conversation into yelling at each other, rather than focusing on addressing the issues raised.

It sucks. bbPress is dead with this kind of "culture". And bbPress is dead for me. I expect this lesser neat words to be deleted too, but I know that they are read by the people who are doing so.

There is only a Tinymce-Editor available but its not compatible with the current bbpress-edition and its not what I am looking for. bbpress should use exactly the same editor as it's used in wordpress. This would be a further integration step. It is not really nice to use 2 different editors for the forum and for the blog. Therefore please vote for WYSIWYG-EDITOR. The WYSIWYG-EDITOR should contain buttons for links and pictures

Please also vote for FACEBOOK-CONNECT. (The OPEN-ID Plugin does not work with the current bbpress-version and it doesn't offer facebook-connect as the author is waiting till facebook will join the open-id-project. This may be in 2 years which is a very long time.

Lets focus on getting BBpress to meet the bare minimum of what it says on the tin

I agree 100%

It lists the 7 Features that BBpress hopes to achieve.

* Fast and light
* Simple interface
* Customizable templates
* Highly extensible
* Spam protection
* RSS Feeds
* Easy integration with your blog

Who here thinks BBpress in its current state nails half of these?

1. Fast and Light? Slower and heavier with teh whole backpress XML-RPC debacle.
2. Simple interface? I've issues with it, but its alot better than it was.
3. Customizable templates? Half of the outputs are hardcoded into the core, and most of the CSS specific code is at the child and not the parent, meaning large hacks are required constantly.
4. Highly extensible? Really... 1.0.2's been out for over 6 months now, and i've not seen a huge amount of plugins - worse what plugins there were seem to be broken.
5. Spam protection? Akismet is killing us. Forum are different to blog posts by their nature (one way, verus two way, versus collaborative discussions), while my own experience, i spend more time cleaning forums up (usually undeleting) than i ever do on my blogs with Akismet.
6. RSS Feeds? nice one.
7. Easy integration with your blog? seriously...

Lets focus on getting BBpress to meet the bare minimum of what it says on the tin, then maybe worry abotu smileys/FBconnect/Emai...sorry...Private Messaging once the product delivers that it set out to do.

Night all

I really can't understand why most people voted for "integration with wordpress"

Well, probably because... Its one of the 7 core features advertised on the feature page: http://bbpress.org/about/features/

Also, its been the number one request for the last two years, and its the number one posted topic for the last two years, and the number one used tag for the last two years and... actually to continute would be flogging a dead horse.

P.S. How bad has Akismet been recently? Not to spark a different conversation but maybe it needs a different way of deciding if Forum posts are spam in regards to teh way it decides if Blog Comments are spam.