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bbPress Support Forums Tag: tweaks http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress Support Forums Tag: tweaks en Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:31:03 +0000 hellweaver666 on "here's a trick to redirect user back to topic after login" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login#post-18169 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:07:37 +0000 hellweaver666 18169@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Works a charm - thanks _ck_ _ck_ on "mini-plugin to display member # in profile" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mini-plugin-to-display-member-in-profile#post-18108 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:37:38 +0000 _ck_ 18108@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Here's a mini plugin that will cause the profile page to display the member # (handy if you are using pretty permalinks) <pre><code>function bb_member_id_in_profile($keys) { // inserts member id into profile without hacking global $self; if (empty($self)==true && isset($_GET['tab'])==false && bb_get_location()=="profile-page") { (array) $keys=array_merge(array_slice((array) $keys, 0 , 1), array('ID' => array(0, __('Member #'))), array_slice((array) $keys, 1)); } return (array) $keys; } add_filter( 'get_profile_info_keys','bb_member_id_in_profile',255); // last item inserted = first item displayed</code></pre> _ck_ on "trick to make relative URLs instead of full URI" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-make-relative-urls-instead-of-full-uri#post-17690 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:12:27 +0000 _ck_ 17690@http://bbpress.org/forums/ cordoval, there are several dozen bbPress sites on my top1000 list that use subdomains, hence I know it works. Please stop using this incorrect topic for the subject matter, thanks. cordoval on "trick to make relative URLs instead of full URI" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-make-relative-urls-instead-of-full-uri#post-17687 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:47:32 +0000 cordoval 17687@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Have you installed it on a subdomain yourself? I examined the parsing functions and the uri how it is stored in the database. However, I was reluctant that it would not work, I tried but did not work, but partly was because I was changing domain settings on a website. Also regarding the uri modifications that I really meant to convey was that I needed to change the uri for a forum that I was moving on my site. I ended up ultimately finding out how to do this. It is actually in the database itself and under user_metatopics or something similar, you just export your database and do a search for uri in the file and you will see what I mean. Encouragements, maybe I can try the subdomain install after you confirm me via email preferred. Thanks, _ck_ on "trick to make relative URLs instead of full URI" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-make-relative-urls-instead-of-full-uri#post-17664 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:38:48 +0000 _ck_ 17664@http://bbpress.org/forums/ This topic has nothing to do with subdomains, but you can definitely install bbpress on a subdomain. Just enter the appropriate info during setup. cordoval on "trick to make relative URLs instead of full URI" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-make-relative-urls-instead-of-full-uri#post-17663 Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:18:07 +0000 cordoval 17663@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Can I install bbpress on a subdomain? Is this possible? Please contact me to <a href="mailto:cordoval@gmail.com">cordoval@gmail.com</a> Encouragements, Anonymous on "trick to fix some email problems with 0.8.x plugins on 0.9.x" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x#post-17503 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:52:52 +0000 Anonymous 17503@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Does this plugin available? I hope you may also include Swift Mailer. I can not put my bbpress on due to this problem. I'm just using a free hosting. Thanks HowToGeek on "trick to fix some email problems with 0.8.x plugins on 0.9.x" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x#post-15776 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:08:18 +0000 HowToGeek 15776@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I wrote my own replacement plugin for the mail function that uses the Swift Mailer PHP class to call sendmail directly, which should provide better performance over the built-in php mail functions. It also gives the the chance to assign a display name to the email address so it comes through as "bbPress Support Forum" instead of just "forum@bbpress.org". <pre><code>if ( !function_exists('bb_mail') ) { function bb_mail($to, $subject, $content, $headers=''){ require_once('PATH_TO/Swift/lib/Swift.php'); require_once('PATH_TO/Swift/lib/Swift/Connection/Sendmail.php'); $swift =& new Swift(new Swift_Connection_Sendmail("/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs")); $from = new Swift_Address("noreply@mysite.com","My bbPress Forums"); $message =& new Swift_Message($subject, $content); if ($swift->send($message, $to, $from)) {return true;} else{ echo "Message failed to send to ".$to." from ".$from;} $swift->disconnect(); } }</code></pre> To use this, you'd have to download Swift from their site and put it where it's included in the above code. <a href="http://www.swiftmailer.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.swiftmailer.org/</a> You could also modify it to connect to an external SMTP server (even the Gmail server, for instance) by changing the Swift_Connection part above using this guide: <a href="http://www.swiftmailer.org/wikidocs/v3/connections/smtp" rel="nofollow">http://www.swiftmailer.org/wikidocs/v3/connections/smtp</a> _ck_ on "trick to fix some email problems with 0.8.x plugins on 0.9.x" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x#post-15754 Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:42:28 +0000 _ck_ 15754@http://bbpress.org/forums/ bbPress 0.9 renamed the critical system email address that several plugins rely on ("admin_email" became "from_email") Unfortunately many plugin authors aren't aware of this and the old setting is completely deleted from the database, which makes any older plugin that looks for "admin_email" fail and get a blank address and don't anticipate/test for a blank. So they blindly insert the blank address into emails which causes the emailer to either fail or bounce the message. A few of my plugins were affected, I just found another tonight, and there are several third-party ones still unpatched. You can work around this problem by putting this into your <code>bb-config.php</code> (anywhere on a new line) <code>$bb->admin_email = 'email@your-forum.com';</code> where <code><a href="mailto:email@your-forum.com">email@your-forum.com</a></code> is the same email address you use inside bbPress on <code>bb-admin/options-general.php</code> This won't hurt anything, causes no extra load of any kind and simply allows older plugins to work without additional edits until the authors get a chance to upgrade them. (Just remember you "hard coded" this address if you ever change the main one for any reason. You can delete it after 1.0 is out and all plugins have upgraded. In fact the old email address will become unused after all the plugin upgrade anyway so this can't hurt anything in practice.) _ck_ on "trick to make relative URLs instead of full URI" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-make-relative-urls-instead-of-full-uri#post-15062 Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:50:55 +0000 _ck_ 15062@http://bbpress.org/forums/ It was really bothering me how a page full of links was wasting so many bytes on full absolute URI's with the domain name, etc. when all it needed was a tidy relative URL. The front page alone is 4k bigger just because of all the full URIs on the tag cloud and views, etc. ie. <a href="http://www.bbpress.org/forums/forum/plugins" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbpress.org/forums/forum/plugins</a> vs. /forums/forum/plugins (multiply that by a few hundred) So it dawned on me just now that it's fairly easy using filters to make all the urls relative. Just for safety, we don't kick in the relative URLs until bbPress has gotten past the header section of the template. This makes sure that redirects, stylesheets, and javascript is handled properly. <pre><code>function bb_relative_uri($r) {return "/forums/"; } // change forums to your path function bb_relative_domain($r) {return ""; } function bb_relative() { add_filter( 'bb_get_option_domain','bb_relative_domain',255); add_filter( 'bb_get_option_uri','bb_relative_uri',255); } add_action('bb_head', 'bb_relative',255);</code></pre> . In some cases, relative URLs actually makes Internet Explorer cache better so this may be helpful for subtle speedups too. I haven't discovered anything broken by this yet but be sure to let me know if you run into anything. HowToGeek on "here's a trick to redirect user back to topic after login" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login#post-14286 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:50:53 +0000 HowToGeek 14286@http://bbpress.org/forums/ For my site, I'm using the bbpress login as the site-wide login... so when I put a login link on the wordpress side of the site the user would be redirected to the forum every time after login... kinda annoying. With this new knowledge I should be able to fix it so they are redirected back, even to a non-bbpress page. _ck_ on "here's a trick to redirect user back to topic after login" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login#post-14276 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:33:04 +0000 _ck_ 14276@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I should note that mdawaffe has pointed out to me that apparently bbPress would do this previously if the user has referer's enabled in their browser. But since most "personal firewalls" block referers by default, you can't count on that behavior and this change will make it always work instead. 0.8.4 will supposedly have this new ability by default... HowToGeek on "here's a trick to redirect user back to topic after login" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login#post-14269 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:39:45 +0000 HowToGeek 14269@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Very nice... that was on my todo list to figure out. You rule. As usual. _ck_ on "here's a trick to redirect user back to topic after login" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login#post-14268 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:18:11 +0000 _ck_ 14268@http://bbpress.org/forums/ I had not seen this posted before and I just (finally) figured it out so I thought I'd share. If you'd like to give the user a friendly redirect back to the topic (or forum) they were at just before they logged in (instead of the front page) simply open the <code>login-form.php</code> template in your theme and add this BEFORE the final <code></form></code> <pre><code><input type="hidden" name="re" value="<?php echo "http://".$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'].$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"].'?'.$_SERVER["QUERY_STRING"]; ?>" /> <input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="<?php echo bb_get_option( 'uri' ) ?>" /></code></pre> Should work on anything except maybe IIS. cart3r on "Totomer.com" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/totomercom#post-13849 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:08:55 +0000 cart3r 13849@http://bbpress.org/forums/ The notions about the fold and some other things finally got through me. I just changed things around further; requiring registration to see the content, among other things. I really like how easy it was with BBpress to make these changes possible - literally less than 20mins. To make things show up only when a user is logged in, I used a bunch of these: <?php if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() ) { include 'path/to/include.php'; } else { echo ' '; } ?> onecare on "Totomer.com" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/totomercom#post-13765 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:15:10 +0000 onecare 13765@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Agree with cK. good work, keep it up. cart3r on "Totomer.com" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/totomercom#post-13759 Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:02:31 +0000 cart3r 13759@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Thanks for the comments. I spent a good amount of time while I was designing this deciding how much I want to have above the fold. This article on Boxes and Arrows was what really did it for me, though: <a href="http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of" rel="nofollow">http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of</a> _ck_ on "Totomer.com" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/totomercom#post-13737 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:17:26 +0000 _ck_ 13737@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Very nice clean design. Just a suggestion that you've got a bit much "above the fold" on that front page. People with regular 1024x768 or 1280x800 viewing areas may never see the bottom part. You may want to try to reduce the vertical height of the login/welcome/search box on top? cart3r on "Totomer.com" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/totomercom#post-13732 Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:32:06 +0000 cart3r 13732@http://bbpress.org/forums/ This is a sideproject I've been working on for a while that I put into production very recently. It's a web site for students where they can collaborate on assignments, share work, get work reviewed, ask questions etc. When I was an undergrad I always wanted a site like this; unfortunately, there really wasn't one available. So, once I graduated (about 2 months ago), I decided to start putting one together. The site is run on BBPress. The theme is completely custom, and it required lots of tweaking - both to template files and to some core files to get it to work more or less how I wanted. If you have any questions about how I did something with this theme let me know. Also, if I may plug it, I had an idea for a unique advertising model (I think) that I couldn't let go to waste - inspired by the million dollar homepage by Alex Tew... the entire background of the site is available as adspace for a measly $64.00 per square... the ads would create a mosaic that the content would overlay - becoming a part of the site's design. _ck_ on "show me all your mini-plugin functions" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-me-all-your-mini-plugin-functions#post-13627 Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:24:14 +0000 _ck_ 13627@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Here's one I forgot I wrote awhile back: Grab the number of users who call any particular topic a favorite: <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/favourites?replies=5#post-8764" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/favourites?replies=5#post-8764</a> HowToGeek on "show me all your mini-plugin functions" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-me-all-your-mini-plugin-functions#post-13618 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 21:01:22 +0000 HowToGeek 13618@http://bbpress.org/forums/ Here's a function that changes the last poster to a link to the last post: function geek_addlatest_link() { global $topic; echo ' <a>topic_id) . '">'.get_topic_last_poster($topic->topic_id).'</a>'; } Just needs to be added into a theme like this: <td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td> <td class="num"><?php geek_addlatest_link(); ?></td> HowToGeek on "show me all your mini-plugin functions" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-me-all-your-mini-plugin-functions#post-13617 Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:21:55 +0000 HowToGeek 13617@http://bbpress.org/forums/ This is a great idea. I'm not sure if anybody made an official plugin out of this one: <a href="http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/limit-long-words?replies=13#post-10120" rel="nofollow">http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/limit-long-words?replies=13#post-10120</a> _ck_ on "show me all your mini-plugin functions" http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/show-me-all-your-mini-plugin-functions#post-13564 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:44:57 +0000 _ck_ 13564@http://bbpress.org/forums/ There are a number of little mini-plugins in simple code form that have never been published in the plugin browser, floating around the forum. I've written several myself and already use a single file called "bb-tweaks.php" to keep track of them. Let's publish a collective bb-tweaks.php plugin that has them all, with all the actions hooks or direct calls disabled but documented so others can take advantage of the features. Post your code, or link to other's code found buried on the forum, here?