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The average user of IE is not going to know to throw it into compatibility mode.

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There are settings that stay in the database.

For example the “WordPress database secret” is stored in your database settings and would be changed when you restored the db. That will completely affect cookies.

So double check that it’s still same in WP and bbPress after you restore.

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Mods don’t have the ability to delete users here, only admin.

Sometimes people reply several times if they are getting flagged as spam because they never see their message and don’t know what is going on. They also may be set to bozo mode accidentally and not know it.

Sometimes there is also server lag because of how Automattic does mysql replication. You may post to one server and then the page refresh comes back from another server that has not gotten the posts yet in it’s mysql table.

ashwaag was a strange user indeed, probably a bot in testing, the posts were copies of other people’s posts. One of them was even a post of mine that they just copied. Weird.

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If you are on a host with a menu based system like Cpanel or Plesk they usually have an option to password protect a directory. You can use that to protect your bbpress forum install (and wordpress) and that way it will be impossible to access for anyone except you.

There is a bbpress plugin that forces login to be required to see the forum so you could install that and even if anyone found it, they would only see a login.

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If you login on the wordpress side does bbPress see the user logged in?

If not, the cookie hash has probably changed and might need to be forced on both sides.

This is simple integration right, not full/deep integration?

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You can run it on a local windows machine by using xampp

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#646

But if you have no technical experience at all, it might require some patience and learning.

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Region is determined by a combination of tld, declared character set, and server ip location. Even with all that, sometimes it’s impossible to figure out automatically what the target audience is, hence the “???” I’m still improving the routine.

Let’s just say I have a new found respect for Google – I think they must look at whois info for the domain owner registration. I don’t quite have the resources to mimic that yet.

906 isn’t too shabby considering how many sites there are now.

I like how you replaced “sticky” with a nifty little icon.

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For those that like technical statistics:

* PHP Popularity

5.2.x : 62%

5.1.x : 5%

4.4.x : 15%

4.3.x : 2%

* Server Popularity

Apache/2.x : 56%

Apache : 24% (unknown version)

Apache/1.3 : 11%

Microsoft-IIs : 3%

Litespeed : 1%

Lighttpd : 0.5%

Nginx : 0.5%

* bbPress Popularity

1.0a6 : 5%

1.0 ? : 5% (1.0 using pre-a6)

0.9.x : 52%

0.8.x : 35% (this is likely wrong, it includes 0.8 installs that upgraded to 0.9)

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There are now three bbPress forums with over a million posts, the leader being Simon and Schuster’s site which appeared so suddenly that I suspect they must have imported their content from another forum that already existed for some time.

Here are some other ranges by number of posts:

1,000,000 + 	 	3

100,000 - 499,999	 11

50,000 - 99,999	 	 22

10,000 - 49,999	 	70+

5,000 - 9,999	 	70+

1,000 - 4,999		 300+

100 - 999		1000+

bbPress is being used in nearly 90 countries/regions.

Here are the top 50 in order of highest use.

(note that as we get lower in the list, the higher the chance of inaccuracy,

some countries/languages are hard to detect)

1. United States
2. Germany
3. Russian Federation
4. Spain
5. United Kingdom
6. Italy
7. France
8. Turkey
9. Canada
10. Netherlands
11. Sweden
12. Denmark
13. China
14. Japan
15. Brazil
16. Europe
17. Romania
18. Poland
19. Australia
20. Norway
21. India
22. Argentina
23. Ukraine
24. Czech Republic
25. Belgium
26. Switzerland
27. Finland
28. Austria
29. Indonesia
30. Hungary
31. Bulgaria
32. Montenegro
33. Iran
34. Saudi Arabia
35. Ireland
36. Chile
37. Latvia
38. Niue
39. Portugal
40. South Africa
41. Israel
42. New Zealand
43. Greece
44. Malaysia
45. Slovakia
46. Lithuania
47. Mexico
48. Thailand
49. Serbia
50. Singapore

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IE8 breaks some rendering on some themes.

If it works in IE7 however, this mini-pluging will make it work again.

Microsoft is starting a semi-forced IE8 upgrade tomorrow via Automatic Updates.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/04/10/prepare-for-automatic-update-distribution-of-ie8.aspx

Most novices will be too scared NOT to install it so the number of IE8 users will grow exponentially this week.

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Here’s a mini-plugin that will allow higher roles to skip akismet, if you turn the throttle bypass on for any member, they will also bypass akismet with this:

<?php



/*

Plugin Name: Skip Akismet

Description: Allow moderators, admin and specified roles to bypass Akismet filter

Author: _ck_

*/



// add any other custom roles to this list

$skip_akismet=array('moderator','administrator','keymaster');



add_action('bb_init','skip_akismet');



function skip_akismet() {

global $bb_current_user,$bbdb;

if (empty($bb_current_user->ID)) {return;}

$capabilities=$bbdb->prefix."capabilities";

$role=reset(array_keys($bb_current_user->data->$capabilities));

if (in_array($role,$skip_akismet) || bb_current_user_can('throttle') || bb_current_user_can('moderate')) {

remove_action( 'pre_post', 'bb_ksd_check_post', 1 );

remove_filter( 'bb_new_post', 'bb_ksd_new_post' );

remove_filter( 'pre_post_status', 'bb_ksd_pre_post_status' );

}

}



?>

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ah it needs the topic id, sorry, try this

<?php  remove_action('topicmeta','bb_polls_pre_poll',200); bb_polls_pre_poll($topic_id); ?>

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Very nice clean layout, I like it alot.

The poll puts itself by default wherever the topicmeta is, however you can change that. Just a guess, untested, try putting this near the top of your topic.php template:

<?php  remove_action('topicmeta','bb_polls_pre_poll',200); bb_polls_pre_poll(); ?>

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Unfortunately all Graham/Bayesian algorithms are doomed to fail, spammers have learned how to defeat even the best of them.

The best way to detect is counting the number of links in a post (in html or plain text) and holding any messages with more than 3. Of course they will adopt after many sites start doing that.

I am working on an advanced module for Human Test that will also check these databases, though some require membership:

fSpamlist

StopForumSpam

Sorbs

Spamhaus

SpamCop

ProjectHoneyPot

Bot Scout

DroneBL

It’s too “expensive” (in time and connections) however to check all of them on an active site for each post, so I’ll probably limit it to just registration, and maybe the first few posts a member makes.

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I have now fixed the Approve Registration plugin for bbPress 1.0a

as well as another bug it had with resetting passwords upon approval.

(it might also now work again with bbPress 0.9.0.4, untested)

http://bbshowcase.org/plugins/approve-user-registration_ck_mod.zip

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There isn’t any site “larger than recommended” for bbPress

There is a bbPress site with nearly 2 million posts and another with 8 million users, so there aren’t any limits.

I’ll look at the approve plugin and see how hard it is to make work with 1.6

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If it’s happening here, I bet it’s happening on wordpress.org too so hopefully they will get to the bottom of it. I suspect spammers must have clogged up their algorithms with lots of garbage on purpose, causing lots of false positives.

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A fixed list of avatars would be easy to do, you just upload them yourself into a folder you decide and then have php do a glob of the files in that directory and present them to the member as a form with a radio select. Whatever they chose gets written by name to the user metadata.

Then you just need simple code in the display post template to show their chosen avatar.

It would be much safer and faster than other avatar methods.

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Glad to see you got it going, even the menu links are there now, nice job.

Fairly impressive for someone who didn’t know any html or php, etc.

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I’ve hardcoded it in the javascript.

edit it and change

function edOver(element) {element.style.color="#000080"; element.style.backgroundColor="#ddd";}

function edOut(element)   {element.style.color="#000000"; element.style.backgroundColor="buttonface";}

to whatever color you’d like

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Sorry about that but that’s yet another example why I keep telling people not to use the alpha on live sites.

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Try my related topics plugin until someone writes an auto-tagger.

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Merlin that code looks vaguely familiar

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More news today here:

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/04/talkpress-and-bbpress/

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If you are user # 1, use this:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/