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A couple more:

 

https://codex.bbpress.org/promote-on-internet/

https://codex.bbpress.org/real-incom/

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@annointed:

Is there any documentation anywhere for converting a bbPress 1.x custom Theme to a bbPress 2.0 custom Theme? I have a fairly comprehensive Theme I developed for 1.x, and would like to convert it. I suppose I should just start poring through the bbp-twentyten child Theme template files?

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@annointed:

Is there any documentation anywhere for converting a bbPress 1.x custom Theme to a bbPress 2.0 custom Theme? I have a fairly comprehensive Theme I developed for 1.x, and would like to convert it. I suppose I should just start poring through the bbp-twentyten child Theme template files?

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Thanks for the update, John and Gautam!

As I am anxious to convert my existing stand-alone bbPress installation to the new WP-plugin version, I expect to start testing (and porting over my existing bbPress Theme) once the Plugin hits beta.

I’m curious about template tags, functions, and documentation. Are the existing template tags and functions from the stand-alone version used in the Plugin version, or have you developed all-new tags/functions?

Also, as I remember, part of the biggest problem with the stand-alone version was the lack of documentation. So (in all my free time…) I’ll do what I can to pitch in for documentation with the Plugin version.

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Thanks for the update, John and Gautam!

As I am anxious to convert my existing stand-alone bbPress installation to the new WP-plugin version, I expect to start testing (and porting over my existing bbPress Theme) once the Plugin hits beta.

I’m curious about template tags, functions, and documentation. Are the existing template tags and functions from the stand-alone version used in the Plugin version, or have you developed all-new tags/functions?

Also, as I remember, part of the biggest problem with the stand-alone version was the lack of documentation. So (in all my free time…) I’ll do what I can to pitch in for documentation with the Plugin version.

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Call me crazy, but I’m excited about this change. Initially, I wasn’t – but bbPress integration into WordPress has only benefits for me.

I can’t wait to see it come to fruition – and then get to work modifying my theme(s) to accommodate bbPress-as-WP-plugin! (Hey, what are a few more template tags, functions, and hooks to learn, among friends?)

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@bingster loot:

I will try to address that shortly. I don’t have a Mac with which to test, but I’ve been tidying up the CSS in my WordPress theme from which I ported the bbPress theme. So, once I also propagate those changes to the bbPress theme, hopefully it will work better for you.

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I still shake my head whenever I read that thread.

I see people who are both genuinely concerned about and desirous to help with the future of bbPress, but also trying their best, as nicely as possible, to offer up deserved, constructive criticism.

The project seems to have quite a few people willing to contribute; the biggest concern seems to be that the project lacks a leader who is – and this is the critical point – dedicated solely to the bbPress project.

To use a different metaphor, bbPress has been a rudderless ship for some time. The crew stand by, oars at the ready. Occasionally, the crew hears a report from the Crow’s Nest (“1.1, ahoy! Steer for Email Notifications and Anonymous Posting!”) – but since they cannot see the Captain at the helm, steering the ship, there is little motivation to paddle.

bbPress is Matt’s baby, and I think everyone appreciates Matt’s development of and continued contribution to bbPress. But likewise, everyone appreciates the many directions in which Matt is pulled, that – rightly and properly – prevent him from dedicating himself solely to bbPress.

(To stretch the metaphor beyond recognition: Matt is the Commodore, commanding not only the bbPress ship, but also the WordPress ship, the Automattic ship, the wordpress.org ship, etc…)

What the community here seems to be asking for, then, is for someone to be appointed – or hired, if necessary – to act as the Project Lead (certainly, under Matt’s direction), someone who can be dedicated solely to bbPress, the way Sam Bauers was previously, and the way Andy Peatling and Raphael Mudge are dedicated to BuddyPress and AfterTheDeadline, respectively.

To Matt: please don’t get discouraged because of, and please don’t be offended by anything said by, the bbPress community. I think all parties involved have the best interests of bbPress at heart, and understand and appreciate both your overall time commitments and your continued contribution to bbPress.

At the very least, I take the bbpress.org refresh as a sign of new life, and in that sign, I choose to find hope of great things in the near future for bbPress itself.

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What they all said above me!

Welcome back, _ck_!

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What a pleasant surprise! Two, actually: the bbPress.org refresh, and CK!

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Glad to help!

And for the record, I think the spam moderation UI is an opportunity for serious improvement. Access to spam moderation should be much more straight-forward (a la WordPress’ handling of comment moderation).

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To clarify chrishajer’s comment above:

Click on the POSTS link/button.

Then, along the top of the POSTS page is a filter form, with the following criteria: “Search Term”, “Forum”, “Tag”, “Post Author”, “Post Status”, and “Poster IP Address”.

The fifth filter criterion is the Post Status dropdown.

Select the “Post Status” dropdown, and you will find the following options: “All”, “Normal”, “Deleted”, “Spam”.

Select the Spam option.

Voila! Spam posts are displayed.

(And I’m glad I did this. I found a false-positive.)

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@gerikg: I’m open to the idea. I played around with it a bit initially, but finally concluded that the forum was a totally different means of displaying information, and that the negative impact to the layout outweighed any perceived benefit of “consistency”.

With the blog and other sections, the left sidebar provides navigation within the section, which really isn’t applicable to the forum. Likewise, the right sidebar provides external links, which also aren’t applicable to the forum.

And, when I tried to put Views/Stats/Tags into a left sidebar on the forum, I just didn’t think that it fit very well (especially the tag cloud), and cramped the more important content (the forum and post lists themselves).

I could keep playing around with it, though…

@chandersbs: Thanks! Is it approaching something that others would find useful?

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“General Notices” is just what I titled my super-stickies.

I thought about including the sidebars, but thought better of it. I think they would just clutter the interface, and they are blog-centric and wouldn’t add much/anything to the information displayed on the forum. Do you think I could use sidebars effectively?

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(Changed status to resolved, since the culprit has been identified. Posted a comment on the plugin’s comment thread.)

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It appears that the problem appears when activating the My Views suite, specifically, the Topic Views sub-plugin.

The source isn’t helpful. There is just nothing at all rendered where the forum list should be:

<div class="wrap">

<h2>Forums</h2>

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FORUM LIST GOES HERE

---

<hr class=”settings” />

But, I can live without that particular plugin.

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I suppose I can try disabling all plugins, and see if forums.php then displays the forums properly?

That was it. Now to figure out the culprit plugin.

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@ chrishajer: Here are my active plugins:

Akismet

bb-NoSpamUser

BBcode Buttons Toolbar

BBcode Lite

bbPress signatures

bbPress Smilies

bb Topic Views

Best Answer

Bozo Users

Check For Updates

Enhanced Registration

Human Test for bbPress

Ignore Member

Mass Delete Users

Members Online

Mini Stats

My Views

My Views module – Most/Least Posts

My Views module – Most/Least Views

My Views module – Started/Participated Topics

New User Notification Email

Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More!

Post Count Plus for WordPress

Related Topics

Reputation (Karma) for bbPress

Skip Akismet

Subscribe to Topic

Topic Icons

Unread Posts

The really strange thing is, the Dashboard shows 18 forums (which is the correct number), but bb-admin/forums.php just won’t display them.

I suppose I can try disabling all plugins, and see if forums.php then displays the forums properly?

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@ gerikg: I can, but I’m not sure what it would accomplish. I suppose the nuclear option works if all else fails. Though, if it’s a database issue, will reinstalling bbPress help?

@ chrishajer: I have replicated the problem using IE8 and FF3.5 under WinXP. For thoroughness, I can check FF 3.0.x under Linux, but I don’t think it will make a difference.

Everything else about the admin, from the Dashboard on through all the rest of the pages, displays properly – all the settings, the posts, the users, everything.

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I have bbPress 1.0.2 installed, integrated with WP 2.8.4 using only the built-in bbPress integration functionality.

I would suspect a DB issue, except that the front-end can read/write to the appropriate DB tables.

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@InvTrdr: The back-end (bb-admin) isn’t themed.

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Count me among those users who would very much appreciate having the automatic upgrade functionality built into bbPress – either as a plugin or as core.

(And, I’m loving bbPress 1.0.x!)