Wow, I’ve been using bbPress for 2 years and never saw any mention of the effects of analytics code.
Before changing htaccess:
0.518 – 15 queries
After:
0.146 – 15 queries
(and lower)
John: Here are two active forums, one running 0.9.0.6 and one running 1.02. That latter is integrated with WP. Each install is on a different shared web host.
Running 0.9.0.6 on Hurricane Electric “Starter Virtual Host”
0.075 – 12 queries
0.518 – 16 queries
0.406 – 16 queries
0.334 – 15 queries
Running 1.02 on Media Temple Grid Service
0.580 – 21 queries
0.447 – 18 queries
0.376 – 16 queries
0.728 – 19 queries
I’ve tried both 0.9.06 and 1.02 and didn’t notice much of a difference. I stuck with 0.9.0.6 simply because there are more plugins available.
@grassrootspa : Remember back in 2004 when Movable Type pushed everyone away with their new pricing plan? The result: BLAM! WordPress REALLY took off, fitting the bill as a viable free easy-to-install, easy-to-use alternative.
I remember it well. I was using Blosxom and decided to finally move over to MT right before they changed their pricing plan. I switched to WP and never looked back.
I hope Matt and all the developers will discuss this in the next IRC meeting.
I would rather bbPress and WordPress be separate. Why go to the trouble of adding all that WordPress bloat to bbPress when I just want a good simple forum?? Sounds to me like the developers want to take a shortcut and avoid the integration issues by merging the two. I don’t think that’s a very good idea…
It’s such a pity it had to come to an end.
Who said that it has come to an end??? See the sticky post on this forum’s front page.
@grassrootspa: If “Ouch” was directed towards my statement of “I just sent her a donation yesterday,” please note that _ck_ is refunding all current donations.
Well this really sucks. I just sent her a donation yesterday and now she pulls the plug. I was hoping my donation would encourage her but I think I just reminded her to shut things down.
I appreciate everything she’s done for bbPress, and hope she’ll come back when things are sorted out with bbPress.
A little off topic, but relevant: Folks, please consider donating to _ck_ for all the great work she’s done…
http://bbshowcase.org/donate/
I find it astonishing that she’s only had SIX donations this year!
Keep her involved!!!!
@_ck_: My code is still working perfectly for me. Post what you are actually using.
I’m using this (with my domain name inserted):
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Target Nofollow External Only
Description: append target="_blank" and rel="nofollow" only on external links
Plugin URI:
Author: _ck_
Version: 0.0.1
*/
add_filter('post_text', 'target_nofollow_external_only',999); // unfortunately we have to do this on every page load and not in pre_post
function target_nofollow_external_only( $text ) {
$domain="citizenkeith.com"; // domain to exclude from target and nofollow
$text = preg_replace('|<a (.*)rel=['"]nofollow['"](.+)?>|iU','<a >', $text); // strip ALL nofollow
$text = preg_replace('|<a (?
[^>]+http
//))(?!([^>]+'.$domain.'))(.+)>|iU', '<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank">', $text); // add back in when needed
return $text;
}
?>
External links don’t actually work… all the CSS works (rollover changes, etc) but the browser (Firefox and IE for Windows) doesn’t actually recognize a link. I can’t click on it and open it anywhere (same window, new tab, etc).
Nevermind… I figured that part out. 
@HSeatSleeper: Can you talk a little bit more about the special care you gave to the admin account? When testing, I got locked out of my blog as well, and couldn’t figure out why (my wp_1_capabilities were set correctly, as was user_level).
Can you easily list the steps you took to secure the admin account? Thanks! 
Can I do this and keep all the existing topics and posts from my current bbPress install?
I have been experiencing this problem as well, and I believe my database is on a different machine (using Media Temple).
How would I fix the problem?
Thanks for the explanation, ck. It’s a shame that a forum can be screwed up by certain plugins. Today was the first time I had heard that you were not recommending the Move It plugin anymore (I happened to see your post in the My Views topic). I wish there was a better way for users to know about insecure/broken plugins. At this point, we pretty much have to check all the topics on a regular basis.
Is there an easy way for a coding novice to see if a plugin keeps track of topic_id?
Thanks guys.
The reason I’m doing this: I updated to v1.x and it was too soon. A lot of ck’s plugins aren’t working and was causing a lot of trouble. I started a new forum with 0.9.0.6 and all I imported from the old forum was the users data. Now I would like to have all the new topic numbers start where the old forum left off. My goal is to eventually import the topics from the old forum into the new database next year, when ck is supporting 1.x and most other plugins will play nice with 1.x.
Sound reasonable?
ck’s last version doesn’t work for me… I’m running 0.9.0.6. All links posted in the forum aren’t actually anchored to anything… though CSS styling works fine.
I was noticing this, but chalked it up to running v1.x with outdated plugins. I’ve gone back to v0.9.0.6 and haven’t seen it happen… yet.
Quick update:
Since my forum using 1.0 is just a private forum for friends, I went ahead and installed a completely new forum using 0.9.0.6 and everything is working fine.
I kept the old 1.0 forum in another directory on my server. I turned off all the plugins and everything is working fine… no database errors, fatal errors, plugin resets, etc. When _ck_ said that my database was corrupted I was worried, because I had just noticed that some of my subforums were not accessible. However now with all plugins off, they are fine.
I’m going to sit on it and once 1.x is up to snuff with updated plugins available, I might upgrade and perhaps try to import all the old posts and threads into the newer forum. I’m in no hurry to do that though, so for now I’ll just sit on it and see what happens.
Thanks to John and _ck_ for all your help.
Just set it in the various places in your theme.
In a previous thread, I was advised to change the size in template-functions.php:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/change-gravatar-size
Needless to say, not the solution I wanted but it worked.
This sounds really good. Would love to see the code when you’re finished.
Looks great, Sam! I like the avatar size… would be nice to add Gravatar size options in the admin panel (hint).
Are you upgrading from a previous version? You might need to clear your cache and reload… I had the same problem when upgrading.
Yeah, it’s too late to go back now, huh?
Like I said, this isn’t a mission critical forum… it’s a place for my friends to chat and hang out. My other site, which is a public forum that gets decent traffic, is still on 0.9.
Just hoping my posts are helping development, and not just wasted bandwidth…
