2. I doubt this is possible without majorly changing the table structure. You’d basically have to add another column to the topics and the posts table with just the plaintext name of the original author, but also keep the normal author column for maintenance, post ownership etc. Is it really necessary?
I’ve never seen it as a checkbox, it’s always been a text area for me. Look here: http://forums.loinhead.net/profile/fel64/edit ~ Err, you probably can’t edit accounts on my forum. Nevermind. 
But really, I have the same HTML output as you.
You have Update Profile‘ed, haven’t you?
I keep getting flagged as a Bozo.
You shouldn’t be flagged again if Akismet is not running. Strange.
I might do it sometime, but for now I’d say just use the Comment Quicktags – press a button and the code is inserted, if your problem is remembering the codes.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/14?replies=6
Demo here: http://forums.loinhead.net/topic/the-purty-image-associator/page/2?replies=52
My default is actually http://www.example.com/topic/topicnumber.
It is possible to have topic-title in the link instead of the number, but you need to be running the very latest version of bbPress from SVN, which is likely to be buggier than the official releases. The Download page has both.
The biggest benefit is the shared logins (a huge benefit), but there are plugins that allow you to make new topics for every post in WP and such. Hopefully at some point there’ll be a total link between posts with comments and topics with replies, but not yet.
bb cannot use WP plugins.
http://forums.loinhead.net/
Done quite a lot of stuff, running 1.0-alpha at the moment (which includes the possibility for forums to be children of other forums – could be useful, although I’m not using it right now) and a bunch of plugins.
- Page links
- bbPress Integration
- Allow Images
- Comment Quicktags for bbPress
- bbEmoticons
- Show Post Count
- Online List
- WP Posts
- Quote
- WordPress Integration
Cheers Sam, worked beautifully. I put your CSS in my style.css and played around with it until eventually getting rid of all extra styling But it works great. That was a major annoyance. Thanks. 
No images here, but you can see it on my forum. Here’s a thread: http://forums.loinhead.net/topic/the-purty-image-associator/page/2?replies=52
A little CSS styling applied to make them look flat, but I can easily share that. Otherwise they look like grey slightly bulging standard buttons.
Can’t you just throw a quick-and-dirty conditional PHP statement around the post form in forum view?
Just open your theme’s forum.php and stick a if( userisadmin() && forumid = 666 ) { ... } around your post form. I have no idea what the actual functions are, that’s just pseudocode.
Not sure if it’s been achieved, but that total comments/forum/blogposts integration is most integrated people’s wet dream, I think.
It shouldn’t be that hard, I was looking at the avatar plugin and it just added an extra field to the info keys when the user edited the profile. I guessed from that that bb automatically took all the info from that and made that extra data entry in the database.
But in this case there’s nothing the users can specify.
This is why the Quicktags plugin is nice – no need to memorise
To make this work in 1.0 you need to change the first few lines (or it won’t be available to activate as a plugin). I modified mine to this, which still has all the credits in there.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: bbEmoticons
Plugin URI:
Description: A Clickable Smilies hack for bbPress. Thanks to <a href="http://www.orioa.com/">kohaku</a> and <a href="http://plasticdreams.org/">aka</a>. Original WP Grins by <a href="http://www.alexking.org/software/wordpress/">Alex King</a>.
Author: hiromasa
Author URI: http://hiromasa.zone.ne.jp/blog/
Version: 0.72
*/
...
Just replace the <?php at the start of your .php file with this and it should show up to be activated.
Edit: Oh, awesome, a overflow: auto property has been added. Thanks. 
15 subforums is insane overkill in my opinion. What you need is a Family and Friends forum, a Plugins and Themes forum, and a Other forum. I’m sure that people will be able to cope with seeing Themes threads if they only want Plugins. Unless your forum is so active that, say, you get thirty threads a day in each forum, there’s just no point breaking it up more.
The best thing is, if you lump the forums together then you’ll have way more people seeing each thread, hopefully meaning that you get way more people contributing – not just the few specialists.
Almost every forum I’ve ever seen suffers from overcategorisation, and a a few to sometimes even most of the subforums just lie there unused. What’s the point in that? Get those peoples together.
“But how to add <strike> AND italic? (I miss italic to in the basic install)”
Wha’? Italic is totally there!
Just use
<em> </em>
That’s your basic XHTML compliant italic, just like <strong> is the compliant bold. They’re both in by default.
Or did I miss something?!
Are you sure you need it? Unless you have a huuuge unmanagable number of forums you shouldn’t actually need categories, and why would you have that many forums in the first place? I don’t know your situation, of course.
No idea. Try emailing one of the admin on the wordpress site.
Haha, Atsutane, fantastic. Continually improving this plugin is great
You spelt “integrated” intergrated by the way – luckily consistently through your code, so it works okay anyway. ^^ Better English is also “in” category rather than inside. Just if you want to know.
Is there any way of displaying the page numbers (as links) in the thread listing, so that you can jump straight to the latest page? Would be much nicer to navigate. If not, I’ll add it as a ticket to trac? Not sure what the right thing to do is!
An example: I have WP on http://www.loinhead.net/ and bbPress on http://forums.loinhead.net/. It works without problems for me and was very little work to set up.
You should certainly understand the integration process before installing as there are several key things you have to do differently – your config.php configuration will be very different, for example. If you have already installed bbPress then I think you will have to get rid of it and install it again, but integrating this time.
If you need help at any specific part of the process, feel free to ask here.
Also in mathematics integration is the opposite of differentiation.
The easiest way to add tags with spaces is to post the topic then add tags one at a time in the top right-hand-corner of the thread (next to the post title), which are not space delimited (must be added one at a time though!).
No plugins for any of those as far as I know. BBPress is great but perhaps a solution with (currently) more features and plugins like phpBB is for you.
Possibly you need to go up two or three directories, since config.php is called somewhere else? I have no idea really. Just try an absolute or base URL, such as http://www.example.com/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php or /wordpress/wp-blog-header.php, hopefully that will work If it doesn’t you can probably be sure it’s something else.
That’s not a big problem, it can be done with a patch: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/698?replies=40
Hopefully this will be in a major release soon.
You have to enter the right password and username in config.php to your databases.
I don’t know what Yahoo Webhosting entails, but unless it says MySQL tables somewhere you can’t use it. You need hosting that allows you to create MySQL databases, and they should be able to tell you your details to log into that.
