Also, how to I file a code patchset to fix this bug for others?
@hatter
Changing $empty_format = ””;
to
$empty_format = ”/”;
make’s it work.
MANY, MANY thanks. Anyway of me being able to make this work now without having to modify the core bbPress code? My concern is that I want to be able to upgrade bbPress in the future without having to remember I made this modification to the core function.
@hatter
I’ve updated my site, link in above post, to now have 4 pages. You’ll see that the “Page 1” link is always messed up when you’re viewing it not from the frontpage.
@hatter
If I go into the Admin panel and turn off Permalinks, it does in fact work (though the “Previous” link, links to http://www.example.com/? – note the trailing “?” … but it does technically work).
Any idea how I can get this to work using the “named based” permalink? Having this only work with the kludgy no-permalink structure is not ideal.
@hatter
I went into the Admin panel and re-selected to use the “example.com/forums/first-forum” type of permalinks.
This then regenerated the appropriate code for my .htaccess file; HOWEVER, I’m still experiencing the exact same issues.
Also, when I added the “$bb->mod_rewrite = false;” code to my bb-config.php file, my entire site broke. So I remove the “$bb->mod_rewrite = false;” code.
@hatter
The code you have above is exactly what I have.
You can view the code live at: http://bit.ly/8yfVim
Notice this is Page 2, when the “Previous” link does not work correct. The “Previous” link links to the same page (page 2) and not the frontpage.
@johnhiler
Thanks for the help.
I definitely like the potential of this plugin.
The whole idea is that it helps lower the barrier of user interaction on the forums.
Thanks again.
P.S. – I posted a comment on the developer of the plug-in personal forum site: http://www.ilfilosofo.com/forum/topic/bbpress-login-free-posting-doesnt-work-if-you-are-logged-in
@johnhiler
I just installed the Login Free Posting plug-in on my v1.0.2 bbpress forum and it works without problems if you’re not logged in but it doesn’t work if you are logged in.
If you are not already logged in, it works as expected displaying a “name”, “email”, “website” and “comment” fields for a user to post a comment without having to log in.
However, if you are logged in – it still displays all 4 fields (when it seems like the only field it should really display is the “comment”) and you CANNOT post.
You receive the following error after you click “submit” comment button (when logged in):
Error is “Your attempt to submit this post has failed.”
@johnhiler
What do you mean when you say
“as long as it’s active” ?
Are you implying that Akismet might go offline soon?
@johnhiler
This looks really great. Example seen here:
http://www.ilfilosofo.com/forum/topic/since-move-to-server-emails-not-arriving
I’m curious to know how he prevents spam though.
@johnhiler
Thanks for the link.
Looks like this doesn’t work with bbPress v1.0.2 per a comment on the plug-in page by a user named “hpguru”.
Any updates on this plugin.
I would love to see a plugin where after a non-logged in user attempts to submit a post, it then prompts them to login or create an account.
Functionally, it would work exactly how StreetEasy’s forum system works.
Linked below is an example:
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/15563-weird-floor-plans
Note how it displays the TEXTAREA prompting the user to contribute to the discussion and only once you click “submit” it checks to see if you’re logged in. If not, it prompts you to login or create the account.
Thanks Sam
Wow, really hope development doesn’t stop on bbPress.
I also hope the 1.0 release wasn’t rushed solely because Automattic knew Sam was about to leave.
@Simon99
What kind of success did you have with what you described?
@All
There does appear to be an option that everyone is overlooking … and that’s Output Caching.
We’ve talked about memcache, optcode caching and mysql query caching … but truly the most effective is simply perform Output Caching for non-logged in users.
In case someone is not aware, Output Caching is saving to disk the generated HTML. That way, instead of memcache where you have to make a call to the memcache server, or in mysql you’re still making the database call or in optcode caching, it’s simply pre-compliling the PHP … Output Caching is by far the fastest because it essentially just serving up pre-generated HTML straight from disk.
@klimatyzacja-katowice
You’re not alone on this.
Lot’s of discussion about this at: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/covert-wp-super-cache-plug-in-for-bbpress
Currently, no caching plug-in exists 
@joshmac
Would you mind describing how you we able to do the deep integration to get WP SuperCache to work with bbPress.
@usera
Instead of memcache, output caching might be a better option for non-logged in user. Something like WordPress’ SuperCache plugin.
More information can be found about this discussion here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/covert-wp-super-cache-plug-in-for-bbpress#post-37072
Essentially, a lot of people would love the SuperCache plugin to be converted for use with bbPress … but no one has yet committed to performing the work needed to convert the plugin
@Ipstenu
So, what are bbPress strengths?
What are Vanilla’s strengths?
What are bbPress’ weaknesses?
What are Vanilla’s weaknesses?
Knowing what each products strengths and weakness will help determine if it fits needs.
@_ck_
I’m not saying that I like/dislike Vanilla more than bbPress.
Just watching that video on ReadWriteWeb, Mark makes some pretty big claims about Vanilla and it’s use.
My original post is simply trying to understand *what* makes one of these forums systems better than another (pro/cons).
I’m particular integrued as to Vanilla claims that they are the “WordPress.com of forums systems” and how they integrate soooooo easily with WordPress.
Mark, Vanilla founder, talks as though bbPress doesn’t even exist.
@_ck_
According to this video interview by RedWriteWeb, Mozilla.com, OReilly.com and others use Vanilla
http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/06/vanilla-forums.php
What’s interesting is the founder, Mark, goes on to call Vanilla the “WordPress of forums”
To motivate user interaction (sign up), the best approach is to do something like this:
http://www.streeteasy.com/nyc/talk
Where for non-logged in users, you display the comment field to post a reply. But once you click submit, it asks you to login/register.
I talked about this in a previous post –>
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/allow-anyone-to-post-to-bbpress-including-non-logged-in-visitors
I’m all about back porting security BUT … 0.9 was a NON-STABLE release, and people seem to forget that.
In my opinion, people took the risk knowing they they were going to use a non-1.0 stable release in production … regardless of how long 0.9 was out.
So Sam, please minimize the amount of support for 0.9 with the idea being for you to spend more time focusing on 1.0+.
Again, this would be totally different if 0.9 was a stable release, but IT WAS NOT.
Just my 2 cents
@Michael3185
>> “Apart from the user roles and DB changes for larger forums, is there anything 1.0 does that might prove useful, but which I don’t know about..? “
I don’t know Sam’s position on this but I’d assume that if a bug is found in 1.0 that it will not be backported to non stable (i.e. 0.9) branch.
Again, I don’t know Sam’s position on this but for all those people under the mentality of “if it already works, don’t upgrade” … simply upgrade now knowing that you’re on the current release that is being supported might be reason enough to upgrade.
Plus, if/when that time does come that you need to upgrade … upgrading from 0.9 to the current release at that time might be more difficult in the future than it is now to upgrade from 0.9 to 1.0
@Sam
Would be great if you could get a blog post crosslinked over at http://WordPress.org/development
I only say that because of the huge WP following.
