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_ck_, I looked into some things about regionality and I don’t think you’ll be able to get it much better than it is, unless you do as you mentioned, with the whois. Even then, it’s not going to be accurate 100%, since sometimes a server is in the US, but it runs a Brazillian site, etc. (And I’m still pissed at Google, a year later, from when I was in Japan and I went to google.com and it kicked me to google.jp, based on my IP, and ignoring everything else like the fact that my browser info showed I used English. At the time, I couldn’t get it to show the link to ‘Google in English’ and I was stuck in Japanese for a while.) Regions and localization are things that seem like a really good idea, but there’s no way to make it perfect, since you can never tell when someone’s abroad
I like how you replaced “sticky” with a nifty little icon.
Thanks! That was my first ‘hack’ for bbPress and I slapped this in my functions.php
// This sets sticky label as an image
remove_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'bb_sticky_label', 20);
function my_sticky_label( $label ) {
global $topic;
if (is_front()) {
if ( '2' === $topic->topic_sticky ) {
return sprintf(__('<img src="/images/sticky.png" alt="[sticky]" /> %s'), $label);
}
} else {
if ( '1' === $topic->topic_sticky || '2' === $topic->topic_sticky ) {
return sprintf(__('<img src="/images/sticky.png" alt="[sticky]" /> %s'), $label);
}
}
return $label;
}
add_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'my_sticky_label', 20);do follow is the opposite of no-follow, last I heard. Which is amusing since by default, it’s all do-follow
That link is interesting! Wonder if it actually happened (dated Oct 2007…)
It’s in here bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php (line 680):
function forum_description( $args = null ) {
if ( is_numeric($args) )
$args = array( 'id' => $args );
elseif ( $args && is_string($args) && false === strpos($args, '=') )
$args = array( 'before' => $args );
$defaults = array( 'id' => 0, 'before' => ' – ', 'after' => '' );
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
if ( $desc = apply_filters( 'forum_description', get_forum_description( $args['id'] ), $args['id'], $args ) )
echo $args['before'] . $desc . $args['after'];
}So you could probably whip up some function to override it.
You both have one dash, most likely, but different fonts
Ipstenu made some great points, to show you the thoughts of someone with a different perspective. While you might not see his point of view, he was kind enough to lay out his view point for you.
As much as Ipstenu and _ck_ are making generalisations, so are you. You have no proof that “the majority” want what you want. You keep using the phrase “the majority” to back up your points, and while i mostly agree with your premise, i’m not overly confident that randomly adding in your guess on how many people might possibly maybe agree with you is helpful.
She … but that’s okay.
And of course I’m making generalizations. You kind of have to when the samples to draw from (bbPress users) are small, and the ideas are in-progress/developing as we speak
Silver-bullet means a magic cure all that does everything you (and by you I mean the individual) wants.
Mine is different from yours and everyone elses. So yeah, I’d rather see bbPress built with the flexibility to fit everyone. And that does mean something for the folks who want full-integration. But what we have today isn’t it. And based on what’s been posted before, I suspect it won’t be unless someone makes a plugin that does it.
As for being wrong about integration… I was incorrect, in part, but I was correct in what I meant. Didn’t say what I meant, which is soooo my bad. Can I blame being sick? Anyway, if you read https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/ it mentions functions (ie DEEP integration) as being both optional and not suggested. Which is what I meant. People ask about it, and the direction is right there. Now I will totally admit that ‘function’ doesn’t mean ‘theme integration’ and that is confusing to the newbies. So yes, the info in there makes sense, but it’s vague if you’re not really sunk into this already
Ah. Yes, but no. Read https://bbpress.org/about/
bbPress is a simple forum software. Full stop. The fact that it integrates better with WP than other forums is … a bonus. In fact, none of the about pages mention wordpress except in that WP was the reason for tBB to be made.
The reason people come to BBPress is becuase of the intergration possibilities
Yes, most likely this is true. Heaven’s knows it was for me!
limiting the deep integration is the most Counter-Intuitive thing against its own selling point
Except it’s not a selling point. If it was, I’d agree with you, but it’s clearly not. Even in the documentation on how to to shallow and deep integration, it suggests not doing it because of load and overhead and other things.
I have no need for deep integration and I never will. I use four totally separate tools for my website: MediaWiki, bbPress, WordPress and Gallery2. ONLY WP and BB are integrated and even then, it’s just users so people can comment and post. I could, if I wanted, integrate WP+BB+MW, but even then I’d just want logins.
Why? Because while I want the site to look the same on each one, each tool I use is slightly different and needs customization. I feel that I can give my users a BETTER level of cross-tool integration if I take the time to customize each of my tools to that it is consistent with my site design AND consistent with the intended use of the tool itself. And I’m not the only person who thinks that way.
Some people want a silver bullet, a tool that does it all. Some people want the right tool for the right job and will customize as needed. Neither is right or wrong, it’s just preference.
By keeping bbPress NOT deep-integrated with WordPress, bbPress leaves itself open to be integrated with any other application, or not. It allows itself to be customized based on the needs of the client. And that is, in my opinion, a fantastic selling point
_ck_ – I’ve seen it on pretty much every site since I upgraded to FF 3
But yeah, good point. You could do this
<?php echo getlastmod('style.css'); ?>(filemtime is cached which would kind of defeat the purpose)A quick view-source shows this li’l gem:
ver=1.0-alpha-6as well as<form class="login" method="post" action="https://healthexpert.talkpress.com/bb-login.php">Looks familiar, no?
Except it’s not what ‘everyone’ wants
People who want an integrated forum/blog may want that, but then it’s a whole new measure of pain when one half upgrades. And they’re getting there (with things like BuddyPress), but bbPress is a forum. That’s it. It happens to integrate with WP, but that’s not all it is.
Looks okay… Did you dump all the cookies for your site from your browser? Which I realize is a standard debugging thing for this stuff but still should be said and not thought
