Yes and no.
You need to know css, you should know HTML. PHP will help if you want to do some detailed customizing, but at the very least you should know what NOT to delete. So … no, you don’t need to for the basics, but once you start munging up the layout of the site, it sure helps!
chris, add that code to your functions.php in your theme folder. No plugins needed.
Not yet they haven’t. Be nice, but I still keep a backup of my site on a separate DB so I can play with things like ThemeHybrid 
Okay, the fix (one file) did not work. What did work was re-uploading everything from the latest trunk build.
Leaving the stuff below to show I recognize I’m a tard
Sam, it’s really NOT fixed.
On a BRAND NEW post I get this
<a href="http://thisis.my/link"">This is my link</a>
TWO quotes at the end. TWO. Not one. And I can’t edit ’em or they break worse. They ONLY work if I leave out quotes.
The answer can only be found in what you want to do with your site.
If you want an all in one, integrated what not, you need a CMS. If you want a blog, I’d say you want WordPress (or similar). Functionality is the name of it all. Sometimes you find a tool you love so much you’re willing to forgo integration for features. Other times you decide you have to have it all be on. I’ve run Drupal, WordPress, bbPress, Gallery, PostNuke, PHPNuke, phpBB, SMF, InvisionBoard, MediaWiki, and more. They all fit the needs I had for the site I was designing at the time.
Figure out what you want to do, and what will be more important. If you have to have native integration, use a CMS. If you don’t, then your choices are infinite.
The answer can only be found in what you want to do with your site.
If you want an all in one, integrated what not, you need a CMS. If you want a blog, I’d say you want WordPress (or similar). Functionality is the name of it all. Sometimes you find a tool you love so much you’re willing to forgo integration for features. Other times you decide you have to have it all be on. I’ve run Drupal, WordPress, bbPress, Gallery, PostNuke, PHPNuke, phpBB, SMF, InvisionBoard, MediaWiki, and more. They all fit the needs I had for the site I was designing at the time.
Figure out what you want to do, and what will be more important. If you have to have native integration, use a CMS. If you don’t, then your choices are infinite.
You mean the wikipedia page?
Says: Deleted because expired WP:PROD; Reason given: Fails WP:RS as sources are self published. Fails notability guidlines.
Which is a fancy way of saying ‘Ain’t no one here heard of it, it ain’t big enough to care about yet.’ Also ‘Only people who word on BB posted about it.’
Woah … You’re right. I went to re-save my website and it’s gone.
Sam says it’s fixed in this http://backpress.automattic.com/changeset/194
And no, it’s not fixed. It’s still broken to hell.
Installation requires you create a database. Or you use your existing WP database. And yeah, it requires SOME management, but if you’re going to be supporting a community, you’re going to have to learn.
So. What management are you finding that you need to do that you don’t understand?
tomdebruin, user integration does work. I can register on either one, but I don’t pull in the wp-blogheader at all, I just recreated my theme and hard coded the page links.
I turned off all plugins and flipped to default theme to verify. Okay, three of us means it’s TRAC TIME!
#1033
Log off, flush your cookies, log back in.
Well … maybe you bb-config.php file writeable. or you could manually copy the info from wp-config to bb-config.
Create functions.php in your theme folder.
Then … well, you use remove and add 
Example:
// This sets closed lable to read as 'read only' instead of 'closed'
remove_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'bb_closed_label');
function my_closed_label( $label ) {
global $topic;
if ( '0' === $topic->topic_open )
return sprintf(__('[Read Only] %s'), $label);
return $label;
}
add_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'my_closed_label');
Turn off inline images and allow links only.
There’s no way I know of on any forum to stop morons from hotlinking.
Do you mean per post or just all tags on the site? The latter would have issues as tags are reused.
Hotlinking is NEVER acceptable behavior unless it’s from a site that promotes it (like imageshack.us) as something they provide.
Unless you want to figure out a way to have your forum dissallow links TO the image site, the best thing to do is make a post now to tell people not to hotlink. And when they do it, edit the post to remove the image and tell them ‘Hotlinking is BAD AND WRONG.’
http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html
That only works for FireFox, fernandot
Basically the urls are (assuming your bbpress is in a folder called ‘forums’ and you’re using pretty permalinks)
http://domain.net/forums/rss/ – All posts
http://domain.net/forums/rss/topics – All topics
Yes, you should use absolute pathing. Try this:
Redirect 301 /bbpress/register.php http://www.scopedin.com/wordpress/wp-login.php?action=register
You want bbpress/register.php and NOT your theme because the main register.php is actually what gets called.
No, it would go in the public_html folder.
And it would be something like…
Redirect 301 /forum/register.php http://mysite.com/blog/wp-register.php
You should be able to change register.php to the absolute path (http://foo.com/blog/whatever) to the WP register page though … Why not do a .htaccess redirect?
bbPress is NOT a plugin, it’s a separate application that can be integrated with WordPress.
Follow these directions to install bbPress.
If you want to integrate bbPress and WordPress, note that if you are using WP 2.6+, you must use the ALPHA build of bbPress. During your install process, you will be asked about server settings. Tell bbPress to point to the same DB you used for WordPress (don’t worry, it won’t overwrite anything, but do make a backup anyway to be safe).
The Basic Integration Screencast should help you some.
Can’t you do a check before the function to see if it’s a WP or BB page? Then just don’t call it on the BB pages.
