You can download the archive here:
https://bbpress.org/dl-archive/bbpress-0.9.0.5.zip
It’s currently very difficult to find and download old releases. We’re hoping the powers that be create a release archive for old versions linked from the bbPress download page…
There’s an openid plugin, but it’s not officially supported in bbPress 1.0:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/openid/
I sometimes see plugins patched by people other than the original developer… usually they just upload the patch to a private server or to pastebin, and then submit a link to the path on the plugin comments page. The original author then often releases a patched version using the code fixes. 
If the plugin is completely abandoned, there have been cases where a new developer has taken things over. Those situations are pretty rare though…
You should definitely submit your patches in the comments of the plugin pages, if you’re willing!
Yah with that big list of plugins, you really might want to consider staying on 0.9 for now…
You could put the HTML for your ads directly in your themes? That’s what I do at least…
Is it possible to synchronize a 1.0 bbPress install with a 0.9 one? I’m guessing no…
Yah, you can see some of the emotional responses in past threads:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-or-remove-bozo-function-before-it-kills-bbpress
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/key-master-posts-not-showing-up
It happened to one of my top contributors, and she almost quit before I finally figured out what was going on! Thankfully it’s just a plugin, so you can turn it off. (It’s a little scary, but more and more stuff like this is ending up in core – so bugs like this will be a lot harder to resolve, imo!)
The Bozo feature has a lot of problems and bugs, as far as I can tell…
I completely deactivated it, after having a few users affected in just the way you described!
You can see topics you started on the bottom of your profile page?
https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/thion
Maybe that would be a place to start, in terms of figuring out how to make a custom query?
QuickD – Sorry to be unclear – I meant, please post each problem as a separate thread.
QuickD is on version 0.9, so it should be compatible.
QuickD – You might have more luck posting about each problem separately? Then we could try to troubleshoot each one as a community…
@ashfame – Have you studied WordPress plugins at all? The approach is pretty similar, and there’s a nice codex over there too:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin
@grassrootspa – I’m not sure why they did it that way… I guess so that you could restore the post if you wanted. WordPress doesn’t have a comments trash – if you delete a comment, the comment is gone. I think blog posts work the same way too.
So I guess the two systems work somewhat differently? That’s not the only difference either – WordPress also has a “moderated comments” layer in addition to the Akismet Spam layer, but bbPress only has the Akismet Spam layer. Dunno why bbPress doesn’t have a moderated layer either… maybe because bbPress doesn’t (yet) easily enable anonymous comments, so spam isn’t as huge a problem as it is in WordPress.
I think the script is one of those rare ones that works only with 1.0.
There’s no official support for permanent deletion of posts, but it’s a fairly often requested feature:
http://www.google.com/search?q=permanently+delete+post+site%3Abbpress.org
The only clean solution for now is to do it through phpMyAdmin?
There’s no official support for this… but someone wrote a script a while ago to unofficially pull this off for 1.0:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permanently-deleting-topocs-and-posts
I haven’t tested it though and it hasn’t been packaged as a plugin. If you try it out, definitely backup your database first – and test carefully!
As I understand it, bbPress 1.0 supports “display names”… where you can have the name displayed be different from your actual username. Is that what you mean?
There’s an old plugin that lets you add display names to earlier versions of bbPress… but it requires a little hacking to get it to work:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/display-name/
Maybe you could clean it up and use it for 0.9?
Is it urgent to upgrade to bbPress 1.0? I’m still on 0.9 – with all my plugins, I’m not really gonna consider an upgrade until early next year.
If your bbPress is working and you’re happy with how things are going, then there’s no need to upgrade!
Are you using bbPress 1.0? The official release only works through 0.9… but _ck_ patched it for 1.0:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting/page/2/#post-2275
Are you on a shared host or dedicated server?
Yah it’s a bug with 1.0… chrishajer reported it to trac recently:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1139
You can manually change the permissions for now… and hopefully it will be fixed in future releases!
Well _ck_’s excellent Hidden Forums plugin will get you started. Let me know if you need help with the Custom Role plugin. Or if you’re using bbPress 1.0, there’s a Role Manager plugin that should do the trick!
