[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Glad to hear it!

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

WordPress and bbPress don’t have “theme integration” – so that sort of seamless integration isn’t going to be easy, as far as I’m aware.

If you can make a “Thesis compatible” HTML template that’s supported in bbPress, you could then use the WordPress Thesis plugin to generate a CSS file… then drop that into the bbPress style.css file. That should do the trick.

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

bbPress is still a small community… we’re not as big as say, the WordPress community, and we don’t get the sort of corporate commitment and support that they do. So what you’re left with is mostly us volunteers, trying to help each other get the most out of free software that we all use and enjoy.

There are a couple 1.0 compatible themes on the forums… try some of these links maybe?

http://www.google.com/search?q=theme+site:bbpress.org/forums

Here are a few of the ones that support 1.0+:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-vanilla-2-inspired-theme

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-carrington-blog-for-bbpress

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-superbold-revisited-for-bbpress

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

There are definitely some templates posted in these forums… but there’s no template directory, if that’s what you mean.

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

It’s probably one of your plugins… can you post a list of which plugins you’re using?

Also – try installing this, so we can get a sense for how many queries you’re using – and how long they take to generate a pageview!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-benchmark/

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

I’m not following the question… sorry! Could you maybe give an example of how you’d like the forum to work?

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

It looks like your page is crashing before it’s done rendering… this page seems to end abruptly on this line:

<li id=”post-4″ class=”alt”>

http://forums.moochyschwag.com/topic.php?id=3

Can you look in your template files and see what the next line of PHP is? I’m guessing it’s somewhere in your topic.php template…

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei/topic.php

Once you can figure out what’s causing it to crash, maybe we can change your server settings…

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Ah neat!

Adding stuff to the standard registration would probably mean the trick wouldn’t work for too long – Invisible Defender used a similar trick but eventually spammers updated their software to bypass the extra fields:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invisible-defender/

Would love to see this code as a plugin!!

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Strange, some people reported that the plugin was working on version 1.0…

Right after you delete the users in question, do they disappear – and then reappear later? Or when you delete a user, does nothing happen…

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

What version of bbPress are you using?

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Actually, it looks like bb_topic_labels prints both of them on my install… but I’m on 0.9.x:

<div class="posttitle"><?php echo $sticky_label;?><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?><a>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a> <span class="postinfo"> by <?php $topic_author = get_topic_author(); ?> <a>topic_poster ) )) ?>"><?php echo($topic_author) ?></a> <?php echo get_topic_start_time(); ?> ago</div>

There are some known bugs with Support Forum and 1.0… do you see an error like this one?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forum/page/3/#post-1565

If so, there’s a fix posted at that link I believe!

Or if you don’t see an error like that, please let us know exactly what behavior you see when you activate the plugin and then close a topic and change its status using Support Forum. Thanks!

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

It’s possible to have both… I hacked Support Forums to display whether these user-submitted Ideas were Under Review, Reviewed, or Implemented:

http://ideas.weddingbee.com/

And both the Support Forum “status” and the “closed” label appear… is that what you’re going for? If so let me know, and I can post the code I used to display the labels.

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Weird, I was able to download it from that link just now?

Here’s another way to get at the files – just save as each file from the SVN:

http://svn.automattic.com/bb-plugins/terms-of-service/trunk/

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

The tricky thing with Hidden Forums is the lack of a frontend. The plugin doesn’t have a frontend at all… there are only manual settings which let you set individual forums as hidden or not. The frontend is handled through bbPress’ built-in “move topic” pulldown…

That said, someone might be able to hack Hidden Forums to add an extra frontend toggle that lets admins hide individual topics!

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Wow Chris, I’m so impressed by your sleuthing!!

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

@zaerl – I can’t think of a way to achieve that with existing plugins, other than configuring the Hidden Forums plugin?

The other option might be to just delete the topics you want to “hide”… as admin, you’ll still be able to see them.

If neither of those approaches work, then the best bet would probably be to hire a developer to write a custom plugin!

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

@zaerl – Yah but once he has a private forum setup, he could hide any topic by just moving it into the private forum? Then only admins and moderators could see it…

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 8 months ago]

Here are some more detailed instructions for you:

1) First, create a new forum and call it “Hidden” or something similar.

2) Upload and activate the Hidden Forums plugin.

3) Get the forum id number here: http://yoursiteurl.com/forums?forumlist

For the sake of this example, let’s say the forumid of your new forum you want to hide is #3.

4) Now edit the settings manually at the top of the plugin:

http://svn.automattic.com/bb-plugins/hidden-forums/trunk/hidden-forums.php

Use the settings below, at the end of this post.

5) Reupload your plugin with the new settings, and see if it works!

Hope that helps!

$hidden_forums=array(3); // hide these forums, list by comma seperated number

$hidden_forums=array(‘keymaster’,’administrator’); // these roles can always see ALL forums regardless

$hidden_forums[3]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’); // exact formal role name, *not* ability

$hidden_forums=array(1); // these users can always see ALL forums regardless

$hidden_forums=”[H] “; // text, html, css or image to indicate hidden forums/topics, make it =””; if you don’t want any label at all

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

One option would be to install Hidden Forums, and designate one folder as hidden to all but admins:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/

Then if you wanted to hide a particular topic, you could just move it into your private forum…

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

Are you on GoDaddy by any chance?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-error-message-during-install

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

This may do the trick:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/delete-post-by-its-owner#post-18737

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

Yah I don’t think that plugin works in v1.0+:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/page/3/#post-3983

A number of plugins don’t work in 1.0… unless you have a developer who can help update the plugins, your best bet may be to stay on 0.9.

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

Here’s a plugin to disable registration:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

There’s a nice Mass Delete Users plugin that lets you batch delete members:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/

I’ve used it before, and it’s great!

Just make sure to backup your data first, just to be on the safe side.

I think there are also plugins you can install to disable registration. Let me know if you are interested, and I can try to track one down!

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 9 months ago]

bbPress markup sounds suspiciously like hyper text markup.