You could always delete the plugin using FTP… that should deactivate the plugin, even if you can’t access the admin.
I used the Bozo plugin for a while, and even after I disabled and deleted it… one of my users was marked as a Bozo and her comments didn’t show up no matter what she did!
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/removing-all-bozo-data-from-my-database
I ended up having to run some queries suggested in that link above, I think. I can’t remember. But it was a huge pain, and now I avoid the Bozo plugin completely!
There are some auto-taggers for WordPress:
* https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-auto-tagger/ – This one suggests posts on a per post basis
* https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-calais-archive-tagger/ – This auto-tags your entire post archive
Both plugins could probably be ported to bbPress fairly easily…
Sorry _ck_, I shoulda mentioned that I stole that link from your last comment about i18n usernames!
You’re in luck – _ck_ just programmed a plugin to do this yesterday!
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-language-switcher/
Two things:
* Have you upgraded to the latest version of Human Test? It has new protections over earlier versions.
* There’s an alpha version of a plugin that identifies spammers who have never posted, and lets you delete them.
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/
Good luck!
It’s definitely possible to integrate bbPress with outside authentication systems!
There are some great posts about it here… it mentions that there are four places to tie into bbPress’s auth:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/integration-with-non-wp-software
What bulletin board system are you using? Maybe you could write a bbPress plugin to call your outside avatars inside of bbPress…
At the bottom of each thread should be a link that says, “Delete Topic” (if you’re an admin or moderator). That’s how I delete entire threads… I’ve never been able to delete through an admin interface. But I’m only on version .9, so maybe that’s changed in later versions!
According to Sam, bbPress supports unicode display names, not unicode usernames:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/check-out-this-very-nice-r-t-l-arabic-bbpress
Not sure about future versions, but it sounds like version 1 isn’t gonna support unicode usernames…
I think this is possible – someone posted a similar plugin here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/nicer-slug-url-rewrite-plugin-done
Good luck!
I stuck the code into bbPress in login-form.php, but it didn’t work.
There’s a form on the WordPress side of things, in my WordPress header… I thought maybe that needed to be changed as well? It posts into the bbpress auth…
Ah it looks like that code is for bbPress… it has a reference to bb_get_option in it:
<input type=”hidden” name=”re” value=”<?php echo “http://”.$_SERVER.$_SERVER[“REQUEST_URI”].’?’.$_SERVER[“QUERY_STRING”]; ?>” />
<input type=”hidden” name=”_wp_http_referer” value=”<?php echo bb_get_option( ‘uri’ ) ?>” />
If I stick it into a WordPress template for my header.php file, it crashes… any ideas how to make it work in WordPress?
Ah that looks really promising – I’ll try it out! Thanks so much. 
Hey biodrama – you may want to check that you have the latest version of Human Test!. Some spammers found a workaround to an older version, but an updated version has proved more resilient… once I dl’d the latest version, the spammers disappeared!
This plugin does an excellent job of showing both the number of topics and the number of posts:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mini-stats/
The info is given daily; you can download it into a csv though, and add it up using Excel.
I actually have a WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE) working in bbPress… but haven’t released it since I don’t know if we can re-distribute TinyMCE’s software. But it’s really easy to do…
I agree, I’d stick with v 0.9 for now. Too many plugins don’t work on 1.0, and even if they did… some of them will probably break with the various alpha point releases.
Yup! _ck_ did a great job with this plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/
I’ve been using it for a while, and it’s really great…
What Chris suggests is definitely possible! I have four bbPress installs sharing a single user database… along with a WordPress install and a MediaWiki one. I’ll probably be up to 6 or 7 bbPress installs on the same user database by the end of the summer!
It’s not so bad to maintain, but it’s definitely worth is so far – especially since the functionality of each install is very different! For example, one bbPress install supports a Classifieds feature… while another one is a standard message board. If the functionality across the bbPress installs was more similar, I’d just combine them into a single installation…
Good luck!
A possible compromise might be to have the PM functionality officially available (but as a plugin, not as part of the core). It would be written (or at least vetted) by bbPress staff… and even downloaded as part of the standard distribution. But each user could choose to enable or disable it, and it wouldn’t be in the core.
I think we’re getting close to that actually. BuddyPress has a PM plugin on its roadmap… maybe that can be adapted for bbPress.
