I decided to give the bbPress plugin another chance. I installed it and tried creating a new topic… the browser was thinking for a looong time. I eventually stopped the process, deactivated the plugin, and created a new topic — that one was created very quickly.
It could be an issue with the permissions of my sitemap.xml, although I am pretty sure I 777’d it properly.
As for size of the forum, it’s significant but not huge. Thanks to ck’s awesome Mini Stats plugin, I can give you the exact stats: ~11k Topics and ~75k posts.
Just thought I’d share an update. 
Yah the site was still up and running that whole time. I not-so-intelligently generated the sitemap at 11 pm, when it still has a decent amount of traffic.
Personally, I would use the WordPress SiteMap generator but not the bbPress one. Or at least, use the bbPress one only until you notice that it’s starting to slow down the posting process…
@_ck_: Yah I couldn’t agree more that this would ideally be done with a cron.
@chrishajer: The Google XML Sitemap isn’t done in realtime (unless you set it to do that), but it sure can take a long time! I have 14,804 pages in our WordPress blog and according to the admin logs, the last SiteMap “building process took about 7893.94 seconds to complete and used 44.5 MB of memory.” That’s 13+ minutes!
It may be a little thing, but I don’t understand why the themes and plugin folders have different names (and are stored in different places) from the similar folders in WordPress.
Yah there’s a bbPress Google sitemap plugin:
* http://boakes.org/talk/topic/sitemap-plugin-for-bbpress (the original, I believe)
* https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-sitemap-generator/ (I think this is an updated version)
I tried the earlier version, and it turned out that it regenerated a sitemap on every topic created/edited/deleted. This created a lot of overhead on my server, and slowed the process of posting a topic down to a crawl.
It may work better now on that front? It’d be awesome if there was a way to have topic creation add an item to a queue somewhere, and then have the backend process the queue periodically (at a later point) to update the sitemap. That way, the process of creating a topic itself doesn’t get slowed down.
I’ve done some research, and it appears the API route is a no-go: bbPress won’t support API’s until version 1 (and I’m on 0.9).
Anyone have any other possible angles on this one?
_ck_ just wrote a great plugin that does what you’re asking for, I believe:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/related-topics/
Has anyone had a chance to this with bbPress v 0.9?
The bbPress I’m using is on 0.83… upgrading to 0.9.0.2 on a test server, and then testing the integration with WordPress and Mediawiki.
Once everything is looking good, we’ll migrate the live site to use bbPress 0.9.0.2. Then I’ll install this plugin – excited!
Yah Mediawiki is tricky stuff. The worst part is that the cookies don’t truly integrate! I used a plugin to get both software reading off of the same bbPress users table… so that works. But you have to re-sign in manually as you click from the blog/boards to the wiki… alas.
Will keep you posted on the plugin!!
Ran into a little trouble installing it… I’ll upgrade my bbpress version this weekend!
It’s a little tricky since we’ve integrated our bbPress with a WordPress and a MediaWiki installation… plus dozens of bbPRess plugins. But we’ll get it working soon, and I’ll send that donation off!
_ck_ – I have always been a fan of your fantastic plugins. Just let me know the best way to pay you (Paypal?), and I’ll send $500 asap.
Thanks so much,
John
Any takers on developing this project as a freelance project? From what I’ve read, it has to be done as a core hack – that’s fine with me.
I’m open to higher bids to develop this project – $500 sound reasonable? I don’t know what the going rate is, and am willing to negotiate.
Just let me know.
Thanks!
John
