[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

It wouldn’t be anymore bogged down than a site with 1 million blog posts, which is to say that once you have that kind of traffic and data store, you are probably backed by the proper hardware to handle it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

@bradsucks – So, I’ve put some thought into the situation that you’re in, and RC1 will include some tweaks to how this works which will hopefully help.

The issue, is that we want to make it easy to get forums up and running, without a bunch of configuration, and the easiest way to do that is let WordPress handle things naturally, and display the forum archives when you navigate to:

domain.com/%forum_slug%/

But… everyone wants to customize the way their forums look and work (even me) so that isn’t always optimal, and there is only so much you can do before the real answer involves creating your row custom theme.

Anyways, before the archive templates were created in bbp-twentyten, a page-template was used to let you put your forums anywhere in the page hierarchy of your site that you want, but that wasn’t obvious enough and not everyone wants to use the hardcoded template file either.

So then I introduced shortcodes, which allow you to put your forums and topics in any post or page you choose, but if you do that, there’s no real way for bbPress to *know* where you put your forum root in the breadcrumb without you manually telling it in the forum settings.

As you can see, it’s gotten complicated to try to satisfy the golden 80%, including myself.

Part of the change that is coming in RC1 is a check to see if a WordPress page exists where you have configured your forum index to be. Normally WordPress would override and show the forums archive, but I make it dump out your page instead. This way you’re able to setup a WP page with whatever you want in it, and have it do whatever you tell it to. The potential caveat here is when people try outsmart the software, create a page with the ‘forums’ slug, and wonder why bbPress doesn’t automatically make forums appear there.

Hopefully RC1 and beyond will satisfy the needs of 80% of users. If so, I’m satisfied supporting the other 20% that want something more tricked out.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

No reason other than wanting to nail down the root functionality of the forums themselves first. There are lots of little WP do-dads that we can take advantage of, and pingbacks will likely be on the list for 2.1.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

When it comes time to migrate the bbPress.org forums, we’ll likely have similar issues. Whatever solution we come up with, I’ll be sure to make available.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

A few people have had this similar issue, and so far we haven’t been able to pin-point the exact cause. Any additional details you can offer would be helpful.

* Other plugins you are using

* What are your permalink settings

* What theme are you using

* Did they ever work correctly

* Does that tag actually have topics in it

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

bbPress does not come with things like attachments enabled, since opening up the file system to untrusted users isn’t something to be considered lightly. To do all those fancy things, you’ll want to write plugins for bbPress to enable and handle that type of enhancement.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

Sounds like a bug. Can you create a ticket in our tracker so we can research this further?

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

_get_ functions do not echo, so you’ll want to use

bbp_user_profile_link()

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

RC 1 due out tonight, with lots more little audits and fixes. Thanks to everyone for testing and feedback.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years ago]

You should get this into WordPress Extend. If it works as advertised, it could be quite popular.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

Oversight. It used to work as part of the WordPress Tag Cloud widget, but that behavior may have changed.

Will fix for 2.0.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

This is a known issue, and one we’ll be fixing in the coming weeks.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

You can turn avatars off completely in your WordPress Discussion settings.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

bbPress 2.0 comes with support for user profiles, yes.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

So… A few thoughts on this as of today. My opinion on this is probably easily swayed, but it’s what I think now so I’m gonna roll with it…

So topics and replies, are already hierarchical to each other; replies are children of their topic. Forums by their nature are meant to be focused topics of discussion. It’s possible that topics can grow very large in size, but the intent is to keep the conversation fairly linear. Any forking/branching/nesting of conversations most likely belongs in a separate topic.

But…

Since we’re using custom post types, we still have the whole comments API just laying around WordPress that we’re not using. If, you /really/ wanted to have threaded discussion, you could add comments to the post_type_supports for replies, and build a theme to make it work. This would allow all kinds of neat extra usages for comments that are semi-conventional to blog posts. Use comments as reply feedback, use them as “Like” comments, use them for hidden moderator notes, etc…

Lots of fun ideas come to mind. Comments were also the natural choice FOR replies, just like taxonomies were the natural choice for Forums/Categories, but since they all lack revisions, attachments, taxonomies, etc, I opted to use another post type for them and leave comments for plugin authors and developers to play around with.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

The ‘native’ text is an artifact from setting the eol-style. Not supposed to be there, and I’ll likely put out a Beta 3c to remove them. Super weird.

I’ll look into the pagination of favorites. Last I checked it was working just fine.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

Looks fine to me.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

Wow that’s annoying. Somehow my eol-style:native decided it was a good idea to modify the content of the files.

Fixing and packaging 3c. Really sorry about that.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

@zhonghao – What version of WordPress are you using? Sounds like you’re using 3.0.

is_post_type_archive()

was introduced in 3.1, so it should be available.

That error won’t happen as a result of a BuddyPress conflict. Matter of fact, the two plugins should play nicely together. They have been both activated and running at testbp.org for some time now, with no issues.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

This is noted in a few places here already in the past few hours. Download Beta 3b to fix this.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

@zamoose – Beta 3b normalizes some function names from Beta 2, based on feedback from confused users trying to find the right functions to use. If you previously moved the bbPress bbp-twentyten templates into your custom theme, you’ll need to do that again with Beta 3/3b. No other structural changes are going in before 2.0.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

The forum index bug is fixed already here. I’ll package up a Beta 3b today to address it.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

Cool thanks for reporting. Any idea what role the users are that are having the issues? Are you able to post topics and replies as a site admin?

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

@Patrick – Just audited the usage of bbp_get_reply_url() and bbp_get_reply_position() and made some changes. I’ll be sure to test paginated reply subscription notifications before pushing out RC1.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 14 years, 1 month ago]

Sorry about that everyone. Typo in the template parts. Fixing asap.

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forums' ); ?>

…should be…

<?php bbp_get_template_part( 'bbpress/content', 'archive-forum' ); ?>

…as seen here at the trac revision.