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Yeah, we debunked all that nonsense months ago here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/lets-talk-about-facebook-connect
If you want to reignite that conversation in it’s own thread then lets do so mate
I love how passionate you feel about it, and you obviously have some real world experience and exmaples to share. That’s great!
But lets not derail dbneeley’s thread any further
is it safe to rely on these old plugins
No.
a new version, hopefully is coming soon
It’s not.
In honesty none of us know when it is coming, the “weekly” IRC meetings have not been taking place for the last 6 weeks, 1 bug in the last 3 weeks has been fixed and 20 are still outstanding, etc etc. Matt hasn’t been seen or heard of since threatening to leave the project.
How will backwards compitability be in the future of BBPress
It won’t.
It is not an aim. Never has been.
Will most of these standard functionality-plugins be built in
No.
Mostly because everyone’s definition of “standard” is “plugins i want”.
I have used hours and hours to customize my Kakumei theme, and will all that work go to waste with a new version
Some of it will, some of it won’t.
Will it apply to the next bbpress themes at all
From what i’ve seen in subversion, you won’t need to change to many things in your theme to make sure it is bbPress1.1 compatible. But you will probably have to make some changes – it is the nature of software.
Or am I gonna have start all over again?
It depends on your theme, plugins, and custom code.
I doubt anyone will have to start all over, but some poeple will have more work than others.
In your specific case, given your lack of coding abilities and reliance on the default theme, i doubt youi’ll have much coding to do – but it is likely that some things will have to be changed.
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I say this alot, but bbPress is not currently ready for use for people with no technical knowledge.
Database setup, editing files and FTP are a minimum to get the defaults going.
Some basic web development knowledge is needed to edit your theme.
Slightly above basic knowledge is needed to edit any functionality.
That is just where this software is and will be for a long time. I don’t say this to cause offence, i say this to save people difficulty.
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P.S. Marius,
You also don’t have to upgrade.
Almost all of the issues you bring us could have been solved easier if you were using bbPress0.9
Ah GeoCities, how i miss all those animated GIFs
Well mate, if you’re up for the challenge I’d start at something like http://www.w3schools.com/ (HTML, then CSS, then PHP sections). 9/10 it’s learning by doing and asking when stuck.
Also, I’d strongly suggest installing and playing around with WordPress before bbPress. It’s not a requirement at all, but they’ve nailed the separation of Presentation, Data, Logic so it’s easier to know where to edit – while in bbPress it’s all still bundled in together most of the time – making it hard to know where to edit if you’re new.
Effort will get you very far with bbPress though, it just needs to “click”. Don’t be a stranger
Kev
Hi Jtrory,
Sadly, that specific example is exactly the same way of doing it as WordPress, so it isn’t going to change anytime soon. Not that you’re wrong though mate, and glad you got it worked out
john13uk,
What Terms and Conditions is this “person” breaking?
The GPL does not mean free, you can easily and leagally sell code that is compatible with a GPL licence. If you don’t like this, just ignore it, no-one is forcing you buy it. As annoyed as you may be, the person you contacted (he didn’t contact you) at no time said he would pass it on for free.
As much as SoftInfo is being a bit of a wanker, and he is, it’s not worth the hassle.
If you have the ability to do the “customisation and other stuff”, making this basic (and pretty awful looking theme) shouldn’t really be an issue. You have the theme folder and pages already.
SoftInfo:
At no point does ChrisHajer suggest he’s accepting money for theme’s someone else created. Please be careful when making accusations against others, especially well respected people.
selling [GPL themes] are the are against wordpress policy?
Yes. Premium themes, such as the ones you link to, sell services that come with the themes (usually minimum support contracts). We’ve been over this road countless times.
If you don’t sorry to me then I’ll leave bbpress
Oh no!!
Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out
Hi jansummers,
You’re bbPress install has content being sent to the browser before all the processing is finished.
9/10 this comes from a ‘new line’ at the end of a user created php file (theme or plugin).
The fact you’re getting this error via the Plugin API strongly suggests such an issue is with a plugin. Have you edited one? have you got a new one installed recently?
Without more info, the only suggestion we have can give is this:
1) Change back to the default theme and see if it the bug still occurs.
2) Start deactivating plugins one at a time and see if it still occurs.
3) If you’re using the default theme and all plugins are deactivated, try re-uploading bbpress. Its unlikely that’ll make any difference, but its covering your bases
Morning matey,
The issue quiktipz is having is that a wordpress plugin is causing a fatal error. Deleting this plugin will effectively ignore that error but will create another one with in wordpress. And it’s not solving the issue at hand
For new users, quick fixes like this usually end up in hours of following the rabbit down the hole and not solving the original issue.
WordPress has a tendancy to throw a it’s toys out of the pram if it has an activated plugin that isn’t there.
BuddyPress is quite an intricate setup, and randomly deleting stuff won’t really solve the issues. Given that this wasn’t tested on anything but a live site, deleting things from a live production site when you don’t know whats going on is not a great idea
That’s not to say it couldn’t work though
The other thing you could do, and the people at BuddyPress will be able to direct you to this, is to de-activate the plugin directly from the database via something like phpmyadmin.
Realistically though, my biggest bit of advice is not to do things like this on a live production site. Test test and test again
Take care and good luck
Im saying that if its not that ideal, then its not working.
And what i’m saying is, you’re wrong.
Working is working. Ideal is ideal. I can’t think of one, not one, piece of software that is ideal. Infact, i can’t think of one thing in the world that is ideal. Ideal is something we aim for, working is just the minimum we accept. If you have higher standards – awesome!
We all want things to be better, but we have limited resources. The more time we spend on things that do work, but could be better, is more time away from things that don’t work.
P.S. Dont’ say things aren’t working because you don’t like how to make them work. I said that about my wife once, don’t think she’s ever forgiven me
Marius,
If something works, even if you have to do some of the work yourself, then it works.
If it doesn’t work – report the bug and we’ll try and help.
But saying things don’t work because it’s not ideal or as easy as you’d like isn’t helping us to help you
and you’re passionate about bbPress, we want to help you
I’m going to presume you meant “thanks for the help”
Akismet is great at catching a high percentage of spam, especially on Blogs. It’s not all of course but it’s a high percentage. Sadly it sometimes catches non-spam incorrectly. Considering it’s a free service, it’s not a huge issue for a blog. That said, blog posts are generally different to forum posts, and as a result Akismet is far less accurate for forums. It still catches a high percentage of spam, just not as high as it does for blogs and it marks way more things as spam when it’s not.
Why do I want this again?
It’s a free service, it does catchs alot of the spam, it’s better than nothing.
Marius mate,
we have these things. I’m the first to say it’s not ideal, but we have the things you’ve asked for
1) Polls.
We have polls.
2) Chatbox.
There’s a shoutbox plugin on the bbProgress website. Works with 0.9 and 1.0.2. Been there for over a year.
3) Custom Avatar.
We have that.
4) Administrate posting for users.
We have that, all apart from the minimum word thing, because thats something YOU want and not something needed as standard. But i gave you the 6 lines of code to fix that.
