Hi Sunnie,
The first thing to check is if WordPress can send registration emails.
If it can, then we have a bbPress issue.
If it can’t then it’s a server issue, and the quickest resolution is to contact your hosts and use the WordPress support forum (as there are more people on there).
Test and let us know 
I was thiking of this on my way into the office today.
WordPress used to be able to load/parse RSS feeds and display them natively, using wp_rss(). Now that was deprecated a while ago, btu there is probably a similar function out there.
Should be quite easy to have WordPress pull in your forums’ RSS feed, just saving writing alot of SQL yourself.
If wp_rss no longer works, then maybe a plugin could be found to fit those needs at: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/rss
There is not to the best of my knowledge.
This has been discussed before, at length as I recall, on a few occasions. Sadly you’ll have to do a bit of searching to find it, but you should get some good info out of it.
It basically comes down to this:
RSS is a pull technology, not a push one. So you’d need to have some form of cron job to check for an update in the blog feed, and then have code to write a post to your forum. In honesty this wouldn’t be too difficult, but it’s got relatively limited value, so i doubt there is an existing plugin (I may be totally wrong)
EDIT: I’ve actually just thought of a brilliant use for such a plugin. Dammit. This goes on the list.
bbPress1.0 comes with the ability to handle XML-RPC, which is like cross-sever posting (in laymans terms). You could get a WordPress plugin that ‘pings’/’posts/ to bbPress when a new post is written. Not uite sure how elegant this would be with scheduled posts etc.
I’d definately look around the WordPress plugin directory for this, but I’m 99% certain it will require some coding at your end.
Good luck, and shout if you’ve any specific questions.
Hi Chris,
It appears to be working when I load those pages. Could you post a screenshot of what you see?
Thanks,
Kev
Surely this is a simple thing?
Not overly, its not inherantly how bbPress (or WordPress really) works, as Moderation (or lack of tools i order to fascilitate this properly) is really one of bbPress’s major downfalls.
That said, I typed in “approve” to the plugin search and found these plugins on the first page:
Approve User Registration
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/
BB Moderation Hold
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/
Zaerl Visibility
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/
I’ve not read their descriptions fully, but the sound like they do the job you’re after.
If you’re running bbPress1.0.1, bbPress1.0.2 is a very minor upgrade (less than 100 lines of code) and include some bug fixes.
bbPress1.0.3 / bbPress1.1 shouldn’t break that many plugins. My last trunk download caused some theme issues (minor), but up until the end of April there it was stable and looking might fine.
I strongly suggest you make a local copy of your current forum, and install the latest version from the trunk; and test against your plugins. Given the list that you have, there’s a good chance some may fail; and others like “Subscribe to Topic” won’t really be needed.
When/if this new bbpress plugin comes out, will there be a way to convert my bbpress installation into teh plugin or otherwise make it compatable?
None of us have any idea. Matt announced that the bbPress plugin was going to happen in January, then left the project. Any other information you can garnish from the WordPress blogs updates will give you more information than people involved with this project have been given.
Either way, i’m not panicing. Just irked by the lack of communication, as you’re not alone in asking, and i feel for the bbPress users who are in a form of limbo.
The bbPress Live plugin by Sam, was released and last updated around bbPress1.0alpha3.
It appears to me that the plugin makes a wrong call (possibly a bbPress to BackPress issue – as there were major changes for bbpress1.0alpha6) because it returns an empty set. On top of that, it’s aimed for WordPress before WP2.7, which itself had a large number of under the hood changes.
I’d be surprised if this plugin was even close to being fit for purpose these days; and without a doubt the solution is to pull the information from the Database directly.
bbPress and WordPress are 2 stand-alone software solutions that can share the same database/logins. Leveraging this data without adding the overhead (and potential issues) of the other will make life easier in the long run
(not to mention save 50+ SQL calls every time you load a bbpress page)
Good catch Chris,
Yahoo Traffic Server doesn’t use .htaccess files.
Though that might change in the future after Yahoo donated TS to the Apache Foundation, though they still have the source code in-house.
As I recall though, YTS has quite an extensive plugin library, and so there might (probably?) be an alternative method out there. It’s beyond me though.
Hi Adam,
Make sure you take a backup of your MySQL data at every oppertunity when talking to your host.
If you can get one from PHPmyAdmin great, if not ask your host for backups.
Don’t overwrite them, and rename them with the day/time and after which correspondance you got the backup.
When this is all sorted, load the .sql backup into a text editor (and you can sift through the code). Might not be pretty but you’ll at least see the extent of the issue.
If it’s gone south, and the host can’t help, you’re in for a long slog. That said, one of the positives here is that the bbPress table structure (while a bit… not optomized – bad english for bad table design) is easy to read and replace/backup. I’ve had to do it myself, and we can offer tips if it comes to it, but it’s not as bad as it sounds if you get some forum of backup/old DB.
Hi Chris,
It appears to be working.
Has it been fixed in the last few hours, or do you have a new link you could provide us with. Fingers crossed it’s been fixed
Though I missed the Trolling comments, it saddens me.
I’m disappointed by Matt’s approach to bbPress these last 6 months, and indeed quite shocked at his approach to the WordPress community over this capital_P_dangit() debacle; but I like to think I have that opinion separated between the man and the Automattic Employee.
I think it’s benefitial to point out these miscommunications. The hope is that they are seen, eventually, as a catalogue of errors, and so we can learn and improve. If my comments are being used as a soapbox for people to vent; then I apologise.
Chris, please feel free to close and/or delete this topic as neccessary.
Kev
Sorry, posting quickly on phone.
Thursday 1st July:
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Westi states that the 3 months old bug has been fixed. And will be applied to bbPress at the next patch.
Wednesday 7th July:
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Matt states bbPress powered forums at WordPress.org has been upgraded to the latest version of bbPress and BackPress.
$this->shitty->bug() is not present. yay.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/422478
Friday 9th July:
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matt states that bbPress has been upgraded to latest trunk version
$this->shitty->bug() is still present and in it’s 3rd month. booo.
Might it just be miscommunication? Yes, I agree it is.
Is this bug fixed somewhere out there? Yes, I agree it is.
Is it close to commical that it’s been where for 3 months? Yes, it is.
Is something wrong with at least one of the statemetns from Matt? Given that one contradicts the other? Yes, it is.
Honestly, is it so damn hard for an Automattic employee to also update our BackPress version as well as the bbPress version? I mean, do they not know that bbPress is dependant on BackPress (definately possible)? Is it an issue of shame or embaressment at a bad decision thats coming back to haunt them, or just a mistake that gets made constantly over the last 6 months?
Don’t worry about it.
We get asked this 2-3 times a week.
If we were able to edit this website, we’re add it to the FAQ or the documentation. Sadly, that’s not possible.
http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/07/09/last-night-two-big-changes-happened-on-w/
I love, truly love, that it was tested.
Otherwise, people might just think he’s making this shit up as he goes along…
Ok Pagal,
This is where we start to have a problem matey:
I did not mention the error here because I’m not interested in this plugin. and I don’t want to fix it.
Man, we’re trying hard to help you, and others. But you give us no information and then complain constantly.
If you’ve found a plugin that doesn’t work, tell us how so that we can help fix it – for everyone. If you’ve found a bug or an error: TELL US so that we can help fix it for everyone.
But to find a plugin that does not work and say “its not working” and then “I did not mention the error here because I’m not interested in this plugin” is just selfish.
its not working with v1.0.2
In what way?
Is there an error message?
Could you give us less information?
Did you read the instructions on the page Chris Linked: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-add-user/
Did you make this change:
Just replace the following line:
require_once( BB_PATH . BB_INC . ‘registration-functions.php’);
with this one:
require_once( BB_PATH . BB_INC . ‘functions.bb-users.php’);
You can run both, but it still won’t stop all of the spambots getting through. Nothing will. Thats something we all face mate, whenever you run a website on any platform.
I would prefer that no spambots register at all
Never ever ever going to happen.
All the other plugin you’ve linked does is check to see if they are giving you an email address that an external database knows to be a spammer. It doesn’t actually do anything if it doesn’t know it’s a spammer from another website.
It’s the law of averages. Lets say that every measure you take stops 90%.
1000 spam bots try to register.
900 are stopped by the first one.
90 are stopped by the second plugin
1 are stopped by Akismet when trying to post.
That means that 10 spam bots got through your plugins to register, and 1 of them can post without it being picked up as spam.
It’s why we have moderators.
And when activated, it makes the forum tables all messed up. They become hundred times bigger.
What tables?
What is in them to make them bigger?
There is no automated program that will catch 100% of spam.
Or even close to it. Your best bet is to attempt to find a solution that works for you.
Human Test plugin doesn’t actually test if someone is Human, it just checks if the answer in the input box is right. The bots usually have a good guess at these, and over time get them right once in a while. Its hardly fool proof (but then, doesn’t claim to be).
Ofcourse, thats not really spam either, thats just spammer registrations.
You could make sure that only people you approve can post. And you should be running something like Akismet also.
The best spambot plugin? You. The moderator.
Also, on your website Interests and Location are not required to be a correct answer, so that plays no part in the passing or failing of the Human Test plugin.
I tried this code but not working as expected.
Could you tell us what it is and is not doing?
We can not help you if you don’t tell us whats wrong
You’d probably need to contact them directly mate.
Mdwaffe has posted less than 10 times on tehse forums in 4 years.
Sam’s posted less than 10 times in the last year, since he left Automattic 12 months ago.
so1o was last here well over a year ago. His personal website’s last update was March 31st 2008.
Be nice to get that running smoothly though
I’m afraid that I don’t know of any quality premium bbPress theme website. There might be one or two out there, but as it stands I don’t know about it.
For the most part, this is due to people wanting a bbPress theme that matches their WordPress theme, and also for a lack of customer base. The idea of selling a theme is grand if you’re going to sell a significant number of them, other wise you have to decide if you get a significant Return on Investment.
If you’ve any special theme needs, please feel free to contact me on:
themes [at] kevinjohngallagher.com
Kev
With respect Pagal, and it’s cool to have a wishlist, isn’t that the complete functionality of Facebook?
And isn’t that the sort of stuff BuddyPress is for?
( https://buddypress.org/ )
