[kevinjohngallagher]

Unread post/topics – Is it really hard to made this?

1) Yes

2) There’s a plugin for this for just over 2 years.

Quoating and Posting reply

Roughly 2 years. But uses JavaScript.

i cant stay manual formatin of text with HTML. Its such waste of our time!

Loads of plugins for this. I know mine are from early 2008, and I’m sure _ck_’s bbcode lite and bbcode buttons are from before then.

Allowed quicktags.

That function. I dont know how change allowed tags. Right now Its not soo important…

“Tags are over-rated. People simply don’t use them – especially non-techy people who see the value. We have 7038 topics on bbPress.org and yet 35/39 Tags have less than 25 topics, the other 4 have more (but pagination doesn’t work in the new theme). Even if we don’t attempt to count duplicates, bbpress.org has less than 10% of all topics tagged. If we were to check for duplicates, it would definately half”

-https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1243

Automatic tags

Apart from my answer above.

There has been a plugin for this for 2 years.

Slug

I see where you’er coming from on this, but it’s not a great idea.

A forum is an N-to-N system. A blog is a 1-to-N (or few-to-N) so control of such things is needed and easier.

I am sure there will be some folks out there with good examples, but I’ve never ran into an issue with a slug of any forum I’ve used in all my years.

Thanks for your suggestions and time though

Kev

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thank you for bumping your own thread 3 times in 90 minutes. We love that.

Could you give us a bit mor information please?

I am afraid that I have no idea what GBK is…

[kevinjohngallagher]

Pagal,

Could you tell us what the plugin is supposed to do?

Someone might be able to make an alternative, but not if we don’t knoe what the plugin is for. Help us, help you

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Pagal,

Could you tell us what the plugin is supposed to do?

What functionality is it you want us to create for you?

Cheers,

Kev

[kevinjohngallagher]

bb_index.php_pre_db didn’t work. It only worked on the homepage.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Nice one mate, and congrats on bringing down the overhead.

All data is good data!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Can i just add that i LOVE that linking to WordPress.org makes me a spammer.

I’ll go read this again while I wait: http://ma.tt/2009/08/kill-your-community/

Treat Everyone the Same.

If I’ve left hundreds of great comments over many years on your site, please make me wait in the moderation queue like some random stranger off Digg. Don’t let anyone know I’m a regular, or talk to me, or invite me to test out beta stuff, or pretty much anything that acknowledges my existence or shows any degree of trust.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Really helpful “Reboot Now”, thanks alot.

Your first issue about the nonce value, I’ve never had it on any normal/shallow integration since I started specifying the all the keys in my config file. Yes it’s double handling but it’s made a huge difference.

the bb-config file asks for this info:

define( 'BB_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

The bb-config file tells you to get it form this location: https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ . But really what you should have in the bbPress config file should be from the wordpress salt generator https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/

I make sure I have an exact copy of my WordPress keys and a copy of my wordpress keys with “BB_” infront of them – and bam, that little issue went teh way of the dodo.

define('AUTH_KEY',         '1');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  '2');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY',    '3');

define('NONCE_KEY',        '4');

define('AUTH_SALT',        '5');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '6');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT',   '7');

define('NONCE_SALT',       '8');



define('BB_AUTH_KEY',         '1');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY',  '2');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY',    '3');

define('BB_NONCE_KEY',        '4');

define('BB_AUTH_SALT',        '5');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', '6');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT',   '7');

define('BB_NONCE_SALT',       '8');

FYI incase anyone new to bbPress is reading this: If I do a clean bbPress install I strongly strongly advise using https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt/bbpress/ instead which returns 8 lines (we get salts too) which WordPress has needed for 2 years.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thank you Gautam!

EDIT: Actually I’m looking for an action that gets called on every page after the options and database hits have been done, and before any info has been sent to a browser.

I’ve tried:

bb_options_loaded

bb_plugins_loaded

bb_send_headers

EDIT 2: Actually, fingers crossed bb_index.php_pre_db will work.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Zaerl,

I’m working on a plugin and have hit a similar issue.

I need to call certain functions before any data is sent to the browser, but after $forum and $topic etc have been worked out.

bb_init actions are called before this.

Did you ever find the action that we can call ?

thanks

Kev

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ryan’s plugin is nice, very nice indeed.

It works in the same way as my hack/plugin for WP2.3 bbP0.8 in that it outputs a hardcoded file (obviously Ryan’s code it a heck of a lot better, and more up to date). Whats not great for me is that (the last time I checked) it attempts to output a hardcoded file once every hour, so any changes you make take 60 mins to appear on the bbpress site. You can lower that time ofcourse, but in that instance you’re going to struggle with things like SEO etc.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I haven’t recently installed plugins on bbpress but I had some plugins on WP side.

Could you tell us which plugins?

[kevinjohngallagher]

brilliant, thanks zaerl.

While you’re here mate, are there any more functions like that (for defining testing for pages) ?

Thanks

[kevinjohngallagher]

No, there is no equivalent to the best of my knowledge.

You could write one yourself that tests for the URL or basename of the file/folder you’re in – it’s not ideal, but very little is here.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Yeah, thats a bug with a system we’re dependant on.

It was fixed yesterday, but hasn’t quite rolled out here yet.

If you’re absolutely sure that this is no spaces whatsoever then here is a solution. delete bb-config.php and copy bb-config-sample.php and rename it bb-config.php.

When you load your forum now, you should see it say “Cannot establish a database connection”.

If it does, then edit the new bb-config.php with your database/username information

It’s happened to me before, this seems to solve it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

The isntallation process is no different to the WordPress process, there are just a few more steps. And the walkthrough I linked to is very very good and simple

[kevinjohngallagher]

front-page.php in your theme folder.

Alternatively, I’ve a WordPress mimic plugin I’ll be releasing next week which should solve alot of WP to bbP issues.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thats excellent Gerikg, thanks.

I hadn’t thought of that. I supose I don’t have much experience of using a WordPress theme that has it’s own bolt-on framework (such as Thesis or Woo Themes) but they are popular.

I’ll add it to the list.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Great to hear you’ve got something working, and thanks for reporting back!

[kevinjohngallagher]

I contacted him through his personal blog (which I felt very guilty about incidently).

I’m seeing him in Manchester in 3 weeks for the WordCamp, and was rather hoping my first sentance would be “thanks so much for the help” and not have him see a middle aged man crying the whole way through the weekend.

He didn’t disappoint.

http://backpress.automattic.com/ticket/18 (the blocker for 1.0.3) and http://backpress.automattic.com/ticket/25 (the annoying -> bug) have both been fixed and closed.

If you’re listening BackPress team, first drinks on me!

Thanks

Kev

[kevinjohngallagher]

It’s our pleasure.

You took screenshots, you gave us the info we wanted and we solved the bug.

Plus its a good place to point people (we get this question about once a week).

Enjoy your bbpress forum!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Great! Screenshots make life so much easier.

Ok so you physically know the files are there, but can’t load them in the browser (we get a 404).

If you’ve had htaccess issues before, I’d have a look there first, but really if it’s loading bbPress it shouldn’t be an issue (always good to rule things out though).

My gut, growing by the day sadly, tells me it’s a permissions issue. Which is not to say you’ve done anything wrong. Make sure that the “my-templates” directory and all directories/subfolders are at 0755.

Test again. if things work, then change everything under the “my-templates” directory to 0644, and confirm working.

Finally, and this is out on a limb a little, check you’re not running any caching plugins in wordpress.

If that doesn’t work, we’ll see what we can find in the back (the back is a mythical place apparently)

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EDIT: Actually, do you have some form of htaccess command to change everything from http://www.shoeynet.com to just http://shoeynet.com ?

That might not be it, but it’s something else to knock off the list.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi there,

Installing with a preexisting wordpress install is absolutely fine, and you don’t need buddyPress.

I’d suggest using this excellent tutorial:

http://wpbbpthemes.org/integration/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Don’t worry about Deep Integration. If you don’t know it, you’ve not got it, and that makes life easier

If you can’t load the stylesheet of the theme you want to use in your browser (and therefore independant of both wordpress and bbpress – as you’re essentially just loading a text file from a server), then that’ll be the issue.

Activating the theme you’re after would be great, as would telling us what folder it’s in and what it’s called

[kevinjohngallagher]

The issue appears to be in your bb-config file.

Double check that you don’t have an extra line at the start or end. The other warnings all come stem from that one.