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Please try again with v0.21

https://ckon.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v021

Many little bug fixes.

mysql_real_escape_string requires php >= 4.3.0

is this a problem for anyone?

php prior to 4.3 has lots of security issues

v0.21 looks/works fine in my opera 9.0

Many thanks for all the beta testing, I think we’re stable now in all modern browsers…

[avatarx]

Hi everyone, I’m a bbPress newbie and have recently installed it along side my WordPress blog and followed the basic integration steps in the docs here. My WP blog is the home of my site and I have a link to the forums similar to this site after customizing the themes for both. I’ve removed the login/registration links from WP (anyone can comment) and users can log in from the bbPress login form if they’re at the forums.

What I’d like to have is that same bbPress login form show up in my WP page so that if users are logged in they get the welcome/view profile otherwise they can log in/register from anywhere on the site. I want all registration to happen through bbPress that way users aren’t confused by two login systems/profiles. I’ve been following alot of integration topics here and haven’t found one that answers this question for me so please let me know how this might be done or if it’s not a good idea for reasons I haven’t thought about.

Also, I don’t know any PHP but I can code in other languages. I’m not familar with any functions in bbPress or WP for that matter so hopefully this isn’t that involved but I’m definitely interested in learning. Just thought I’d give some heads up.

Thanks in advance!

[ganzua]

I’ve been having problems to translate bbpress since I integrated the forum with wordpress.

In particular I’m having this error;

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class CachedFileReader in wampwwwwordpressbbpressbb-includesstreams.php on line 163

whenever I try to define a lenguage in config.php -> define(‘BBLANG’, ‘es_ES’);

I was suggested to redirect to wordpress mo file -> define(‘BBLANGDIR’, ‘../wp-includes/languages’);

and then editing this mo file with poedit.

Well, I’ve been messing with poedit but I didn’t change bbpress config.php yet or included any language file for bbpress anywhere.

I went to bbpress control panel to activate the new signature plugin and I find that a line of the menu (and just one line, the rest are still in english) is already translated to spanish, this one;

http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=transyf3.jpg

I admit that I’ve been very busy and I even admit that a was drinking some beers this evening but, what the hell did I do? I can’t rember!. I’ve been unsuccesfully trying to translate bbpress for a month and now bbpress started to translate all by itself?

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I am pleased to announce that v0.19 now supports ajax-ish™ behaviours on all actions except form submits (saving data). The view poll results actually happens with a real update, if votes happen while you are waiting to vote and you go check, they will increase. I might even add an auto-refresh to it (every 30 seconds?) to freak people out.

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v020

You can also turn off ajax entirely in the settings and if there’s no proper javascript support it falls back to regular actions of course.

I’ve only tested on firefox out of exhaustion right now, so I’ll need feedback from other browsers. Ajax on submits will take quite a bit more research for me, never done it before and I’ve heard it’s problematic on different browsers.

@mazdakam, sorry about the float:left – I used it to try to make it behave with some other templates I was testing. I realise now how that would messup your configuration…

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Good advice and very clear points. Not worth the risk.

I’ve been looking at some of their templates and it’s not that amazing anyway. They also use tables. If I clear up my layout and document it well, I am sure some css gurus out there can make something even better.

In other news I fixed the nagging refresh bug

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v018

(the post data that’s left on the page when you hit f5) but I hate the way it has to be done (redirect after processing the post data, back to the same page – that’s twice the load for bbpress – can’t find any other documented solutions).

I think my next code attempt will be to make it load in place (like ajax but not really ajax).

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mazdakam, try this for better translations?

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v016

I’ve put ALL the text near the top for easier editing.

@Null, I’m not going to spend too much time “ajax-ing” it.

But I think i can make all the actions happen without reloading the page. I’m going to simply replace the contents in the <div id=poll></div> dynamically. Should be enough to keep everyone happy.

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Sorry, I have to learn how those translation calls work, never used them before.

I wanted to allow the text changes to be made within the admin menu so no external files have to be edited.

ah, found the instructions:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Localizing_WordPress#Localization_Technology

I’ll have 0.16 up shortly with that changed.

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version 0.15 fixes the cache performance so the data is only unserialized once (I should note that bb-polls adds ZERO extra queries to any page, it’s already fetched with the topic) v0.15 also allows all the labels to be changed for other languages. More CSS classes are added/fixed, slight colour tweaks.

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v015

I’ll get a proper admin menu in there after another version or two when I’ve thought out all the options properly (to prevent the need for any database changes)

Is there any interest in it having ajax-like action even if it’s not “real” ajax? Basically so there is no page refresh. I can use some simple dhtml tricks.

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I highly doubt most bbpress installers will continue to use the default template longer than a week or two. It’s a very sterile 1990’s computer room look, green/white, wide & empty. Ugh.

Reminds me of that old school continuous computer paper:

http://www.jwodcatalog.com/imgLg/753000NIB0342.jpg

I can’t wait until bbpress gets some critical mass of users so we have all those thousands of creative wordpress folks slaving away on themes.

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On a programming note, I’ve got to figure out how to trash the post data that’s sent so when doing a refresh after voting the browser doesn’t nag the member that the post data will be resent (it won’t affect the poll stats if it does but still I don’t want that post data there). Probably have to do a redirect after submit which is a shame as it has to load bbpress twice then.

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I just got a trunk install going.

Wow, yes I will fix the colours right away.

Sorry about that!

That was easy.

Complete colour fix in v0.14

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v014

Looks pretty good if I do say so myself!

screenshots:

http://xs218.xs.to/xs218/07315/bb-polls-form.png

http://xs318.xs.to/xs318/07315/bb-polls-results.png

Surprised how it looks even better with small fonts.

I use bigger fonts on my custom theme.

Oh and it works great with the newest trunk too.

[raumgleiter]

I have the integration working. Got wordpress in the root and bbpress in a subfolder called /forum.

When I register on wordpress, the user is displayed as subscriber in WP and as member in bbpress. so all is correct.

But if I register on bbpress, then the user is “member” in bbpress but in WP it gets no role at all.

Second problem is that bbpress doesnt seem to send out any confirmation email although I can see new users in the backoffice.

BOTH plugins are installed and seem to be working fine.

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v0.13 adds better level control and a few other tweaks

note that default settings are now set to everyone can view, any member can vote, only moderator+ can add

(you can edit these of course, but just a caution)

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v013

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Since I can’t edit the first post here I’m just going to use my wp blog for updates:

bbPress Polls plugin

v0.11 is a bug fix:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v011

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Oh… you’re hacking the core, that’s easy but not good.

I am desperately trying not to touch the bbpress core which was a huge mistake I did with wordpress and made it impossible to upgrade even when there were critical security fixes.

bbpress is in such a state of flux right now it would be crazy to hack the core, updates with major changes can be expected almost every other month.

I’ll put this on my scary growing list of things to look at. To be honest it’s not a huge priority but you might want to seriously consider my idea of messing with the topic_status flag. You already are halfway there.

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I am pleased to announce a new bbPress Polls plugin.

Your members can now add polls to their topics, or optionally you can allow *anyone* to add a poll to *any* topic, within a specified time period (hours) since the topic was started.

bb-Polls allows single answer or multiple answer polls.

No template edits of any kind.

There are no additional db tables added, it uses bbpress topicmeta only. Only one entry is created per poll, regardless of size or options (this allow very easy cleanup if desired for some reason).

This is a *very* early beta, however should be functional except for:

1. missing admin menu (coming soon – edit plugin directly)

2. missing administrative editing of existing polls.

3. missing some visual tweaks (plural case, etc.)

4. missing some more deluxe options (poll ending time, etc.)

5. missing multi-language support (coming soon)

If you can live with these limits and would like to help test and give me some useful, constructive feedback, please download:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v010

(rename .txt to .php, install, activate, start a new test topic)

The beta is set so only moderators and above can create/see the polls. This will allow you to test without disturbing visitors.

Please note the visual styles may be WAY off for the default template or your own template. Unfortunately I am using a very customised template. You’ll probably have to edit the built in css which is kept clearly at the top. (the default styles will be fixed soon when I get a chance to do a trunk install this week)

Upcoming features include the ability to display all polls and the ability to display a poll anywhere within bbpress templates.

ps. I need to know if this works as in in the trunk version – I don’t see why it wouldn’t but you never know…

[so1o]

If you integrate bbpress and wordpress.. you can use openID plugin for google on bbpress as you will be sharing the users from wordpress on bbpress..

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I’m looking at how openid is done and I think I’ll make the login even more simple for users – I’ll let them choose from like the top five or ten providers in a dropdown, ie.

1. aol

2. livejournal

3. wordpress

4. ??

5. ??

and then tell then to enter their username on that service – that way they don’t need to figure out it’s username.website.com

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I wonder if I force all my bbpress logins through wordpress if I can just use that openid plugin there and it will work on bbpress…

only one way to find out I guess…

[MaryJane]

Well i knew about the wordpress theme switcher. What i was really wondering was if someone had already made one for bbpress or was currently making one i guess. Or if there was another way to do what i wanted without having to use a theme switcher.

Thank you for the link though. Ill look at it.

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Instead of xml-rpc pingbacks for 0.84 I’d love to see a more useful feature – OpenID support

Apparently wordpress.com has had openid support since March:

http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/06/openid/

and here’s a wordpress plugin to allow logins via openid, now we need to port it to bbpress…

http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

This would allow the quarter-million wordpress.com members and 120 million other openid participants to post on any bbpress forum with verified authentication.

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I solved all spam on my blogs quite easily – any post with more than one url never gets approved, never displayed. I’ve yet to see spammers not be greedy and only post one url.

I had forgotten about the OpenID standard! We need to try to suggest that to the right people making WP/BB. That would be one of the most useful features ever (wordpress.com has nearly a quarter million registered members!)

update: WAIT! It’s been done?!?!?

http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/06/openid/

How do we get openid support into bbpress then?!

added: here’s a wordpress plugin to allow openid, now we need to port it to bbpress…

http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

I’ll start a new topic on this…

[howtogeek]

It sounds like you really have a wordpress question since everything is running under wordpress… but here’s a plugin for wordpress to switch themes (I haven’t tried it myself)

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/ThemeSwitcher

I don’t believe there is one for bbPress at the moment, considering there aren’t a lot of themes out there.

[howtogeek]

We are in perfect sync on that one… having xml-rpc pingbacks in a forum is the most worthless feature idea to ever be thought of. I’ve completely disabled them on wordpress because I don’t think they provide any true value to the reader, and most of them are spam anyway. I’ve written my own simple spam plugin to run in conjunction with Akismet because I was unsatisfied with what I was getting.

Your idea of the wordpress logins would work if they implemented OpenID in bbPress and had wordpress.com as an openid server. Would actually be a killer feature, I’d think.

I’ve hacked up my wp-cache2 to allow for more dynamic code to be called on each post. Most of my content is really very static, so I don’t need it to be updated often.

I’ve never had any issues with it caching the wrong versions though.

[MaryJane]

I have a theme i ported over to wp and bbpress. It has the option of being one, two and three column’s layout. Im working on getting the other columns ported over i have the basic three column working now.

Theres links under the header to click to switch to each column layout. I want to keep this feature to offer my members. My question is there a simple way for me to let users switch columns? Like using a theme switcher or some other way? Ive searched the support forum here and so far i havent found a user theme plugin switcher on here. Is there one made that im overlooking? Even if there was one just because a user switched themes in the forum doesnt mean it would switch themes in the wordpress….

Can someone help me figure out to accomplish this?

website url: http://slickwhenwet.com/forum <– work in progress

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Oh I didn’t realize xcache is just an opcode cache. I already use eaccelerator which seems to have zero quirks compared to other solutions. But yeah, any opcode cache for wordpress/bbpress is a must for any active site.

I already create the sidebar statically across my sites, saves a lot of work and repetition on the db.

the wp-cache “plugin” has flaws in it’s logic. I noticed that unregistered visitors were getting edit links on posts, not good, even if they couldn’t actually edit. Then it has an exclude feature to keep certain parts dynamic, but you can’t have wordpress calls in those dynamic parts because wordpress isn’t actually loaded, which is the whole point. so it won’t work and gives error (#1 confusion to most people trying to use it)

In the end, I hacked wp-cache to only cache the RSS feeds which were causing the most requests, yet the most static of all the content. Caching rss feeds on bbpress should be an easy, useful thing too, but then on a forum I highly doubt the use of rss feeds on anything but the latest discussions.

What really worries me about the 0.84 release is the xml-rpc pingbacks. bbpress is going to become known as the spammers forum of choice with a bad rep, until novices are given an easy option to turn it off, or better yet it’s off by default. I cannot disagree more highly with the entire feature idea. It defeats the entire purpose of a forum. What they are trying to do is have a universal way to cross post across forums but the whole point of a forum is *community* and getting people to actually visit, not stay away.

What they really should do instead of pingbacks if they want easy cross communication, is have a universal login based on a database at wordpress.com – Basically anyone with a wordpress account could visit your wordpress or bbpress site and instantly post if they wanted as “wp.membername” without having to register again and again. Sure there are security issues to be tackled but it’s better than anonymous spam heaven on pingbacks. Akismet won’t protect pingbacks, I see spam in my wordpress.com account every week.