[CaptainN2]

Hi,

I just restored a very old bbpress 1.x install to use bbpress 2.0 plugin, and it worked great! Thanks so much.

There are a few issues though, that I could use help with. Here they are:

1. I’m getting a ton of spam. Some of these get caught by akizmet, but most get through, and there’s no way to do a “rescan for spam” thing like there is in wordpress comments. Is there any way to clean this up, to reduce the spam (I’ll continue to troll the forums to find solutions, but I’m not sure how most of the suggestions there work, until I know how registration and new topics work)?
2. If not logged in, I can’t see any way to post to the forum, or any register links in the forum area. Is a setting for this (I have it set at defaults, only registered users can post, and anyone can register), or do I have to add theme support? (I’m using 2011.)
3. Does registration go through normal WP reg process? I can’t find it from the forums, but the spam bots sure can!
4. there is no preview button – here or in my forum – I hope the formatting I put in here works!

On an unrelated note, I couldn’t get my old account to work here on bbpress.org (CaptainN) – When I try to log in it says my username doesn’t exist. But I can’t register with either my old username, or old email – they both exist! Also, when I start the reset password process, I get the link to click, but when I click on it, it says I can’t change my password.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

Kevin N.

[honski]

Hi!

I want to get the forum appear on the front page of my blog. I have installed it successfully to a sub directory. I don’t care about the blog, I just want to use the forum.

How can I get it to show up on the front page (root of WordPress installation)?

Thanks!

EDIT: I’m using the latest plugin version.

[rich]

i have an auto-generated (iffy wordpress search-able) list online as well

http://etivite.com/api-hooks/#bbpress

which is similar to the code posted above – forgot about array hooks so when bbPress 2.1 hits – it will be updated.

[hscoder]

if you want to know that how to use bbpress shortcodes, check this link :

http://www.authorcode.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-bbpress-shortcodes-in-wordpress-site/

[John James Jacoby]

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-no-admin/

—-

Prevent all users except super-admins from creating bbPress content when inside wp-admin.

This plugin has no UI.

[John James Jacoby]

I’m surprised this hasn’t been asked sooner, but it’s a great bunch of questions with some good points. I’ll do my best to address them, and feel free to keep the conversation going if there are more questions.

I’m going to start off with a clarifying and important point that’s often difficult to distinguish if you’re not involved directly in the WordPress community. My full-time job is at a company called Automattic, most popularly known for operating WordPress.com. That takes up a typical 40 hour work-week.

My contributions to open-source projects like WordPress, BuddyPress, bbPress, are done in my free-time. I believe enough in the platforms to actively continue their development.

So the answer to your question; “WordPress” doesn’t pay anyone a salary.

Yes, I am currently leading the development of both BuddyPress and bbPress. My responsibilities include setting the roadmaps, shepherding development, and making sure the .org sites stay updated and operational. Yes, there’s a lot of responsibility there, and I appreciate that you think I’m doing a good job.

Consider also that bbPress has always been a bit of a hobby project. As a sister project to WordPress, and by nature of it being a support forum to the flagship project, it’s never been the focal point but is still critically important, since millions of people interact with it without ever knowing what it is.

BuddyPress and bbPress were both around for a number of years before I worked my way up to leading both projects. BuddyPress has two other consistent core committers that are doing a great job, and bbPress is the best opportunity for any developer to step in and get core-commit to help determine the direction of the project. It’s very much a meritocracy, so anyone that comes along and starts contributing will get noticed for it.

Even though I tend to do the majority of code commits, rest assured that there are plenty more eyes on the code than just mine and neither project is in any danger of losing momentum or being phased out. Automattic as a company loves both BuddyPress and bbPress, and the WordPress Foundation and community are both committed to supporting them for far into the future.

[Ramiuz]

But is there not an import option in BBPress 2.0?

I have my forum installed on a different database than WordPress. Will I be able to move the data from one database to a different one?

[spabav]

After a couple of weeks testing bbpress and several other forum solutions, we are really hesitating in running bbpress as our forum.

From what we see the bbpress plugin, while not as feature-rich as stand-alone bulletin boards like vbulletin, phpbb or xenForo, does one thing outstandingly well, which is the integration into wordpress.

For that reason alone, it would be worth giving it a try.

Unfortunately – and here comes our biggest issue – it looks like the bbpress plugin is currently not given full (or any) attention from WordPress.

My question is very simple:

How many developers / coders are writing code of the bbpress plugin currently ?

Is @johnjamesjacoby the only one?

Is there anybody else “officially assigned/paid by wordpress” to work on the bbpress plugin and documentation or/and support ?

John is doing an excellent job, on all his help he gives especially in the bbpress forum. But since the community is small and John is also working on the buddypress project, we are really worried to put our eggs in a “one-man-show plugin” basket.

Please tell me that I got this wrong and that there are at least several people currently working on the bbpress plugin and documentation.

Would be great if anybody could shed some light on this.

[antonyw]

sorry – its the wpadminbar, found the solution at;

https://wordpress.org/search/hide+wpadminbar?forums=1

[Angelo]

I’ve looked into a plugin called Role Scoper which grants you the ability to restrict things based on WordPress user roles and capabilities. Admittedly, the plugin is a bit bulky for what’s being accomplished with the above code but it’s an option.

[mesayre]

Hey @WhiteRau – here’s what I’ve found on the subject so far.

According to this:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-change-plugins-load-order

It should be completely possible to make bbPress load first using the priority value in the add_action() call. So if you can figure out which function(s) you want to be sure load first, you can enter a low value (lower than 10) and it should work. I don’t have time to test it now, but if you’re curious, I doubt it could hurt anything to give it a try.

Good luck!

Mike

[Andre]

Can you go into the database and remove the old WordPress account?

[mesayre]

If you’re impatient (like me) you can actually fix this with a really easy edit to bbp-common-template.php

This ticket from trac shows you what to do:

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1665

Core edits are generally not a great idea, but since this exact fix looks to be in the pipeline for a future release, seems like an OK thing to do.

[tony webb]

I posted some of my issues on wprdpress because they weren’t answered and still haven’t been onbbpress. if you read this websites documentation it does say that you can post into the wordpress forum.

The issues that have yet to be resolved are still;

1. I can’t access my bbpress admin panel, dashboard or whatever you call

it. I keepm getting unregistered user messages. wordpress did show to me

that my bbpress profile exists.

My profile is tony webb and my forum is what do Christians believe.

2. Whenever I log into this forum I have to reset the password. I cut and

paste the previous password but this gets rejected. it also seems that

the check box when ticked doesn’t work as my password info isn’t saved.

[redcocker]

I may understand the reason.

Because User(User group) wasn’t given “unfiltered_html” capability.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities#unfiltered_html

[John James Jacoby]

Judging by the query, it looks like this is your topics index page or recent posts widget? It’s weird that it’s trying to grab both topics and replies, so that might be a bug depending on your config.

The short solution, which isn’t the best one, is not to have private or hidden forums. The NOT IN and INNER JOIN with the postmeta table is certainly to blame here, which goes away if you don’t have private or hidden forums. That combined with the IN query on ‘topic’ and ‘reply’ will pretty much result in full table scans.

The long term solution is to tidy up some of the meta values in bbPress, and move some of the hierarchical data out of postmeta and into indexed int values in the posts table. It’s a hack, but we’re at the mercy of the WordPress posts table schema.

A by-product of your post is it looks like it’s comparing as CHAR instead of SIGNED, which might marginally improve the query, but won’t fix the problem.

[shooo]

Ok, hum, all this plugin arent bbpress 2.0 compatible, but bbpress 1.0 compatible.

for bbpress login you can just put a widget in your sidebar, it’s on your wordpress admin bar

exactly same for last replies, last forum, …

bbpress 2.0 isn’t the same thing that bbpress 1.0

bbPress 2.0 doesnt require integration, it is a plugin to wordpress.

good luck

[shooo]

Hello,

What is your version of wordpress and that of your forum?

You have arrived in time to log a wordpress admin?

sorry for my poor english but i dont understand this expression

“Is it possible to delete this integration link “

in your blog, i see a vanilla forum not a bbpress integration oO

[shooo]

Hi

try to change your this css

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

white-space: nowrap;

}

by

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

}

[shooo]

hello,

for a member to register or connection, you can implement in your sidebar the bbpress loggin widget.

you must be configured wordpress user and they can post, register, …

well to you.

I hope this is understandable

[tony webb]

Thank you for your reply.

The version that I have is version 2.0

I have integrated my forum into wordpress (plugins) and changed my wordpress theme to 2010 so that it is bbpress friendly.

I’m having problems setting that up but I noticed this evening that a sticky has been posted saying that there is an an online video tutorial available. I’ll watch that and follow what it says and then get back with any problems if any!

I’ve also changed my theme to a bbpress friendly theme twenty ten which has resolved the issue of my forum being cut off on the right of the screen. (I was using twenty eleven which although wordpress says that it is bbpress friendly it requires a lot of fiddling about to set up correctly)

For some reason bbpress defaulted to an old wordpress account (which i assumed had been removed) and since then I have not been able to log into the bbpress admin panel for food for thought. The old wordpress blog issue has been resolved but from the bbpress side of things I am unable to access my dashboard. When I log in I get unregistered user notices.

I need to use the bbpress admin panel to reorganise how I have set things up. I have done it completely wrong. The topics that I have created should be the categories or the forums (subjects that appear on the main forum page) and not as sub categories under one main subject.

It just seems to me that all I need is for bbpress to recognise that I am a registered user. I tried opening another account but I couldn’t do that as it said that the user already exists!

[Andre]

What version of bbPress are you using? If a version other than 2.x, is it integrated with WordPress?

[Steve]

Its not natural traffic – it just seems to be bbpress doing repeated head/gets on links that are pasted in posts – it also seems to do it to links out to other sites – well it used 195MB of bandwidth against another server in less than 1 day.

And I’ve found it does do it if the file is in the same domain – just missed it in the access logs.

Checking my server access logs the only odd thing I see is

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:07:59:44 +0000] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 483 "-" "The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- bbPress/1.1"

184.168.193.192 - - [16/Nov/2011:07:59:53 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/please-help-with-wordbooker-image-problem HTTP/1.0" 200 42632 "-" "WordPress/3.2.1; http://alt3redegos.com"

184.168.193.192 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:05 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/please-help-with-wordbooker-image-problem HTTP/1.0" 200 42632 "-" "WordPress/3.2.1; http://alt3redegos.com/dev/relaunch"

184.168.193.192 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:12 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/please-help-with-wordbooker-image-problem HTTP/1.0" 200 42632 "-" "WordPress/3.2.1; http://alt3redegos.com/dev/relaunch"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "HEAD /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "GET /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 862574 "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "HEAD /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "GET /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 862574 "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:40 +0000] "HEAD /2011/10/12/the-new-posting-options-explained/ HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:41 +0000] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 483 "-" "The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:41 +0000] "HEAD /forums/topic/debug-204-6 HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:42 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/version-204-released HTTP/1.0" 200 28310 "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:41 +0000] "POST /forums/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 446 "-" "The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:07:46:44 +0000] "POST /forums/bb-cron.php?doing_wp_cron HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

So why does that bb-cron call at 07:46 appear after the 08:00 activies. What does bb-cron do?

[Keith Kelly]

Does anyone know of a plugin or similar for a universal search across the BuddyPress and bbPress portions of my site?

I have been looking around and found some hacks for WordPress / BuddyPress, but nothing for BuddyPress / bbPress.

[shyaam]

pimarts: I really need your help in understanding if there is a documentation on how you did it or if you could provide me more assistance directly, that would be great as well.

kangenguru: When I did it using your technique, I had issues the BBPress plugin did not have the bb-config.php, so I used the bb-config that is within the buddypress. Hence, I couldnt get the bb-press 2.0 to work. But again when I did it with what is built into buddypress itself, all the files and folders showed up like they were missing.

I am not saying that integrating buddyPress+BBPress is bad, but all I am saying is that I did not know how to work with this issue (could be the lack of knowledge). If anyone could help, that would be awesome.

PS: please do not ask me to google for the documents… I have googled for the past 3 weeks and found several solutions and most of them did not work in my situation. So any help would be greatly appreciated.