[vlovers]

I just shifted to new webhost recently and found that mybbpress forum is not working as it used to work before, I had also upgraded wordpress to 3.1. The bbpress forum version was 1…

I think something went wrong with the transfer to the new webhost

My bbpress forum and wordpress blog was integrated..

My wp blog – http://vlovers.com

My bbpress forum – http://vlovers.com/forum

Please see my error and hint me in required direction..

Thank you!

[pastorbobsforum]

Hello again.

Good news. I realised (by reading properly) that I only had to change one thing in this line.

if (!defined('POST_NUMBER_MODERATION')) define('POST_NUMBER_MODERATION', 5);

From define('POST_NUMBER_MODERATION', 5) to define('POST_NUMBER_MODERATION', 1).

And now it does exactly what I want. Let me resume it all.

An user signs up for the first time on my forum. These two plugins take action: Yu-Jie Lin’s Enhanced Registration to guard me from uninterested users, giving them a specific deadline to login; and New User Notification Email to notify me that a new user has signed up.

After that, 3 other plugins come in. First, Moderate new members’ first posts, notifies me that a new user has made his first post. Depending on the type of the post (spam/non-spam), Spam Notification will take action, and let me know what’s happening and so I can take action myself. At the user’s second post and from there onwards, xili New Post Notification (xnpn) steps in, and notifies me whenever a new post is made, but is no longer moderated, and so the users post freely.

These 5 plugins are brilliant, and if someone was to implement them all in bbPress Moderation Suite, as selectable modules, that would truly become a must-have plugin.

Anyway, another thank you to the developers and thank you Kevin as well.

Best regards,

Bob

[chrishajer]

Seems WordPress had the same trouble at some point:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-unknown-or-bad-timezone

[bbPressThemes]

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Thanks,

BT

[kasumo]

Please advise about the web addresses of the best freee bbpress theme that integrated seamlessly with wordpress theme

many thanks

[pastorbobsforum]

Hello.

I want to start by thanking the following developers: _ck_, Nightgunner5, Yu-Jie Lin, Olaf Lederer and michelwppi; for their time and effort in bringing about some very useful plugins.

I have a few comments of my own, and in some cases, very important questions as well.

Even though I have very few genuine users on my forum – four to be more precise, I have decided to (try to) offer as good of a service as I can. I have had a couple of spam posts (5.88%), which Akismet handled impeccably so far.

Also, in the last few days I have had about 20-25 new users that only registered, and considering some of their email addresses, have no other intention but to spam. In this case, another useful plugin came to my rescue, Enhanced Registration, which appears to be doing the perfect job. In conjunction with this plugin, I am using New User Notification Email, so I am always notified whenever a new user registers and if in X hours he/she doesn’t login, then their username is removed and my database kept clean. A very good combination in my opinion.

Further on, a common plugin for moderation that I am also using is bbPress Moderation Suite, and I am sure that it would prove its worth when people will be more interested in what I have to say on my forum. Anyway, I think it’s missing a very useful feature, provided (luckily enough) by Moderate new members’ first posts. Now, I have no doubt that this last plugin is working fine with some people, but not with me. What I wanted was to be notified once at an email address of my own choice (other than admin_email), whenever a new member made his first post (or after two). After that, he/she would post unhindered.

So, I (think that I) have identified the section in the plugin that needs attention, where the post count is made:

if(!is_moderator($bb_current_user->ID)) {

$sql = "

SELECT COUNT(*)

FROM $bbdb->posts

WHERE poster_id = $bb_current_user->ID AND post_status = 0

";

$userpostcount = intval($bbdb->get_var($sql));

}

And where they are marked for moderation (as spam):

if($userpostcount <= POST_NUMBER_MODERATION) {

$sql2 = "

UPDATE $bbdb->posts

SET post_status = 2

WHERE poster_id = $bb_current_user->ID

";

$markedasspam = $bbdb->get_results($sql2);

}

Now, I wouldn’t know what or where to edit in order to have it do what I want, and that is why I would appreciate it if someone who does know it would assist me. No matter how many times my dummy user called “testing” makes a post, I always get a notification, at the default email address.

I only want to be notified of the first post because I am using xili New Post Notification (xnpn) for the rest of them, at a different email address. What I like about this plugin is that it gives me the possibility to assign an email address of my own choice. It’s true that I would get an email twice when an user would post for the first time (2 plugins), but I can live with that, since they are at different email addresses (the default and my choice).

Thank you,

Bob

[pagal]

I saw Photosmash… nice integration with a WP blog… but how can it be compatible with a community (bbpress forum) ?

Regarding Photosmash questions please consider their community

What is the difference between WP + Buddypress -versus- WP + bbpress ??

In what sense you are asking for??

Generally;

WP + Buddypress

Well Buddypress is all about Social Networking. You can Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Its a combination of WPMU and BuddPress plugin. But Now you can do it with WPMS.

WP + bbPress

with this you can create a beautiful website or blog based on WP CMS along this community forums for discussion with bbPress.

WP ( multi-site) + BuddyPress = Social networking site ( like, facebook, hi5, orcut orkut etc.

WP + bbPress = Beautiful website or blog + Community forums.

Thanks,

P.

[dorae_monty]

I use wordpress theme on bluehost domain. I am not sure where I should upload the bbpress folder into. I would like the forum to be one of the pages of the website.

Thank you in advance!

[extremejacob]

I’m not using the same theme, but my theme came with a bunch of place holders for links e.g. “Link A”, “Link B”, … inside the different theme files (in the theme folder) which I could edit manually. That made it easy to find where to fix it.

Look in your theme folder for header.php, sidebar.php, footer.php or similar. Put the link code (a href .. ) in there where appropriate. If you don’t have place holders, you have more work to do.

[college beauty]

Unless you have like a tech blog, very few people know how/will bother getting a gravatar. I’d say 90% of people that register upload an avatar now.

[college beauty]

Yah, I know that. I eventually used the WordPress custom avatar plugin and updated my bbpress theme to call that function from WordPress side of things.

[beles]

You guessed right! A newbe:-) I figured out how to have a link from WP to bb. But not the other way round. Help. Using the Kakumei 1.0 theme.

[pagal]

You can see it on bottom of forums http://wordpress.org/support/

I want to trace these stuff, please guide.

Thanks

[kevinjohngallagher]

Yo Gatuam,

I’m in a real positive mood mate, it’s a glorious day here in Edinburgh (ha, that don’t happen that often) during the largest Arts festival in the world, at a time when we have 8 festivals overlapping in 6 weeks. I am like a pig in the proverbial

And if they were subscribed to feeds, most of them would also have subscribed to BuddyPress feeds

That’s a massive presumption matey

All i’m saying is, hasn’t 20 years of the internet as we know it shown us not to presume about users?

or they would be using WordPress (so they may get to know about it from the dashboard)

If they happened to log in on the 20-24 hours it was on the dashboard

Which gets harder depending on timezones and y’know life. If it was up there for a week, well yeah, I think you’d be closer to being right

All i’m saying is this JJJ: Maybe when you make posts about bbPress on other websites, you could do us a favour and make a little 2 line forum post on this website too. All that’s needed is “hello folks, FYI, link”.

From my point of view, this covers 100% of bbPress users, where are not doing it covers less than 100%. To me, in a really positive sense, taking 1 minute to post “FYI, link, ” and make sure no-one feels lift out is really positive

bbPress users have a history of hearing things 3rd/4th/5th hand, and rarely do those things turn out positive. I believe that JJJ’s plug-in will be positive to countless people, and i’m positive he’s the man for the job. Lets communicate about something positive, in a positive way, to all users

As opposed to posting about software X, on software Y’s website, and hoping people use software Z to read the news about it for the 24 hours it showed it. That’s just comical – haha actually I wonder if there’s already a dilbert comic that covers such convoluted messaging…

Have a great day folks, i’m off to see my 3rd favourite comic ever tonight

[Gautam Gupta]

Kevin, let’s be positive.

Couldn’t you have even posted a blog post here or a forum post here just with a link “hey folks, wanted to make sure you saw this ” ?

If bbPress users don’t use WordPress, then 99.999% they would also not be coming to bbPress blog each day to check for updates. And if they were subscribed to feeds, most of them would also have subscribed to BuddyPress feeds or they would be using WordPress (so they may get to know about it from the dashboard). And even if anyone would have missed, he/she would have got to know about it via other blogs like wpmu (I am talking of the people who like to be up to date with bbPress happenings).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Bro, there is zero doubt in my mind that you were always thinking of us, and your plug-in will please a great many people.

since both blogs feed into the WP dashboard you’re all going to see it regardless

But is it ok to suggest that not everyone who uses bbPress, also checks a WordPress install’s Dashboard that regularly? Especially as your post was bumped off that list in under 24 hours (it only shows the last 5 posts pulled in from entire 31 feeds it aggregates).

We’re not afflicted matey, thankfully many of us are in good health, but it’s hard sometimes to not find it difficult when we’re treated with presumptions.

Having to log into a WordPress install once every 24 hours ad infinitum just to check if someone’s posting bbPress news on another website, just seems a little daft.

Maybe when you make posts about bbPress on other websites, especially ones that have more info than has been posted here, you could do us a favour and make a little 2 line forum post on this website too. All that’s needed is “hello folks, FYI, link”.

[pagal]

Well, According to my little bit experience in bbPress World, its really not a good method to use just iframe to make forums seamless.

You’ll actually need to make your forums seamless / deep integrated with wordpress by following these Instructions. I hope it will work. Thanks

[s5group]

Hey,

Having a problem with the Media Temple re-direct exploit fix.. Had to change all the prefix’s in my database, to correct the issue… I can’t login to my forum now, under any account… User names have dissapeared from posts. I’m still able to login via WordPress though. I updated bb-config.php with all new correct info, still not working… any ideas?

http://www.onpointmusic.ca/forum

Thanks.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Kralletown,

You will lose some data in the transfer (attatchemnts as I recall was a biggie for some folks), but in theory none of the important data.

It also depends on how much you want to integrate with WordPress whether this is a good idea or not.

I’d loook at:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/phpbb3-gt-bbpress-converter-beta-release

A phpBB to bbPress database converter

Good luck

[Kralletown]

Hello.

I searched the forum for an answer, but I couldn’t find any up-to-date answer to my question. I’m doing a website for a mate who has a phpBB-forum which I’d like to integrate with a WordPress theme – and my first choice would be to import everything into bbPress. Is this possible without losing any information?

Thanks in advance,

Kralle

[Techpad1]

This may not be the same issue at all, but I thought it best to share just in case. I’ve experienced a similar incident to Susan’s when I first setup the User database sharing in the integration area. For the User database table prefix option, I had put in the prefix used with my WordPress install. As soon as I saved changes, I was logged out and could not log back in again until I went into the bb_meta table, found it under a meta_value field and deleted the prefix from that field. That immediately fixed my issue.

[chrishajer]

2) – no, bbPress is not a WordPress plugin. It should be inside a folder which is inside your WordPress installation. So, if your WordPress is at

/var/www/wordpress/

your bbPress will be at something like

/var/www/wordpress/forums/ where the word “forums” will be part of your URL. If your WordPress site is http://www.example.com, then your bbPress installation will be at http://www.example.com/forums/ if you called the folder “forums” as I did above.

3) create the folder my-languages at the same level as bb-templates, bb-plugins, my-templates, my-plugins. All those folders should have permissions of 755.

Step two is your biggest problem right now. You don’t activate it like a WordPress plugin because it’s not one. It has a separate installer. It doesn’t even require WordPress.

[thenbrent]

Zaerl, thanks for that. Very handy little fix!

I also just noticed, courtesy of Kevin’s post on the WP Forums, that users registering on the WordPress side aren’t being allocated a role in BBPress.

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/30-change-to-registration-screws-bbpress?replies=2

Argh. Any ideas how to fix that one Zaerl?

[pcheick]

Hi,

don’t know if this is the right place to post this – but I just made the huge mistake to give the table prefixes identical values in both bbpress and wordpress config files. This resulted in 400 post from my blog being deleted.

I think this should be mentioned in the integration guide as it is a pretty easy mistake to do.

cheers

Paul

[kevinjohngallagher]

It’s really unlikely a single user could have done something.

Excuse the obvious nature of the questions, and i aprecaite that you’ll have answered them in teh text above, but this isn’t a normal everyday bug, so we’re starting from scratch:

1) What version of WordPress?

2) What version of bbPress?

3) Are they integrated (share login cookies)?

4) Are they “deep integrated” (can call functions in the other program)?

5) Do you have the latest version of akismet on both WP and bbP?

6) Can you log into WordPress?

7) Can your other users log into WordPress?

Can people register with WordPress?

9) Can people register with bbPress?

10) Can people log into bbPress?

11) Have to tried disabling all plugins and trying again?

12) If so, have to tried switching to the default theme?

13) Are you using a premium (paid for) theme?

14) Are you using buddyPress?

15) What has changed since Friday?

16) What WordPress plugins are you using?

17) Are you using WP MultiSite?

18) Did you know that “registered users only” plugin has been marked by others as not working for WP3.0.1 on the plugin repository?

I know it’s a load of info, sorry, but it will help.

Very few, if any, bbPress plugins change the “role” for bbPress users, simply due to it’s rather convoluted nature.

Hopefully, we’ll get this fixed