[zaerl]

There was things I could have done much better

for sure man. Mass email = 99.998% flagged as spam.

The only way to avoid been flagged as spam is to send the notifications into batches that by default are no more than 50 addresses per email like what happens in the “Mass Email” functionality of phpBB. (addendum: a lot of hosts allow you to only send X email per hour.)

I have built a lot of newsletter-like server-side software that sends the newsletter out to X of them every Y minutes using a cron job, with X and Y adjusted from host to host.

Right now there isn’t a plugin that provide this functionality but it can be easily achieved as ashfame suggested but you need some PHP+bbPress knowledge to code what you want.

[zaerl]

With the default installation: no. But it can be “easily” achieved through a plugin.

[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

[zaerl]

Just change name/surname from the your profile page. It’s not a good idea to change the default “admin” login name.

[infusion5]

I’m not sure what removed that file, but I reuploaded the default kakumei theme (green and blue versions), and it worked a treat.

Thanks so much!

[Joe Gibson]

Z – This is actually getting interesting. Check this out:

1. I download a fresh bbPress, upload it to the site (after renaming my original folder), and the sticky topics are still at the bottom. I’ve deactivated every plugin and am using the default theme.

2. I dig up a list of bbPress forums, check out about six of them, and — sure enough — their sticky posts are at the top.

3. I make a third sticky post on my site and it’s at the top, as a new post should be. I make a regular post and it’s above the new sticky post. Ditto another regular post. So, while it won’t roll them off the back end, it’s still preferring ‘date’ to everything else.

Every day a new thrill, eh?

Joe

[EyeSeeSound]

Hi Chris,

thanks for that. Ok, i’m using the default template, I just changed it. I looked at a pre-edited version of the style sheet and the .alt div only has one element which is background-color which i haven’t changed.

Not to say that you aren’t correct, but not sure what to do about it if you are.

Any further ideas? I’m thinking the .alt only changes teh colour to white, rather than cream, so maybe another CSS element needs to be corrected?

Cheers

[chrishajer]

The .alt replies (the class is generated and added automatically by bbPress) are being formatted improperly. Try with the default theme and see if they look correct. If they do, figure out what you did wrong when modifying the theme. It looks to be something in the CSS.

[chrishajer]

Hmm, not really clear what the resolution was here but the error is the same:

Who can shed some light here?

It’s almost like one of the template files is missing from the template folder or has the wrong permissions or something. post.php is missing?

Where did the file go if it WAS working?

This should give some output (or at least a blank screen), not a 404:

http://infusion5.com/forum/bb-templates/kakumei/post.php

So, I think there is something wrong with your template. Try uploading another copy of the default kakumei theme (and kakumei-blue to be safe.) You could be missing other files as well, so might want to check for others or just re-upload. Looks like everything is already installed in the database.

[Rose]

I’m creating a website with WordPress and bbPress that needs a section where someone can fill out an application form (from a WordPress page) and that will create a new topic in bbPress with the info they filled in.

We decided that the easiest way would be to have the form data submitted straight into the bbPress database.

I experimented with phpmyadmin by adding new records with the correct info in bbposts, increased the post counts in bbtopics and finally used the post time I’d set in bbposts (post_time) with topic_time to update the ‘freshness’. I used phpmyadmin’s default date/time selector to replicate the records’ formatting correctly.

While the new post showed up perfectly and the post counts were correct, the freshness came up as being “-1 years”

I changed the code in front-page.php to the following as outlined by _ck_ :

<td class="num">" title="<?php echo date("r",strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?>"><?php topic_time(); ?></td>

so that I could see what it was coming up with as the posted date and time. The results were… ‘interesting’ –

On mousing over the -1 years, I got the correct date and time.

On mousing over the correct freshness times of other posts I had made the same day, I got a date and time that seems to be 12 hours behind.

Here are the links to images outlining this:

-1 years freshness but correct date/time image

‘Normal’ freshness time but with wrong date/time image

Can someone please explain what is going wrong and if possible how to fix it or get around this problem with adding topics directly to the database. I’m starting to /facedesk so help would be much appreciated!!

[chang]

Hi,

The default bbpress post doesn’t have the Reply function… is there any plugins that have this feature?

I tried easy mention but it didn’t work at all

Thank you!

[chrishajer]

pagelines_localize()

That’s coming from your theme. Try switching to the default WordPress theme and see if the error is still present.

I can’t download a copy of the Pagelines theme, so can you post the lines from about 50 to 65 in this file:

/wp-content/themes/iblogpro4_dev/core/globals.php

At least from line 53 to line 61, but I suspect there may be some conditional around it and need to see the whole context. If you want, you can email me that file at chrishajer [at] gmail [dot] com as well. Looks like you will need to try and declare that function only if it isn’t already declared. This would be a modification to the WordPress theme file.

But, try the default WordPress theme and see if integration works, or gives another type of error.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Korti,

The issue with captcha’s comes down to the fact that you’re asking users to prove they’re not spammers by a method only avalible to be answered by a percentage of your legitamate posters. It’s not their fault the software you chose (or, we’ve all chosen) can’t handle the spam.

The realism is, if you’re running 100 sites, you should have a moderation policy in place. With people/human moderators. No software system, ever in the history of the world, has stopped 100% of spam. Infact, none have even come close to catching 100% of spam.

It’s all about percentages, and putting systems in place to get the spam coming through down to a managable number. I agree that typing any 4 numbers into a box doesn’t take long or put people off, but that’s a massive over simplification.

Captcha’s don’t:

1) Make any difference to human spam

2) Work if the user is on an older browser

3) Work if the user has JavaScript turned off

4) Work is the user has Images turned off

5) Work on mobile devices (by and large)

6) Meet any accessability standards

7) look or work the same for people with sight issues. (and the audio captchas simply don’t work).

Work in RTL languages / displays

9) Work in non-latin based languages as default (arabic / manderin / cantonese)

10) Work without a mouse (if using a reCaptcha).

Percentage wise, that’s a HUGE HUGE HUGE percentage of the world right there.

As a Real World example: I’m currently onsite at a client’s campus running analystics and UX/IA for their new University enrolment system. Online enrolment is down just over 20% from this time last year (not a big worry), but failed registrations is up by over 400%. Number one reason: people failing the captcha.

Captcha instantly fixed it and I still get just as many emails from customers asking questions if not more

Maybe you’re getting more emails because people who are serious can’t use your form to post.

What about those that are serious, but after multiple attempts at using your captcha simply gave up.

I do not think an extra 10th of a second for a captcha code would make people go anywhere else

Its cool that you think that, but there is so much data out there that says otherwise.

We have almost 20 years of HCI data availible, and we know for a certainty that the percentage of users who complete registration/sign-in/posting drops at an alarming rate the longer the process goes on.

Have you ever noticed how captcha’s were everywhere in 2007, but are virtually no-where now?

I am in no way a “bad” moderator a busy one yes.

I don’t doubt that mate. Approx 100 sites? I couldn’t even begin to imagine.

Take Care.

[chrishajer]

It’s not available for download anywhere that I know of. There used to be themes around that look like it.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whoa#post-68290

[schummy2000]

Hi i want to get this theme (the bbpress.org page forum theme).

Anybody knows its name or where can i get it ?

Thanks !

[Coasters Today]

I deleted the default admin account on my WordPress site after I gave another user admin access. I just found that I can’t access my plugin menu or settings in the integrated bbpress forum with that user(not deep integration). I have access to the database so is there any way to make my admin user a key-master again? If not is there any way I can get access to those menus again?

Using Wp 3.0.1 and BBp 1.0.2

[_ck_]

Very nice work! Thanks for sharing it.

I love how you used the ability to only change certain files and let it fall back to the originals as the default. I don’t think many people realize you can do that.

[entrepreneurchic]

Never mind! I’m just going to create a separate database

[entrepreneurchic]

Yeah it happened to me earlier when I try to reinstall. However, I’m sharing this with my WordPress database. How to fix?

Thanks Chris!

[chrishajer]

Somewhere, you either called the folder “forums” or typed that in to the installer. I get redirected when I try accessing some things (like the stylesheet.)

If you have nothing of value there yet (no topics or replies) I would just reinstall and be sure your URL and directory have the same name in them (i.e. a folder called bbpress, and the URL has bbpress on the end.)

To reinstall, you will need to drop the bb_ tables from the database, otherwise you will get an error “bbPress is already installed.”

[entrepreneurchic]

Sorry, it should be /bbpress for both. BUT thats the weird thing, when I type in bbpress/bb-admin to access the admin, it takes me to the above URL.

[chrishajer]

How come you have bbpress in one URL and forums in the other? Did you specify the location as one, but actually have it in a folder called the other? Both the folder (directory) where you installed it, and the information in the installer need to be the same. I would suggest using forums in both places (because who cares what forum software runs there really, right?)

[entrepreneurchic]

I installed BBpress and this is how it came out…http://www.entrepreneurchic.com/bbpress/

And when I tried accessing the admin, I get 404

http://www.entrepreneurchic.com/forums/bb-login.php?re=/bbpress/bb-admin/

PLEASE HELP!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi John,

I don’t know why after all these years that there is a refusal to put a clear and defining sentace saying that this isn’t part of the default bbPress package. It casues so much confusion for new users.

bbPress is a totally separate standalone forum, that can integrate user sessions (login/log-out) with WordPress. Nothing more. Its important to keep that in mind because it’ll save alot of thinking from a wordpress point of view.

That said, theming bbPress is quite simple as long as you know 1 thing: bbPress won’t run WordPress commands/functions/API calls.

Copy your default bbPress theme (the rather lacking Kakumei), rename it both in folder and in the template information held in the style.css file contained within.

You now have your own bbPress theme. Congrats.

The next step is simply to copy/paste the HTML you want to replicate from your WordPress theme into your bbPress theme. If you’re not doing any special processing, I strongly suggest copy/pasting the loaded/outputed HTML from when you load your WordPress homepage in a browser.

If you want to copy/paste from your header.php file in your WordPress theme, remember and take out all of those pesky WordPress functions, and replace them with bbPress equivalent or hardcoded information.

If you’ve ever made your own WordPress theme, you’ll find bbPress follows a very similar path/structure.

Good Luck

[chrishajer]

Any theme file, yes. If the file is not present in your theme, the missing file from the default theme is used instead.