[Fender]

I’m not even considering Joomla for this. Joomla is for the news part of our site and not a consideration for this at all.

I’m basically tossing up between bbPress and WordPress.

I like the bbPress plugin bbPress Moderation Suite because it will allow my moderators to ban users for a period, generate an email and automatically remove the ban once it expires. However, I’m yet to find a way to reverse the order of posts in a topic so it’s most recent to least recent.

However, I find it easier to limit WordPress to only showing a “single topic” because, essentially, I can just post a single item and have the Comments do the rest. With some minor tweaks I can have the default WordPress page as the single post and remove other navigation features. I have the plugin for reversing the sort order so that’s covered too. But the user moderation features don’t appear to match that of “bbPress Moderation Suite” and I’m keen to have that for my moderators.

Basically, I’m looking for forum-like features with the following constraints:

• a single topic and viewing it is the default page
• descending sort order
• no user private messaging

If I can then add poll and live chat plugins, as well as some basic filtering options by allowing posters to tag their posts, that would be a bonus.

[ganzua]

check the bb_topics table in that db and check what it says for the ‘topic_poster_name’ column

Checked. Below topic_poster and topic_poster_name columns are all the right starter user IDs and usernames.

With the default theme I have the same error. Actually, my custom theme is a stripped kakumei

[ganzua]

The default kakumei template has no post_author_link in front-page.php or forum.php. Perhaps it is that post_author_link doesn’t work anymore inside the forum loop because the topic loop is different.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

That’s what I have too. That’s really wild.

Do you have access to your SQL database? If so, check the bb_topics table in that db and check what it says for the ‘topic_poster_name’ column. The default for that on my table is ‘Anonymous’ so it’s like it’s not writing to that field. Which would mean even if you flipped the bit to the old theme, the database still has it wrong.

So, try making a test post while using the default theme?

[Fender]

I’m trying to find a way to us bbPress that allows me to have only a single topic and nothing more for the whole site.

I have a site, http://bulldogs.rleague.com/ which is basically a guestbook on steroids with user moderation, profiles and various security features. The main feature, and the thing that has kept it alive for over 12 years, is the very simple, flowing format which evolved from a guestbook.

I want to replace the bespoke PHP because I’m tired of maintaining it all, and adding new features is a pain in the neck.

I’ve been playing with bbPress today and it has the simplistic approach that suits my needs. However, I need to find a way to basically make the default landing page a topic, and to hide/remove all functionality that is related to multiple topics and multiple forums.

I’m happy to mess with the core code and maintain it for upgrades, but a plugin approach would be preferable. However, I don’t know where to even start. Is it something I can achieve with a different template, or do core functions need modification or plugin-based override?

The other piece to this puzzle, and I think I saw an answer already, is that the display order of posts needs to change to be the most recent at the top.

Any help people can provide is appreciated.

Cheers,

Chris.

[asymmetrik]

is there an easy way to set the Topic Status/Post Status filters in the Dashboard -> Manage -> sub-tabs to default to All? it currently defaults to Deleted.

thanks.

[chrishajer]

It looks like you used wp_ (instead of bb_) as your table prefix, and WordPress was already installed, which means bbPress tried to install into the WordPress tables?

By default, WordPress uses these tables (in 2.7):

wp_comments

wp_links

wp_options

wp_postmeta

wp_posts

wp_terms

wp_term_relationships

wp_term_taxonomy

wp_usermeta

wp_users

And bbPress uses these in the alpha version:

bb_forums

bb_meta

bb_posts

bb_terms

bb_term_relationships

bb_term_taxonomy

bb_topics

bb_usermeta

bb_users

bbPress 0.9.0.* versions used different tables:

bb_forums

bb_posts

bb_tagged

bb_tags

bb_topicmeta

bb_topics

bb_usermeta

bb_users

And when you integrate, bbPress uses the wp_users and wp_usermeta tables instead of its own bb_users and bb_usermeta.

[_ck_]

This seems a great time to mention a new hidden feature in bbPress 1.0 based on a suggestion I made: “Safe Mode”

When you don’t know why something isn’t working, one quick and easy way to prove if it’s a plugin gone wrong or not is to temporarily try “Safe Mode”

The way to activate safe mode is to edit bb-config.php and insert

$bb->safemode = true;

Then your forum will temporarily switch to the default theme (which you should never have tampered with) and disable all plugins, temporarily.

When you are done testing, remove the line from bb-config.php

This is far easier than deactivating 20+ plugins, one at a time and then having to activate them again.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I opened that a half a month ago But thanks, _ck_! It works now. I updated my ticket but … why isn’t it picking that up from the default template?

[_ck_]

No you miss the point that both are put into the template so the ajax can hide or unhide the link as necessary depending on the post status.

But older themes without the two classes above will never hide the alternate link by default. So they both show.

There will be hundreds of questions about this now.

Put these two classes into your style.css

#thread li .undelete-post, #thread li.deleted .delete-post { display: none; }

#thread li.deleted .undelete-post { display: inline; }

and it should fix.

[_ck_]

Might be a trunk bug but strange how it works in the default.

They changed how the links work to bb_post_admin so it’s all internal now.

If there is a bug, it would be in

function bb_get_post_delete_link( $post_id = 0 ) {

Unless maybe in your template you have both

bb_get_post_delete_link() and bb_post_admin()

which should not be.

Wait, I take that all back

something crazy is going on with line 1599,

you now MUST have in your theme both classes to hide the inactive link.

So they essentially broke every theme in existance with the new trunk. Nice.

$r = "<a href='$delete_uri' class='$ajax_delete_class delete-post'>" . __( 'Delete' ) . "</a> <a href='$undelete_uri' class='$ajax_undelete_class undelete-post'>" . __( 'Undelete' ). '</a>';

Go into your stylesheet and copy from the default kakumei stylesheet the styles for

#thread li .undelete-post, #thread li.deleted .delete-post { display: none; }

#thread li.deleted .undelete-post { display: inline; }

Are they calling everything threads instead of topics now? Ugh. More confusion.

[Ben L.]

I’m on the current trunk as of writing this post. (1903) I’ll try testing the live forum.

Edit: Using the default theme made the problem go away, but the line of code that shows the edit/delete/undelete links is exactly the same as Kakumei’s and there’s no functions.php file.

[chrishajer]

Rather than trying your theme and plugins on another installation, how about turning off the plugins and trying the default theme on your live forums? Testing the other way is not a 100% test.

Do you know what revision of trunk you’re using? I installed trunk two years ago, but it was a much different version then.

[John James Jacoby]

Also, when I register a new user through WordPress as per normal, that user is still not assigned a role in bbPress. Not when they login, not when they hit the forum for the first time. Not ever.

My Steps:

1. I used a Chrome browser window to register a new user through WordPress
2. Logged in via WordPress
3. Hit the forum
4. User could not post, looks like has no role
5. Logged out via WordPress
6. Used FireFox to login as admin to check new user role
7. No Role Assigned
8. Used Chrome to login through bbPress
9. Hit the forum
10. User could not post, looks like has no role
11. Used Firefox admin to edit Test user
12. Received typical error message (noted below)

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 2009

Basically it looks like the exact same error message as before, with the same circumstances.

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Round two using alpha 5 trunk from the SVN went exactly the same way, only this time when I logged in via bbPress, the above Warning went away, but that user is still marked as Inactive by default when they should be a Member according to the role map.

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When registering through bbPress, the new user still is not assigned a Role on the WordPress side either.

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Sam, can you explain to me what was supposed to be different in alpha5? Maybe I misunderstood…

[Ben L.]

Most of the filters are in defaults.bb-filters.php or default-filters.php before 1.0.

[dragly]

@JesperA: Have you tried to change the cookie keys from the default phrases? For instance a simple word?

I’m not at all sure if that’s the problem, but I didn’t get my integration working before I changed the keys to something completely different without special chars or whitespaces. Although I might have done something else as well in the same run.

[_ck_]

That’s funny I was just about to make a TRAC ticket pointing out there is no index on topic_time for the latest view.

Strange you have to force the index though, what is the default ORDER BY, let me go look…

yup, they order by topic_time, with no index, that’s just crazy, even for just 1000 topics, because it would have to do a full column scan. Ordering by topic_last_post_id would be even faster with an index too though I guess in a very strange circumstance the last post might not be the last time.

Still, you should not have to force the index.

Oh wait, I see why – it’s because mysql decides to use the stickies key instead, ugh.

Yeah I can see why that would bring a large forum to a crawl.

I think whomever designed the bbPress database tables had a misunderstanding how mysql indexes work because they are using multiple field indexes that are not the primary key. Or a key at all. Which is useless because mysql will only use one index per query regardless of it’s complexity (or lack of). An index on multiple fields is useless unless it’s used as a key. MySQL 5 can use different indexes for the query vs ORDER BY or GROUP BY but bbPress doesn’t take advantage of that at all.

[virginiagirl]

I created a theme so the Forum looks integrated with the rest of the site, but now the Reply link does not work and the Reply box does not show up. I’m not sure how to fix it. When I change it back to the default theme, everything works fine. I didn’t make any major changes to the files, but maybe I deleted something? If anyone can help me figure out how to fix this I would appreciate it!

Here is the forum: http://www.fallforthebook.org/bbpress

And here is an example of the issue: http://fallforthebook.org/bbpress/topic.php?id=2

[Trent Adams]

Generally what I do is just edit your template to change the code on register.php to just have the registration page either redirect to your wordpress registration or have a link on it. If you use the default theme, just copy it into /my-templates/ and edit the register.php file of your theme. That seems to be the easiest as it then never shows the bbPress registration form.

[feastoffools]

Thank you guys so much for the feedback! Are any of you guys available (for hire) to upgrade our bbpress forums? Right now we’re running version 0.8.3.1 — really hope that version 1.0 will be ready to go soon.

Right now I’d just like to get it to work with version 0.9– thanks!

Another issue I notice is that a lot of our users don’t scroll down the page to post entries, and usually wind up putting the top category by default.

[hotforwords]

For topic_page_links() on the forum home page, I went to: /bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php -> line 932 and changed ‘show_all’ => false to ‘show_all’ => true

This allows me to show the pages of a post without popular topics shifting the entire forum to the right.

You can see it in action here: http://www.hotforwords.com/forums/

Most themes disable this tag as it messes up themes with popular topics.

My question is, if I have to change the default setting on a bbpress core page, that would indicate to me that there is a variable I can put within the tag… between the ().

Does anybody here know what I can put there so that I don’t have to change the core pages? ie: topic_page_links(show_all->true) or something like that.

Thanks!

[apocalyptictomorrow]

I started playing with WordPress on December 25th. ApocalypticTomorrow was born on the next day. On that same day, I discovered bbPress and it was then integrated with WP. At the mement it has the included default “blue” theme and not many plugins but as the days go by, I will be modifying it and adding plugins as well as changing the look and feel.

Check it out at http://apocalyptictomorrow.com/bbpress (feel free to join and be one of the first ones in the newly-made community!)

By the way, you can shameless self-promote your personal website at:

http://apocalyptictomorrow.com/bbpress/forum/website-promotion

[Fernando Tellado]

I’m finishing my new forum (latest was made with SMF). I’m using bbPress 1.0 alpha 4 with the default theme (in blue and customized) and several plugins (a lot):

– Akismet

– Attachments

– Favourites notification

– Registration notification

– Temporal Ban

– bbcode buttons

– smileys buttons

– Related topics

– Signatures

– bbcode lite

– bbvideo

– post count plus

– support forum

– mass edit

– hidden forums

– active users

– bbpress karma

– terms of service

– human test

– report post

I’ve made the translation of bbPress 1.0 to spanish ( http://ayudawordpress.com/bbpress-espanol-alpha-104/ ) and the forum URL is …

htp://foro.ayudawordpress.com

[TechGnome]

I’m not sure if this is a rant, a request for help, or a general gripe.

I want to replace the default front page with something else. I’m building a website for an online radio station, and when visitors first hit the site, I want them to see current info, like what’s playing, what’s up next, and the last few that played. From there, there would also be a “Listener Forums” link that would take them to another page that would be the forums’ front page.

Trying to be smart about it, I took index.php from the root, copied it, and renamed it “forums.php”. Then I went into the template, copied front-page.php and renamed the copy “station.php”. So far, so good. Then things went wrong from there.

Back at the root, I opened the index.php and changed it to call station.php instead of front-page.php. I then went to my website, and made sure that index.php was still working, which it was. Again, so far, so good. At this point station.php and front-page.php are exactly the same, as are index.php and station.php, with the one exception. But I should still get the exact same thing from both index.php and forums.php (or so I thought). When I visited the forums.php of my site…. I noticed it was….. off… and not a little, the layout as a whole was jacked with very little in the wrong place.

Careful scrutiny of the source for both pages led me to find out that on the forums.php version, I was missing the ID off of my body tag. Eh? I finally found the location in the bbPress file that returns the body id…. and sure enough…. because my “file” doesn’t fit into the list… I’m not getting a body id…. well, this isn’t very flexible. My first thought was to create my own version and include it in my functions file…. but that’s hardly a solution.

So, am I stuck? Do I need to consider something else? How do I get around this? I’ve got other files I will be adding to my site like this… so this is just the first of several times this is going to happen to me. I’m just glad that I didn’t fully finish the plugin I was working on. I would hate to have wasted my time on something that I can’t use.

annoyed and frustrated,

-tg

[Trent Adams]

Compare the functions from the default theme and the theme you are trying to integrate. It is hard to say what you changed that caused you issues. It is pretty much guessing without knowing what you changed.