[RossB]

I have a navigation button on my website linking to a bbPress forum, which works fine in IE, but won’t work in Firefox. Apparently it is a security issue.

My host Support has advised that changing the bbPress URL from https protocol to http will resolve the issue, but I’m wondering why https is the default protocol when you install bbPress?

I am aware that https ensures security for exchange of credit card info etc, but in the case of my forum, there won’t be any such security issues as far as I know. The forum is just a place for students to post research proposals and the like, and feedback to each other, and for their lecturers to do likewise.

Does anyone know, please, if there is any reason I should NOT change the forum URL from https to http?

[_ck_]

Hmm, is this the default in WordPress? define('COOKIEHASH', md5($_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]));

does that actually appear in wp-config.php by default? Because that would override the cookiehash calculation. Make sure then you have this in your bb-config.php

define('BB_HASH',md5($_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]));

also, since you are trying to do “full” (complex) integration. You may want to see here for more ideas: http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/

[_ck_]

The plugin currently allows you to change the smilie “set”.

I intend future versions to be able to use multiple sets at the same time.

If you want to make your own sets, just look at how the default folder is done and build your own. There is a single PHP file to edit.

[_ck_]

topic_time is meant to be used in topic loop, not a forum loop so it doesn’t know the last topic id.

You could get around this by passing the last topic id in the topic_time however you’d have to do a custom query to determine the last topic in a forum, as it’s not stored/available by default.

I think I’m going to make this into a plugin “forum_last_poster”

update: I seem to have finally made it work!

[RossB]

Oh yeah, I do already use Google’s reader – but you can’t actually subscribe to a site from within that, can you? And I have tried Firefox – I use it spasmodically. It’s illogical and even stupid of me, but I am so used to IE I find myself opening it up by default, as it were. No question, it is inferior to Firefox.

[chrishajer]

The closest thing I know of is “Comment Quicktags”:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quicktags-4-bbpress/

I think a WYSIWYG editor would be overkill since a lot of the markup is not allowed by default. I suppose you could disable the buttons that use non-valid markup.

Or, these forum posts:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/i-added-wysiwyg-to-my-bbpress

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wysiwyg-status

[_ck_]

I highly doubt anyone else is working on it, it’s a very complex plugin. Not something I would even try to tackle – go for it Nightgunner5.

[Ben L.]

“Also, the plugin (the original and my modded version) is completely unorganized. It should be rewritten …”

If nobody else is already remaking it, I could make it my next project.

Is anyone working on a remake of Private Messaging?

[_ck_]

I think you are missing the point that some people don’t want such features (for example, me) on their forums and by keeping it plugin based it can be an option instead of forced.

[775251]

One other quick note. I just tried to view the default forum stylesheet in my browser, so navigated to:

http://mysite.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

And again was redirected to my blog’s homepage. I’m confused as to why this is happening?

[Detective]

Also, the plugin (the original and my modded version) is completely unorganized. It should be rewritten …

[_ck_]

bbPress will never have a feature like that built-in.

[csseur3]

What do you think about integrate the private message by default?

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/private-messages/#post-43

[csseur3]

I think it is important to have a memberlist in a forum, so, why don’t integrate the plugin by default?

see: http://faq.rayd.org/memberlist/

bye

[csseur3]

Hello,

in the default theme, i see the link for the profile is on the title “admin”, etc.. but this is correct? i think no! I think it is more normal to have the link of the profile on the name of author, no?

How to change that?

bye

[775251]

During step 3 of the installation process, I accidentally inputted the wrong URL for my forum.

It asked me for the Site address (URL), which was defaulted to:

http://mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/

I changed this to

http://mysite.com/forums/

Now I can’t access the forums at all, and I can’t figure out how to change the URL back. I looked at bb-config.php, but didn’t see any way to fix this.

I’m not good with PHP and I’m new to WordPress in general, so any novice advice would be much appreciated!

[csseur3]

Hello,

with the last installation of bbpress revision 1595, i have sql errors:

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: forum_bbpress (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_forums (

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_desc text NOT NULL,

forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (forum_id),

KEY forum_slug (forum_slug)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ”;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ”

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: forum_bbpress (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_meta (

meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

object_type varchar(16) NOT NULL default ‘bb_option’,

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,

meta_value longtext default NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),

KEY object_type__meta_key (object_type, meta_key),

KEY object_type__object_id__meta_key (object_type, object_id, meta_key)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ”;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ”

SQL ERROR!

etc, etc…

why?

bye

[_ck_]

Block may never have worked like one would think.

I think it just treats them like “bozo” status.

It gives them the capability of “not_play_nice” = true

hmm actually…

function bb_block_current_user() {

global $bbdb;

if ( $id = bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) )

bb_update_usermeta( $id, $bbdb->prefix . 'been_blocked', 1 ); // Just for logging.

bb_die(__("You've been blocked.  If you think a mistake has been made, contact this site's administrator."));

}

function bb_reset_password( $key ) {

global $bbdb;

$key = sanitize_user( $key );

if ( empty( $key ) )

bb_die(__('Key not found.'));

if ( !$user_id = $bbdb->get_var( $bbdb->prepare( "SELECT user_id FROM $bbdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'newpwdkey' AND meta_value = %s", $key ) ) )

bb_die(__('Key not found.'));

if ( $user = new BB_User( $user_id ) ) :

if ( bb_has_broken_pass( $user->ID ) )

bb_block_current_user();

if ( !$user->has_cap( 'change_user_password', $user->ID ) )

bb_die( __('You are not allowed to change your password.') );

.

According to all that, their password should be scrambled and they should be unable to reset it – so they can’t log in.

But you can’t stop them from seeing the website.

There’s no IP based blocking (yet) in bbPress.

To really block an IP, you’d have to go into htaccess and add a “deny from” – at least for now.

I guess someone could write a plugin to block the IP of blocked users, perhaps for 48 hours or so. Since bbPress doesn’t store the last login IP for users by default, this makes it difficult, the plugin would have to start storing IPs on every login.

[_ck_]

== The Shared User List (table) ==

The most essential concept to all integration is that WordPress and bbPress just share the same list of users in the database.

This is where some people make a mistake right at the start and accidentally create or keep using two separate copies of the user lists (usually one complete with many users and the other just themselves because it’s a fresh install of bbPress).

If you find that after your integrated install of bbPress that it cannot “see” any of your WordPress uses, you must check that bbPress is using both the correct DATABASE, and the correct TABLE.

The most common name for the user table is called WP_USERS

The WP_ is what we call the prefix and indicates that it’s part of WordPress by default. If bbPress is running by itself and not integrated, the prefix is likely BB_. Unless you are doing reverse integration and don’t want to change the table name, there is a 99.9% chance that your user table should be WP_USERS.

If your bbPress cannot see the WordPress users, check your “User database table prefix” in the bbPress integration admin menu OR add this to the bottom of bb-config.php

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_';

[parthatel]

How do I make a link that directs the user to their profile?

The default code in bbPress is

<?php printf(__('Welcome, %1$s!'), bb_get_profile_link(bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' )));?.

Yet if I use this, the name of the user will be the linked text. Also, I’m not able to use this code alone. If I try:

<?php bb_get_profile_link(bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' )); ?>

…it doesn’t work. I also tried:

<a href="<?php bb_get_profile_link(); ?>">My Profile</a>

How can I change the text to My Profile and also let it stand alone? (standalone meaning on its own paragraph and with no Welcome, %1$s!)

[_ck_]

By popular request here is “The Hybrid”

download:

http://bbshowcase.org/themes/the-hybrid.zip

demo:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=the-hybrid

Essentially it’s a mash-up between the bbPress support forum theme here and Kakumei, with a few tweaks.

Requires the Topic Views plugin to be installed.

It’s older work and not as pretty as “FutureKind” (I won’t be releasing that one this year) and you can forget about “validation” unless you want to work on it quite a bit yourself, but it’s a nice alternative to the defaults.

Let me know if you get any errors or other problems.

I’ll try to fix it up some more as I have time.

[Null]

Ok (just asking this cause i am working on a plugin myself), but how about the next step. I have this to create a table if it doens’t excist:

bb_register_activation_hook(__FILE__, 'bbmenu_install_check');



function bbmenu_install_check() {

global $bbdb;



$bbdb->hide_errors();

$installed = $bbdb->get_results("show tables like ".$bbdb->prefix."bbmenu");



if ( !$installed ) :

$bbdb->query(" CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS <code>&quot;.$bbdb->prefix.&quot;bbmenu</code> (

<code>item_id</code> INT(3) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

<code>item</code> varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',

<code>set</code> varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',

<code>page</code> varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',

<code>location</code> varchar(50) NOT NULL default '',

<code>order</code> int(9) NOT NULL default '0',

PRIMARY KEY  (<code>item_id</code>)

)");

endif;

$bbdb->show_errors();

}

But I also want to put some data in it:

"INSERT INTO$bbdb->menu` VALUES

(DEFAULT, ‘Forums’, ‘active’, ‘index.php’, ‘front-page’, 0),

(DEFAULT, ‘Search’, ‘active’, ‘search.php’, ‘search-page’, 1),

(DEFAULT, ‘Statistics’, ‘inactive’, ‘statistics.php’, ‘stats-page’, 0);”;`

How to do this in the same query?

[parthatel]

By default, when a user creates a new topic, it becomes the first post in that topic. At the top of each topic is the area where the title, last poster, add to favorites, etc.. are. I want to add that first post into that area. How do I do this or where is the place to get the initial post.

In this case, there would be no replies when the topic is first created. How do I make it so that if there are no replies, it would say “Be the first to reply”?

Thank You.

[chrishajer]

mdawaffe: that has no effect. I logged out of this chrishajer account, then logged in with a new account from today, hajii. I tried to change the password since it is the default emailed one. I get the error about the user being unable to be found when I try to access the profile page. (Screenshot above.)

It might be new accounts: that hajii account is from today. And it appears to happen only on member accounts, so you might need to create member account and see if you experience the same thing.

The only people who can fix the problem won’t be able to see it, as moderator or keymaster.

[Tranny]

Chris, thanks a lot. Now the forum page pulls and no longer gives an error message, but all my formatting and custom layout is gone. And the links to forums don’t work. It takes me to the bbpress default telling me that forum is not found.