[Trobee]

I have a similar situation, although I will have forums on other subsites eventually, so I have it enabled over the whole site, but I only created forums on one subsite.

The only thing I think I had to do was set up rewrites in .htaccess from all other subsites and the main site to view user profile pages.

For the main page:

RewriteRule ^users/(.*)$ /forums/users/$1 [L,R=301]

For subsites:

RewriteRule ^[subsite]/users/(.*)$ /forums/users/$1 [L,R=301]

Also, I am using the “Move Privacy Options” plugin to make the subsite private, and I noticed that the bbpess rss feeds are not private. I am currently woking on fixing this and so far this is what I have got, which is by no means perfect.

You will need to find the functions bbp_display_topics_feed_rss2 and bbp_display_replies_feed_rss2 in bbp-topic-functions.php and bbp-reply-functions.php respectively, and add this code to the beginning of each fuction

if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {

header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Website"');

header('HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required');

exit;

}

$user = wp_authenticate($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'], $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']);



if ( !$user || is_wp_error($user) ) {

header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="My Website"');

header('HTTP/1.1 401 Authorization Required');

}

Which should limit who can read the rss feeds to people who have a login to your wordpress site.

[Trobee]

Hi all,

I am looking into possible ways to rank forum topics via user ratings, ie, a feature request forum where users can vote on if they want the features suggested in each topic. I have been looking at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/rating-widget/screenshots/ which claims it has bbpress support, but I cannot find out how to set it up. Has anyone trued this before or know of other possible rating plugins

[elenazvarici]

I just tried a fresh install of wordpress and bbpress in a test subfolder, and IT’S WORKING ! What did I do to my main install ?

[elenazvarici]

Hi guys

I am running WordPress 3.2.1 bbpress 2.0.1 single site, platformpro theme.

After several installs and reinstalls of the bbpress plugin while not working, I think the settings are persistent to the database and maybe in some other places, which makes the reinstalls not effective. What should I do ? Empty the bb_ tables in my database or simply drop them ? please note I am a newbie.

I tried clearing the tables but somehow I kept having the same issues: My problem imo is that forums show as blog posts. I am also trying to run the pagelines.com platformpro / base theme which I bought some time ago.

Please tell me what should I delete / clear to make sure to have a fresh install ?

Files / tables.

Thank you very much.

[OPI Axxium Gel]

I need that code. PLease send me! Thank you.

[CaptainN2]

This is all in one (not very robust). It uses brute force to loop through every user, then uses built in functions of WordPress to check each user’s credentials.

It almost timed out on my site with a measly 7000 users, so 200,000 will almost certainly be a problem.

Suffice to say, it’ll need chunking. I’m also checking on some safety issues with the way I’m detecting superfluous users. It currently does these checks:

1. Is the user only a subscriber (this is the questionable check – though it seems to work)?

2. Does the user have any posts?

3. Does the user have any approved comments?

As long as the user has no posts, no approved comments, and is only a subscriber, it’ll delete that user.

If you want to use this as is, you can comment out the entire foreach block starting on line 73. That will make it so you can at least load the page (this block tries to count the number of users it will delete – which in your case will likely timeout).

You can then just hit “Do it!” a few times (it’ll time out each time, but it’ll take a chunk of user out before it times out).

[gerd007]

Hi,

I have installed WP 3.2.1 and activated “Site wide forums” option. Then I created several public forums in the FORUMS menu of bbpress.

Now I have the problem that I don’t see a single forum when I click on “Neues Thema” (german version). I can publish new entries in groups (the standard BuddyPress Forum option I think).

What do I have to do to be able to publish entries in a created forum?

Additionally: I have inserted the bbpress Forum lsit widget which shows all created forums. When I click on a forum in the widget list, a new page is displayed but without a forum title and the displayed forum entries are the same in all forums.

Thanks.

Tom

[benfrain]

Hi,

I’m trying to exclude all forum post types within my main WordPress theme’s functions.php file using this sort of syntax:

$post_type != 'forum'

However it doesn’t seem to work. Here is the full if statement I’m using:

function single_post_nav() {

if ( is_single() && !in_category(array('54', '55', '56', '57', '58')) && !is_category(array('54', '55', '56', '57', '58')) && $post_type != 'forum' ) { ?>



Some stuff

However, it is still displaying the content on forum pages. Does anyone know the correct way to exclude the forum posts within functions.php?

Any help much appreciated.

Cheers – Ben

[CaptainN2]

In WordPress admin -> Settings (not the forums submenu – its in WordPress’s normal Settings block) -> Forums. The settings you seek are in there.

[CaptainN2]

Very good, thank you for the information.

Another question – if I hit spam on the spammy comments, does that train the Akizmet filter? It does seem that some spam is getting caught, so I’d guess it’s all going through Akizmet?

Also somewhat related (though more generally applicable to WordPress) – anyone know of a good User pruning plugin? The ones I find in the plugin repos don’t seem to work.

[nbatioco]

I have installed my wordpress and run BBpress plug-in. I decided to add additional plugin intended for BBpress which is Easy Albums – (Buddypress users create and share images, video and audio albums – the easy way.) This plug-in works properly with the default theme for BBpress but when I change it to Frisco BBPress Theme everything seems to be okey not until when I click the album tab in the profile of each users.

When I am in the tab of Activity, Profiles, Message, Friends and etc the sidebar works well and when I click on the Album tab which the Easy Albums Plug-in added that tab then the sidebar is misaligned.

I hope someone can help me about this..

Here’s the link http://enimz.com/gp60/members/admin/albums/

[doy1914]

Hi.. I am new to wordpress and now i need to make a custom template and in this template I will list the parent forum and its category only.

i have this blank template and I dont know what to do next..

forum-list.php

==================================================================================

<?php

/*

Template Name: Forum List

*/

?>

<?php get_header(); ?>

<div id=”container” class=”one-column”>

<div id=”content” role=”main”>

<?php

/* Run the loop to output the page.

* If you want to overload this in a child theme then include a file

* called loop-page.php and that will be used instead.

*/

?>

</div><!– #content –>

</div><!– #container –>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

==================================================================================

Can Anyone help me on how to make it from scratch?

[zofar143x]

[blockquote]Does registration go through normal WP reg process? I can’t find it from the forums, but the spam bots sure can![blockquote]

I believe it does so adding something like reCAPTCHA to your reg form should reduce the spam you’re getting on your forum. Something like this: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/ for instance.

[blockquote]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.)[/blockquote]

You can add a link to your template linking to the wp registration page (“url.com/wp-login.php?action=register” or something like that) or simply load the bbpress login widget and add the registration link to it.

[blockquote]I forgot to mention another issue I’ve had – bbpress doesn’t get along with wp-super-cache – is there any easy way to get around that (disable the cache just for the forums tree for example)?[/blockquote]

You can try Hypercache. I believe that plugin allows you to exclude pages you don’t want to cache so you can exclude your forum from being cached.

[Ramiuz]

I have no users on the second installation at all.

Other than the single wordpress admin, I myself am.

[devotee]

I have this problem also. Topics appear in random order. I´t a fresh install of WordPress single user site, and lastest bbPress. Recounting did nothing sadly…if anyone solves this problem please let me know, the forum is unusable like this.

[John James Jacoby]

This won’t be easily possible. WordPress handles post type rewrite rules automatically.

[John James Jacoby]

Interesting. Will test some things. Can you create a ticket over at bbpress.trac.wordpress.org to remind me?

[Ramiuz]

In phpMYadmin I can browse both databases which are both the child of localhost.

Can I mark all BBpress stuff, and export it to a file, and import that into the WordPress database?

Will that work?

And if it works, will the users and posts be visible in my other BBPress installation on the wordpress database then? Or will they still need to be converted? Cause I see all the users and different values have “BB_” infront of them, while the WordPress users and values have “WP_” infront of them.

Is that what needs to be changed? The three characters in the beginning of everything?

[Ramiuz]

What do you mean? Move what tables over?

Can I install BBConverter, import my BBpress 1.02 installation to backup file, and export it to a BBPRess 2.0 installation on a different database? That should work right?

IS there no option in BBPRess 2.0 to select database? If not, there really should be.

That would be very easy, to just install BBPress 2.0 through WordPress as is, and go into the admin panel and select : Database – Select Database – Option 2 – Would you like to import existing users and discussions into BBPress? – Yes/No

[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.