[88dbsakthi]

I am using simple facebook connect plugin with my wordpress blog and its sync well with bbpress also.

[88dbsakthi]

I am running earlier version of bbpress and being the bbpress 2 is releases as a plugin of wordpress. Is the core forum supported anymore ? or any suggestions

[pimarts]

Yeah I tried that a couple of times already, because I remembered that being a problem in the beginning.

I have a custom structure with “/%category%/%postname%/” at common settings. And the optional fields are blank.

I’ll probably have to look into the WordPress & Buddypress files to see where they do a 301 re-direct. Because when I installed httpfox and did record a session I saw the browser getting a 301 re-direct.

This is in my htaccess file by the way:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>

And this from the W3 Total Cache plugin too:

# BEGIN W3TC Page Cache core

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?w3tc_rewrite_test$ $1?w3tc_rewrite_test=1 [L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (2.0 mmp|240x320|alcatel|amoi|asus|au-mic|audiovox|avantgo|benq|bird|blackberry|blazer|cdm|cellphone|danger|ddipocket|docomo|dopod|elaine/3.0|ericsson|eudoraweb|fly|haier|hiptop|hp.ipaq|htc|huawei|i-mobile|iemobile|j-phone|kddi|konka|kwc|kyocera/wx310k|lenovo|lg|lg/u990|lge vx|midp|midp-2.0|mmef20|mmp|mobilephone|mot-v|motorola|netfront|newgen|newt|nintendo ds|nintendo wii|nitro|nokia|novarra|o2|openweb|opera mobi|opera.mobi|palm|panasonic|pantech|pdxgw|pg|philips|phone|playstation portable|portalmmm|bppcb|proxinet|psp|qtek|sagem|samsung|sanyo|sch|sec|sendo|sgh|sharp|sharp-tq-gx10|small|smartphone|softbank|sonyericsson|sph|symbian|symbian os|symbianos|toshiba|treo|ts21i-10|up.browser|up.link|uts|vertu|vodafone|wap|willcome|windows ce|windows.ce|winwap|xda|zte) [NC]

RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_UA:_low]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (acer s100|android|archos5|blackberry9500|blackberry9530|blackberry9550|blackberry 9800|cupcake|docomo ht-03a|dream|htc hero|htc magic|htc_dream|htc_magic|incognito|ipad|iphone|ipod|kindle|lg-gw620|liquid build|maemo|mot-mb200|mot-mb300|nexus one|opera mini|samsung-s8000|series60.*webkit|series60/5.0|sonyericssone10|sonyericssonu20|sonyericssonx10|t-mobile mytouch 3g|t-mobile opal|tattoo|webmate|webos) [NC]

RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_UA:_high]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} w3tc_referrer=.*(google.com|yahoo.com|bing.com|ask.com|msn.com) [NC]

RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_REF:_search_engines]

RewriteCond %{HTTPS} =on

RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]

RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =443

RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_SSL:_ssl]

RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip

RewriteRule .* - [E=W3TC_ENC:.gzip]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST

RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (sitemap.xml(.gz)?) [NC]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(/wp-admin/|/xmlrpc.php|/wp-(app|cron|login|register|mail).php|wp-.*.php|index.php) [NC,OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (wp-comments-popup.php|wp-links-opml.php|wp-locations.php) [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !(comment_author|wp-postpass|wordpress_[a-f0-9]+|wordpress_logged_in) [NC]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !(W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.3) [NC]

RewriteCond "%{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_UA}%{ENV:W3TC_REF}%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" -f

RewriteRule .* "/wp-content/w3tc/pgcache/%{REQUEST_URI}/_index%{ENV:W3TC_UA}%{ENV:W3TC_REF}%{ENV:W3TC_SSL}.html%{ENV:W3TC_ENC}" [L]

</IfModule>

# END W3TC Page Cache core

But taking that out (the W3TC stuff) doesn’t change anything, so the problem isn’t in there.

[John James Jacoby]

The way that BuddyPress integrates bbPress is currently through BuddyPress Groups. Do you want your forums to be powered by user groups, or do you want to have central forums like we have here at bbPress.org and WordPress.org?

[John James Jacoby]

@suziwilson – The way that BuddyPress integrates bbPress, into WordPress, is by taking over the installation and administration of bbPress completely. That said, if you are using BuddyPress to manage your forums, you do not have access to the bbPress admin area any longer.

If you previously had bbPress setup without BuddyPress, there is a large possibility that you will want to go back to the old setup you had before. BuddyPress currently ties forums into BuddyPress Groups, so they work a bit unconventionally compared to your normal support forums.

Very soon you will be able to install a new version of bbPress totally outside of BuddyPress, and they will work transparently without any additional setup, as two separate WordPress plugins rather than having bbPress be tucked away inside BuddyPress like it is now.

I know it’s all really confusing right now, but it won’t be soon.

[pimarts]

That’s the risk when you run software that didn’t have a proper release yet

Proper documentation will come in time, I have no doubt about that.

If you were running the plugin that’s in the wordpress repository at the moment (beta2b or something) you might want to change that with the one in trac (https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/plugin) that has some fixes in it.

I don’t know if they’ll fix your problem though. I never had to add any code to my functions.php to make it work and while I do have a message in my dashboard “Theme does not natively support bbPress”, it works pretty good

[Thomas Clausen]

Why not go the official way? https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin

Here it looks like the plugin is 100% translated in swedish

https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/bbpress/plugin/sv/default

[John James Jacoby]

Without doing some ender the hood trickery, it’s going to be hard to include all results and satisfy the majority of uses.

bbPress already does some of this to prevent things like rouge comment forms appearing where maybe they shouldn’t. I haven’t been able to come up with a working solution that I think satisfies what 80% of the people using bbPress will want, namely because the WordPress core search function makes what we want to do, a little difficult.

The other thing that you’re noticing is that all search results look like blog posts. That’s because that’s how the search.php in almost all WordPress themes is coded to look. bbPress can’t really intercept every possible query and scan the post_type for topic/reply, and then inject something different, on every singe possible page load. Well, it could, but I suspect the performance hit would be fairly costly and it probably wouldn’t scale well into millions of entries.

So, we’re kinda stuck.

In the meantime, you can append:

?ts=whatever

to search topics, and

?rs=whatever

to search replies in a specific topic, so I do have some logic built in to allow for this… but, it does need some massaging before it’s what I would consider to be ‘correct.’

[John James Jacoby]

So 2.0 beta has been downloaded over 15k times, which is awesome. Feedback has been coming in steadily, and I’ve been holding an official RC because of a few odds and ends that are taking some time to figure out. Hoping to get some feedback on a few specific things:

Page Templates

The way WordPress works, page templates can work automagically if the template name matches a page slug. This is really convenient as it automatically acts like a page template without setting it, but can get in the way if you want to use a specific page slug and not have bbPress take it over. Example:

page-user-register.php

If you made a WordPress page with the unique slug ‘user-register’ WordPress would automatically use that template file for that page. So far I’ve purposely picked unlikely template names so they wouldn’t collide with existing slugs. But, if that same file was renamed to:

page-register.php

…all it would take is making a “Register” page and bbPress would automatically have a sign-up page with no shortcodes and no more work. The adverse to that convenience is if you want to customize your sign-up page beyond what bbPress provides, you’re looking at a totally custom theme.

This works with any template file in the root folder of a theme, so there are lots of possibilities. My goal is to satisfy the majority, so I’m thinking of heading in this direction and renaming the template files.

Multisite

At the moment, multisite integration works great, if you want to have individual bbPress forums with their own authorized users per forum. If you want to have all users have access to all forums in a multisite install, you’re currently out of luck. With multisite there are endless configuration options, and I see the use case for all of them.

Which do you prefer as the default? Users can access all forums, or users can only access forums for which they have a role on that specific site?

Search

Right now there is no interface for searching the bbPress 2.0 integrated forums. The original implementation got negative reviews because search results were site wide, showing blog entries, topics, and replies.

It’s currently possible to filter search results by post type (topic/reply) but most WordPress themes assume the search results will come from posts or pages, and as such aren’t styled to look like forum results, which is really confusing to the person performing the search. It’s also confusing to have multiple search boxes, or to need to pick what results you’re looking for.

How do you think it should work? Should forum results appear in your existing blog search? Should they be separated? Should there be some kind of ‘smart search’ that knows where the request came from, and only shows results based on the type of content you are looking at (blog/forum/other)?

Settings

The WordPress mantra is decisions over options, but creating something as large as a discussion forum within WordPress is going to come with at least a few settings. I think our settings page is starting to get out of hand. Should we break the one page up into a few, or leave it as 1 page with all options?

That’s what’s on my mind. If you’ve been using 2.0 for the past few weeks, your input would be much appreciated so these last few ends can be tied up and we can let this ship sail.

[Thomas Clausen]

First off, I’m sorry to start a new thread here. I commented on one here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/about-search-field-in-bbpress-20-beta-3 but unfortunately it got closed, so I can’t comment on it.

John James Jacoby told me:

This has been covered in these forums a few times already, which may or may not be an indicator of how little the search functionality gets used.

http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575

But since I actually commented on a thread regarding the issue, it should tell John, that I actually did a search, and I had actually sought for about 30 minutes before writing the question. And a googlesearch also shows me, that it’s the only place linking to the tracticket: http://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575

Having said that. When I paste the code it just generates an error and the code in the trac ticket should be this instead:

function my_add_bbp_to_search( $post_type ) {

$post_type['exclude_from_search'] = false;



return $post_type;

}

add_filter( 'bbp_register_forum_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );

add_filter( 'bbp_register_topic_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );

add_filter( 'bbp_register_reply_post_type', 'my_add_bbp_to_search' );

Unfortunately I haven’t figured how to solve these two issues:

– have pages in search results (I always only get one page shown)

– show both forumposts and blogposts in search results.

So any thoughts on these issues would be great.

[sovery]

OK, I created a regular ole WP page and put the shortcode for showing the forum index in that regular ole WP page. Hit publish. I can see it. Great!

Is there a way to get it so it doesn’t have the WP sidebar and looks more like a forum usually looks? Not like it’s inside WordPress, in other words? I am thinking this may be where implementing “forum themes” comes in? If you have a link explaining this, I’d sure love to see it. Thank you so much, again, for taking a moment to help the clueless.

One thing I notice, too, is that there are references everywhere to the “bbPress admin” area and I only see an area in WP’s normal “settings” area and it doesn’t have anything like “bbPress integration” or any options like that. ?? I do see a message on my WP dashboard, “Theme does NOT natively support bbPress.”

[pimarts]

The plugin version of bbpress is integrated with WordPress out of the box, so you could give that a try?

[pimarts]

The plugin version of bbpress is integrated with WordPress out of the box, so you could give that a try?

[MikeBWD]

Shame they are not comparable, Should we should keep separate hosting for Word press and bbPress.

I was looking to commission these together with a membership plugin.

Is it possible with paid professional help or not worth the effort and I should look at another system?

Thanks

[MikeBWD]

Shame they are not comparable, Should we should keep separate hosting for Word press and bbPress.

I was looking to commission these together with a membership plugin.

Is it possible with paid professional help or not worth the effort and I should look at another system?

Thanks

[_ck_]

Check wp-config.php for any lines that define a $wp-> object setting.

They will break wordpress 3.1 or higher and give a $wp->add_query_var error.

For example:

$wp->cookiedomain = '.example.com';

Will work in 3.0 and below but break WP 3.1 and 3.2

You’ll have to research for the replacement define setting as an alternative to $wp->

For example, the modern replacement for the above line is

define(COOKIE_DOMAIN,'.example.com');

[_ck_]

Check wp-config.php for any lines that define a $wp-> object setting.

They will break wordpress 3.1 or higher and give a $wp->add_query_var error.

For example:

$wp->cookiedomain = '.example.com';

Will work in 3.0 and below but break WP 3.1 and 3.2

You’ll have to research for the replacement define setting as an alternative to $wp->

For example, the modern replacement for the above line is

define(COOKIE_DOMAIN,'.example.com');

[optimyzed]

I have successfully installed the bbPress 2.0 plugin on a WordPress 2.3.1 site. I can see the Forums, Topics, etc. on the admin menus, and I have created a forum. However, when I try to view the forum using the provided link (http://server.tld/forums/forum/family-talk/) or just trying to use the http://server.tld/forums URL, results in a not-found condition. Any thoughts?

Thanks!

PS – I did a few forums searches. I agree with the guy who said a quick how-to would be very useful! (What to do after install…)

[kizinko]

The WordPress one. I just figured out how to fix the dashboard without the forum. I deleted the bp-forums.php file from the main BuddyPress directory. Now my site is working (without a forum) and the dashboard works too. No idea why…

I would like to know if there is a way to modify this file to get the forums to work with BuddyPress.

Any ideas?

[John James Jacoby]

When you say ‘dashboard’ do you mean the bbPress one, or the WordPress one?

[John James Jacoby]

This has been covered in these forums a few times already, which may or may not be an indicator of how little the search functionality gets used.

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1575

[John James Jacoby]

@manager2 – Update to a newer beta, it has Akismet baked in. It uses the existing WordPress Akismet plugin and the same API key.

[pimarts]

Did you install the beta in the WordPress repository? Or the RC1 from the trac?

I’m not sure, but I think only the latter has the Akismet intergration.

[manager2]

I want security in posts not comments, for WordPress I have the math plugin that stops comments, put bbpress plugin behaves separate.

Anyway, maybe I do not understand well, I have Akismet on and doesn’t stop bots posting everyday on bb forum.

This is my website if you want to check: fotografbucuresti.ro

Or could I refuse posts with links? Just not working submit button if links, no other complication with error messages or guidance to the user.

[master5o1]

Doesn’t bbPress 2.0 have integration with the Akismet plugin for WordPress, which would then be allowed to check and mark the spam comments?