[raving-drifter]

Google custom search is an alternative..

[raving-drifter]

Google custom search is an alternative..

[Justin Tadlock]

Thanks to JJJ for pointing this topic out to me.

Right now, my forum plugin isn’t planned for public release. I’d much rather see a community-supported plugin because a lot more can get done. The plugin could simply be better developed and have better support if it’s a community-run project. Make no mistake, a plugin like this is massive amounts of work, more than one person can realistically handle. Honestly, I don’t want to be the only person developing and supporting a forum plugin.

The reasons I’ve been doing my own thing rather than fully devoting my time to bbPress:

1) I just wanted to see if I could do it for fun.

2) I had some projects that needed basic forum functionality that couldn’t wait for alternate solutions.

3) Everybody wants something, mostly things I don’t believe belong in a lightweight forum plugin.

4) I’ve been hesitant to get more involved in bbPress because I don’t want to deal with all the drama here.

I just finished three months of intense writing for a WP plugin book, so my time has been limited for a while. I’ve still got book-related things this month as well. Once this process is done, I plan to devote more time to the bbPress plugin.

What we want:

These are the things I believe most of us want, which is the reasons I put together a plugin and the reasons for the bbPress plugin. This comes down to two things:

* A plugin that easily integrates into the WordPress user/role and login system.

* Forums that can be managed from our WP admins.

It’s basically about being able to run forums without a lot of hassle.

The direction I’d like to see the bbPress plugin go:

* Stick with the philosophy: lightweight and basic.

* Allow plugins to extend anything needed beyond basic forum functionality.

* Use the functions WordPress provides where possible.

* Forget backwards-compatible hooks and functions. Build a new system.

[Justin Tadlock]

Thanks to JJJ for pointing this topic out to me.

Right now, my forum plugin isn’t planned for public release. I’d much rather see a community-supported plugin because a lot more can get done. The plugin could simply be better developed and have better support if it’s a community-run project. Make no mistake, a plugin like this is massive amounts of work, more than one person can realistically handle. Honestly, I don’t want to be the only person developing and supporting a forum plugin.

The reasons I’ve been doing my own thing rather than fully devoting my time to bbPress:

1) I just wanted to see if I could do it for fun.

2) I had some projects that needed basic forum functionality that couldn’t wait for alternate solutions.

3) Everybody wants something, mostly things I don’t believe belong in a lightweight forum plugin.

4) I’ve been hesitant to get more involved in bbPress because I don’t want to deal with all the drama here.

I just finished three months of intense writing for a WP plugin book, so my time has been limited for a while. I’ve still got book-related things this month as well. Once this process is done, I plan to devote more time to the bbPress plugin.

What we want:

These are the things I believe most of us want, which is the reasons I put together a plugin and the reasons for the bbPress plugin. This comes down to two things:

* A plugin that easily integrates into the WordPress user/role and login system.

* Forums that can be managed from our WP admins.

It’s basically about being able to run forums without a lot of hassle.

The direction I’d like to see the bbPress plugin go:

* Stick with the philosophy: lightweight and basic.

* Allow plugins to extend anything needed beyond basic forum functionality.

* Use the functions WordPress provides where possible.

* Forget backwards-compatible hooks and functions. Build a new system.

[Rich Pedley]

Adding a child theme is incredibly easy, check the really minimal one you can have:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes#Example_of_a_basic_Child_Theme

But if you’ve developed a custom one yourself, then adding the necessary files/functions to that theme would be easy as well.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve had a check-out for a while, but nothing of his has made it in yet.

Because there are only so many ways to do the same thing, our code is very similar with a few different methods here and there. His code is more mature in a few areas (mapping WordPress meta capabilities, topic/reply counts, additional query caching…) and it’s almost time to cherry pick his code and give props where due.

He started out using taxonomies for forums, but a lack of taxonomy meta thwarted that idea. We talked before either of us made too much progress on how to best do things so we would be loosely compatible with each other. I committed early on to using post types for data storage for everything to allow for easy forward compatibility with things like forum/topic/reply thumbnails, excerpts, revisions, etc… Justin and I both agreed it was the quickest way to go, we put our noses down and wrote some code, and we met a month or two ago in #bbpress on IRC and exchanged more code and ideas.

It was really cool for Justin to volunteer to share his code and approach. He spent countless hours getting things dialed in and that time is going to be greatly appreciated real soon.

It would have been even cooler to have him contribute patches directly to trac, but from what I recall of our talks he had some previous obligations that prevented it. I’m sure if I’m wrong Justin will catch wind and chime in.

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Edit: I saw a reply in the above linked topic about him ‘turning over’ code to bbPress, but I don’t really see it like that. His code is always his, and he’s free to continue developing his plugin if he wanted to. No hard feelings.

The bbPress trac is public and the code is visible for everyone to see, versus Justin’s forum code which to my understanding isn’t something he wants openly available for download, or else I imagine he’d probably have it that way. I know from experience that supporting something as large as bbPress on top of other obligations can be a challenge, so I wouldn’t blame him for not wanting to volunteer additional time.

Either way I’m honored to have his respect and be able to have someone attempting to do something similar at the same time. It’s one of the first times in my professional career I’ve had what most people would consider ‘friendly competition’ without ever feeling like we were against each other in any way… not that I’ve ever had unfriendly competition… but you get the idea.

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve had a check-out for a while, but nothing of his has made it in yet.

Because there are only so many ways to do the same thing, our code is very similar with a few different methods here and there. His code is more mature in a few areas (mapping WordPress meta capabilities, topic/reply counts, additional query caching…) and it’s almost time to cherry pick his code and give props where due.

He started out using taxonomies for forums, but a lack of taxonomy meta thwarted that idea. We talked before either of us made too much progress on how to best do things so we would be loosely compatible with each other. I committed early on to using post types for data storage for everything to allow for easy forward compatibility with things like forum/topic/reply thumbnails, excerpts, revisions, etc… Justin and I both agreed it was the quickest way to go, we put our noses down and wrote some code, and we met a month or two ago in #bbpress on IRC and exchanged more code and ideas.

It was really cool for Justin to volunteer to share his code and approach. He spent countless hours getting things dialed in and that time is going to be greatly appreciated real soon.

It would have been even cooler to have him contribute patches directly to trac, but from what I recall of our talks he had some previous obligations that prevented it. I’m sure if I’m wrong Justin will catch wind and chime in.

---

Edit: I saw a reply in the above linked topic about him ‘turning over’ code to bbPress, but I don’t really see it like that. His code is always his, and he’s free to continue developing his plugin if he wanted to. No hard feelings.

The bbPress trac is public and the code is visible for everyone to see, versus Justin’s forum code which to my understanding isn’t something he wants openly available for download, or else I imagine he’d probably have it that way. I know from experience that supporting something as large as bbPress on top of other obligations can be a challenge, so I wouldn’t blame him for not wanting to volunteer additional time.

Either way I’m honored to have his respect and be able to have someone attempting to do something similar at the same time. It’s one of the first times in my professional career I’ve had what most people would consider ‘friendly competition’ without ever feeling like we were against each other in any way… not that I’ve ever had unfriendly competition… but you get the idea.

[mr_pelle]

Have you tried this plugin?

[mr_pelle]

Have you tried this plugin?

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.

[kenburcham]

First objective: Prepare your bbpress database

1) Create a database using phpmyadmin or whatever tool your hosting provider gives you to create a mysql database. I like calling mine “bbpress”.

2) Create a database user and give them access to the database you just created. I like calling my user “bbpress” and making a password that is unguessable “K4id83k$h@a” or something.

Second objective: Prepare the bbpress directory

1) Download the latest bbpress installation zip from here: https://bbpress.org/download/

2) Use either an ftp program or the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to copy the bbpress zip archive to the root directory of your webserver. Usually something like “public_html”.

3) Use the filemanager tool provided by your hosting provider to unzip the archive into your home directory.

4) Rename the “bbpress” directory to the desired directory name you want to reference in your url. For example if you want: http://www.example.com/forums then rename “bbpress” to “forums”. If you want: http://www.example.com/bbpress then you don’t need to rename the directory at all. This is now your bbpress “home” directory.

5) Delete the bbpress installation archive zip file from your home directory.

6) Advanced: check the permissions of the bbpress home directory. If you want to make things really easy on yourself, make the bbpress home directory world writeable (777) while you run the installation process. (just be sure to change it back when you are finished!)

Final objective: Install bbpress

1) Go to your bbpress home with a browser: http://www.example.com/forums

2) Follow the instructions bbpress gives you in the installation process. You’ll need to provide the username, password, database name and host that you created in objective one.

NOTE: I’d recommend NOT doing the wordpress integration during the install. Just skip it for now. You can set that part up later once bbpress is installed and working.

3) Once you’ve finished following the instructions, you should be good to go!

NOTE: If things go bad and you need to restart the installation process from scratch, you can delete the bb-config.php file from your bbpress home directory and delete the bb_* tables from your database using your database administration tool. Then visit your bbpress home again with your browser to restart the installation process.

[nmprofessional]

Asfame,

MANY Thanks!

WordPress + bbPress is new to me ( it is my third day working with them both) and your article about deep-integration:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

was EXTREMELY helpful in me understanding hoe to integrate them both.

Again – many thanks!

Dave

[nmprofessional]

Asfame,

MANY Thanks!

WordPress + bbPress is new to me ( it is my third day working with them both) and your article about deep-integration:

http://www.wpwebhost.com/make-bbpress-theme-match-with-wordpress-by-deep-integration/

was EXTREMELY helpful in me understanding hoe to integrate them both.

Again – many thanks!

Dave

[qprints]

Is it true it is to be intergrated with the BBPress forum plugin?

http://popcritics.com/forums/topics/if-i-needed-a-wordpress-integrated-forum-by-this-time-next-week#post-10319

[nmprofessional]

I am also having the same issue on one of my clients sites using WordPRess + bbPress with deep integration here:

http://theagelessedge.com/wp/forum/

Please excuse the roughness of layout for now.

Again, like <b>eshipguy</b> has said all of the posts work and can be seen – but every TITLE of very forum page displays “404 Not Found” EXCEPT for forum/php (in the main bbPress directory).

Anyone else figure this out or anyone want to work with me to try and figure it out?

Thanks,

Dave

[nmprofessional]

I am also having the same issue on one of my clients sites using WordPRess + bbPress with deep integration here:

http://theagelessedge.com/wp/forum/

Please excuse the roughness of layout for now.

Again, like <b>eshipguy</b> has said all of the posts work and can be seen – but every TITLE of very forum page displays “404 Not Found” EXCEPT for forum/php (in the main bbPress directory).

Anyone else figure this out or anyone want to work with me to try and figure it out?

Thanks,

Dave

[ortixia]

any idea why my bbpress site would say …

Regisration disabled. This is a demo site. ?

I have used the bbpress integration plug-in on my wordpress site.. the users come through fine…

note: i have two sites:

http://www.terralingua.org/bcdconservation

(this is the one i have linked the database to)

and

http://www.terralingua.org

(underconstruction, in ‘maintenance redirect mode’, meaning it is redirected to my old site, but i enabled registration anyways to test, (has shared users plug-in

[gamersbd]

Hi,

I’m using WordPress 3.0.1 and bbPress 1.0.2. I installed both of them via softaculous.

Now I’m trying to integrate bbPress with WordPress. In the bbPress configuration page, it says to input the AUTH_KEY, LOGGED_IN_KEY. It says to take the value from my wp-admin/options.php page

However, there are different keys. The wp-admin/options.php page shows different keys while the wp-config.php file shows different keys. Which should I use?

[ortixia]

Sorry to be naiive but is this a plugin or a theme for bbpress? I would be happy to test this for you, as it would be useful for my work.

I have something similar set up for my other wordpress site that has the wp-iphone plug-in and a vast html forum server, it works ok, but it is very useful.

I am not a guru of any sort, but I would be happy to test it for you, provided that I am given some clear guidance. I can find my way around php to make adjustments, but not much yet.

[ortixia]

Sorry to be naiive but is this a plugin or a theme for bbpress? I would be happy to test this for you, as it would be useful for my work.

I have something similar set up for my other wordpress site that has the wp-iphone plug-in and a vast html forum server, it works ok, but it is very useful.

I am not a guru of any sort, but I would be happy to test it for you, provided that I am given some clear guidance. I can find my way around php to make adjustments, but not much yet.

[Anonymous User]

Hi dsmasters,

it seems that there is no feature in the backend from WordPress to disable the anonymous postings. Maybe it’s possible to disable to post-form via conditional tags?

<?php if ( $user_ID ) { ?>

postform

<?php } ?>

[spenderr]

Sorry moved from previously badly named topic!!

i’m unable to post a new topic on my forum. it just gives “this topic has been closed”.

i have integrated BBPress with WordPress and installed the platform pro theme which all looks fine and i login to wordpress and don’t have to login again when i go into the forum.

if i go back to the default theme there is no problem with posting a new topic.

this is the thread in the pagelines forum where we have been discussing this issue.

http://www.pagelines.com/forum/topic.php?id=3149

[arpowers]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to post here to tell you about the new Platform Forum theme for bbPress.

It’s part of the new framework we just launched at PageLines; and it’s designed to integrate in with WordPress…

Here is the url:

http://www.pagelines.com/demos/platformpro/forum

Some features:

1. Support forum integration – We’ve supported and integrated the support forum plugin

2. bbCode Buttons, bbCode Markup – Markup your posts with buttons and bbCode

3. bbPress Signatures – Supported

4. WordPress integrated – Designed to work with WordPress and the Platform Framework..

Anyway, looking forward to your feedback

Andrew Powers,

Founder, http://www.PageLines.com

[garfiels2010]

For making bbPress (and WordPress) do what it ain’t supposed to…

please http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

[protofuse]

hello,

just did the bbpress integration in my wordpress designthemedia.com

when I check http://designthemedia.com all is ok!

when I check http://designthemedia.com/forum … even the basic css of my wordpress is killed.

I copied the style.css of the bbpress theme into the root of my wordpress and I made an @import from the css of my wordpress.

any ideas for me ?

all the best,

julien