Some days old post but really optimistic for bbPress.
I don’t need to personally write code much these days because we have so many talented folks involved but I am jumping back in on bbPress and will be hacking around in there.
@gordonsa thanks dear,
I definitely know that the easiest way to protect with .htacess. but again
I don’t want to use .htacess method, I want to use php
Because sometime some scripts works with open directories. If I protect a directory via .htacess then this script or plugin will not work with this…
e.g. This wordpress plugin
User-Name-less systems like facebook need to be designed from scratch like that. The WordPress/bbPress system unfortunately is user_login/user_id based.
You could force user_id for the profile stub if that makes you like it better, bbPress will accept either.
BTW in a forum based system, how would you deal with two dozen users that insisted on using “Greg” as their display name and similar avatars?
By the way, I don’t think I released it yet but should by the end of the month, just have to write a “readme.txt” – I have a “rename user” plugin for bbPress to change user_login across the system.
It even supports multiple bbpress and wordpress systems attached to the same user db table and will fix all topics and wp comments.
So, not meant for constant username changes, but good for occasional fixes. Also detects existing username collisions.
Non-plugin bbPress development is going to continue until we have a perfect importer so people will be able to bring their content out of the legacy codebase.
So, will BBXF finally have some use?
I’ve tried another integration with no “www”, it works 50%.
Now I just can’t access my bb-admin and not able to logout from wp admin 
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I’ve installed _ck_ plugin fixed admin access, but its not working in this situation. I’ve find other ways from bbPress Search but still not solved. any idea?
Non-plugin bbPress development is going to continue until we have a perfect importer so people will be able to bring their content out of the legacy codebase.
Simply I love this statement!!
@ Matt Mullenweg, with this perfect importer, will we able to switch from other channels like vBulletin, phpbb, ip board? did you ever think about it? Any Plan?
Thanks r-a-y for the compliments, and thanks chrishajer for resuscitating the post!
This is what happened. I said:
Try again to contact him. I have a modified version of bbPM with 1), 2) and 3) but I don’t share it cause the nightgunner5 is active in this site.
In my opinion a mere fork is a bad idea when the original author is still around. I have built zaerl Visibility on top of hidden forums cause _ck_ wasn’t active in the last X months.
Then the plugin has been announced. So I dediced that writing plugin will not be funny anymore. I have announced this in my 7 plugins pages:
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-editor/page/2/#post-5992
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-random-description/#post-5993
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/page/3/#post-5994
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-simple-registration/#post-5995
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-url-preview/#post-5996
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-post-permalink/#post-5997
bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-wordpress-3-integration/#post-5998
(no direct link in order to not be triggered as spam.)
That’s it.
Just rescued this post from Akismet.
The reason why many of my plugins require editing is because it’s usually a “set and forget” situation and nothing can top that for maximum performance. Some I just couldn’t be motivated to do all the work for an admin menu until I knew people were actually using it, and based on donations, virtually no-one is using my plugins or wants them improved.
Plus until I came up with an idea for external admin code, I hated how they were often larger than the plugin itself.
In any case admin menu frameworks can easily be changed. There were several plugins for WordPress 2.5 and earlier that reformatted all the menus, the design in WordPress today was lifted from those plugins directly.
The idea that there will be a “perfect” standalone to plugin converter is incredibly naive. It will convert data, all your plugins and themes will be dead.
In any case bbPress will definitely be forked, I am hoping there will be several forks.
ps. @Greg, Display Names can be “accessed” from bbPress 0.9 since they are just in the user metadata and autoload when the user is fetched, you just have no UI elements to set or change them from 0.9 (but if you have WP integrated, just use that). It would be easy to make a plugin that displayed the Display Name in bbpress.
Sure, i’ll do that tonight when I get home
@kevinjohngallagher what about Toy Story3? I think that will be really interesting so that you’ve forget abt this topic 
What’s all missing in terms of features in 0.9 when we compare it to bbPress 1.0+ ?
- XMLRPC – but do we use it right now? I haven’t heard of anything using bbPress XMLRPC
- WordPress matching backend
What else? I never used 0.9 much. BTW, I think most of the functionality a forum owner would need are covered by _ck_’s plugins 
I would like to hear from you guys.
Thanks zaerl!
In terms of integration, I connected the databases between WP and bbPress during installation and made sure that the cookie information matched in both configuration files (bb-config and wp-config). Those two steps made it so when a user registered and logged in at my forum, they were logged in at my blog too.
I didn’t really need any of the WordPress functions in bbPress so I skipped the deep integration part (calling wp-load). The only bit of dynamic code in my header is checking to see if a user is logged in, and on WordPress you can do that with:
<?php if(is_user_logged_in()){?>
Do something
<?php } ?>
I use caching to load the sidebar and footer. When someone visits my main site, http://devgrow.com/, it creates a cache of the sidebar and footer if there is no existing cache or if it’s older than 6 hours. The cache is just a text file that contains the output of the dynamic bits in my sidebar in HTML format, which I just include in my bbPress sidebar and footer.
I also wrote some custom code to pull the recent and popular (most replies) topics and display them with their topic icons.
Hope that makes sense, let me know if you have any other questions.
I’ve installed an integrated WordPress 3.0 (NOT MU) and the latest BBPress. When users register with WP they can not add any reply or start a new post in the forums.
I tested this with the default unaltered theme and same thing.
Looking in the DB I see that each member is a “member” in WP but there is no BB_METAUSERS table for bbpress. I think this isn’t required when an integrated solution is installed.
Any idea why all new members are set to “Inactive”?
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I would love to hear the implementation details
I like it. Very clean theme.
Looks like you have WordPress installed as well. Will WordPress mail out information?
If you would like to work around the problem, you can display the password to the user rather than email it, with a plugin:
Here is what (the highly respected) Mark Jaquith has to say about the very similar problem over on the WordPress side:
Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress
And I guess the way I stated this whole thing was wrong to begin with, what I meant instead was that if you sell premium themes to remember they also have to be GPL – IF you start with another theme that is GPL.
You can’t make a premium theme that uses GPL code from another theme or bbPress/WordPress itself and sell it without making it GPL.
(now I think I finally said it correctly)
I guess the sad conclusion to all this is how bbPress standalone now has some really nice premium themes but is ending standalone development.
Looks good! Also loads quite fast due to not using deep integration.
Check it out: http://devgrow.com/discuss
It took about a week to get everything the way I wanted. At first I wanted to do a deep integration but it was too much of a pain, so I just ended up writing some custom code to cache most of my sidebar, header and footer elements from my blog and display the cached content in bbPress.
Plugins I’m using:
- Allow Images
- Auto Add to Favorites
- BBcode Lite
- Google Sitemap Generator
- Post Count Plus
- Post Count Plus for WordPress
- Subscribe to Topic
- Topic Icons
- Custom Plugin for Recent/Popular Topics
And some more custom code throughout the templates. Would love to answer questions or hear feedback!
Okay, first thing’s first… if this is the forum on the bbPress site itself, it really needs to be a bit more of a better example. As it is, when I get to the forum I’m first faced with a giant tagcloud, then I have to scroll all the way down past a huge list of posts to get to the actual individual forums such as this one. Of course, I could hit the button to start a new topic at the top of the top of the page but not only is that counterintuitive, it’s a really bad idea in general that will get people just Pcoming in and posting without looking at other posts first. I’d hoped the layout would have been changed by now at least.
Second problem, and this is one I’ve had on the wordpress forums as well but never bothered to ask about it. At the bottom of the post box it lists allowed tags (shortly after mentioning “Enter a few words (called tags)” with a link to the tagcloud rather than a definition of tags), but what gets me is “Put code in between backticks.” I’ve been running forums since before ISPs could offer residential Internet connections and yet I have absolutely no clue what that means. Unless this software is only meant for WordPress users (which I’m one of, btw), it would be best to get a bit more accessible to ordinary people in terms of language/jargon.
My other large beef is that the forums read like blog comments rather than forum discussions. Threading would be my number one request if I intended to use it. I guess my number two request would be integrating said threaded comments into the comments section of blog entries for those using it with a WP blog, though that’s a lot more complicated. I’d want to start off with the other way around by having the blog able to automatically display posts from certain sections such as Announcements and such. I’m not sure if that functionality exists yet, so apologies if it does. If not, I suppose a workaround could be reading the rss feed from that section into the blog section, but aggregating your own feeds is a fairly silly notion.
That’s it for initial feedback right now. I may come take another look when the software has matured a bit… by that I mean the core, it shouldn’t have to depend on plugins and themes to have very basic funcionality on its own.
Did you integrate with WordPress and use an existing WordPress user as your keymaster in bbPress?
Looks like you have WordPress installed as well. Will WordPress mail out information?
If you would like to work around the problem, you can display the password to the user rather than email it, with a plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/
