[cfreview]

That’s an interesting idea ck, and that might get me where I want to go.

Have you seen anyone do something like through bbshowcase?

[_ck_]

The approach Digg uses is very simple and would not need such an advanced plugin like “promote to front page”.

All you need to mimic Digg is allow voting on topics and then replace the part of your front page that shows the latest-discussions with the list of topics by highest rank.

In fact there is already a topic voting plugin that does that, you’d just have to edit your front-page layout. You could then go further like Digg does and restrict highest rated by date – 24 hours / 7 days / 30 days / all time

[_ck_]

bbPress’s search is horrible (also in WordPress).

There essentially is no advanced search at all.

I have a Super-Search plugin that I’ve never finished and may go back one day to look at it when I have some time.

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/7600/supersearchwl4.png

[John James Jacoby]

del Sol Owners Club Forums

Just finished some integration for a website I run. Added a few of ck’s awesome plug-ins. :tip of the hat:

Still need to smooth the bugs out of the registration/login process before I will be 100% happy. I need to use a specific registration plug-in on the WordPress side that bbPress doesn’t play nice with.

[John James Jacoby]

I noticed this happening here and over at the WordPress.org forums, so there may have been some kind of a delay.

[lauryn77]

Hi!

That’s the error I get during integration/installation, someone can help me?:

Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’

>>> User tables will already exist when performing a database integrated installation.

Forum could not be created!

here is installation log:

Referrer is OK, beginning installation…

>>> Setting up custom user table constants

Step 1 – Creating database tables

>>> Create table bb_forums

>>> Create table bb_posts

>>> Create table bb_topics

>>> Create table bb_topicmeta

>>> Create table bb_tags

>>> Create table bb_tagged

>>> Added index wp_users UNIQUE KEY user_nicename (user_nicename)

>>>

>>>>>> Duplicate key name ‘user_nicename’

Step 2 – WordPress integration (optional)

>>> WordPress address (URL): http://www.italianwebdesign.it/

>>> Blog address (URL): http://www.italianwebdesign.it/

>>> WordPress cookie secret key set.

>>> Fetching WordPress database secret.

>>>>>> WordPress database secret set.

>>> User database table prefix: wp_

Step 3 – Site settings

>>> Site name: Italianwebdesign forum

>>> Site address (URL): http://www.italianwebdesign.it/forum/

>>> From email address: laura@lauryn.it

>>> Key master role assigned to existing user

>>>>>> Username: admin

>>>>>> Email address: laura@lauryn.it

>>>>>> Password: Your existing password

>>> Description: Just another bbPress community

>>> Forum could not be created!

>>> Key master email sent

There were some errors encountered during installation!

[webstar]

Thanks for your post electroniques, it helps for my problem.

[John James Jacoby]

Looks good enough to me, although I haven’t checked the source to see exactly how you did it.

[cfreview]

i like the idea ck. Why not take it one step further and allow voting to promote it to the front page, ala digg.

I want people to be able to post to the front page without any approval. Kinda a no holds bar approach.

[johnhiler]

Lester Chan has written a really good plugin along these lines for WordPress:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-email/

It’s GPL, so maybe it’s something that could be adapted for bbPress?

[cosmich]

hey ck

that suggestion didn’t make sense to me, since as i mentioned in my last post, the errors refer to my WordPress users table, not bbPress. still, after i worked out how i could change table names without using a query, i did as you said. the result was the same errors i got in my original post.

however as i now knew how to change table names, what Chris had said earlier suggested that i should try adding the database name as a table prefix to my WP users table. i did that, and when i tried to log in, one of the errors was gone. however the other error that came up was that bbPress was now looking for my WP usermeta table. so again i added the database name as a prefix to that and i was in!

unfortunately, while i got in with admin access, i no longer had access to the settings, so i couldn’t delete the database prefix to the tables.

i’ve decided that this is becoming such a mishmash that i’m going to uninstall bbPress and reinstall it again, trying to avoid the error with the database prefix. in any case, thanks to both of you and Chris for your help, i learnt some handy things in the process!

[_ck_]

bbPress Plugin Index, N – Z

– N –

• New User Notification Email

– O –

• OpenID for bbPress

– P –

• Page links for bbPress
• Plugin browser for bbPress
• PollDaddy for bbPress
• Post Count
• Post Count Plus – Dynamic Titles, Colors & More!
• Post count titles for bbPress
• Post Edit Look Behind
• Private Forums
• Private Messaging

– Q –

• Quote

– R –

• Read-Only Forums
• reCAPTCHA for bbPress
• Recent Posts
• Related Topics
• Report Post
• Reputation (Karma) for bbPress
• Restrict registration for bbPress

– S –

• Show Top Posters
• Simple Google Adsense
• SMTP mailer for bbPress
• Sphere related content for bbPress
• Spoiler Tags
• Support Forum

– T –

• Temporary ban
• Terms of Service
• Textile
• Threaded posts
• Topic Icons
• Topics Per Page

– U –

• Unread Posts
• Unread Topics
• Use Display Name
• User Languages
• User Photo
• User Timezones
• Usernames I18N Fix

– W –

• Wiki Post
• WordPress Integration
• WP Search
• WP-CSS
• WPMU Enable bbPress Capabilities

– Y –

• Year Long Cookies – Remember Me

[_ck_]

Ask this on the bbSync plugin page.

[_ck_]

Michael is very busy on WordPress 2.7 now and Sam has been away so I am sure they will look at it when they can.

[_ck_]

You can make bbPress look like WordPress and simply be installed at /forums/ on your website. But bbPress will never be a plugin, it’s way too complex for that and has it’s own structure.

Because bbPress 1.0 uses BackPress (parts of WordPress), when WordPress starts to use the same common core, it will one day be far easier to integrate the two. But that day is at least a year away.

[AminSanaei]

Bbpress is very good forum for my wordpress. But I want that it be a plugin and when I click on name of forum, it open in my wordpress theme; not on other address. Can you try to create that? Thank you.

[johnhiler]

Ah neat… it kinda sounds like something that could power the Slashdot frontpage?

[_ck_]

One plugin that I’ve been meaning to create for quite some time is a “promote to front page” tool where admin can mark a topic for special promotion, with their own custom summary that superceeds the title and first post and replaces (or suppliments) the Latest Discussions on the front page with the list. The list could then be re-ordered even further, independent of topic time.

I think such a plugin would change how bbPress is used in a positive way. Just can’t decide how to best interface it with how topics work and how to give the admin full access to existing formatting tools and other plugins within the summaries. It would probably be mostly like Wiki Post.

[cfreview]

I guess what I essentially want is many authors many commenters, but I’m not ready for each to have their own blog. I like the idea of buddypress, but that would be something to consider in the future.

I guess I’m almost looking to create something in the style of fark.

[cosmich]

hi chris and ck

i missed something obvious, didn’t explain about my databases and probably confused you in the process.

so i’m going to try to clarify. bbPress and WordPress have separate databases. by substituting db for the name of my database, i obscured the fact that the errors referred to in my initial post are looking for my WordPress users table ie in my WordPress database, not bbPress.

in phpMyAdmin i can see that my WordPress tables have no prefix, while my bbPress tables have an underscore prefix:

i tried putting db (my database) as a prefix in my wp-config file just to see if that would work, but i still got the same errors (so changed it back to what it was, since it also took my WordPress site down, though it was fine again once i removed the prefix from wp-config).

so i still have no idea of what to do.

i remember when i was setting up integration for bbPress that i specified a table prefix – i’m wondering whether it would be simpler to uninstall bbPress and reinstall it again, trying to avoid the prefix problem? i’d lose a bit of stuff i entered, but there’s not much and i could easily recreate it.

[chrishajer]

You didn’t mention what version you installed. It matters for finding problems like this. It looks like it’s probably an Alpha release and the indication of an error on that line means there’s likely a problem on a previous line. My guess is that there is a syntax error in the BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY.

It helps to use an editor with syntax highlighting to see if this is the problem. Posting an edited version of the bb-config.php will not help because you will destroy the evidence in editing.

I have seen keys that work fine for WordPress, but not bbPress. Maybe that’s happening here. You might want to simplify your WordPress key then match the bbPress key to that. The WordPress API allows all sorts of weird characters in there (non A..Z a..z 0..9) and they’re properly escaped for WordPress but sometimes they don’t work with bbPress.

But I think that’s probably your problem, one of the bbPress keys. PHP reports the error on the next line it tries to parse I think.

[chrishajer]

_ck_, I think in general people would be very happy if bbPress could live in a WordPress page, so you have WordPress header, footer, sidebar, look and feel. The menu item is the least of the problems usually. Everyone wants the look and feel of WordPress and right now that’s not the easiest thing to accomplish.

If bbPress were a plugin, which it’s not, it would accomplish what most people want.

[docst4r]

Hi all,

I am getting this error when I go to the url for my bbpress install, apparently everything worked during install and integration to my wordpress blog.

However this is the error I get –

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/content/d/o/c/docst4r/html/iglesiacdr/bbpress/bb-config.php on line 24

this is what is on line 24 in my bb_config.php –

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

This is all foreign to me please help.

Thanks

[_ck_]

ATTENTION

PHP 4 users with WP 2.5.0 + bbPress 0.9.x

There is a HUGE BUG in the way the WP 2.5.0 (not 2.5.1) handles the login cookie. You won’t have a problem with PHP 5, only PHP 4.

So with PHP 4, you MUST use WP 2.5.1 and not WP 2.5.0 (aka 2.5) with bbPress 0.9 for cookie integration. Otherwise you’ll never get it to work.

There are only THREE files you need to replace in 2.5.0 to make it into 2.5.1:

wp-includes/pluggable.php

wp-admin/includes/media.php

wp-admin/media.php

Technical reason:

function wp_hash() in WP 2.5.0 never calls hash_hmac if it doesn’t exist and just returns a plain md5 instead. This method is incompatible with bbPress 0.9 – The compatibility function in compat.php is not loaded in time.

[johnhiler]

I like that few vs. many authors split… that’s a good way to put it.

One implication of that difference in focus is spam filtering. It’s easy to use Akismet to filter both boards topics and comments in bbPress… it’s harder to use Akismet to filter blog posts in WordPress (Akismet tends to focus on filtering blog comments, not blog posts).

That’s not to say you couldn’t get Akismet working on blog posts! I just haven’t seen any existing plugins that pull that off…