[John James Jacoby]

More likely it’s to do with the Wishlist plugin not obeying bbPress’s mapped capabilities. I’ve seen this come up a few times. You’ll want to trouble-shoot by looking at the capabilities that a subscriber has, and making sure they have the proper bbPress ones.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s live!

[Chris A. a11n]

Hi all, just put together a video tutorial on how to theme bbPress 2.0.

Check it out here: http://futurewebblog.com/ultimate-bbpress-theming-guide-video/

The timing is quite ironic seeing as the codex was released just today, so some things may have changed. If so let me know and I’ll update the video.

[gabekassel]

I’m using a membership plugin (wishlist member) to control content access on my site.

I setup bbpress and can access both the forum/topic and within topic level as admin

As a subscriber, I can only access the topic listing but can’t click into any topics – get 404

All content protection within wishlist member is off for the forums..but I’m still seeing the issue.

I sense it’s something to do with permalinks/htaccess…but not quite sure.

Any suggestions?

[lanattractiongaming]

ok I am using WordPress with Buddypress with BBpress alongside.. I am using the Custom Community Theme for my Template and i am trying to figure out how to change my BBpress template because the default one is Ugly and i have found some bbpress templates that i would like to use but i cant figure out how to make this work. Please any help with this would be Very Much Appreciated.

[Angela]

Hi, I’m just stopping by, but I think I may be able to some help with coding.

I can do some simple PHP, mostly without the classes/objects stuff (I’m currently in the process of learning PHP, so would really like some practical experience other than tweaking plugins).

I’m better with MySQL. I can devote perhaps 2 to 3 hours a day.

I’m located at the UTC+8 timezone (although I probably can’t get up at 5 AM to attend the dev meeting).

[Angela]

Hi, I’m trying to translate bbPress into Chinese, but every now and then, there is a fatal error in saving the POT file. So I’d like to request another one (please send it to angela380in [at] hotmail.com). And if by any chance, there is already a Chinese version, please send it to my email as well. Thanks.

Angela

[ilano]

Awesome, thanks!

[John James Jacoby]

No need to post tickets here. I’ll see them right away.

[John James Jacoby]

Testing out the new bbPress codex at http://codex.bbpress.org.

I’ll be adding some documents and moving things around soon. Wanted to give a heads up that it’s coming and I’m working on it before officially announcing anything on the blog.

If for some reason you’re not able to edit pages and would like to, drop me a note here and I’ll add you.

[birdwings]

I own a WordPress development company and one of my developers and I have a bbPress integration project we need help with. It’s our first project using bbPress and we are running into issues with the integration. We don’t have the time and capacity to figure it out ourselves and are looking to hire the help of a developer who has experience successfully integrating bbPress and WordPress databases.

I pay competitively by the hour and am looking for someone who can work in concert with my developer on just this aspect of the project. We are hiring immediately and aiming to complete this week. – email lisa@birdwingdesigns.com.

I will mark this resolved after we’ve found someone.

[gabyan]

Is there a way to show usernames instead of real names on the forum? In Buddypress only usernames are shown and it needs to be the same at bbpress.

Thanks in advance!

[_ck_]

0.9 users should upgrade to (or start with) the 0.9 branch

which was the final version of 0.9

but 0.9.0.7 appears to simply be a copy of the final 0.9 branch

browse https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/browser/branches/0.9

zip https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3730/branches/0.9?old_path=%2F&format=zip

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/branches/0.9/

From what I can tell, JJJ just copied the branch over to make “0.9.0.7”

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3517

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3535

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/log/tags/0.9.0.7/bb-includes?rev=3535

That’s all he did, there were no other changes, improvements or fixes.

But there really are some fixes in the final 0.9 branch over 0.9.0.6

There were 12 files changed from 0.9.0.6 to 0.9.0.7 (aka 0.9 branch)

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?old_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.6&old=2338+&new_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.7&new=3715

bb-includes/default-filters.php (1 diff)

bb-includes/wp-functions.php (2 diffs)

bb-includes/pluggable.php (1 diff)

bb-includes/functions.php (3 diffs)

bb-includes/registration-functions.php (1 diff)

bb-includes/template-functions.php (3 diffs)

bb-includes/compat.php (1 diff)

search.php (1 diff)

bb-plugins/akismet.php (4 diffs)

bb-admin/bb-do-counts.php (3 diffs)

bb-admin/admin.php (1 diff)

bb-admin/admin-functions.php (2 diffs)

It’s hard to be 100% positive but I am pretty sure they addressed the base64 decoding bug.

Those with 0.9.0.6 can replace just these files to upgrade to 0.9.0.7

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?format=zip&new=3715&old=2338&new_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.7&old_path=%2Ftags%2F0.9.0.6

(those running versions before 0.9.0.6 will need more files from a fuller upgrade, do not use just the above files as it will break your install)

Everyone should still use my mini-plugin to protect bbpress and wordpress for yet-unidentified security issues. It’s better than nothing. You can even remove the header and just copy the one IF block to your bb-config.php and wp-config.php

If 256 characters turns out to be too short of a URL restriction, some may need to raise it as high as 1024, for example in WordPress where it stupidly uses GET now to mass delete posts, which was a dumbfounding move on their part.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Block Long/Bad Queries (for bbPress and WordPress)

*/



if (strlen($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])>1024 ||

preg_match('@(eval|base64|unescape)[^a-zA-Z0-9]@si',$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']))

{

header('HTTP/1.1 414 Request-URI Too Long');

header('Status: 414 Request-URI Too Long');

header('Connection: Close');

exit;

}

[ebiznet88]

Hi Anointed and AWJunkies, is there any update on the issues with the phpBB conversion that many users on this thread have highlighted?

Right now, I’m stuck in no-man’s land and would love to get a resolution of sorts.

If there is no further support or development into this plugin, then please let us know so that users like me can look at other solutions for our forum boards.

I appreciate all the work that has gone into this, but as it is, its not complete and not usable to anyone.

If anyone has successfully converted their phpBB board to bbPress using this converter, I’d like to hear from them.

Thank you in advance for any replies and help!

[Martin]

Hi,

For the sake of consistancy, I’d like to use the WP Socializer plugin to display Social Media buttons at the top of my forum Topics.

The plugin author said this:

“Please note that WP Socializer works in all pages or places where there the <?php the_content(); ?> function is called in the theme.

Simply make sure that the theme you use or the page of the custom post has the above function mentioned.

Instead, you can also use WP Socializer’s template functions also.

Use <?php echo wp_socializer(‘template-1’); ?> anywhere in the template which is used by the custom post type.”

Since I didn’t find reference to <?php the_content(); ?>,I’ve tried inserting it into the default theme and the single-topic.php file however the buttons fail to load.

I’m presuming this is because bbPress actually isn’t recognising the php code reference – would this be the case?

Any help would be appreciated.

[blogher8]

I hope _ck_ or someone else can answer.

I have 0.9.0.7 installed.

I just saw _ck_’s post here about a security patch plugin: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-103-released#post-84690

Ten months ago, _ck_ wrote,

“bbPress 0.9 users should install my unofficial “block-long-queries” mini-plugin to avoid the security bug that 1.0.3 fixes and similar unknown attacks in the future.

(it also works in 1.0 and WordPress)”

Since it seems like 0.9.0.7 came out five months later, I am wondering if this new release covers the patch or if it is still needed.

Note that I searched extensively for a post about the 0.9.0.7 release and the changes it represented, but I can’t see anything like that.

Also, I can’t ask in the original thread because it was closed.

Thanks!

[SK]

@Daxx: Just to clarify, you have installed https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/ into a WordPress installation, right?

[SK]

That’s exactly how it will work if you install https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

[Satish]

I know about adding these tags..but not sure where the array() is in bbpress ?

Can you point me to the file name where the empty array is present, where we can add our tags and its attributes.

[SK]

Alright, jjj, have at it:

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19961

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19958

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1737

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1738

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1739

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1740

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1741

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1742

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1743

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1744

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1745

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1746

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1747

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1748

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1749

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1750

https://bbpress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1751

[Daxx]

Hi again,

the theme author is a developer from themeforest.net, so i don’t think i can ask them to code the theme individually form me so that my forum fits in…

Is there a documentation on how to set up the style sheet in a way that i can set up the forum that i posted above in my theme? Because right now my them doesn’t get supported for bbpress…

Thank you John!

[John James Jacoby]

It’s a neat idea, bundling them together like that. Hm.

[SK]

One thing I missed in the long post:

Standalone bbPress

I appreciate the reason why you sought to create a standalone version of bbPress.

The plugin makes sense because it provides access to a large captive base of WordPress users. But on the other hand it ties bbpress down to WordPress, making it usable *only* with sites that use WordPress.

What if someone who doesn’t use WordPress wants a forum software?

Well, I have a suggestion. bbPress should ONLY be developed as a WordPress plugin (as I believe it is now).

However, a standalone package should be available at bbpress.org. This would basically be a bundle of WordPress and bbpress, where bbpress is active by default.

Additionally, by default, the forum root would be selected as the static page that appears as home. You will need some help from your colleagues at WordPress for this…at the moment only pages (and not custom post types) are allowed to be selected as home. (update: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/19958 )

To sum up, it will still be WordPress with a bbPress plugin, but would be *sold* as forum software. The distinction being target market. bbPress plugin is targeted and marketed to people who use WordPress and are LOOKING for a forum software that integrates with it. The standalone package is targeted and marketed to people who are looking for forum software.

You might think this is a zany idea, and it probably is. It just might work, though.

[SK]

I understand that you could use some help with the large volume of work that bbPress generates. I also appreciate the good work that the team has already put in.

However, bbPress is already a very good script. Some of my suggestions e.g. #1 #2 and #5 are almost completely non-technical and basically require some manual labor, which I am happy to provide.

I beg to differ with you on documentation. You are right that technical documentation, esp. for plugin developers etc would require an understanding of the codebase. However, I am talking about end-user documentation…in moving to bbPress, that is one of the hurdles I faced. I have also noted a pattern of big concerns of prospective and new users, both here and on WordPress.org

I think if the non-technical parts are dealt with, along with ONE technical part (migration), that would make an immense difference to the adoption of the software. And, of course, a significant number of users will generate interest among developers.

[fum]

So much thank you! I try to do this, and talk about what happend…