[John James Jacoby]

@jarledb – One of the unique challenges of creating a plugin with a large volume of users is catering to the 80% of users that want to turn it on, and not really mess with it. Different people will want different kinds of login and registration areas on their sites, and everyone with an opinion about where to put them why, is right. Some say sidebar, some say in the content area to draw attention to it, some say tuck it in a drop down menu, etc… All great ideas, but what’s the majority? The majority want it easy, and I think widgets are the easiest way to go right now without making everyone have a login/register page on the forum index of their sites.

Regarding ip-banning/anti-spam, you’re probably safe to hold off for a little bit. There’s no doubt these solutions are going to be needed eventually, and if someone takes the liberty of making an awesome plugin to help out, I’m all ears on how I can help bbPress core work better with it.

[John James Jacoby]

@Halle – Sorry for your frustrations! That’s a good idea. We’ve made some changes to the importer that *should* help prevent that from happening, but I’ll specifically attempt to duplicate your install and prevent that from happening to anyone else.

@Morgan & DanielJuhl – Getting the importer dialed in correctly for the varying types of installations we all might have is a unique challenge, and we’re going to need to iterate on it through beta releases to get it up to snuff. Some changes have already been made that should improve the chances of it finding an existing installation and importing everything. These adjustments will be in the Beta 2 release, which should be available in the next few days.

@DanielJuhl – Thank you for creating those bug reports. I’ll take a look at them this week and get them sorted.

[Daniel Juhl]

@Morgan Wick: I can’t say it can’t be one of those.. I’ve tried both Chrome and Firefox on Mac OS X, and both fails. I can be server settings, but I’m running a dedicated server with full access, and no settings has been made strict (safe mode etc.), so it would surprise me, if that was the case.

[hlwinkler]

Hi John,

Great work, I am really looking forward to being able to migrate my forums over to the plugin. Here is my experience so far: I installed the plugin (install went fine on 3.1.2) and then I tried to run the importer on my standalone install. I selected migrate users option and I received the following error as the second line of feedback during the import process:

“There was a problem duplicating the table bb_users to wp_users”

After which, my WP admin users were no longer in existence and when I tried to go back to the WP tools tab I was asked for a new admin login, which was rejected (slightly alarming because my WP install with all the themes and plugins off doesn’t do a heck of a lot). I rolled back to my database backup.

Edited: now I see that this was my fault because I overlooked the fact that the bbpress and WP databases have to be the same database. If the outcome of missing this info is breaking WP, would it be possible to do a check for whether bb_users are in the database before attempting to migrate them?

Thanks,

Halle

[morgan-wick]

Is it possible that DanielJuhl’s browser isn’t working with the importer, or (more likely) that his server’s permissions or other settings are interfering?

[jarledb]

@john james jacoby – Thank you for a throughout explenation and update.

I am using template integration mode (so no actual templates for the theme I am using, although I am trying to push Woothemes to make child themes for bbPress

I might end up copying the files over and integrating it myself, especially if that is the only (and easiest) way to get all functionality over.

It seems to me that even with the Twentyten theme the first page for the forum does not include things like login, register and search. Which seems a bit odd to me. Is it supposed to be like that?

I am not using WordPress multisite, are there plugins you would recommend looking at for ip-banning and anti-spam features that will work with bbPress? Or can I just forget about that for a while until bbPress is released as a stable version?

[jarledb]

@john james jacoby – Thank you for a throughout explenation and update.

I am using template integration mode (so no actual templates for the theme I am using, although I am trying to push Woothemes to make child themes for bbPress

I might end up copying the files over and integrating it myself, especially if that is the only (and easiest) way to get all functionality over.

It seems to me that even with the Twentyten theme the first page for the forum does not include things like login, register and search. Which seems a bit odd to me. Is it supposed to be like that?

I am not using WordPress multisite, are there plugins you would recommend looking at for ip-banning and anti-spam features that will work with bbPress? Or can I just forget about that for a while until bbPress is released as a stable version?

[Daniel Juhl]

@JJJ: I’ve now created some bug reports, hope this will helps you find the bug location.

[John James Jacoby]

@SHope – You’re okay. It sounds like you’re using the shortcodes correctly, but that something else isn’t working. I think I’m going to build in a shortcode helper, because I realize finding the ID isn’t the easiest thing to do.

On the pages you’re using the shortcodes on, does anything appear where the shortcodes should be?

[John James Jacoby]

@SHope – You’re okay. It sounds like you’re using the shortcodes correctly, but that something else isn’t working. I think I’m going to build in a shortcode helper, because I realize finding the ID isn’t the easiest thing to do.

On the pages you’re using the shortcodes on, does anything appear where the shortcodes should be?

[tooltrainer]

Has anyone run into the situation of users not being able to edit their own topics?

I’m still running alpha 3167 as my site is now live and I don’t want to risk updating until I’m OK with potentially taking it down for a day or two, in case there are issues migrating to the beta.

But even so, has anyone seen this or have there been any changes that might have affected this capability?

Admins can edit their own topics just fine, but regular users just see a blank page when they try.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[vishnuks]

Halo guys, i tried all sorts of SMTP plugins for BBPRESS but none are working. So is there any way to disable the email verification registration. I want a direct registration method. No verification

[Daniel Juhl]

@JJJ: Thanks.. I’ve created a bug for the missing option to choose a Hidden or Private forum as parent. And after moving the language files to a subfolder named bbpress the translation worked. I’m trying to figure out the importer problem, to make a good bug report, and as far I can see you’ve already fixed problems that I made quick-fixes for (the same way I did it).

So the problem now, is that I can’t run the importer at all (returning the blank “content” after specifying the path. I’m looking into it, and testing to see if I can figures out what’s going on..

I have a new and simple questions, which might be a bug:

* Shouldn’t it be possible to choose either users og user roles of which are able to view hidden and private forums? As far as I can see, Administrators are the only one to view these, and no changes can be made.

[telesoft]

Assertion:

The problem with forums is that one must read/browse/scroll thru all the information you don’t want to see… until you then find what you have been looking for.

Question:

Is there a theme for either WordPress or BBPress that would like a Microsoft File System Explorer provide access to BBPress?

Q2:

Is there an inherent limitation in the BBPress database or Theme or Widget Plugin that would disallow a developer from implementing a theme with these types of widgets?

Thanks,

TELESOFT

[John James Jacoby]

@jerledb – Login/register are supported via page templates, there is a login widget, and eventually shortcodes too. A register widget is a nice idea but leads way to lost-password and activation widgets, none of which will make it into 2.0.

Spam isn’t really handled yet, since there’s no one spamming forums that don’t use software that isn’t released yet. There is a Trac ticket regarding Akismet integration, but either Akismet will need to be updated or a special version of Akismet to concentrate on post spam (which isn’t really a WordPress issue.)

Regarding IP addresses, there are WordPress plugins to help with this, and WordPress multisite comes with this kind of functionality baked in. Traditionally WordPress doesn’t handle spam at a user level, since registered users are typically already trusted to some regard. We run into this issue a little bit even here at bbpress.org. bbPress does log the IP address of every topic/reply that is created, so a plugin can use that to check against a ban list or something.

[John James Jacoby]

@jerledb – Login/register are supported via page templates, there is a login widget, and eventually shortcodes too. A register widget is a nice idea but leads way to lost-password and activation widgets, none of which will make it into 2.0.

Spam isn’t really handled yet, since there’s no one spamming forums that don’t use software that isn’t released yet. There is a Trac ticket regarding Akismet integration, but either Akismet will need to be updated or a special version of Akismet to concentrate on post spam (which isn’t really a WordPress issue.)

Regarding IP addresses, there are WordPress plugins to help with this, and WordPress multisite comes with this kind of functionality baked in. Traditionally WordPress doesn’t handle spam at a user level, since registered users are typically already trusted to some regard. We run into this issue a little bit even here at bbpress.org. bbPress does log the IP address of every topic/reply that is created, so a plugin can use that to check against a ban list or something.

[John James Jacoby]

Lead post updated.

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[John James Jacoby]

Lead post updated.

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[telesoft]

JJJ – thanks.

Is there any point installing Standalone… if it is not to be continued?

Now you didn’t say it was a dead end… but that is what I am guessig.

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[telesoft]

JJJ – thanks.

Is there any point installing Standalone… if it is not to be continued?

Now you didn’t say it was a dead end… but that is what I am guessig.

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[John James Jacoby]

Let’s try to keep these conversations in one place. I see three topics from you about the same one thing. I’m closing the others and let’s keep the discussion here.

See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-theme-integration for more…

@kmessinger – Never *modify* existing bbPress files. Nothing in /plugins/bbpress/ should ever be *changed.* If you copy the theme out of bbp-twentyten is one thing, but never make changes to core files unless you plan on contributing those changes upstream to the bbPress project. Regarding the templates not appearing correctly, did you follow the instructions here properly? Did you move the files from the root of bbp-twentyten into your child theme too? (archive-forum.php, single-forum.php, etc…)

[John James Jacoby]

See: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/using-beta-plugin-topic-views-and-forum-views-serve-up-blank-page

[John James Jacoby]

See: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/using-beta-plugin-topic-views-and-forum-views-serve-up-blank-page

[John James Jacoby]

@zeldain – Are you using a shortcode to output your forum root? If so, there’s no way for bbPress to know where the root of your forums actually are when you’re *not* viewing that specific page.

Check Admin > Settings > Forums for a better understanding on how breadcrumbs work. You are able to make adjustments to bbPress slugs similar to making changes to your WordPress category and tag slugs, to help you configure your forums the way you need them.

[John James Jacoby]

@Tokyorock – Please don’t ask the same questions in multiple places. There aren’t a whole lot of us answering questions yet, so it’s just more work to do. The reason your theme isn’t styled, is because your style.css is empty.