[Gautam Gupta]

alsur: Only a few tickets are left for the alpha to be out.

[Gautam Gupta]

alsur: Only a few tickets are left for the alpha to be out.

[Alex and Anthony]

Thanks for replying!, I left it like that because I thought of people with multiple installs in one db and the prefixes were different.

[Alex and Anthony]

Thanks for replying!, I left it like that because I thought of people with multiple installs in one db and the prefixes were different.

[Gautam Gupta]

bbPress have a long tradition of “working alphas” is this the case again? I mean can I consider now that once beta and final version are released it won’t mean reconverting everything again from scrath?

You won’t need to convert anything now, there might be normal internal upgrades.

would I better off waiting for the final release and importer, specially if we plan to integrate buddypress on this installation afterwards.

I’d recommend at least waiting for the official alpha of the plugin.

[Gautam Gupta]

bbPress have a long tradition of “working alphas” is this the case again? I mean can I consider now that once beta and final version are released it won’t mean reconverting everything again from scrath?

You won’t need to convert anything now, there might be normal internal upgrades.

would I better off waiting for the final release and importer, specially if we plan to integrate buddypress on this installation afterwards.

I’d recommend at least waiting for the official alpha of the plugin.

[markaduffy]

Can anyone point me in the right direction of how I can hook onto database updates and inserts. I want to be able to populate a table outside of bbpress.

[tooltrainer]

I actually did wrap the code in a code tag, and it did nothing. The code just executed. Of course once I sanitized the code, it got highlighted in yellow.

Jonathan

[zaerl]

Hi Alex,

at line 21 you use: SHOW TABLES FROM db_name in order to retrieve bbPress tables. This is a wrong approach cause you assume that in the database there are only bbPress tables which is not guaranteed.

You should only backup the tables with the bbPress prefix. Check the $bb_table_prefix global variable.

[zaerl]

Hi Alex,

at line 21 you use: SHOW TABLES FROM db_name in order to retrieve bbPress tables. This is a wrong approach cause you assume that in the database there are only bbPress tables which is not guaranteed.

You should only backup the tables with the bbPress prefix. Check the $bb_table_prefix global variable.

[zaerl]

Does anyone know if there is a plugin for this?

There isn’t.

[zaerl]

Does anyone know if there is a plugin for this?

There isn’t.

[alsur]

Hi everyone. I am very happy to see there is again certain activity in the future of bbPress and that the “plugin version” is already release in alpha.

I understand much has been put into it and I’ve seen Gautam’s converter script.

We have and old forum we managed to convert to bbPress 1 hooked together with a WordPress installation (2. but we got stack with the theming integration and it was never released. We now want to go ahead with the project but we are a bit uncertain which route to go with.

I would really appreciate from developers or someone who’s had the experience comments on:

– bbPress have a long tradition of “working alphas” is this the case again? I mean can I consider now that once beta and final version are released it won’t mean reconverting everything again from scrath?

– would I better off waiting for the final release and importer, specially if we plan to integrate buddypress on this installation afterwards.

Many thanks in advance and thanks to the development team for maintaining the project.

[Alex and Anthony]

I still can’t figure out how to get to the add plugin form, so here’s my new plugin.

It’s called Alex bbPress Backup, it makes an SQL backup of your bbPress database and allows you to copy and save it.

it can be downloaded at http://anthonyzb.users.sourceforge.net/?page_id=31

[John James Jacoby]

What happens if you wrap that code in a proper code element?

No worries about posting security stuff here. Live and learn.

I’m going to put up a sticky post here with more clear directions, and when/where to do what/why.

[tooltrainer]

OK whew, that’s a bit of a relief. I just tried the same thing from a normal member level account and the dangerous stuff was removed so… relieved.

Of course I’m not sure even admins should be able to post what I was able to post, or at least require it be wrapped in some special tag like <raw> or something. I am often going to need to display code for my members and obviously I can’t have it executing! I need some sort of efficient way to have it be sanitized.

Thanks for the clarification, and sorry for posting security related stuff improperly.

(Oh and also sorry for the multiple account posts, I didn’t realize earlier I had been logged into that other account.)

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

@jvanclute – I deleted your posts because they are security related. The way it works now, is if you are the site admin you have the unfiltered_html capability, which allows you as a trusted site administrator to post whatever you want to. What you described isn’t allowed for non-admins.

I’ll look through things again and probably incorporate more aggressive filtering, even for admins.

[jvanclute]

@jjj

I see… I’m afraid I have never used gravatar and don’t know anything about it. Since my site is a membership site (as many forums are), the membership script has its own profile image support that obviously doesn’t show up in bbP. I think that’s going to be a pretty common situation for people doing members-only forums.

Is there any guidance you could give someone who wants to replace the bbP avatar image, with one from out membership site? Like what file governs them and is currently displaying the little snowman image? I’m thinking of creating a plugin to do just that.

Thanks,

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

First pass at RSS2 feeds is now in the plugin. Surprisingly, not as easy as I thought they were going to be, so be sure to test these. They are accompanied by 2 new settings options to control the per page count of their RSS feeds.

Starting to run out of room in the theme to put links to feeds, so still working that out. Until then you can access topic/reply feeds by appending “/feed” or “/feed?type=reply” to single topics and forums.

[John James Jacoby]

It’s come up a few times now, where people have been using

add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );

incorrectly. As a result, I’ve added some extra checks and failsafes to make sure that even if you incorrectly report that your theme supports bbPress, it will still fall back to the theme compatibility files. This kind of change is pretty late in the game, so be sure to update your installations and report if anything breaks.

[John James Jacoby]

They don’t. Gravatar. Or use BuddyPress if you need real profiles, images, etc…

[tooltrainer]

OK, possibly dumb question here… how do users upload an avatar image for bbP?

Jonathan

[John James Jacoby]

Don’t use “add_theme_support()” unless your theme actually supports it.

add_theme_support() doesn’t automatically add bbPress support to your theme, but the opposite – it tells WordPress and bbPress that your theme already supports bbPress. If you don’t have a /bbpress folder in your theme full of bbPress template files, then your theme does not support bbPress.

There isn’t a core updater yet, but there will be soon. These questions are all answered numerous times in the sticky topic at the front of these forums.

[John James Jacoby]

Don’t use “add_theme_support()” unless your theme actually supports it.

add_theme_support() doesn’t automatically add bbPress support to your theme, but the opposite – it tells WordPress and bbPress that your theme already supports bbPress. If you don’t have a /bbpress folder in your theme full of bbPress template files, then your theme does not support bbPress.

There isn’t a core updater yet, but there will be soon. These questions are all answered numerous times in the sticky topic at the front of these forums.

[Pixelation]

1. Thanks, that was my initial thought.

2. Where can I find this bbPress plugin and is it an official plugin by the creators of bbPress, or the community?

3. When you say “anything of WordPress to be shown in bbPress”, what does that actually include?

Thanks for the reply Gautam.