A few last minute gifts are now in the bbPress plugin.
First, shortcodes. Now you can insert forums and topics into blog posts and pages. This is awesome because it will let you insert a river of forums or replies anywhere that the_content(); is used and shortcodes are supported.
Second, theme compatibility. This one is huge, could use some testing, and is potentially a game-changer. If you’re not using a theme that actively supports bbPress by setting add_theme_support( 'bbpress' );, bbPress is going to serve up its own default set of templates and styling from whatever is set as the theme compatibility layer (which defaults to bbp-twentyten.) There is a little more work to be done here, but so far it’s working a treat.
As a plugin developer, theme compatibility with new features is something I’ve wrestled with for a really long time, and recent changes in WordPress core have made this easier. For BuddyPress and now bbPress, this is years in the planning stages, and I’m really happy, excited, and proud that it’s in and loosely working. 
Great news! Thanks JJJ and Gautam.
2147483647 seems to be the problem! !!
It seems if you have a facebook ID or AppID larger then 2147483647 it Reverts to this in the DB… And causes MANY Problems being that the way the plugin is written you cant EASILY change the Facebook ID… I had to go into Mysql and do it manually.
It seems this is a problem that the FACEBOOK CONNECT plugin had the same issue.
RE:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/simple-facebook-connect/changelog/
“Version 1.0.2 (2011-03-28)
Users with a Facebook ID >= 2147483647 would not work properly due to PHP limitation in intval() function. Fixed.”
As with this other fb plugin- hopefully we can fix this problem. I started manually insterint the correct ID’s via SQL but its not the best hack and it doesnt stick for more thne 24 hours.. i have to keep re-editing the db in that are..
HELLP!
JL
Awesome JJJ, Guatam and the rest of the contributers! What I’ve seen so far on Guatam’s page looks really good.
Can’t wait to test it when it’s in the WordPress plugin repository.
One question though: It’s been brought up in this topic before, but does the plugin keep track of what has been read and what not at the moment? There was some talk about a seperate plugin too… If the bbpress plugin doesn’t have it, is that seperate plugin available somewhere?
@JJJ Thank you for the work you’ve put in and the reply.
Note to existing bbPress plugin users: To work in harmony with BuddyPress Group forums, the behavior of private forums has changed.
Going forward there are 3 types of forum visibility: Public, Private, and Hidden
Previously, private forums were completely hidden from view. This is no longer the case. Private forums, their topics, and their replies are now all visible in sidebars and user profiles, only you must have the “read_private_forums” cap to view them.
Hidden forums, on the other hand, are completely hidden from view, as are their topics and replies. Anything inside a hidden forum is only visible to users that also have the ‘read_private_forums” cap.
The logic on how these will work is still fuzzy, since it’s not something that bbPress will really need to do on its own. It will be up to plugins (like BuddyPress) to determine meta capabilities for user scope per private/hidden forum on the fly.
Right now “Private Forums” are more like teasers, where users can see they exist but cannot access them, where as “Hidden Forums” are totally 100% hidden from view except from admins and super admins in the wp-admin.
@Komodo Island
You could go through the theme code manually and attempt to find where the spam links or are located, or you could grab the clean code from the link that Ashfame provided.
Here is the location of the spam links: header.php
JJJ: Yeah, getting close. 
Bryan: As easy as uploading a 2-line edited script and clicking a few next buttons. 
So how easy will it be to convert bbPress Standalone plugins to bbPress Plugin plugins?
Going to be cleaning up the trac tickets for the plugin over this weekend and uploading a 2.0-alpha-1 to the WordPress.org plugin repository in the next few days. This should make downloading, installing, and updating the plugin easier for everyone now that it’s ready for more testing.
The original alphas won’t include Gautam and Nightgunner5’s converter, but I’ll spend some time with it before launch and see about fitting it into core.
Getting close!
The benefit of bbPress is that it is very easy to customized and integrates with WordPress without any problems (Took me about 30 seconds to integrate.) The problem is that there are several very good features missing. And not many decent themes either.
bbPress is stable and will be supported for a long time, but right now the developers are focused on turning bbPress into a plugin for WordPress instead of being a standalone application.
The benefit of bbPress is that it is very easy to customized and integrates with WordPress without any problems (Took me about 30 seconds to integrate.) The problem is that there are several very good features missing. And not many decent themes either.
bbPress is stable and will be supported for a long time, but right now the developers are focused on turning bbPress into a plugin for WordPress instead of being a standalone application.
Great.
I have a strange feeling that this script will…die? I’m new here but things look very sad, or at least this is my newbie feeling.
I arrived at bbPress when looking for a WP forum solution, but…I don’t know…
Is this stable…? Will this be supported for the next years?
Thanks!
Great.
I have a strange feeling that this script will…die? I’m new here but things look very sad, or at least this is my newbie feeling.
I arrived at bbPress when looking for a WP forum solution, but…I don’t know…
Is this stable…? Will this be supported for the next years?
Thanks!
Unfortunately there are not many community-contributed themes available. I am working on a Vbulletin-style theme which will be released next week.
Essentially you will need to take a theme you like and do major modifications to make it yours.
Unfortunately there are not many community-contributed themes available. I am working on a Vbulletin-style theme which will be released next week.
Essentially you will need to take a theme you like and do major modifications to make it yours.
Hi,
I am looking for the theme used here, on this support forum, or something similar. Is there any place where I can find it, or at least more decent themes?
Thanks!
Right, multiple databases are not supported.
Right, multiple databases are not supported.
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To be honestly i’ve try just one time with root privilege (local webserver – with wampserver) but maybe is caused by different database.
I can try to move in one database and run again
Anonymous User 7670885Inactive
To be honestly i’ve try just one time with root privilege (local webserver – with wampserver) but maybe is caused by different database.
I can try to move in one database and run again
DarkWolf: That error would only happen when you run it multiple times and the database table already exists or your database user doesn’t have privileges to rename a table. The converter does tell you to take precautionary measures.
DarkWolf: That error would only happen when you run it multiple times and the database table already exists or your database user doesn’t have privileges to rename a table. The converter does tell you to take precautionary measures.
Not entirely sure where this post should go, so I placed it here.
I setup bbPress along with WordPress to make WordPress the master. However I would like to use the bbPress profile instead of the WordPress profile, but I can’t find where in the code to enable that. Any ideas?
