Will “highlighting” of threads with new posts since your last visit be included? I’m running the stand alone bbPress right now, using the Unread Posts plug-in, which works okay, but it only seems to notify you of threads with new posts that you’ve posted in, instead of any thread with a new post since your last visit.
I’d love to use a standalone bbPress, but that option was long since abandoned 
I stand by the reasoning behind the plugin route though, I still think it’ll make our lives a whole lot easier.
Thanks for the pointers John. It’s also comforting to know that BuddyPress forums will be seeing some speed improvements in 1.3.
I’d love to use a standalone bbPress, but that option was long since abandoned I stand by the reasoning behind the plugin route though, I still think it’ll make our lives a whole lot easier.
Thanks for the pointers John. It’s also comforting to know that BuddyPress forums will be seeing some speed improvements in 1.3.
I have been testing the bbPress Plugin on Windows, well I was up until about a month ago when I hit a few PC problems, but like JJJ said … much has changed since then! 
For one, that’s a paid script.
Which would be fine, except their “About Us” page has an HTML problem. Hope their actual script is better than their crap website.
My question: will this also migrate files that have been uploaded?
The best script is the migrators.eu ipb2bbpress script. It convert anything just perfect!
Take a look!
http://www.migrators.eu/migrators.php
Each topic already carries the name of the person that started it, so this is very easy to do without a plugin.
Simply edit your front-page.php and forums.php templates and put
<?php echo $topic->topic_poster_name; ?>
where you’d like it.
also see this tag
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/topic-author
Each topic already carries the name of the person that started it, so this is very easy to do without a plugin.
Simply edit your front-page.php and forums.php templates and put
<?php echo $topic->topic_poster_name; ?>
where you’d like it.
also see this tag
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/topic-author
Forum performance inside of BuddyPress is improved in 1.2.7 and will be further improved in 1.3 (which still includes the bbPress stand-alone version.)
Having BuddyPress load all of its code and process everything that it does is the bottleneck in your circumstance. You’d be better off loading bbPress standalone properly themed, then the bbPress plugin, and lastly inside of BuddyPress groups (regardless of standalone/plugin.)
But, I think it’s a horse a piece.
The more you need to load is the slower it’s going to be, and the more important caching becomes. The bbPress plugin will respond to W3TC much better than bbPress standalone and BuddyPress will, since it uses the existing WordPress object cache.
Forum performance inside of BuddyPress is improved in 1.2.7 and will be further improved in 1.3 (which still includes the bbPress stand-alone version.)
Having BuddyPress load all of its code and process everything that it does is the bottleneck in your circumstance. You’d be better off loading bbPress standalone properly themed, then the bbPress plugin, and lastly inside of BuddyPress groups (regardless of standalone/plugin.)
But, I think it’s a horse a piece.
The more you need to load is the slower it’s going to be, and the more important caching becomes. The bbPress plugin will respond to W3TC much better than bbPress standalone and BuddyPress will, since it uses the existing WordPress object cache.
Judging by two recent comments [1, 2]made by two knowledgeable developers, it seems speed won’t be one of the key features the bbPress plugin will have going for it, at least not on initial launch.
How fast will BuddyPress forums run when powered by bbPp, as compared to the current BP+bbP integration?
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If that’s too general I can use my own website as an example:
Per month we have about:
50’000 visits
250’000 page views
5 pages/visit
The bulk of that activity goes on in our forum, i.e. groups.
We use W3 Total cache.
The site runs on a dedicated box. I don’t have the specs right now but it’s a fairly powerful Ubuntu computer.
We use a minimal amount of odd plugins & widgets, yet our forum runs pretty slow.
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Maybe this is a difficult question to answer, but I reckon it should at least be possible to make some fair assessments, and I do believe there’s a common interest in this information, considering the amount of people assessing the future of their community alongside the development of bbPp.
I don’t test with IIS… We could always put a call out on the hackers list if needed.
@_ck_ – Will do. I have a VM I can test on when I get back from Tybee next week, and will see about getting anyone on Windows to play with it. I know when I started, I was using IIS on Windows 7 and it was working fine, but much as changed since then.
well, i don’t know whether that is correct, but .htaccess in bbpress folder inherited the wordpress .htaccess data. removing that from .htaccess base in bbpress folder seemed to resolve the problem.
well, i don’t know whether that is correct, but .htaccess in bbpress folder inherited the wordpress .htaccess data. removing that from .htaccess base in bbpress folder seemed to resolve the problem.
I test on windows, to some extent, with EasyPHP.
I know y’all are in super-dooper alpha state right now but be sure to put on your list to test the plugin under windows (try the 1 minute xampp lite install for testing).
I’m not even sure where to start with some of the errors, I’ll try to debug.
ps. can an admin please turn off the hash-to-trac link plugin that’s running on bbpress.org? It’s incredibly annoying because it makes no effort to determine if it’s really a ticket reference.
@ Cashman
The bbpress plugin includes a standard theme which should work for most themes I suppose.
But if you want a perfect theme that fits you’ll have to make a child theme of the wordpress template your using atm.
Basic integration is where WP and bbPress share cookies, users, and login sessions. Basically, they don’t share functions. Deep integration will allow that. However, I am having some trouble deep integrating the two with my current theme.
Basic integration is where WP and bbPress share cookies, users, and login sessions. Basically, they don’t share functions. Deep integration will allow that. However, I am having some trouble deep integrating the two with my current theme.
Along the lines of what CK is talking about, the issue is one of DB structure. WordPress only gives us post_parent to help with post relationships, which leaves us with postmeta for everything else. That’s forces us to rely on the object cache and to try to predictively preload data that would otherwise be queried selectively and only as needed. A fully tricked out install with widgets and sidebar can fore the query count into the hundreds on pages like the user profile, with the object cache still missing quite a few.
Compared to bbPress 0.9, the current incarnation of the plugin will be abysmal query wise. Caching helps tons with this on the reads end of things. I’ve gotten it down to 1 cache miss on most pages, with auto cache refresh on writes. But this is one area where more eyes will be helpful. Like CK said, there probably isn’t a whole lot that can be optimized but I’d love to see it.
I’m just a little confused about how the themes work for this. Does there need to be a separate bbpress theme for each wordpress theme you want to use? Or can you use a default bbpress theme that will inherit the wordpress theme in use?
Gautam: no effect…using /%category%/%postname%/ and have tried /%postname%/
mobious74: Try going to Settings -> Permalinks and press save changes.
