[Rich Pedley]

Well first off keep an eye on https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-updates/ where details of what is happening with regard to the plugin is being posted.

If you need a live forum now, then go standalone, if you can wait a few months – then the plugin may be ready for use.

Spam is a regular thing with <string>all forums, so i don’t believe bbPress has been targetted at all. Plus akismet will be available as a plugin.

But with regard to that I intend to port over my sole plugin for bbpress standalone, to bbPress plugin – a way of marking individual users as trustworthy, ie they don’t need to go through the akismet check.

Plus if I’m able to I plan on adapting a plugin I developed elsewhere that adds in additional restrictions for guests/new members[1]. I’ll start work on that as soon as I feel that bbPress is fairly settled – no point doing it to early as things might change.

[1] restrictions include length of post, number of links etc.

[Jaja..]

Okay, i have been reading this forum for a few hours now and i need somebody to tell me what’s best.

First, i have installed bbPress once before, a few months ago to give it a try and see if it was something for me because i’m a fan of the WordPress system and it’s plugins.

It worked very good i had no problems because i just needed some basic plugins nothing fancy, but it was only a testing install and never got public before i deleted it.

But now i need to get things going and start building for some project.

I have this project where 2 different game-based sites have to match each other and become one, it’s a game-blog and game-forum based site so thats why i was first thinking of a WordPress site along with a bbPress forum. Very simple and deep integrated in each other to keep both working together.

But when i read this support forum it makes me turn around a few times and not knowing what to do best. Should i go for the bbPress (standalone) version or should i wait for the bbPress WordPress plugin.. I don’t know how things are working out on that side but it feels like this plugin take forever,, No i don’t wanna be rude to all people working on it, (only respect) but is there a time-period set for this plugin to be released?

And if there is one, will it become Beta first and after 2 or 3 years a final and stable product?

What will happen to people (forums) using the bbPress standalone version? will there be a settings option so we could update or upgrade our standalone version to the WordPress plugin version without losing the forum-data?

Or should we start all over again with a fresh clean install?

And yes, i’m already thinking of switching to the plugin based bbPress because i think the standalone version will not be supported and looked after when the plugin version goes live.

Also something i would like to know, i’ve also read a few spam topics with people having trouble catching spam bots..

Is this a regular thing? Because it’s bbPress, it attach spam bots like every clean installed WordPress site will have a spam message in 5 days without doing anything on the site..

I don’t mind if there is something to catch those gangsters but if bbPress has some kind of “weak” (spam) based code i will not like the forum idea for my site.

Don’t get me wrong, i don’t mind to delete a spam message once in a while but if i daily need to delete 25 spam messages while i have running a spam-catch plugin it will not make me very happy..

So could anybody tell me what to do?

I like the bbPress system because it’s “easy” to customize and you’re not working in all the same community themes like you see on most forums..

[CorpCommander]

This is a weird one. I started with bbPress as a stand alone installation. I then did an integration with WordPress. The main effect of that was it wiped out my users. OK, not terrible, there were only a few. However I noticed that no plugins seem to work. I installed Human Test and I can see it in the wordpress plugins folder. It is activated but there is no change to the registration page.

Any idea what might be wrong?

[John James Jacoby]

Just pushed an update through that is a solid first pass at forum and topic freshness. Some testing would be awesome.

Things @todo on this front: sub-forum tree topic/reply walking, better hierarchical reply support (topic walker), and go get a burrito (dinner)

[John James Jacoby]

Please continue this discussion in the BuddyPress topic if you’re interested.

[John James Jacoby]

Please continue this discussion in the BuddyPress topic if you’re interested.

[John James Jacoby]

It is not currently in the plugin but is a must-have before beta.

Depending on your level of experience with writing importers and exporters, it might be a good idea to get started now and prepare for some minor changes in data storage that might happen along the way.

The plugin isn’t really meant to completely replace the stand-alone version in my eyes, since they are two totally different approaches to a similar need. So without being vague to the point if unhelpful, it really comes down to how urgently you need to make the switch and how much work you’re willing to put into getting there.

If it were me, I’d concentrate efforts towards the plugin since it could use the most eyes on the code right now, and is more likely to see advancements and enhancements in the future.

[Snat]

Quick question if no one minds (not sure if it has been asked before or not as I can not find it by searching for it).

Does bbPress Plugin have migration from the current stand alone bbPress in mind or is that something that is planned after the main release or something that is not planned yet ?

Just wondering as some clients wants to move from IP.Board to bbPress and I am not sure if I should write a import plugin now to the current version or wait until the plugin is fully released.

Nice work btw

Will pop onto Trac later and see if there is anything I can help out with.

[John James Jacoby]

Just pushed an update through that will fix the topic freshness order when creating new topics and replying to existing ones. This fix changes the way topics are pulled from the DB, and as a result is not backwards compatible with previous versions of the plugin. (Oh the dangers of beta testing.)

This is however the way it will work going forward, so you won’t need to worry about going through this again.

Forum counts and freshness links are coming next.

[yetanotherlogin]

Hello

A forum I read often uses BBPress. Whenever someone adds a message to a thread to which I replied, I am notified by e-mail.

The small issue I have with the e-mail notification, is that the URL points to the first page of the thread, so I have to click on the number of the last page to jump to it after clicking on the URL: Can BBPress be easily reconfigured so the URL points to the last page instead?

Thank you.

[paragulka]

So I have WordPress 3.0.2 installed. I downloaded bbPress 1.0.2 and fired up the installation.

I entered all the details that were asked, and also did copy&paste the AUTH etc KEY and SALTS in. I chose to use wp_users table only.

Everything works except for 1 thing. When I log in to WordPress, I am not automatically logged in to bbPress. And vice versa. Can anybody help me?

[Rich Pedley]

It may be just that at the moment, but check the trac tickets, and if there isn’t one mentioning it then feel free to start one.

re anonymous posting, please be aware of this:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1377

No validation is done.

additionally the while point of a filter is to allow you to change without editing core plugin files.

[Ryan Gannon]

Sorry I just want to ask again if anyone else having a problem with New Replies not bumping their Topic to the top of the list in a Forum? If it’s simply not implemented yet that’s fine I just want to know that I’m not doing something wrong.

[Commentguerir]

edit : we can activate anonymous posting on editing file bbp-includes/bbp-users.php on editing this code :

function bbp_allow_anonymous () {

return apply_filters( ‘bbp_allow_anonymous’, get_option( ‘bbp_allow_anonymous’, false ) );

}

change false -> true

[Commentguerir]

Great ! I see that Anonymous Posting ticket is fixed !

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1363

But where can i active it ?

[ITchimes]

Just Check It out and follow these steps

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

[ITchimes]

Just Check It out and follow these steps

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

[thenbrent]

Hi zaerl,

Thanks for your reply. The template I’m using, as created by Andrew, does call wp_head(), via get_header(). It also calls wp_footer() via get_footer().

I could also use a substitute hook, like bb_foot, which I saw in the default templates, but this doesn’t actually seem to be called anywhere.

Any ideas?

[zaerl]

Cause wp_head isn’t automatically called by WordPress. It’s a template tag function that themes’ authors usually put between head elements.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_head

[thenbrent]

Hey Andrew,

I’m wondering the same thing. I’m using your EcoPro theme and trying to get a plugin to work which calls wp_footer. This hook isn’t working on bbPress pages though.

Did you ever figure this out?

Brent

[LwEEs]

@Rich Pedley

Thanks man! I will try to make it work today in the afternoon. Thanks for the functions.php tip, good one. Have a good day everyone.

[Rich Pedley]

LwEEs – child theme…

and you could always copy the content of functions.php to your existing one.

[zaerl]

There may be some more magic involved in order for the session to persist across both installs.

Indeed my friend, mostly because bbPress doesn’t use sessions (it uses encrypted cookies.)

[zaerl]

There may be some more magic involved in order for the session to persist across both installs.

Indeed my friend, mostly because bbPress doesn’t use sessions (it uses encrypted cookies.)

[batrachoid]

Over the last few weeks, I’ve experienced the same problem with spammers on one of the forums I’ve set up. Akismet hasn’t worked, no-spam-user hasn’t worked, recaptcha hasn’t worked. Anyone have any success blocking this new generation of spambots? (I love bbpress but seeing the same spam here is disheartening.)