Not sure if it works with 1.x, but I’ve been using it on my 0.9 forum:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/unread-posts/
Look through the comments to see if there are any issues/changes for 1.x.
bbPress isn’t a wordpress plugin.
bbPress isn’t a wordpress plugin.
I installed the reCAPTCHA plugin (noted above) and it seems to have nipped the problem spam in the bud. Previously, CK’s “Human test for bbPress” plugin had been doing the trick on my board. However, with this more aggressive & annoying automated bot spam, it was guessing the equation and then getting in the door.
I’m not overly happy about having to install captcha software, because it’s difficult to make out the characters sometimes and I feel it’s an impediment to quick and easy registration for people. Nevertheless, something that stops the hoser spammers is appreciated and reCAPTCHA appears to have succeeded (for the time being).
I installed the reCAPTCHA plugin (noted above) and it seems to have nipped the problem spam in the bud. Previously, CK’s “Human test for bbPress” plugin had been doing the trick on my board. However, with this more aggressive & annoying automated bot spam, it was guessing the equation and then getting in the door.
I’m not overly happy about having to install captcha software, because it’s difficult to make out the characters sometimes and I feel it’s an impediment to quick and easy registration for people. Nevertheless, something that stops the hoser spammers is appreciated and reCAPTCHA appears to have succeeded (for the time being).
Having an error when attempting to use the bb-avatar upload plugin. Its when anyone tries to access the avatar page we get presented with this error:
“Warning: include() [function.include]: Filename cannot be empty in /home/X/pastelportal.com/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear’) in /home/X/pastelportal.com/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45″
We were using a custom theme and it was working fine. We just switched about an hour ago to the default theme and now its doing this. I have done some searches and found a few solutions, issue is those solutions were related to other problems and I’m not sure if they would work with this.
I will say we were presented with a similar error when we upgraded to the latest bechet version of bbpress (1.0.2) but it was fixed after the admin did some tinkering around. But this time we are both clueless to what is going on.
We did change back to the custom theme for a moment, its working fine. But just the default theme, its not working.
you can report things on TRAC…
current tickets : https://trac.bbpress.org/report/3
http://wordpress.elfden.co.uk/forum/
Cheers Rich! I registered and played around quite a bit.
Here’s the only issue I’ve come by so far, which is really nothing:
http://wordpress.elfden.co.uk/topic/tag-issue/#topic-577
Hard Seat Sleepers theres always people like you who have to tell me Akismet should be fine. It was back when I tried it the first time too. They had a hard time believing what happened, untill loads of members gave the same testimony.
Fact is, it treated normal users as spam/spammers. And Akismet for BBpress does not allow you to see what the spam IS. It just tells you that it has deleted this and that. Then suddenly three good members stop posting, because their efforts are thrown in the trash. And then your whole forum goes under.
Hard Seat Sleepers theres always people like you who have to tell me Akismet should be fine. It was back when I tried it the first time too. They had a hard time believing what happened, untill loads of members gave the same testimony.
Fact is, it treated normal users as spam/spammers. And Akismet for BBpress does not allow you to see what the spam IS. It just tells you that it has deleted this and that. Then suddenly three good members stop posting, because their efforts are thrown in the trash. And then your whole forum goes under.
Wow Rich! It looks very promising! 
Thanks a lot!
Hard Seat Sleeper:
I went to the bbPress admin panel & there’s 1 admin, a friend of mine that helped me set up the site & I made him an admin a year ago. The admin ID & my ID are the only Key Masters. There’s one moderator, again someone I set up as a moderator. Everyone else is a member or inactive.
I checked off the “Bozos only” button & filtered & there are 607 bozos. Is there an easy way to block all of the bozos or do I have to block them one by one? Or should I not bother?
And there were 37 posts in the posts table that were spam, for things like insurance & imaging jobs in Miami. I deleted those posts from the database control panel.
Question: Is the “bozo” attribute set by Akismet? And does Akismet add entries to the “Recently moderated” list on the dashboard?
I’ve changed the admin password & my password. I’m having my friend change his password. Hopefully, that will stop anyone from gaining access to admin rights.
My site has almost 1200 users & 607 of them are bozos. That’s depressing.
Tony
Hard Seat Sleeper:
I went to the bbPress admin panel & there’s 1 admin, a friend of mine that helped me set up the site & I made him an admin a year ago. The admin ID & my ID are the only Key Masters. There’s one moderator, again someone I set up as a moderator. Everyone else is a member or inactive.
I checked off the “Bozos only” button & filtered & there are 607 bozos. Is there an easy way to block all of the bozos or do I have to block them one by one? Or should I not bother?
And there were 37 posts in the posts table that were spam, for things like insurance & imaging jobs in Miami. I deleted those posts from the database control panel.
Question: Is the “bozo” attribute set by Akismet? And does Akismet add entries to the “Recently moderated” list on the dashboard?
I’ve changed the admin password & my password. I’m having my friend change his password. Hopefully, that will stop anyone from gaining access to admin rights.
My site has almost 1200 users & 607 of them are bozos. That’s depressing.
Tony
Hiya,
I’m working with this plugin and I’m having some difficulties with it.
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-last-poster/
The last post link of the first forum is empty, all other last posts are correct.
Do you have any idea why the first result returned by forum_last_post_link() is something like this?
http:/example/forum/topic/#post-
(toppic slug and post id are missing)
Anyone resolved this or know what might be going on?
Thanks,
Mitch
I’m having issues with spammers. There are tons of posts in the posts table in the database, but only the 4 I originally created are showing. And someone else, who seems to be a spammer, seems to have moderation rights in the forum.
I also have WordPress multisite installed and that’s giving me troubles too, but I wonder if this is all related? I’m thinking of blowing away bbpress, truncating all of the bbpress tables and starting again.
I’m going to be changing the admin passwords today. I want to query the user table for users with admin rights. How do I do that?
I’m having issues with spammers. There are tons of posts in the posts table in the database, but only the 4 I originally created are showing. And someone else, who seems to be a spammer, seems to have moderation rights in the forum.
I also have WordPress multisite installed and that’s giving me troubles too, but I wonder if this is all related? I’m thinking of blowing away bbpress, truncating all of the bbpress tables and starting again.
I’m going to be changing the admin passwords today. I want to query the user table for users with admin rights. How do I do that?
Ok, i took a look around (and saw now the post of Submachiner :-p) and found a solution – there’s still a problem with “raquos” in the rss-file. Go to the root-directory of your bbpress-forum and open the rss.php, then replace all the »s; in it with something else, for example with >> . After doing this the Feeds show all content now 
Ok, i took a look around (and saw now the post of Submachiner :-p) and found a solution – there’s still a problem with “raquos” in the rss-file. Go to the root-directory of your bbpress-forum and open the rss.php, then replace all the »s; in it with something else, for example with >> . After doing this the Feeds show all content now
Try bavatars instead: way better!
Try bavatars instead: way better!
Jyri makes good job with bbP and WP
Because Akismet messes the whole forum up.
I almost don´t remember why, but it kept real users from posting and registering and messed up post counts where there was no need for it, and more.
I installed bbnospamuser and thought it worked… because it said it caught several spammers in the statistics, untill today. Another idiot spammer advertising a Nissan.
I´m gonna install project honeypot too.
But the biggest flaw, and READ THIS NIGHTGUNNER, is that BBpress doesnt give me the IP of users, so I cant register these car spammers in the database.
Because Akismet messes the whole forum up.
I almost don´t remember why, but it kept real users from posting and registering and messed up post counts where there was no need for it, and more.
I installed bbnospamuser and thought it worked… because it said it caught several spammers in the statistics, untill today. Another idiot spammer advertising a Nissan.
I´m gonna install project honeypot too.
But the biggest flaw, and READ THIS NIGHTGUNNER, is that BBpress doesnt give me the IP of users, so I cant register these car spammers in the database.
If you want to turn your forum private, use this plugin.
If you want to turn your forum private, use this plugin.
