I was finally able to read up on subversion, find a client and install 1.1. Last night.
For future reference to those who find this:
To install the development trunk:
1) Go get a subversion client. For your purposes this is like an FTP or web browser client that lets you download “special” file types. There are many clients out there. All you need to be able to do is “check out” things. Almost all the free ones will let you do this. I used svnX for mac.
2) Now you need to find the address of the current BBPress trunk. They do try their best to make it hard for newbies who just want the damn fiels but you can find the address here:
Download
See the line that says “vn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/”
You do not need all of that. All you need to do is tell your subversion client that the “repository” is at “http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/”. In the same way you would give a web browser the address of a page where you were going to download a file.
3) “check out” a copy of the trunk. check out is subversion speak for “download”. There are reasons why for development purposed they say “check out” but you don’t care about that.
4) You will have to tell it where to download the file. In subversion speak you tell it where to put your “working copy”. Again there are reasons for this but you don’t care you just want the damn files.
5) Now you have a folder with the newest version of BBPress. The one that is far more stable than the current “release” and the one everyone on the forum will tell you to go “get” if you have any complaints about the current “release”.
They will not tell you how to do this. That would be easy (see above). Nor will they write a simple script that will make the trunk available as a simple .zip file that a normal person could download. Again, that sort of thing would just be two damn simple.
I made a blog post on how I did the sitemap using the existing plugin:
How to create a Google XML Sitemap bbPress
It works for me 
Regards
The MD5 function (SHA, AES et similia) isn’t a encryption function but a “one-way” cryptographic hash function. An encryption function takes a plaintext (a discrete sequence of bytes), a password and encrypt the text creating another sequence of bytes called cipher text. The same function can be used (with some changes) to transform back the cipher text to plain text.
A cryptographic hash function instead creates a checksum that is a fixed-size string. It’s obviously a one-way process and bbPress, as well as any other software the stores password, use it to check if a password is valid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_software
There are a lot of software that also store all the passwords (encrypted or not) in the database but it’s a potential security issue cause an attacker that gains temporary access to the data can retrieve all the passwords. In bbPress it’s “impossible.” I used the quotes cause MD5 is a very old hash function and it has been demostrated to be vulnerable to cryptanalysis.
The MD5 function (SHA, AES et similia) isn’t a encryption function but a “one-way” cryptographic hash function. An encryption function takes a plaintext (a discrete sequence of bytes), a password and encrypt the text creating another sequence of bytes called cipher text. The same function can be used (with some changes) to transform back the cipher text to plain text.
A cryptographic hash function instead creates a checksum that is a fixed-size string. It’s obviously a one-way process and bbPress, as well as any other software the stores password, use it to check if a password is valid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_software
There are a lot of software that also store all the passwords (encrypted or not) in the database but it’s a potential security issue cause an attacker that gains temporary access to the data can retrieve all the passwords. In bbPress it’s “impossible.” I used the quotes cause MD5 is a very old hash function and it has been demostrated to be vulnerable to cryptanalysis.
@Gautam: right. So weird… If you have the default Permalinks and you change them it doesn’t work. But if you save again it does 
I guess the plugin will flush it itself in the future, right?
Ok, you need to actually go to the Permalinks page and press the Save Changes button to flush the rewrite rules.
Just registered a project on LaunchPad. Browser the source for index.php and tell me what you think 
https://launchpad.net/bbpress-mobile
Just registered a project on LaunchPad. Browser the source for index.php and tell me what you think
https://launchpad.net/bbpress-mobile
@alexvorn2 No but like @Gautam said I thought was not necesary
@quicoto did you add the code
add_filter(‘init’,’flushRules’);
function flushRules(){
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
in the bbp-functions.php ?
@Gautam @alexvorn2 Yup. I just changed the permalinks to /%postname%/ and still giving me a 404 error.
http://www.domain.com/forum/123-2/
@Gautam yeap, I like to see a Month and name permalink instead of the Default, by Default it’s ok but if I choose other, without the code I mentioned in the previous message it doesn’t work.
@alexvorn2
You just need to go to Permalinks page after activating the plugin to flush the rewrite rules.
hi everybody!
I downloaded the pre-alpha bbPress plugin and it doesn’t work 
I added some codes to bbpres-functions to make it work:
add_filter(‘init’,’flushRules’);
function flushRules(){
global $wp_rewrite;
$wp_rewrite->flush_rules();
}
and then I realized that the plugin is useless at this stage )))
ugh. this is tough.
Just found this comment from mdawaffe on the WordPress development blog:
mdawaffe 12:08 am on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
There’s some bugs in bbPress. In some places it treats user_logins case sensitively, and in others case insensitively (and sometimes it depends on your DB’s collation).
http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/i-upgraded-the-wp-org-plugins-directory/#comment-10009
ugh. this is tough.
Just found this comment from mdawaffe on the WordPress development blog:
mdawaffe 12:08 am on August 30, 2010 Permalink | Reply
There’s some bugs in bbPress. In some places it treats user_logins case sensitively, and in others case insensitively (and sometimes it depends on your DB’s collation).
http://wpdevel.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/i-upgraded-the-wp-org-plugins-directory/#comment-10009
Has anyone figured out how to include bbpress forum posts when using the WordPress site’s search form?
I migrated some users to bbPress and they are telling me that they get the following error when trying to login: User does not exist.
It turns out bbPress user IDs are case sensitive, so if the ID in the database is
Tipperary and the user types tipperary, it will not work.
Any way to circumvent this?
Sorry, I’m confused – either it is or isn’t.
As the user logs on regularly to bbPress they enter their user name and their password.
I presume that these are compared with the values in the database to enable logon. Either the given password is md5()’d or the database value is unencrypted to make this comparison.
As I have tried md5(‘mypass’) and it does not produce the same value as in the database something fishy is going on.
Sorry, I’m confused – either it is or isn’t.
As the user logs on regularly to bbPress they enter their user name and their password.
I presume that these are compared with the values in the database to enable logon. Either the given password is md5()’d or the database value is unencrypted to make this comparison.
As I have tried md5(‘mypass’) and it does not produce the same value as in the database something fishy is going on.
To put it simply I need to unhash / decrypt the password to reveal the current password in the database.
I have found this topic http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-administer-my-site#post-73724
which indicates the password is md5 encoded
However testing md5(‘mypass’) in mysql5 produces a value quite different from the ‘mypass’ used in the bbPress table.
I have exactly the same problem as egonen did.
I uploaded a theme to my-templates, went to Appearance->Themes and sure enough there was the theme but with the alt text instead of the screenshot image.
On loading the forum, the css is not loading even though the href for the stylesheet is “http://mysite.com/bbpress/my-templates/my-theme/style.css”
I changed the my-template permissions to 755 as suggested, but still no styles.
Anyone got any more clues about this?
cheers,
RP
Tried downloading the latest from Trac but I got the “invalid header” error. I don’t think I’m gonna bother asking for support about these things, so I’d rather wait for an official alpha release that’s got the bare basics put together. Great job though
I want to remove few fields from my bbpress registration and profile edit page example website and occupation. How can I remove that fields? (Important)
When I replace bbpress registration page with wordpress registration then after the log off from bbpress site bbpress still show user profile content. It means cookies not working fine.
If I use Facebook connect plugin with wordpress and if I use wordpress registration page both for WP and bbpress can user connect with facebook and comment on bbpress?
Thanks
