[ethanthekiwi]

This forum, bbPress.org/forum, is using what appears to be the Subscribe to Topic plugin to send email notifications. I have been told that this plugin does not work, so I would like to ask the question, “How is the bbpress forum doing email notifications, because it works the way that I want email notifications to work on my site.”

The last time I posted about this, I was told that the plugin did not work in 1.0.2 and that 1.0.2 had built in support for this. I am fairly certain that 1.0.2 does not have built in email support and I would rather not downgrade to 0.9, but I might if that’s what it takes. Can anyone confirm this or offer a better solution?

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/all-member-names-anonymous-on-front-page-bbpressorg

[pagal]

@ricardouk, Thank you so much for your time and interest.

some say 0.9.2 is faster but even if it is faster i can´t really notice it.

Yes, I’m totally agree with you, I also can’t find any difference.

the next version (pluggin) will be what everyone wanted,

I don’t think so, I analyse that most of people/developers don’t want this plugin, they love standalone.

What you think, This plugin will win the situation? Nope never,

I’m afraid, How can biggest sites will move to this plugin.

And those who just want to run community without WordPress, Will like it?

off course, they need a separate forum solution.

And what about those plugins which have developed for bbPresss standalone, Will developers again make them compatible for bbPress plugin?

I don’t think so.. specially _ck_ will not remake them.

Community forums is a separate issue, It should remain separate.

Its a stupid idea to messing it up with WP. My apologies.

I’m also not happy with those five forums software which you’ve mentioned. They all looks like same including vbulletin. They are complicated, heavy.

You know which I choose bbPress? because of its motto

yes, its really simple, fast and elegant.

I don’t know why management remove these “three words” which was the identity of bbPress.

With Regards,

Pagal

[_ck_]

They did something wrong and bbpress defaults to “anonymous” when it can’t find the user. Probably means they didn’t do a global or something like that.

[_ck_]

I noticed this morning it’s tricky in bbpress to figure out who tagged what, when.

So now this plugin will help admin explore how those tags got there or if spammers have snuck in any stray tags.

Install, activate and look under the Manage menu.

Click on the numbers next to the items to “drill down” on those tags.

Let me know if you have feature ideas or find bugs.

—

okay it’s on the SVN now with a couple of tweaks/fixes

so you can get it from there

http://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/tag-history/trunk/

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/tag-history/

[Navin]

Sorry for the very late reply… and thanks for your reply

I’m using tons of plugins actually and using bbpress version 1.0.1

The plugin which is causing this is ck’s unread post plugin.

Luckily, this problem is only noticed by keymasters.

I don’t really want to turn off this plugin, since its a very usefull plugin to see what is new on the forums.

I just don’t understand how it started happening all of a sudden.

[Navin]

I still think it’s lame they deleted the article.

bbPress has its problem, so has any software.

[Ricardo]

you can use rss widgets on the homepage… if you mean “hardcoding it” to the template use the following code:

<?php if(function_exists(‘fetch_feed’)) {

include_once(ABSPATH.WPINC.’/feed.php’);

$feed = fetch_feed(‘http://www.domain.com/bbpress/rss&#8217;);

$limit = $feed->get_item_quantity(7); // specify number of items

$items = $feed->get_items(0, $limit); // create an array of items

}

if ($limit == 0) echo ‘<div>The feed is either empty or unavailable.</div>’;

else foreach ($items as $item) : ?>

<div>

get_permalink(); ?>”

title=”<?php echo $item->get_date(‘j F Y @ g:i a’); ?>”>

<?php echo $item->get_title(); ?>

</div>

<div>

<?php echo substr($item->get_description(), 0, 200); ?>

<span>[…]</span>

</div>

<?php endforeach; ?>

and edit the following:

$feed = fetch_feed(‘http://www.domain.com/bbpress/rss&#8217;);

$limit = $feed->get_item_quantity(7); // specify number of items

<?php echo substr($item->get_description(), 0, 200); ?>

[Bryan Petty]

I have a WP install that doesn’t use any table prefix (the default being “wp_”) in the installer, and I had trouble getting bbPress installed using it.

I did get bbPress installed using the “wp_” prefix anyway, but had to go into the database by hand and change the bb_metadata entry for the prefix to nothing, and merge the (apparently auto-created) wp_metadata table into my “metadata” table to get it to work.

I can’t see any problems past what I ran into with the installation, it all works fine now, but I thought I would report this anyway.

[cichlid]

I just want to say thank you to the following people who contributed plugins and made my life much easier.

Thomas Klaiber

Eduardo Graells

Michael Adams

Nightgunner5

_ck_

Rich Boakes & Frédéric Petit

Rhys Wynne

Francesco Bigiarini

Well, thats out of the way.

I switched from phpBB3 to bbpress 1.0.2 because I couldn’t stand the huge administration section and the constant spam. In addition I had problems integrating phpbb with wordpress (yes, I tried, wp-united and hated it).

It took me roughly 2 days to implement the forum and wordpress the way it is now and I converted the data from phpbb to bbpress. Lost a lot of users because they couldn’t convert for whatever reason but I managed to keep all the data.

Forum Address: http://www.cichlidexplorer.com/forum

It still needs work!!

[Rose]

Does anyone know if this still works with the current incarnations of wordpress and bbpress? I’ve tried it but it comes up with nada (using the default bbpress template with <?php echo bb_list_pages();?> added).

[arthurfreitas]

Thanks for all your help, @wblogan. Now I’m editing the CSS of bbPress (it’s hard, oh boy…).

Ahn… Opera Browser comes with a feature called Dragonfly. Works like than Firebug.

Again, thanks.

Att,

[wblogan]

Can’t explain why one thing worked for me with the footer and another works for you. I get lost trying to follow the divs, so I just kept fooling around with it until it worked. Not exactly the right way to go about it I know, but…

I took a look at your site and saw no difference between the footer on the front page and the other pages. So I don’t know what the issue is there.

With regard to editing the two style sheets, I did not have to mess with much but the login field. It crowded the line below, so I fixed it. I just looked for things on all pages in WordPress and bbPress that weren’t right and changed what I had to. But the idea is that you want to merge the two style sheets. So far as I know you could put all of the styles in one sheet if you wanted and eliminate the other. I think the point is that you can’t have different styles for the same elements without it causing a problem somewhere. As I recall I made no changes to the WordPress style.css. I made all changes in the bb-style.css and bbPress theme.

Your site is looking good to me. Is Firebug available for Opera? If not, that edit styles bookmarklet I mentioned in my documentation is very helpful in making changes to styles.

[arthurfreitas]

Hello,

I turned off the plugins that added style lines that you indicated. I do not know anything was resolved, honestly …

I think I made a wrong issue in file footer.php, I will check it shortly.

Oh, about the mistakes of styles, I’m in the “cleaning” process of the bbPress’ CSS. But which of the two files I need to edit: bb-style.css style.css?

I appreciate your help.

Att,

Edit: I think what is messing up the footer is the integrated-footer.txt file, since it closes some <div> tags.

No?

[Ricardo]

get the rss feed from bbpress by adding “rss” to the forum url

http://www.domain.com/bbpress/rss

copy the rss feed url and paste it on the rss/feed widget in wordpress

[wblogan]

I would try commenting this line out; maybe it needs to be in a different place?

<link rel="profile" href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11"/>

Where are these internal styles coming from if you have not added them to header.php?

`<style type="text/css"><br />

.signature {padding:1em; border-top:1px solid #ccc; font-size:0.87em; color:#444;}<br />

</style><br />

<style type="text/css"><br />

.bb_smilies {border:0; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom:1px;}<br />

.bb_smilies {cursor: pointer; cursor: hand;}<br />

#bbClicker {position: absolute; float: right; visibility: hidden; background: buttonface; width: 150px; border:2px inset buttonface; font: 1.2em times, serif;}<br />

#bbClicker img {padding:5px;}<br />

#bb_smilies_toggle {float:right; padding: 0px 6px 1px 6px; margin: 1px 7px 2px 0; font: 1.2em times, serif; word-spacing: -1px; height: 16px; vertical-align:middle; line-height:16px;');}<br />

</style>`

I looked at your site with Firefox and opened the error console, and I think something in these styles might be causing a problem.

Have you edited bbpress/frontpage.php?

Check anything you have edited for missing or misplaced closing tags.

I’m out of my element here. These are just the things I would try. (I wish someone who knows more than me would jump in here.)

[wblogan]

I wonder if you will get the footer and other things fixed without fixing your style sheets. Your styles are in the wrong order. Looks to me like you are using @import rather than <link> to get the style sheets. In fact, it looks to me like you are using <link>, @import and internal styles. Are you importing styles from another site outside your domain? What browser are you using? Have you made changes to twentyten/header.php other than adding the link to the bbpress/bb-styles.css?

[DKB]

How can i grab the RSS feed from bbpress and show it on WordPress?

I want to show the latest 3 comments in the format:

title

summary (max 10 plain text exerpt length)

Thanks in advance,

DKB

[curtismchale]

My date? I’ve removed bbPress more than once. I’ve also removed the bb-config.php file and copied the information out of the working WordPress install as well as going through the installer.

I’ve downloaded a fresh copy of bbPress from the site as well as getting it from Trunk.

No idea what my date may have to do with it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hello folks,

Just a quick update, I’m afraid I’ve been offline for a week due to family issues. To that end, it’ll be another week or so before I come back with an actual update. Just didn’t want people to think I’d gone AWOL.

_ck_ best of luck with your projects. No doubt we’ll all be slapping our heads at the simplicity of what you build next.

Paul, thanks for the kind words and well wishes.

Take care,

Kev

[Ricardo]

Hi

Personally i prefer the 1.0.2 version, both of them are fast and light, some say 0.9.2 is faster but even if it is faster i can´t really notice it.

with version 1.0.2 i can switch the pretty permalink function on very easily, i was unable to do that with version 0.9.2, in fact i was unable to turm it on and spent a good amount of time in the support forums trying what everyone said (multiviews, htacess etc etc etc), the permalink structure is a bonus point for me in any forum script (i dont like all those cripthgraphic urls).

visually (user side) there aren’t many differences, from the admin prespective version 0.9.2 has a “wordpress retro look” version 1.0.2 looks like wordpress 3.0 .

version 1.0.2 added a few functions/pluggins to the core that were missing or needed a pluggin in 0.9.2.

if you use wordpress, version 1.0.2 can be integrated a lot easier than 0.9.2.

There’s been some talk about forking it but in my opinion the next version (pluggin) will be what everyone wanted, better integration at several levels, no backpress dependency, bbpress admin area inside wordpress etc etc)

i tried several forum scripts and i think nobody will be angry if i write a few lines about them:

1- phpbb3 – fairly simple to setup but way too much options in the admin area, nothing difficult as it is understandable but no “pretty permalink structure”, there was a pluggin but you need to reinstall it with every new version and its a pain to even set it up.

2- SMF – simple to setup but its kind of complicated to get around all those options, to much stuff.

3- PunBB/FluxBB – Original forum script and fork – both were a breeze to install, PunBB had native permalink structure and FluxBB had a pluggin but in my opinion the community has lost his “power” forking PunBB split the community but i could be wrong.

4- Simple press – the best forum pluggin for wordpress, had most stuff i wanted (clean urls, integration with wordpress at all levels, theme, users etc) nice community forum, international language support but it was sluggish, there were a few tips on how to optimize its speed but never managed to optimize it, otherwise a great forum script for wordpress.

5- MyBB – easy to instal with a easy to understand administration area, great community, lots of pluggins, themes, international support, fast forum system, clean urls (through pluggin) etc, if the bbpress project doesnt take off in next version it willprobably be my choice.

Hope this helps you.

[hpguru]

bbPress plugin September 15?

Now date is October 15.

[pagal]

anyone else?

[arthurfreitas]

Hello,

I followed your instructions @wblogan, and the first, second and fourth problems were resolved.

Now, the third problem persists, and some problems appeared due to CSS bbPress would need help to fix (I do not understand anything of the composition of CSS at bbPress)

Thank you.

Att,

[curtismchale]

Not sure if this will get me any closer but BuddyPress installs with no issues. I know it’s a plugin for WP but it also installs bbPress.