[_ck_]

You know what, this is an inherit flaw with bbpress that I think I mentioned elsewhere years ago.

It never recalculates post-position when there are deleted posts, yet it relies on that post-position to find a specific posts’s page.

See this is how it calculates the page

function get_post_link( $post_id = 0 ) {

$bb_post = bb_get_post( get_post_id( $post_id ) );

>>>>>>	$page = bb_get_page_number( $bb_post->post_position );

return apply_filters( 'get_post_link', get_topic_link( $bb_post->topic_id, $page ) . "#post-$bb_post->post_id", $bb_post->post_id );

}

and this is how it calculates that page

return intval( ceil( $item / $per_page ) );

so it’s $bb_post->post_position / $per_page

always, regardless if there are deleted posts in the way, which is why it can be “short” when calculating the last page(s) on a longer topic with deleted posts.

The solution is that post-position has to be recalculated when a post is deleted. The only side effect is that for admin, jumping directly to a deleted post would not work, you’d have to find it manually.

bbPress never, ever, re-calculates post-position, even on a recount, if I am not mistaken.

There is one tiny work-around we can do.

For the LAST POST calculation, we can intercept that and subtract the number of deleted posts from the post-position. Hmm, actually wait, is it subtract or add. I have to investigate this a bit and think out the logic.

[_ck_]

I must be missing the problem here.

The “latest reply” link works.

When I am on page 3, the page 4 link works.

What specifically is not working?

Are you saying the problem is intermittent?

ps. I use an ebike with a custom lifepo4 battery

Oh wait, I see what you saying now

he problem vanished when one reply was written.

It will reappear when someone writes a reply last on that page.

so it’s an even/odd problem

if there are an even number of posts, it works,

if there is an uneven number, it does not work

Did you try the trick of deleting one post and then undeleting it?

There must be a bug in the way bbPress calculates post-position when there are deleted posts. I wonder if it’s specific to 1.x

[e-motion]

No, I do not. I have following plugins:

Akismet

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBcode Buttons Toolbar

BBcode Lite

bbPM

BBVideo

Bozo Users

Hello Louie

Human Test for bbPress

Instant Password

Skip Akismet

SourceCode Highlighter

[jdeleon]

Hi Guys

My bbpress install brings up the following error message now

—

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, cgiadmin@yourhostingaccount.com and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

—

Would anyone know how I would fix this? It was working fine only until a week or two ago when this error now appears.

Cheers

[John James Jacoby]

@erlend – Understandable. Will try to do better.

@mbiernat – Thanks for the pat on the back. Definitely helps to have some support

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Does this plugin work flawlessly or it has some issues in the long run or anything else for that matter?

http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/

Would like to hear from someone who has been using it for quite some time.

[kikko088]

Hi at all, I have a question, I’m use avatar upload on my bbpress installation, it work very well, the problem is that I put this string on profile.php

<?php avatarupload_display($user->ID); ?>

for display avatar on profile page but I can see only my avatar, if I’m looking another user avatar I can’t see it…

How can I do for see the avatar of all the user instead only my avatar?

Last question, there is a way for hide favorite page to common user as edit profile page?

kikko088

[mbiernat]

JJJ, I think everyone sincerely appreciates your work and dedication. I have been looking forward to the BBpress plugin, but I think it is pretty understood Sept 15 is a very soft idealistic date. Again thank you for the work you have and will put in on this.

[Erlend]

Thanks for the update John. I’ll admit I had already adjusted my expectations. Here’s the thing about transparent development and deadlines though: It’s fine to set deadlines, but when you’re getting a strong sense that you won’t make it, say so.

I would have preferred checking in yesterday or the day before that to find “bbPress pre-release deadline post-poned”. Instead I came in today with just a tiny bit of hope, but we all know how that ended.

@_ck_ The “hijacking” comment was all kinds of ‘too far’, ‘out of context’ and plain false. I have a lot of respect for you and share a lot of your opinions about the bbP project, but right now you are truly on the verge of trolling.

[lmsook10]

Hello,

I’m new in both WP and BBP, but have some background with PHP.

I’m building a website using WP 3.0 Twenty Ten theme, and one of page needs bulletine board, so I decided to use BBPress for that.

Thanks for http://1plusdesign.com/articles/bbpress-wordpress-integration/ I could install bbpress under my WP site (http://localhost/wordpress) like http://localhost/wordpress/forums and if I go to http://localhost/wordpress/forums directly, I can see the bbpress forum, but my question is without direct accessing to the url (http://localhost/wordpress/forums),how can someone from my WP site go to the forum page? For instance, I have a page called Forum in my WP site, and I would like if someone clicks(goes to) the page, it will display http://localhost/wordpress/forums

Thanks for your reply.

[_ck_]

Yes but what happens when you try to jump directly to a specific post.

bbPress doesn’t know the order of the posts so unless you change it with a filter, it will never return the person back to their own post.

If you only have a single page of posts the problem is avoided, but try it on a topic with three pages of posts.

[_ck_]

Mods have no control over that and I highly doubt admin will bother because of display names giving you the ability to rename anyone to anything else.

Asking on bbpress.org is probably also a bad idea, use the more highly trafficked wordpress.org

[hpguru]

Feature request: Import from bbPress (should be coming) and Simple:Press. Thank you.

[Rich Pedley]

All sounds good, thanks for the update

[John James Jacoby]

I’ve been side tracked with BuddyPress bugs and paying work, so don’t expect anything official for a week or two. I have a few projects coming up fast that will need this working so while I’m missing my soft Sept 15 deadline, I don’t think it will be /too/ far off.

Sorry to disappoint, it’s no fun… and thanks for your patience with me and it.

For the record, I love bbPress. I have a few commits going into 1.1, and I have every intention of making bbPress be the best it can be as a WordPress plugin.

Regarding my motivation and priority, it’s to make great forum software that fits inside WordPress; nothing more and nothing less.

Regarding why I was able to step into this role, it’s because our peers believe I am capable, and I am willing to dedicate time and effort towards it getting it done.

Regarding any possible benefit BuddyPress might see, is a welcome bonus but not a priority. BuddyPress/bbPress processing times should decrease with BuddyPress 1.2.6, as a few tweaks have been made and a bug or two have been patched in that regard. Even still, nothing compares to the blazing fast speed of bbPress by itself, even in the slower 1.x branch.

Regarding everything else, I’m just here to write the best code I can, help make bbPress a great WordPress plugin, and have fun doing it all. So far, so good on my end.

[milkyWim]

solved! see : https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/making-the-newest-posts-show-up-first

[frooyo]

@ _ck_

And how once I had hope for bbPress, it seems like that hope dead with 0.9 some 3 years ago

_ck_, I’ll definitely make a donation, if you were to pick back up 0.9 and run with it. Fix the known bugs in 0.9 and add in native page (front page & topic) caching for non-logged in users.

I’ll donate $100. Seriously.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

I’m running bbPress 1.0.2 and everything is working fine, but responding to an existing thread (posting a response to it) is verrrry slow to post, and sometimes even times out with an error. But the response always gets posted, even if the site times out.

Weirdly, starting a new thread is very fast.

Any idea what could be causing it?

[kikko088]

Hi at all, I try to put a value on input form (like bbpress.org form), I use this code

<input name=”topic” type=”text” id=”topic” size=”50″ maxlength=”80″ tabindex=”1″ value=”text” onfocus=”if(this.value==’text’){this.value=”;this.focus();}” onblur=”if(this.value==”){this.value=’text’}”/>

normally it work, now the problem is that I use also related post and I think it conflicts with the input code, infact if I active plugin the code don’t work, if I deactive the plugin the code work perfectly.

Can you help me?

kikko088

[_ck_]

For those not familiar with BuddyPress or how it uses bbPress, let me give you a quick example.

Here is a typical BuddyPress group’s discussion area (without forums it’s just a group of bloggers which also can be done with basic buddypress but it’s boring)

http://culturadigital.br/groups/banda-infinnita/forum/

Here it is natively inside the bbPress engine:

http://www.culturadigital.br/forum/forum.php?id=151

If you look back on their bbpress front-page you can see how all the groups are exposed as individual forums. This is how buddypress needs bbpress.

(I have no association at all with that site, it’s just a rare example of behind the scenes – unfortunately this kind of demo is not possible on most buddypress sites because JJJ has learned over time to “lock down” bbpress to prevent direct examination)

BuddyPress doesn’t need the bbPress front-end, at all. But it desperately needs the backend. And JJJ needs that backend to be faster and not have to load it’s own core. So by switching it to use WordPress’s core, buddyPress will be faster.

ps.the buddypress version of the forum takes FIVE times longer to render than the bbpress version – I’m not talking about the time to send the extra images on the page, I’m talking just server time to render the page. And that’s against bbPress 1.0, not 0.9

[_ck_]

@frooyo

Yes that is why forks of bbpress would be wise to start with 0.9

[frooyo]

@ _ck_

So bbPress is progressively getting worse and worse?

Sounds like 0.7-0.9 was what we’d all want back, no?

[_ck_]

Same question by two people on the same day?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/making-the-newest-posts-show-up-first

[_ck_]

Let me clarify for those that don’t follow.

BuddyPress is JJJ’s pet project.

Buddypress relies on WordPress, currently it’s technically a “plugin” to WordPress.

Buddypress (pre-1.3) uses bbpress standalone to manage it’s groups by using bbpress’s engine to manage forums (buddypress “groups” technically are forums with specific memberships to limit who can post to where).

JJJ sees that there are far too many layers and way too much code being loaded which is making buddypress too slow. So his plan is to more closely tie bbpress into WordPress, making buddypress faster.

His motivation is not to improve bbpress for the sake of making bbpress better. He doesn’t need the front end of bbpress at all for buddypress. He already manages it through buddypress.

So by reinventing bbpress to use wordpress’s core, he can cut out some of the bulk and make buddypress faster. BuddyPress is currently very slow and bulky unless you have a decent server and good caching setup.

Taking control of bbPress is a side project to help buddypress for JJJ and he’ll never convince me otherwise about his motivations.

Note I am NOT saying you won’t be able to run bbPress without buddypress, of course you will be able to (because that’s even less complicated) But that’s not his motivation or priority, at all.

@frooyo

0.7-0.9 bbPress standalone, high speed core independent of WP

1.0-1.1 bbPress relies on backpress core, which uses WP functions (150% larger)

1.2/2.0 bbPress relies on WordPress 3+ for it’s core (200% larger)

If you think hooking into the bulk that is WP 3.x is going to make bbPress faster, well there’s going to be a mighty big wake up call sometime soon. It will make page caching easier, but that’s good because it’s practically going to be a requirement.

JJJ’s only motivation to do this is because his pet buddypress project relies on the bulk of WP so the logic is might as well force bbPress to also.

TL;DR bbPress rewrite makes buddypress faster but bbpress by itself slower than 0.9/1.1

[alexborras]

I managed to install manually configuring forum bb-config.php file and uploading to the bbPress folder. The bbPress database is different from WordPress.