[Erlend]

So a couple weeks back now there was a small rush of activity with concerns to various “what now”s when bbPress-as-plugin was made official. It’s been two weeks since there was any activity on bbdevel.wordpress.com, same goes for developer meetups and blog updates.

When will the community get to participate in the future of bbPress?

I know I could easily be throwing in feature requests at will, but it would be a lot easier to make relevant suggestions and inquiries if I knew what was going on in terms of design and code right now.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’ve now asked about these in two other bbPress forums (subsections of WP forums)

I’d not waste my time there. The WP.org forums are really great for WordPress stuff (if you now the right terminology), but quite useless for bbPress.

Post Notification

Since I started using RSS (which most email clients and phone now handle nicely), I’ve never had a need for this.

It’s a fairly simple one to code though (with pitfalls), if there was a big enough need for it.

Subscribe To Topic

Yeah, that won’t work, and isn’t being worked on.

Matt annouced in December that it was going to be part of 1.1, but then ran away when people disagreed with him (can you believe a moderator actually asked him a question – sacrilege) and started telling people not to use bbpress while he was making KeyNote speeches at WordCamps.

It should be working in the trunk version of 1.1, which will be the last version of bbPress to be released.

After The Deadline

I typed “after the deadline bbpress” into google and this came up:

http://gaut.am/2010/06/after-the-deadline-v1-point-7-released/

Whether it will work with the plugin by a different author i’ve no idea. In honesty, IE7’s the only browser I have that doesn’t have a spell check built in natively, and its got it via an addon; so i’ve never really seen the need for this. Clearly others have though.

Someone said that part of the reason they haven’t been updated is because the authors are waiting for the new ‘plugin’ version of bbPress to be released

Sadly the WordPress (small p dangit) plugin will eradacate all code/plugins/themes/support from the current version. Nothing will be compatible.

A large part of why things aren’t updated is because bbPress looked like it was dying. The decision to rewrite a large chunk of code and go with BackPress made the majority of plugins not work overnight, and the initial thrust of 1.0 made it not worthwhile to upgrade them.

If we assumed they worked once, and all they’re not doing now is the notification part, you’d think that wouldn’t be very difficult to fix.

Awesome, i look forward to you coding them and releasing them. Thanks for offering Joe

[chrishajer]

Here I changed the background color of #wrapper:

http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/alt-unstyled.png

You know, I just checked this, and the .alt is not really styled like the odd numbered posts (1,3,5, etc with the rounded corners.) Since you changed the background color of #wrapper (I think) the unstyled aspect of the .alt posts shows up.

I don’t think you will have to change anything you did already, but you will need to add some more CSS rules for styling the .alt posts like the other posts are, to add the rounded colors and then change the background color of the avatar area.

Never saw that one before. Looks like you just have more CSS work to do to style the .alt replies.

[Joe Gibson]

Greets –

Well, I’ve now asked about these in two other bbPress forums (subsections of WP forums) and have gotten nowhere fast, so I thought I’d run them through the official forum again:

•Live Comment Preview — I could get it to put the ‘Preview’ button on the page, but otherwise it’s dead in its tracks. IE reported an “error on page” when used.

•Post Notification — Notifies Admin when someone posts in the forum. Dead.

•Subscribe To Topic — Puts the little checkbox on the page but doesn’t do the notification part.

•After The Deadline — Spell-checker, doesn’t work with BB Editor.

Someone said that part of the reason they haven’t been updated is because the authors are waiting for the new ‘plugin’ version of bbPress to be released. That’s great, except it doesn’t do any good in the meantime — for what could be a fairly simple tweak of the original code. Both “Post Notification” and “Subscribe To Topic” look like they’d fall under that heading. If we assumed they worked once, and all they’re not doing now is the notification part, you’d think that wouldn’t be very difficult to fix.

Someone else suggested I downgrade to bbPress v0.9, but (1) my heavily-tweaked theme wouldn’t load and (2) neither Zaerl Editor or BB Editor worked, so I canned the idea.

Any suggestions for replacements or fixes for the above?

Thanks,

Joe

[Joe Gibson]

Greets –

Is there a plugin or tweak that will display the ‘sticky’ topics at the top of the Topics list, rather than the bottom? I checked over the bbPress and Showcase sites and didn’t see anything.

Thanks,

Joe

[DDT]

@uteman23, did you find a good solution. I am planning to use bbpress and buddypress as well but i don’t like the built in bbpress. So i am planning to install a standalone bbpress, but i am wondering how this will hold up with buddypress.

Do you have any good website examples which uses this “triangle”??

regards,

[kevinjohngallagher]

Pagal,

You are really into bbPress, and thats great

People here, including myself, like helping you and others

The way I look at it is this: every time someone asks a question and people take the time to answer, it means more people who have that question will be able to find the answer without having to ask.

The difference is..

You don’t check first:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-disable-wp-super-chache-plugin-for-bbpress#post-72398

You start the same topic over and over:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/questions-about-bbpm-plugin

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/iis-it-possible-to-send-an-administrative-pm-to-all-members-by-using-bbpm

We ask you for information and you say “I don’t think this information is required”.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/iis-it-possible-to-send-an-administrative-pm-to-all-members-by-using-bbpm#post-72329

You say something doesn’t work, and then when we ask how it doesn’t work you refuse to tell us.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/block-users-by-their-names#post-70805

You get angry if you don’t get your own way:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/extra-dropdown-field-in-registration-page#post-70307

I don’t know why people forcing me to search bbPress solutions from GOOGLE and trying to bug me off from this Support

Because it saves us from having to type the same answers over and over.

None of us are paid here, we’re all just trying to help. The more time we spend typing the same answers to the same question because someone can’t use google, the less time we have for new questions.

Your last question, was very very easy to find the answer for.

It had it’s own tag (which YOU typed in), which lead you right to the answer.

The answer was the top search result in google.

The answer was linked to 5 times on searching on this forum.

Its just a request to open my topic again.

Why bro?

I’m guessing it was closed because the question was answered

You asked a question, you got an answer that worked

That’s awesome!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Lots of people + private message = what email is for

The required code is on my other post

I did not find your post yet, link please?

Type into google: “all email site:bbpress.org”

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=all+email+site%3Abbpress.org

Top answer:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/send-email-to-all-members#post-69586

[pagal]

Hello, bbPress Mods,

I’m really confused that what I did wrong that you’ve closed my topic about Super cache. I think I just ask a question, I’ve searched about this issue over internet but I didn’t find any solution yet that’s why I’ve asked about it in bbpress ( believe me Kev, Just my name is Pagal, But I’m really not). I also searched about it in bbPress forums but did not find any authentic answer. I don’t know why people forcing me to search bbPress solutions from GOOGLE and trying to bug me off from this Support.

I make you sure that I’ll not give any wrong reply to my “beloved” Kev about his sweet painful words. Its just a request to open my topic again.

Really Thanks,

P.S. This topic may be under “Requests and Faedback” Forum.

[Sincever]

Thank you very much for your response!

But if I understand this tutorial, for the convert SMF to bbPress it’s not possible to use the same database?

(sorry for my bad english)

[chrishajer]

There was a plugin that was useful with older versions, not so much any more:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/move-it/

Do not use that plugin.

[colinabsolutely]

Just to follow up, I found/installed the Cimy SMTP for bbpress plugin which both works around disabled phpmail and supports SSL, and it works!

Check the links in this post regarding Cimy SMTP for bbpress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-registration-password-mails-not-sending#post-55702

[zaerl]

BBpress don’t use a wordpress database with the wordpress users?

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

“bbPress can share user data with an existing WordPress installation. All you need to do is specify the location of that database on installation or afterwards in the “WordPress Integration” section of the “Settings” area in your bbPress admin”

[kevinjohngallagher]

Pagal,

I know you dislike me always saying it, but GOOGLE, then ask.

I did and top search results was…

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bug-found-bbpress-with-wp-super-cache

But even better than that, if you click on “wp-super-cache” tag that YOU typed in, guess what: It lists 3 topics, yours and 2 others that tell you how to fix this problem:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bug-found-bbpress-with-wp-super-cache

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugin-problem

Honestly mate, if you don’t want to use a search engine, I can’t make you, but try looking for yourself first, please

[Sincever]

Hi!!

Question: BBpress don’t use a wordpress database with the wordpress users?

[pagal]

No doubt its a really good plugin for wordpress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

But it not works with bbPress.

When I activate this plugin then wp works but I’m getting a blank screen for my forums,

Nothing in forums, nor in source code simple white page.

and my error log for bbPress

/path/to/wp/wp-includes/cache.php on line 93<br />

[05-Aug-2010 17:17:08] PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function get() on a non-object in /path/to/wp/wp-includes/cache.php on line 93<br />

[05-Aug-2010 17:17:14] PHP Fatal error:  Call to a member function get() on a non

So, Simply I want to stop this plugin to work with forums.

I’m using

Wordpress 3.0.1

bbPress 1.0.2

Deep integration.

If you could help, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks,

P.

[thomasfals]

I have installed wordpress 3.0.1 and bbpress 1.0 inside the wordpress folder. They share the same database.

I have added the following lines to the wp-config before the mysql strings:

define( 'COOKIEHASH', 'd1f7eec6931cdc9bcabcda54b479078e' );

define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );

And these longer down:

define('AUTH_KEY',         'Lut=fA6L$vvH;jt+<3$.Uu;-x$SScbTh}>I0$G7d8<code></code>%H]/%F<eFY

)NM6tMw_2ao’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘Q0e8f|n[NN-7-}w-:9-}s-Yt5UjbM-_E>]88/j|cgG d++%q7m%kx+Y*|Vn&c{)8’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘YhYj/aHOg>(D|2C({PUGC {QCh?<^y-8-[EGp-]{IYKz{o.XtwLLp3z|i5>x&&’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘-t%dnVN}E?2lFeXbl!Kqaaa@o3|u8|%I5cUMlZ:Kwj$dX,*V(ilrFokuF]w9$h??’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘^B-eC)mvb?-Swa!0V[W,; -FwUNW^-;Rqc-+GrHmlw64Qaa7w:.fUceuEqv;Na(/’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘Hyv|rxFT^1it2pfXQ|S-KAwIL$Q[D^+-Pv=9XAW.V}r}H&cXZ@%=F*ds8Em:Q`8M’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘b#A_A2wBKz-):+EVBE$ZpOZ]k!fEFYh(K@ZJP+y W/casO0aP8nx|b/)O*p~M_OK’);

define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ‘~Il&]x.h,Pl0g2ac{jSZ]XEAU –kn{Hw;@&B`dZ[#/uaNyQ+z9K)YWfWhmX +

M7′);

These have been added to the bb-config.php before the mysql strings:

define( 'SITECOOKIEPATH', '/' );

define( 'COOKIEPATH', '/' );

And these longer down:

define('BB_AUTH_KEY',         'Lut=fA6L$vvH;jt+<3$.Uu;-x$SScbTh}>I0$G7d8<code></code>%H]/%F<eFY

)NM6tMw_2ao’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘Q0e8f|n[NN-7-}w-:9-}s-Yt5UjbM-_E>]88/j|cgG d++%q7m%kx+Y*|Vn&c{)8’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘YhYj/aHOg>(D|2C({PUGC {QCh?<^y-8-[EGp-]{IYKz{o.XtwLLp3z|i5>x&&’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘-t%dnVN}E?2lFeXbl!Kqaaa@o3|u8|%I5cUMlZ:Kwj$dX,*V(ilrFokuF]w9$h??’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘^B-eC)mvb?-Swa!0V[W,; -FwUNW^-;Rqc-+GrHmlw64Qaa7w:.fUceuEqv;Na(/’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘Hyv|rxFT^1it2pfXQ|S-KAwIL$Q[D^+-Pv=9XAW.V}r}H&cXZ@%=F*ds8Em:Q`8M’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘b#A_A2wBKz-):+EVBE$ZpOZ]k!fEFYh(K@ZJP+y W/casO0aP8nx|b/)O*p~M_OK’);

define(‘BB_NONCE_SALT’, ‘~Il&]x.h,Pl0g2ac{jSZ]XEAU –kn{Hw;@&B`dZ[#/uaNyQ+z9K)YWfWhmX +M7’);

In the wordpress integration plugin I checked that the table prefix is set to wp_. Also the “auth”, “secure auth” and “logged in” cookies are locked as they have been matched.

The wordpress url is set correct and the bbpress integration plugin has been added and the bbpress url is set. I have deleted all cookies, but regardless I am not logged into bbpress when I log into wordpress.

I have mapped the users as key, moderator, member, member, member. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

[brad@foreverybody]

I have been tasked with integrating a forum whit an existing site of private community of members already in existence.

I selected bbpress because I like its simplicity and its similarities with wordpress so I am somewhat familiar with it on the surface and to a lesser extent its inner workings. This integration needs to be seamless in both appearance and function.

Geting it visually integrated was easy as I was able to wrap my existing webpage class in a bb template by doing all my setup in head.php and my rendering in footer.php. wrapping my webpage class also inherently provided me with blocking pages and showing the login page if the user wasn’t authenticated to the existing site. so far so good.

Now onto the problem. I need users logged into the site to be able to post and have all the perks of registered users but NOT actually be a user because they will not control their user info from bbpress. avatars names email addresses etc are to be controlled from an existing interface that i have no control over. With that said inserting and updating entires in the bbuesrs table is undesirable for me and I would much rather a plugin be be abel to instantiate the bb_user class using $_SESSION data instead of entries in the database.

I have been able to get this working by hacking the actual bb_user class in combination with a hacked anonymous posting plugin, but I want to be able to update bbpress in the future without breaking it or having to go re-hack so I am hoping to find a pluggable solution.

any ideas?

[brad@foreverybody]

While I have never needed to administrate 100 bbpress installs I have had the need to administrate 3 and it was a pain having to keep each one up to date with plugins etc.

I’m not sure what exactly OP means when he says “administrate”, but if all that is required is the ability to run multiple forums from one set of core/plugins/templates the solution I came up with was to hack the wordpress virtual multiblog plugin to work with bbpress. It was fairly easy as bbpress and wordpress cores are quite similar.

each forum has its own database and VMB simply loads a different config file for each forum.

[chrishajer]

The files are not where bbPress expected to see them. If they were, this would come up fine:

http://lookwhatwecando.freehostingcloud.com/my-templates/static-blue/style.css

So, please take a screenshot of the location of the folders in relationship to the bb-templates folder.

It could also be something weird related to the free hosting account, but I don’t think so. I just don’t think the files are where they need to be.

Something like this:

http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/bb-file-locations.jpg

[robo51]

Sorry about that, the themes dont even appear, and the folders are:

root: /bbPress/my-templates/crazydark

root: /bbPress/my-templates/static-blue

I hope this helps.

[mohdumar]

i installed bbpress and after some time the general forum disapered

i created 4 forums and a category and then hey disappered too!

i had also installed lot of plugins..

but the stats on admin dashboard show 5 forums but i can see any!

http://umar.hostjiffy.com/forum/

help me!

[colinabsolutely]

My guess is that your box doesn’t support PHP mail. I had the same problem, but I integrated users with my WordPress install so I got in with my admin account.

There is an SMTP plugin floating around but I haven’t gotten it to work, and it doesn’t support SSL. For now I’ve simply replaced the register link on bbpress with the link to my WP register page. (WP has a host of smtp plugins that work great).

That’s probably more than you needed to know but maybe I was able to preempt a few issues you might run into.

[chrishajer]

The .alt replies (the class is generated and added automatically by bbPress) are being formatted improperly. Try with the default theme and see if they look correct. If they do, figure out what you did wrong when modifying the theme. It looks to be something in the CSS.

[chrishajer]

Hmm, not really clear what the resolution was here but the error is the same:

Who can shed some light here?

It’s almost like one of the template files is missing from the template folder or has the wrong permissions or something. post.php is missing?

Where did the file go if it WAS working?

This should give some output (or at least a blank screen), not a 404:

http://infusion5.com/forum/bb-templates/kakumei/post.php

So, I think there is something wrong with your template. Try uploading another copy of the default kakumei theme (and kakumei-blue to be safe.) You could be missing other files as well, so might want to check for others or just re-upload. Looks like everything is already installed in the database.