[Joou]

hi, i really like bbpress and I need to have on my webpage my own plugin directory, like there. User can add plugins, rate it, download, see screenshots and destription and comment it. Exactly like there. Can someone help me? Is there any plugin? It posible to get this version like on this page? Thanks a lot

[Milan Dinić]

Milan, BBXF is a nice idea but, like BackPress, it’s a bit of a boil-the-ocean approach. From our point of view rather than getting every system in the world to adopt this new format, it’s better to just target importers for specific platforms as the market demands it, which has worked well on the WP side.

Every system in the world doesn’t have to adopt BBXF. Since importers will already exist, why not make importers which will create BBXF if we already have some code and “standard”?

[Matt Mullenweg]

ashfame, I wouldn’t recommend downgrading to 0.9, it has not had updates or even a security review in a long time. If someone wants to fork it and start updating it that’s one thing, but as it stands using 0.9 is inadvisable.

_KB_, absolutely with regards to importers for other systems. We’ve held off on any importers so far because I really didn’t feel like bbPress was ready for switchers, there was so much fundamentally broken about its experience.

Milan, BBXF is a nice idea but, like BackPress, it’s a bit of a boil-the-ocean approach. From our point of view rather than getting every system in the world to adopt this new format, it’s better to just target importers for specific platforms as the market demands it, which has worked well on the WP side.

[Matt Mullenweg]

Will take a look at the links, maybe we could switch the search over to use Sphinx like we do on WP.org. (Sphinx is infinitely better and faster than anything we could ever do native in MySQL.)

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Hi,

I did this project a while ago and I thought I would share it with everyone once I am really ready so that it can gain momentum but since now bbPress plugin has started development and we are at the stage of choosing a standalone version (I would prefer 0.9 anyday), I am sharing this site – http://bbninja.com

It hosts 38 themes which I edited manually to remove spam content and were aggregated from various sources. 3-4 more themes were released after I was done with this much of theme work.

Themes Showcase – http://bbninja.com/bbpress-themes/

And a friend of mine made some efforts to document functions of functions.bb-template.php file – http://bbninja.com/documentation/

Now I am looking forward to a bbPress 0.9 fork

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I think Dailytalker was using deep integration, which loads the whole of WordPress on bbPress page loads so that you can call functions on the WordPress side from bbPress itself. Thus making virtually every WP plugin to work inside bbPress

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Thanks for voting!

Instead of having a debate on approach to build something, lets take another chance to talk about forking bbPress.

As of poll right now, more than 70% are in favor of fork of bbPress 0.9 (You can take a look at the poll – http://poll.fm/239qh

What all will be required for a successful fork?

[zaerl]

BTW in a forum based system, how would you deal with two dozen users that insisted on using “Greg” as their display name and similar avatars?

You adopt my strategy https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/taking-a-look-at-bbpress-09#post-71655

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

From what I see, people who are in favor of fork of bbPress 0.9 over 1.0+ are developers only.

If you haven’t voted yet, then you can vote here – http://poll.fm/239qh

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

You can enable them from the dashboard first and then you can increase the size of the avatars in your theme by the link I gave you

[Marius-]

I never got avatars working in the first place.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Marius

You can do that in your theme too – http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/08/change-gravatar-size-bbpress-theme/

[pagal]

why not bbPages Plugin?

[pagal]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/one-bbpress-per-blog-in-wordpress-mu

[kevinjohngallagher]

In order to help get 1.1 out of the door (or actually to help get 1.0.3 out the door before the decree came down to not release 1.0.3) a large number of useful and needed Tickets in Trac were bumped to 1.5 ( now, “future release” – the name initself laughable ;-] ).

So I’ve moved a number (about 1/3) of those tickets back.

[kevinjohngallagher]

_ck_,

More truly excellent work.

I offered a different solution though, it’s a geneology plugin thats currently with a few folks for testing. It is far from as elegant as this (though it’s scope is wider).

One of the things that I’ve “diskiked” about bbPress is lack of support for heirarchies. I know you’ve written some excellent code for finding the last poster for forums with sub forums before, but like the code above, they’re all workarounds.

It also makes it difficult for theme developers to get on board when wanting to call basic API functions for “last poster” for a forum or topic etc. At some stage, I’d love a discussion on small things like this where we could improve bbP0.9

[kevinjohngallagher]

While it’s great that Matt is overseeing the complete reqrite of this project into something that requires WordPress to run, I think we should be just a tad guarded against getting euphoric about 1 line in 1 interview.

First off, the interview took places months before it’s published date, and lets remember that on 1st May (only 2 months ago) Matt’s opinion was this:

http://bbshowcase.org/audio/Matt-on-bbPress-2010-May-1.mp3

[Marius-]

Oh

I wish all us other users could have it like this.

I view this support forum as sort of the default showcase for what bbpress is.

[Gautam Gupta]

Marius, that is a theme’s work – not of bbPress.

[Marius-]

So will we get nice avatars like this forum has?

[Marius-]

Great. Sounds really great.

I dont know if he will achieve anything, but his smartness in speeches should atleast indicate it.

[zaerl]

bbPress and WordPress use gravatar which is the same service.

[Lite]

Hi,

My question is simple. Is it possible to give every created blog inside a WPMU Network its own BBPress forum?

If yes, is there any howto?

Greetings,

Lite

[college beauty]

Does this work good, or should I keep looking for a better solution? I want avatars to match on WordPress and BBpress integrated site.

[_ck_]

I’ve noticed that depending on the site configuration, many times plugins or template designs will require information about the first poster in a topic or the last poster.

The problem is that bbPress unfortunately (even in 1.1) only caches the post authors that are on the physical page you are on. So it causes two “out of flow” queries (one for user, one for usermeta) for each of those authors (first, last).

This means up to four needless queries are added depending on the topic page number (not first or last is the worst hit).

Even worse there is no direct filter/action on that process so it cannot be affected directly.

However I’ve come up with a workaround using a trick,

by catching the actions before and after the process.

I’ve only tested this on 0.9, but in theory should work in 1.1

if (is_topic && !is_bb_feed()) {

add_action('bb_topic.php_pre_db','usercachefix_load');

add_action('bb_topic.php','usercachefix_unload');

function usercachefix_load() {add_action('get_forum_where','usercachefix');}

function usercachefix_unload() {remove_action('get_forum_where','usercachefix'); global $posts; unset($posts['first'],$posts['last']);}

function usercachefix($x) {global $topic,$posts; $posts['first']->poster_id=$topic->topic_poster; $posts['last']->poster_id=$topic->topic_last_poster; return $x;}

}

Make it into a mini-plugin and give it a try.

You really only need it if you are showing info about the first and/or last poster on every page of the topic.

You should see the query count go down by two to four queries on the page.

Or use bb-benchmark to more closely examine the queries and look for multiple calls to the user-table and usermeta-table.