Some days old post but really optimistic for bbPress.
I don’t need to personally write code much these days because we have so many talented folks involved but I am jumping back in on bbPress and will be hacking around in there.
Ah, I found the culprit. I had converted from another forum software so the topic_slug and forum_slug columns were empty. Found a script here http://www.simonwheatley.co.uk/2009/07/03/migration-to-bbpress-fix-topic-slugs/
It didn’t convert my forum slugs but that wouldn’t take long to manually input.
> two dozen users that insisted on using “Greg” as their display name and similar avatars?
With normal users in a healthy forum with a sense of community, duplicates will self correct. People will create unique pictures to identify themselves.
With malicious users, that’s a moderation issue and should be an isolated incident in a healthy forum.
In an unhealthy forum you have bigger problems than duplicate profile pictures.
Like I said earlier in the thread, a lot depends on the nature of the forum. If it is a tight knit community, then you really don’t need to compromise the user experience to cater for the edge case you describe.
But in a support forum I could imagine this being more of an issue so I wouldn’t use non-unique display names in that situation.
User-Name-less systems like facebook need to be designed from scratch like that. The WordPress/bbPress system unfortunately is user_login/user_id based.
You could force user_id for the profile stub if that makes you like it better, bbPress will accept either.
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?
Thank you very much for this script, I’ve been trying to used it, but I get the following error:
SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]
Data too long for column 'topic_poster_name' at row 1 [1406]
Any ideas?
I’m not an expert, but I’m doing my best. Thanks!
I don’t think bozo and Akismet are hooked up at all.
The bozo feature was never particularly well implemented. I was trying to find a post by sambauers where he said as much.
I wrote this 3 years ago:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-or-remove-bozo-function-before-it-kills-bbpress
Regarding a plugin, I’m not sure. Maybe someone else will post about it.
_ck_, oh, I get it. You aren’t removing the login name and replacing it with the account email, you are just allowing users to log on using their email address.
So during registration users still need to provide a login name, and the path to their profile will always contain that login name.
Hmmm. I’m not sure whether that makes things easier or more complicated for the user.
That is guatam’s creation, you might ask on the plugin page or maybe here:
http://gaut.am/2009/12/bb-cumulus-beta-for-bbpress-released/
Or maybe he’ll see this topic and can help.
Don’t completely follow the question but the admin structure as far as actions and filters is very similar for 1.0 compared to 0.9 but the CSS is a little different.
Actually BuddyPress is doing the wrong thing. In bbPress:
forum/topic/topic-name/ redirects to forum/topic/topic-name
so there are no duplicated content, in BuddyPress:
forum/topic/topic-name/ and forum/topic/topic-name point to the same content which is a very bad thing.
Building admin panels for themes and plugins are the same for 0.9v?
lol Ben, that works for 1.x but not 0.9
in 0.9 you need this https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/email-login/
@Greg part of the workaround is to only perform the display name change on functions that do direct output themselves (the functions with echo) the internal functions that return strings should not be changed.
In reality the best way to approach it might be to only apply it on the portions of the topic page and profile page that show the names.
It’s not super simple but it can be done.
I just noticed that the wiki page was deleted for a SECOND time in February 2010 (originally deleted in July 2008)
This time I can’t even find an archive of the 2009 version.
As Nightgunner pointed out, Blanket Fort? No problem. bbPress? problem.
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Hello,
Not really sure if this would be the best place to ask, but I wondered why the forum URL dir structure was been changed/removed compared to about all other Automattic products?
Ie. the bbPress URL structure looks like this: “http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/taking-a-look-at-bbpress-09”
whilst the BuddyPress URL structure looks like: “http://buddypress.org/community/groups/miscellaneous/forum/topic/some-basic-questions/”
Note the last “/”
Best regards,
Cor
$bb->email_login = true;
There you go, instant feature!
That sounds very useful – look forward to seeing it.
I also like the login with email address option. Trade off there is that it becomes harder to switch the email address associated with the account. Probably a good trade though.
_ck_, do you remember how your plugin handled the paths where WP/BBP currently uses the login name? For example, the “_ck_” in…
“https://bbpress.org/forums/profile/_ck_”
By the way, I don’t think I released it yet but should by the end of the month, just have to write a “readme.txt” – I have a “rename user” plugin for bbPress to change user_login across the system.
It even supports multiple bbpress and wordpress systems attached to the same user db table and will fix all topics and wp comments.
So, not meant for constant username changes, but good for occasional fixes. Also detects existing username collisions.
@Dennis, good idea – though note bbPress 0.9 requires a plugin for login-by-email-address support (I think I wrote one, can’t remember).
Non-plugin bbPress development is going to continue until we have a perfect importer so people will be able to bring their content out of the legacy codebase.
So, will BBXF finally have some use?
I’ve tried another integration with no “www”, it works 50%.
Now I just can’t access my bb-admin and not able to logout from wp admin 
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I’ve installed _ck_ plugin fixed admin access, but its not working in this situation. I’ve find other ways from bbPress Search but still not solved. any idea?
Non-plugin bbPress development is going to continue until we have a perfect importer so people will be able to bring their content out of the legacy codebase.
Simply I love this statement!!
@ Matt Mullenweg, with this perfect importer, will we able to switch from other channels like vBulletin, phpbb, ip board? did you ever think about it? Any Plan?
My preferred solution: Login with an email address, and give the site administrator the option of allowing users to change their Display Name. The distinction between usernames and Display Names then ceases to exist. Nobody forgets an email address either.
