@ Zaerl, Please read this interesting Post by Ben L.
bbPress development is NOT ending
I have a WPMU install with an integrated forum. I ended up using 1.0+ with deep integration.
If my memory serves me one of the reasons was that 1.0 has display name support, but 0.9 doesn’t.
What’s all missing in terms of features in 0.9 when we compare it to bbPress 1.0+ ?
- XMLRPC – but do we use it right now? I haven’t heard of anything using bbPress XMLRPC
- WordPress matching backend
What else? I never used 0.9 much. BTW, I think most of the functionality a forum owner would need are covered by _ck_’s plugins 
I would like to hear from you guys.
Thanks zaerl!
In terms of integration, I connected the databases between WP and bbPress during installation and made sure that the cookie information matched in both configuration files (bb-config and wp-config). Those two steps made it so when a user registered and logged in at my forum, they were logged in at my blog too.
I didn’t really need any of the WordPress functions in bbPress so I skipped the deep integration part (calling wp-load). The only bit of dynamic code in my header is checking to see if a user is logged in, and on WordPress you can do that with:
<?php if(is_user_logged_in()){?>
Do something
<?php } ?>
I use caching to load the sidebar and footer. When someone visits my main site, http://devgrow.com/, it creates a cache of the sidebar and footer if there is no existing cache or if it’s older than 6 hours. The cache is just a text file that contains the output of the dynamic bits in my sidebar in HTML format, which I just include in my bbPress sidebar and footer.
I also wrote some custom code to pull the recent and popular (most replies) topics and display them with their topic icons.
Hope that makes sense, let me know if you have any other questions.
I’ve installed an integrated WordPress 3.0 (NOT MU) and the latest BBPress. When users register with WP they can not add any reply or start a new post in the forums.
I tested this with the default unaltered theme and same thing.
Looking in the DB I see that each member is a “member” in WP but there is no BB_METAUSERS table for bbpress. I think this isn’t required when an integrated solution is installed.
Any idea why all new members are set to “Inactive”?
J
offical bbpress fork
There’s an official bbPress fork?
I would love to hear the implementation details
pagal, i am not a HTML/CSS noob, and i also modified bbPress core with some PHP edits
your method will not work with custom pages.
i think, i will solve my problem soon by myself
This is realy good plugin but Its not working properly with new versions bbpress. _ck_ doesnt support it anymore because his own branch for 0.9.
Its fantastic oportunity for someone skilled to take this for keeping update with offical bbpress fork.
Perhaps… it should be implement in bbpress core or bb-plugin.
I like it. Very clean theme.
I suspect there will be a mad rush of people porting those over to the new plugin. I’d expect a few phpBB themes to make their way over too I’d suspect.
Note that filter is only available in bbPress 1.0 and 1.1, if you are trying to do it in 0.9 it will not work.
In 0.9 unfortunately you’d have to edit the end of registration-functions.php
Here is what (the highly respected) Mark Jaquith has to say about the very similar problem over on the WordPress side:
Why WordPress Themes are Derivative of WordPress
And I guess the way I stated this whole thing was wrong to begin with, what I meant instead was that if you sell premium themes to remember they also have to be GPL – IF you start with another theme that is GPL.
You can’t make a premium theme that uses GPL code from another theme or bbPress/WordPress itself and sell it without making it GPL.
(now I think I finally said it correctly)
I guess the sad conclusion to all this is how bbPress standalone now has some really nice premium themes but is ending standalone development.
Looks good! Also loads quite fast due to not using deep integration.
Check it out: http://devgrow.com/discuss
It took about a week to get everything the way I wanted. At first I wanted to do a deep integration but it was too much of a pain, so I just ended up writing some custom code to cache most of my sidebar, header and footer elements from my blog and display the cached content in bbPress.
Plugins I’m using:
- Allow Images
- Auto Add to Favorites
- BBcode Lite
- Google Sitemap Generator
- Post Count Plus
- Post Count Plus for WordPress
- Subscribe to Topic
- Topic Icons
- Custom Plugin for Recent/Popular Topics
And some more custom code throughout the templates. Would love to answer questions or hear feedback!
Okay, first thing’s first… if this is the forum on the bbPress site itself, it really needs to be a bit more of a better example. As it is, when I get to the forum I’m first faced with a giant tagcloud, then I have to scroll all the way down past a huge list of posts to get to the actual individual forums such as this one. Of course, I could hit the button to start a new topic at the top of the top of the page but not only is that counterintuitive, it’s a really bad idea in general that will get people just Pcoming in and posting without looking at other posts first. I’d hoped the layout would have been changed by now at least.
Second problem, and this is one I’ve had on the wordpress forums as well but never bothered to ask about it. At the bottom of the post box it lists allowed tags (shortly after mentioning “Enter a few words (called tags)” with a link to the tagcloud rather than a definition of tags), but what gets me is “Put code in between backticks.” I’ve been running forums since before ISPs could offer residential Internet connections and yet I have absolutely no clue what that means. Unless this software is only meant for WordPress users (which I’m one of, btw), it would be best to get a bit more accessible to ordinary people in terms of language/jargon.
My other large beef is that the forums read like blog comments rather than forum discussions. Threading would be my number one request if I intended to use it. I guess my number two request would be integrating said threaded comments into the comments section of blog entries for those using it with a WP blog, though that’s a lot more complicated. I’d want to start off with the other way around by having the blog able to automatically display posts from certain sections such as Announcements and such. I’m not sure if that functionality exists yet, so apologies if it does. If not, I suppose a workaround could be reading the rss feed from that section into the blog section, but aggregating your own feeds is a fairly silly notion.
That’s it for initial feedback right now. I may come take another look when the software has matured a bit… by that I mean the core, it shouldn’t have to depend on plugins and themes to have very basic funcionality on its own.
As I said in the other post:
Cannot modify header information – headers already sent
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/executing-errors
Did you integrate with WordPress and use an existing WordPress user as your keymaster in bbPress?
does it matter if the key master is called admin when installing?
(coz doing that might have mucked up bbpress buttons in the past)
i fixed the
“Error establishing database connection”
by revering to a previous sql dump
but how do you fix the
Cannot modify header information – headers already sent
if it happens again?
i wasn’t shouting i forgot to turn off caps lock
Looks like you have WordPress installed as well. Will WordPress mail out information?
If you would like to work around the problem, you can display the password to the user rather than email it, with a plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/
I’m rapidly running out of hope that such a discussion is even possible in this community.
That was sort of my point in the thread you just pulled Matt’s quote from, but I suppose I never came to articulate it like you just did.
The core problem is, this community is haunted by a great divide, the ones who are stuck with bbpress 0.9/1.x for better or for worse, and the ones who just really want to move on. This divide will not disappear any time soon, and it will certainly let its presence be known in every direction-related topic until bbPress standalone is firmly declared dead or forked. As long as its in limbo, so is the community.
This is why I suggested WordPress Foundation / Core Developers / Automattic could just as well pack up and leave from here and start anew elsewhere, easy as pie.
Sorry, I know this wasn’t what you asked for in the start of your topic, but I gotta vent some where.
Nope, many sites will continue to use and advance bbPress standalone. Matt might not invest dev resources in that, but others will.
0.9 is a defacto fork today, and there has been talk of a more official fork. Even Matt has said…
“Since the stated roadmap for whatever is going to be called “bbPress” and live at bbpress.org is to build on the success of WordPress if you disagree with that direction it’s probably best to fork at that time.”
So I think Matt acknowledges the potential continued existence of standalone, but believes that independent roadmaps is the right approach. I was hoping to take a step back and discuss the relative merits of that versus an approach where plugin and standalone were more coupled.
I’m rapidly running out of hope that such a discussion is even possible in this community.
Hello,
PHPBB has a facebook style chat mod.
Link: http://www.phpbb3hacks.com/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=367
Demo: http://www.phpbb3.sk/demo/
Accounts:
(username) : (password)
user : useruser
user2 : user2user2
user3 : user3user3
IS there are plugin like this for bbpress?
Thanks,
Danny.
Hello,
If you go to this link:
http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/support-forums/
You see the layout:
| Description | Installation | Other Notes | Changelog | Stats |
And then the | Download | Button on the right hand side.
Is that a plugin to make that page?
How can you do it, what is the plugin if it is one?
Thanks,
Danny.
I think bbPress standalone is dead in 2010.
Matt Mullenweg: 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.
bbPress 1.1 may be here.
