[_ck_]

By the way, your site is using 69 queries on the front page, that is VERY very bad. Something is wrong. It’s probably not loading all your options at once and some other issues that 1.0 has.

You probably should be focusing on bb-benchmark instead of this plugin.

Also make sure you install this mini-plugin to try to reduce the queries:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-how-to-fix-some-of-the-10-query-performance-regression

[kevinjohngallagher]

It’s a combo of SEO and HCI.

Having a different title for each page makes life easier for humans, as well as not being bad for SEO.

In the strictest sense, Google (et al) state that every page should have it’s own and unique title, and if relative should be linked with a canonical link.

(though, there is no doubt that they’re clever enough to work it out).

[stevan]

In fact someone once went as far as changing the whole structure to work like a blog

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbblog-20-plugin

[Gautam Gupta]

This had been posted as a solution by _ck_ here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-is-born/page/3#post-71233

[Erlend]

Is it too early to ask for a word on how the upcoming bbPress plugin will play in with BuddyPress?

[Erlend]

Just a thought.

[namelesshorseman]

Hi Kevin,

Are you aware of any plugin for bbPress that forces all registration through a local WordPress install? I can’t seem to find it through google etc.

If not, if I search (through NetBeans / Eclipse + PID) for all strings of bb-login.php or register.php will I find them all?

Or is the easiest way to simply change the header to not show the defualt Login + Register form, and forward people onto the wordpress pages?

Thanks,

Tomek

[_ck_]

Hmm, is page number in the title important to SEO?

It is an attempt to avoid duplicate content penalty?

Because Google already understands bbPress forum layout, they are very clever like that.

[_KB_]

WOW, Welcome Back Matt, Its nice to see you .

I’ll be very happy if you can reply for my post.

Should I Stop Using bbpres Standalone Version Right Now?

Can you please?

[_ck_]

Well it still looks a bit like a forum, but the concept is solid, keep going!

In fact someone once went as far as changing the whole structure to work like a blog, can’t remember who right now, they were trying to make a whole plugin for it.

Note that you can change the templates even further and put snippets of the post under the title on the front/forum pages – bbPress is very flexible like that since it’s cleanly divided between the backend and front-end.

Believe it or not there is at least one person using bbPress as an advanced image sharing gallery, the possibilities are almost endless.

[_ck_]

I’ve just tested bbPress 0.9 with WP 3.0’s cookies and the Freshly Baked Cookies plugin DOES work properly.

Just make sure your cookie paths for WordPress and bbPress are pointing the same place (ie. /) which was always required for proper integration anyway and is not done by the plugin but inside wp-config and bb-config – see the numerous integration guides around bbpress.org

Make certain you are using version 0.0.4 of the plugin or higher which supports the newer kind of WordPress cookies in use since WP 2.8

[Gautam Gupta]

I don’t think we have any space for fakes in this community.

Additional info:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-the-heck-is-going-on/page/2#post-70114

Still, regarding your questions (and answering them from whatever I’ve read):

1) I think it would remain as it is (can’t say much about it).

2) bbPress 1.1 would be released and maintenance release (bug fixes, etc.) might also be released as 1.1.1 etc., but I think no new features would be added in it.

3) GlotPress still uses BackPress, so it isn’t going anywhere.

[wtfmatt2]

Hey Matt, way to prove my point by locking my post. Ironically, your failure to upkeep this project is what makes its moderation tools so horrible.

====================

In response to your post here, since you closed the topic (again):

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-is-born/page/3#post-71276

Well hello Matt, welcome back to bbpress. How were your last 6 months?

Mine were full of frustration and wasted time, mostly because all the meetups and chats you always mention have zero value, since you never keep your word, nor keep anybody in the loop, not least of all, the top bbpress devs in this community.

Now that you are here, do everyone a favor and answer these questions:

1) what is happening to bbpress.org?

2) is bbpress as a standalone definitely being abandoned, permanently?

3) how will the above affect the status of backpress?

There is not pent up rage from many decisions, but rather from indecision, misdirection, lying, and abandonment. In other words, people wasting other peoples’ time and efforts.

Therefore your sweet soliloquies serve absolutely no purpose except to further the frustration and belief that you are purposefully ignoring everything that everyone is saying, for no apparent reason. Thus, we all assume you are making your own secret plans as there is no logical or mature alternative reasoning to your (in)actions.

I hope you don’t run away from this forum again for 3 months in reaction to my criticism, which I deliver in the hope of progress and answers, and not to merely belittle (as the members here aimed to many times before, even though you ran away then too).

Additional questions:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-the-heck-is-going-on/page/2#post-69883

[ZKuJoe]

I was using WordPress for a while but I prefer forums over blogging software so bbPress was the best of both worlds! I just altered the default theme to look more like a blog. Let me know what you think.

http://www.jmd.cc

[Gautam Gupta]

Ben (Nightgunner5) had written a greasemonkey script to show plugins’ stats – http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/63060

[Satish]

Awesome site. Awesome design.

[_ck_]

Is it possible to copy over the “stats” code from the WP plugin section to bbpress.org, or is it more complex than that?

ie. https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-e-commerce/stats/

vs. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-signatures/stats/

Even without the fancy graph, just the little History section would be handy.

I’m debating doing another full survey of active bbPress installations by the end of this year despite it’s replacement, but it’s still easy to believe it’s well over 10,000 – might even be 20,000 or higher if the growth has become exponential.

ps. somewhat related: the tag import (from readme.txt) in the plugin section has been broken since the bbpress.org 2.0 upgrade

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I am with you _ck_

I would love to see bbPress 0.9 becoming as one of the best choice for standalone forum script.

[xarzu]

I created some catagories in my bbpress forum and I tried to move a post to one of the catagories by using the drop-down menu but it did not work. The new catagories were disabled. Why?

[chrishajer]

Probably been done in a plugin. Here’s an old one:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus/

If you search the plugins site, you should be able to find something.

[namelesshorseman]

this solved my issues: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/same-forum-using-http-and-https?replies=14#post-71269

[wtfmatt]

In response to your post here, since you closed the topic (again):

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-plugin-is-born/page/3#post-71276

Well hello Matt, welcome back to bbpress. How were your last 6 months?

Mine were full of frustration and wasted time, mostly because all the meetups and chats you always mention have zero value, since you never keep your word, nor keep anybody in the loop, not least of all, the top bbpress devs in this community.

Now that you are here, do everyone a favor and answer these questions:

1) what is happening to bbpress.org?

2) is bbpress as a standalone definitely being abandoned, permanently?

3) how will the above affect the status of backpress?

There is not pent up rage from many decisions, but rather from indecision, misdirection, lying, and abandonment. In other words, people wasting other peoples’ time and efforts.

Therefore your sweet soliloquies serve absolutely no purpose except to further the frustration and belief that you are purposefully ignoring everything that everyone is saying, for no apparent reason. Thus, we all assume you are making your own secret plans as there is no logical or mature alternative reasoning to your (in)actions.

I hope you don’t run away from this forum again for 3 months in reaction to my criticism, which I deliver in the hope of progress and answers, and not to merely belittle (as the members here aimed to many times before, even though you ran away then too).

Additional questions:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-the-heck-is-going-on/page/2#post-69883

[NoPeace]

Hello,

I’m just wondering if its possible to have post counts to show for users in bbPress?

[Matt Mullenweg]

If anyone is curious there is still a download counter for bbPress here:

http://bbpress.org/download/counter/

It does about 200 downloads per day still.

About 2,000 people downloaded a plugin (any plugin) last month.

We had 208 people post to the forums last month.

Any other metrics folks are curious about?

[Matt Mullenweg]

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good / Oh Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PipX3l1tEeU

I’m sorry if anyone feels surprised by the roadmap of having bbPress start to become a WordPress “core plugin” in the 1.2 timeframe, it was discussed (and posted to the blog) in the December 9th and 30th meetups, to a healthy debate that raised some of the same issues that have been brought up here.

It breaks my heart to see JJJ and PeteMall who are just getting started have to absorb the negative energy for 5-6 years of decisions they had nothing to do with so if like “wtfmatt” above you want to ascribe all of that to me I’m happy to bear the brunt of it. Let’s let them experiment, try something new, and see what happens. Then we can channel our worries (oh noes, this will break everything!) into positive outcome (you forgot an action in the template which breaks my plugin, here’s a two-line patch to fix backward compatibility).

We have to be careful with our words because they can have a demotivating effect beyond what you can know, which could stagnate bbPress’ development (again).

Finally, there is obviously some pent-up umbrage over many decisions that have been made in the history of bbPress, and I think it would be healthy to talk about those and do a post-mortem to see what we can learn from them. However this thread has already become tainted, and we don’t have message threading here, so it’d probably be best to start a new thread per issue. Tag it with “formatt” and I promise I’ll reply as thoughtfully as I can.

It’s a Sunday but I’m here again. Despite everything bbPress holds a special place in my heart as it was the first project I wrote from scratch applying everything I had learned from working on b2 née WordPress.