[deadlyhifi]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/page/2/#post-3902 has an updated Approve User Registration plugin that works for v1.0

[kevinjohngallagher]

I doubt people neither chose nor leave a forum because they’ve not implemented TinyMCE; which is not to say that some people don’t like WYSIWYG, but it’s importance is often overstated.

phpBB, as your example, seems to be doing ok without it. I’m sure I saw them hit their 10th birthday and gazillionth download not that long ago. Basiaclly, phpBB has been around since before Google.

you converted your forum from a wysiwyg based forum; vbulletin (native), phpbb (as plugin).. to bbpress, you loose lot of formatting

Why did you lose your formatting?

Thats not a bbPress thing, was it in the conversion (i haven’t done one yet)?

Is the formatting still in the post?

If it is, there are numerous bbCode plugins for bbPress for years now. Let us know what’s gone and I’ll try and help you sort that. I think that could be a nice fix for you!

it is not an option, it is a must-have feature in every successful board

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/2010/03/basic-versus-standard/

[Abdessamad Idrissi]

a temporary fix is to search bbpress through google:

wysiwyg site:https://bbpress.org/plugins

[Abdessamad Idrissi]

Hello there,

It would be really a nice thing to have a wysiwyg editor in bbpress, just like the one that wordpress have: TinyMCE, since it is open source.

the current editor is too much simple and complex at the same time especially when:

* you converted your forum from a wysiwyg based forum; vbulletin (native), phpbb (as plugin).. to bbpress, you loose lot of formatting.

* most of the users don’t know how to deal with bbcode.

* you need a fast way to copy-past formated text and images.

* currently no efficient wysiwyg plugin available in the bbpress plugins.

* it is not an option, it is a must-have feature in every successful board.

most phpbb forum owners criticized harshly the lack of wysiwyg in phpbb; people keeps asking for it and phpbb developers keep ignoring them and saying that they want to keep phpbb simple!!! so users leave to other forums!

for the people who like the current bbpress simple editor, bbpress can offer a switch in the dashboard to toggle wysiwyg editor on and off.

what do you think?

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/need-to-fix-plugin-search

[Abdessamad Idrissi]

Hi there!

I noticed quite ago that when you search for a plugin, you got a list of corrupt urls.

it is more than 2 weeks now I keep seeing this issue and wander is it only me who is getting this!?

please have a look at this example page :

http://bbpress.org/plugins/search.php?q=wysiwyg

try clicking on a plugin’s page link.

see!?

[kevinjohngallagher]

In terms of going forward as a standalone piece of software, yeah, it effectively is.

But the software you have and you can always use, and if it works for you, go for it. I, and all others here, are in the sme boat, and the basics of bbPress are quite brilliant.

I’d be suprised if you should have to change “localhost”, but if there’s no emails comign through from your goDaddy account at all, and you’re using the default mail(), then it’s at their end

Good Luck

[Sunnichka]

well, just had an answer that i should leave localhost. well, i uploaded back an old file and still nothing. and just read on your blog that bbPress is dead. very pity idea was very nice!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Bonjour,

Je ne parle pas couramment le français depuis son départ en 1980s. S’il vous plaît excuser ma tentative assez pauvre pour ne pas utiliser l’anglais

Ce plugin peut correspondre à vos besoins:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bavatars/

jean

[adammurphy]

Hi guys,

thanks so much for you help and advice on this. I’ve got the host to rollback the whole site to before the error occurred, and that seems to be working so I’m crossing my fingers it will be ok now (and doing nightly backups…)

I’ve repeatedly asked the host what caused the problem and they’ve not been answering – most recent response was “Sorry, but we can’t let you know what was caused the problem.” – which might mean they don’t know or else could mean they don’t want me to know… ho hum.

Anyways – thanks very much for taking to time to help with this, particularly as it’s not actually a bbpress issue at all.

Adam.

[Sunnichka]

Yeah, I know that this topic is old, a pity it’s not very busy here Well, I wanted to use bbPress registration because there are more fields in it and i dnt want to mess up installing extra-plugins to WP to get all necessary datas from users when I could get all needed from bbPress.

All changes i was trying to do in class.mailer.php is to put registered email to $Sender end played with $Host because it’s not localhost at godaddy hosting.

It didnt work with WordPress before I started to change anything anyway.

Sorry, I’m not a hardcoder and this bloody thing causes me headache already a week. Didnt happen on testhosting

But thank you for reply!!!

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Sunnie,

The first thing to check is if WordPress can send registration emails.

If it can, then we have a bbPress issue.

If it can’t then it’s a server issue, and the quickest resolution is to contact your hosts and use the WordPress support forum (as there are more people on there).

Test and let us know

[Sunnichka]

Hi guys!

Unfortunately going through this problem with registration emails (((

Mail can be send from a server where I keep the website, I created mailer.php as suggested above and everything works. But not with bbPress and WordPress I’ve installed. WordPress and bbPress are integrated and I use bbPress registration form for the whole site.

Hosting provider – godaddy. In config host is different from localhost.

I wrote to them, they advised:

“If you use the mail() function in your PHP, you do not need to specify an outgoing mail server.”

I tried to modify class.mailer putting email I’ve created on account and tried to change $Host but still nothing works ((( Could anyone help what to modify, how to make this thing work.

Thanx!

Sunnie

[kevinjohngallagher]

I was thiking of this on my way into the office today.

WordPress used to be able to load/parse RSS feeds and display them natively, using wp_rss(). Now that was deprecated a while ago, btu there is probably a similar function out there.

Should be quite easy to have WordPress pull in your forums’ RSS feed, just saving writing alot of SQL yourself.

If wp_rss no longer works, then maybe a plugin could be found to fit those needs at: https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tags/rss

[kevinjohngallagher]

There is not to the best of my knowledge.

This has been discussed before, at length as I recall, on a few occasions. Sadly you’ll have to do a bit of searching to find it, but you should get some good info out of it.

It basically comes down to this:

RSS is a pull technology, not a push one. So you’d need to have some form of cron job to check for an update in the blog feed, and then have code to write a post to your forum. In honesty this wouldn’t be too difficult, but it’s got relatively limited value, so i doubt there is an existing plugin (I may be totally wrong)

EDIT: I’ve actually just thought of a brilliant use for such a plugin. Dammit. This goes on the list.

bbPress1.0 comes with the ability to handle XML-RPC, which is like cross-sever posting (in laymans terms). You could get a WordPress plugin that ‘pings’/’posts/ to bbPress when a new post is written. Not uite sure how elegant this would be with scheduled posts etc.

I’d definately look around the WordPress plugin directory for this, but I’m 99% certain it will require some coding at your end.

Good luck, and shout if you’ve any specific questions.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Surely this is a simple thing?

Not overly, its not inherantly how bbPress (or WordPress really) works, as Moderation (or lack of tools i order to fascilitate this properly) is really one of bbPress’s major downfalls.

That said, I typed in “approve” to the plugin search and found these plugins on the first page:

Approve User Registration

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/

BB Moderation Hold

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/

Zaerl Visibility

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/zaerl-visibility/

I’ve not read their descriptions fully, but the sound like they do the job you’re after.

[taoli]

HIi folks,

New BBpress user here.

I have a sensitive forum (political) and Id like to be able to approve users when they register.

I have found a plug to hide forums from non-registereed users.

The only plug I found that comes close to what I want is out of date.

Surely this is a simple thing? Can anyone point me in the direction of a plug in that would allow me to approve new users? (I have searched)

Any help gratefully appreciated, sincerely.

Thanks!

Taoli

[honestscott]

Hi,

My bbpress 1.0.2 forum is causing a lot of slow queries, and I had to shut it down because my host Monster Host was Throttling my account big time.

Is there a fix for this, I am not running many plug-ins that would use the database except for bbpm, but I tried disabling this plug-in, and I still get clobbered with slow queries and CPU throttling.

I hate to have to shut the forum down, but I am not a php coder or a database administrator.

I tried moving my sites to a semi-dedicated server (to get more server resources) but their Myphp interface clashed somehow with all my WP databases.

I was on NTC hosting and their support team told me it was a problem with my WP sites, although I did get one blog to work half way decent, but my bbpress forum would not.

I was using Blue Host when I created my sites, so I went to Monster Host (their sister company) and loaded my files and DB’s and they came up just fine, but I am back to the DB strangulation with slow queries.

I check the slow queries log on my server and I see a lot of forum queries in there, but the logs don’t really pin-point a cause (plug-in or script).

Here’s a list of the plugins I have on my forum:

ajaxed quote

adsense for bbpress

bbcode buttons

bbcumulus

bbpm

bbpress signatures

bb-smiles

check for updates (not activated)

delete all bozos

mass delete users

members online

php4bb

super search

approve registration

bb-avatars

bbcode lite

bb twitter (not active)

google analytics

human test

moderator notification

new user notification

restrict registration

I would appreciate any, and all ideas so I could save my forum from the trash bin.

Thanks for your time,

Scott

[chrishajer]

Can you post your code and a link to your site (post the code at pastie.org or equivalent, since it will be munged here)? There are probably many people who could benefit from your solution. Thanks

[thors1982]

I ended up using the custom php/sql.

Much easier should have done that from the start, would have saved a ton of time too.

Also, I will have to look into the performance… because I am using a 3rd party program that integrates into wordpress… then using bbpress to integrate into wordpress so all the users need to be created at the same time etc. If they log in one needs to login to all three.

I am using the bbPress Integration plugin right now, which may or may not be working I didn’t set this part up.

But thanks, the forum posts on the homepage is working perfectly now.

[chrishajer]

Reference for the performance hit kevinjohngallagher mentions:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/the-cost-of-deep-integration

[kevinjohngallagher]

If you’re running bbPress1.0.1, bbPress1.0.2 is a very minor upgrade (less than 100 lines of code) and include some bug fixes.

bbPress1.0.3 / bbPress1.1 shouldn’t break that many plugins. My last trunk download caused some theme issues (minor), but up until the end of April there it was stable and looking might fine.

I strongly suggest you make a local copy of your current forum, and install the latest version from the trunk; and test against your plugins. Given the list that you have, there’s a good chance some may fail; and others like “Subscribe to Topic” won’t really be needed.

When/if this new bbpress plugin comes out, will there be a way to convert my bbpress installation into teh plugin or otherwise make it compatable?

None of us have any idea. Matt announced that the bbPress plugin was going to happen in January, then left the project. Any other information you can garnish from the WordPress blogs updates will give you more information than people involved with this project have been given.

Either way, i’m not panicing. Just irked by the lack of communication, as you’re not alone in asking, and i feel for the bbPress users who are in a form of limbo.

[kevinjohngallagher]

The bbPress Live plugin by Sam, was released and last updated around bbPress1.0alpha3.

It appears to me that the plugin makes a wrong call (possibly a bbPress to BackPress issue – as there were major changes for bbpress1.0alpha6) because it returns an empty set. On top of that, it’s aimed for WordPress before WP2.7, which itself had a large number of under the hood changes.

I’d be surprised if this plugin was even close to being fit for purpose these days; and without a doubt the solution is to pull the information from the Database directly.

bbPress and WordPress are 2 stand-alone software solutions that can share the same database/logins. Leveraging this data without adding the overhead (and potential issues) of the other will make life easier in the long run

(not to mention save 50+ SQL calls every time you load a bbpress page)

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Adam,

Make sure you take a backup of your MySQL data at every oppertunity when talking to your host.

If you can get one from PHPmyAdmin great, if not ask your host for backups.

Don’t overwrite them, and rename them with the day/time and after which correspondance you got the backup.

When this is all sorted, load the .sql backup into a text editor (and you can sift through the code). Might not be pretty but you’ll at least see the extent of the issue.

If it’s gone south, and the host can’t help, you’re in for a long slog. That said, one of the positives here is that the bbPress table structure (while a bit… not optomized – bad english for bad table design) is easy to read and replace/backup. I’ve had to do it myself, and we can offer tips if it comes to it, but it’s not as bad as it sounds if you get some forum of backup/old DB.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Though I missed the Trolling comments, it saddens me.

I’m disappointed by Matt’s approach to bbPress these last 6 months, and indeed quite shocked at his approach to the WordPress community over this capital_P_dangit() debacle; but I like to think I have that opinion separated between the man and the Automattic Employee.

I think it’s benefitial to point out these miscommunications. The hope is that they are seen, eventually, as a catalogue of errors, and so we can learn and improve. If my comments are being used as a soapbox for people to vent; then I apologise.

Chris, please feel free to close and/or delete this topic as neccessary.

Kev