[kevinjohngallagher]

Easy way?

Nope.

One of bbPress’s major downfalls is it’s way it makes you moderate on a one by one basis. Specifically users.

The easiest way would be to run an SQL update, moving everyone that’s inactive to member. You’ll have to hunt around for an example or look in your database for a meta key (which i think is bb_capabilities), as I’m out of the office right now.

Hope you find a way,

Kev

[rohan_shenoy]

Hi guys,

I just successfully converted my forum from MyBB to bbPress.

However, I realized that most of the members are now Inactive! Can someone tell me an easy way to set their roles to Member. I know that I can personally edit their profiles and update their roles, but I can’t do it over 2000 times

Thanks.

[pagal]

bbpress sucks,

why you people did not shut down this software..if you are not able to do anything???????????????????????????????

[kevinjohngallagher]

In my opinion, a fair comparison would have to be WP/bbPress (deep integration) and WP/forumpluginX.

You’re wanting to compare an unsupported, unintentional, unadvisable, found-by-mistake hack (that doesn’t always work) against a theoretical piece of software. It’s a no-brainer which will compare favourably.

A fair comparison should be a WP/bbpress normal “as intended” integration to a WP/plugin.

[curtisdroppelman]

I realize this is old but what if I want to have this same function on my wordpress homepage?

Basically, how do I get the log logged-in.php / login-form.php functions though wordpress to match BBpress?

[wtfmatt]

@WimTibackx,

Why are you seeking to fork WP and backpress?

If we fork bbpress and make it standalone, that would solve half the world’s problems. No point to think about backpress until the creators of backpress become more clear about their goals for it, etc… right?

[Rootside]

I understand the desire to make a WP plugin that is a forum, I can see Matt’s viewpoint on that, but in comparison to bbPress as it stands, it’ll be far from lightweight.

Fair enough, but as you state further down in your post, most if not almost all of that bloat would come from WordPress, no?

In my opinion, a fair comparison would have to be WP/bbPress (deep integration) and WP/forumpluginX.

I accept that there may be better ways to run a forum than to wrap WordPress around it. But other things need to be taken into account, eg how much time would I have to spend to ensure that the forum (or specifically the forum’s header and footer etc.) looks and behaves like the rest of my site? Can I leave a site with a less tech-savvy admin at all, or will I have to maintain everything forever because said admin can’t get his head around dealing with WP AND a forum that “works kind of like WP but not really”? And so on.

Of course, first and foremost the thing needs to run, and run reasonably fast. But this is also a question of priorities.

Sure, many people will not even realise that there’s an issue, or they might simply not give a toss, but for the rest of us it comes down to whether some additional bloat and a more sluggish forum might not be acceptable if we get clean integration and a single backend interface in return.

I think any discussion about bbPress as a plugin should be seen in this context.

[zaerl]

Zaerl: kudos to you for all the find contributions to bbpress.

Thanks man. Maybe I’ll add this to the plugin section.

[charmedlife]

Thank you very much for this plug-in. I got this same e-mail required error on new registrations and was stymied. I will install the plug in tomorrow and will report results. Zaerl: kudos to you for all the find contributions to bbpress.

[chrishajer]

So, if the theme is where you say it is, why doesn’t this come up?

http://blog.promomachine.com/bbpress/my-templates/promomachines/style.css

Also, this should work:

http://blog.promomachine.com/bbpress/my-templates/promomachines/screenshot.png

Both are not found. It doesn’t look like a permission issue. That would return a different error.

[chrishajer]

Yes, if the updates work as designed. We always were running the trunk version, but for some reason, the updates didn’t always work. I’m not even sure when they run. But the new code appears here automatically.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@saraw

if you have shell access, then browse to bbpress folder

chmod -R 644 my-templates

chmod 755 my-templates

this should fix it

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@chris

does that mean we will be running bleeding edge version live here now?

[burlesona]

Sorry as I’m sure this has been brought up before, but I couldn’t find a good answer…

Is it possible to create user groups and establish private categories within a bbPress forum? I’m working on setting up a site that will work as a collaboration between 5 different organizations, and ideally I want the forum to work like so:

– – – – – – – – –

General Forums (anyone can see / post, sitewide moderators can moderate)

Org 1 Forums (anyone can see, only org 1 members can post, org1 officers and sitewide moderators can moderate)

Org 1 Officers Forum (only org 1 officers can see / post, sidewide moderators can moderate)

And so on for Organizations 2-5.

– – – – – – – – – –

I have been bashing my head against the wall trying to figure this out for a while, and it is basically what is keeping me from deploying bbPress.

My site is http://www.neohouston.com, which is a heavily customized WordPress site. I would love to use bbPress if I can because of how fast and light it is – but if I can’t effectively segment users then I can’t use it.

Any suggestions, or help?

[fuzzy76]

In plugin search, none of the plugin links work, they all point to https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/#post-

So basically, people can’t find plugins at all…

[saraw]

here’s three shots — one for each directory level, with the “get info” dialog alongside:

Root Directory (showing bbPress folder permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/root-bbpress_info.png

bbPress Directory (showing my-templates folder permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/bbpress-my-templates_info.png

my-templates Directory (showing promoforums folder permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/my-templates-promoforums_info.png

promoforums Directory (showing style.css file permissions):

http://www.promomachine.com/promoforums-stylecss_info.png

[saraw]

Here’s how the appearance/themes-selection screen looks — it’s as if I had no custom template uploaded at all.

http://www.promomachine.com/appearance-panel.png

There is only one bbPress installation on the server.

[r-a-y]

Hi Kevin,

Like you said, you have brief knowledge of BuddyPress, so please do not assume anything.

It’s actually quite straightforward if you have a deep integrated install.

If it’s not a deep integrated install, it requires some custom SQL insert.

—

@arturo – I’d work on such a plugin, but like you, I don’t have the time. If enough people supported such a plugin, I might feel enticed to create one.

[chrishajer]

I just used your header on a copy of the kakumei theme in my my-templates directory, and it was activated and shows up fine.

My guess is that it’s permissions (or maybe who owns the files.)

Can you post a file listing of the directory where bbPress is installed, showing permissions and ownership? Screenshot or actual file listing is OK. It’s generally from incorrect permissions.

[chrishajer]

Screenshot is fine, just leave it. I was only wondering if there would be one in the screenshot.

Yes, post a screenshot of the appearance panel. Sorry for the confusing terminology. I forget what it’s called in different versions.

Post a screenshot of the appearance panel please. Just wondering what it’s looking like.

Do you have two instances of bbPress installed, where you might be accessing the wrong one and thus not seeing your theme?

[btko]

Looking forward to it!

[r-a-y]

@gautam – Haven’t tested this yet, but great work. Glad to see some movement.

Silly question, but it’s possible to turn off anonymous, loginless posting right?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Arturo,

I’m afraid that bbPress has many issues with a BuddyPress install (I know you’re not talking about the bbpress forum you can sintall into BuddyPress), to the point where we have had to basically shoot down any support corrolation between the two.

Getting bbPress standalone data into BuddyPress isn’t the work of a simple plugin, even looking at my very brief knowledge of BuddyPress it appears to be quite an ordeal.

With Buddypress having it’s own version of bbPress, and with you already asking on the Buddypress forums, I sincerely doubt you’ll have anyone at this end who thinks that’d be a good use of development time (sorry).

[citizenkeith]

Great news, thanks to everybody involved!

[Arturo]

really good news, in the weekend i begins the test!