First we need to gather the list of users who are not inactive or blocked.
This unfortunately requires a much more complicated query because of how wordpress/bbpress stores the user status in the meta, and in a way that cannot be quickly queried.
ie. this simple query is not good enough:
$query=”SELECT ID FROM $bbdb->users WHERE user_status=0 ORDER BY user_registered DESC”;
So the following will work up to mid-sized forums, if you have over 100k users, it’s probably a bad approach because it’s non-indexed in mysql and the query will require a complete table-scan.
global $bbdb;
$query="SELECT ID FROM $bbdb->users as t1 LEFT JOIN $bbdb->usermeta as t2 on t1.ID=t2.user_id WHERE user_status=0 AND (meta_key='$bbdb->prefix"."capabilities' AND NOT (meta_value LIKE '%inactive%' OR meta_value LIKE '%blocked%')) ORDER BY user_registered DESC";
$results=$bbdb->get_col($query);
(we’re going to deal with pagination later)
$results will now contain all the active user IDs, newest members first (or false if the query failed for some reason).
Since bbpress.org is screwing up code now, I’m putting it also here:
http://pastebin.com/embed_iframe.php?i=t3BX3i10
For one thing, a bunch of plugin coders have repeatedly requested access to updating their old plugin files and better access to maintaining their plugin’s “page” or information.
Any plugin author can update his/her plugin. That problem didn’t arise.. where did you hear/read that from?
Probably he was referring to the weeks (months?) when Plugins section was not synchronized with SVN. I wrote about it here, Zaerl did here and I don’t remember if any other plugin dev did it somewhere else.
In an IRC meetup, Matt said that bbPress will start becoming a WP plugin near 1.2 or so.
That milestone does not even exist! Anyhow it means they have to release 1.1 first, which unfortunately still has a load of open tickets…
b) fork bbPress July 2010
There is absolutely nothing legally or physically preventing you from forking bbPress right now or in July. You literally don’t need anyone’s permission, so go right ahead.
If he could do that on his own, I think we would already heard about it. That kind of project definitely needs a team of more than just 1 dev!
It’s very easy to make a list of members and you can use some of the built in bbPress functions. I guess I’ll turn that into a lesson here in this topic.
I have written a plugin called “zaerl Visibility” that can help you hiding forums for guests. Then you can delete the content of the register.php template file, delete the register link on header.php and manually add users with https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/admin-add-user/ (check the comments for a fix if you’re running 1.0.2)
Swirl Unknowns, a plugin of mine, does the job too. 
I will release version 1.0 next week, probably on thursday or friday: it will feature a renewed configuration page and a bunch of other updates.
Don’t ask what bbPress can do for you, ask what you can do for bbPress.
b) fork bbPress July 2010
There is absolutely nothing legally or physically preventing you from forking bbPress right now or in July. You literally don’t need anyone’s permission, so go right ahead.
Thanks Gautam,
I’m quite useless at Trac. Can you link me to the URL that shows the tickets associated with 0.9.0.7 before it’s deletion please? I can’t find them.
Also don’t you think that (again) this whole thing would be handled better if we’d been told about it either before hand or at the time?
Anonymous Posting also worked brilliantly with bbPress0.9 and the Anonymous posting plugin.
He didn’t reply to me
NO SURPRISE there huh.
0.9 … 1.0 … 1.1
How is anyone supposed to understand what is going on with all these releases. How can any reasonable and hard working member of the bbpress community still be in support of Matt?
Matt’s claims in IRC were now 6 months ago. You really believe them?
And again I say that TRAC and IRC logs are NOT true “public” records. What is the point of the bbpress forum? Just to test out the software?
AGAIN I PROPOSE:
a) bug the living hell out of Matt until we get answers … or
b) fork bbPress July 2010
Matt already hates/ignores/constantly-lies-to bbPress anyway, so its a no-loss set of options above. He has obviously reached the state of being a super rich, “content” guy who doesn’t give a crap about anything anymore, which is great and congratulations to him, but screw his rudeness and immaturity and let’s arrive at some new plans of action.
I am not attacking citizenkeith or anyone else on a personal level. I’m attacking the users that keep trying to derail this thread and/or these important issues with petty condescending whining. These issues are critical and to employ playground politics is retarded and wastes everyone’s time.
Matt: if you read this, you only have one viable option at this point buddy, which is offer a sincere apology, update the blog, guide the devs to decide on a branch and future plans with WP plugin/standalone options, and INFORM the bbpress community of your decisions…
Any email response from Matt yet?
He didn’t reply to me, but you can also check here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress09-support-finishing-early#post-69893
For one thing, a bunch of plugin coders have repeatedly requested access to updating their old plugin files and better access to maintaining their plugin’s “page” or information.
Any plugin author can update his/her plugin. That problem didn’t arise.. where did you hear/read that from?
the point of an open source community is that everyone is communicating and sharing developments regularly and publicly
That is what Trac is about, anyone can see the developments, communicate and contribute.
Also, if bbpress is 90% becoming a WP plugin, why hasn’t this process been decided on or initiated yet? Will it be initiated after the 1.0.3 release?
In an IRC meetup, Matt said that bbPress will start becoming a WP plugin near 1.2 or so. (and that IRC meetup is also posted on the blog)
@citizenkeith, thanks for providing another example of bored whiny bbpress trolls. If only we could get rid of users like you, we might have more progress around here.
citizenkeith is a valuable member to the community and has been here for long, so please.
@kevin
The code has not been deleted and it wont be deleted, only the milestone is deleted. You can still download the 0.9 branch from Trac which contains a few bug fixes from 0.9.0.6.
Also, 1.0.3 is same as 1.1 (except that it wont contain new features if it is released), nor there are any database changes in it till now. If any user upgrades to 1.1, he/she can easily downgrade to 1.0.2 any time.
@Gautam,
Your response is appreciated. Maybe a mod can copy paste your answers into a sticky thread. Any email response from Matt yet?
So mdawaffe is the only confirmed webmaster for bbpress.org, and he doesn’t seem to pay attention to any feedback or bugs. I guess that has been confirmed at least… Chris, do you have access or not? This really ain’t the biggest concern right now, but it would help the community to know who deals with this site, as Matt does not actively. For one thing, a bunch of plugin coders have repeatedly requested access to updating their old plugin files and better access to maintaining their plugin’s “page” or information. This is whay I mean by “higher ups” – its great that 3-4 devs are having private IRC chats together and exchanging emails, but last time I checked, the point of an open source community is that everyone is communicating and sharing developments regularly and publicly. Hell, this forum itself barely has any staff or moderators to speak of. And even the forum regulars have no way to get in touch with “higher ups” even if they wanted to, so bbpress is 99% hearsay at this point. BIG PROBLEM.
Also, if bbpress is 90% becoming a WP plugin, why hasn’t this process been decided on or initiated yet? Will it be initiated after the 1.0.3 release?
Coders and designers want and need to know these answers guys. I’m only speaking up for the silent majority and dozens of unanswered threads, this is not just my personal rant.
@citizenkeith, thanks for providing another example of bored whiny bbpress trolls. If only we could get rid of users like you, we might have more progress around here.
login-less posting is a feature present in the latest trunk release. It’s not packaged for release yet, and there are some dependencies (notably BackPress). If you can download via subversion to your intranet server, that would be the best way to get it.
svn co -r2434 http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk ./forums
That will check out revision 2434 which is very stable, into a directory called forums on your server.
The revisions after that revision got a little weird with a couple problems that I am not sure are fixed yet.
So I’ve installed bbpress a few times and finally got things integrated with wordpress.
I have no idea why I did it but playing around I removed the /forum in the General Settings.
Now the bbpress doesn’t work anylonger. Duuuuuuu
Anyways I’d like to find out were I could set this back so that I can put /forum after my website again so it works.
Thanks for your help
I am setting up a new intranet site built on WP 3.0 and would really like to keep the forums to a very simple tool just like bbPress (phpbb, vbulletin, etc are all too bloated for our needs). Since the site is only accessible inside our company network I don’t want to have to worry about authentication, I would like the ability for users who visit the forum to simply post messages or responses.
Is this something that can be done out of the box or would a lot of custom work be involved? Thanks!
-Chad
Thanks for reply.
I know it seems there are easily accessible solutions out there.
But I found out that it doesn’t really “hide” or “secure” my forum,
rather lead out-siders, who’s not really welcome to my forum,
to register.
(I am planning on to modify register and log-in system in the bbpress somehow,
so that only the accepted people can join the forum)
I know this is quite frustrating problem,
since this is not frequent asking or ideas about forum.
(Who ever would want forum to be completely hidden?)
Regard.
Ariel.
Looks like my country (Argentina).
Maybe things change.. i hope so..
The things I see here are exactly the same indifference towards the user’s needs I had to see in the WP development for the last years. As I said some months ago, it is the WordPress style of “communication” growing here.
Yesterday, I announced on my little site that I will abandon any further work on my german localization of bbPress and suggested the usage of another bulletin board system. It was the silent decision to end the bbPress 0.9 support, which made me sure that bbPress is in a dead end and that no one of the “relevant” people (which do their decisions in an anti-communicative and anonymous way) wants to change this direction.
I am fed up with people dreaming of “world domination” with writing almighty PHP applications and ignoring the needs of the users. It is grim, meaningless, void. bbPress is dead.
I use Hidden Forums:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/hidden-forums/
I just make everything forum hidden, and everything works fine. I’m not sure if this is what you are looking for though.
I’ve setup a wordpress and bbpress blog/forum.
In wordpress I have added a plugin to display the user login/registration screen by default. So unless you login you can’t access the blog.
Logins will only be created manually by me.
I want the same for the forum but can’t find a plugin.
Please assist.
Ah. It would have been funny (for me) to make that plugin but Tapatalk is a paid closed-source application. Ah. And I’m not a bbPress developer
Hi,
I just wanted to present the result of an integration of BBpress to an stablished WPress site.
BBpress: 1.0.2
Wp: 2.9.2
WP site: http://www.severus.es
BBpress site: http://www.severus.es/foro
We are very happy with the results!
Thanks
Severus
I’m using Tapatalk on my iPhone right now, accessing an SMF forum and I love the layout. It’s much easier to browse, reply and post with Tapatalk than using Safari on the iPhone.
According to Tapatalk’s website:
“Tapatalk is a forum app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android and Nokia. The app provides super fast forum access to any vBulletin, IPBoard, phpBB and SMF forums that have activated Tapatalk. Forum owner can download the free plug-in to activate Tapatalk in your forum.”
I searched their site for mention of bbPress, and found this thread:
http://tapatalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10919
The final post, from the moderator: “we can provide the API doucment if someone from the BBPress team want to take the bullet to implement it. I know that someone has ported it to MyBB so I don’t see why not?”
I would love to see a Tapatalk plugin for bbPress (especially one that supports v0.9).
Interested parties should check the “About Us” page on the Tapatalk website…
