[Rian]

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.

[patrizier]

Looks like my country (Argentina).

Maybe things change.. i hope so..

[Elias]

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.

[citizenkeith]

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.

[Rartemass]

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.

[zaerl]

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

[severus]

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

[citizenkeith]

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…

[kevinjohngallagher]

I don’t think anyone’s against getting the next version of bbPress out the door

My concerns are:

• If bbPress0.9 support was meant to last until late 2010, why end it in May?
• Why/When was this decision taken?
• Why not inform us before the code was deleted?
• In fact, why not inform us at all?

Basically:

Sam wrote, as an employee of Automattic, that bbPress0.9 branch would be maintained until ‘late 2010’, how can this be true if we’ve had patches for 0.9 sitting since July2009 without a rollout, and are now not being released?

bbPress 1.0.2 and bbPress 0.9.0.6 legacy version released

That effectively means we’ve not been supporting 0.9 since 0.9.0.6 was released on 28thJuly 2009. Awesome, we supported it for a whole 25 days after 1.0 was released (on 3rd July 2009).

Thats a heck of a decision to go back on One’s word like that. And a considerable slap in the face to those of us who have forums still stuck on 0.9 due to 1.0’s failings.

Here’s another issue.

I don’t think we should update the 0.9 branch anymore, and probably not 1.0 either. (Same as WP.)

Matt looks at this project as if it’s working in the same way WP is. It’s not. And I think thats why he’s found the “bbPress community” so hard to get a grip on.

bbPress0.9 and bbpress1.0 are very very different. It’s not a simple upgrade in the way that many versions of WordPress have been – it’s a total and utter rewrite of the backend to use external code being run by a totally different team as an independant product.

bbPress0.9 and bbPress1.0, whichever you prefer to work with, are not incremental releases in the traditional sense – they are very close to being different products. That was reflected in the communities strong desire to have support for bbPress0.9 extended when Sam asked us. Thats right folks, we were asked and voted. Then a decision was made. And thats the crux of the problem.

Saying one thing, doing another, then not mentioning it in the hope no-one notices until weeks after – man, thats just not cool. And the kicker is, I don’t think it’s intentional at all. That’s worse though, because it means we’re a total afterthought (maybe not even an afterthought).

If the decision was made to drop 0.9 support, all someone had to do was make a blog post, or a forum sticky before hand and give folks a heads up. Why is it so hard to treat us with any respect?

Those of us who can’t write brilliant code, attempt to do our best by answering questions on the forums. My plugins will never rival some of _ck_s / Nightgunners / Zaerls. Thats a good thing. My code will never be as good for the Core as Gautam / Sam / mdwaffe. Thats even better news. But really, how can we answer questions that people ask with any certainty at all, when things like this happen (constatly)?

Help us, help you!

please.

[_ck_]

LOL, filing a bug in the bugtracker doesn’t magically get features working, there’s no-one to work on extra things like that these days.

But I think the problem is that the admin section must be checking the base url somewhere for security that I am not catching and doesn’t like it, so it redirects it.

My current guess is it’s happening in function bb_auth which I am examining now.

Ah it’s probably because bbPress 1.x has the secure_auth cookie where 0.9 does not, makes things much more complicated since you have to be logged in under SSL as well.

[chrishajer]

rescued from Akismet

[Elias]

Ouch, “minor errors” and “Forums not installed” isn’t exactly user-friendly…

I suspect the installer script wasn’t able to create the file bb-config.php caused by too restrictive permissions in the directory bbPress is installed in. To create this file, the directory have to be writeable for the user running the webserver. If this is the cause of this failure (look for a file bb-config.php in the bbPress directory, if it is missing, it is the problem), just give the directory 0777 permissions before starting the installation. After the installation completed, the permissions can be (and should be) set more restrictive.

[ckeck]

Yes, lets get 1.1 out the door please

[kevinjohngallagher]

Glad it helped mate.

If building your own theme, I’d advice making a wordpress theme first.

The technique is the same and once you’re in the right mindset, you’d be amazed hoe easy theming bbPress is. But you will/might hit a few roadblocks if you try and pull data in a differnet way. Don’t be peturbed, just come back and ask

[btko]

Those Cube cars are cool, and I like your custom forums. Speaking of moving from PHPBB did you import your old database into the bbpress database?

[ohcean]

1. I installed the forums using same info as WordPress database

2. After installation it said forums were installed with minor errors -> “Forums not installed”. which contradict each other.

3. Every time I go to the forum page http://ohcean.com/bbpress/ it redirects to the install page http://ohcean.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php (which I removed, so now it’s a blank URL).

4. I activated the plug in in wordpress

5. I changed the cookies.

6. It’s still redirecting to the install page.

Why does it keep redirecting to the install page?

[kevinjohngallagher]

At the current rate of maximum of 1 release a year… no idea, sorry.

That said, there are some really good people working on it, so just add your bug report to http://trac.bbpress.org and someone with the technical know how will look at it eventually

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Charles,

Here’s a good place to start. You are going to need to know some HTML and PHP to get this up and running.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/

Good Luck bro

[CEThom]

When I sign into my forum as admin and try to change the layout, it only gives me two templates to choose from.

How do I go about creating my own layout – colour scheme, banner across the top etc?

[driz]

that code throws an error Call to undefined function print_f()

The avatar shows correct every but when viewing the profile page, it’s as though bbPress treats that as the current user and changes the avatar.

You say you get your own avatar when viewing a profile, what happens if you view the same profile but logged out? Do you get mystery man or the profiles avatar?

[kevinjohngallagher]

So the patches in the 0.9 Branch, were they released or deleted?

[Rich Pedley]

sounds good to me.

[Gautam Gupta]

Hmm..

[chrishajer]

I asked Matt 3 weeks or so ago if we should release 1.0.3 or 1.1 (and what to do with the couple patches in the 0.9 branch) and this was his response:

I don’t think we should update the 0.9 branch anymore, and probably not 1.0 either. (Same as WP.) If 1.1 is ready let’s get it out the door.

[Gautam Gupta]

Every string is that is shown on the screen is parsed for translation (talking about bbPress). If you want custom strings, it would be the same process as you create a translation for any other language. For eg. I could have “voices” as “participants”, “favorites” as “likes” etc.