[talithadisti]

Wow, bbPress is having two potential versions to choose from. It’s a shame that all the talent can’t be pooled into one project to really make it excel. But in the end both branches could end up being quite different and useful in their own right. I think it’d be cool if _CK_’s branch could stay on within bbPress as a classic or standalone version.

[mr_pelle]

Plugins directory not updating: Fixed.

Seems it’s not retroactive… I mean, Zaerl’s last plugins are now listed correctly, but all other plugins did not get updated (yet): it looks like my last plugins update was a month ago!

Plugins section is finally up to date!!

[zaerl]

bbPress does integrate well with WordPress 2.9.2 which is the the current stable release. On the docs page it’s very well specified:

bbPress integration should work with most recent version of WordPress in the 2.9.x series.

[timskii]

If BBPress is going to de-integrate with WordPress, it’s worth publicising that fact as soon as possible: Plenty of people will upgrade WordPress without checking that BBPress still works, while registration errors generally aren’t apparent to the administrator.

I hope this “bug” isn’t intended. Forcing a ‘blog registration isn’t a terribly straightforward solution for those that have historically structured everything to use forum registration…

[_ck_]

I have an HTTPS trick around here somewhere, trying to find it.

ah here it was:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/https-with-bbpress-login#post-23667

[eduardosilva]

Hello,

I would like to have my forum with SSL enabled (user could type http or https), I already managed to avoid dupicated content using the “canonical” tag but when i access my bbPress forum using https the requested page loads fine, but all the links (topics, forums, tags,…) are without https.

You can see the same behaviour in this board if you try to access it through https

Just try: https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/troubleshooting (need to accept the ceritificate)

Is there any way of fixing this?

I’m using bbPress 1.1 alpha (svn from end of january/2010)

Thank you!

[wood2695]

Okay kids, here’s the solution that I’ve landed on. First, major props to kevinjohngallagher for taking the time to work this out with me. Second, the solution that I’ve come up with is not based on the previously mentioned code. I believe the code that kev had theorized was based on a flow of how s2M handled the end of the registration that wasn’t entirely correct (ie. no actual ‘thank you’ page). Perhaps this was something that could have been set up as such, but I abandoned that for another train of thought, which was… “if bbPress is reassigning bbP-specific roles based on the standard WP roles, so why can’t it do it for other non-WP-specific roles??”

So to accomplish this, I’ve made edits to two core bbP files. As kev said to me and I agree… “Usual disclaimer about editing the core blah blah blah.” This will likely need to be re-done again if/when I ever update bbPress, but for the time being, it is working splendidly. With all that said, I may be the only one trying to do this integration, but for anyone down the road that is trying to develop a member site with s2Member + WordPress + bbPress forum, here’s my solution (oh, and also based on a ‘deep integration’ of WP/bbP)…

in /bb-admin/options-wordpress.php, I added

<br />

$wpRoles = array(<br />

'administrator' => __('WordPress Administrator'),<br />

'editor'        => __('WordPress Editor'),<br />

'author'        => __('WordPress Author'),<br />

'contributor'   => __('WordPress Contributor'),<br />

'subscriber'    => __('WordPress Subscriber')<strong>,<br />

's2member_level4'=> __('s2Member Level 4'),<br />

's2member_level3'=> __('s2Member Level 3'),<br />

's2member_level2'=> __('s2Member Level 2'),<br />

's2member_level1'=> __('s2Member Level 1')</strong><br />

);<br />

and then in /bb-includes/functions.bb-users.php, I added

<br />

static $wordpress_userlevel_map = array(<br />

'administrator' => 10,<br />

'editor' => 7,<br />

'author' => 2,<br />

'contributor' => 1,<br />

'subscriber' => 0<strong>,<br />

's2member_level4'=> 0,<br />

's2member_level3'=> 0,<br />

's2member_level2'=> 0,<br />

's2member_level1'=> 0</strong><br />

);<br />

Because again, as far as the forum is concerned, I’m only really interested in differentiating whether a user is a logged-in member or not and show/hide the forums/topics/whatever using the zearl Visibility plugin based on that.

This maps all s2M roles to that of a member in bbPress. Roles may then be changed using the dropdowns in bbPress > Settings > WordPress Integration.

Cheers.

[1BadApple]

Hi Guys

I’m new on the block, but have considerable experience with forum software and server enrironments. I also have a little fleet of WordPress sites, LOL. I haven’t grokked all the bbPress stuff yet, but this is a very interesting topic.

-ck- and paulhawke both made some very good points there.

Based on what I know of other systems, the observation about cacheing is accurate. Also a fairly competent Forum program is likely to become considerable larger than any blog because of the nature of the communications, which is many-to-many, rather than one-to-many. Tts not uncommon for forums to have fifty to a hundred thousand posts. How many blogs do you know like that? Just like WP, it all has to be iterated to do a page generation.

Forums are also very spiky, due to their many-to-many, interactive nature. One post begets another or another five. Other than add-ins, Blogs are effectively document retrieval systems where there is a time disconnect between related events.

For these reasons, I lean toward the idea of either hybrid or standalone development. Another concept would be that the plug-in have either less capabilities or some size limits coded in. Sure people could code around, but they would also be on notice that ‘you may be heading for trouble’.

I’m looking forward to what’s coming.

[_ck_]

This has to be a communications hickup to the SVN because I occasionally have the same problem downloading the plugins.

Next time it happens, try copying the link and putting a random query after it, ie. https://bbpress.org/legacy.tar.gz?12345 and see if that makes a difference (or not).

[_ck_]

Nothing exciting but here’s what’s pending and will be available soon (hopefully).

All were designed for 0.9 but in theory should work under 1.x

Rename User

changes user name (user_login) across standalone or integrated (or multiple) bbPress / WordPress installs (that share a common user table)

Blocklist

blocks posts based on a list of words or IP addresses (like the WordPress feature) by immediately marking them as spam

Spam Notification

notifies admin when a post is marked as spam by akismet

Browser Timer

improve your forums by learning how long it really takes for users to see your bbPress pages

The others are just utilitarian but Browser Timer is the one I am most interested in seeing people try. It’s like asking all your visitors how fast your website is.

It compliments bb-Benchmark but instead of breaking down page rendering time on your server, you’ll instead be able to see if your pages and server are truly up to speed for your visitors around the world. It tells you EXACTLY how long it took them to get the whole page, including images, javascript, etc. on just about any browser.

[mr_pelle]

mr_pelle,

Where in your template did you place that code?

The first block is actually my bbPress header (you have to put it inside some php tags, of course), while I use the second in my WordPress header and footer when I have to load different content (css, icons, code).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Comparing anything on the bbPress website to the WordPress website is only going to lead to heartache and pain my friend.

As for the bbPress website not syncing after 22 hours, thats nothing new either.

IMO, give it closer to 48, and if its still not happening we’ll try and drag Michael away from WP3.0 release to help us again

[kevinjohngallagher]

This sadly isn’t a huge shock.

Given that 4 versions of WordPress will have been released since the last version of bbPress, it was bound to happen at some stage.

I’ll attempt to report it into the WPdev channel and see what the change is, and maybe we can come up with a bbPress plugin to help make any changes meccessary.

If whatever change in WordPress that is affecting us is here to stay (basically: if it’s not a bug), then it will effectively signal the end of complete WordPress integration. Thats not me being all doom and gloom, its the harsh reality that the two systems will then be out of sync.

That said… I’ve long been a believer in forcing people to both login and register via WordPress over bbPress on an integrated system. At least then you’re only working with 1 system setting cookies/registering etc. And right now there are far more WordPress plugins for control and customization.

[Michel – xiligroup dev]

22 hours after, the bbPress repository server is not updated. The webside is not conform to the svn side.

Users are not informed as in WP plugins repository of update of bbPress plugins…

What happen ?

Best regards

[chrishajer]

bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress. It should not be installed in wp-content/plugins, like a WordPress plugin.

You probably want to put it here:

/home/content/88/6235388/html/bbpress/

Then you can access it at the URL of your website, plus bbpress, like

http://www.example.com/bbpress

to start the installation.

Rename the bbpress folder to something you want to be visible online. Here it is called forums, but you can call it forum or discussion or community.

[tstadmin34]

I uploaded the bbpress zip to my site and then went to my plugins & it wasn’t there so i tried to upload it again but it said it says “Destination folder already exists. /home/content/88/6235388/html/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/” any suggestions on what to do?

[Rootside]

Same issue here.

bbPress 1.0.2 seems to play nice with WordPress 3.0 RC1, except for this problem.

I actually managed to get one account registered, but I can’t reproduce the situation. I do remember that I didn’t get to see the register-success screen, but I received the confirmation email with the password. All subsequent attempts failed though, as did numerous previous attempts.

Being able to do it once (out of 20 attempts or so) would point to a problem with cookies or being previously logged in, but the problem occured in 4 different browsers, 2 of which had never been used to access this site.

So, bbPress acts like I’m trying to register without providing an email address. Any thoughts?

[snieves]

mr_pelle,

Where in your template did you place that code?

[gerikg]

Who is your hosting company?

I have one more thing you can do.

[johnhiler]

I’ve had this problem when downloading plugins while signed out… if I sign it, I’ve noticed it tends to work?

The issue happens more often than it usually would for me, b/c the plugins install uses 0.8.3 and isn’t signin integrated with the main forum (which uses the latest version).

At least, I think that signing in will fix the downloads! It could just be random chance that ever time I’ve signed in before, the downloads have started working again!

[snieves]

Pixopoint is broken, Ryan is trying to fix the plugin.

Where can I email you. I have to pay someone to get this going.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Try installing php 5.2 and not 5.3

bbpress causes errors in 5.3, though they’re warnings rather than errors.

Check if you still get errors with php5.2.9

[kevinjohngallagher]

Totally agree Z.

I always feel really bad when turning people away.

Folks like roaming who make the effort to try out BbPress and are polite when asking or help, it would be good if there was a way to give them the info before hand.

[kasper777ny]

Hey whats up gerikg

Ive done everything step by step that you wrote about. I even reinstalled and started over from scratch. yet it still seems the cookies are not working. wordpress and bbpress are linked because bbpress actually lets my wordpress logins work… but no matter what i do, i still cant get keep myself logged in when going back & forth from wordpress to forum.

is this a common issue that just is not working yet?

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wordpress mu 1.9.2

bbpress 1.0.2

[1BadApple]

BTW, IS there a way to change PW’s by end users in this package aka User Control Panel or Profile?

?????