[Paulo Faustino]

Exactly chris There isn’t any title for those pages at this moment

[Ricard Torres]

Thanks all, got it working with this:

if ( $posts ) {

$out = $posts[0]->post_text;

$out = strip_tags( $out );

$out = str_replace( array( "n", "r" ), ' ', $out );

$out = preg_replace( '|/!]*?[^[*?]|si', '', $out );

$out = substr($out, 0, 200); // only display the first 200 characters of the first post

}



echo "n".'<meta name="description" content="'.$out.'" />';

[Gautam Gupta]

Now the home page isn’t loading, it is redirecting to the install page.

[r-a-y]

For those not using deep integration and want to use BuddyPress avatars, check out this forum post I just made on BuddyPress.org:

https://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/how-to-definitively-display-buddypress-avatars-in-bbpress/?topic_page=1&num=15#post-56018

If you’re using WPMU, replace the $avatar_folder_url with:

$avatar_folder_url = '/files/avatars/'. $author_id;

[chrishajer]

You want to make sure that the topic title (the post title of a forum entry) appears on the page (it is now), but also in the <title> tag of the page, for SEO?

So this page:

http://www.escoladinheiro.com/forums/forum/wordpress

Should have some variation of this title:

Forums de Webmarketing e Afiliados » WordPress – Programação

?

[Paulo Faustino]

Hi chris, thanks for the reply. I only that the titles appear just like on my normal WordPress entries. On the forum, if i click on a post or topic, there isn’t any title for that I’m not trying to automate content. I only want that my forum has it’s own pages/posts titles, not only to appear on the top browser, but also to help them rank in search engines.

I think this problem appears because i’m defining the title of this bbpress posts/pages in my wordpress header, but not the friendly way

[chrishajer]

What do you expect to happen? Do you want WordPress posts/pages to appear as forum topics automatically, or are you trying to display a list of WordPress posts/pages?

[chrishajer]

That’s normally the job of a plugin, but this one is not working. You can try contacting the author of that plugin to see if it can be updated.

I just installed this plugin on a trunk installation (so 1.0.2 or even 1.1-alpha) and the video gets embedded just fine:

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

There is some weirdness because it looks like the plugin should have an admin page, but the link doesn’t work (that could be fixed if you needed it). But just pasting a youtube video URL into the post showed me an embedded video as expected.

[Paulo Faustino]

Hello People,

I’ve made a deep integration of Bbpress into my WordPress blog as you can see at http://www.escoladinheiro.com/forums but i’m getting a very big problem. I can’t make page/post title to appear as my bbpress topic/posts titles. I’ve searched for about 8h on google and i didn’t found any solution for this. There’s anyone that can help me define this titles?

I’m using the header and footer of my main WordPress blog. There’s any way i can define that if the page/post is from bbpress, it’ll call the page title from bbpress? With this mess, i can’t even make a sitemap for the forum

If anyone can share some sort of code to implement on my wordpress for fixing this, i really appreciate. If needed, i can pay for the work.

Thanks in advance.

Paulo

[chrishajer]

I voted for it being called 1.0.3 as a bug fix release for 1.0.2. The problem is, there are things in there that were destined for 1.1. So maybe there never will be a 1.0.3 and the next will be 1.1 with a couple more bugs fixed, and new functionality like subscribe to topic, and login-less posting. I expect we’ll hear back in a couple days.

I guess based on the fact that it’s being used here as 1.1-alpha and the fact that 1.0.3 actually has 2 new features in it, that it should probably be 1.1 and there would be no 1.0.3.

[chrishajer]

Does this answer help you?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-move-the-forum-main-theme-to-the-top-and-latest-discussion-topic-to-the-bottom

[chrishajer]

Dreamweaver was mentioned here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/preferred-development-tools#post-68802

[jurasiks]

i took 1.0.3 from SVN – works great and smooth

[Coronita-C2]

I tried to create autologin but it dead! :'(

I can’t login to the bbPress, what’s I do?

[johnhiler]

Why is this an unpopular post?

[KentonMr]

@kevinjohngallagher

Hey ho!

Perhaps it is just that the forums I participate in (well most of them) and especially the subject specific ones seem to have very disciplined users.

I have seen and heard of the rabble that frequent some other forums probably with many 1000’s of visits per day.

The specific site I’m developing (redeveloping) currently has 100-200 per day and has been pretty constant for years – it is a fairly close and insular community that is not there to take over the web

It has outgrown the current coding which has proved difficult to maintain, has evolved through several programmers and is unmanageable. Taking PmWiki and bbPress “off the shelf” has enabled the regeneration of the site in the manner intended with, so far, only minor but resolvable hiccups.

Both products meet the needs of being lightweight and easy to use with minimal implementation effort. Even if the documentation of bbPress leaves much to be desired – unless it is hidden away somewhere I’m yet to find.

The problem I have with wordpress is much like the problem I have with Microsoft products- They start out simple and easy to use with minimal functionality then bloat into leviathans that are full of functionality that is neither required or in line with the way users are used to doing things.

[checkfront]

Yeah we had to switch. The current bbpress is missing needed functionality (read-only only forums, e-mail notifications). The existing plug-ins seem abandoned.

We’ll check back on 1.1. It’s looking good.

[wemaflo]

That’s cool, thank you!

[kevinjohngallagher]

@KentonMr

I’ve no issue with us disagreeing on things, heck if we all agreed on everything it’d be a boring life; but you’re making a few leaps here mate.

To state that WordPress is difficult to customise is, frankly, absolutely mental. WordPress’ strength was and is just how amazingly easy it is to customise. Thats not to say it’s the best tool for every job, but “[WordPress] is difficult to customise”?? lunacy.

To also suggest that WordPress has un-managed comments from visitors show a total lack of knowledge of it. WordPress handles comments and visitors amazingly well. Pagination, threading, custom types, moderation, different theming, searching, functions oh my the list goes on and on. Again, it’s not the best tool for every job, but “un-managed comments from visitors” is so wrong a statement its unreal.

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All of that aside, as I said above, creating a post to bbPress button or plugin for WordPress would be easy. In the same way you’ve managed to get yours working.

But I commented on between what yourself and Lethality wanted to do, is that you’d only mentioned about the initial stages, and not how the users would react or use the site. If you want to define the topic of conversation and have users comment on it – guess what, thats a 1 to 1 conversation. If you want to define a topic and have users comment on it but allow them to comment on each other’s commnet, thats a 1 to many conversation (threading). bbPress and forums on the whole don’t work that way, not because someone hasn’t thought it up before, but because the user doesn’t think that way.

Paul Hawke made a good example about a site in the MMORPG community. I replied with a similar one, showing how this way of thinking would work, as long as it was followed through for the user. I also quantified this:

slightly off topic (big shock) but this sort of thing depends on the usergroup immensely. people who play mmorpgs as an example are used to forums and doing things in front of others; where as say a Classical Music Magazine website/blog’s users might not be really up for entering a forum flame war

Over the years we’ve had loads of requests for weird and wonderful things in bbPress. Some cool, some not, some interesting, some not. How many cool and interesting forums (bbPress or not) that work differently to the norm do you see out there? There is a reason for that. It’s not because I’ve got a different view, or becasue I’m being difficult, it’s becasue Users go with what they know. If you plan to do anything in a slightly different way, you have to also plan for any and all ways random users will attempt to either do things the way they know or a new way.

A very wise man at Microsoft once said:

Users on websites are like the frogs at the end of Jurassic Park.

No matter how much you think something through, how much technology you put in place, how much you hope they’ll do things they way you want them to or how difficult you make something for them… as soon as you change something that they want to do, they’ll start fucking it up and making very obvious and loud dinosaurs.

I’m seriously all for you folks doing something new and wonderful; and heck if you pull it off my hat will be the first one off. Infact, i offered step by step adive on exactly how to do what Lethality needed, I just suggested that he think about it from a different perspective too. The internet is littered with websites who tried to change how users interacted with it, very very few succeed, and those that do are very very dependant on their userbase’s base HCI mechanics.

[Michael]

I see it’s now using Vanilla – not liking bbPress Checkfront?

[KentonMr]

@Lethality

Sorry I’m late to this topic but what you are asking sounds very similar to what I was asking here

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/feeding-topics-from-external-source

It seems as if I differ with @kevinjohngallagher’s interpretation of what users and communities want from their forum/blog/wiki/crm solution

However what you seem to be looking for is very similar to what we have decided on PmWiki+bbPress

We voted firmly against wordpress as a product mainly because

1. It has become dreadfully bloated

2. It is difficult to customise (partly as a result of 1)

3. It is a blog (a time driven format) conversation centered around one individual and un-managed comments from visitors. Typically “this is my opinion” followed by “I agree” comments.

I would also steer fairly clear of IP.Board and IP.Blog it is very much under development and considering it is a commercial product is very expensive for what it does.

I feel that someone with a basic knowledge of worpress should be able to add a similar button form to wp code to allow a “Forum This” from wordpress.

[chrishajer]

A video should be embedded, like this page:

http://www.riversideinfo.org/forum/topic/pensions/page/3#post-12866

That is using a different plugin in an older bbPress installation.

[KentonMr]

@kevinjohngallagher

I’ll ignore all the personal rhetoric and slight aimed in my direction and try to respond to the points raised.

I am new to bbPress (you may have noticed that this is my first topic/post on the forum) so know nothing bbPress, its history, development and evidently tight allegiance to wordpress.

bbPress was selected because “out of the box” it works, and from what I have seen of the plug-ins they also work well.

I think my original topic title has been mis-understood by you, and maybe others as well.

“Feeding topics from external source”

In the external source users will not have the option to set a topic title it will be predetermined by the PmWiki page that is being edited.

In fact it is the reverse of the “Blog this” that has been suggested elsewhere though restricted to the same site’s forum rather than the user’s own personal blog.

Any member has full access to the forums and so is able to start a new topic with a slightly varied topic title. That is not a major issue as the moderators will attend to them. However when posting externally a new topic there is the chance that any editor of the Wiki could initiate the “Forum this” button to start a discussion of that page in the related forum. Therefore without the check the potential of having 100’s of topics created with the same title is great.

In the end it has been very easy to code – It works well and I will even look at the possibility of including it to generate a warning to users in the forum so that we can cut back on duplicate topics in general.

Every forum/blog/wiki open to members has to have a set of accepted policies to govern usability. The site is very specialised with nearly 2000 wiki page-topic combinations. The topics are specifically for a parallel discussion about each wiki page. Elsewhere just about any reasonable discussion is possible.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Ok, so here is another one of my unpopular posts.

Can we decide if we’re working on bbpress 1.0.3 or bbpress 1.1?

Because Matt always reffered to 1.1, and infact 1.0.3 only started being used to describe about the time that Matt left.

Infact, it appears some developers are talking about 1.1-alpha, and yet in trac we’re dealing with 2 different streams (1.0.3 and 1.1).

Given that 1.1 has at least 3 cruicial tasks still open, are we releasing 1.0.3 and then aiming a 1.1 release very soon after?

or are we aiming for a 1.1 release and peopel are cailling it 1.0.3?

Thanks,

Kev

[Rich Pedley]

Could this be the final update before serious work starts on the WP plugin?