Hmmmm okay! I hope there was an easyer way to do this, like a plugin or something. But i give it a try to look into the WordPress and bbPress files!
I’m not familiar with the setup, but yes if you have bridged your WPMU & bbPress installations then it should be fairly easy to do.
Find where the avatar is stored in WP and then use that information on the bbPress side to extract the data and produce the code for the avatar.
“When joe average says “hey, how do i upload an avatar like jim bob over there?” and your answer involves him leaving your website, signing up for a wordpress account and then… etc. it’s over!”
But my WordPressMU blog en bbPress forum is connected with a bridge. So a user has one account for the WordPress en bbPress installation. If he upload a avatar on WordPress (because profile pages in bbPress links to the profile pages in WordPress, so i use only WordPress for profile pages) it cames on wordpress, but not in bbPress. And that is wat i would.
I use Gravatars for the standard avatars, but it is more personal to upload your own avatar. And to upload a avatar twice (WordPress and bbPress) isn’t very user friendly.
Thx,
Leander
Thanks for documenting how you did it. I’m sure it will be helpful to someone.
Thanks!
I just did that, I changed the secret key in the bb-config.php file, thanks for the tip.
So to recap these are the steps I used to close my bbpress forum, and make it a “read only” forum.
1. I edited the header.php file in bb-templates folder (whatever template you are using, I am using the default Kakumei) and removed this line:
<?php if ( !in_array( bb_get_location(), array( ‘login-page’, ‘register-page’ ) ) ) login_form(); ?>
Now the register, and log-in form doesn’t even appear.
2. I changed all my forums to categories, now no one can start a new topic, or post on an old one, but everything is still readable, and this is what I wanted.
You can do this from the forums section in your bbpress dashboard, there is a box you can check to change each forum into a category.
3. I changed the secret key in the bb-config.php file located in the bbpress root folder.
This will expire all their auto log-ins and keep them from being able to log-in without a log-in form.
Thanks for the help everyone!
I hope this helps.
Scott
You can expire all their login cookies by changing the secret keys in your bb-config.php file. See the note (which is present in wp-config.php but not in bb-config.php I don’t think):
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-config-sample.php#L41
Gravatars is a wonderful tool, and those of us who are technical or on multiple forums can see their advantage. The average joe blog, probably can’t; or doesn’t have one already.
When joe average says “hey, how do i upload an avatar like jim bob over there?” and your answer involves him leaving your website, signing up for a wordpress account and then… etc. it’s over!
Gravatars are a nice default, but it’s far from a solution for the majority of forums out there.
To give a few examples:
1) I only uploaded an avatar to Gravatars last week. This aint my first or only forum and i’m slightly more technical and active on forums that the average joe user.
2) On my largest bbPress site (which isn’t that big compared to others on here) less than 1% of users have a gravatar, and definately less than 5% of active users do ( i made on of those Gravatar walls for them last week after Matt posted a link to one on planet.wordpress.org)
It’s definaely something I’d recommend to everyone to see what teh Gravatar uptake on their forums is actually like.
3) Depending on the forum, human avatars aren’t ideal. I run a forum for my brothers warcraft group. 2-300 users, about 30 active each day. Since enabling avatars for them, not 1 picture of them; just loads of gnomes and green skinned dudes.
Sadly, as a forum, one of bbPress’ big downfalls from an end user perspective is personalisation (and Avatars being one).
Here is what I ended up doing.
Even though my members still seem to be able to log-in (even without a log-in form) and post.
I changed all my forums to categories, now no one can start a new topic, or post on an old one.
You can do this from the dashboard forums section, there is a box you can check to change each forum into a category.
But everything is still readable, and this is what I wanted.
I really wish I could keep them from logging in too, but they will get tired of logging in for nothing.
I am so glad I found this solution, because if I had to set all 702 members to inactive, that would have taken quite a while…whew!
I hope this helps.
Scott
I just edited the header.php file and removed this line:
<?php if ( !in_array( bb_get_location(), array( ‘login-page’, ‘register-page’ ) ) ) login_form(); ?>
Now the register, and log-in form doesn’t even appear.
I want to see how they log-in now.
My plugin (zaerl Visibility) let you lock or hide whatever forum/topic you want and it has been built for 1.0.2 and later versions. But it does not log out members.
I try them (log-in/register links) and I get url not found, but it seems like some of the old members are still logging in and PMing me…weird, huh?
No because they are already logged in…
Haven’t found a built in method.
One other problem you have is users already logged in. I’m not sure there is a way to automatically log them out.
Not sure I can easily code anything for this, but if you ever do get a solution it would be worthwhile letting other know how you managed it.
Thanks!
For the time being I have renamed the log-in and register files in the root folder.
I try them (log-in/register links) and I get url not found, but it seems like some of the old members are still logging in and PMing me…weird, huh?
I am not a coder by a long shot, I just want to close my forum, yet make it totally readable.
hmm, you want something like a maintenance mode.. still looking and searching to see what i can come up with.
Hi,
I am using 1.0.2 so that plug-in won’t work, and I want to make it so no one can log in, or register.
The forum will basically be closed, but visitors will be able to read everything that is posted.
Any ideas?
Hi,
I would like to get the same avatar in bbpress as in WordPressMU. On this moment, the WordPressMU and bbpress avatars are different. Is there a plugin to get the same avatar from WordPressMU in bbpress?
Thanks,
Leander
You want to deny new registrations? Or you simply want a forum that nobody can edit anymore?
Hi,
I want to close my forum to (new and old) members, and make it a read only forum.
What do I need to do to accomplish this?
Thanks!
Scott
Purely a matter of taste – and a chance for everyone to weigh-in with their own opinion without anyone being “wrong” – what’re your preferred development tools when dealing with PHP, and more specifically, with WordPress / bbPress code?
In my day-job I live and breath Java code and use JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, which itself doesnt support PHP out of the box but a sister product from JetBrains (was called “WebIDE” and now I think is “PHPStorm”) does an exceptionally good job of supporting development in PHP. I was also pleasantly surprised and find myself occasionally using NetBeans v6.8 too. Both development environments allow very fast cross-referencing of methods. Both tools mirror local development remotely – handling the upload/download of changes.
If I’m not in an IDE, then it’s TextWrangler on my Mac or UltraEdit on a PC, uploads handled using FileZilla.
mikkelsen, I actually came across your posts during my research into converting. I would like to avoid the password issue that you ran into because I don’t think I would be able to convert a large % of my 60,000 membership base if action is required on their part. Another requirement for me is to import all attachments and private messages.
That is where things get really tricky because then you’re talking about involving non-core plug-ins as part of the import process.
All in all, though, I think it would be a project well worth undertaking and we would see a quick uptick in activity on bbPress plug-in development and forum discussion.
Wow, Hi Sam ! Nice to see you here!
You pretty much said what I meant, but to try to make it in plain english, what I am saying is if you start with a GPL theme, you have to disclose your source, *forever*.
No-one should expect to start with a GPL theme, modify it, and not give out the source if they distribute it further, it’s against the terms.
@ryanhellyer, I did not say/mean you can’t make your own themes GPL licensed and sell them.
