[Trent Adams]

Hi Chris! Finally have another project that will use bbPress pretty extensive in the works so I should be stopping by “way” more often

[gerikg]

I convert themes… wpbbpthemes.org using the deep integration.

@_CK_ welcome back: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unwanted-ads-in-bbpress-themes

[psycheangels]

hmm you can copy the user db from phpbb to bbpress but your website user need to reset password because phpbb use md5 hash

[chrishajer]

Wow, Trent stopped in too. Hi Trent

[chrishajer]

To make bbPress look like your WordPress site, you need to create a bbPress theme to mimic the look and functionality of your WordPress theme. Widgets are not currently part of bbPress.

What does the topic title “monetize” have to do with any of this?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Why not just a simple .htaccess redirect? Or this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

For .htaccess, something like this in your bbpress folder might help:

RewriteRule ^bb-login.php http://www.arguemax.com/wordpress/wp-login.php [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^register.php http://www.arguemax.com/wordpress/wp-login.php [L,R=301]

[xarzu]

I installed a fresh copy of bbpress and during the installation process I was asked if I wanted to connect it to a wordpress database.

Now, when I register a new account on wordpress, it appears as a new account on bbpress.

But here is the rub. I have added a plug in on the wordpress side on the registration menu. You have to click to agree to some policy. Since this plugin does not exist on the bbpress side, if I register a new account on the bbpress side, and try to use it to log in on the Wordperss side, I get an error that says “you do not have permission to ….”

How do I make the registration I have formed on the WordPress side match the Registraion process on the BBPress side. Although the database is shared according to my tests and how I installed the latest versioin of BBPRess, the registration and login pages are not the samel

Here is the registration on the wordpress side showing my custom plugin

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/WordPress/arguemaxregistration2.jpg

Here is the registration on the bbpress side.

http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/WordPress/arguemaxregistration.jpg

Maybe there is a way to make the bbpress such that when they click on the login link it directs the user to the login for the wordpress side (and also if they click on the registration link on the bbpress it goes to the registration on the wordpress side). How would I go about changing that? Is it html code or php code? The page http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/ has the login and register links the link for login goes to http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/bb-login.php and the link for Register goes to http://www.arguemax.com/bbpress-1.0,2-2/bbpress/register.php . How do I change that?

[Trent Adams]

Good idea. All the themes on there appear to have the spam links including the ones that I worked on. This is the whois on that domain:

http://whois.domaintools.com/bbpressthemes.net

Trent

[Daiv Mowbray]

I can confirm that themes from bbpressthemes are trying to sell Cialis.

here’s a question for the bbpress owners- do you not own the name bbpress?

or at least the logo? BBPRESSTHEMES.NET has robbed the bbpress logo.

I recall some issues with the WordPress brand in the past. Protecting bbpress may also be an issue to deal with.

aside: ashfame, great contribution, if you can get the themes posted

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

And the link to the forums in the menu bar suffers from the old breadcrumbs bug (yay for testing). It tries to link to “https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums/” which redirects to “https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/” which obviously isn’t real.

The problem is that the link for the forums is <li><a class="current" href="forums/">Forums</a></li>

It should be <li><a class="current" href="/forums">Forums</a></li> instead

[yoyopop]

CioboMario, this is the same problem I had. The files do not contain an extra space before the <?xml but when output the error comes up. Try replacing your files with the latest versions – https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1181

[Chip Bennett]

@bingster loot:

I will try to address that shortly. I don’t have a Mac with which to test, but I’ve been tidying up the CSS in my WordPress theme from which I ported the bbPress theme. So, once I also propagate those changes to the bbPress theme, hopefully it will work better for you.

[Chip Bennett]

I still shake my head whenever I read that thread.

I see people who are both genuinely concerned about and desirous to help with the future of bbPress, but also trying their best, as nicely as possible, to offer up deserved, constructive criticism.

The project seems to have quite a few people willing to contribute; the biggest concern seems to be that the project lacks a leader who is – and this is the critical point – dedicated solely to the bbPress project.

To use a different metaphor, bbPress has been a rudderless ship for some time. The crew stand by, oars at the ready. Occasionally, the crew hears a report from the Crow’s Nest (“1.1, ahoy! Steer for Email Notifications and Anonymous Posting!”) – but since they cannot see the Captain at the helm, steering the ship, there is little motivation to paddle.

bbPress is Matt’s baby, and I think everyone appreciates Matt’s development of and continued contribution to bbPress. But likewise, everyone appreciates the many directions in which Matt is pulled, that – rightly and properly – prevent him from dedicating himself solely to bbPress.

(To stretch the metaphor beyond recognition: Matt is the Commodore, commanding not only the bbPress ship, but also the WordPress ship, the Automattic ship, the wordpress.org ship, etc…)

What the community here seems to be asking for, then, is for someone to be appointed – or hired, if necessary – to act as the Project Lead (certainly, under Matt’s direction), someone who can be dedicated solely to bbPress, the way Sam Bauers was previously, and the way Andy Peatling and Raphael Mudge are dedicated to BuddyPress and AfterTheDeadline, respectively.

To Matt: please don’t get discouraged because of, and please don’t be offended by anything said by, the bbPress community. I think all parties involved have the best interests of bbPress at heart, and understand and appreciate both your overall time commitments and your continued contribution to bbPress.

At the very least, I take the bbpress.org refresh as a sign of new life, and in that sign, I choose to find hope of great things in the near future for bbPress itself.

[Rich Pedley]

Just had to rejoin as I was unable to reset my password. I receive a link, but on going to the page it says i can’t reset it.

additionally I couldn’t find a link to the register page: https://bbpress.org/forums/register.php I had to guess where it was.

So the forums may be a tad quiet until those issues are fixed.

[Chip Bennett]

What a pleasant surprise! Two, actually: the bbPress.org refresh, and CK!

[cnc]

Also from my side…

loudly

Welcome back _ck_

stay connect with bbPress and with Us

[kevinjohngallagher]

And the link to the forums in the menu bar suffers from the old breadcrumbs bug (yay for testing). It tries to link to “https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forums/&#8221; which redirects to “https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/&#8221; which obviously isn’t real.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Matt confessed that he dove into bbPress. He admitted that he became a little burnt out on it. bbPress will undoubtedly be tied closer to WordPress. The future of bbPress will be a really awesome plugin. He even admitted that right now, it would be better off to use another plugin rather than bbPress. Matt said he just needs a little more time before he dives into bbPress again. The bbPress community was a bit rough around the edges and the flame war that ensued forced Matt to break away for a bit.

– http://www.wptavern.com/mattnote-from-wordcamp-san-francisco

I appreciate that I come across a bit strong sometimes, and certainly I felt that Matt wasn’t prepared for walking into the bbPress project when he came back last year. Personally, I think its a bit rich to say that the bbPress community “was a bit rough around the edges” given the way Automattic had handled bbPress with contempt for so long (leading to every single person involved in the project leaving – save for 1 forum moderator).

And as for the “flame war”, and it was probably the most quiet and mannerly flame war in the history of the internet, I think that maybe Matt has become acustomed to people praising the good things he and his company does and not that used to pointing out when they drop the ball (which originally was one of the things that most impressed me about Matt and Automattic).

– http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress/page/4

(the world’s nicest flame war, where 6 different people ask Matt questions using ugly words like Please, Thank You, and “really hope you had a great time on your travels “. Man it almost made me want to quit the total internet it was SUCH a flame war of epic proportions!!!!)

There’s no doubt in my mind that Matt is a humble positive guy that just wants the best for all of us. He speaks from the heart, and sometimes that can be a double edged sword because people hold him to that. Truly we understand that, but throwing the toys out of the pram in the way he did isn’t conducive to galvanising the community/development of bbPress.

All of the major issues/setbacks that bbPress has had have been quite obvious long long long before we hit them; and the “Relax, we’ve done this before” line is now seriously coming home to roost. Given the sheer volume of “wordpress integration” questions and “buddyPress” questions on this forum; i fail to see how telling people to not use bbPress is going to do anything to help the community or development of bbPress.

I said it when Matt came back that if bbPress is going to be a WordPress plugin then there is no point wasting development time rushing out new features that attempt to duplicate features already in WordPress. Its a shocking waste of development time, made with a unilateral decision without any real project management input. Headless chickens don’t make for good developers!!

hmmmm.

Well I am worried I’m just trudging up old ground. I’m quite sure there will be great Euphoria on the board today with this new theme (though personally, having all text shurnk by 20%, the space in which the text goes reduced to under 500px, and the links changed to a light green on a white background are mental decisions – oh and brilliantly going against everything the new WP theme is doing ) . Many will mistake it for bbPress not being an after thought, and development once again being kick started; though you’ll excuse the cynic in me for thinking the roll out of the new theme had as much to do with _ck_ calling Matt out on the WPtavern page as anything else.

Ha, but then again, maybe thats the real positive here. Welcome back _ck_.

[Gautam Gupta]

Like this design a lot, and nice to see you back _ck_

I think mdawaffe uploaded the new theme made by Sam, he also fixed some bugs.

[ghiboz]

Hi all!

I’m happy to see the new appareance of bbPress like wordpres, but I can’t reach to download the plugins…

also to you? thanks

[mr_pelle]

Haven’t met CK before, heard great things though.

Welcome back!

Quote! Thank you for your awesome plugins and all the work you did (and I hope you will do) on bbPress!!

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I have cleaned up all the code from those theme files and will be hosting them shortly.

And I can’t express how happy I am to see you back

[Xevo]

Not possible.

WordPress and bbPress are two seperate things even if you could widgetize your bbpress, it would take time to let the wordpress plugins work as widgets in your bbPress.

[truthlighthouse]

Hello,

I am currently working on figuring out BBPress and one thing I was wondering about is if it was possible to add sidebars similar to wordpress where I can drop a widget in there and put an add in that widget. Also I could put other things in there such as maybe a links section (like blog roll) or Nextgen gallery. I guess what I am really wanting is to be able to have the forum look similar to my wordpress site. Any ideas or know how to do something like that. I know practically no PHP so it would likely have to come in the form of a plugin or theme that requires a drag and drop mechanism similar to wordpress if possible.

Thanks

[_ck_]

WARNING:

DO NOT INSTALL THEMES FROM BBPRESSTHEMES.NET

THEY ARE ALL INFECTED WITH SPAM LINKS (in header.php)

http://www.google.com/search?q=bbpress+kamagraoraljelly

This is very bad because so many people have already installed themes from there. I have contacted the Google Safe Browsing group but that doesn’t solve the original problem.