[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Glenn,

I’d take a deep breathe and read my article “Basic versus Standard”:

http://www.kevinjohngallagher.com/2010/02/25/basic-versus-standard/

Not that it’s an ideal fit, but it covers the basics (pun intended) that I think alot of people new to bbPress should have an understanding of. bbPress has the very bare minimum of basic features; that is features that are required to make the forum software actually work like a forum.

It has very very few standard features, which are on the whole based on personal perception, effectively what we each individually consider ‘most’ or other forums to have.

For your goodself, admin notification would be one of these features that you think should be included. I can’t say that in my 2 years of using bbPress I’ve ever missed that as a feature (although i’m kinda sure that bbPress 0.9 had new user email notification – but i turned it off very quickly).

bbPress has alot of positives, really loads. Very few of those are features that the community consider standard.

Take Care,

Kev

[cnc]

for new user notification, use this one

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/new-user-notification/

for new posts notification, use this one

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/subscribe-to-topic/

[dullmau]

hi,

i’m thinking of making a product review website like http://bbpress.org/plugins/ .

people can add some products to the website in a forum-like style.

im wondering if i can add a thumbnail for each thread?

[dullmau]

thanks a lot! i’m giving a try

[simonle]

@josh16 I have tried Vanilla 1.1.10 but unfortunately I find it annoyingly hard to skin. And for some reason I don’t really like their new version 2.

I think I will try out bbPress and see what some of my users think of it.

Thanks for everyones comments and inputs!

[ericnovak]

I first found BBpress 3 years ago. Personally I don’t remember finding BBpress or what I used it for, but I know that my account on here is 3 years old. I wonder if I have amnesia

When I rediscovered BBpress yesterday I was pretty excited because the fact is that there isn’t anything like this on the net. This is the smoothest, lightest, nicest looking forum software out there.

However, (and it’s always the however that gets y0u) BBpress needs a little forum work. I made a pun. Seriously, just trying to download plugins has been a major pain. Half the files either don’t work or they aren’t there. Some have major security flaws.

So I ask you this, “Where are the forum moderators?” Make BBpress a bit more friendly and you’ll not only make it work better, you’ll also grab more interest from people who will make BBpress a phenomenon.

-Eric Novak

Graphic and Webdesigner

[josh16]

I’ve run it many times in the past, but as of now, bbPress can only improve by each individual’s contribution. That said, I’ve decided to ditch it for a while and look for the next thing on the list that is on the rise. I found that Vanilla has undertaken a major redesign of their site and is now offering free hosting.

It’s the only other alternative I see right now that is just as easy and simple as bbPress.

[chrishajer]

It believe it is based on bbPress with some custom views.

[zaerl]

Well you need to load the entire bbPress. If you haven’t done something fancy with the user links I think that you can hardcode the values: forum_url.com/profile/name_of_the_profile

[dullmau]

Hi,

http://bbpress.org/plugins/ looks like a forum but the look is different.

Is it made based on bbpress? or another CMS?

Thanks!

[tokotom]

I want to modify the WordPress pages so that anytime a username shows up, whether it is a commenter or a post author, the username is linked to the bbpress profile. Is there an issue with needing to load bbPress?

[johnhiler]

I think that happens to me when I’m not signed into the plugins section.

I think the plugin tab runs on bbPress 0.8.x and the forum runs on 1.0.x, I believe… and the two forums haven’t been signin-integrated yet. So you have to sign in separately to the plugins tab…

[gibbyesl]

I have

utf8_general_ci

Gibby

[zaerl]

Did you setup Mercury?

[zaerl]

Check the tables of your database. Maybe the bbPress tables are in latin1.

Open up phpmyadmin and make sure that the collation of tables is utf8_unicode_ci.

[zaerl]

Do you want to modify a WordPress page or a bbPress one? Yes that is the function but keep in mind that if you are working outsite bbPress you need to load bbPress.

[bobbycode]

Sorry John, I should have said the download link is 404’ing (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/instant-password.zip)

Interestingly, I just tried again and its fine.

Thanks for the offer though!

[tokotom]

I have bbpress and WordPress deeply integrated. How do I link the username link in the WordPress comments to the user’s bbpress profile page? Do I use this function? get_user_profile_link()

[johnhiler]

This plugin lets users set their own passwords during the registration process:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password

That said, this system doesn’t verify email addresses… I suppose you could commission a separate plugin to do that, if you wanted? This plugin might be worth studying for clues on how to pull email confirmation off.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/

Good luck!

[bobbycode]

Hi guys,

Loving bbpress and I’ve created my own theme which is doing the job.

Where I’m at though is looking at the registration process and also the password aspect in particular.

Feedback I have had is that the random password given isn’t much fun. People just want a link to login. Why are we making people copy and paste some random gibberish from an email? Shouldn’t a link simply take you to the place where you are then asked to enter a password?

Nobody will ever stick with the default gibberish password they are given, and yet when you first login the first thing you are not asked is, hey, setup your password now.

Has anybody played around with functionality like this as it seems pretty basic and obvious to me. If people return to the site and they haven’t setup their password then they are going to be

a) digging through their old emails to find the details

b) doing a password reset

c) too much effort, cbf’d and seeya later forum user

So long story short, a whole step in this process could be circumvented.

1. Register. Username and Email.

2. You get an email, with a link. One shouldn’t need a plugin to activate email login – its default. You can login using the username or your email account.

3. The link takes you to your account details page and suggests as a first time visit you type your password twice.

This will in my opinion wipe out a vast majority of back and forthing to get returning forum users and will just make bbpress so much smoother. The initial steps of getting people registered is the biggest hurdle in any online situation and the less barriers to entry and confusion, the better.

2 questions…

Are there any plugins to achieve the above?

If not, does bbpress have the framework to make it possible for the suggestions to be made into a plugin?

Thanks for reading!!

Bobby

[tokotom]

never mind. I got it working using the Bavatars plugin.

[Xevo]

For bbpress? Create them. I don’t think there’s already one out there that looks like it.

[driz]

Also noticed that the KEYS are not the in the database just the SALTS only for both WordPress and bbPress. When installing bbPress it asks for both so what happens to the data you give for the KEYS? As it doesn’t save it in the DB just the SALTS. And why do you this stuff in the DB and the config files?

[tokotom]

I have bbpress and WordPress deep integrated and have enabled avatar upload in bbpress using the Avatar Upload plugin. How do you show the bbpress avatars next to the comments in WordPress? I searched the forums and couldn’t find a good solution. Thanks.

[wemaflo]

@gerikg

That would be perfect For my purposes this solution is very fine.

Are you ready up to this point? Would you release it for us?

Thanks!