[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

[Francesco Bigiarini]

Did you setup Mercury?

[Francesco Bigiarini]

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.

[Francesco Bigiarini]

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!

[gibbyesl]

Hi zaerl

/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define( ‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’ );

Thanks

[joan3691]

I’m using XAMPP and installed ppPress in htdocs etc. So I run this from localhost (localhost:8080). When I’m register myself in my forum (pretending to be a new user=)) and hopping for a confirm mail, I don’t receive any…? How does this work? Shouldn’t I specify a mail server somewhere?

[driz]

Sent them.

Quick Q: Why do I have to have the SALTS in both the DB and Config files? Also would the COOKIEPATH be causing the problems because I have the forums on a subdomain?

Thanks

[gerikg]

you can email me the files and I can look at them. gerikg # gmail.com

[driz]

Tried those. Still not working Really annoying. Any ideas? Thanks

[Scott Bolinger]

I would like to reverse the topic order so that the most recent topic added is displayed last. I searched the BBpress forums and found an old solution for doing this that doesn’t work anymore, which involved editing topic.php:

‘The easy way is to find get_thread( $topic_id, $page ) in /topic.php and change it to get_thread( $topic_id, $page, true ).’

Thread here

Does anyone know how to do this in the most recent version of BBpress?

[gerikg]

in you bb-config & wp-config file you have double the keys? Just keep the ones that start with BB_ for bb-config and without the BB_ in wp-config. Try that first. Clear you cache. If that still doesn’t work try taking out the line define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘abe2eb1549111222254c933716b86d46’ ); from bb-config only.

[Dainismichel]

that’s just fine…i’m trying to figure out the logic of groups really…someone made a plugin to have group discussions appear on the forum. I may just forget about “groups” altogether and remove them from the navigation…or I’ll just leave ’em and see what happens.

again…yes…that’s a PERFECT template…and it looks like you have the BuddyBar working…kudos and I can’t wait to install…what do I do?

[chrishajer]

What would start the discussion in the forums? If it’s a blog post that will get comments, then I think threaded comments in WordPress are probably better.

The 1.1 release will have login-less posting. It’s in the latest trunk version now. Maybe you want to try that and see if it works for you?

You can download trunk here https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk