[Kevin Ryman]

Once again, nice video tutorial. Keep them coming!

[johnhiler]

Here’s a plugin to disable registration:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/howto-disable-registration

[johnhiler]

There’s a nice Mass Delete Users plugin that lets you batch delete members:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/

I’ve used it before, and it’s great!

Just make sure to backup your data first, just to be on the safe side.

I think there are also plugins you can install to disable registration. Let me know if you are interested, and I can try to track one down!

[adaptistration]

great tut, many thanks!!

[adaptistration]

If anyone has suggestions or pointers on where to find some quality bbpress premium themes that are geared toward being used as a support forum, I’d love to know. Ideally, I would like something that greatly expands the admin control panel to allow similar functionality with standard wp 2.9.2 features.

Thanks in advance!

[adaptistration]

I’ve recently completed a deep install of bbpress (great tuts here at the forums!) but it didn’t do what I thought it would do, which is allow me to insert bbpress as an integrated component of my main WP install. What I would like, is to be able to use the main wp widgetized sidebar and manage the bbpress forum via the same admin login as the primary WP install.

I would also like to have the same sort of functionality with editing php and css templates, etc. in bbpress as with WP but after reading around, it seems that I am out of luck (any advice here is greatly appreciated).

I feel like I’m missing something or off track. Any help/insight/feedback is greatly appreciated.

[chrishajer]

First, you can use the Human Test plugin to prevent or at least minimize spammer logins.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

Second, not linking to the forum URL is not really hiding it. Spammers know to look for URLs like /forum, /forums, /bbpress, etc. No surprise there.

If the forums are not active, why not just drop all the tables and reinstall?

If they’re not active but have existing data, then you will need some SQL to drop all the users and all their posts and related meta info, if any. Did the spammers post anything, or just register? Or can you drop the tables and reinstall?

[chrisbrocklesby]

Hi,

This would be my third post I made on this now (Sorry) (I seemed to have been bozo’ed on my other posts as my posts aint showing on my other computer which I think is off MOD’s – why would you do this ?) but really think this is a serious issue for the bbPress community.

I like many others have the bb_rel_nofollow filter in place to help against the fight against spam. It some what works but… if I put rel=”follow” in the html markup in a post I can over ride the nofollow filters.

A example can be seen on post 82/83 of my beta forum: http://www.diyextra.com/forum/topic/this-is-a-test-of-the-lenght-of-the-forum-title-test-123-and-again?replies=19#post-82

Does anyone know of this problem and does anyone have a patch to this.

Many Thanks in Advance.

Chris

[Process of Illumination]

Hello,

wp/bb sync used to work very well for me but all of a sudden i’ve got this problem:

the comment from bbpress to wordpress appears blank, no words in it. There is the name of the author, comment isnt in approval but is published on the site, counted in bbpress… just EMPTY, lol.

Plugin works perfectly the other way round, from wp to bb.

I am using WP version 2.9.2. and BBpress Version 1.0.2.

Does anyone has any advice, please? I really dont know how to get it back to work, i have tried and failed so many times, already.

Thank you very much.

[fifthhouse]

I have had my bbpress forums “hidden” meaning that I disabled the menu linking to my forums, so that nobody can see them. However I just discovered that I have over 500 “users” all of which are spam.

How do I stop this from happening? My forums are not active right now but I haven’t been able to figure out how to “turn them off”.

Another question is, how do I delete all these spam users? The control panel only seems to allow me to delete them one at a time…? This will take days for me to delete them.

[Dailytalker]

I looked a bit around and found a peace of code with which I was able to create a plugin.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: UTF-8 usernames

Description: This plugin enables utf-8 characters in usernames. Mbstring must be enabled in the php.ini.

*/

function sanitize_user_mbstring( $raw_username, $username, $strict = false ) {

$raw_username = $username;

$username = strip_tags($username);

// Kill octets

$username = preg_replace(‘|%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])|’, ”, $username);

$username = preg_replace(‘/&.+?;/’, ”, $username); // Kill entities

// Usage of ‘mb_ereg_replace’ instead of ‘preg_replace’ to preserve accents.

if ( $strict )

$username = mb_ereg_replace(‘|[^a-z0-9 _.-@]|i’, ”, $username);

return apply_filters(‘sanitize_user_mbstring’, $username, $raw_username, $strict);

}

add_action(‘sanitize_user’, ‘sanitize_user_mbstring’, 0, 3);

?>

Unfortunately it doesn’t work properly. When it displays correctly in bbpress it doesn’t in wordpress and reverse. I don’t have access to the php.ini. Could it be, that the thing with “mbstring” is the problem?

[cloner]

chrishajer,

I don’t know how to thank you enough for your patience and your help. I’ve just learned more than I EVER wanted to know about the interaction between bbPress and WordPress. I’ve changed the status of this thread to “resolved”, as all that was required to make this problem go away was to change the user_bbdb_password to the new WordPress database password. Voila.

Now I just need to figure out how to develop exactly the theme I want and I’ll be in tall cotton.

Cheers,

Cloner

ABQ, NM

[dogeil]

Our group is looking at setting up a forum on our Web site. However, one of the things we want is for it to ONLY be accessible by members of our group as items we discuss are amongst our members only.

Is it possible to do with with bbPress?

Example, if we have 50 companies as part of our group, the Administrator could be the only person who would set up access for people in this group. No other person could join so that any information or questions posted would only be able to be read and accessed by whomever is part of the group. In other words, no other person could join, like I just did here, and be able to access the forums.

Any help is appreciated. thanks!

Duane

[gerikg]

is this it? https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/two-or-more-words-and-non-ascii-chars-for-user-names#post-29515

[Dailytalker]

Strange is that this problem occurs only with member names. In the forum posts the umlauts are displayed correctly.

I use wordpress integration…in wordpress the member names are displayed correctly. Only in bbpress the umlauts are not displayed correctly in the member names.

[chrishajer]

Looks like that information is stored in the bb_meta table in the bbPress database, with the following values:

meta_id: autoincrement

object type: bb_option

object_id: 0 (always zero in my case)

meta_key: these 4

user_bbdb_name

user_bbdb_user

user_bbdb_password

user_bbdb_host

meta_value: your database name, user, password and host.

Screenshot: http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/cloner-userdatabase.png

HTH

[chrishajer]

I think a patch was posted. Have you tried that? https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1209

[chrishajer]

I think this is a host configuration problem. A function bbPress needs (open_basedir) is not being allowed on the server.

[cloner]

Where does bbPress physically store the wp-user database name, location, user, and password information? That’s what I want to know. This is the information the installer asks for in step 3. The wp-database password changed, but I don’t know where to change it in bbPress to make it work properly, again.

[arpowers]

here’s a second one for ‘deep integrating’ with WP ( our customers struggle with that

http://www.pagelines.com/posts/deep-integration-with-bbpress/

Wait, is this just an installation procedure or integration procedure?

First is installing bbPress, second is deep integrating..

[Magnus Thörnblad]

Hi!

I was going to try bbPress out today, but I can’t install it. I get the error message:

Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/web/se/bb-config-path.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/tmp:/usr/lib/php5:/usr/share/php:/web/se/www.xxxxxxxx.se) in /web/se/www.xxxxxxxx.se/bb-load.php on line 141

Am I missing something. I’ve tried to download both .zip and .tar.gz and the missing file isn’t in any of the packages.

Please help me out!

Best Regards, Magnus

[cloner]

Chris,

The forum was set up and functoned for years with the split databases. Posts are saved in the bbPress db, whilst users are saved in the WordPress db. Now, for some reason, bbPress cannot read the user info from the WordPress db. I’ve tried to reinstall, but once I’ve completed “Step 1” and click the button to move to “Step 2”, the page is redirected to the forum homepage and I never get an opportunity to get to “Step 2”. I assume the installation script realized that there is already an installation of bbPress present and refuses to go further.

My questions is, how (in the code) are bbPress and WordPress tied together? What could be fouled up that makes it impossible for bbPress to read the existing user data from WordPress?

[Taeo]

I searched a little harder and found some responses to the same question. Sorry for not looking before! I am going to try setting the time zone for bbPress to match that of my server’s.

[chrishajer]

When installing bbPress you can choose to use a different database for the user table. Here’s a screenshot from step 2:

http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/step-2.png

This is present when installing 1.0.2. I don’t recall when it was added. But you will need to replicate those settings to use a different database and table for your users.

[chrishajer]

I should probably try to install using this procedure before linking it up. I will try to do that today and follow your tutorial.

Wait, is this just an installation procedure or integration procedure? I have not watched it yet.