[wemaflo]

@Arturo and etiviti:

Are there any news concerning the forum theme? I see it’s working fine on BuddyPress Italy…

[adaptistration]

God bless Firebug – I’d pay for it in a heartbeat if necessary. What I need bbpress for is to have it function as part of a larger online support and training site so having the sort of ability beyond the most basic of sidebar and integration elements is a necessity.

I’ve been following more of the discussions here and it certainly seems as though the project has yet to rise to the level of project management as that of its parent project. But given how amazing WP is, I hope they are able to bring bbpress up to that level sooner than later.

Even if bringing it to that level meant using it as a commercial add-on just to explore that model, I’d be first in line to buy a license!

[gbmphillips]

So yesterday everything looked great had Categories and topics under those Categories. Now this morning all I am seeing are the latest discussions and no Categories or topics. Not sure what happened.

http://wings-pbem.net/bbpress

[deadlyhifi]

I was having this problem on my forum so I took out the display name feature.

See https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-with-basic-command-to-add-new-profile-fields#post-65468

And delete 'display_name' => array(1, __('Display name as')),

[gerikg]

Without getting into another long discussion (please no one chime in), yes it’s disconnected for now.

Good tools that I use is Dreamweaver and firebug for Firefox.

If you have sidebars that just show information is fine. There are sites that I created that just have hottags and Views as a “sidebar”.

I believe a working ugly site is better than a pretty half-working one.

[absolutex]

I have changed server

ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

problem with

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘user_bbpress’ ); ?

i have underscore in BBDB_USER and i get this error

ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

my old server is

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘bbpress’ ); is work!

….

BBpress Latest Discussions (1.7.2) in wordpress could connect this database with Bbpress DB User: user_bbpress

[adaptistration]

Many thanks. this is such deja vu to what WP was like years ago. It seems odd that there’s such a large disconnect between the two.

[gerikg]

everything in BBPRESS folder has to be in FORUM

you have WEBSITE.COM/FORUM/BBPRESS

[nisray]

Hi All.

I’m sure that I’m being a bit of a noob, but can’t seem to work out how to link bbpress forum to my site. What I mean is for a home page link saying ‘forum’ to link to the said forum. I think I said that twice. It can’t be as easy as creating a new page in wp admin, which is what I have done. However, when I click on the ‘forum’ link it gives me this error…..

Index of /forum

Parent Directory

bb-admin/

bb-load.php

bbpress/

Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at forexprogress.com Port 8

If I click on bbpress/ the forum shows up.

See what I mean at forexprogress.com if I’m allowed to add my URL!

Can anyone tell me ( in simple terms) what I need to do – thanks.

John

[Process of Illumination]

Hi,

since i have the forum in a different frame of my page, i’d have to add the attribute “target_top” to every link.

The code below is only for target_blank, or would it be possible to replace every “blank” with “top” and have it working?

---

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-nofollow-to-links#post-17523″

---

And how do you make the code into a plugin? you copy and paste into a text file, save it as *.php and upload the file in the bbpress plugins folder?

Thank you very much, every help is very appreciated!

The Process

[gerikg]

P.S. not all wordpress plugins work on the bbpress side, especially ones that involve user input. example (sidebar login ones)

[gerikg]

“manage the bbpress forum via the same admin login as the primary WP install.”

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin/

“…main wp widgetized sidebar”

If you did the deep integration you just have to stick <?php getsidebar() ?;> somewhere in you bbpress theme file then mess with you bbpress css to make it fit.

“..same sort of functionality with editing php and css templates, etc. in bbpress as with WP”

no such thing

[radovanx]

I upgraded my bbpress instalation but i have small problem with links for users – i dont have links for users profile in the forum – just name and function but its not links. Where is the function for this ? thank you

[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