[jtrory]

I’m working on editing the default bbPress theme and have almost got it where i want it, but I’m having one problem. The base font color seems to be black (which you can’t read against my dark gray background) and while I have edited the CSS of enough of the theme to change most of the colors, certain ones just won’t change. Specifically the bullet points, the [ ] that surround certain things, and the names of Discussions. They are all still black, and I can’t find where this is in the stylesheet. If I add something like color:#fff to the body it changes fonts I don’t want changed. It’s only a handful but I think they must all be controlled together somewhere, I just can’t figure out where.

[johnhiler]

I’m not really clear on the advantages of 1.0 using BackPress… it seemed like a huge amount of work, and I’m not clear at all on the benefits – especially since last I heard, the WordPress release wasn’t fully using BackPress yet.

Has that changed – are bbPress and WordPress using a shared BackPress codebase?

[paulhawke]

“bbPress without backpress” is not the same as “bbPress 0.9”

In version 0.9 there was bbPress specific code to perform a variety of functions. Those method calls were migrated to use a sub-set of the WordPress codebase (“backpress”). That became version 1.0 … and what was done was to move from “a subset of WordPress” to “the whole of WordPress”.

A more accurate statement would therefore be that bbPress specific code was dropped, it moved to using WP features divorced of the rest of WP, and then was made to work with WP as a whole — a continuation of forward momentum and not a step backward at all.

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

r-a-y,

Thanks for your interest in the project! It’s definitely heading in that direction

[r-a-y]

This is mighty interesting!

If you can build vBulletinesque features into your bbPress-Pods clone, you’ll get a mass following!

[kevinjohngallagher]

So this will be another of my unpopular posts, i’ve had a whole week of working on bbPress, so this is my 3rd of the week – apologies to all.

It’ll really help this conversation if you read http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/future-of-bbpress#post-60022 which is written by the wonderful Andy Peatling who has integrated bbPress with BuddyPress (and therefore into WordPress). Basically, he is the authority on the matter.

I bring this up because I thought today, what the heck are we doing? WordPress integration is the single most asked for feature, it’s the reason a large number of people choose bbPress, and according to Matt:

Strategically the most important thing we need to figure out is how to integrate bbPress better with WP

-http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/future-of-bbpress

Ok, but if we look at what Andy has said, in order for this to happen we need to remove BackPress from bbPress. Except… 90% of the changes from bbPress0.9 to bbPress1.0 was adding BackPress.

So, if integration is the plan (even as a plugin), and integration = no backPress, then whatever platform we build the fully integrated bbPress out of is bbPress without BackPress, or as we commonly call it bbPress0.9.

So then why are we building on top of bbP1.0, when we’re going to have to port that code back to 0.9 in the future or worse, attempt to combine the two. Why are we focussing on features that are already in WordPress as standard, given that they will work as via the WP functions once integrated.

How far down the rabbit hole are we going to go before we take a slightly longer term look?

Anyone have any thoughts for a Friday evening?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Just over 12 weeks ago:

…documentation team has been put together comprised of Tom39Away, pmall, justintadlock, and Nightgunner5…

http://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-09-meetup/

http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2009/12/11/bbpress-lives/

I’m afraid i don’t know any of you personally, and we’ve had no IRC “weekly” meetings for 5 weeks, so i was wondering if any of you had any updates, or things you needed help with?

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Offtopic- But in my opinion bbPress should have only the basic feature set and additional functionality (may be popular) should be supported by plugins. And by plugins which I mean some actual official plugins because the functionality is popular among other forum scripts.

[johnhiler]

I believe Gravatars are supported by default in v 1.0+.

Because Gravatars are in the core, I remember reading once that it should be easier to create avatar plugins using the Gravatar hooks. I think Bavatar uses these hooks:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bavatars/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Any webmaster that isn’t really tech savvy…

bbPress is not aimed at non-tech-savvy people. Infact the same with WordPress really. Editing of files and the ability to use FTP is a must or the thing won’t work (you have to edit and upload a config file).

Editing or changing anything involves some basic-PHP knowledge really, and this is pretty much always going to be the way of it – if you don’t got for a premium theme/framework/plugin.

It’s unbelievable actually in this day and age.

We hear this from time to time, and i can’t understand why it comes up. But it comes down to “basic” features and what is now considered “standard” features for forums. The difference is that “basic” features are things that forums need to do it’s job. “Standard” features are from a personal perception based on what other forum solutions have – that doesn’t make them any less valid as feature requests.

bbPress is always going to be feature-less in comparison to other forums out there, with the reliance on people writing plugins or editing the code to customize things for themselves – thats an aim, not a side effect. As much as the people on this forum try and help out those that are new or not quite sure, the realism is we’re years away from a free “out of the box” solution for 90% of the requests people make.

[af3]

Dailytalker, i’m not a coder, so i hope this will point you to the right direction:

1. i’m running wpmu+buddypress+bbpress and installed bp-fbconnect plugin

2. for bbpress, i followed the fbconnect instruction in facebook website; it has a step by step instruction how to get the fbconnect installed in a page (meaning, hack your bbpress theme files).

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Integrate them so that user tables are shared

http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/07/integrate-bbpress-10-with-wordpress-28/

In WP setting, change the setting that only required users can comment

and then in bbPress disable registrations or redirect them to WP register page

http://blog.ashfame.com/2009/11/disable-bbpress-registrations/

Hope that helps!

[gofastbargains]

experts please swing by http://www.gofastbargains.com and tell me what you guys think. buddypress is not working 100%, still working out the bugs…

[chrishajer]

You could rename the tables with the prefix that works, to get around this. But you’d have to update the data in the tables as well, I think there are permissions maybe that refer to the table by name.

Or, you could further troubleshoot connecting to that database and selecting data from the tables with the prefix you currently use.

I’ve not heard of that problem before, but there probably aren’t many people who upgraded from .9 to 1.0 AND had a custom table prefix. The fact that it wants to perform a new installation when the bb_ tables don’t exist makes sense, since bbPress does not know there is a current installation.

I haven’t looked at the upgrade code to see if maybe there’s a bug where the database connection fails due to a non-default table prefix, but you could check that as well.

[r-a-y]

Thanks Chris and John for the replies.

Cleaning up the meta data would be great in a future version of bbPress.

[DaddyJ]

Having followed what I presume is the “deep” integration method outlined in various posts here (i.e., replacing the 4 keys with the 8 keys) and gotten WordPress and bbPress to talk to each other, I find that Search in bbPress doesn’t work reliably: some words in a post it refuses to find, others it does. I’m a first-timer to the bbP world and don’t know where to start bug shooting this.

[websitedesign]

I have a current website that has both wp and bb press. I want the visitors to register in order to make a comment or post on the forum. I do not like the way that the have two seperate logins and registrations. Is there a way to have one general login ?

I think the best solution is to change the link for:

You must be logged in to post a comment.

How do I change this to go to the bbpress login screen instead of wp?

[Scott Kingsley Clark]

I wanted to let everyone know that I’ve been working on a clone of bbPress which is built entirely in Pods. I’m not intending it to replace bbPress, but I am intending to continue development of the functionality to bring it to more of a vBulletin level. That’s the big picture anyway, I’m nearly done with getting bbPress functionality done itself.

You can see my progress here:

http://www.scottkclark.com/forums/beta-testers-unite/current-status-of-the-forums-package/

Once I’ve completed it, I will post the package on the Pods site so you can just import the package into your own site.

For info about Pods, go to http://pods.uproot.us/

[paulhawke]

As far as I know, there’s no way to modify the text from the admin area of bbPress. However it’s not that hard to find the file to change – if you look in either ‘bb-templates’ or ‘my-templates’ you will find your theme. In the theme directory you’ll find “register.php” – you can make your edits there.

[victor980]

I was able to convert everything successfully! But when I login as the administrator I don’t get the Admin link to access the “administration panel”. Has anyone had this same issue and found a solution???

[56alifar]

Resolved because of this great new plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-open-in-new-window-plugin/

Thanks to Keith Graham

[admingsc]

Hi, all. Is it possible to change the wording on the registration page through the Admin dashboard alone? I’d like to add additional instructions for users, but I don’t know how to code (the BB was built by a design team, and I’d like to avoid having to pay them to make such a small change.)

My theme is Navigation for bbPress 1.3

Thanks!

[elforesto]

I’m attempting to do an upgrade of bbPress from 0.9.2 and get the following error every time I attempt to access any bbPress pages:

ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

I did some experimenting and found that when I change the table prefix from the one I’ve been using back to the default of bb_, I’m prompted to perform a new installation. The problem with this is that I don’t want to lose the existing contents of the forum.

Any advice or suggestions would be most appreciated.

[chrishajer]

Allesandro, your request is outside the scope of bbPress support. So, if you post your contact information here, (as you did,) I will close the topic and people can contact you with their offers of assistance.

[Jonathan Stegall]

I’d love to hear if anyone has found a way to successfully convert the format of the passwords from phpBB to bbPress.