[Damien]

As long as it retains the way themes, plugins etc are handled I don’t see a problem with bbpress finally being a ‘real’ part of wordpress and sharing its functions. Hopefully the plugin will encourage more wordpress.org users to get involved.

[Marius-]

I have just installed it, and here is the problem:

When you decide to create a poll during topic creation, there is no save button. Only a a Cancel button. And when you type in question and alternatives, and click Send in the postform, it doesnt include the poll at all.

It only works when you go into the topic when its created, and add a poll afterwards.

[johnhiler]

It’s been there for a while: “Last Updated: 2010-1-13” and says, “Don’t download me yet. I’m in the beginning stages of development.”

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

But its already there in the extend section – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

[r-a-y]

Yeah, I know, but it’s good to have alternatives!

[kevinjohngallagher]

I dunno mate, i’m happy for the discussion (as there’s alot of discussion to be had from both sides of any point of view), but this “article” doesn’t really say anything we’ve not known already. Matt mentioned in a weekly IRC meeting in december that bbPress was going to be a WP plugin.

I don’t know if Binary Turf is actually a really well known and respected website (i’ve never heard of it before – but that might not mean much), but either way 2 paragraphs on bbPress from someone not involved in the project isn’t really going to bring us any new info.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

a plugin for HTML5 video is out already

http://stateofaffairs.info/archive/html5-video-bbpress-plugin/

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Forget it. Read this – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/is-it-time-for-bbpress-to-dissolve-away-as-a-standalone-version

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

I think so. Read this – http://www.binaryturf.com/bbpress-evolves-wordpress-plugin/

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

bbPress is going to be developed as a WordPress plugin now.

[celal_zanadu]

Hi,

I have the impression the problem of foreign language characters.When I write russian ??? in the form of shows.

I use english bbpress.What do I need to ?

http://www.rusyadan.com/forum/topic/deneme2-2

thanks

[celal_zanadu]

Merhaba,

Yabancı dil karakterinde gösterim sorunum var.When I write russian ??? in the form of shows.

I use english bbpress.What do I need to ?

http://www.rusyadan.com/forum/topic/deneme2-2

thanks

[johnhiler]

This sounds like something that happened to one of my members. Has she been inadvertently bozo’d?

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/bozo

You can also use this plugin to allow certain users to “skip akismet”:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/skip-akismet/

(“You can also use the profile checkbox for ignoring “throttle limit” to specifiy skipping for individual users.” <– that’s the key line)

I have found Akismet to be a decent failsafe for spam, but it’s not really suitable for use as the primary spam catcher for a message board! I’ve had great results using plugins that allow long-time members to skip the akismet process entirely…

Good luck!

[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!