To anyone who is having issues with avatars. Check out the ‘Bavatars’ plugin. It’s much more user friendly and it ‘just works’ in the same way that many WP plugins do. Upload and hit activate. A dream.
@kevinjohngallagher I say all of this respectfully, but realize that I have a different background and come from a different place.
You “hear this from time to time” because it’s a recurring problem. Maybe not for some, and certainly not for you, but it is for many given the comments that I’ve seen go unanswered on the forums. I don’t know what ‘free’ has to do with this conversation. There are many ‘free’ software projects that are way more friendly than the existing ‘situation’ with BBPress. WordPress itself is more user friendly.
“90% of the requests people make”…? The different between ‘basic’ and ‘standard’ is semantic at this point and doesn’t move the conversation forward. It’s a status quo argument that I run into on a daily basis in my profession. I don’t accept it there, nor do I accept it here. @Chrishajer is exactly right. If’ we’re going to discuss this from percentage perspective. My point is that avatars should be in the 10% of the included feature set. I’m not asking for anything special here. Just the ability to place a tiny image next to my name when I post. It’s 2010.
I integrated WordPress and bbPress and I got to the final stage of changing the settings in bbpress and tried to log back in and got the “user does not exist” error message. Now I can’t log in at all. Does this have something to do with matching the roles in the User Map? Quite a problem as I can’t log in to check anything.
I just came back to check it out, but looks like you turned off the poll feature.
Oh well, good luck!
Alright, I will activate it for you now, if you can do it within the next hours.
http://www.michaeljackson.no/forum
Its on topic creation now, so you will have to register to try it.
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Alright closing it again now. Im going off to bed, and users are gonna be on early tomorrow morning, so I cant have them freak out with an unfinished plugin.
Maybe we could time this better tomorrow
Post a link to your site? I’d like to run some quick tests…
Both are turned on, and it doesnt work.
The script is there, you can create the poll during topic creation, but it doesnt work. It doesnt get included.
There is only a Cancel-button.
Marius- That’s an option in the admin: “Ask for poll during new topic creation? (requires AJAX on)”.
Set that to yes, and also this one: “Use AJAX-like actions if javascript enabled?”… and it should work! 
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.
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.
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.”
But its already there in the extend section – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/
Yeah, I know, but it’s good to have alternatives!
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.
bbPress is going to be developed as a WordPress plugin now.
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
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
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!
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.
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?
“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.
r-a-y,
Thanks for your interest in the project! It’s definitely heading in that direction
This is mighty interesting!
If you can build vBulletinesque features into your bbPress-Pods clone, you’ll get a mass following!
