[David-]

bbpress should remain a stand alone forum script while still being able to integrate with wordpress.

I love this script so much even with all the brouhaha and non-leadership.

[Pomy]

reply me at

roshnikayaqeen (at) gmail (dot) com

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

email me ashishsainiashfame[at]gmail[dot]com

You can see my bbPress resource page here – http://blog.ashfame.com/bbpress/

[chrishajer]

John, some of it was here (not the URL though):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/database-connection-errors

[chrishajer]

Wendy, please post your email or contact form URL and I will close this thread. That way people can contact you outside the forum.

[johnhiler]

A few questions:

1) What versions of bbPress and WordPress are you using?

2) What plugins do you have active on your site now? Make a list and we can flag any ones that generate problems!

3) What’s the link to your website?

That should help us troubleshoot your problem!

[sweetiessecret]

I am not sure if this is the place to ask or not. I need someone who works with BBPress who can work with me for my site. The original person who set it up for me got too busy and cannot help me now. I need someone who understands WordPress, BBPress, and the integration of both together. That is how I have it setup.

I need someone I can go to when I have problems and of course, I will pay you.

My site works most of the time but there is a problem that I cannot solve on my own right now. BBPress locks up sporadically, usually for 5 minutes at a time. It gets a database connection error most of the time. It does not appear to be the web hosting that is the problem because I have literally been on the phone with them daily for the last month and they cannot find anything wrong on their end. It worked fine when it was setup but as of 2 months ago this problem has been happening without anyone to help me figure it out. It does not appear to be a plug-in but cannot be for sure with that either.

This is the problem I need help with now but there will be things that need to be developed over time that I can use help with as well so I am looking for a “go to” guy or gal.

Thanks. Feel free to write here and I will respond. I don’t know if there is a private message option here but if there is please use that instead.

Wendy

[thelobbyist]

I installed bbpress supposedly successfully. I received confirmation email and the install went smoothly. But when I actually go to the link I get nothing. http://www.conservativecongress.com/forums I don’t get what’s up here.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[paulhawke]

I am currently working on a plugin that adds import capability to bbPress. The framework provides a 4-step wizard

1. Choose the input source
2. Configure the import
3. Verify what you’re about to import looks good
4. Perform the import

The “importers” for the first step are read dynamically, to allow for easy extension. The parameters names for step 2 come dynamically from the selected importer and the values entered are supplied to steps 3 and 4. The plugin provides methods for creating users, posts, topics and forums, the importer provides the methods needed to get that data from whatever the input source is.

My experiment was to import a fake phpBB 2 forum (3 users, 2 forums, and maybe a dozen or so posts). All looks good. I would value other sets of eyes on the project though. What would be awesome would be other people to write some importers for other platforms. The framework is there in the plugin, it just needs extension into the other platforms.

[paulhawke]

7:00 – 7:30 EST – silence, no-one arrived.

7:30 – 8:00 EST – chit-chat about the positives of Chrome as a browser, and a couple of bbPress topic/post admin related feature requests.

Basically, extremely quiet.

[paulhawke]

Getting back to what @frooyo asked at the start…

Since the future is that bbPress will be a plug-in of WordPress, does that still allow bbPress itself to have plugin capability? Because essentially then, any plugin of bbPress would be a plugin of plugin to WordPress.

Plugins would be managed in a single interface. They would use the regular WordPress functions to add admin-area functionality, and to add action hooks and insert themselves into the filter processing. The issue is which actions and which filters are registered in a given plugin. As bbPress is migrated to being a plugin the developers will make sure that it will broadcast its own actions, separate from WordPress, when it makes sense to, and share action/filter hooks when it makes sense. For instance, I could see the “talk like a pirate” plugin for WordPress being shared between bbPress and WordPress on a given site.

In addition to action and filter hooks being distinct between the two systems, or shared in certain cases, it’s entirely possible to write code that a plugin registers with, separate from the main WordPress. Take for instance the current “Topic Icons” plugin that allows other plugins to register new “rules” on how to apply icons. This capability allowed the “Topic Icons” plugin to support skinning the “Support Forums” icon set without ever needing to be coded into the core “Topic Icons” plugin – people who dont run “Support Forums” never need activate that piece of code. What I’m getting at here is that one plugin can register and talk to another – there just has to be a little care about how its done; if bbPress becomes a WordPress plugin, there’s nothing to stop it having its own sub-set of plugins specific to it.

How would the Admin interface look for bbPress within WordPress

Its very easy to add a new top-level menu item in the admin interface, its just not something plugin writers normally do. In the case of bbPress, I could see a “forum” menu being added that then contains a sub-menu of management pages specific to bbPress. That said, we get user and theme management for free from the main WordPress.

@bobtheman – you asked an interesting question

on a side note, this sorta makes you want to ask yourself, will every project that automattic picks up be transformed into a worpdress plugin?

It’s been said that “when all you have is a hammer, all the worlds problems look like a nail”

The fact is, WordPress is a thoroughly versatile foundation to build upon. To quote another software engineering saying, “it isnt code re-use the second time some code gets used – that’s just a happy accident. Code re-use doesnt happen until the third and subsequent time.”

What do I mean here? Simply this: the foundations of WordPress (user management, theming, admin, plugins, etc) are great. They make a solid basis for building from. BuddyPress started down that road and by a “happy accident” made use of the features. Now we are looking at bbPress and saying “wow – code re-use!” but there are large slabs of code that will not be used when you’re a bbPress user/admin. The thing which needs to happen is to look, now that a third (WP, BP, bbP) project is building on the same backend, and refactor the truly common code into a modular WP-Core that is lean-and-mean, and the additional functionality builds upon. We have an opportunity to drive the architecture of WordPress into a better place as bbPress becomes a plugin.

For instance, what if I want to swap out and run my WordPress against Microsoft Active Directory for all the user management thereby gaining single-signon in a corporate shop? Impossible right now, but if the core is more modular, maybe it would be possible. If the core were more modular, then an install of bbPress need not drag the entire WordPress codebase along with it.

[johnhiler]

It’s probably easiest if you add this CSS to your style.css file:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-tags

[johnhiler]

Tags is part of the bbPress core, so you can’t just turn them off by deactivating a plugin.

There are two ways to do it that I’m aware of:

1) Remove the tag code from your templates:

Tags only appears in a few places in your templates though, so it shouldn’t be too hard to remove!

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei

Tag code appears in the following template files:

tag-simple.php

tags.php

tag-form.php

topic-tags.php

topic.php

There are descriptions of each template file here:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/

2) Hide the tag fields in your stylesheet:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-tags

Good luck!

[Marius-]

I want to get rid of Hot Tags. Im not just talking about the menu on the left, but completely remove it.

Remove:

-Hot tags menu

-Listed tags in topics

-Tag box in reply-form

Is there an easy way to do this?

I now have 100 members on my forum, and nobody uses it, and its just ugly.

Is tags a widget, or is it so hard coded into wordpress that I have to edit loads of files to get it away?

Should I bother removing this now, or will this be easier with an updated bbpress, thats perhaps coming sooner than I happen to know?

[petroski]

It’s the great thing about open source software – no one is stopping anyone of carrying on bbPress as a stand alone project. Myself, I like the idea of bbPress as a plug-in – much of the work I do with WordPress is providing a CMS web site solution – a bbPress plugin would become yet another powerful tool for easily integrating into a wp web site.

[chrishajer]

How do you change the Freshness of post date format?

Show exact date of post? (not freshness)

https://bbpress.org/blog/2007/02/bbpress-time-functions-no-longer-insane/

[David-]

I’ve fixed this error in the database file, and everything ran smoothly. Thanks a lot.

[fifthhouse]

When a post is clicked on, does that reload the entire theme in bbpress sites? I am asking because I’m thinking to put ads in my sidebar, so I am concerned with numbers of page clicks etc.

[David-]

Hello,

I’m getting an error during the convert.

General Error

SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ]

You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘ve bought in the past or intend to buy.’, ’51’, ‘8’, ‘3’, ’26’)’ at line 1 [1064]

An SQL error occurred while fetching this page. Please contact the Board Administrator if this problem persists.

[Dailytalker]

Very important for all users who like more visitors for their forum is facebook connect. Many bbpress users already asked for it.

[bobtheman]

@olaf

bbpress has ever opportunity “as long as no forces push bbpress in a different direction” to flourish and continue to be successful as any other opensource project does. The lack of contributions is a direct reflection of issues that need to be resolved within the community but are in no way unresolvable. Making bbpress a plugin goes against the goals of bbpress and most definitely isnt keeping the USER first, unless they change that to read “keeping the WordPress User first”. Making bbpress a WordPress plugin limits bbpress in so many ways, while other projects are focusing in on simplicity, extendability and yes integration even with wordpress but also with other platforms.

on a side note, this sorta makes you want to ask yourself, will every project that automattic picks up be transformed into a worpdress plugin?

[tflight]

paulhawke, I’d like to give it a shot as I’m still several weeks away from a final cut-over. My two biggest pain points right now are preserving user passwords and preserving user email notifications… both of which are outside the scope of your project but issues I’m working on.

[endo.tv]

Hi Everyone! I just installed bbPress and got it up and running but now I can’t click on anything in the header. The text “Login” and “Register” don’t work. So I logged in through the bottom of another post, and once I got logged in, I still can’t click on anything in the header. So I can’t access any of the admin features.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

see for yourself

http://www.endo.tv/forum

Cheers

[Olaf Lederer]

@bobtheman,

you’re right, but I don’t believe in bbpress as the big forum system anymore. If I need to build a big forum I go for bigger projects like vbulletin. I think if bbpress is a plugin it will be a better system and frequently updated. And what’s wrong to have a blog and a forum on one site? I write so much articles on forums which better fit into a blog than a forum. Since bbpress has so many bugs the system need much more development than now. I’m sure systems like vbulletin has much more developers than bbpress (I forget there is currently no one)

[johnhiler]

It looks like this is the latest 1.0 alpha to include the importer and exporter:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags/1.0-alpha-6/bb-plugins/bbxf/

Sam mentioned in that earlier link that he’d rather have the importer/exporter based on RSS rather than a custom XML format… I think that’s why he actually removed it.

That said, you’re welcome to try out the bbxf plugins! It’d be great if someone could test them out and report back if they work or not!