[mbiernat]

I would give my vote to this being part of the core functionality for bbPress. Why? Because people on the web have a low tolerance for registration. They want to post and subscribe, not fill out registration forms.

[financialnudity]

http://www.financialnudity.com/bbpress/

[kadr]

thnx for the help chrishajer!

all is well now.

I just had issues reading your comments, and made some small errors…

[Raize]

It’s definitely going to be a trade-off to go from a standalone software to a wordpress plugin, but I don’t think there’s very much choice. There are already so many standalone forums out there for non wp users, so it just makes sense to go this route. Connect blog comments to forum threads, and you got yourself the next evolution of the blogging community.

[chrishajer]

file naming convention:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#Repository_File_Structure

[chrishajer]

In your define statement you defined nl.mo to be empty, BTW.

[chrishajer]

The define statement should look like this:

define( 'BB_LANG', 'nl_NL' );

if your file is named nl_NL.mo in the my-languages/ directory

The format for the name of that file is

language code_underscore_country code.mo so nl_NL.mo and in the config you drop the .mo

More info about Dutch for bbPress here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dutch-translation#post-56700

[kadr]

Ok, Still no luck.

The right folder should be:

my-languages in the root folder of my bbpress install. (same directory as were the config file lives for example).

I changed the name of the file to nl.mo

At the bottem of my config file I now have this line:

define( 'nl.mo', '' );

Is this all correct?

If so, then why doesn’t it work?!

[paulhawke]

My experience of the WordPress codebase extends to version 2.9.1, I cannot speak to what is going on with version 3.0. Matt said something about bbPress being hosted on a page using a WP short-code at one point. As far as I know, there is no facility for page slugs to handle wildcards (from what I have seen). If you wanted to host bbPress as a plugin using a short-code on a WordPress page, it’s my guess that you would need to have different short-codes for the front page, topics page, views page, single topic, etc. Either that, or you recode the entire bbPress GUI to be Ajax based and run on a single page in-place. Somehow you need to extend the WordPress roles to encompass the bbPress side of the house.

When you go down this road you eventually get to the point of Drupal – amazingly vague and configurable database, slow because it’s got to be all-things-to-all-people and … well … yeah. I would rather not see either WordPress or bbPress end up there.

It it’s favour we can strip out a large portion of the codebase that deals with preferences, users, filters, plugins, themes, sidebar widgets and so on. We gain a lot from the main WordPress codebase but its worrying the “bloat” that comes with that approach.

[chrishajer]

What widget did you install for allowing images? There are no widgets, as far as I know, for bbPress. If you mean a plugin, please post the link to the plugin you’re using.

[chrishajer]

I suggest you add this plugin to the bbPress plugin repository. Seems like it would be useful to some. Thank you.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/requests/

[chrishajer]

You have to resize the other divs to make it fit. That can all be done in the style.css. You might make the overall layout wider or narrow up some of the columns to allow your sidebar to fit.

[kadr]

As a newbie to BBpress I have only one thing to say: I sure hope this project get’s some devoted people behind it! I really like the software and would love to see it become just as populair as wordpress is!

[kadr]

Hey,

After I installed my bbpress al the folder and files had all permission set to ‘000’.

To acces the page I set everything to ‘777’.

Now, this clearly seems like a bad idea to me. What should be the permission settings for the diffrent files and directories of my bbpress install?

thnx for help!

[arashagha2]

hi

thanks to FarsiPress.ir ( a brand new support for wordpress in Persian )

i hereby announce the release of bbpress in persian

plz visit : http://www.farsipress.ir/download

[LizFilardi]

Hey,

I’ve followed this forum and included the following code:

function add_sidebar() {

include ('sidebar.php');

}

add_filter('bb_foot', 'add_sidebar');

But how do I get this sidebar to fit into the main div?

Thanks.

[Gautam]

@Olaf

That would pile up even more work. I would probably go forward and extract the code in bp-forums of BuddyPress and make a WordPress plugin to integrate bbPress forums.

[Olaf Lederer]

There is so much work to create a full featured forum from bbpress and maybe it’s better to make it a WP plugin…

[Olaf Lederer]

All the people mentioned in this topic are good for bbpress (Gautam as well).

But maybe you guys should wait for Matt’s comment in this topic. For myself I wrote several plugin’s in the past to make my bbpress a forum complete and some of them are already published. Before I will spend one more minute on bbpress I need to be sure that bbpress has a future (not sure after Matt’s closing comment here)

[frooyo]

**** Please note, I’m not referring to the DEVELOPMENT of bbPress, this thread is meant to help us nominate PROJECT MANAGER for bbPress. Someone who defines the Roadmap, set dates, establish next release features/functionality … as such, this person does not have to be technical at all and actually, many times the best project managers are non-technical.

I would like to ask the following people if they would be interested in leading bbPress from a Project Management perspective. Once we know who would be willing to commit be the Project Mgr for bbPress, we can put it to a vote.

@johnhiler ? you interested?

@chrishajer ? you interested?

@Nightgunner5 ? you interested?

[Gautam]

We don’t do beta testing at BBpress.

Who said? We had alphas and betas for 1.0.

[kevinjohngallagher]

EDIT: * threshold hit – going for ice cream *

[Gautam]

@kevinjohngallagher

ChrisHajer should definitely NOT be the next project lead of BBpress. Chris is a great great moderator, and to remove him from this role would leave us with ZERO moderators.

Why would he be removed from the moderators list?

Gautam and Nightgunner5 are both programmers, skilled to be sure, but that does not make a good project lead either.

I can’t say about myself, but nightgunner5 would definitely be a good project lead. Can you provide a “why no” reason?

No, whoever leads BBpress will be from Automattic. It’s their project folks, they’re just letting us chat on their forums.

That doesn’t mean that one can’t contribute to it. At the end of the day, it is for the people who are using it.

At the end of the day, people will vote for people they agree with, and not in an objective manner, heck I’m confident that if I was to say that i think BBpress should not be a WP plugin and should have facebook connect then i could convince a least 2 people to vote for me, regardless of any actual facts.

That’s natural for a normal user. They want what they need.

Why are you always so angry, against everyone and ready to fight with every person..!?

(By the way it is bbPress not BBpress)

[bobtheman]

thanks for your reply kevin, the reasons of why bbpress should be a plugin was briefly discussed above in the topic, having bbpress contingent on wordpress belittles bbpress and strangles its ability to develope as an open source project.

1. As already addressed, the majority of people talking about integration, plugin, wordrpess .. if we took a long hard look arnt talking about it because they want bbpress to be a plugin, they just want some form of integration and use those terms interchangeably… very lossly might i add.

2. We are still an opensource project and the community matters. its up to the PM’s to get the community as a whole involved with submitting tickets, testing beta versions and getting interests in programing “recruiting”

3. its obvious people dont like the bbpress as a plugin idea, and when the team no matter who it is decides in disregard of the community it will show in the contributions.. case and point. The bbpress project doesn’t technically need funding from automattic “it would be nice though” .. because an opensource project like this should be able to develop a business plan and project plan and flourish as all other opensource projects do.

4. You’ve addressed why in your opinion we can change anything and our “votes” dont count. Congratulations… but you forgot to give your opinion and viewpoint on the topic at question.

oh yeah… there are programmers that can contribute to the project hiding amongst us

[kevinjohngallagher]

Another voting thread, awesome, these are always productive and rarely descend into sycophantic rants or love ins.

That said, ChrisHajer should definitely NOT be the next project lead of BBpress. Chris is a great great moderator, and to remove him from this role would leave us with ZERO moderators.

Gautam and Nightgunner5 are both programmers, skilled to be sure, but that does not make a good project lead either.

Mentions of _ck_ are like mentions of Elvis working in a 7/11. You hear it every now and then from people who don’t want to accept that it’s in the past.

No, whoever leads BBpress will be from Automattic. It’s their project folks, they’re just letting us chat on their forums. At the end of the day, people will vote for people they agree with, and not in an objective manner, heck i’m confident that if I was to say that i think BBpress should not be a WP plugin and should have facebook connect then i could convince a least 2 people to vote for me, regardless of any actual facts.

oh look:

My meaningless vote goes to whoever dislikes bbPress becoming a WordPress plugin the most

These type of threads are so awesome!! and so helpful!!