I meant to post this link as well. You can see the code that’s been checked in by browsing the revisions.
https://trac.bbpress.org/log/trunk?rev=2401
There was a big chunk of time where nothing was committed from revision 2377 on 24 Sept 2009 until 2382 on 22 December 2009. Here’s all the code committed since sambauers left.
https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset?old=2401%40trunk&new=2377%40trunk
I think the only reason people are hanging on is because the vast majority of us are aware of the beauty of WordPress, and we’re convinced that bbPress can become a similar product – unfortunately there isn’t an existing piece of software that’s like the WordPress of forums. There isn’t a piece of software that has a simple core, that allows you to write an index.php file with ‘if has threads while has threads the thread’, and that is exactly what bbPress needs to become. I’m not bothered if it becomes a WordPress plugin, because WordPress isn’t really a lot of hassle to install, and I already know how to make a WordPress theme. I just want it to hurry up. I’m tired of working with phpBB3.
Bump: To add support to an important issue by bringing it to the front of the discussion forum and reiterating the comments above with no added value.
Deep integration with WordPress may not have been the intention of the BBpress developers but there is demand for it, and that will only continue to grow as the WordPress userbase grows. The fact that “most” deep integration works – be that intentionally through the efforts of the BBpress team or unintentionally by luck of BBpress’s coding structure – gives the assumption that popular WordPress Plugins that don’t work will in time… PageMash is an example of a bread and butter Plugin for commercial/professional WordPress sites.
Out of curiosity how many users in this community have been introduced to BBpress through WordPress, I’m sure it would be available through a poll or in the referral logs for this site.
(I hope you liked my personal definition of bump, I’m a kitten killer)
Chrishajer, what you mean just delete him in the admin?
There is no way to delete users in bbpress.
Not without mass delete plugin, which i had to delete, because it screwed up my forum.
There have not been any meetups in the past couple weeks. No sense talking about what needs to be done.
not too encouraging to see nothing here since Nov: http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/
bbPress is not a plugin for WordPress, so it should not be in wp-content/plugins and needs to be installed all on it’s own. It’s a separate software package.
Don’t you just love people that say “Bump” and dont add anything to the conversation?
I also love it when it’s their only post on the forum ever – way to give back 
Deep integration is not supported by automattic, and apparently was never the intention of the BBpress developers. To that end, getting BBpress with a WP “deep integration”, to then call WP plugins is never going to be something that’s going to get any development time or priority.
I think this is a shame because we could make use of WP plugins that we’re effectively replicating in BBpress, but we shouldn’t be reliant on plugins for layout.
That said, i wonder if anyone has testing creating a call to a plugin function from inside an added function in the your WP’s theme’s functions.php file?
To reiterate though, try and avoid WP plugins for theming. What will happen if there is a WP upgrade that breaks the theme?
Also, every time someone bumps a thread, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens.
There are many bots like this (made in VB, etc.) which stops when they see a captcha (or math problem or a clickcha), waits for the user to enter/click that and then it does the rest. A more reliable way to be to install Project Honey Pot for bbPress plugin by Ben (though that also blocks the admin sometimes).
How is this possible?
I have had Human Test installed, and managed to keep spambots out.
The Mass Delete plugin caused trouble to my bbpress, so I deleted that, but still a spambot managed to register. How can I remove him now?
paul – I understand private messages aren’t part of the bbpress core, and I haven’t investigated all the possible plugins yet. If there could be an optional conversion that relates to a certain plugin, then of course that would be great. However, at the moment if I’m going to transfer my forum across, I was planning to inform my users before the move just to backup their PMs if they have anything important in them.
I just got a test conversion to work so will start to check out possible plugins etc next! Thanks for the help, hopefully bbpress can continue to grow!
@yoyopop – I have been looking at what is core to bbPress thus far. It hadnt even crossed my mind that private messages would want to be converted. But there’s a problem – if I convert them, what do I convert them to? Does the community feel that any one private messaging plugin should be endorsed over any other, and, does the private message plugin provide the code I need to create its raw data? If the answers are “yes” (or a ‘qualified yes’) then I’ve no problem working it in.
For those interested in beta testing, the plugin (at present) is grossly inefficient as far as memory goes and now that it works at a basic level, I’m looking at optimizing & reducing memory footprint.
tflight – I didn’t have rights to give php more memory on my server so I ran the php script locally on my machine using XAMPP, which successfully converted the database. Now just to replace the old db!
thanks tflight, I thought it could be something like that, I’ll give it another go!
paulhawke – this sounds great for the future, having a more user-friendly way to convert will open the door for a lot more people to use bbpress. Any plans to copy of private messages?
I have an experimental plugin for bbPress I’ve been working on this week that adds an “Import” wizard under the admin area “Tools” menu. As it stands I have been using a phpBB 2.0.23 forum with 3 users (“Anonymous”, “admin” and one other) and about a dozen posts for testing and things look pretty good.
The “Import” plugin needs beta testers who’re willing to give it a run through and provide feedback.
The plugin reads data from the phpBB database, and rather than generate an enormous SQL file that is version specific, the plugin calls the same internal methods inside bbPress as occur when you manually create forums/topics/posts/users. A mapping is maintained between old and new user/post/topic/forum ID values, and referential integrity is maintained throughout.
yoyopop, that happened to me the first few times as well. (I converted a database with about 120,000 posts this morning.) PHP was just running out of allocated memory. I bumped it up to 16 MB, then 64 MB, then 256 MB and finally 1 GB. After I gave it 1 GB the conversion went through.
So check your Apache error_log or your PHP error log to see if it is running out of memory… then give it as much as you can.
Suppose ‘Now” I’ve a developers team, & they are really interested and willing to make bbpress premium or free plugins. Now They want to start development work according to your wish. So what kinds of plugins you really need at this time and in future. I Invite you all people to describe your required plugins according to your wish and with features/ specifications list. And listen May be you’ll get what you want !!!
Stay Connect
OKTeaRoom – Ah I’m using bbPress Polls on a number of my installs, and it works great! What features are missing for you, just out of curiosity…
I tried BB Polls just now and it DID work for me but it’s a weak poll solution.
Is there a fix for the polldaddy plugin, possibly?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/polldaddy-for-bbpress/
have been attempting this as well but getting the same problem as eslavin83
the script says it’s connected to the server and exporting the forums/users etc but nothing comes up after ‘Sending all your database e-mails to all major world-wide spam sending mafias…’ – I’m waiting for it to say its exported the new db, or give me an error message, but nothing else happens.
Any ideas?
thanks in adance!
I’m assuming your bbPress forums folder is on a separate domain than the buddyPress install? It’s not in the ‘default’ /forums location, right?
Correct, standalone bbPress is installed on a subdomain (forums.mydomain.com) and obviously the group forum is activated within buddypress (mydomain.com/forums) as well. All share the same bb tables; so group discussions can be carried on via a more direct forum feel with extra bells and whistles.
How the heck have you gotten BuddyPress’s activity stream to work with an external bbPress install?
There is a plugin for BuddyPress called bbGroups (uses xmlrpc) but is outdated. I had to update the code for 1.2 due to the activity stream changes. (and i need to update once more since 1.2 RC1) – the XMLRPC is not ideal but does carry over the hidden/read-only and who has access. (i’d probably code it to access the db directly – but it works for my testing)
Seems redundant to have 2 forum interfaces but this allows “outside” forums which may not be appropriate for setting up a group.
But at some point BuddyPress 1.2 now expects the dates in GMT while standalone bbPress 1.0.2 must insert the timestamp on a topic/post differently. (I just haven’t had the time to sift over the code to figure it out yet)
I’ve been checking the IRC logs and it doesn’t look like much is happening. Perhaps somebody can reassure this non-developer that bbPress development is continuing…
@josh16 – You may find that the theme will be released uner GPL after the launch – though there is no guarantee.
@etiviti:
Glad you brought this up. How the heck have you gotten BuddyPress’s activity stream to work with an external bbPress install? (I’m assuming your bbPress forums folder is on a separate domain than the buddyPress install? It’s not in the ‘default’ /forums location, right?)
I’m been unable to get the bbPress activity to show up in the BuddyPress activity stream even when the bbpress install is located in the /forums location.
This whole ‘groups’ vs. ‘forums’ thing is driving me nuts.
Grrrr…when people post questions about bbPress working with BuddyPress on the BuddyPress forum it seems like they always send up back here!
