[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi there,

This is someting bandied about every now and then. There are a few issues stopping this from happeneing

1. A new version of BBpress is coming out soon
2. Given BBpress’s track record, it might/will/possibly break all/most plugins
3. Who should determine which are the most used plugins
4. How do we know which ones work and don’t work

_ck_ gave up a huge amount of time for BBpress, and in the end, did not get the same value back out of BBpress/Automattic/Community. Its hard, as a developer, to see what happened with _ck_ and want to go down that path until things are sorted out.

I wouldn’t waste any time developing plug ins for a platform that I know is going to change in the near future, possibly breaking my plug-ins again

-chrishajer

Chris Hajer is one of, if not the, moderator around here, and a well respected cool calm person. Even Chris, who obviously shares our love for what BBpress could become, feels that plugin development right now would be a waste of time.

If you have a specific bug with a plugin, come back and post it here. It might be a quick fix. But if you’re looking for “the coders here” to rewrite a bunch of plugins off our own backs, well, it ain’t too likely i’m afraid.

Take care.

[fokissed]

I just upgraded to the latest stable version of bbpress.

Just before doing so, I would receive an email notification whenever any new topics or posts were created, so I could easily go through each one and reply. They always came from “unknown sender” which was a little strange, but they still served their purpose.

Since upgrading, I’m no longer getting these email notifications at all, and I don’t remember what I did exactly to get them in the first place. I can’t find a setting for this anywhere, and I’m pretty sure I didn’t install any plugins, because there isn’t any additional plugins in the “my-plugins” folder of my backup that I made of bbpress before upgrading.

Has anyone else experienced this and/or know how I can start receiving email notifications of all new topics and posts again?

Thanks in advance,

Brandon

[kvener]

Hi trying out bbPress 1.0.2 and stumbeled on a litte “problem”.

When setting a user to blocked and that user tries to login he/she is presented whit a “you are blocked” notice, and presented with a “back to forum main page” link.

The problem is that the back to forum main page link doeasn’t take to user back to the forum main page. He/she is only presented whit the same notice again..

Tried to use bb-login.php?logout=1 to see if user gets back in then, but it doesnt help.

The user has to either close his/hers browser or manually delete the cookie in browser.

Looked at the bug track system, but no mention of this there.

This is not a major problem since user has most likely been blocked for a reason, but what if an error has been done, and user wants to go back to main forum page and contact admin?

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’d advise against that mate.

Tagging isn’t that useful or accurate, its really just a glorified search field.; not to mention its something that the end users don’t really use that often.

If you really want to do it, then its a case of running through X posts a time searching for your own predefined keywords/tags and iff they match then adding the tag to the database. That would be outwith BBpress though, just running an PHP page with SQl on it.

I wouldn’t suggest it though. I recently did it with a football website and found it to be 1) a pain 2) less accurate than i thought and 3) pretty useless.

[kevinator]

We just imported nearly 20,000 posts from a phpBB forum to bbPress. The version of phpBB did not support tagging, so none of the posts/replies is tagged.

Is there a script or other plugin to search these posts/replies and assign a set of tags to them?

[Shagalaga]

And here a mock up of the feature-site http://goo.gl/NQXE

[Pomy]

Dear buddies,

there is a problem with my permalinks, When i go to my bbpress admin then permalinks .. there i can see the permalinks looks like

1. None : http://www.example.com/forums/forums.php?id=1

2. Numeric : http://www.example.com/forums/forums/1

3. Name based : http://www.example.com/forums/forums/first-forum

Note: “There is only one directory in my site not two forums/forums directories”

when i select first type of permalinks then site works fine… but when i select second or 3rd option then all goes correct except my page title.. my page title display like ( page not found – then WordPress site title ) .. it not shows the bbpress own title bcoz of wrong permalinks…

so I want to remove one forums words from the permalinks

I want to see it like

1. None : http://www.example.com/forums.php?id=1

2. Numeric : http://www.example.com/forums/1

3. Name based : http://www.example.com/forums/first-forum

Hope you can understand my question n problem !! And will give me solution… thanks

Regards

[grassrootspa]

@Maurice:

lol, have been pondering the same thing. The decision to require WordPress to run bbPress is also making me rethink my various bbPress project ideas…

[san100]

We have installed wordpress 2.9.1 and BBpress 1.0.2. We mapped the user roles but it looks like the user roles on BBpress are all “admin” roles. The application ignores the mapping completely so now every user on WP is an Admin on BBpress and can edit any post. Any idea why?

Thanks

San

[citizenkeith]

I use a variation on the Misty theme. Lo and behold, I found the original [edited -chrishajer] on my hard drive. You can download it here:

http://seorf.ohiou.edu/~ad180/mysty-bbpress.zip

[Maurice]

Thanks for the great replies.

At the moment, I am kinda in doubt if I should continue developing this plugin or not. Since bbPress is going to be a WordPress plugin, it would make this plugin kinda useless? Or not?

[mentalicgr]

@onthebeach96 I had the same problem as you with phpBB. I was getting bombed every hour by spam. When I installed BBPress I forgot to activate Akismet, and although spam users where registering they didn’t post anything (maybe because the bots weren’t ‘smart’ enough to think that the password was emailed at them). By activating Akismet and reCaptcha plugin no spam users have appeared.

[johnhiler]

I get a lot more than 3 good posts in my spam queues every day… but my forum does 3.5k-5k posts/day, so on a percentage basis I can’t complain. The real problem is when a long-time user gets stuck in spam – they get SO upset! That’s why I wrote some code to let them skip the spam software completely…

@onthebeach96 – Dunno much about phpbb… sorry I can’t be of more help! I used to really struggle with undeleted spam posts, before I installed this batch edit plugin which made life so much easier!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-edit/

[Jim R]

So are we saying the bbPress as a WP plugin is close at hand?

And if that is the case, is THIS an example of it or close to it?

[Pomy]

Yup I have this theme plz contact me at

roshnikayaqeen {at} gmail [dot] com

[hpguru]

In my forum Akismet works good. I have 2 bbPress. Of course my 2 WP have Akismet also, with no problems.

[johnhiler]

Akismet can be OK, but every few months it flips out and starts sticking a lot of ham into the spam queue.

After using it for 3 years, I’ve realized that it’s not reliable enough to depend on – especially since it even checks admin and moderator posts! This plugin helps on that front:

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

I have a separate plugin which stops sending posts to Akismet after they’ve been around for a certain amount of time and certain number of posts…

Between those plugins, that limits the amount of damage (e.g. false positives) that Akismet can do!

[onthebeach96]

Awesome info @kevin thanks for all that! I’m using PHPBB and there is no way to manually delete posts, you can only wipe out entire forum content which isn’t good because it’s not usually all spam. Any way around this? Or maybe there is a way to manually delete each post individually, I just wasn’t able to figure that out. Seems like bbPress is much easier to use though.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Akismet is a plugin that automatically determines if a post is spam based on certain criteria. That criteria though is set up for a blog, in which users (commenters) act differently than on a forum. Akismet will catch say a very large percentage of your spam (close to 100% of obvious spam), but has a tendancy to mark alot of forum posts as spam when they are not. These false positives generally occur with forum posts that have more than 2 links, are longer than 2 paragraphs, or from someone who has posted too quickly or too often for the algorithm to accept it.

It is really up to you and your particular forum whether you think Akismet is a good fit. I’ve disabled it on quite a few of my forums simply due to the huge number of false positives, and the feeling of hostility that generates from long term posters.

Captcha’s , of any kind, should be avoided if possible. Users hate them, and the data out there suggests that they’ve become fairly redundant in the past year.

Project Honeypot, and equivalent plugins, work well, but again have issues that hit a small percentage of users. If you have a small forum, that small percentage may be every easy to manage. If you have a big forum, its more of an issue.

Moderation is really the best way to beat spam, especially on BBpress. As Grassrootspa stated above, BBpress forums get an huge amount of people/spammers/fake accounts registering but not doing anything. I personally dont allow anyone from “.ru” or “.cn” on my forums, becuase they’re not aimed at that market, and that has cut down on a HUGE amount of my spam (and i apologise to anyone legitimate who has one of those email adresses). My other action is to spend 2 minutes everyday deleting users and their posts. Mass-Delete by _ck_ is a wonderful plugin that shows you the forum’s users ordered by actual useful info , god only knows why this functionality is not in the core, and you’ll find that this will allow you to handle alot of the spam very quickly and before it happens.

After about a month of one of my forums getting a large spurt of spam, i wrote a simple sql script on a page to delete anyone who matches very cimple criteria (12 hours between registering and activating, username included certain words etc). I set that up as a cron job to run every hour and now spam is non-existant.

Basically, if you want a spam free forum, and that forum is going to be a considerable size or easily found on google etc, you will have to think outside of the box and self-moderate regardless of the forum software used.

Take care,

Kev

[mentalicgr]

Hello,

I just translated the Guest/User section of BBPress to Greek. Where is the most appropriate place I should post the translation? http://bbpress.org/plugins/, or somewhere in the forum with a link somewhere?

Thanks

[onthebeach96]

Thanks for this Akismet plugin recommendation hpguru and Michael R, much appreciated. Seems like bbPress + Akismet is the way to go for forums!

[hpguru]

bbPress has Akismet plugin. Akismet block all spam to spam folder in admin. http://akismet.com/

Akismet is in bbPress package, you need just a one free api key.

[kevinator]

Glad to see things are still moving here. This thread was started 2 years ago, and is still active as of 3 months ago!

We’re trying to move from phpBB that we’ve had for 5 years to bbPress. obviously, the 2 databases don’t match at all. We found this script. Can someone please update on the best way to migrate from a very active phpBB forums to bbPress? Has there been any new updates to this script?

Thanks.

[onthebeach96]

I’m currently using PHPBB for my forum software but I get SO MUCH spam. I’m considering either putting a recaptcha code on there for each post, or I’m looking into other software like bbPress. I love WordPress and so I would really like to use bbPress but I see there is no code that must be entered before posting so I wonder if spam will again be a problem.

What are your thoughts people? How do you control spam in your forums? I’ve had to lock my forums until I get a good solution.

[josh16]

@Refuled thanks.

I’m working on a few myself, one of them being an updated version of the K2 bbPress theme that appears to be broken. If you know anything about combining WP and bbPress template files, let me know.