[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.

[Milan Dinić]

Another thing to consider is to find converter that converts from Wotlab to some other software like phpBB and then use existing converters for bbPress. This is how I converted on SMF forum.

[Michael]

It’s really great to see that people are working on bbPress themes.

[refueled]

I am working on upgrading the Misty Morning theme for bbPress. Hopefully I can release it sometime next week.

[jcharles]

Tonight I tried to install bbPress, following the detailed instructions from the following screencast: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast. I’m running the newest version of wordpress and downloaded the newest version of bbpress as well.

I set all the database options based on the settings in my wp-config file and then ran into a snag. I couldn’t figure out if I needed to rename the default “bb_” database prefix to what my database prefix was “wp_” or leave it as the default “bb_”. I was planning to complete the integration route, so I changed the prefix to “wp_” thinking it would just add a few tables to my current SQL datbase. I also had a weird hostname, ” $_ENV{DATABASE_SERVER}” so I added that in the bbPress config hostname space.

I then went through all the other screens and bbpress said it installed with a “minor errors.” message. Unfortunately, I closed the screen in error and didn’t note the specific error.

Once I closed, I went to the site and while the article names we there, clicking on them resulted in a 404 error. In addition, I couldn’t log-in to my admin (said I didn’t have permission.) At this point, I assumed I did something wrong and deleted the “forums” folder, and restored my database.

I’d really like to use bbPress instead of Simple:Press because I heard it’s faster and fairly easy to customize. Any ideas on what went wrong? Is there a better set of instructions someplace?

Also, should I keep the prefix bb_ or change it to wp_?

Any help is appreciated. I’m pretty new at all this!

Jerry

[grassrootspa]

bbPress is currently not a WordPress plugin (you don’t access it on the WordPress plugins page, etc)

You need to download it here and follow those instructions:

https://bbpress.org/download/

[J_Salazar]

I installed bbpress fine but then when i went to plugins i did not see bbpress on their. So i try reinstalling it FAILED.. I think i did something wrong can someone help me.. If anyone needs anymore info just ask.

-Thanks

Jesse

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[bingsterloot]

Sounds great paulhawke. I would very much like to beta test if possible ;O)

Keep up the good work

[chrishajer]

This was the solution for letting WordPress know about your bbPress installation to prevent 404s:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

I didn’t even get that though: I was getting a 302. That specific solution was for a 404 header being returned but the forum content still being showed.

[paulhawke]

There are plenty of 3rd party libraries that deal with the feed reading. Thus far I have a working admin screen that relies on AJAX services to validate a given feed URL. Combination of a GOOD rss library on the backend, and the encode_json() method from PHP means I’m golden for right now.

Milestone 1 of the plugin is complete – administration page to handle a single feed. Milestone 2 is starting – using that data to actually monitor the single feed. When Milestone 2 is completed I’ll grab a couple of people to beta test.