[johnhiler]

If you’re looking for a sneak peek into bbPress’ plugin future, you might want to install BuddyPress and see how they’ve solved these problems.

It’s my understanding that bbPress plugins will become like BuddyPress plugins: a series of plugins on WordPress MU. BuddyPress plugins need to be “BuddyPress aware”, so that the BuddyPress plugin loads first:

https://codex.buddypress.org/how-to-guides/make-your-plugin-buddypress-aware-v1-2/

_ck_ stated her reasons here… the primary reason given was “[t]he removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0 “.

[frooyo]

@ipunkbali

No. Matt is back involved, as noted in his latest weekly bbPress meeting.

You might be thinking of either Sam or _ck_. Sam was an employee of Matt who left to pursue other interests. _ck_ was a major contributor of plugins who left because, to my understanding, she felt under appreciated by the community and disagreed with the direction of the product.

[ipunkbali]

I thought the creator has abandoned this project? no?

[Windhamdavid]

I’m be happy to help out on my ‘off hours’. I believe that, the ole’ Bulletin Board is the backbone of the Internet and that BBpress is the best example of an extremely light, elegant system. BBpress is my fave and i’ve followed the trac from day one. In fact, I’d even go on a personal crusade to get the new JQuery forums off of zoho and onto BBpress. I’d like to re-emphasize this https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/future-of-bbpress#post-60022 and the importance of forums throughout the wp family. +1 to Ron_R “What I would like to do with bbPress is make it a canonical plugin to ensure its longevity and continued development.” And like the previous commenters, I think the codex is the best place to start.

[frooyo]

So it sounds like the next major release of bbPress will make bbPress a plugin of WordPress … merging bbPress into WordPress and no longer keeping bbPress as an independent/stand-alone product.

I have a few technical questions as such:

1. 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.

2. How would other WordPress plugins effect bbPress? Meaning, if I were to use the SuperCache WordPress plugin – would that then cache my content for bbPress even though bbPress is a plugin itself of WordPress … or, if does it mean that if you use the bbPress WordPress plugin, you cannot use any other WordPress plugin?

3. How would the Admin interface look for bbPress within WordPress. Seems like the Admin interface could easily get messing in a hurry when you have essentially 2 admin consoles (WordPress’ itself and then bbPress’ admin interface within WordPress admin).

For what it’s worth, this is what scares me the most about merging bbPress into WordPress.

The original goal of bbPress was to:

– Open Source, always and forever

– Less (code) is more

– Simplicity is a feature

– Speed and security are the foundation of any good user experience

– Put the user first

Currently, bbPress is close (but not quite there) to meeting the original goals above.

My concern is that by making bbPress a plugin of WordPress, it’s DRASTICALLY moves bbPress away from the original goals because we already know that 1) bbPress would be *more* code, 2) much more complicated, 3) definitely slower given you have to load now WordPress and 4) fundamentally, this is not putting the user first.

Just my 2 cents … also, thanks in advance for answering my questions above

[Dailytalker]

I agree with tonicarr. I think the project is worth to be continued and if the decision is done developers like toni can move their projects forward. This will also help bbpress.

[Dailytalker]

I found a solution for the admin-backend link!

Just ad the following code

RewriteRule ^bb-admin/$ – [L]

before this code

RewriteRule ^([^.]+)/([^.]+)/page/([0-9]+)/?$ topic.php?id=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

and it works!!! Cool.

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I found another mistake. The “topics-RSS” where missing because you deleted one rewrite mod too much. To repair this you need to put the following code just after the mod rewrites for “view”

RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]

original code:

RewriteRule ^rss/topics/?$ /forum/rss.php?topics=1 [L,QSA]

Than also the rss-feed for the topics should work.

[Ivaylo Draganov]

I also dig that design very much and was expecting it real soon.

Too bad Automattic folks aren’t interested… or maybe they’ve got something else in mind:

http://matiasventura.com/bbpress/features.htm

This appeared on the newly launched wp-ui mailing list.

[hedegard]

I have a WordPress Blog with a fully integrated bbPress forum. In WordPress, my Blog Title (Settings->General->Blog Title) contains an apostrophe with no problems. In bbPress, I am trying to set my Site title (Settings->General->Site title) as the same as my Blog Title in Word Press with the apostrophe. bbPress puts a backslash in front of the apostrophe on first save. The second save has three backslashes. The third creates seven backslashes. And so on…

This issue also happens in my Tagline (Settings->General->Tagline) in bbPress, but it is not an issue in WordPress (Settings->General->Tagline).

I also have this issue in the Name and Description of Forums.

I do not have an apostrophe issue in Topics or Posts as has been reported and solved in older posts.

Can anyone provide a way to resolve this issue? I have searched for a solution with no success. I am a rookie. So, my apologies if this is a simple issue.

[Dailytalker]

Dear Gautam

I tried out the htaccess-code which is posted on technospot.net. It works for the forum and the member profiles but I cannot enter the admin backend anymore. Do you have an idea how to solve that problem?

The following link is not working anymore:

http://www.domain.com/forum/bb-admin/index.php

When I add the following peace of code (just something I creaded by myself) :

RewriteRule ^([^/.]+)/?$ index.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

It gives me the following link:

http://www.domain.com/forum/bb-admin/

So, it doesn’t work because “index.php” is missing.

Do you have an idea how I can get this link with “index.php”?

PS: You already mentioned that problem on your blog….bud maybe you found a solution meanwhile.

[tonicarr]

Being the tiny web developer I am, this is all very confusing and I am having a difficult time trying to figure out if bbpress is worth my time to try and configure and sell to my clients. This is getting very frustrating, I wish someone that is in the know, (instead of all this hear say) would just come out and say what is going on with the product so that we can move on.

[Ben L.]

This is the bbPress forum, so I’m assuming you got your words mixed up – The bbPress function documentation I always use is at http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/

(If you really meant WordPress, look at http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/wordpress/ )

[Dailytalker]

There are already some discussions in this forum about fb-connect. Some people say that there are already some wordpress-plugins which could easily be adapted for bbpress. Some other say that if bbpress is integrated in wordpress the wp-plugin could also work for bbpress…I tried some wp-fp-connect plugins out…but had some problem. But I am not a coder so I have often problems with such things.

On the other hand a coder could just have a look at the wp-plugin look how it works and than customize it for bbpress.

[Dailytalker]

For security reasons I don’t want integrate bbpress into wordpress. There is no need to use facebook connect for the blog. I just need facebook connect for bbpress. I have an own Facebook API and want to connect my fb-fanpage with bbpress. Unfortunately I have no idea how to do it.

[kevinjohngallagher]

The same for fb-connect. An expert could solve the problem within minutes.

What you using as a basis for this statement mate?

[Gautam]

Use the htaccess bundled with the plugin. The source can also be found here – http://www.technospot.net/blogs/how-to-remove-forum-and-topic-keyword-from-bbpress-url/

[Gautam]

No…

[Dailytalker]

What about bbpress 2.0?

http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-front-page.png

I think that most of the common problems could be handled in 1 week.

Most recent problems I have with bbpress:

1st I need seo-optimized permalinks. (without “forums” and “topic”)

2nd I need a facebook connect option

3rd Ineed a cool template simliar to sam bauers bbpress 2.0 template.

Whit this I would be happy.

There where only some attemps to solve the problem with the permalinks. There is also a plugin for this but there are some small problems which an expert could solve within minutes. The same for fb-connect. An expert could solve the problem within minutes.

Regarding the bbpress 2.0 template I don’t now how long it could take to get it work. But with that bbpress would be excellent.

For most other things there are already some plugins…some just need to be updated to the current bbpress version. Thats all. (in my view.)

[Dailytalker]

The bbpress 2.0 template looks nice.

http://bbpress.wordpress.com/files/2009/07/forum-front-page.png

The new order with the forums on the left site and the recent discussions on the right site is excellent. Hope that it will be published soon.

[Dailytalker]

Well the support here is very poor. When you ask something you hardly ever receive help. Sometimes you even get an impolite answer. Is this the way you guys try to get new bbpress-fans?

There was already the same kind of treatment when I asked for a way to install a facebook connect option. Answer was: It’s no priority and therefore no help.

[DKB]

Yes, i know but i want to place it not only at the bottom, but to select the place in a post.

[Gautam]

@Sam

Why don’t you attend a meetup on wednesday on IRC and put forward the point of the new design? I really love that one and also tried to copy some bit of it.

[hpguru]

Why anyone don’t ask? Design is pretty good!

[Gautam]

When you upload an image, you see it at the bottom of the post.

[Sam Bauers]

I still have the files for this design, I don’t think anyone ever asked me for them when I left Automattic.

I think there are bigger plans for WordPress.org now that supersede this work, especially if bbPress becomes a canonical plugin.