[paulhawke]

I’ve seen this in other forums – rather than scrolling the topic with lots of new posts saying “wow, thanks man, that link was exactly what I needed.” people can opt to click a button/link on a post to register a “thumbs-up” / “vote of thanks”.

The template would then present these “thank you” votes in some form – perhaps a bar across the footer, or just below a given post, or in the meta-information somewhere. The presentation could be a simple count (“35 people said thanks for this post”) or maybe a list of names.

Putting the “thank you” bar between posts lends itself to the forums that host ads in that space also. In most bbPress themes, I’d (personally) add the thanks message in summarized form to the space left of the post, under the poster’s name.

It wouldnt be hard to collect the data (in the post_meta) table, or to add a link to add my vote of thanks to a given post. The challenge would be to modify the various themes – to “thanks enable” them – to display it correctly somewhere.

[chengdu-living]

BTW I tried what was advised in this thread: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-broke-when-i-changed-the-url but it just displayed the code on the actual live forum page

Here is my bb-config.php included the added part at the very bottom:

<?php

/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your

* web host.

*

* This file is used by the installer during installation.

*

* @package bbPress

*/



// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for bbPress */

define( 'BBDB_NAME', 'justchar_wrdp5' );



/** MySQL database username */

define( 'BBDB_USER', 'justchar_wrdp5' );



/** MySQL database password */

define( 'PASSWORDWASHERE' );



/** MySQL hostname */

define( 'BBDB_HOST', 'localhost' );



/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */

define( 'BBDB_CHARSET', 'utf8' );



/** The Database Collate type. Don't change this if in doubt. */

define( 'BBDB_COLLATE', '' );



/**#@+

* Authentication Unique Keys.

*

* Change these to different unique phrases!

* You can generate these using the {@link https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/bbpress/ WordPress.org secret-key service}

*

* @since 1.0

*/

define( 'BB_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

define( 'BB_NONCE_KEY', 'put your unique phrase here' );

/**#@-*/



/**

* bbPress Database Table prefix.

*

* You can have multiple installations in one database if you give each a unique

* prefix. Only numbers, letters, and underscores please!

*/

$bb_table_prefix = 'bb_';



/**

* bbPress Localized Language, defaults to English.

*

* Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the chosen

* language must be installed to a directory called "my-languages" in the root

* directory of bbPress. For example, install de.mo to "my-languages" and set

* BB_LANG to 'de' to enable German language support.

*/

define( 'BB_LANG', '' );

?>



$bb->uri = 'http://www.chengduliving.com/bbpress/';

[chengdu-living]

bbPress is installed in this directory: http://www.chengduliving.com/bbpress (using a customized theme to match my site, http://www.chengduliving.com) but none of the threads or forums open. They all show a 404 error. Originally I was installed at /forum but I moved it to /bbpress (and changed the install location in General Settings), but I can’t open or create any threads.

Any idea how to fix this? I didn’t change anything in bb-config.php so I believe all the MySQL information is correct.

Any help greatly appreciated!!

[Lucian Florian]

I have already a 0.9 version of bbpress up and running good.

I tried to install in a dev folder the newer version 1.02 but I get an error right after I insert the db and username connection info (wp-config creation). The database is empty and the bbpress files are untouched.

First, I suspected some white spaces in wp-config, but is not that as I let it to be created automatically and checked after that.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_LNUMBER in /home6/siteurl/public_html/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-http.php on line 281

The site is at bluhost:

PHP version 5.2.11

MySQL version 5.1.42

Any ideas what might it be? Is 1.02 buggy on some servers?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’m an independent contractor and have worked as a PM/BA for the smallest to the largest companies; and you’re not wrong

That said, Project Management exists for a reason. Its a different skillset from development. And no matter the size of the company or organisation, holding a requirement gathering session and then ignoring the data is just daft.

@kevinjohngallagher

You’re not wrong either! The thing is, I don’t think bbPress Dev is ignoring the data. They wanted to get an idea from the vocal sort (us) to what we wanted, what we feel is needed, then they agreed and went to design the project in the way that works best for them.

I’ve been VERY closely following the WP 3.0 move (I have two blogs I want to merge into one ‘MU’, and I want to see if I’m better off just sucking it up now or not – It’s a LOT of work to do and not lose users), reading IRC logs daily, monitoring tickets. In doing so, I feel I’ve learned a lot about how the process works. For a moment, I really wanted to piss myself. I’d get really excited about a topic, and then someone would raise valid concerns, talk about goats, and they’re off on a new topic.

Seriously terrifying to watch, when you’re invested.

But.

I’ve had experience herding cats like this before. And I realized this looked exactly like the organizing my old community group used to go through, three to four times a year, to put together a highly complicated event for multiple people, maintaining the element of surprise and yet still making all of the 10 to 50 people who were being rewarded feel special, and putting on a good show. Seriously, I have grey hairs from the 5 years I ran that boat. Glad to be off! The point is this stuff is scary to watch and partake in until you’re used to it. I wish there was another way, but I’ve never found it.

I am also in agreement that “it will turn out fine”, the problem with that is there is no time limit. It probably will turn out fine in the end, or eventually, but how do we, the community (sic) attempt to speed up that process?

Code: Join the IRC dev channel and start putting in tickets for what’s broke, fixes for what you can fix, and suggestions. Even a psudeo-code “This would possibly work better if there was a check for ‘If Admin, then foobar’.” can be helpful. Obviously don’t spam, but I’ve always been of the opinion that the best way to HELP an open source project is to get in and see how you can help. Posting here? A good way to vent worry. Joining the devs, even if, like me, you’re a total hack, is helping.

Documentation: Write a definitive ‘This is how you integrate WP and BB 1.x’ post. Or a good how-to on anything. Pull out the most common errors and make a post about how to resolve them. It’s not GREAT documentation, I admit, but it’ll get people started and, when the doc site picks up, the posts could be lifted and tossed in. It would be nice if TPTB would make a documentation site we could edit, but I understand the nightmare that is. Oy. Not everyone is nice

[NiksE]

I can not understand which files from this plugin and where exactly I have to insert them?

Now I’ve displayed all the files on the server in the folder my-plugins!

Should I have to move any files to other directories?

“Don’t Forget!

If you haven’t already done so: upload the files in the “additional-files” directory to the following locations.

* avatars/ – directory to the location specified on the admin page, rename if neccesary.

* avatars/default.png – default avatar image into the directory created above.

* avatar-upload.php – bbPress root directory.

* my-templates/avatar.php – your my-templates/my-template-name/ (or bb-templates/kakumei/) directory.

[Thomaschaaf]

The main reason I consider switching ist that I would like to use WordPress in the future for our website and would love a close integration of both.. that is the only real reason.

Thomas

[kevinjohngallagher]

I have a function for WordPress that outputs some code into the class section of an item:

e.g. <li class="<?php my_custom_class_ouput_function(); ?>"> comment/thread </li>

It outputs the user’s level after a specific string (e.g. user_level_5), the author’s name after a string (e.g. author_username_bob ), is the user an author (e.g. user_is_an_author) and if the user is the author of the original thread/blog post (e.g initial_author).

You can then set up the styles as you want to display them in CSS.

I’ll have a look at porting this to BBpress later on.

[Trisha Cupra]

Hi,

I’ve tried searching the forums but haven’t found what I’m looking for.

In WordPress, it’s possible to style the post author’s comments to look different from other comments.

In bbPress, is it possible to style the Key Master’s replies and the Administrators/Moderators replies to look different from all the other members’ replies?

[choibc]

I agree with Raize. I’ve used several forum application.

bbPress is my favorite due to simplicity.

[Ben L.]

It’s already in the code – http://phpxref.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/bb-load.php.source.html#l153

You should really update to the latest version – it has multiple security fixes over your version.

(And btw, config.php is deprecated – bb-config.php is where it’s at!)

[kehlers]

Seemed to have solved this, so I’ll post the answers for anyone else who has this problem.

PHP 5.3+ now requires you to define an object explicitly ($object = new className();). The $bb variable in older versions of bbPress is an object which is implicitly defined in config.php. Thus, if you define it explictly as an object of type stdClass, the error goes away, like so:

$bb = new stdClass();

WARNING: I have not fully tested this, so use at your own risk.

However, I also noted that in bbPress 1.0.2, the whole $bb object seems to be deprecated, so it is likely that if you upgrade to the newest version, the errors will also go away. I can’t upgrade just yet, so I haven’t tried this either.

Cheers!

[kehlers]

Does anyone else get this error in the forum when you have upgraded to PHP 5.3.0? I know this is due to many deprecated features in this version of PHP. Does a recent version of bbPress correct it?

Strict Standards: Creating default object from empty value in /<<pathname>>/forum/config.php on line 15

[Paul Whitener Jr.]

I installed builds of both WordPress MU and bbpress and had them both running independently. After setting the integration settings (in the bbpress admin and via the WP integration plugin settings) bbpress is no longer working.

The main forums page appears, but I am unable to login to access the admin. It will not accept either my “keymaster” account or my WordPress admin. Attempting to have my keymaster password sent throws the error that the user cannot be found.

I’m assuming I have an issue with my intergration, is there a way to verify where it’s breaking and fix it?

Thanks in advance.

[JT]

First, I apologize if this is duplicate information, or the wrong forum to ask. I have searched and searched and can’t find an answer.

So we are building a site using WordPress Mu, BuddyPress, and BBPress. BBPress was integrated into BuddyPress, and it works just fine.

The problem is I installed the Moderation Hold, and Moderation Suite Plugins for BBPress and put them in the /wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bb-forums/bbpress/bb-plugins. I can activate them in the BBPress admin just fine (using the bb-config.php in the bbpress folder you can access it.) But neither work. Is there a different folder these should go into? If I have a group forum, anyone can still post a topic or reply without it being held for moderation.

Is there a better way to do this? Is my config wrong?

Thank you for your time, again, I am sorry if this is the wrong place for this.

[Trent Adams]

Very nice! mdawaffe posted the new bulk/edit in trunk!

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1246#comment:1

Trent

[grassrootspa]

Glad to hear ‘mass delete users’ is being eyed as well. Will make it easier to get rid of spam users.

Hope they improve the sorting of users as well (one should be able to sort by date registered to see latest ones, if they are spammers, etc)

[Michael]

Firstly, I don’t know of any converter out ther for it – so the chances of getting it done may be very slim.

Secondly, it seems that package has multiple forums in a single board package, which is completely different to bbPress.

Do you not like the current software you have?

[Gautam]

Also has many bug fixes.

[Gautam]

This is a short post on what all features have been implemented (till now) in the trunk version (bbPress 1.1):

1. Subscribe to Topics (Email Subscription)
2. Loginless Posting
3. Mass deleting/undeleting posts and topics from admin panel (I have also posted patch in trac – #1202 to mass delete users, so wait till it is implemented)

When new features are added, I will update this topic (or you may, if I get late).

[Thomaschaaf]

We’ve got a forum at http://vsphp.de/forum which doesn’t have alot of entries but does have quiet a few. I’d like to find out, whether there is a way to port the entries from an existing Woltlab Burning Board to bbPress. I’d be glad if you could help

[Michael]

No confirmed date yet – there are still IRC meetups every Wednesday. You may want to read the IRC logs on the blog:

https://bbpress.org/blog/

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’d wager Matt has a calming affect when he writes more than 5 words

I am also in agreement that “it will turn out fine”, the problem with that is there is no time limit. It probably will turn out fine in the end, or eventually, but how do we, the community (sic) attempt to speed up that process?

My concern is that we’ve been through this all before Chris. Remember the “its all fine so I made a BBpress Fan Page on Facebook”? Remember the definitive instructions on how to get BBpress and WordPress to play nice together, that instead of being in the documentation was a 7 page thread with the answers on how to actually do it on page 4?

I’m not meaning to bring up the past and use it as a stick to beat the BBpress people with, I just feel we go over the same things time and time again, don’t you? And so far, we appear to be repeating the exact same mistakes.

I dunno, i’ll try and come up with something, because I’m confident that we wont have a BBpress version that integrates with wordpress out of the box this year.

[Trent Adams]

You can find all versions of bbPress at the following URL, but be advised that it is strongly recommended you use the most recent versions of the software for all security reasons.

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags

Trent

[gregbd]

I did a fresh install of WPMU and BBPress at http://collaboratingentrepreneur.com/ and I can navigate to the “forum” and can see

Newest Topics

Most Popular Topics

Unreplied Topics

My Topics

Then it says “Sorry, there were no forum topics found.” which is right as it is new, but I cam unable to find where, when and how to add a new topic to the forum. What might I be missing? Help appreciated.