[buddha-trance]

bb anonymous posting is working fine for me in 1.0.2

An attempt to make a list of working plugins has been made a month ago. Unless one of these threads becomes a sticky, it will get lost and get into oblivion in a few weeks.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-working-plugins-with-102

[gr0x0rd]

Not working with default settings + no help from community = rm -r bbpress/ .

phpBB here I come.

[london-muscle]

Guys been having some real problems from day one with this one.

Installed bbpress and a theme, integrated it into my wordpress blog.

all of that had its problems but i got around them and got it to work.

after everything I ended up getting tonnes of 404 errors everything is pointing to the wrong place and wondered how to fix it, first thing was that the forum link was pointing to the root folder but not a php file so It wasnt displaying anything. changed that to the index.php file and it was fine.

however once I got there I noticed the link to the admin cms didnt work because it pointed to the admin file …../bb-admin/ but not ……/bb-admin/index.php (this ending works)

What i did stupidly was in the cms changed the section that says bb press forum url. I changed it to …../blog/forum/index.php

Now that ive done this I can only access it in firefox and I cant change it back It just displays in plain text format aligned to the left of the screen and I no longer have a field to enter the old url.

Can anyone help on both issues, how to get it back to normal and how to fix my page not found errors.

thanks

[nerieru]

Ok here’s the list:

Working:

Admin add user

Admin can post anything

After the dealine

Ajaxed Quote

Allow Images

Approve user registration

Auto add favorites

Bavatars

bb-benchmark

bb-lightbox2

bbcode buttons toolbar

bbcode lite

bbpm

bbpress mobile edition

bbpress moderation suite

bbpress polls

bbpress private messaging

bbpress recent replies

bbpress signatures

bbRatings

bbSocialize

bb Topic Views

bbVideo

Best Answer

check for updates

fix admin access

forum restriction

hidden forums

hot topic

ignore member

indicate new posts

report post

quote

reputation (karma) for bbpress

show top posters

simple onlinelist

subscribe to topic

super search

support forum

topic icons

use display name – if you’re using wp, edit the file, change BB_Users to wp_users

user timezones

wordpress latest post

Not working:

bb anonymous posting

Graphic user rank

wiki post (this resulted in my admin section turning into a complete whitepage, if this happens to you go to your mysql database and go to bb_meta and then bb_option active_plugins and remove the text just before wiki and till

Also please note that I’m working on a theme and getting everything integrated in there.

[cybersnac]

I’m using WordPress 2.9.1 and the cookie integration doesn’t seem to be working. I did get the warning that the bbpress integration plug-in had not been tested with my version of WordPress.

Can anyone confirm that this is in fact not working? I believe my settings are correct. If it is confirmed, does anyone have any word on when it will work with 2.9.1?

Thanks very much!

[arpowers]

ok, will look into it.. we have much better development practices now which will allow us to do more with our resources.

not sure how much work it will be to add BuddyPress support (we get a lot of WordPress Mu requests too)

[chengdu-living]

I changed the url from /forum to /admin and it’s freaking out. It loads with none of the style sheets, so its black text on a while background. I changed the name of the folder to /admin and still it doesn’t work at all. Any tips for recovering this? The reason why I named the folder admin is because it’s just an administrative forum not for public use.

[chrishajer]

Adding that to bb-config.php just allows you to use WordPress functions in bbPress. What did you want to happen?

[chrishajer]

@kevinjohngallagher

I posted the last couple weeks of IRC logs. No one stepped up to do the Dec 30 one, and PeteMall was going to post the first January one, but got stuck on something, so I finished that post. I posted yesterday’s about an hour after the meetup was done. The logs are always available here, even if they’re not posted to the blog. We’re just reposting, verbatim, information available elsewhere:

https://irclogs.wordpress.org/chanlog.php?channel=bbpress

As a participant in a couple of the recent meetups, I will share my observations.

I disagreed that anonymous posting and email notifications were at all important. I think email notifications happened because the work was largely done (from somewhere) and it was easy for Matt to add. And filosofo had an anonymous post plugin largely done, so that was added.

From the beginning, I’ve argued that bugs need to be fixed first (see number 5 here from Joel http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html,) things that are built in but just plain not working. I think it’s important to fix bugs before adding new features. At yesterday’s meetup, I think I got that point across.

And with regard to your observation, which I agree with, that the 3 most used tags are WordPress, Integration and plugin: the decision has been made to make bbPress a WordPress plugin. That takes care of the first two: WordPress and Integration. Plugin as a tag here never meant “make bbPress a WordPress plugin” it meant one of these things:

• you can do what you want with a plugin (i.e. don’t hack the core)
• there is a plugin available already, here’s the link
• I’m having a problem with *this* plugin

Until the structure of bbPress stabilizes a little bit, I think there is going to be a problem getting people involved in creating plugins for bbPress, a moving target. It happened with the move from 0.9 to 1.0. Things changed radically enough under the hood that many plugins broke. I wouldn’t waste any time developing plugins for a platform that I know is going to change in the near future, possibly breaking my plugins again.

My gut feeling on the whole thing is:

• fix bugs in existing functionality
• ignore anything to do with integration of either themes or logins right now
• when the 1.x release is less bug ridden, focus on integrating more tightly with WordPress, theme integration, function integration, login integration.
• focus on plugins that are needed at that point

That’s my take on it, from the outside.

I also think that the development will gel a little bit after the initial flurry of talk, if not activity. Right now I think it’s important to get people involved, show people something is happening, maybe drum up some additional volunteers, and after that the direction can be set more clearly.

The beginnings of projects like this always remind me of the top part of this graph:

http://www.mascoatsingapore.com/Images/Combo%20sound%20graph.gif

At the beginning you’re not very focused, swinging wildly from side to side, but eventually you narrow your scope and direct everyone’s efforts toward a single point.

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

No one knows what the future holds, but bbpress is *probably* not going away.

Even if it does, you will always have your installation of bbpress, that can’t be taken away from you. So your forum should give you years of enjoyment.

If you like it, use it.

[chrishajer]

Can you test that SMTP connection with something other than the bbPress plugin? Maybe an email client like Thunderbird or something? The password, before I edited it, had your domain name in it, which didn’t really look like a normal SMTP password. Try the connection with the settings you’re using for the plugin in some other email client to see if it works, then try the plugin.

[karlbaillie25]

Be better going over to the phpbb forums to ask this question

[karlbaillie25]

In light of whats being talked about in this thread ” http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/whats-happening-with-bbpress “, is it such a good idea to install this and perhaps start using it?

I do feel that the project has a strong community spirit, though mostly I feel its mainly because its closely linked to WordPress.

I really want to use this forum software as whilst its simple and kind of goes back to the roots of the forum days in that ever talked about “web 2.0” style, I dont want to build up a site using this software for the project to be binned later on down the line.

Many thanks.

[johnhiler]

Yah same here… looks like the bug is still unpatched:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1233

[Olaf Lederer]

Today I got the second mail with 100 spam links because I was subscribed to one or more topics.

It seems that akismeth has blocked the post here at the forum but not for the subscribers.

I’m sure that this way the mail from bbpress is marked as spam (by gmail) sooner or later

[Michael]

arpowers: Your theme(s) will get very popular if you make them BuddyPress ready. I, for one, will definitely buy your StationPro theme-set for my community site, Dev:station.

The whole idea for me is to have a blog, common forums, user forums, and member interaction zones (BuddyPress). I think your theme will bring it through just perfectly.

One suggestion by the way: I see the line-height for the tag cloud is to small, thus making each line overlap. Personally, I think it degrades the theme. Even if you don’t fix it; I will buy it when the time comes.

Nice work.

[ipunkbali]

I finally embedded bbpress into my wordpress theme, but the background is kinda transparent or gone. Can anyone help?

http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forums

i was using this tutorial http://tinsology.net/2009/05/seamless-wordpress-bbpress-integration/

thanks

[Raize]

From a management perspective, vBulletin has tons more functionality and control over the forum. Ironically, I integrated a vBulletin forum with WordPress last week and it took about the same time/work as integrating bbPress (it’s basically just a wordpress plugin).

If all you want is a “light” forum then bbpress is definitely the way to go, because vBulletin can feel quite heavy sometimes, especially if you don’t benefit from all the features (attaching files is built in).

[chrishajer]

It’s easiest to just use the same database that you use for WordPress. It makes things easier when you go to integrate the two. Just be certain the table prefixes are unique for bbPress and WordPress. WordPress uses wp_ and bbPress uses bb_ by default, so if you don’t change them you will be fine. You do NOT want to install bbPress using a wp_ table prefix. Bad things will happen.

[chrishajer]

What do you want to track about users posts? What sort of tracking?

And what type of content do you want users to be able to upload? I know of ways to embed video, embed images (both those are hosted somewhere else) and then there is bb Attachments to allow people to actually upload content onto your server. it was incompatible with 1.0 (the latest version) but I think that’s been fixed now.

http://gaut.am/2010/01/bb-attachments-plugin-fixed/

[ipunkbali]

i Read somewhere

“In order to do it, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ bb-config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).”

Where do I exactly insert this code in wp-config.php file?: require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); ??

This is what i see in my wp-config.php file. Thanks

<?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’, ‘metroadv’ );

/** MySQL database username */

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘metroadv’ );

/** MySQL database password */

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘xxxxxx’ );

/** 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!

[RCHR]

I need to add a forum to my site, and I am narrowing down which software to use. bbPress would offer the easiest integration into my site, but I need to know how much ability I have over tracking users posts and if there is an ability to have user uploadable content.

Regards,

Sean

[semir]

I have more information for my lasts post :

I have checked my log and I found this error:

[Wed Jan 13 21:43:51 2010] [error] [****] PHP Warning: file_exists() [function.file-exists]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/home/httpd/*****/subdomains/forum/bb-config-path.php) is not within the allowed path(s): (/home/httpd/vhosts/******/subdomains/forum/httpdocs:/tmp) in /home/httpd/vhosts/*****/subdomains/forum/httpdocs/bb-load.php on line 141

[paulhawke]

The following plugins are mine, and I know they work with 1.0.2

• bbTopicIcons (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-topic-icons/)
• bbFreshness (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbfreshness/)
• BBPress User Directory (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/user-directory/)

[arpowers]

I agree, good well thought out post.

If someone gets on bbPress development full-time, then most of the issues will work themselves out.

I think whatever the case, we need to get WP plugins working in bbPress pronto.

Andrew // PageLines.com