[Michael]

I’ve also tried the warappable tables, but I’m not experienced enough to get it right.

Try this for anonymous posting: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting/

[Michael]

I’ve never heard of a SmartMachines forum system – are you not talking about SimpleMachines?

EDIT: I see you are running SMF. Look into this page:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-smf-to-bbpress

I have not read it, but there may be some useful information.

[LeftCoastMichael]

We currently have a forum on SmartMachines but would like to migrate it over to a new forum using bbPress. Is it possible to import the data and structure?

[egun]

hello all

i’m new to bbPress, i have some questions that i didn’t find answer to.

1. is it possible to organize a thread with “+/-” feature? i mean when pressing “+” the thread opens with all the posts, and pressing “-” causes it wrapping.

2. is it possible to make topics threaded, not flat? i searched forums here but all the answers about it are not distinct. the majority couldn’t make it work (the plugin).

3. is it possible to make anonymous posts?

this is my need, not just an interest. thanks.

[eyashwant]

Oh that is fine, just want a solution quick. Waiting for some good soul to help me

[chrishajer]

Rescued from akismet today. Sorry about that

[paamayim]

[skipcollege]

Still haven’t been able to figure out how to get bbPress installed within a WPMU subdomain blog site.

Anyone know how to go about accomplishing this??

Maybe some fancy virtual host or mod rewrite code is needed??

Thanks!

[Greg]

I recently discovered that I was getting quite a few crawl errors for a bbPress installation (1.0.2) and the common denominator was special characters in the title. The Google crawler was changing the hex characters in the encoded URL to uppercase, and this was causing a 302 redirect.

I tracked the 302 redirect to bb_repermalink(), which detects the uppercase hex as a discrepancy with the “correct” permalink. I made a simple plugin that works around the issue (see below).

Has anyone else seen this issue? How did you deal with it?

I’ve described this in a little more detail at http://theblogeasy.com/2009/12/26/bbpress-and-encoded-urls-with-uppercase-hex/.

function _permalink_fix( $permalink, $location )

{

$matches = array();



/* are there any URL encoded hex characters with uppercase in the request URI? */

if (preg_match( '#%([0-9][A-F]|[A-F][0-9]|[A-F][A-F])#', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], $matches ))

{

/* replace ALL URL encoded HEX parameters with uppercase versions */

$patterns = array(

'#%([0-9])([a-f])#e',

'#%([a-f])([0-9])#e',

'#%([a-f][a-f])#e' );

$replacements = array(

'"%" . $1 . strtoupper("$2")',

'"%" . strtoupper("$1") . $2',

'"%" . strtoupper("$1")' );



// print_r( $patterns ); print_r( $replacements );



$permalink = preg_replace( $patterns, $replacements, $permalink );

}



return $permalink;

}



add_filter('bb_repermalink_result', '_permalink_fix', 10, 2);

[johnhiler]

There’s a good writeup here!

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/language#post-3186

Just edit your config file after uploading the files, and you should be all set!

[hpguru]

When I say nothing appears, I get the page ”HTTP 404 Page Not Found”

<– Are you sure, that you go to right url?

[hpguru]

If you want your forum to discussion.yourdomain.com , you can use to forum a subdomain. In cPanel go to Subdomains, than manage subdomains. Now just add subdomain to your bbPress folder. Example:

myforum.mydomain.net (public_html/myforum)

Note: Subdomains rely on the DNS system in order to function, which means that your DNS information must propagate throughout the different DNS servers on the Internet before your subdomain becomes fully active. This process on the average takes a few hours.

[paamayim]

Looks like

$row = $bbdb->get_row(“

SELECT um.meta_value AS role

FROM $bbdb->users AS u, $bbdb->usermeta AS um

WHERE u.ID = um.user_id

AND um.meta_key = ‘bb_capabilities’

AND u.user_status = 0

AND u.ID = $user_id

“);

returns NULL

–

I temporarly fixed this by adding:

if(is_array($arr)) { on line 177

and a closing bracket } on line 186 just before return $is_mod.

[republican1021]

When I say nothing appears, I get the page ”HTTP 404 Page Not Found”

And what exactly do you mean by a subdomain and how do I create one?

[paamayim]

It’s not my site but you can see the warning in action here at the moment:

http://www.macmend.com/forums/topic/188

[paamayim]

Usign bb-seo-tools 1.02:

* Plugin Name: bbpress SEO tools

* Plugin Description: Optimize your page titels and meta tags with this simple SEO plugin.

* Author: Olaf Lederer (finalwebsites.com)

* Author URI: http://www.finalwebsites.com/

* Plugin URI: http://www.finalwebsites.com/forums/forum/bbpress-plugins-and-modifications

* Version: 1.02

But getting these warnings upon reading a forum post:

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /home/…/public_html/forum/my-plugins/bb-seo-tools.php on line 178

Using bbPress 1.0.2

[hpguru]

I have my bbPress forum in subdomain and without any problem.

[chrishajer]

What do you mean “nothing” appears? Blank screen or 404 from your WordPress site? Or something else? How about the URL where you are trying to install?

You can use a subdomain if you like, but it’s not necessary. You have a more basic problem.

[hpguru]

Do you get a subdomain to your forum from cPanel? I think, bbPress need this before you go to install. Just add subdomain to bbPress folder.

[republican1021]

I’m pretty sure that I’ve followed the directions right, I upload the .zip file to the same folder that contains ‘wp-config.php’,unzipped it there; when I visit the intended url of the forum, nothing appears.

[chrishajer]

There was a bbPress Wiki Post plugin for up to 0.9:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wiki-post/

[chrishajer]

They are looking into making that happen:

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/2009-12-09-meetup/

[Anonymous User]

Why isn’t bbpress just WordPress with a slightly different ‘loop’ ?

The only differences between a ‘blog’ and a ‘forum’ I can see are:

• Posts are ordered by last comment, not by original posting date
• Database remembers the last comment you have seen for each post

Otherwise, are there any basic code differences? (“Forums” just become “Categories” so that should just be window-dressing, not code.) Why can’t we build bbpress right into WordPress as-is?

[kevinjohngallagher]

In the nicest possible way, i haven’t looked at Trac since it was so woeful before, and a cause of some pain for the community (ask a question -> go to trac. Go to trac -> ask why trac is wrong -> earn wrath of ck -> be told to leave bbpress). As i look at Trac now, for the first time in 9 months, I see that YouTube support and Smileys are in there as bugs.

I apprecaite your efforts greatly Chris, but this might be the straw that pushed the camel back to other forum software until after 1.1.

[kevinjohngallagher]

This is, and has been, my Number One issue with BBpress since 0.9.

The inability to actually administer my own forums is sure;y higher priority than Email Notifications, Facebook, Smileys, YouTube integration etc. Reading Matt’s IRC transcript and Trac, apprently not.