[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.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Marius,

Thanks for contributing. I suppose that the issue comes down to one of stats and hard facts versus beliefs – and as we all know stats dont always win.

I think you are giving Facebook way too little credit.

I’m not, its a wonderful website and tool that i use often.

But these exact arguements were heard during the rise of MySpace, Okurt, LiveSpaces, MSNmessenger, AoL, Bebo etc etc etc.

Nothing lasts forever, and in the internet world, becoming the most popular and staying the most popular are two different things.

The question remains though, and no-ones given me any data otherwise to come up with a case we could debate, how benefitial would spending the time on an FBconnect plugin be for BBpress?

When it comes to instant messenger, MSN has been top dog for ever, contradicting your philosophy about topdogs

Except, that isn’t true!

AoL was top dog for a very very long time. Infact, MSN piggybacked onto AoL’s AIM service for its first 2 years, because by that time, AoL had been top dog for 5 years.

Then Yahoo and MSN were tied for years, infact Yahoo prospered greatly during Microsoft’s failed Hailstorm/myPassport/MSN-messenger-is-tied-into-outlook-express failed rollout.

Its easy to say with hindsight that MSN has always been top dog, but if you were there, you’d know its simply not true.

MSNmessenger really took off with WindowsXP, and as a Microsoft developer at the time, i can tell you that before then its market share of IM chat was alot lower than its percentage of possible users.

Everyone in my country uses MSN, and has for the last 10-12 years

Awesome. Its only been out 9 years though (unless you had Windows ME where this could be in your 10th by 7 weeks), but i’ll not quibble. The problem with these sort of statements is that “Everyone” is a statistical statement that means 100%. I’m confident not 100% of people (that use internet or even instant messaging) in your country use MSN messenger for the last X years.

The same is my issue with these generalisations about Facebook (or any website) once it become incumbant in its field. “everyone” uses facebook, like “everyone” or “most” use MSN simply isnt true.

Facebook has redefined the whole genre of social communication on the internet

I fail to see how it has redefined it actually. Simplified? Unified? Sped-up? I’ll grant you all those.

But publishing data to a group of people who’ve you’ve preselected to be allowed to see said data is not new; Neither is the instant messaging, sharing of photos, emailing each other etc.

It has become so widely used, that it’s incorporated in Playstation 3, Xbox 360, several cellphones, and in many countries – Facebook has been the platform for actual change

Thats a massive leap there mate, loads of things are on PS3, Xbox360, Cellphones etc.

Heck they all have an API so people can develop applications for them.

Bebo is on all of those platforms, are we now suggesting that Bebo is the platform for change? (and btw, Bebo is the # 1 social network in my country – not facebook).

My phone in 2004, and as i recall to some degree my xBox in 2005 – at least in signing in, had MSNmessenger on it. Sharing status updates, chatting, emailling and sending photos. Surely, given that this was on game consoles and cell phones over 5 years ago, this would be far more likely to be the platform for actual change than Facebook (was wasn’t even built then).

I think Facebook is pretty much gonna be the number one social website for a very long time

Again, its based on “i think” and not stats. For the record, I also think the same as you, but when it comes to committing resources, i base them off facts and not randoms hunches. Plus, i’m sure there were countless people who said the same about AoL, MSN, MySpace etc etc.

=====================================================

I’m real happy for these conversations, but i’m worried that we’re getting away from teh original point. I am not being disparaging of Facebook the website, platform, nor movie (is it still going to be Aaron Sorkin writing??).

But with so many people posting so often about how Facebook Connect should be the top priority/feature in BBpress, i am asking for your data so we can see if its worthwhile