[stulynn]

I really hate to create a new thread but I promise all of you I’ve spent hours perusing this forum and hounding google to find answers but I’m not having the best of luck.

Here are three areas I need help with:

1. How to add a logo within the bbpress site? I can use it to replace bbpress or put it on the left side of the URL for the site.

2. How do i create a link back to the wordpress blog. I’ve already created a link from wordpress to bbpress. (Yes both sites are minimally integrated: sharing the database and this seems to be working)

3. How do i get it so when someone posts in WordPress there is a forum discussion item already created? Did I creatively imagine this or is this a function that can occur. Mine don’t seem to do that.

4. Is there a way to change the URL suffix/Permalink of the forum to read forum rather than bbpress or do I need to do some transferring of files in file manager?

Much much appreciated,

Lynn

http://jslhoa.com (blog)

http://jslhoa.com/bbpress (forum)

[hpguru]

I found in bbPress reply list replies without any topic. Delete them from database. Now dashboard index 4023 and posts.php 4068.

[gerikg]

Thanks!

Wow, I never paid attention to the “blog” section. Same discussion that’s going on here.

I think just pulling one of the top requests out of a hat and just start working instead of the constant babble. I think the end result will be the users will be happy even if they didn’t vote on it. I really wish I can help aside from just requesting stuff. I don’t know PHP just have ideas.

That’s 1600 EST right or am I doing it wrong?

[johnhiler]

Ah hmm, I just checked a test install for 1.0.2, and it has a similar issue.

On the Dashboard, it says “252 posts” and “71 topics”.

But on the Posts page it says there are 249 posts, and on the Topics page it says there are 68 topics.

It sounds like a bug… but I don’t see a report here?

https://trac.bbpress.org/report/1

Can anyone else confirm this is an issue for you on bbPress 1.0.2 as well? If so, please post here and then we can file a trac report!

[Anonymous User]

Hi Gerikg,

Matt unfortunately missed the IRC Meetup – look here in the bbPress blog:

https://bbpress.org/blog/2009/12/my-bad/

This Wednesday will be the next meeting … at 21:00

Greetz

Markus

[gerikg]

I hate to bring up this post again but what happened to “the next meetup on IRC will be Wednesday 16 December 2100 GMT irc.freenode.net #bbpress” did that happen?

[johnhiler]

@ChuckMcB -Hmm, since you can access the admin link while signed into bbPress, it’s probably not a case where you lost your admin access:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/fix-admin-access/

It sounds like you may be onto something with the www issue you mentioned… one cookie is setting itself on www, while the other one is not.

[af3]

My mom is on facebook, so does my 60yrs old auth and uncle… and they are all living on the island of Borneo (googling it would probably show up among ‘the remaining lost world on earth’). So I got 3 ppl for my hard stats

I’m using WPMU+Buddypress and integrated with bbpress — since there are facebookconnect plugins for WPMU, and now facebook plugin specific for WPMU+BP, my installation of bbpress on WPMU+BP becomes the odd one. While BP is now with its own forum system, I have more reasons to abandon bbpress; yet I do hope facebook-enabled bbpress would make me continue to use this.

[hpguru]

Hi, i have very good bbPress forum. I like bbPress. I am use a bbPress 1.0.2 but i may found 1 new bug.

I go to my bbPress dashboard and see posts count, thats say: 4024 posts.

Then i go to bb-admin/posts.php and i see 1 – 20 / 4,121. This mean i have 4121 posts on my forum.

I try recounting without any help to this problem.

My plugins now:

Akismet

Human Test For bbPress

Topics Per Page

bbSmilies (maybe smilies from WordPress plugin, i change it name, when i modified smilies codes)

[chrisjdavisorg]

Thanks for all the help guys. The sys admins pushed out a new php.ini file that had magic quotes turned on. This broke bbpress terribly.

[chrishajer]

> have you had any issue with your 3 forums’ bbPress registration emails hitting folks’ spam folks?

Not really. Occasionally someone will email me and tell me they never received their password reset email, but that’s easily handled manually. The 3 forums are small, so management is not a problem. If they were larger with more users, I’d be looking for better ways of automating the management of them, but right now they are just fine. I have _ck_’s human test installed on all 3, and don’t use akismet. Occasionally I get a spam post, but it’s just a minor nuisance. At least I don’t have any trouble with false positives with Akismet. Again, if they were larger volume, I’d be looking for other ways of managing the forums.

[Michael]

It’s really nice to see some creative (yet minimal) themes for bbPress.

This is great!

[chrisjdavisorg]

Around 3 weeks of worry free activity. There haven’t been any software upgrades to bbPress, and no new plugins/themes. I am using the latest stable release. The environment is our own internal setup. No changes there as well.

[chuckmcb]

Ohh dear, seems I gushed too soon.

While the above does log me into bbpress once I’m logged into WP, when I click on the “Admin” link I get redirected back to the main form page. Only when I log out of bbpress and log back in again does the “Admin” link take me to the admin page.

I’m away to try dropping my ‘www’s

[johnhiler]

I had problems with spammers and troublemakers both before and after we created that plugin… but both got a lot better after I installed this plugin allowing users to report problems with single click:

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

More recently, I installed Nightgunner5’s fantastic Moderation Suite:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-moderation-suite/

This allowed me to create a Moderator team of people I trusted, who can spam and delete posts… the plugin logs every moderation action too, so I can always reverse something if a volunteer Moderator makes a decision I disagree with.

[johnhiler]

GrassrootsPA – I used to have the same issue, until ck built this plugin which lets users select their own passwords:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/instant-password/

Since users now pick their own passwords, it doesn’t matter as much if that email makes it through or not…

[grassrootspa]

@ chrishajer, just curious, have you had any issue with your 3 forums’ bbPress registration emails hitting folks’ spam folks? Had this issue with Yahoo, gmail, hotmail and other emails accounts. (It’s still not 100% resolved with all email accounts)

I must confess, this was initially a bit of a headache for this server newbie. (People complain that the registration doesn’t work, others don’t say anything and give up on the site at that point thinking the software doesn’t work) This really isn’t a problem with bbPress, but it is a tough issue to figure out when you are just learning the LAMP ropes. Thank goodness for knowledgeable server buddies!

Not sure if this explains anything, but this is one of the reasons (a minor one) why this LAMP newbie like the idea of allowing others ways to login like FB Connect…(it eliminates that potentially-troublesome email verification step and allows them to jump right in).

BTW, I would be ecstatic is FB Connect emerged as a plugin first and the next bbPress release focused on other things like integration, some cool new features, etc. You are a good salesman.

[chrishajer]

No apologies necessary.

I too am using various versions of bbPress (I think 1.0-alpha 2, 1.0.2 and 0.9.0.4) without problem. It works just great for me. So, thanks once again and sincerely, Happy Holidays to you.

[grassrootspa]

Best of luck with your future projects Sam. I am still enjoying your bbPress 1.0.2 release.

[Casemon]

Update: I no longer have this issue, since rebuilding the bbpress installation. Before, something was screwy, between outdated documentation, and just learning bbp.

Hurrah!

[Sam Bauers]

No problem chris I have to say that I’m sorry for not being around more. I didn’t intend to do the “hot potato” thing.

I’m also sorry for re-opening this topic, but for previously stated reasons I felt it was necessary to respond.

[chrishajer]

Thanks for the info Sam. Happy Holidays to you.

[Sam Bauers]

I just want to set the record straight a little here as some things have been said that aren’t accurate.

The flaming that Matt has received from @sadness above is unwarranted, unsubstantiated and quite cowardly.

I left Automattic to pursue my own interests both within and outside of the web development world. This was my own decision, there was no pressure from Matt or anyone at Automattic to leave. Before I left Automattic I talked with Matt about a bunch of possible directions for bbPress and my own options within the company. Whilst a lot of the ideas we discussed would make for interesting and important work, I didn’t feel passionate about it, and I was feeling a little burnt out after about 10 years of web development work.

_ck_ was always a constructive critic of bbPress. I always gave her plenty of my time so that she could fulfil that role. In the absence of a full-time lead on the project to hear that input I imagine that she felt her contribution in that regard was limited. It’s not that Matt isn’t good at listening, it’s just that he’s about 100 times busier than a full-time lead would be.

I’d also like to chime in on the future development path of bbPress a little. The idea of moving to becoming a canonical plugin I think is the only sensible way forward for bbPress. bbPress needs a bigger user base to be viable as a product. A big problem in the past has been justifying changes in WordPress for the benefit of bbPress, so the more users there are of bbPress the more accommodating WordPress will be in that regard.

WordPress development moves really fast, it was (and will be) totally inefficient to spend time and energy maintaining compatibility with WordPress as a stand alone product, when bbPress can get all that stuff for free as a plugin. There is a ton of common code between WordPress and bbPress now (mostly in the form of BackPress). That should all go away. The PHP framework is WordPress. The only issue is bloat for those using bbPress as a standalone product. WordPress + bbPress plugin will be a lot of code, and will probably be slower than bbPress 1.0 (and almost certainly slower than 0.9). But by hooking into WordPress, a lot of the work that has been done and that will be done in the future to speed it up will be gained. It’s a case of “two steps forward, one step back” but I think it’s the right decision for the project.

Although there was a lot of effort put into BackPress/bbPress 1.0, a whole lot of that work has ended up in WordPress, so it won’t be wasted development. The best vehicle going forward is the canonical plugin route. I suggest that the community gets behind that plan.

[chrishajer]

How long was it working before it became broken? Any changes that could contribute to breaking it (software upgrade, server upgrade, new host?)

What bbPress version are you using?

[grassrootspa]

@ johnhiler:

You make a lot of excellent points. It’s funny you bring up the memory issues (had to move my news website site from Godaddy to my own server because of that very issue with WordPress).

This is a great community and have no doubt it’s going to be a fun year for bbPress. Can’t wait to see where things go in the next six months!