[Michael]

Hi Raize

bbPress is currently in that stage. There are a number of us who will be contributing to the new bbpress so that it will be a mature package.

See this link for more information about the starting steps of this make-over: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress

bbPress will take a while before it gets on it’s feet again – once it does, it’ll be great – competing with the likes of phpBB and SMF (vBulletin is out of the question as it is too ‘full’ of junk.)

I highly suggest using bbPress. I’m using it here: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation. As you can see, the quality is good and it caters for most things. Once bbPress starts getting better, upgrading will be easy. Also, if you have a WordPress Blog, you’ll be able to integrate the two. bbPress is aimed at simplicity and good operations.

Michael

[Raize]

I’ve been looking for a solid forum software for quite some time now. vBulletin has a lot of features, but it’s too bloated…it’s “Web 1.0”

I explored Vanilla, EsoTalk, and now bbPress. I thought bbPress would be a good option, but it seems like the developer community has completely abandoned it over the past year. There are no themes, no plugins, and barely any updates to the core forum. As I kept looking for themes, I found this on bbShowcase:

The bbPress Showcase has been discontinued.

The removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0

was a clear and final sign that there is no interest in allowing

bbPress to become a mature, robust program and community.

By now bbPress 1.5 could have been in alpha but instead

bbPress development has been deliberately stagnated,

which should be a very alarming warning to everyone.

In addition, bbShowcase had only six donations in 2009,

which indicated to me there was no interest in my work.

My code will remain on bbpress.org as open source GPL

for those that wish to use it, however I caution you to

consider bbPress’s lack of leadership before continuing to use it.

Now I’m back at square one again. Not knowing which forum software to use.

[chrishajer]

It wasn’t closed accidentally; I closed it intentionally. Since you’ve posted a way to be contacted, there’s not need for the discussion to continue here. If people are interested, they can contact you outside the forum.

[mbeneteau]

(I had already posted this but got accidentally closed it, so resubmitting)

I would like a quote on integrating WordPress, bbPress, and Memberwing membership system.

To see what I need —

1)Go to http://internet101.biz/wordpress-how-to and join the site (upper right “Free registration for premium content”)

2)Login and then go to the Forum http://internet101.biz/forums . You will be logged in but won’t be able to post because there is no bbPress role defined for Memberwing “Bronze member”.

What I want is for bbPress “member” role to be assigned from Memberwing “Gold member”.

Write to me directly from http://everymanmarketing.com/contact/. I would expect this a 1 or 2 hour job.

Marc

[Michael]

Thanks – I feel like an idiot. I really need to explore the bbPress core a little more.

[Michael]

Greetings

I guess I could do the show off thing. Here’s mine: Dev:station

It has quite a lot of plugins installed – and everything works – though there may be a few bugs that I don’t know of.

Plugin List:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

I know the address to this forum isn’t that great – I’ll be getting a .com domain for it some time next year (hopefully January).

Enjoy!

Michael

[Michael]

Hi Ben

I’m running quite a few:

Admin Add User

Allow Images

Avatar Upload

BBCode Lite

BBCode Toolbar

bbPM

BBPress:SyntaxHiliter

bbPress Moderation Suite (obviously )

bbPress Smilies

Bozo Users

Favicon

General Statistics (my own plugin, not the problem – have tested it extensively)

Hot Tags Plus

Hot Topic

Human Test for bbPress

Indicate New Posts

Member List

bbPages

Post Count Plus

Project Honey Pot

Read-Only Forums

Related Topics

Reputation

Signatures

Simple Online List

Support Forum

Terms of Service

Topics per Page

Twitter

Unread Posts (I should disable this one as I already have Indicate New Posts enabled)

I have gone through and disabled each one – this did not solve the problem.

Any help would be great. Thanks

[Elias]

Since bbPress 1.0.x you have to use my-languages, the path bb-includes/languages is correct for older bbPress versions.

[Michael]

Unfortunately, this plugin was meant to have support for Permalinks – hence the unused Page slug in the bbPages settings – but that never came about.

I recently had this problem too – so I manually edited my .htaccess file in the bbPress root.

So, I turned my Rules page from this:

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/bb-page.php?page_id=1

to

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rules/

You need to open your .htaccess file in the bbPress root and add the following for each page, replacing <your-page> with the url you would like:

RewriteRule ^<your-page>/?$ /bb-page.php?page_id=1 [L]

[Michael]

You obviously don’t know what BBCode is at all – so let me explain.

BBCode is an alternative to HTML for people to use in their posts. For example, if they wanted to have bold text, they would put this in their post:

Text

You can download BBCode lite for bbPress here: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-lite/

You then need to save the'bbcode-lite.php file in your my-plugins directory. If you do not have one, you will need to create it. Then go to your admin panel, Plugins, and install BBCode Lite.

Then, in your posts, you will need to enter a URL like this:

http://www.example.com

or, with a title

My Example Site

Hope this solves your problem.

[bb-lover]

Dear Developers,

I’ve recently use bbpages plugin.. its working fine..but i want one more thing in this plugin … here is url like my site

http://www.example.com/bb-page.php?page_id=3

i want to change it to

http://www.example.com/my-own-keyword.html

can any coder tell me how it possible?

i’ll be great thankful to you

here is plugins files

---

1. bb-page.php for root

<?php

require_once(‘./bb-load.php’);

$page_id = 0;

bb_repermalink();

if ( !$page )

bb_die(__(‘Page not found.’));

do_action( ‘bb-page.php’, $page_id );

bb_load_template( ‘page.php’, array(‘bb_db_override’, ‘page_id’) );

?>

---

2. page.php for template

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( isset_id() ) : ?><?php if ( page_exist() ) : // Do not delete this ?>

<div class=”top_box”>

<h2><?php echo get_page_title(); ?></h2>

<div class=”bbcrumb”>“><?php bb_option(‘name’); ?> » <?php echo get_page_title(); ?></div>

</div>

<div class=”post-content”>

<?php echo get_page_content(); ?>

</div>

<?php else: // If there is no page with id=X in database ?>

<div class=”notice_box”><div class=”notice_content”>404 – I’m sorry, but this page does not exist.</div></div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php else: // If page ID is not specified or it equals 0 ?>

<div class=”notice_box”><div class=”notice_content”>Page is not specified.</div></div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

---

3. bb-pages.php for plugin

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: bbPages

Plugin URI: http://astateofmind.eu/freebies/bbpages/

Description: Allows you to create static pages within your bbPress forum.

Author: F.Thion

Author URI: http://astateofmind.eu

Version: 0.0.2

license: GPL

donate: http://astateofmind.eu/about/support/

*/

function get_page_id() {

if ( isset ( $_GET ) ) :

$page_id = $_GET;

return $page_id;

endif;

}

function isset_id() {

if ( $_GET > 0 ) :

return true;

else:

return false;

endif;

}

function page_exist() {

global $bbdb, $bb;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_id FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

if ( $query == true ) :

return true;

else:

return false;

endif;

}

function get_page_title() {

global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_title FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

return $rk->page_title;

}

}

function get_page_slug() {

global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id, $page;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_slug FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

return $rk->page_slug;

}

}

function get_page_content() {

global $bbdb, $bb, $page_id;

$id = get_page_id();

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT page_content FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$id.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

return $rk->page_content;

}

}

function list_pages() {

global $bbdb, $bb;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $table_name ORDER BY page_order ASC”);

$status = array(

0 => ‘Draft’,

1 => ‘Published’

);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

echo ‘

<tr>

<td>’.$rk->page_id.'</td>

<td>’.$rk->page_title.'</td>

<td>’.$rk->page_date.'</td>

<td>’.$status[$rk->page_status].'</td>

<td>page_id.'”>Edit | page_id.'”>Delete | page_id.'”>View</td>

</tr>

‘;

}

}

function pages_panel() {

$action = $_REQUEST;

switch($action)

{

default:

?>

<h2>Manage Static Pages <small>(Create new page)</small></h2>

<table class=”widefat”>

<thead>

<tr>

<th style=’width:5%;’>ID</th>

<th style=’width:45%;’>Title</th>

<th style=’width:20%;’>Creation Date</th>

<th style=’width:10%;’>Status</th>

<th style=’width:20%;’>Actions</th>

</tr>

</thead>

<tbody>

<?php echo list_pages(); ?>

</tbody>

</table>

<h3>Please support the developer</h3>

<img src=”http://astateofmind.eu/uploads/donation.gif&#8221; style=”margin-right:10px” border=”0″ align=”left” />

Do you like this plugin? Do you find it useful? If so, please donate few dollars so I could keep develop this plugin and others further and further. Even the smallest help is greatly appreciated for a student in Poland .

<form action=”https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr&#8221; method=”post”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”cmd” value=”_donations”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”business” value=”wojciech.usarzewicz@gmail.com”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”item_name” value=”bbPages Donation”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”item_number” value=”bbPages Donation”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”no_shipping” value=”0″>

<input type=”hidden” name=”no_note” value=”1″>

<input type=”hidden” name=”currency_code” value=”USD” />

Type donation amount: $ <input type=”text” name=”amount” value=”1″ />

<input type=”hidden” name=”tax” value=”0″>

<input type=”hidden” name=”lc” value=”US”>

<input type=”hidden” name=”bn” value=”PP-DonationsBF”>

<input type=”submit” name=”submit” value=”Donate with PayPal!” alt=”PayPal – The safer, easier way to pay online!”>

<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://www.paypal.com/pl_PL/i/scr/pixel.gif&#8221; width=”1″ height=”1″>

</form>

<p>Want to know what I’m developing right now? Follow me on Twitter, ignore 90% of stuff and learn a lot you will . And thank you for using my plugin!</p>

<?php

break;

case “add”:

global $bbdb, $bb;

if (isset($_POST))

{

$page_title = $_POST;

$page_slug = bb_sanitize_with_dashes( “$page_title”, “” );

$page_content = $_POST;

$page_order = $_POST;

$page_status = $_POST;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = “INSERT INTO ” . $table_name .

” (page_id, page_date, page_content, page_title, page_status, page_slug, page_order) ” .

“VALUES (0, NOW(), ‘”.$page_content.”‘, ‘”.$page_title.”‘, ‘”.$page_status.”‘, ‘”.$page_slug.”‘, ‘”.$page_order.”‘)”;

$bbdb->query($query);

?><div class=”updated”><p>Page has been saved.</p></div> <?php

}

?>

<h2>Add new page</h2>

<form class=”settings” method=”post”>

<fieldset>

<div>

<label for=”page_title”>

Page title </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_title” id=”page_title” type=”text” class=”text long” />

<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don’t worry, it’s not useful for anything yet).</p>

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_order”>

Page order </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_order” id=”page_order” type=”text” class=”text long” />

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_content”>

Page content </label>

<div>

<textarea name=”page_content” id=”page_content” rows=”20″ cols=”80″ ></textarea>

</div>

</div>

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_status” value=”1″ />

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_id” value=”<?php echo $_GET; ?>” />

</fieldset>

<input type=”submit” class=”submit” name=”add_page” value=”<?php _e(‘Add page’, ‘add_page’) ?>” />

</form>

<?php

break;

case “edit”:

global $bbdb, $bb;

if (isset($_POST)) {

$page_id = $_POST;

$page_title = $_POST;

$page_content = $_POST;

$page_order = $_POST;

$page_status = $_POST;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = “UPDATE “.$table_name.” SET page_content='”.$page_content.”‘, page_title='”.$page_title.”‘, page_status='”.$page_status.”‘, page_order='”.$page_order.”‘ WHERE page_id='”.$page_id.”‘”;

$bbdb->query($query);

?> <div class=”updated”><p>Page updated…</p></div> <?php

}

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“SELECT * FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$_GET.””);

foreach ($query as $rk) {

$id = $rk->page_id;

$title = $rk->page_title;

$content = $rk->page_content;

$order = $rk->page_order;

$status = $rk->page_status;

}

?>

<h2>Edit page</h2>

<form class=”settings” method=”post”>

<fieldset>

<div>

<label for=”page_title”>

Page title </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_title” id=”page_title” type=”text” class=”text long” value=”<?php echo “$title”; ?>” />

<p>Page slug will be created automatically (don’t worry, it’s not useful for anything yet).</p>

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_order”>

Page order </label>

<div>

<input name=”page_order” id=”page_order” type=”text” class=”text long” value=”<?php echo “$order”; ?>” size=”10″ />

</div>

</div>

<div>

<label for=”page_content”>

Page content </label>

<div>

<textarea name=”page_content” id=”page_content” rows=”20″ cols=”80″ ><?php echo “$content”; ?></textarea>

</div>

</div>

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_status” value=”1″ />

<input type=”hidden” name=”page_id” value=”<?php echo $_GET; ?>” />

</fieldset>

<input type=”submit” class=”submit” name=”save_page” value=”<?php _e(‘Save page’, ‘save_page’) ?>” />

</form>

<?php

break;

case “delete”:

global $bbdb, $bb;

$id = $_GET;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$query = $bbdb->get_results(“DELETE FROM $table_name WHERE page_id=”.$_GET.””);

$bbdb->query($query);

?> <div class=”updated”><p>Page deleted…</p></div> <?php

break;

}

}

function pages_admin_menu() {

bb_admin_add_menu(__(‘Manage Pages’), ‘administrate’, ‘pages_panel’);

}

function bbpages_install() {

global $bbdb;

$table_name = $bbdb->prefix . “pages”;

$bbdb->query(“CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS $table_name (

page_id mediumint(9) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,

page_date datetime,

page_content text,

page_title varchar(255),

page_status int(1),

page_slug varchar(255),

page_order int(11),

PRIMARY KEY (page_id)

)”);

}

bb_register_activation_hook( __FILE__, ‘bbpages_install’);

add_action( ‘bb_admin_menu_generator’, ‘pages_admin_menu’ );

?>

---

Note: I want to mention here that the author of this plugin is no more active. He make this plugin but something is wrong with this pluing. he tell us wrong path for plugins files. But I’ve little bit knowledge of php that’s why i correct its path now the path of the plugins files which I’ve mentioned above is totally correct and working fine.

Now I really need to your help. If someone will not guide me then I’ll leave this software “bbpress” and I’ll move to vBulletin or phpbb after disheart….

So I’m waiting for positive answers from developers… Thanks … And Love you all

[nivosh]

Hi.

For some reason bbpress is not turning the url into hyperlinks, so the user can’t click on them to go to the url.

Is is a plugin issue?

see here: http://www.emetaheret.org.il/forum/topic/%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9D-%D7%9E-europebusinesblogspotcom

[A1ex]

Hi Matt,

I am a programmer with experience of 10 years. I provide support the Russian-speaking users of bbPress since 2006. I think, I could help in the further development of bbPress.

[ajian]

Some people tell me to realize localization to create a directory called ” languages” and upload the .mo file and .po file to the directory ;

While others tell me to create a directory called ” my-languages” and upload the .mo file and .po file to the directory

(see the Official link:http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/ ，line，3) ;

Who is right？

[Michael]

In FileZilla, please can you tell me what it says when you go to “Change File Permissions” for the folder “BBPress”. It may have configured your folders incorrectly.

Furthermore, I must ask you: Are you using a free-hosting service, a paid hosting service, or a local file-server (eg in you house)?

[Austin Matzko]

I’m posting because I hope to get that email with more information about the future of bbPress.

[daudev]

I still have the same problem, I’m logged in the WordPress, but can’t log-in in the BBPress. The strangest thing is that the cookies are the same and wordpress_logged_in is with / path. I also have cookie with path to bb-admin folder , but I’m still not logged into the BBAdmin. Any ideas where is the problem?

[Ben L.]

What other plugins are you running?

[ellenheaney]

I still can’t get it. I even renamed the directory BBPress to see if that would somehow help! so it should now be at http://www.schooladmissionappeals.co.uk/BBpress – still no joy.

I checked and in the admin folder there are three install files (install rtl.cc, install css, install php). I am probably making some really obvious mistake but I just can’t get my head around it (it took me half a day to manage wordpress’s 5 minute install so I should have expected some issues!)

Any help is much appreciated.

[Michael]

Hi there.

You may have a problem with your integration. Go to the front page of your forum and add bb-admin in the address bar. For example: http://www.yourdomain.com/forum/bb-admin.

Tell me what it says there, or whether or not it comes up with the admin panel.

[Michael]

Hi there

Have you uploaded every single file into the folder? It seems that you do not have an install file in your bbPress folder.

[Naujokas]

I am integradet users from WordPress.

[Naujokas]

Hello,

i have problem with buttons.

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/3316/problemhh.png

Sorry for my english

[MSR6]

I am using avatar upload. It is working fine, but I have a couple questions. I have the avatar working on posts, but cannot find the correct file or location to for the avatar on the profile page.

My site is: http://www.msrplastics.com/bbpress

I am using the iNove theme/template, which has the avatar image in the right sidebar on the profile page. Help, I’m driving myself crazy looking through random php folders for any sign of an avatar reference!

Also, the avatar I chose for myself has an oblong shape and did not get resized correctly. Any fix or is it necessary to upload more “square” shaped pictures. Look at only post for reference.

And when I put the code in the bb-post.php, I replaced the call for an avatar code that was already there. Is this right or should I have just added it before or after?

Thanks for any help,

Mike

MSRplastics.com

[ellenheaney]

Help! I’m a complete novice at this and I’m trying to have a bb forum for my new website. I managed to create a subdirectory in filezilla (called forum) and I unzipped and uploaded bbpress into that folder.

When I go to where I think it should be domainname/forum I get an error message telling me that the page can be found but I don’t have permission to view it.

Where have I gone wrong (answers in words of one syllable or less please as I am an un IT savvy mummy)?

Many thanks

Ellen