I’m looking for it as well. I tried Ben’s but it didn’t work so maybe it was indeed modified.
Anyone know where to get it?
Hi Matt,
I’ve been programming (or teaching it) for a living for 20+ years. I wrote my first few plugins for WordPress in 2005 and started working with WordPress MU in early 2006. The merged WP/WPMU codebase I mentioned in October can be downloaded here: http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/community-service/. More recently, I developed buddymatic which was one of the demos in the theme plugin/competition at WordCamp NYC. I also have a sharded database plugin for MU (based on HyperDB) which will be released this month. The database plugin itself is done and in use on production installs. I’m currently working on a site admin tool for migrating an install from a single database to the sharded structure.
Buddymatic is great illustration of what I do best: approach problems & solutions from an unusual angle. (For other people reading the thread Buddymatic is a port of Thematic that has the BuddyPress theme functionality embedded in it that auto detects whether BP is active.) What I would like to do with bbPress is make it a canonical plugin. IMO, that’s the way to ensure its longevity and continued development.
I am not a programmer so I can not help on that side of things.
Anyway, I would suggest that you have a look at one great Forum-software and another great Forum-application. You might get some ideas from it which might help you to build a much better Forum-software.
Please check the following:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/forum/
http://vancouver.en.craigslist.org/forums/?forumID=81
KISS (Keep It Simple & Stupid).
Okay, now that we’re ready to get this show back on the road, let’s get this show back on the road! 
That would be translating bbPress, and you’d need two things: Poedit and The bbPress POT file from your version.
You’d want to make “new from POT”, then save it as de.
Find the things you want to translate and put the translations in for them, then save again, and upload the de.mo to your forum’s my-languages folder. If it doesn’t already have one, make one.
Then, in your bb-config.php, set BB_LANG to de, and you’re done!
You could always use Role Manager and disable “Make new topics” for Members.
Assuming that $mydata_curpage is the current page number (starting from 1):
bb_paginate_links( array( 'total' => ceil( $mydata_count / $mydata_pagelimit ), 'current' => $mydata_curpage ) )
You’ll have to do the actual pagination yourself, but that’s as simple as an array_slice.
Thank you Matt! Good news from you! Thanks to all.
That’s what we’re doing, right here. Don’t worry.
That database host name does not look correct. That might be the web host name (a FTP server over HTTP?) but I would guess the database host name is actually something different, maybe some variation of that.
If bbPress can’t connect to the database, there’s usually a simple error in the connection details. There’s not much more to it than that.
I’m saddened to see development of bbPress stagnate since summer. After glimpsing bbPress a couple of years ago, i was enamored with the visual appeal, design and speed. This led me to migrate my fairly large board over to bbPress from older inferior software earlier this year. I dont want to see bbPress die! It’s got mojo and can be strengthened.
Pretty please, update me on how we can carry bbPress into 2010 and beyond as a dynamite communication tool. Thank-you.
ya my fault
not used to the way BBPress saves options yet.. haha
You’re probably right, and it is all related as well. Andrew Powers reported me he fixed things in his “iBlogPro Forum” theme. I’m waiting for his update.
Thanks for the help! Will report back.
Later…
Groovy. This is the fun part. A merry band of hackers trying to change the web, or at least our small slice of it.
I’m going to send everybody an email so we can start up a discussion and let’s also try for an IRC meetup next week.
MT reached out to Sam for the redesign files he was working on as well, and we can decide what the priorities are for the redesign when we chat.
What exactly are you trying to click on?
I’ve just installed bbpress 1.0.2 and when I go into the forum managemnet page (in the admin section), I have to say the point and click function for editing the forums is a nightmare to use. You have to click a hundred times before the point and click appears. I only have this problem on the forum management page – the rest of the bbpress brilliant.
Well, you have the icecream truck Ben L. haha, just kidding. I agree with you.
I don’t understand your logic. BuddyPress is a plugin for WPMU, which is a multi-blog version of WordPress. bbPress is a forum program. Not a plugin for anything, just a standalone forum.
Merging BuddyPress and bbPress would be like merging a car company and a grocery store. You can drive a car to a grocery store and carry groceries in it, but integration is as close as you can get to merging them.
Besides, no other major forum software (phpBB, IPB, VBulletin, SMF, etc) have a social network built in or are a plugin for a blogging program.
No then it doesnt matter, if you dont know what you’re agreeing to, it’s just another obstacle in the way of registering. BBPress have been smart to remove it.
Registering should be as easy as possible, in an ideal world, it shouldn’t be required at all actually. Hopefully this Facebook integration and Open ID stuff will popularise one day.
I registered just fine with bbPress too.
Just want to say hi to everyone. I’m a new member to bbpress forums
My name is Dennis Morhardt, the man behind the german communities of BuddyPress and WordPress MU. (For you Matt, the guy from the WordCamp in Germany). I think bbPress 2.0 sould the release with the best WordPress integration, maybe as plugin or a combination of plugin and stand-a-lone version with the possibile to use normal wordpress themes. But my focus is internationalization and localization and I would like to help
