[Marius-]

Ever since I started using BBpress, I’ve seen users like you constantly nag about Buddypress. My impression is that this is a forum made by someone else, it’s another program, and I don’t understand the need to constantly speak about it here?

Is there something I’m missing? Why is Buddypress relevant here at all?

[Null]

Some just want it what it is: a FORUM, no fancy community options, no wordpress, just a stand alone forum. If this forum would require wordpress to function or buddypress, I would ditch this great peace of software. It would get too bloated IMHO.

1 of the great things about bbPress is that its small and clean. Want to add stuff, install a plugin. You can make it function the way you want it.

[hpguru]

gnawph THANK YOU! Very good plugin without stupid emotions pop-up.

[Sven Lehnert]

I really start to love the idea of merging bbpress and buddypress into one software.

Forums are already community software and need most of the buddypress parts.

Other bbpress plugins which offer simalar functionality will anyway fall behind the powerful buddypress solutions.

I think there are just positive effects to bring these two together.

The Buddypress community is young and has a lot of power. I think there are many people just want to jump into the project at the day it will be part of buddypress 100% and not half adapted like now.

I have the feeling the bbpress community is suffering from frustrated people, who were expecting much more from the project.

Now there is Buddypress and brings all together with new dynamic and a positive developing feeling.

Why bbpress not let participate from it and become together a brilliant community software?

In my dreams I see wp and wpmu being one and bbpress and buddypress merged to one wp community component .

What does the bbpress community think about it?

Looking for feedback

[johnhiler]

Sadness – Since you quoted me, I wanted to make sure to correct the record in a few places:

Matt must care about bbPress – he wrote the initial version himself!

http://ma.tt/2004/12/bbpress/

Sam was not working for free when he programmed v 1 – he was a paid employee of Automattic from Nov 07 to August 09:

http://unlettered.org/2007/11/13/wax-on/

http://www.linkedin.com/in/sambauers

Just wanted to make sure that any inaccuracies weren’t left uncorrected…

[r-a-y]

@sadness

No need for speculation, hearsay and playing the blame game.

Posts like this do not help matters.

@michael888

If you can’t wait for the WP/WPMU merge for BuddyPress, use Mingle, a social networking plugin by Blair Williams that works on regular WordPress. It’s already quite stable for such a young plugin.

Good news is you can still use your existing bbPress as well

[sadness]

Automattic is funded and have enough money to hire a lead developer to take charge (same way as wp), what Matt posted really gives me the chill when it comes to bbpress roadmap…

_ck_ already said three months ago that if things didn’t change by December, she wouldn’t be doing plugins upgrades for 1.0: http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/suggestion-to-ck-regarding-donations#post-1641 I can’t understand why Automattic doesn’t send her a $5-10k donation… bbPress would lose so much momentum if she stopped contributing.

I agree with both of you. I was the one that made that post on bbshowcase suggesting to _ck_ that she accept paypal for donations and/or monetize her site in other ways. But the main sentiment she shared with us is that she feels under-appreciated, which we all can understand because it is TRUE.

At the end of the day, there is absolutely nobody to blame for all this madness except Matt. He had 2 amazing programmers running the bbpress project for him, for FREE, and instead of showing them some appreciation, let alone paying them for all their hard work (out of his millions of dollars), he decided to be selfish and focus on WP and screw the people who were making bbpress such a huge success.

He barely gave bbpress any recognition, and still doesn’t. He has just never cared much about it. Christ, look at how shitty the WP.org forums are. They haven’t been updated in years. He just grabs the basic forum code for WP and BuddyPress and hacks it to work smoothly, and that’s it.

There are only 2 reasons why Sam and _ck_ “left”, “are leaving”, or “were removed” and that is because there have been sour relations for a very long time between WP and bbpress. There are only 2 causes:

1) they were being taken advantage of

2) they were being under-appreciated

Both of these are the fault of Matt, who in his juvenile ways has never given 2 shits about the worker bees that he has been so blessed with and who have made his open source projects take off. It’s the same exact attitude that you see with the a-holes at Facebook and other “startup successes” that were simply at the right place at the right time yet who think of themselves as gods.

Matt, get your shit together, and show some respect and appreciation for the people around the world who made, and continue to make, you successful. You didn’t create yourself buddy. Grow up and show a little generosity and maturity and manage bbpress with some true class.

This project will not go away people so stop with the farewells.

…That’s unless Matt deletes it, of course.

[Steven Hodson]

In a previous question regarding problems with getting plugins to play nice (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugins-in-my-plugins-not-installing) you replied (which is strangely missing from the thread at this point) with a link to a piece of patching code. Unfortunately with your reply going AWOL the link is missing now so is there any chance you can point me to it again. As well any chance of a hint to where the code is added to (file name) as I am new to bbPress so it would help to know what file it is that I need to patch.

many thanks in advance.

[Ben L.]

I have a copy of it lying around – I’m not sure if I modified it at some point, though. http://www.mediafire.com/?jmyy5ym5em3

[buddha-trance]

@jackey, since you deep integrated, the slashes problem could originate from WP, as a “magic quotes” issue

http://bestservedcold.com/news/bbpress-and-wordpress-magic-quotes/

http://thedeadone.net/forum/?p=1211

[jackey]

@buddha trance – I suspect is is theme related but it is infectueus. The other themes, even the backend seems to be infected with the \\\

It must be something tot that obvious… I suspect it all started when I installed the iBlogPro Forum that demanded ‘deep’ integration with WP.

Checked out the demo forum of ‘iBlogPro Forum’ and noticed it suffered the same problem with the backslashes.

Re-installing bbPress made no difference.

[chrishajer]

It used to be available here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-to-get-the-theme-of-bbpressorg-for-v101#post-45238

But bbshowcase.org was shut down recently. I don’t know of another source. Maybe someone who is using it could share their copy.

[charlie_the_cat]

I would love to have bbPress on our site no matter what I try, it will not install. I get the bbPress installer and Step – Database configuration. I enter the Database name, User name and Password but every time I get the message ‘There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.

Please check the settings, then try again.’

I have tried just about every possible permutation of possible names but no matter what I try, it doesn’t make any difference. I have searched these forums but nothing seems to cover my particular problem. It is a MYSQL database newly created (I have destroyed several to see if that made any difference).

Anybody have any ideas please?

[Marius-]

I think that was some of my problem, it didnt work untill you clicked on the forum category and used the button in there. But when trying to create polls on the frontpage it didnt work. Not sure, coming back to this soon.

[buddha-trance]

@jackey – maybe the problem is theme related. Did you try to activate the default Kakumei theme and see if bbPolls behave normally? This would help pin down the problem.

[buddha-trance]

I have a workaround for the navigation issue.

This does not solve why some plugins are not working with integration (which would still be nice to know, and what code would fix it), but allows to have consistent menu tabs when integrating the theme. It involves using theme options for excluding pages, rather than a plugin.

Incidentally, my theme already comes with the option to exclude pages from navigation, but I still used PageMash for other handy features… Then it occurred to me to test if the options would be reflected into bbPress, and sure they were!!! This way, no core code changes, all is controlled from within the theme.

@arpowers – I am sure you already know how to do this. Posting links just in case, for others as well.

To create the theme options page, there are tutorials, showing code to add to functions.php

http://forthelose.org/how-to-create-a-theme-options-page-for-your-wordpress-theme

http://blog.themeforest.net/WordPress/create-an-options-page-for-your-WordPress-theme/

in the arrays to exclude the pages, this is what I have:

array(	"name" => "Main Menu Settings",

"desc" => "The navigation menu tabs at the top.",

"id" => $shortname."_admin_heading",

"type" => "info"),



array(	"name" => "Exclude",

"desc" => "Enter a comma-separated list of Page IDs to be excluded from the main menu tabs (example - 5,9,22).",

"id" => $shortname."_exclude_pages",

"std" => "",

"type" => "text"),



array(	"name" => "Sort by",

"desc" => "'<strong>menu_order</strong>' - sorts the Pages by Page Order<br /> '<strong>post_title</strong>' - sorts Pages alphabetically (by title)<br /> '<strong>post_date</strong>' - sort Pages by their creation date.",

"id" => $shortname."_sort_pages",

"type" => "select",

"std" => "menu_order",

"options" => array("menu_order", "post_title", "post_date"))

I hope this helps!

[jackey]

Tried re-installing it after an update to iBlogForum 1.02.

But still the same. When I click to add a poll, nothing happens.

When I try to alter the Polls’ configuration or reset it to default, it wipes my iBlogForum configuration.

Another strange behaviour that I do not know if it is related… everywhere were I enter quotes, bbPress changes this to ‘ time over time so after a few edits you end up with \\\\\’

[Michael]

I see – thanks for telling me that. The change is not urgent – so I’ll stick to my current bbPress installation. It seems to be doing the trick just fine. I’ll probably even land up extending it myself.

[buddha-trance]

@Alex Luft – Focused intent within a community can move mountains!

@Michael888 – As of now, BuddyPress works only with WPMU. It does not run as a standalone, because it is built as a set of plugins. Rumors said that the code for WP single user and WPMU would merge soon. I still have a test community area with everything installed and it’s the ideal combo. Didn’t transfer the blog there because of the announced merge… have been waiting for a year now. If the social network capability is urgent for you, you may want to use WPMU for the time being, and merge later.

BuddyPress is another good reason why I don’t see bbPress coming to an end. A forum is an integral part of the social networking (group forums, etc.). BP itself relies on bbPress currently. From their site:

Groups also include a group forum (bbPress), and wire where group members can engage in discussions.

[bingsterloot]

Hi all

I have been looking for the solution, but only found small hints here and there with no real complete guide on how to do it, so i have made a small one that should explain it in a simple way.

(THIS IS BASED ON WP 2.8.6 AND BBPRESS 1.0.2 WITH WP INTEGRATION VIA BBPRESS ADMIN.) If you have older versions installed, i recommend to read this exelent post by ck: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

step one: Add this string to your bb-config file in your bbpress folder:

require_once(‘/home/ your username/public_html/your wordpress folder/wp-blog-header.php’);

NOTE: The path might be different from host to host, but this is what my path looks like……you get the idea ;O)

step two:

Go to your WP template folder, and open up the file: header.php from your chosen template.

Copy over the content you want after the <BODY> tag, and copy it into your BBpress header.php template file after the <BODY> tag.

What i did here was to take a backup of the original BBpress header.php file, so i could paste in the things i needed from this file to the new one i just

created with the WP header content.

step 3 your css files

My approach to this was of course to take backup of both WP css and BB css files first. I used the BBpress css file as my main css file. I then took the css strings from the WP css file i needed, and simply copied them into my BBpress css file. In my case i needed the header and navigation strings.

NOTE: You might also need to copy the WP css body string, if your BB css Body string has different font measures. Some use EM´s and some use %. This will affect how your fonts react.

And that´s it folks. I hope you understand this, and if other people has something to add to this plz. do so we all can learn.

Mike

[Urme]

Is this (bbpress.org) theme downloadable somewhere? I really like this theme.

[Michael]

Greetings

I am glad to hear that an effort is being made into ensuring the continuity (and maturing) of bbPress.

If I could, I would help out a lot where I could. Unfortunately, I’m still in the learning phase with PHP and MySQL. This as I learn by experience.

In the long-term however, I would like to help out as much as I can. I do have a strong taste for interface design, and new ideas.

I’ve always said to myself that forum software seems to be all the same, from brand to brand. Already, bbPress is defying that. bbPress has a lot to offer, and I’d like to extend it somewhat.

In my case, I have released a development community forum (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation) using bbPress – so that shows one thing. Many people have different purposes for using forum software. With my community (which is still small – it’s new) I wish that it would be more socially interactive. I am in the middle of writing a plugin that will make user-profiles more interactive (ie Status updates, etc). In the long term, I’d like to cater for that kind of thing. Bringing new things into bbPress that don’t seem to exist any any other forum software. Of course, in this case, my idea would only be useful for those using bbPress as a standalone package (ie without integrating it with WPMU and BuddyPress).

I can see that bbPress will ba amazing software one day – competing with the likes on vBulletin and phpBB. If anything, I’d love to be involved with getting it there.

[Michael]

I’m happy to hear it that way. After looking at bbShowcase, I just thought that it was done. I’d be so happy to see 1.2 come out. In fact, I can’t wait to see 2.0 – I’m sure it’ll have a stack of new features.

But you’re right, and like I said as well, there’d be no good reason to end it.

I know this is off-topic, but I’d just like to ask something. BuddyPress seems to be such a brilliant piece of software. Can it only be integrated with WordPress MU? Can it not run standalone? The whole idea for my site is to have a simple community-driven system for all areas of development. The forum seems to be doing the trick, and as good as it is, BuddyPress would cater for the concept so much better than bbPress does.

Thanks for the optimism – I wasn’t worrying, however.

[Alex Luft]

Then, we’ll see WP 3.0 (with wpmu merger) + BuddyPress 1.5 + bbPress 1.2

the perfect blog/social network/forum combo

I can already visualize it on my dashboard!

A cheerful moment of optimism

I hope you’re right! I really do! I really like bbPress for its simplicity and flexibility. There still remains work to be done (better commenting integration with WP), but I hope it pulls through!

[Ben L.]

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