[Ben L.]

http://bit.ly/4LJlfj (a graph of the daily downloads) – 18 downloads this week, 6 of which were from today.

It would benifit the bbPress community as a whole if Matt or MDA (or anyone else with access to the repository) could put up some kind of notice on the Private Messaging plugin page that tells about the security risks.

[buddha-trance]

It has been a while, since the alpha/RC-1 times, that we had a list of working plugins, so I thought to create a list of working plugins with the current version 1.0.2, that we can all add to, in order to help other users. Many plugins are listed as up to v. 9.0, but they do work with the latest release (that should be updated, so it doesn’t look like 1.0.2 has very little options…).

Here is my list at the moment, planning on testing more.

1 – Ajaxed Quote

2 – Allow Images

3 – BB Anonymous Posting

4 – bbPress Recent Replies

5 – bbPress signatures

6 – bbPress Smilies

7 – bbSocialize

8 – bb Topic Views

9 – BBVideo

10 – Check For Updates

11 – Comment Quicktags for bbPress

12 – Human Test for bbPress

13 – Instant Password

14 – Leaderboard

15 – Live Comment Preview

16 – Members Online

17 – New User Notification Email

18 – no duplicate email addresses

19 – OpenID for bbPress

20 – Post Edit Look Behind

21 – Post Meta for bbPress

22 – Post Notification

23 – Reputation (Karma) for bbPress

24 – Subscribe to Topic

25 – Unread Posts

26 – WordPress Latest Post

27 – bbAvatars

28 – Bavatars

29 – bbPolls

30 – After the Deadline

[Marius-]

Alright, I’ll give it another try this weekend. Just need to finish up some schoolwork first.

[paulhawke]

I would be glad to help out in any way I can.

I have an offline monthly fiction writers group I run, who coordinate via a bbPress forum. Administration of that’s been a breeze, and I can think of no better forum software to use. So I’ve had experience simply administering a bbPress installation (admittedly with only a couple of dozen active users).

I’ve been creating custom themes & plugins for bbPress for a while for my own enjoyment, aiming to bend the software into new and interesting places. For instance

1. making a very “blog-like” theme giving strong emphasis to opening posts with all replies looking like comments & discussion of the opening post
2. writing and enhanced form of the RSS portion of the site to use bbPress as a super-flexible podcast hosting site generating iTunes compatible feeds
3. Forum specific theming (a gaming site who wants an “XBox theme” active for certain forums, a “W.o.W theme” in others, etc)
4. creating a fine-grained access control mechanism for forum/topic/board ownership and read/write privilages (to support separation of gaming forum admin, and multiple podcasters for 2 instances of its use)

Prior to hacking on the bbPress codebase, plugins and themes I lived in WordPress land – themes and plugins – using it for blogs, CMS and podcast hosting.

I write HTML/CSS/PHP for pleasure. Java/XML/etc is the day-job.

[buddha-trance]

I just installed and tried the plugin on my local test forum (1.0.2) and it works just fine.

Select to show the poll on new topic, first fill out the poll questions, then write your post and submit. The poll appears automatically when the topic is started (no need for a “save” button under the poll creation field).

Guests can read the poll (if so selected), but not vote. Only members.

I tried both with ajax enabled or disabled. And single vote or test mode with multiple votes. The issues could be a plugin conflict.

[Rebtl]

I have been looking for a way to allow my blog readers to create a profile on the site as a way to build community.

I just want a setup that will allow users to create a basic profile and have a basic profile page

-name

-picture

-recent comments

-number of comments

-member since

etc

I heard that bbpress would be a good way to do this, but I don’t actually want the forum, just user profile pages for all of their activity on the site. (mostly commenting etc)

Is this possible?

Thanks,

Rebtl

[arpowers]

I believe that the problem is that the plugin settings and other data are stored in the wp_options table

I don’t think this is the issue. Options set in WP seem to work fine.

Something else is causing it.. probably a global variable set in WP that isn’t set in BBPress for some reason…

[buddha-trance]

@Michael888 – bbPress won’t come to an end. We are just going through a temporary halt.

Once we see v. 1.0.3, we’ll know that bbPress has made it though the bump. I bet things will pick up again after WP 2.9 is released.

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

[chrishajer]

I registered just fine with bbPress. You will see my registration there.

[citizenkeith]

It’s such a pity it had to come to an end.

Who said that it has come to an end??? See the sticky post on this forum’s front page.

[Michael]

Hi all

I downloaded bbPress about a week and a bit ago, and I find it extremely user-friendly. It’s such a pity it had to come to an end.

It’s also unfortunate to hear that it had ended mostly based on the fact that Sam left – a replacement could have been appointed to continue developing such great forum software.

Unlike most forum software – bbPress is extremely easy to extend. This is one of the reasons I am using it. It’s compatibility is great.

If I was able to – I would continue the development of bbPress myself – though it would not feel right as I am not part of Automattic, thus I do not have the rights to the source-code. All I can do for now is work on what I have, and continue using bbPress for as long as possible.

At present, I run a [new] development community called dev:station (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation), proudly powered by bbPress. The only reason I would switch from bbPress is to extend my concept in to a social-site, instead of a forum-based site.

I really do hope that, in the future, bbPress will be re-incarnated – maybe as something completely new. In fact, if anything, that would be a good idea: Create a new package. Start from scratch.

Furthermore, WordPress still uses bbPress for its forum – I doubt that it will be gone for too long.

@buddha trance: I completely agree with you – I think we should keep it alive and kicking. If anything, Automattic may realize that bbPress should be in continual development. It would make me very happy, if not everyone else.

[jackey]

I have also issues with BBPress Polls. The plugin activates, and shows in the interface, but does not react. Re-installes several times. But no results.

Tried to alter the settings, and it wiped out all settings of my iBlogPro Forum Theme.

This behavior is reproducible (and a real pain).

FYI I’m a newby to bbPress…

Any advice welcome.

[johnhiler]

Please reinstall it and post a detailed bug report – we may be able to figure out the issue for you. It also may be a conflict with another plugin, which you could resolve by deactivating that other plugin (or finding an alternative).

[johnhiler]

There won’t be any changes to bbPress for quite some time… if Matt does replace Sam, it will take time for any new release to come out.

So actually, this is probably the most stable time in the history of bbPress’ codebase to be making themes or plugins!

[bbdev]

I am wanting to develop some bbPress themes but would like to know the status on bbPress itself??

Also, are there changes coming to the software that will completely change the way themes are developed? or will themes remain the same??

Basically, what’s going on here with Sam and _CK_ gone?… which is very disappointing.

[hpguru]

bbPress is best forum software! I use 1 years -> and i’m happy.

[Marius-]

Didnt work to vote. It’s a bit vague right now, deleted it ages ago, but I tried everything and it did not work.

[Ash Shaw]

We are experiencing issues, there is no “Add new topic” option on any of the forums pages.

We are runnning bbpress 1.0.2 / WPMU 2.8.6 / Buddypress 1.1.3 – http://ancestry24.com/forums

We currently have bbPress XML-RPC publishing protocol enabled.

We have reviewed – http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/add-new-topic-link-missing-from-installation

– http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-post-topic-gives-error

– http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-post-to-forums

[johnhiler]

What sort of bugs are you seeing when you install it on 1.02?

[qbnlykwhoa]

Are you integrated with WordPress?

What version bbPress did you install, and WordPress too if you did integrate?

bbpress v1.0, WordPress v2.8.6

Any plugins? What theme are you using?

I did have some but disabled them all.

Language other than English?

No, just English

When in doubt, post a link to your forum.

http://www.highlysedated.com/bbpress

I can register from WordPress but whenever i try to register from bbpress i get that error message.

[buddha-trance]

@ shansta – The WordPress admin is a bbPress Keymaster. This is what I have, and all is working fine. I’m not sure about the a:2 you added, with both capabilities…

wp_usermeta:

wp_capabilities a:1:{s:13:”administrator”;b:1;}

bb_capabilities a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}

Dashboard –> WordPress Integration

WordPress Administrator –> bbPress Keymaster

WordPress Editor –> bbPress Administrator

WordPress Author –> bbPress Member

WordPress Contributor –> bbPress Member

WordPress Subscriber –> bbPress Member

As hatter mentioned, login/logout problems are usually a cookie issue.

[buddha-trance]

@chandersbs – I second that.

Let’s keep this thread running, as well as the one on WordPress

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/337371?replies=11

As a community, we can get things moving.

[johnhiler]

That error sounds similar to this one:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/who-can-shed-some-light-here

Are you using any of the plugins mentioned in that post? Might be worth disabling them temporarily, and seeing if that impacts the error…

[chrishajer]

Are you integrated with WordPress?

What version bbPress did you install, and WordPress too if you did integrate?

Any plugins? What theme are you using?

Language other than English?

When in doubt, post a link to your forum.

[qbnlykwhoa]

I get this whenever a new user tries to register.

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/services/vux/lib/php’) in /data/20/1/161/72/1976724/user/2159081/htdocs/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45

Any help would be appreciated.