[grassrootspa]

RE: ‘Extend’, before Sam left he was redoing this site.

See: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sneak-peek-at-bbpressorg-20

It’s a real shame he left before the new one was up…

[arpowers]

coincidentally, we’re launching a BBpress ‘addon’ to our WP themes.

http://www.pagelines.com/demos/iblogpro/forum/

They aren’t stand alone, but I think BBP works best in concert with WP anyway.

[arpowers]

Just put out a new theme based on WordPress for one of our ‘pro’ WP themes.

Would love the feedback of the BBP community.

Demo:

http://www.pagelines.com/demos/iblogpro/forum/

Info Page:

http://www.pagelines.com/themes/iblogpro-forum/

[Macmenddotcom]

Oh and i just wanted to add on this ck thing. People dont’t donate things that easily, and many of us are searching for something for nothing, but you were obviously disheartened. I have run a mac support site in different form for years, using different forums and its been hacked (lost thousands of posts) derided and the donation button clicked once or twice, there are bigger, slicker better sites, but I like to think people still use my site because I don’t look down my nose at anyone and keep it simple.

I would ask you from the heart, put your site back up and don’t give up…hey I don’t even know you but a little research tells me you have put alot in. You may think its time to cut your losses, on the other hand it might also be time to promote a clean simple forum.

AND beleive me I dont see a lot of promotion going on outside of the circle. If everyone who uses bbpress had a blog and did an article “the best forum software” a little blurb and put bbpress at the top of a a list of 5 lets say bbpress vb, smf, phpbb and a.n.other board….instant promotion. People are setting up forums all the time but dont know which software to use. I found bbpress by accident and am using smf at present but transferring data as we speak….main problem right now is where are the themes?

Why is this starting to remind me of XOOPS cms

[Macmenddotcom]

There is much discussion on these boards on where bbpress is going, reminds me a bit of simailar stuff at XOOPS cms. However one sure sign on these matters is the lack of available themes. Where is a themes repository? Because thats what is needed. Did I miss something?

‘Extend’ surely doesn’t just mean plugins it means the GUI, the way things look, but all I can find is plugins. Or maybe someone can point it out.

[kriskl]

it is sad news indeed

few months ago, I have paid some developers to convert the site from phpbb to bbpress. except into 1.0 version so many plugins were not updated, and new forum didnt go on line,

and we were waiting for some movement on bbpress and plugins front..

it looks like time & money was wasted

Maybe, can anyone suggest a viable alternative to bbpress? so we could have a deep integration of wpmu with forums & buddypress

of course, there has to exist some converters from phpbb…. I have looked and found NO alternative

[Ben Huson]

Definitely don’t want to see BBPress fall by the wayside so if I can do anything to help, I will.

I have done a couple of BBPress implementations alongside wordpress, mainly theming and small tweaks, but it’s fair to say at the moment my main knowledge is based around WordPress theme and plugin development.

Happy to contribute in any way, wether it’s minor core patches, front end design/coding, or just adding documentation to a codex etc.

[batarista]

Dear All,

I’m making a first-time installation of bbPress-1.0.2.zip on localhost, following the instructions at http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

I unzipped to wwwrootbbpress, browsed to the installation script “Welcome to the bbPress installer”, created the MySQL database, and for simplicity, skipped WordPress integration.

However, at the final step “Site settings”, when I press the “Save site settings” & “Complete the installation” buttons, I receive the following error…

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 98304 bytes) in F:wwwrootbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.bp-sql-schema-parser.php on line 170

Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?

My server is WAMP5 on WinXP; it already serves up a WordPress blog (I’m in “learn about blogs & fora mode”).

Many thanks in advance :>)

[arpowers]

We’re interested in helping (PageLines.com)

Tons of experience with WP and BBPress Addons for our themes due out shortly

[chrishajer]

You should post here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress

Or contact Matt Mullenweg at Automattic.

[arpowers]

We might be interested in working to improve BBPress (PageLines)…

Who would we need to talk to?

[Justin Tadlock]

I’ll try to help out in any way I can. I mentioned in another topic here that bbPress needs a Codex, so I’m all for volunteering some of my time to work on documenting functions and such. I’d even help out with some inline documentation of the code too (though I’m not as familiar with it as WP).

Most of the work I’ve done with bbPress is for my own use here:

http://themehybrid.com/support

I’ve dabbled in bbPress plugin development, but most of the work I do is with themes.

[buddha-trance]

This is all so confusing. I will use bbPress as long as possible (keeping in mind the security issues) and really hope that it will continue to grow. It’s such an elegant platform and a perfect match for WordPress.

I find it odd that it would die like this… and WP is still using it, though I’m sure we’ll all miss _ck_’s great knowledge and contribution. Oh my…

[buddha-trance]

I just saw that on bbshowcase.org too… oh no!!!!!

Also, I thought that Sam left, not that there was a “removal”….

This is all so odd and sad.

bbPress is a great platform and the true logical companion to WordPress as of now.

Let’s keep it alive and thriving.

[chandersbs]

Wow

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.

http://www.bbshowcase.org

[shansta]

ok.. will try thanks.

I can’t seem to edit/delete posts in WP anymore… Does anyone know if having admin username set to administrator/keymaster affects this or not?

[arpowers]

What is the main alternative to BBPress?

It seems like the logical choice for WP sites that would like to add a forum…

Considering that, why hasn’t it gained more popularity and support?

[Ben L.]

For me, it’s bb-login.php?action=logout. I think your theme might have the link hardcoded. If so, change the link to <?php bb_logout_link(); ?>.

[hatter]

This is usually due to a cookie issue. Clear your cookies and then try to login / logout.

[thierryyyyyyy]

Seems that bbPress is useful for Automatics, even if it is not really profitable.

On the “sticky” topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress Matt asked YOU for helping bbPress, so if you feel like all of us in this topic the need of bbPress continuation, please put a message there.

At a time, I thought that updates where too frequent. But now, it is really scary too see the slow death of this marvelous forum script.

After her long work for the community, we could perhaps let _CK_ free

She seems to really want to go away from bbPress coding, I fully respect her choice.

[wiseacre]

Folks, bbpress is dead because of it doesn’t make money for Automattic I think. Read one of the last Matt’s topic between the lines –

“… and I just wanted to let everyone know that bbPress is still an important project for the WP community. (It powers our forums and plugin directory, for one thing!) It’s not going away.”

That’s all

[Steven Hodson]

_ck_ while I can respect your pulling out of developing plugins for bbPress is there any chance of what you have contributed so far can be picked up by other developers so that we don’t have to start from scratch to replace many of the great plugins you have written?

[Steven Hodson]

I can’t say exactly where I got this tidbit from but the ‘word’ I have been able to find out so far is that bbPress isn’t quite dead in the water. The rumor is that it might be picked up by another group heavy into WP projects. I’m trying to get some solid confirmation because I don’t want to have to go to all the effort of converting from SMF to bbPress only to be stuck with another dead duck.

[grassrootspa]

@citizenkeith:

Sorry for the confusion, meant ‘Ouch’ re: the site bbShowcase going down (did not mean to direct it at you or anyone else). This is not good for bbPress’s future. It hurts us all.

@Olaf:

You are right on the money. It would be disastrous if a bbPress vulnerability was discovered and no patch was rolled out to combat it…

[hpguru]

Please, don’t move bbPress project to trash. I am big bbPress fan! Wait new updates.