[Olaf Lederer]

Thanks Steven, for posting this announcement.

Really bad that it looks like that bbpress has not some great future.

Actually I think about to convert my bbpress forum into a wordpress site using a theme that looks like a forum

Can’t be so difficult, the whole structure of bbpress looks too much like wordpress

(… another XX hours lost in the development of bbpress plugins)

[hatter]

With the sudden sticky for bbPress help, _ck_ shutting down her site and the previous post by her about refunding donations, I’m kinda wondering what is going on with bbPress. Hopefully someone with more info will chime in and explain the future of bbPress to the rest of us.

[hatter]

It sounds like either bbPress is pointing to the wrong db, or you are including files from WP such that it is overriding the db bbPress is looking at and is accidentally looking at the WP db. Make sure you are not including any WP files in the bb-config.php and bb-settings.php files.

[Macmenddotcom]

I have integrated my test forum with wordpress. Both have seperate databases and are on the same host server but bbpress is in a sub-directory, Wp is in the root. WordPress has 4 members bbpress has 300, afterwords bbpress has only 4 members, why is that, it seems like instead of integration wordpress details have overwritten bbpress…any one able to help

[Steven Hodson]

I just tried to drop by bbShowcase and found this waiting for anyone visiting

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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.

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[_ck_]

Please do not do send donations anymore.

For those that have in the past 24 hours because of this thread please ask Amazon or your credit company for a refund or I’ll send you back the gift certificate numbers if they can’t refund for some reason.

Any donations sent as of this month will not be used,

I repeat, do not send any further donations.

[chrishajer]

You need to create a theme for bbPress that looks like your WordPress theme. That is how most people do integration.

I’ve also heard of people using a iframe to put bbPress inside a WordPress page, but I don’t recommend that.

[hatter]

FYI, in the future, if you find / solve a bug, tickets can be created at http://trac.bbpress.org

[frooyo]

@hatter

Changing $empty_format = ””;

to

$empty_format = ”/”;

make’s it work.

MANY, MANY thanks. Anyway of me being able to make this work now without having to modify the core bbPress code? My concern is that I want to be able to upgrade bbPress in the future without having to remember I made this modification to the core function.

[lokrin2000]

Ok, I had no problem with the integration. Both WP and bbPress are working and the users are sharing fine.

Now, HOW DO I get either

1) WordPress to show the forums inside it?

or

2) bbPress to look like the template I have for wp? Template is customized Mandigo theme.

[chrishajer]

If you have an account at wordpress.org forums, you can log in with those details at trac.bbpress.org. I’m not sure how else to create an account that will work there.

[Steven Hodson]

I have successfully moved a set of SMF 2.0RC1.1 forums to bbPress 1 with a stop off in phpBB3. It’s definitely not something for an inexperienced user to consider but like I said above I’ll be documenting the whole process sometime after this coming week.

[aufumy]

I’ve recently been introduced to BBpress, did a migration from FUDforum for http://cycling74.com/forums.

Posted the scripts to migrate as well as the plugin to redirect FUDforum links on github.

http://github.com/aufumy/migratefud2bb

http://github.com/aufumy/redirect_fudlinks

Myself: worked with Drupal at Raincity Studios. Contributed on core patches, and contrib modules.

Strengths: Data import, database, openid, apache solr

What part of BBPress I’d like to be part of: currently just getting to know it, helping out with forums, plugins.

[hatter]

It appears to be an issue with permalinks. Try and add this line to your bb-config.php file:

$bb->mod_rewrite = false;

If this is the case, make sure you setup permalinks correctly, since they don’t work out of the box. You can see how to do it Here

[aufumy]

I posted the scripts I use to github, to migrate FUDforum to BBpress (migratefud2bb), and a simple plugin to 301 redirect old FUDforum links to BBpress

http://github.com/aufumy/migratefud2bb

http://github.com/aufumy/redirect_fudlinks

[arpowers]

Any news on this subject?

A fix for this, or even info on it so I can design themes to it would be very helpful.

I would say that BBPress isn’t fully compatible with WordPress; until at least the ‘navigation’ plugins that work on WP work on BBPress as well.

[arpowers]

Any news on this subject?

A fix for this, or even info on it so I can design themes to it would be very helpful.

I would say that BBPress isn’t fully compatible with WordPress; until at least the ‘navigation’ plugins that work on WP work on BBPress as well.

[Steven Hodson]

as someone fresh to bbPress one of the things that has amazed me has been the contribution that _ck_ has obviously made to the community. The number of plugins alone with her name attached is nothing short of amazing and if she did not return that would be a definite loss to all of us, and future bbPress converts.

I know the moment I see anything posted by her to show that she is still a part of the community I’ll be making a good donation in recognition of her contribution.

[frooyo]

I’m running bbPress 1.0.2.

I’m having problems with the “PREVIOUS” link when using the “bb_latest_topics_pages” function.

I have the following code on my frontpage.php

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<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

<?php bb_latest_topics_pages( array( ‘before’ => ‘<div class=”nav”>’, ‘after’ => ‘</

div>’ ) ); ?>

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It display paged frontpage topic links (1, 2, 3, Next) but whenever I’m on a page other than the frontpage … for example, Page 2, both the Previous and Page 1 link points to the current page and not the previous page.

[chrishajer]

This plugin will allow you to limit the number of topics shown for almost any view:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

[Kunstbanause]

Hi there good people,

my bbPress forum has a bunch of Latest Discussions but I dint want them all to be shown on the Main Page. Currently there are 15 shown. I’d rather have 3 or 5. Is there a way to do so?

Best regards

-Ben

[johnhiler]

Ah wow, only six donations huh.

_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.

[citizenkeith]

A little off topic, but relevant: Folks, please consider donating to _ck_ for all the great work she’s done…

http://bbshowcase.org/donate/

I find it astonishing that she’s only had SIX donations this year!

Keep her involved!!!!

[Ben L.]

I’ve submitted this as a ticket on trac: https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1209

[buddha-trance]

I am sharing this, just in case it may help someone else looking to implement this feature. There is a great plugin that does this, bbAvatars, but it was interfering with other functions I wanted to implement, so I had to find a workaround (bbPress 1.0.2).

With the premise that I really don’t like to edit core files, because you have to remember to edit them each time you upgrade, this time I had no choice, as any avatar plugin I tried did not work out for my purposes. There are a few simple steps you can use to set your own custom avatar, when users have not set a gravatar account.

1 – I have noticed that the “blank” choice in the settings is the only one that refers to an internal image, so you just want the code to point to your own custom image, rather than “blank.gif” (which may be also used for other calls, so I wanted to leave that one alone and not replace it with another custom blank).

In “bb-includes”, look for the file “functions.bb-pluggable.php”, and edit around line 895, where it says

case 'blank':

$default = bb_get_uri( 'bb-admin/images/blank.gif', null, BB_URI_CONTEXT_IMG_SRC );

and change blank.gif with your image, default.jpg or any other name.

2 – Upload your custom image in bb-admin/images (if you store it somewhere else, change the path in the code above accordingly).

3 – In your Admin Dashboard –> Settings –> Discussions, set the choice to “blank”.

Voila!!!!

To change the avatar size from the bbpress default size, in post.php of your templates, look for

<?php post_author_avatar_link(); ?>

and add the number of pixels inside (), for example:

<?php post_author_avatar_link(80); ?>

Hope this helps!