[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

---

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

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

div>’ ) ); ?>

---

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!

[sockmoney]

I’m a new bbPress user for about 10 months now. I’ve been promoting bbPress in all the other forums I participate in. Love the product and would love to help out in any capacity I could.

I work for myself as a web publisher. I’m a developer at heart (Computer Engineer), but I mostly do community management and marketing these days.

Would not even know where to begin in regards to where I could help. I would like to see the product get a bit more mainstream usage. Every forum I bring it up in or recommend it, no one seems to know anything about it. I find myself sticking up for it against the big hitters like vBulletin, etc. Perhaps a volunteer marketing/advocate role might be useful…

Regards,

Max

[Ben L.]

What version of bbPress are you using? 1.0 and up have a fix for this.

[chrishajer]

I would use the Hidden Forums plugin.

For the meta tags, since bbPress tries to use XHTML 1.1 strict, you should make those lowercase and self-closed:

<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />

<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />

<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />

Also, I’ve never heard of robots =none – read up on that to be sure you have it right. noindex, nofollow is how I’ve seen it.

The meta robots tag and the robots.txt just tell search engines that listen to not index the content. Some search engines still might index the content if they don’t obey the robots ‘standards’. So, you need to ensure the content is not visible to anyone unless that individual is logged in. I would use hidden forums for that. Or password protect the whole installation, like an intranet, and give everyone in your group that login.

[chrishajer]

You should really figure out how to unzip files on your Vista machine. An unzip utility was included with Windows XP and I suspect one is included with Vista. You’re going to need it.

Anyway, you can download all the files here:

http://chrishajer.com/bbpress/avatar-upload/

The php files were all renamed php.txt so you can display them in your browser and save them, then upload them. You will need to keep the same directory structure. There is also a readme.txt file that is included that I did not rename.

Also, you’ll note on the plugin page that this says compatible up to 0.8.2.1 which is very very old. I have no idea if that works at all with whatever version you’re installing.

When you’re done, you should have something like this:

http://www.example.com/bbpress/my-plugins/avatar-upload/bb-avatar-upload.php

http://www.example.com/bbpress/my-plugins/avatar-upload/identicon.php

http://www.example.com/bbpress/my-plugins/avatar-upload/readme.txt

http://www.example.com/bbpress/my-plugins/avatar-upload/unsharpmask.php

http://www.example.com/bbpress/my-plugins/avatar-upload/additional-files/avatar-upload.php

http://www.example.com/bbpress/my-plugins/avatar-upload/additional-files/avatars/default.png

http://www.example.com/bbpress/my-plugins/avatar-upload/additional-files/my-templates/avatar.php

[yaysloths]

So the background is this: I’m creating a website that is basically just one single forum, and it’s important that it be as private as possible. I understand that it’s impossible to guarantee security for pretty much anything online, and I’m not talking about huge matters of national security or anything; it’s just an online extension of a support group I’m part of, and it would be easier to talk about some of the difficult things we’re talking about if it we felt relatively secure that it was just us reading it.

And I’m being extra-difficult by trying to make the “front page” actually be the forum page – seeing as how there’s only one, it seemed silly to click through two screens to get to the content. I followed chrishajers’ ninja code here and it’s awesome.

Then I tried to find the Force Login plugin but got a 404 when I tried to download it. So I tried the Hidden Forums plugin and chased my own tail for a few hours trying to get it to work. Couldn’t do it, gave up, found this version of Force Login, installed it, all good! (Well, except for there not being an option to register, only log in, but I can deal with that later.)

Then I got paranoid and figured I’d try adding Hidden Forums again (JUST TO BE SAFE DON’T YOU KNOW) and I found this. Neat! Changed that line of code, and everything was great when I logged in as admin/keymaster. It was great when I logged in as a test member who had access to the forum. Then I tried to log in as a test member who did NOT have access to the forum, and it threw Foxfire into a redirect loop and timed out. I couldn’t get the login page back at all, so I manually deleted the Hidden Forums plugin from my server & I could get back in.

It makes perfect sense that bbpress wouldn’t really know what to do when it’s simultaneously told “don’t show any hidden forums!” and “there’s only one forum and it’s hidden!” So I’m wondering what the best way is to proceed…if I just have Force Login working (as well as Approve User Registration), is Hidden Forums overkill? Or is Hidden Forums a stronger plugin, and I should lose Force Login? Or does it make sense to try to get them both to work?

And as far as other security measures go, I’ve got this going on in the header:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NONE">

<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">

<META HTTP-EQUIV="PRAGMA" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">

…and a robots.txt with this:

User-agent: *

Disallow: /

Am I missing anything? Many thanks for your help, and even more for your patience.

[Steven Hodson]

While I am going through this process of converting SMF to bbPress I am trying to install some plugins but have run up against a problem. For single file plugins there is no problem they can be activated. The problem comes when trying to activate a plugin in its own folder ie:

/my-plugins/

—-/some-plugin/

The same applies as well to the base bb-plugin folder.

Any suggestions on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

I should note that this is an install running on a Win Server with all the PHP/MySQL goodies installed.

[Steven Hodson]

I am going through the same process and it isn’t easy and definitely is more than just running a script. I’ll be documenting the whole process when I finally complete the conversion but don’t expect anything for at least a week.

[mrsparex]

One of the largest hosting sites featured bbpress on their main page yesterday.

…also I received quick help here on the forum. (siteground downloaded bbpress for me…free)

http://www.siteground.com/bbpress-hosting.htm