[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

[mrsparex]

…thinking outside the box…

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/

Thanks!

[hpguru]

You need phpMyAdmin. In PHPMYADMIN´s bbPress database choose SQL. Go here. Please backup first!

DELETE FROM *bb_posts* WHERE *bb_posts*.*post_status* =2 ;



DELETE FROM *bb_posts* WHERE *bb_posts*.*post_status* =1 ;

PLEASE CHANGE ALL * TO BACKTICKS `

OK. Spam and deleted posts now deleted from db.

2 = spam

1 = deleted posts

[Matias Ventura]

Hi Matt,

I am a twenty–something designer who profoundly enjoys creating efficient and elegant websites, with abilities focused in CSS/XHTML, WordPress/bbPress theming and Photoshop. I also have a great interest in writing. My portfolio.

I would like to be part of developing documentation regarding theme functions: something in which WordPress excels at and which further allows designers to work more fluently. As a theme designer I often had to explore bbPress core files looking for functions and their behavior in order to develop a site. This was done mostly through trial and error due to the lack of a function reference document. Then maybe even contributing with more quality themes or a restyle of bbPress while also promoting the development of things like P2 in WordPress to show the range of possibilities of bbPress. As a reference, you might register in this website I created to check how some aspects of bbPress were enhanced through theming (encouraging posting by displaying it more prominently though non obtrusive) for a particular project.

[mrsparex]

It’s the Avatars file that I tried…I believe your right about not having the right software to decompress the file. I know Vista can unzip files but I haven’t figured out how so I’m going to filehippo.com and download a zip file program. I’m going to wait a day or so and see what else gets added to this topic first. The Avatar plugin does in end .zip

Also I’ll try the right click and save. Thanks for your reply and “pre thanks” for any more replies!

I’m also wanting to add a stock market theme when I find one and the TOU plugin…after I get the feel for bbpress I hope to make a good bulletin board forum for penny stock traders…Thanks !

(thanks for not laughing in front of me)

[Marius-]

I just installed Human Test and can confirm it works with BBPress 1.02.

I deactivated Mass Delete Users, so lets hope these spambots doesn’t know what 4+2 is.

[Macmenddotcom]

I have used the phpbb script found here to convert smf has made an SQL dump which all looks ok but when I try to run it in phyadmin on the bbpress database it keeps stopping with duplicate errors either on the ” left for empty fields or on the user themselves anyone know why

[chrishajer]

As summae says, you are missing some folders. There should be subfolders under forum1, but there aren’t any. You need to upload all the files and folders exactly as they are distributed by bbPress. You should at least have these 4 folders once you install, directly beneath the top level forum1 folder:

bb-admin

bb-includes

bb-plugins

bb-template

[Jeroenrs]

I’m very new to this, I installed WordPress a few days ago and now I’d like to install bbPress. The installation of WordPress went great, but when I try to install bbPress, I get the “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.”-error. So there must be something wrong with the data I filled in, what did I do wrong?

Database name: b4_4599254_forum

Database user: b4_4599254

Database host: http://ftp.byethost4.com

Thanks.

[mrsparex]

Fortunately I’ll not be able to hear people laughing at me but I just bought hosting from Siteground (great service by the way) and they uploaded bbpress for me. I believe I found how/where to upload in the “my plugin” file. It asks where to download from… well….when I try to save the plugin download onto my computer it defaults to save it with notepad (offers internet explorer too). When I save it with notepad and then view the file it looks like wingdings on bad drugs. I know this is a silly question for most here…but how do I save a plugin download with Vista? (go ahead and laugh my speakers are off) LOL …I must to learn more basics before I can do this it appears. oh yeah….my site is pennyforums.com Thanks!

[Brian]

Hi there, jumping in on this discussion. According to your second photo in this last post, you’ve a bunch of files where they shouldn’t be. If you uploaded bbpress via ftp, (I highly recommend Filezilla, and it’s free), it should look something like this:

http://summaestudio.net/images/screenshot-1.png

As you can see, there is no install.php in my forums folder, and there are the folders bb-admin, etc. It seems like you somehow may have uploaded the files w/o maintaining the file structure.

[Josh Leuze]

Steve, it looks like the link in the original post is working again:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/wmnkhayal/files/phpbb3tobbpress%20converter.tar.gz

[buddha-trance]

It is working now! Tried with Firefox, Opera, and Safari. All is back to normal. Thank you

[Null]

Seems OK in Opera 10

[TrishaM]

@chrishajer – I’m not sure – I use 1&1 for hosting but I can poke around to see if some logs are available and report back…

@buddha trance – yes, after the <?php but I appreciate the troubleshooting 101

FWIW, I also tried several other things I found in the docs for integrating, such as require_once with the path to wp-blog-header.php but as mentioned everything I try to load WP first so I can access it’s functions causes the 500 error.

I haven’t given up yet, though! I’ll keep trying a few things and report back this weekend….