[jimgozieo]

1) Do you know if it is now safe to install the Private Messenger Pluin onto bbPress. I know there were some serious security problems some months ago – do you know if these have been solved?

2) Also does anyone know of a plugin for Comment Length limiting that I can use on a bbPress forum e.g. limit a posters text to say 1,000 characters per post.

[kanchankumar]

Hi,

I have installed bbpress in /mydomain.com/bbpress

I have mapped a subdomain http://forum.mydomain.com to /mydomain.com/bbpress – everything works fine – just that the URL shows http://mydomain.com/bbpress

Now, I go to bbpress settings and change the URL to http://forum.mydomain.com – the forum and posts stop working. Gives http error 500. Admin pages work properly.

What could be the problem?

Kanchan

[deuts]

By the way, I also found out that when you are in the same case, i.e., you can’t access the admin when you’re a key master in the first place, you can browse the forums nonetheless and post new topics or reply to them. However, while you’re at it, you can’t mark threads as sticky.

So the real solution will be to logout and log back in while in bbpress.

[deuts]

Ahhh, I’m having the same issues. I guess this is inherent to the BbPress and WordPress integration. So that’s why. I’m wondering if there have been any solution for this.

[Ario]

Is this a theme people would be interested in using?

I don’t mind sharing just my CSS would need some major cleaning and will probably try to work at improving W3C compliance. Also I still think parts of my bbpress main page template aren’t working quite right

[Justin Tadlock]

Codex. Codex. Codex.

Open up a BB Codex like we have with WP. How are we going to get more devs to start hopping on the bbPress bandwagon? While many of us enjoy sifting through code when we get the extra time, good documentation is always helpful to get people started. Heck, even some better inline documentation would do wonders right now.

Seriously, when was the last time this page and its subpages have been updated?

https://bbpress.org/documentation/

I’ve got more work than I can possibly handle, but I’d be willing to develop things for the bbPress community. I just don’t have time to spend reading through all the code, line by line, to see how things work.

Give developers a chance to make the platform shine.

The success of WordPress comes from the vast number of add-ons (themes and plugins) for the system. Without them, WordPress probably would’ve died a long while ago.

The lack of documentation is probably turning a good number of developers away from the system, developers that could be creating plugins for many of the features that users want.

This is the area that needs the most improvement. Let’s work on documentation first. Then, we can start thinking about other things bbPress needs.

Themes

I’ve seen a handful of decent themes I’d use, but (as far as I know) there are no major theme developers in the bbPress community. Documentation would go a long way in helping here. This is especially true for designers that don’t know all the ins and outs of the platform’s PHP code.

I’d personally start coding bbPress themes if it supported the same type of parent/child theme setup that WordPress has. I’d be happy to port all of my WP themes like this.

[johnhiler]

Another user reported a similar issue… here’s how they fixed it:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/page/17/#post-4746

[moshe100]

Hi Everyone

bbPress is great. I love it and I appreciate every bit of effort put into it.

I am setting a new site which has only one, single forum in it.

My goal is to have the main/home page show the same view as if I would select a specific forum from a multiple-forums website (stickies on top, marked in color….)

My first idea was to replace front-page.php with forum.php (copy & rename), and add the following code:

<?php $forum_id=”1″; ?> right after <?php bb_get_header(); ?>.

This does create the appearance of a single forum, but in a different presentation. for example, sticky topics are sorted with all other topics by date, and are not forced to the first lines in the topics table.

I would really really really appreciate any help or directions I can get.

Thanks a lot !

Moshe.

[Elias]

[…] I don’t think it is really using much (if any) MySQL specific code.

bbPress uses a lot of SQL statements not working with Oracle and is highly optimized for MySQL. To make it independent from the RDBMS will not be easy, and coding a RDBMS independent layer and not using “JOIN”, “LEFT JOIN”, “MATCH” and “FULLTEXT INDEX”, “LIMIT” would degrade the performance of bbPress, which isn’t exactly the thing wanted for it.

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-attachments/

That plugin is compatible with up to 0.9 only. What version of bbPress are you trying to use it with?

[hpguru]

Plugin is non-work with you bbPress version? You may delete plugin. Sorry, bad English.

[DKB]

Its coming from the plugin WordPress-bbPress syncronization

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-bbpress-syncronization/

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Pretty much. The non get_ version is just an echo of the get_ one anyway

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/login-free-posting/#post-4841

[chrishajer]

How about a little more information?

URL?

What happens when they try?

What happens when you try?

Any error messages?

What version bbPress?

Integrated with WordPress? If so, what version WordPress?

Stock theme or custom?

Any plugins active?

Has it ever worked or never worked since installation?

What host are you on?

You never know which of these items will be important, but starting with a little information is better than nothing.

[chrishajer]

bbhack, you should take your arguments to Automattic.

This is something Matt said a while ago about MySQL and Oracle:

http://ma.tt/2009/04/oracle-and-open-source/

There have been discussions before of using different databases, or abstracting the whole thing, but I still feel there are many other bbPress features that need work before they tear out something that is working completely fine right now.

[bbhack]

The reason why bbPress needs Oracle support is because if you are trying to integrate it into any existing site run by an actual company and not a hobbyist, there’s a good chance their user database is in Oracle (or MS SQL Server).

PHP supports Oracle so why should bbPress be tied to just MySQL. I don’t think it is really using much (if any) MySQL specific code.

This is one of the main selling points of PHPBB – it supports FireBird, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL and SQLite.

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

bbPress doesn’t touch WordPress by default, so you must be running some plugin that adds that

[Erhnam]

BBPress is a bit new for me so sorry if this question sounds stupid.

I installed BBPress along with WordPress. After the BBPress installation setup a connection between those two. No problems till here. I also installed wordpress-bbpress-syncronization which also works fine. I noticed that only new posts on WordPress are copied to BBPress. So I wonder; Is there a way to copy all wordpress posts to BBPress and then start syncing from there?

[chrishajer]

Yes they should change the documentation, but right now the project is without a leader, so a few things have fallen by the wayside, including documentation.

[chrishajer]

You can use browser add-ons for Firefox like Firebug or the Web Developer Toolbar, or you can use a command line tool, or there are places online that you can submit your URL to and they will show the headers returned.

Using the Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox, I get this:

Response Headers - http://fakeplasticfish.com/discuss/



Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:27:42 GMT

Server: Apache

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8



200 OK

Which is correct, and different from before, and it looks like you fixed it.

[fakeplasticfish]

Oh my god, I love you. Will you have my babies???!!!!!

Changing from wp-blog-header.php to wp-load.php fixed the problem. At least it looks that way. The pages are loading in IE now.

How would I check to headers to make sure this problem is truly fixed? I don’t know what “check the headers” actually means. Sorry.

Oh, and maybe bbPress could change the instructions here

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

to indicate that wp-load.php should be used instead?

Beth

[chrishajer]

I think you should be including wp-load.php instead of wp-blog-header.php

I think the difference between browsers is due to your forum returning a 404 but still displaying the content. Some browsers ignore the 404 and display the content (Safari and Firefox, apparently) but others treat the 404 as a 404 (IE8).

Check the headers being returned from http://fakeplasticfish.com/discuss/ :

Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:34:48 GMT

Server: Apache

Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

Pragma: no-cache

X-Pingback: http://fakeplasticfish.com/xmlrpc.php

Last-Modified: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:34:48 GMT

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98

Connection: Keep-Alive

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8



404

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/deep-integration-google-might-not-be-indexing-your-forum-pages

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-404-error-but-page-displays

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-wordpress-mu-or-not-leads-to-404-errors-but-pages-still-load

I think those are related.

[fakeplasticfish]

Not sure if this question should go to the Installation forum or Troubleshooting. I actually posted this question last night to the forum, and this morning it has disappeared. So trying again…

I have spent all weekend installing bbPress and modifying the kakumei template to integrate with my site. It all looked great in Firefox and Safari, but when I view the site in Internet Explorer 8, I cannot reach any pages besides front page, and only then if I browse to http://fakeplasticfish.com/discuss/index.php. Simply browsing to http://fakeplasticfish.com/discuss/ in Internet Explorer brings up a 404 Error, as do all the other forum pages.

Here are details of my install:

WordPress 2.8.4 installed at the root: http://fakeplasticfish.com

bbPress 1.0.2 installed at http://fakeplasticfish.com/install/

bbPress is installed into the same database as WordPress on a GoDaddy Linux server.

I have added this code to my bb-config file as instructed:

/** Integrate with WordPress */

require_once(‘/home/content/b/e/t/bethfish/html/wp-blog-header.php’);

This is because I want my WordPress plugin menu bar to appear in bbPress as well as other WordPress functions.

I thought perhaps the issue had to do with pretty permalinks, as I read some entries in this forum on that issue, so I actually switched back to the original ugly permalinks, cleared the browser cache and restarted IE. IE will still not open any of the bbPress pages besides index.php and returns a 404 error from the server (not my WordPress 404 page.)

I have two .htaccess files, one in the root folder created by WordPress and one in /discuss/ created by bbPress. I tried deleting that file after switching back to ugly permalinks, and now there is a new one there.

I am a novice. I don’t understand the information in the .htaccess file, but I am happy to copy the information from both files over here if that would help.

I just really don’t understand why the bbPress pages work fine in Firefox and Safari and not in IE.

[Collisionx]

Hi

I have tried integrate wordpress into bbPress according to the documentation, in my localhost, and im getting this error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bloginfo() in C:wampwwwgm_wordpresswp-contentthemesdefaultfooter.php on line 12

Do i have to call every file in wordpress with “require_once”… Or is there any other solution ?

I ll be great if you guys can help me out..

Thanx