The only way I know of to allow unusual characters in usernames is to use display names… but that wouldn’t change the URL of user’s profile.
Yah I definitely recommend using the 0.9.x branch. If you’re using a lot of plugins, it’s going to be really frustrating to be on 1.0. 
Glad you’re liking bbPress better than phpBB3!
I suppose. In my case, I’m developing (or rather, redeveloping) a forum for a club, so I don’t have to worry about people not re-registering (or just prompting the system for a new password), because their participation in the club (which they pay for) hinges on their forum experience. In your case, I suppose it might be more concerning.
bbPress can already be synced with WPMU. What sort of MU features are you looking for?
Ok thanks. I will do that. I assume that there is no way to actually allow usernames with /’s though? I’m somewhat experienced with WordPress, but I’m definitely new to bbPress.
On that note, it is very disappointing to see that so many plugins don’t work with 1.0 release. Had I known that I probably would have started with .9 release, and it seems that since you can’t downgrade, I’m pretty much stuck. On the other hand, having migrated from phpBB3, bbPress is just so much better to work with (even with its obvious shortcomings – like no automatic database backups/restore capabilities – which I think is a MUCH NEEDED feature).
Guys,
I know bp has this feature, but I really think this a really hot feature to give users the option the update their status.
It’s one of the features I really love about Facebook, and would really loved it I could implement this feature in my own bbpress forum.
I would loved it if users could update their status from the index, and if I login I can see other users their status update. And reply on it, and also leave my own status update.
Buyddypress has this feature, I looove it. I found a plugin where I think this works on WordPress.
See http://www.instinct.co.nz/wordpress-status-updates-plugin/
I’m really considering to integrate wp afterall, ‘cause most plugins are wp based.
But if anyone could program this feature to work on bbpress, I’d be very happy and probably a lot of other people too.
That means the path to your stylesheet is incorrect. Please post a link to your forum so someone can help you.
You don’t mention what version of WordPressMU you have; you do have that installed also, right?
Buddypress is basically just a plugin. Have you been able to install and integrate wpmu and bbpress without it?
I have the latest releases of each I beleive:
bbpress 1.0.2
buddypress 1.0.3
and I followed these instructions as close as possible I believe.
http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu,_BuddyPress,_and_bbPress
It did not work, I have actually tried differenct variations 4 times now. When I was at the last part I got locked out of bbpress and could not log back in. That is where I am now in this issue. please assist.
It would be so tight if you guys made a bbPress MU!
Thanks so much for this tho.
Curtis
twitter.com/curtis
Sorry, cannot agree.
1. Ive done a little survey, and it showed that often people dont participate in forums only because they have to register, and they don`t like it.
2. Most of my users are not very computer-literate.
3. Also you have to keep an ugly technical sticky post for as long as the last user changes password.
Not so nice imho.
Hi there,
So I saw the forum-is-category plugin but it doesnt work on bbpress version 0.9.0.6. It still makes a link for a category. Also that is not exactly what I want. I want to mock like proboards or phpbb as far as separation. Now I would upgrade to 1.0 of bbpress to utilize the separate category sections, however dozens of plugins have yet to be updated. I am talking about more than one main theme type of thing:
Section 1
Forum 1
Forum 2
Section 2
Forum 1
Forum 2
See what I am getting at? I hope the future of bbpress implements all the plugin ideas with abilities to change them, turn them on and off etc without the use of plugins…just have it all built in.
Yes, you can do this with certain avatar plugins.
There are several avatar plugins that I’m aware of – which one do you want to use?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/tags/avatar
I use Avatar Upload… it lets you upload avatars for users if you’re an admin. It’s a little tricky to setup though…
You might be able to pull this off with Display Names?
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/display-name/
It’s built into the 1.0 core, if you’re on bbPress 1.0+.
Is it possible to allow for / in usernames?
I recently converted my phpbb board to bbPress, but one of my members had a username that looked like ///Abcd.
So as opposed to forcing him to change his username, is it possible to dig into the code and allow /’s for usernames?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Edit: Sorry if this thread is in the wrong forum!
For what it’s worth, I don’t think the non-working password “issue” is such an issue at all.
All that one has to do is inform their members that they will need to prompt the board for a password reset, and then they can reset their password to whatever they like (including their old password).
It takes all of two minutes for each member to reset their password. Of all the inconveniences associated with switching forums from one architecture to another, this one seems to me to be so minor it is hardly worth mentioning.
I think it was the login.php file.
Definitely don’t edit any pages in bb-includes… create a /my-templates/ folder as described here!
https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/
I did this on a bbPress install recently… but rather than doing anything tricky programmatically, I just changed the links in the theme.
It worked great!
bbpress is a hell of a lot faster than phpbb.
as for migration, not sure. better let an expert answer
@klimatyzacja-katowice
You’re not alone on this.
Lot’s of discussion about this at: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/covert-wp-super-cache-plug-in-for-bbpress
Currently, no caching plug-in exists
@joshmac
Would you mind describing how you we able to do the deep integration to get WP SuperCache to work with bbPress.
I have forum on phpbb, is it good idea to change engine to bbpress?
This forum is quite big, 500k posts, 15k users,
Is bbpress is faster than phpbb?
Speed and security is most important thing for me.
