[Spell]

Hi!

I’m running bbPress 0.9.0.2 and I noticed that it shows some weird posting times on few of the last posts. It says that they’ve been written “-1 year ago”. Minus one year ago? What could it be that’s making this happen? Something wrong with the server clock? I haven’t changed any of my bbPress settings in a while..

Here is the board (in Finnish): http://www.viekkausliiga.com/pulina/

Problem is the “Pulinaboxi” thread. It says that a user has written the last post “-1 year ago”. This causes the sites front page (http://www.viekkausliiga.com/) RSS-feed parser to malfunction as in not showing the latest posts…

[Olaf Lederer]

@johnhiler, his concerns are more about setup problems by unexperienced php user and hosting requirements.

Actually, I don’t like the super cache module for WP, because it’s only powerful for blogs with a lot of page views. Memcache would be better for bbpress in my opinion. I know a lot of people using memcache for several types of applications and they are very glad to use it.

I don’t think that memcache should be a part of bbpress, but it would be helpful that the API is compatible to use it.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Empty your database be dropping all the tables inside it via PhpMyAdmin and then install bbPress again.

[gerikg]

It could be: BBVideo plugin

[johnhiler]

Sam had some thoughts on how bbPress 1.0/Backpress enabled the WordPress memcached plugin here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/topic-query-count-in-alpha-10-any-progress#post-19600

_ck_ also had some thoughts on how memcached would or wouldn’t increase performance (although it sounds like performance isn’t your main goal in making the switch):

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/covert-wp-super-cache-plug-in-for-bbpress/page/2#post-38232

Good luck – and keep us posted on how it goes!

[usera]

for my requirements memcache is more reliable and less messy. Besides you do not supercache a forum. I do not think you understand.

[frooyo]

@usera

Instead of memcache, output caching might be a better option for non-logged in user. Something like WordPress’ SuperCache plugin.

More information can be found about this discussion here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/covert-wp-super-cache-plug-in-for-bbpress#post-37072

Essentially, a lot of people would love the SuperCache plugin to be converted for use with bbPress … but no one has yet committed to performing the work needed to convert the plugin

[usera]

Can someone tell me what’s the status with bbpress and memcache? I see backpress is meant to unify memcache in both installations but is there a working beta to get both working? I currently using version two of the object-cache on my wordpress and unfortunately i suppose that is what is causing the problem with the bbpress integration plugin. Any clues or more info?

Thank you.

[johnhiler]

Hehe, most people talk as though bbPress doesn’t exist.

I personally talk as if bbPress 1.0 doesn’t exist… 0.9 or bust!

I haven’t used Vanilla, so I can’t comment on them… I wish there was more benchmarking across boards platforms for speed. But I haven’t seen much on that front…

[Mooks]

Hi There,

I was looking into bbpress, but I hadn’t really seen any themes that caught my attention with the exception of the theme at the following:

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/forum/5

In my opinion, it is the simplest and cleanest of all themes I’ve seen. Is there a theme like this available for download? Most of the other bbpress themes I’ve seen look too busy and cluttered, and prefer the simple and clean look of the aforementioned.

Thanks in advance for replies.

[Marius-]

How did you embed youtube videos in the forum?

[anandasama]

It’s not a deep integration: But that’s something I will try later.

[Marius-]

http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/52/pimpedforumbbpress.jpg

Spent quite a few days on this, sitting up from morning till late night. It’s a forum for my website about the late Michael Jackson. You could call it the official fanclub for Norway. I do, since I have a kickass domain.

Main color is golden (yellow-orange) links are darkred.

Using CSS3 from the future, all boxes, buttons, posts, inputs have rounded corners.

I removed all borders from the original Kakumei, since I thought that looked too messed up. I also made “Add new” button much more visible. Since this very button is the key to a growing forum. What do you all think?

[Ivaylo Draganov]

Hi, do you notice the little -moz thing in front of the CSS property? That is an internal Firefox only CSS property. IE does not support rounded borders at all (and maybe will not soon). Safari on the other hand and all other webkit based browsers (Chrome, Konqueror) do support it via their own special CSS properties.

So for Safari(and Chrome) the code will be:

-webkit-border-radius: 6px;

for Konqueror (not very widespread but anyway):

-khtml-border-radius: 6px;

and since rounded borders are a property from the upcoming CSS3, here you have the standard definition (which you should also include for the bright moment in the future when all browsers will natively support it):

border-radius: 6px;

Of course using these properties will render your CSS invalid in the W3C validator.

Extended info on CSS3 border-radius:

http://www.css3.info/preview/rounded-border/

Cheers

Pssst! But hey – is that a bbPress issue? And why post in “Installation” subforum?

[Marius-]

I don’t agree with that. I dont know shit, and still I’ve managed to set up several great websites. Thats why i chose BBpress, to not have to understand shit. Just let it drive itself.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I was hoping someone could do it for me.

Well there’s your problem right there

Making a theme is easy AND it won’t break the source code or become beyond repair. A theme is all HTML and CSS, with a little PHP tossed in, and not the coding kind of PHP where you have to make SQL calls. Unless you want to, of course.

Go to https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/ for the basics. You’ll need this under your belt if you ever hope to maintain a forum without going nuts.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Try define( 'BBDB_HOST', '0.0.0.0' );

[gerikg]

my-templates are 750, you’re saying it should be 755? Does that apply to my-plugins too?

Anyone want to tackle my other problem? (https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpressmu-bbpress-theme)

[gerikg]

WP and BBpress Themes use (95% of the time) the same css tags. You will have to open your BBpress css and just insert and remove tags from WP css or sometimes rename the css tag.

and I think it’s <?php wp_head(); ?> in the header.php

and <?php wp_footer(); ?> in the footer.php

[gregfielding]

Help! My install failed halfway through. It asked me to manually re-define some integration fields (which were already correct). The message on the screen was that the install failed.

Now, when I go back to the forum, I get redirected to the install.php and this message appears:

“Oh dear!

bbPress is already installed.

Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade script instead?”

How do I re-install?

[johnhiler]

Good call Ipstenu… bbPress 1.0+ creates those folders itself rather than having users create them, which can lead to permissions problems:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1139

[jamesb4551]

OK should be simple right? Worked when I did it locally using MAMP and all was fine, then going live uploaded and …. nothing just the ‘ERROR: Could not establish a database connection’ message.

WP is installed in the main directory and bb press is in lalala.com/forum

I’ve gone over the wp-config files and they are the same, any ideas guys?

// ** MySQL settings for BB** //

define( ‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘lalalala_live’ );

define( ‘BBDB_USER’, ‘barry’ );

define( ‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘****’ );

define( ‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’, ‘0.0.0.0’ );

define( ‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’ );

define( ‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ” );

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’;

// ** MySQL settings for wordpress ** //

define(‘WP_CACHE’, true); //Added by WP-Cache Manager

define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘lalalala_live’); // The name of the database

define(‘DB_USER’, ‘barry’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘****’); // …and password

define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘0.0.0.0’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

$table_prefix = ‘wp_’;

[Hic]

Hey everyone ..

I installed wp 2.7.1 French version (Last version compatible with a plugin I need)

I’m wondering, which version of BBpress with French package I may use for an easy integration …?

thanks.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I only used Vanilla for a couple hours. I have a knee-jerk reaction to most code and if I don’t enjoy using it right away, or have issues setting it up/themeing it how I want, it gets dumped.

And I’m not comfortable telling you strengths and weaknesses because they’re subjective. Seriously, I say it a lot but it’s true.

Me? I don’t like PMs and reporting posts, membership ‘levels’ and all that hoopla. So for me, bbPress is great because it’s small, simple and I can write plugins for it since I’m familiar with WordPress. But see how subjective that is? You may want those things and see it as a weakness that bbPress doesn’t have them.

Knowing what each products strengths and weakness will help determine if it fits needs.

I think you’re doing it backwards. Start with a list of your needs and your wants. Then go ask each place ‘Can you do this and if so, how hard is it?’

[frooyo]

@Ipstenu

So, what are bbPress strengths?

What are Vanilla’s strengths?

What are bbPress’ weaknesses?

What are Vanilla’s weaknesses?

Knowing what each products strengths and weakness will help determine if it fits needs.