[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

It doesn’t look like bbPress has an extensive library of plugins like Word Press.

bbPress JUST went live with the 1.x version. So yeah, there are few plugins. It’s a baby.

Best is subjective. What do you need out of a forum?

[Raize]

Simple Press Sucks

BBPress is too young at this point for it to be a permanent solution

Vanilla is too unstable to be a permanent solution

VBulletin is too clunky

Esotalk got abandoned.

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE WORDPRESS FOR FORUMS…YET

[Raize]

So much for giving back to the community lol

[batrachoid]

While I haven’t integrated WordPress and bbPress yet, this topic looks helpful:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/easy-way-to-integrate-bbpress-wordpress-themes

If you’re concerned about bells and whistles, your best bet might be to stick with version 9.0, since there are many more plugins that are known to be compatible. Right now, trying to use the older plugins on 1.0.1 might get you a lot of honks and farts instead.

[batrachoid]

If you’re using Avatar Upload, this seems to be a common problem.

Here is my reponse from another thread:

Yeah, I had the same problem when I updated to the most recent version of BBpress until I noticed this post over at https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/

transom wrote

To get Avatar tab in the profile working under Alpha-2 –

edit avatar-upload.php in the bbpress root

change line 7 from

bb_auth(); // logged in?

to

bb_auth(‘logged_in’); // logged in?

It worked like a charm for me.

[smfadmin]

Howdy,

It doesn’t look like bbPress has an extensive library of plugins like Word Press. Is this really the best option for forums or should I consider Simple Press, which is what others recommend.

Also, does anyone know of a plugin that allows people to share posts via other social networking sites? Thanks all.

[djboddington]

wow thats good! Thanks for this

[bikingtoronto]

Can you link to the Avatars plug-in? I think there’s a few of them.

I’m using Avatar Upload, and after some fiddling, it’s working great.

[Greg]

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My problem is that only users without caps in “user_login” can post to the forum.

The first sign of the problem after pressing “Submit” is in “validate_auth_cookie()” in “class.wp-auth.php” (via “bb-auth()” in “bb-posts.php”).

Specifically, the call to “get_user()” around line 77 is returning false, exiting at line 288 in “class.wp-users.php” .

To cover some of the obvious questions:

– I have flushed cookies and tried this on multiple browsers

– I have inserted the lines into bb-config.php that were suggested by the WP bbPress integration plugin

– I have all the secret keys defined on both sides

– I have “define(‘WP_AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION’, 1);” in bb-config.php

– I am using deep integration, but get the same result without it

– I get the same result with the standard bbPress theme

UPDATE: it really is about the caps. For user_nicename “reboot”…

– user_login = rebootzzz CAN post

– user_login = rebootZZZ can NOT post

– user_login = Reboot can NOT post

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’m going to put in a standard disclaimer here: iframes are dangerous.

Example: If someone manages to put in malicious code in a bbPress post and you edit it via the admin side using this plugin, it is possible you could bugger your WP install. Now it’s a slim possibility, but iframes are bad, evil and annoying and should be avoided if possible.

Great idea for a plugin, use it responsibly, folks.

[chandersbs]

I managed to convert from phpbb3.0.5 to bbpress 1.0.1, but user’s can’t login, their password isn’t working anymore. I tried the md5 thingy, but it doesn’t seem to help.

[andywilliams244]

I’m not sure how I’d go about that, could somebody post a step by step tutorial? I’ve never dove this far into bbpress before.

Thanks guys, I’d owe you one

[Göran]

Thank you Arturo for the effort. The problem with the “d” was in the .mo file and I changed that yesterday, thanks to other helpful people in this forum.

How did you know how to help me with the for me unknown picture in the header? How should I have thought to find it myself?

I find the structure of bbPress hard to understand. I would like to see a picture of the start page and explanations for where in which file the different elements are defined. Anyone interested in trying to create such a picture?

[DennisH]

….anyone?

[plrk]

I have incorporated Tommie’s metadata changes into the translation file I’ve made (and changed “sullat” to tappat”). Both .po and .mo files are still available at http://dropbox.jobjorn.se/bbpress-sv_SE.zip

There are a few differences between my translation file and Tommie’s – mainly, his file uses “etikett” and “ämne” where I use “tagg” and “tråd” (the corresponding english words are “tag” and “topic”/”thread”). There are a few other differences, too.

I’ve uploaded a diff file for the really curious: http://dropbox.jobjorn.se/tommievsplrk.diff

[Ryan Hellyer]

Thanks. I was considering making this exact plugin myself. Glad to see I don’t need to now

[Ryan Hellyer]

If you are going to resort to iframe’ing it then you may as well use some sort of hosted solution.

[Göran]

Thanks Tommie! My forum looks better and better thanks to you and plrk.

A small suggested change in the registration form: “Position” should be changed to “Plats”.

I use bbPress 1.0.1. To make it possible for users to register with Swedish or other non-acii names I use Cyrillian Nickname http://bbpress.ru/downloads/plugins/

To prevent spam robots I also use Human Test available at https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/ I have translated the few phrases in the plugin. Write me a pm if you want it (I tried to make it available at my site but could not place a php-file there. Should it be zipped?)

[chrishajer]

Just checked in a complete re-write of the forums component in BuddyPress. No more bbPress integration nightmares. Still work in progress.

— Andy Peatling (@apeatling) July 21, 2009

@apeatling says “Just checked in a complete re-write of the forums component in BuddyPress. No more bbPress integration nightmares. Still work in progress.”

[Rohan Kapoor]

(not recommended) Remove the bbpress header.php and replace it with a symlink to the wordpress header.php

(recommended) Deep Integrate WordPress and bbPress and have bbpress call the wordpress header not the bbpress header.

[kevmartin]

I found some older posts about similar problems to this, but nothign that really helped, plus they were all for the 0.x versions and I am using 1.x which I am guessing may be different.

I have combined bbpress and wordpress databases (WP 2. and all members have been set to inactive status. But I can’t find anything in Mysql to cause this, so can’t globally change them all to member status. They all seem to have the same bb_capabilities value as the couple of members who I have manually made to ‘member’ status, so that doesn’t help.

And I have thousands of members so manually changing them all through the admin interface seems to be a nightmare.

Can someone tell me what database fields to change to make a member to be a ‘member’ status please?

Thanks.

[rtmsf]

Total newbie here, but I’m a blogger using WordPress 2.8.x who is thinking of adding a discussion forum to my site.

I am NOT a coder whatsoever, so please keep that in mind when answering, although I do have a friend who is one but I would need to be conscientous about using his time.

My question is whether bbPress 1.0 will easily integrate with WP 2.8.x as I have it currently configured. Obviously I’d want it to look similar to my site and have all the standard forum bells/whistles.

If not, does anyone have any other suggestions? I just began researching forums today. I’ve come across IPB and phpBB as other options, but again, I have no idea how easy it would be to integrate those.

Any help you can give would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks.

[freshifreshy]

I’m running bbpress 1.0.1 and recently tried to install the Avatars Plugin. I followed the directions step-by-step, but whenever I click on the Avatars tab on the profile page I just get taken right back to the main forum page. I never even get the change to try and upload.

Has anyone else had this problem? Is there a fix?

Thanks!

[Tommie Hansen]

It was simply wrong in the id for the translations. I noticed it when i compared it to the bulgarian translation with a little help of EditPlus. I also changed some misspellings and added some of my own flavour to it all.

Changes:

– Time format numbering fixed

– Wrongly entered php-variables fixed

– Tråd / Trådar / Tråden > Ämne / Detta ämne (or ‘ämnet’) / Ämnen

– Posta / Postad etc. > Skriv, Skrivet etc.

– Fräschhet > Färskhet

– Titel > Rubrik

– Tagg / Taggar > Etikett / Etiketter

…and some other stuff.

Download:

http://www.callofduty.se/0-gzgrejjer/bbPress_swedish_language_files_by_plrk_and_tommie_hansen.zip

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NOTE to others. You must change lines for the time specific translations. I’ve tried several of other translations that doesn’t do it correct either.

Example; Year = bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php:385

You can use the linked langage .po-file or check the Bulgarian one out for further reference. It easiest to check the .po-file for line references with a text editor like EditPlus, TextMate or Notepad.

[jimouest2005]

Hi !

First, I’m verry sorry for my english, but I’m a french user of bbpress

So.

I have a wordpress website, and I delete the username restrictions ( no : @ ect on the username ).

But, when a user who has a username with special characters ( like : ) tries to login on bbpress, bbpress says that the user doesn’t exist.

How to delete this restriction and resolve this problem ?

Thanks !