I’ve been trying to recreate some of the very stripped down simplicity of Vanilla in bbPress (for reasons explained in the zip’s readme file). In thanks to everyone who’s hard work on plugins and in these forums has helped me such a lot, here’s a link to the theme in case it’s of use to anybody; http://getfiles.letsdoo.org/bbVanilla.zip
It’s a very light version of Kakumei Blue, and when (if) I have some time I may strip it even further, whilst retaining its subtle look. Do let me know if you find it useful or encounter any problems or mistakes I’ve made.
Sure, I’d be glad to help rewrite and edit info on bbPress.org on a separate site – as well as contribute to a codex wiki.
But just to be clear: I’m not attempting to evangelize bbPress on Wikipedia. I think of Wikipedia as an fairly comprehensive encyclopedia, and as such it should have an article on software like bbPress. Some outside references would help on that front, which is where the impetus for this post came from.
Just let us know how we can help with the copy editing and codex writing, and I’d be glad to pitch in!
The deletion from Wikipedia was pretty random and I think a better structured and written page would probably survive. Interestingly the BuddyPress page has only one self-published reference.
I appreciate people’s desire to evangelize bbPress (thanks johnhiler) but I at least agree with kevinjohngallagher’s sentiments about putting the cart before the horse. If there is willingness to write something to promote bbPress, then how about we put some effort into our own site?
If anyone wants to have a go at comprehensive editing and/or rewriting any of the information on bbPress.org I’m happy to help with that process. I think this would be far more valuable to us.
So I guess I’d like to hijack the enthusiasm that some people are showing and direct it closer to home. I can easily create a sandboxed WordPress install that volunteer editors can use to re-work the existing content. Then once we are happy with it, we can migrate it over to the main site.
I also think that a “codex” wiki site for bbPress would be beneficial at this stage but I need some reassurance that it won’t just sit there empty either. So take this poll and we can see if there is traction for that to be created…
http://www.polldaddy.com/p/1650020/
Ok, let me phrase it another way.
Given BBpress’s track record (alpha’s that fail, lack of communication, wrong communication, skipping of beta’s 2 weeks after telling everyone that you’re skipping alpha7 for beta1, lack of integration, lack of coherance with wordpress, prettey dubious documentation etc); what possible good can come out of having a wikipedia page before the RTM1.0 ?
Also, with RTM1.0, won’t that in itself generate alot of blog/article posts once the automattic “it’s all fine here, these aren’t the droids you’re looking for” marketing; why have ‘bad/negative’ facts written on teh wikipedia page?
Wikipedia isn’t a promotional brochure… it’s an encyclopedia that captures the state of knowledge on a given subject. We can definitely write up that Automattic skipped the last alpha/beta and moved up the RC… that would just be part of the article.
I agree that Automattic staff should focus on whatever it is that they do. I’m just a user though, and I’d love to see the current state of bbPress captured on Wikipedia (especially since so many other message board apps are on there).
Anyone seen any mainstream articles on bbPress out there? Would love a few more before I resubmit the article… thanks!
Hi I have buddypress 1.0 and bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6. I unzipped and have a dir http://ilocals.info where Buddypress resides. bbPress is at http://ilocals.info/forums/ When I click on the forums directory I get a error ‘sorry that page was not found’
Any ideas?
Regards
Johan
P.S. I unpacked the zip and loaded the files again.
Ignoring the index.php permalink thing, which should be addressed at the wordpress.org forums, were you able to install a plugin that will redirect a page to a URL you select? Actually, it used to be necessary to use a plugin, but maybe now you can do it with php and a WordPress function or a template file. Were you able to get that part working?
I have the exact same issue and in addition user base is not shared.
Created a new topic for the issue Missing Users After Integration
I’m trying to integrate WordPress 2.7.1 with bbPress 1.0 rc1
I have few of issues going on
1) Logged in as Admin in WordPress, but bbpress doesn’t recognize it. I have to login in again into bbPress.
2) If I log out from bbPress, it logs me out in wordpress too.
3) If I logout from wordpress, it doesn’t log me out in bbpress
4) After integration, users data from bbpress is not shared i.e. only Admin is listed under the bbPress Admin > users. There are 231 registered users in bb_users table.
5) Since users are missing, all the existing posts by the users are displayed as Anonymous
Root cause for all the above – I tried to integrate 0.9.0.4 with 2.7.1 and later realized that its not straight forward process.
I’m trying to get the forum backup and running, atleast map the existing users to their posts.
Thanks for your help.
I have only a couple hours of experience with Vanilla but bbPress 0.9 is probably faster than any other forum software out there with the same features (that changes with bbPress 1.0 however).
bbPress 0.9 is so fast it doesn’t even have a page cache (yet) like wp-super-cache and doesn’t even need it. Just watch out with some old plugins that have performance issues and you’ll be fine.
i`ve changed the cookies several times
the problem isn`t pc depended, tried it under Win/IE8 and Lin/FF3
I am trying to integrate wpmu2.7, budy press and bb press.
The first two work.
However, when I follow the directions for integrating bbpress I get an email with a new keymaster but no password.
When I try to login it i kep coming back to the install menu.
Hello,
I’ve been running 0.9.4 for about six months now without major problems but today something happened. No new posts can be made and the following error displays:
bbPress database error: [Duplicate entry '7582' for key 1]
INSERT INTO bb_posts (<code>topic_id</code>,<code>post_text</code>,<code>post_time</code>,<code>poster_id</code>,<code>poster_ip</code>,<code>post_status</code>,<code>post_position</code>,<code>forum_id</code>) VALUES ('6','
test post text text text text
','2009-05-25 11:56:28','3','88.222.104.78','0','121','8')
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 232
New posts get registered in the latest-discussions list but the link to them is “#post-0” and they don’t display in the actual topic, nor in the admin panels. They actually don’t exist in the DB.
The last existing post in bb_posts is with post_id of 7581
Luckily I have a working backup before the error occurred but I want to know what might have caused it.
I tested Vanilla out for a week or so, then bbPress (I’d tried every other flavour out there in the two weeks before). Vanilla is cool, and I love the look of version 2, but bbPress is what I’m going with now for 2 community forums.
As to speed, I haven’t done any ‘proper’ testing, but find bbPress very fast. Also, all the plugins I need worked first time without problems,and the default theme is very easy to adapt. bbPress only uses 8 core tables compared to 14 in Vanilla. I guess that might speed things up a little, as there are less eggs in the air..?
Hi, coud you please suggest how to display users’s email addres or nickname (display_name) instead of user login in page header? bbpress 0.9.0.4
thanks 
One of the things BBpress does really well is putting the horse before the cart.
Given that we skipped the last alpha, wrote off all the grand plans that had been coded to for 1.0a7, entirely skipped the beta stages, and released an RC thats not exactly been put through its paces yet… maybe just maybe we should hold off on getting on Wikipedia until, i dunno, the software is ready?
Does anyone compared, in terms of performance, the Vanilla forum with bbPress forum installation?
It would be interesting to know if there are pros and cons concerning the server load and speed executing requests; just to investigate and have an objective comparison between these two lightweight engines.
Thank you a lot!
Thanks. I guess my point was really that the ‘out of the box’ program didn’t format things nicely (as I would have expected it to do, without needing to hack around in CSS). I don’t mind doing that, just that one of the benefits of bbpress is its simplicity (and why I want to switch over from phpBB3 to it).
Thanks again,
~Andrew~
Apache version 2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.9
MySQL version 5.0.77-community
Architecture i686
Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.28.8-VISION
It isn’t our job to promote unfinished and undeveloped software.
What Automattic’s marketing staff think about missed “reliable souces”?
OK, OK I know – it’s not my job too
Perhaps a submission to cnet about bbPress and it’s VERY easy integration with WordPress?
Also the stupidly simplistic modifications needed to make a WordPress theme work with bbPress?
I’m doing mine at the moment and I’ve changed maybe a total of 10 lines in the CSS (some lines multiple times) to make it convert.
I agree! This is Wikipedia’s policy, not my own… they are really conservative when it comes to sources.
WordPress gets a lot of press on tech news sites!
http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.cnet.com+wordpress
bbPress really gets almost none though… it’s kinda shocking. Even BuddyPress gets more press!
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/30/buddypress-launches-may-a-thousand-social-networks-bloom/
http://mashable.com/2009/04/30/buddypress-social-networking/
Well – using my rather limited coding knowledge… I’m taking the original theme included with bbPress and altering it bit-by-bit to the look I want… Ok SO far, now need to position the site title a bit higher…
Would be nice for an addon for bbpress and WP that will make the themes magically match up!!
Problem is, where would you find a site that talks about new software? BLOGS!
Review sites are blogs essentially if you think about it
I mean, I don’t recall seeing phpBB in the news anytime recently..
