[_ck_]

The plugin must autoload. If you are activating it manually something is very wrong.

Leading underscore must be in the plugin directory’s root.

bbPress has that limitation, underscores cannot be in sub-directories.

[baltzer]

Hi All,

I am getting a decent about of comments to my WordPress news blog. Problem is that these posts are scattered over many posts, so does not seem to be much activity.

Could bbpress be the solution? I want it to be possible for users to overview the discussion at the various news articles.

If you have seen a solution on an other website, please send me a link.

I have also looked at a integration of WordPress and vbulletin, but seems like a solution this is not without problems.

Hope to hear from you

Michael

[adv_user]

Yes. But also make the “sub subforuns” appear inside the div “subforum”. Well that original URL did not use div:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/sub-sub-forums#post-11762

Thanks!

[jamesonriley-1]

When I tried adding a new user, jamesonriley, it added it to my WordPress user list, but not my bbpress user list.

[jamesonriley-1]

I just installed bbpress in the same database as my WordPress install. Got an email after installing saying it was all set, and that my login for bbpress was the same as my WP login. So when I login on bbpress, it just recycles the page, and asks me to login again. If I enter the incorrect password, it knows that it is incorrect and notifies me. I enter the correct password, and it just goes back to the main forum page, without being logged in. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[johnhiler]

Ah that’s too bad – I’m using way too many of _ck_’s plugins to try 1.0 yet. I’ll wait til it comes out of alpha maybe.

Would you consider converting it to 0.9 in exchange for a contribution? It’d be great for the community, since so many people are still on 0.9:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-top-100-april-2009-update#post-25644

[Ben L.]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of functions in the code that are 1.0-specific.

Fortunately, WordPress 2.8 is being released in May, and I can’t see bbPress 1.0 being far behind.

[gmrtech]

Amazing. Fixed Thanks!

[Ben L.]

From my point of view, bbPress is easier to use than other (more popular) forum software.

For example, in phpBB, plugin installation is measured in minutes. In bbPress, plugins get dropped into a folder and that’s it.

[Ben L.]

Would any of https://bbpress.org/plugins/tags/avatar help you?

You could also look at http://gravatar.com/.

[gradek]

Ok, I did some tests, it seems to happen when I enable this plugin:

bbPress Attachments

— big bummer.

[Designing]

Hi, I tried to search this.. but couldnt find anything.

I just uploaded bbpress forum on my site, but i cant seem to upload a profile pic.. or let other users do so.

I have looked in the settings.. too.

Please suggest.

Thanks, DS.

[bycbyc]

Hi All,

I just installed WordPress MU 2.7.1 and attempting to install bbPress (brubeck) and during the installer, it’s asking for 2 keys that I don’t see anywhere in the WP config file. The cookie and db key. In my WP config file I only see 3 keys and it’s corresponding salt entries. They’re Auth, Secure, Logged in, and Nonce.

Thanks for the help!

[_ck_]

Finding well managed shared hosting that’s affordable is difficult.

Any host can slip up and end up with bad neighbors on a shared box.

Loads as high as you are reporting though should be automatically firing off alerts to the host though, so they either

1. aren’t getting alerts

2. getting them but ignoring them because they know it’s the overloading backup routine each morning

bbPress doesn’t have a page cache yet like WordPress’s wp-cache but in theory doesn’t actually need one unless you have a very active forum (or a bad host).

As far as finding a “better” host, it’s not easy but here’s some ideas:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/some-tech-tips-to-find-a-better-wordpress-or-bbpress-host/

[Ben L.]

First of all, if you already had members on the forum that aren’t on the blog, integration will lose them.

I suggest going into your database and running DELETE FROM bb_topicmeta WHERE meta_key=wp_table_prefix LIMIT 1 to remove the integration.

[cldnails]

Interesting niche, good luck. Although, out of the box bbPress isn’t very scary looking.

[cldnails]

Agreed with statements here, bbPress wasn’t created(being developed) to compete with the likes of vBulletin, SMF, etc. This is forum software that is light weight, no lacey undergarments, ready to roll and fast. If you want silly add-ons, a ton of user generated themes, and/or costly support looking elsewhere may be your best bet.

[cldnails]

I just use CarpRSS to convert RSS to html in my bbPress installation.

[_ck_]

Early in the morning on a shared box may mean your provider doesn’t know what they are doing and is not running the daily backup in “nice” mode, therefore overloading the server.

Either that or you might have a misbehaving neighbor.

bbPress doesn’t naturally cause that kind of problem, unless you are running an older alpha which uses more queries – and some of my plugins like hidden forums had a bug in a previous version that caused extra queries – you only used 10 queries so I think you are running 0.9

If you know what you are doing, even on a shared host you can run a simple PHP program with cron checking the load every minute – the moment it starts to spike, say over 3.0, you can have it email you “ps aux” which will show you which neighbor is misbehaving, even on a shared host.

See this:

bb_init = 0.178 <<<

---

bbpress’s core is completely loaded at this point,

plugins, everything the amount of time is okay and acceptable – 50 to 100 files have been loaded

bb_index.php_pre_db = 4.966 <<<—- this is kind of a lie, it’s not pre-db, there have been some queries…

so in 4.5 seconds or so, here’s what’s been done:

$forums = get_forums();

$topics = get_latest_topics();

$super_stickies = get_sticky_topics();

it’s actually loaded all the forums and gotten the latest topics

It’s using about 8-9 queries so 4.5 seconds is absolutely terrible, almost impossible if the server is working correctly.

If your page time is normally under 1 second for that part, here’s what I think is happening.

I think your host is running a backup at that hour OR one of your neighbors on the same box is doing a remote backup to/from the server, including mysql.

That ties up the cpu and ties up mysql because the disk is thrashing and mysql is not caching at all.

To prove my theory, see if it happen every day at the exact hour.

Even more suspect would be if it happens on the hour or half hour.

By the way, why do you assume it’s “your” mysql connections that have been exhausted – it’s actually the entire server’s pool on a shared host. I suspect you have a misbehaving neighbor who is accidentally making you think it’s you that’s the problem.

[Ivaylo Draganov]

WooHoo! A plugin accomplishing that has been just released:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/wordpress-latest-post/ <— in plugin repository

http://www.atsutane.net/2009/04/wordpress-inside-bbpress-part-1.html <— author’s blog with more info on usage

Tested it and it works well on WP 2.7.1 and bbPress 0.9.4

[phishshticks]

if you edit the php file, you can manually specify your code where you see ‘##-#######-#’

[johnhiler]

Yah I definitely agree! You have to be pretty computer literate to use bbPress… and there isn’t great support, other than us volunteers.

But it’s like that quote from Churchill: “Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

bbPress is the worst message board software ever – except for all the others I have ever tried.

[petertoshas]

Hellooo!

Well, i recently change to bbpress (this rocks) and i’m trying to make a theme compatible with the current theme in my wordpress blog. It went pretty well, until i came across the post-form to create a new topic and i’m in blank…

Let me explain: i’m using the theme kakumei, and instead off the hottags on the left, i’m going with a sidebar with other features (tags, the ‘fav this’ feature, link to main forum, etc…). This works well in the front-page, in the topic, profile, and other, but i’m having some problems put this working in the post-form.php !

The way i use to style was: the sidebar in <div id=sidebar></div>, and the content (infobox, post, topic meta, etc) in <div id=”content”></div> just like the kakumei theme.

My problem with the post-form.php is the function that is used in the functions.bb-template to the ‘pre_post_form’ and ‘post_post_form’. Using the <div id=”content”></div> in the post-form.php the <div> actually appears in the middle of the code of the form in the post-form and the content dont stay aligned. Putting the <div> in the functions.bb-template, just makes the <div> repeating in the others pages where the post-form is used, and the content dont stay aligned anyway.

i’ll really appreciate if you could suggest me some ideas. tks

[Ben L.]

I’m making a moderation/administration log feature for the bbPress Moderation Suite and I’m wondering what actions you consider “important” enough to log.

So far, I have plugin (de)activation and forum deletion.

[Cyndy Otty]

I suppose this is a matter of opinion, really. Granted it’s not the most user-friendly software out there and it can be much more complex to customize, but it is also a project that is in development and such things do take time to perfect.

However for what it is – a no-frills, basic forum software – it is actually exactly that right from the start.