[frooyo]

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe the real underlining question is…

Does bbPress have a future?

The slowness in creating a stable 1.0 product has many of us who love bbPress, and are not technical/programmers, concerned that bbPress will go to the wayside.

[vari]

Hi, Got my phpbb3 converted, only issue I have is that the member names are not showing up on posts within BBpress, all the members are listed on the members page but under the avatar and where it says “started xx minutes ago by” are blank spaces.

This also happens on new posts I make, no username appears.

Any Ideas?

EDIT I’ve actually managed to figure it out, The display_name field is blank in the sql table, not sure if this is brought over as part of the conversion and it just hasn’t worked.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

> An employee only has to report his results to his employer

Yes, and so what? I’m asking is he employee or not

That information is confidential in many states. No one is required to tell someone who they work for, even for insurance (your insurance has the right to turn you down due to lack of trust in that case, but still). As such, that question can be dismissed as ‘not your business’, pardon me for the crudity

So here’s my question for you. Towards what end will you go with the information of Sam’s employment? If you find out that yes, he is an Automattic employee and assigned to bbPress, will that make you react differently than if you found out, say, he was assigned to bbPress, WordPress and was asked to fill in at Akismet?

Basically this: Why does it matter who he works for?

If you’re asking ‘Why is bbPress development so slow?’ you could just ask that and anyone would tell you: There are few developers working on it at the moment. Cause the only other question I can find is like when you watch Survivor, and the Jury person says ‘My question for the finalists is that you suck.’ While entertaining to watch, it’s not a question.

[frooyo]

Does anyone mind pointing me to a document highlighting how to convert a WP plugin (wp-super-cache in this case) to bbPress?

For some reason, I was under the impression that any WP plug-ins would work in bbPress; however, when I tried wp-super-cache with bbPress Alpha 6 … and once I enable it, it appears to not be working. No error. Forum still works. Just looks like nothing is happening and no caching occurring.

Thanks in advance.

[Detective]

Some thoughts…

– An employee only has to report his results to his employer. So, it doesn’t matter if Sam works for Automattic or not. In this context is that bbPress is open source: if you need anything (that can’t be done on a plugin), you are free to fork bbPress and add what you need. It’s just simple as that.

– “code uploads” aren’t needed on a daily basis, specially when you are the only developer.

– If you wanted only Sam to reply, then you should have used a less public medium, don’t you think?

[Malice]

Not recommended for SEO though. Duplicate content is a nono for google.

Just tried the plugin,

Would be great if Sam made a “noindex” or “noarchive” option just for those topics in the forum. It would then show the topics in the forum, add comments to the blog when replied in the forum, and just index the wordpress post.

Having said that,

It doesn’t list the latest topics if I try the widget, even after having set the forum url in the settings and such. Using alpha 1.06 bbpress and WP 2.7. The plugins (xmpp?) in bbpress are also activated.

[_ck_]

The biggest problem I have with people hassling Sam is that you are distracting him from other work he can be doing to help us all, especially when for now he is the only main developer on the project. He shouldn’t have to stop to answer end-user questions each week (unless he wants to).

It’s easy to burn out on large programming projects which is why he moves around to working on different parts of bbPress at different times and I have a low tolerance for people who can’t see the major effort he has done and just want things done yesterday, especially when it is completely free and you have plenty of other choices.

Try writing a plugin someday and you’ll get an appreciation for what kind of concentration and knowledge it takes to develop good code. Sam has done a massive amount of work on bbPress 1.0 and should be left alone to continue in whatever pattern suits him best.

If you have bug reports or feature ideas, make a quality report in TRAC and Sam will get to them when he gets to them. Don’t pester him here unless he solicits for the input.

[_ck_]

Once 1.0 beta is released things will be far more solid.

You have to understand that 1.0 is almost a 75% re-write (or re-structuring) of 0.9 so many things have changed. To an end user it seems the same but that’s because of much backwards compatibility work by Sam.

bbPress 1.0 is 150% the code size of 0.9

So when 1.0 goes beta, that would be a good time to start documentation.

[chrishajer]

You used to be able to do this with BB Sync. With the new versions, I think there is a bbPress plugin for WordPress.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-live/

The plugin author posted how to use it a while back but I can’t seem to find it. If you’re using WordPress 2.7 and the alpha of bbPress, I think bbpress-live is the way to go.

[slambert1971]

I have done all of this. The AUTH keys are identical in both the WordPress and bbPress config files. The cookie name is, I think, correct. I have posted parts of my config files here:

[links to keys removed by moderator chrishajer]

Thanks for any help. Like I said, the only thing that doesn’t work is the shared login part. I can not test these while at work, but any suggestions you can give will be tried when I get home. Thanks.

[ganzua]

Ipstenu; I’m not requesting at all just suggesting in case CK has another inspired day and has an unrestrained need of writing another guide. Just that, no demand.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Hmm. Okay, we need some people with translations on bbPress (alone, no WP/WPMU integration) to give us their results. This could just be the bbPress translation, or it may be due to the integration, but until we test it both ways, it’s hard to say. I don’t use a translation so I can’t really poke around that for you

[_dan_]

honnestly, i think at this time, there are not many people using wpmu+buddy+bb !

And most of them (as i read on several forums) encounters basic difficulties to simply translate the pot file of one or the other…

I translated each of them as a first step

Integrated them as second step

In third step, WPMU translation is ok and works 100%

buddypress is ok – 100%, too

but bbpress, hum, 30%

[slambert1971]

I am having (probably) the same problem as techlover. I can integrate the user database and user accounts work in both WordPress and bbPress. I can even allow people to register in either since they both use the same user database.

However, I have to login / out of each one seperately. That’s almost what I want. I integrated with the same versions mentioned above and it went farily smooth. Now, I would just like the login cookies to log me in and out of both sites.

[scoutbrandiegmailcom]

Yikes, really sorry if I offended anyone above. I haven’t looked into the project so much that I’m aware of the employment/progress etc. and was honestly just delighted to find ck’s post as it thoroughly explained everything I was looking for.

[_dan_]

I expected such an answer, Ipstenu !

I already use the french translation, and as i said, it is not working correctly, not working at all.

And i use it because i’m the author of the file you mentionned me.

The admin panel of bb is in french, the public side absolutely not. On the buddy forum, this appears to be a bbpress question, and here it is a buddy question.

Hum…

As end user, I only know that something is not working well between forum and buddy.

Show here by yourselve: http://buddypress-fr.net/bpdemo/forum/

[_dan_]

Hi !

I’m the admin of the french buddypress demo site. I encounter some difficulties with translating bbpress into french.

It seems as bbpress runs with WPMU+buddyPress, the translation is not working correctly. Probably due to cookie session mistake or something like this…

While .mo file is installed in /forum/my-languages directory, many lines are translated by the WPMU .mo file instead of bp’s one.

So, in my case, I need bp completely translated in french, not half showing in english.

Any idea of what is happening ? Thank

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

ganzua – While documenting the unstable may appear useful, it’s a stone cold mother to realize, six months later, that all your work was for nothing, because things were re-written. In order to discourage burnout, never have the tech writers start until you have it baked.

[inboedelverzekering]

I have BBpress running on one site too, but I really want it to become as good as WordPress, because BBpress already rocks (even though it’s in Alpha)! I just want to say, keep up the good work!

[scoutbrandiegmailcom]

I wonder if anyone can help, I have set up a bbPress forum within my WP installation. I have user accounts synced as described and have had good success pulling in topics into my WP homepage, and customising the theme.

I wondered if someone could point me in the right direction for my main problem though. I would like each new post that is made in WordPress to be copied and started also as a new topic in the bbPress forum. Going further than this, having WP comments act as replies to the bbPress topic would be great, but in the first instance I really just need a post to be duplicated as a new topic in bbPress.

Many thanks in advance.

[ganzua]

You can’t document something until it’s in a stable state.

we could call it “document of the unstable” I have a suggestion for chapter two; a juicy thread on producing custom loops.

I am on the verge of writing something about my experience of creating a bbPress plugin as a set of guideposts for others to make use of

I’m pretty sure your guide will be very welcome

[ganzua]

oh came on, everybody knows there is only one developer working on this project, you can’t demand so much. I’m very glad with what has been done so far. I have a wp-bbpress integration running again and it is thanks to Sam, so the only word I can say is thanks.

I guess this thread should be addressed right to Automattic; “hey Matt, we love bbpress, send more resources here”.

[_ck_]

I encourage both of you to adopt one of the many other forum programs.

There is no timetable for bbPress, Sam works on it at his own schedule.

If you are in a rush, there are plenty of other options.

It’s done when it’s done. You shouldn’t be using the alpha on a live site.

The next alpha will break many plugins because of the change to an internal rewrite engine so don’t count on using it unless you don’t use any of my plugins.

[pschena]

Super noobie to bbpress, and currently setting up an install for a client at: http://brainwave.org.au/forum

Got most things working to a point where I am semi happy with to start with, but having a couple of problems that need help with.

1. When logging out of a topic or forum page, I get taken to a default page. Would like to get back to the forum landing page – any ideas how to do that?
2. Same as point 1 when using Terms of Service plugin and tick box not ticked. Looks like all error pages use the same template – can this be changed?
3. Client wants a private, locked down forum, and needs to ask more questions at registration time. Is it just a process of adding fields to the form and database? Which file should I be editing?

These would set me well on the way to appeasing the client.

Thanks in advance for any help!

Cheers,

Paul

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

What part isn’t working?

If you login to bbPress, what happens on WordPress? What happens when you log out?

Please be descriptive. “It doesn’t work” is near impossible to debug (I spent my day arguing that there is a difference between ‘The page gave me a 404 error’ and ‘your webserver is broken!’ and the latter was nearly useless to me)