[johnhiler]

Just out of curiosity… which features are you wishing to see in bbPress?

[mzimmers]

Here’s a first approximation of a right sidebar.

http://scopedin.com/bbpress/

As you can see, I need just a little more room on the right than I’m getting with the current defaults for the theme. I tried altering the width parameters in style.css, but that quickly became a rat’s nest. I concluded I wasn’t approaching it correctly.

It’s really preferable (from my perspective) to shrink the width of the tags and/or discussions sections, so the right sidebar can fit. That way, the right sidebar can remain consistent between the forums and the blog.

Chris: I was unaware of the wealth of other themes available; thanks for the link. Do you have any idea whether some of those might be more flexible?

[martenk]

We’ve decided to move on from bbPress to a more developed forum system. bbPress is good but lacks some features we need.

Hopefully bbPress will grow and in the future we’ll switch back, I really do like how easy you can customize bbPress and extend it with plugins…

Anyway, the questions: Will the old md5-insecurity plugin do the trick and change all passwords to regular md5 for easy conversion to new forum?

How do I force all users to drop their cookies and log in in order for all passwords to be renewed?

[martenk]

I think a plugin that puts the bbpress admin panel in the WordPress one would be nice.

Speaking of admin panels…

[Arnan de Gans]

for what it’s worth, i love the 1.0 dashboard of bbpress. much better than the crappy wp2.7 thing

[_ck_]

This is already how wp-super-cache works. Just port it to bbPress.

[topdog2046]

hi,

I’m running the latest WordPress MU version and also running the latest BBPress version on 1 MySQL Db.

I integrated wordpress via the wordpress integration setting from within bbpress, but now when I login as admin do to the imported users of wordpress, I cannot see a site admin link from within bbpress anymore to administer BBPress.

What shouldI do now?

[_ck_]

Sorry I missed the earlier questions.

And to post code, make sure you put it between backticks `

[mithrandir321]

Hello, would any of the more experienced folks on this forum please take a look at bbRating plugin http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-ratings/ and the problems we’ve come across lately. This plugin’s support seems to be discontinued so you’re are only chance. Any help/suggestions on behalf of all who asked would be much appreciated.

Many thanks!

[scoutbrandiegmailcom]

Many many thanks for this post, exactly what I was looking for, and a nice substitute for some weighty bbPress documentation in the meantime.

[chrishajer]

That doesn’t sound right. You can cram pretty much whatever you want into whatever space you have.

Have you looked at some of the other themes that are available?

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/available-themes

http://bbpressraw.com/bbpress_blank_themes/

[tomwi]

figured this out!

but can’t get the damn code to post right. if anyone is interested let me know how to post a code snipplet without the forum eating it… it outputs like this:

*post title*

Posted by: *user* in *forum*.

[tomwi]

@ck – when i try to call the get_forum_name in a wordpress widget it doesnt work. i believe because this is a bbpress function? How would I pull the forum name without using this funtion?

[martenk]

Did a workaround which seems to work for every 5th new member. (How can that even be possible?) Using the md5-plugin (uh oh) for bb-press and rerouting all logins through WordPress login system. This means users don’t get gallery access upon registration but rather the first time they log in…. which makes no difference in reality…

But then again, it only works for every fifth user… or something like that… randomish. The alternative would be to bypass validation in Gallery2 and just copy the user info regardless. But that’s a lot of work…

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You don’t.

WP of 2.5 means you use BB .9 so I assume 2.4 is the same. They changed a lot between 2.5 and 2.7 with logins.

Sorry.

[Malice]

Hi,

I’ve been using bbpress for a good month now and it’s served is purpose quite decently so far.

Yet there’s several occasions where I just wish the forum would put up a notice at the bottom of a post if anyone edited it. Now moderators (or just anyone) can edit a post without anyone knowing their post has been edited, making it look like they wrote it exactly that way, while a moderator could just as well have changed something.

A function that always puts up a notice at the bottom of the post when a post has been edited, by anyone, would allow me to:

1) Increase the time in which people can edit their post

2) Prevent conflicts because of changed content

3) Keep track of things that have been changed.

Very basic functionality, but quite essential for any forum, in my opinion.

[tnts]

I wanted to use absolute time instead of relative also, but I noticed the UTC offset doesn’t have any effect on any timestamps. Is this still the only solution or have there been any new workarounds invented? I’m using bbPress 0.9.0.2 and WordPress 2.5.1

[reclaimyourskin]

Hi guys, for some reason my Roaccutane forum is not being indexed as thoroughly as my main wordpress site. To cut a long story short, some pages are being indexed but they are way down the rankings.

To try and rectify this I added a BBpress map and altered some keywords around 3 months ago – i’m also using permalinks, but still no luck.

Can anyone suggest any other tips to get more coverage to the forums?

Thanks

[fwilson789]

Come on, there has to be a way to do this!

It worked fine for me with the current stable release, but the login was broken, so I installed the unstable. The login started working, but wp_head() stopped.

bb-config.php:

include('../wp-config.php');



/**

* The base configurations of bbPress.

*

* This file has the following configurations: MySQL settings, Table Prefix,

* Secret Keys and bbPress Language. You can get the MySQL settings from your

* web host.

*

* This file is used by the installer during installation.

*

* @package bbPress

*/



// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //

/** The name of the database for bbPress */

define('BBDB_NAME', 'bbpress');

bb-templateskakumeifront-page.php:

<?php get_header(); ?>

... page ...

<?php get_footer(); ?>

[yokima]

bump?

[fooddude]

I’ve tried the last few versions, and always get the following errors:

Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.bpdb.php on line 377 along with:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock’ (2) etc.

This happens between doing an upgrade or a clean install, no plugins. Any ideas?

[martenk]

Apparently md5 hash isn’t correct either. What I need is to make the bbpress password-hash into the WordPress 2.5 standard.

I.e. how to make bbpress 1.0 WordPress 2.4 (Pre 2.5) compatible?

[martenk]

Apparently the problem isn’t really the registration method but rather the password encryption.

It seems the md5-insecurity plugin doesn’t work with BBPress 1.0? Does anyone have a fix for that?

[martenk]

I am working on a site where I’m integrating wp, bbpress and Gallery2. The integration between WP and BBPress is seamless (WP 2.7 and BBPress 1.0 Alpha6) as is the integration between WordPress and Gallery2. The problem is that when people register in BBPress they can’t access Gallery2…

Does anyone have a solution for this? Can bbpress be forced to call the wordpress registration-script instead of the normal bbpress registration script when registering. I wan’t the extra bells and whistles the bb-press installation allows for through plugins so rerouting and forcing users to register through the wp interface doesn’t really appeal to me…

[tomwi]

right now I am using:

echo "<li><a>topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a>Posted by: <a>topic_poster."'>".$result->topic_poster_name."</a> in </li>";