ok, this problem is now back, after I updated to wp 2.7 and bbpress 0.9.0.3.
now my feed doesn’t validate because of the date:
Sorry
This feed does not validate.
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line 18, column 39: pubDate must be an RFC-822 date-time: Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000 (35 occurrences) [help]
<pubDate>Fr, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:20 +0000</pubDate></blockqoute>
and the rss widget doesn’t update again with new forum postings.
It should be noted that the issues being complained about by some in this thread are now mostly resolved in trunk and recent versions.
it depends on your needs, if you need a forum that has too many features, then its phpbb for sure.
but if you are looking for a simple forum that has basic functionality, then it’s bbpress.
personally i like bbpress, i like how simple/basic it is, which allows me to add only the features that i want on my own via plugins, while phpbb has too much features, more than i ever wanted, which of course makes it heavier.
The problem with automated role mapping is now fixed in trunk.
That is exactly right. When using the permalink structure, bbPress will provide you the contents of what to put inside that file. Eventually I’m sure bbPress will make that file for you, but for now it’s a solid solution.
I’m already familiar with writing plugins for WordPress but now I’m interested in writing a few plugins for bbPress. I’m trying to find a list of hooks/actions so I can get a better feel for what I have control over without altering the core files. Does such a thing exist? If not which php files should I be going through to find hooks/actions or are they all in different files?
Cheers
very helpful screencast. thanks!
i’m having the same problem as maxwellfir with user roles not being assigned correctly and the error when trying to assign them.
for existing users (from wordpress) i get the error mentioned above when trying to edit that user’s role in bbpress.
for new users (signed up via bbpress) their role in wordpress is set to “none” and therefore can’t login to wordpress.
not sure if the second issue has anything to do with having registration disabled in wordpress.
thanks for any additional help with this.
1.0-Alpha-4
https://bbpress.org/download/#bbfooter
That’s an alpha version, not suitable for a production site, but that’s the version that’s compatible with WordPress 2.7. I’m not recommending you use it, but that’s the version that’s compatible.
Watch this before attempting integration:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast
Yah, Google search is the best way I know to search multiple *Press sites.
I should highlight some downsides though:
* The search is not necessarily live; it’s searching Google’s version of the site, not your live site. So it’s especially important to have live Google Sitemaps on any WordPress or bbPress installs you want searched.
* You want to make sure that any subdomains do a good job of hiding pages that you don’t want searched. For example, I have MediaWiki on a subdomain… which does a bad job of hiding the editable version of each page (and other random pages too, like WhatLinksHere). I fixed that with plugins and other hacks, but it cluttered my search results for a while.
Hmm, those are the big downsides. Overall though, you can’t beat the ease of implementation of a Google custom search engine!
phpbb is much much much more powerful and has dozens of features.
I believe it may have something to do with my .htaccess file being read only. I can make it writeable but how do i go about fixing bbpress so that it writes the correct .htaccess file information.
I just setup bbpress on my domain and moved away from simple forums. I am however getting a 404 error when I go to my site.
http://www.greenfitnessworld.com/forum you can also view bbpress at
http://www.greenfitnessworld.com/bbpress
Thanks in advanced for any help you can give on fixing this problem
I am using WordPress 2.7 and wanted to know which bbpress would be compatible with it?
I think it’s cool that the index and the mini-plugin can improve on bbPress, but “severe performance issues” to me is not going from 0.0920 to 0.0005 seconds. That’s from 1/10 of a second to nearly nothing. But 1/10 second was “severe performance issues”?
Or, does this query from _ck_ just show a way to measure the improvement, where in actual usage, someone with 10K topics or 42K topics would see a performance hit (delay) much different than the test query that _ck_ posted. I’m all for improving what can be improved, but there are much larger issues to worry about than something that is taking 1/10th of a second. With bandwidth and browsers being what they are, the page isn’t going to load that quickly anyway, and adding 1/10 of a second to the processing time is not going to be noticeable to me.
Well from my past experience with phpbb and bbpress I have to say bbpress would be quicker for you and there are plugins that will allow you to do so.
Hi there!
I am sorry if someone else has already created a post on this.
I have a website (powered by wordpress) that has a bunch of how-to windows tech articles. I need to get a forum for my site users. Which one would be better? My users will need the capability of uploading files, pasting code and images. Which forum program would put less pressure on my servers and hopefully keep the running a little faster?
Thank you ahead of time for any help.
I have always found the pretty permalinks awesome in bbPress. I really like them.
But there are a few places they aren’t consistent and still use the .php extension (bb-login.php and register.php) or even $_GET for tags.php. I would highly recommend patching this up when pretty permalinks are on.
Can this be done?
This is the SQL query to use if others want to add such an index:
ALTER TABLE bb_topics ADD INDEX (topic_time)
But that in itself is not enough, bbPress has to be forced to use the index.
I am trying to figure out a way to do this without hacking the core, via a mini-plugin instead.
That’s funny I was just about to make a TRAC ticket pointing out there is no index on topic_time for the latest view.
Strange you have to force the index though, what is the default ORDER BY, let me go look…
yup, they order by topic_time, with no index, that’s just crazy, even for just 1000 topics, because it would have to do a full column scan. Ordering by topic_last_post_id would be even faster with an index too though I guess in a very strange circumstance the last post might not be the last time.
Still, you should not have to force the index.
Oh wait, I see why – it’s because mysql decides to use the stickies key instead, ugh.
Yeah I can see why that would bring a large forum to a crawl.
I think whomever designed the bbPress database tables had a misunderstanding how mysql indexes work because they are using multiple field indexes that are not the primary key. Or a key at all. Which is useless because mysql will only use one index per query regardless of it’s complexity (or lack of). An index on multiple fields is useless unless it’s used as a key. MySQL 5 can use different indexes for the query vs ORDER BY or GROUP BY but bbPress doesn’t take advantage of that at all.
with wp 2.7 which version of bbpress i should use ?
How you can do for registration ? Have you disable wp or bbpress registration ?
Your layout is already very much like a standard forum structure. You have a header and a footer and a content area on the left.
Simply build a bbPress theme that is identical to your website by taking apart your current page structure and putting it into the appropriate templates and make a path to /forums/ or whatever you want to call it.
Or you could go for full/complex integration but it will double your page creation time.
There is currently no IntenseDebate functionality in bbPress, and although I have discussed the idea of an IntenseDebate Plugin with them, there are no immediate plans to do it.
Been really excited about BBpress 1 and was planning on incorporating it into my WordPress site when it finished Alpha testing.
Anyone have any clue how IntenseDebate (via WordPress plugin) interacts with BBpress 1? Anyone have problems?
Obviously with Automatic behind both I’m sure its only a matter of time before BBpress, IntenseDebate and WordPress go together like Peanut butter, Jelly, and bread.
