[nookingtons]

Hi..

I’ve just gotten BBPress up and running yesterday and was abelt login etc then but it won’t allow any users to login now.

Basically i enter my username and password click login and it ust refreshes the page.

Anyone know what could be wrong?

[kevinjohngallagher]

“Oh one big thing I should point out – the features in bbPress, and the time of the main developers are first and primarily geared towards the need of Automattic and WordPress.org – people forget or don’t realize that.”

We don’t get or realize that because… it’s not written anywhere.

We’re not mind readers.

“The features that are “missing” from bbPress just happen to be the features that Matt decided weren’t a priority for WordPress.org and the other Automattic forums.”

Oh. See, now that’s a totally different light on the subject. I didn’t realise i was building something for Matt to fit Matt’s needs and for the needs of Matt’s companies. Maybe that should be written down somewhere too…

“It’s also why there is no documentation, remember Matt has to pay the coders, why does he need documentation for 3rd party plugin developers if it’s just going to cost money.”

I do understand that, but surely the actual developers have some form of documentation too. Couldn’t we all see that to make ‘Matts’ product better? And it’s not like Automatic is short of a few bob.

Surely, from a business point of view, having documentation to increase the number of theme and plugin developers will increase the take-up rate of BBpress.

“bbPress 1.0 and the backpress integration are now being driven by Matt’s goal of TalkPress for WordPress.com members.”

So, what this means is that we can’t, as a community, do anything about anything, because we’re all following Matt’s plan, to which we have no feature list or roadmap or really any visibility of?

I dont expect Matt, or really any WordPress/Automatic employee, to have to run things by anyone in the community – i’m not saying that I do. But the… pretence that this is an open source project is totally nullified if we’re all coding against a grand plan and road map we’re not allowed to see.

If the new standard answer is going to be “that’s not on Matt’s wishlist but we’re not going to tell you what is on it – go on GUESS” then can start to see why so many people have left the BBpress community, and why all the themes/forums we’re seeing all look the same.

[suzkaw]

I see what you mean. I will get those changed over the weekend and release it again.

By the way you may know or not but can you add a theme to the bbpress extend section so you get svn access?

[John Doe]

Glad to help musnake!

Thanks for the heads up with the custom WP login

[kevinjohngallagher]

And where could Matt possibly find the money to pay for these develoeprs with the $29million he got in January…

(thats a joke btw)

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Psst! You mean to put bbpress here:

/home/www/example.com/bbpress

If you put it under wordpress, your URL will be http://www.example.com/wordpress/bbpress

[_ck_]

Oh one big thing I should point out – the features in bbPress, and the time of the main developers are first and primarily geared towards the need of Automattic and WordPress.org – people forget or don’t realize that.

Remember, bbPress is a purpose driven product that happens to also be open source. It wasn’t just a few people that said “hey let’s make a better free forum because we can”.

The features that are “missing” from bbPress just happen to be the features that Matt decided weren’t a priority for WordPress.org and the other Automattic forums. It’s also why there is no documentation, remember Matt has to pay the coders, why does he need documentation for 3rd party plugin developers if it’s just going to cost money.

bbPress 1.0 and the backpress integration are now being driven by Matt’s goal of TalkPress for WordPress.com members.

So there’s the logic that some might not understand without perspective. There are projects like SMF that literally WERE “let’s make a better free forum” that have matured now so you can compare to them – but remember they are half a decade old. bbPress is far younger (and bbPress is way easier to write mods for).

[_ck_]

SteveDrum both anon posting and PM are plugins.

I don’t see why they should be built in, I for one don’t like them on my forums and it bloats the code.

Until 1.0 there was a problem with anon posting because there was no place to store post meta, but now the general bb_meta table can be used. So maybe one day it will have it built in but not likely 1.0

[_ck_]

Sam’s short on time these days. He just went to bed, so no more replies from him today (aussie time).

[kevinjohngallagher]

Just seen Sam pop up on these boards (was beginning to think he was a myth), so hopefully we’ll get an answer on some of these points we’ve made

[_ck_]

No, but I try to keep a running list here:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages

You can always rely on the tags here too:

https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/i18n

[chrishajer]

I think they just want to spread spam links. I doubt they could hurt anything unless there were a flaw found in bbPress.

Using the Human Test plugin pretty much eliminates the spam registrations:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-anonymous-posting/

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

All fixed. This post by deadmedic fixed all my issues! It explains why all the ‘worked for me!’ posts seemed like nonsense to me.

The fix:

Change line 673 in bb-settings.php from:

$bb->sitecookiepath = rtrim($bb->sitecookiepath, '/');

to:

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/' . trim($bb->sitecookiepath, '/');

Thank you deadmedic!

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

while ($stars_in_heavens) {

deadmedic.karma += extra_scoop_of_icecream();

deadmedic.praise_sung += 1;

}

You fixed it.

Here I was searching for all instances of setcookie…novice error!

WP2.6.3; bbPress 1.0a2; PHP5; Apache 1.3

I can log in and out of WP and bbPress from any direction!

I did not use the .htaccess edits, just the rtrim line.

Thank you, so very much!

I wonder if this is going to solve my bbSynch and bbLive issues?

BTW, there is a WP plugin to skin the wp login. They have a flickr group to share what people have done.

I like the idea of funneling registrations through bbPress, as most of my members will hit the fora.

I have to go and clean up some nasty things I’ve been saying around the web about integration…

Thanks again, man.

Cheers.

[danbbpress]

I just noticed that my newly installed BBpress board has now around 20 members (launched it around 2 weeks ago). Of these 20 only 4 have posted a message. Moreover, when looking at my logs showing real traffic I do not see evidence of so many registrations (my logs show real traffic only). Also, some of these new users have provided a spammy website URL (porn, gaming etc).

My question: can some of these new users be automated bots that somehow exploit the register form? If so what shoud I do/expect? How would they want to harm my website?

Thanks.

Dan

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

This would be great as a ‘Promote To Main Forum’ plugin.

WPMu integration comes to mind where satellite fora feed a global forum…

[ksiebel]

Hello,

i want to use bbpress in an intranet. Is it possible to deactivate the registration , and allow posts of all users (not logged in – anonymous)?

Thanks!

Sincerely,

Kilian

[mxadness]

A simple phpBB3 to bbPress converter would be great. I really hope this gets done soon — bbPress + WordPress absolutely rocks.

[johnhiler]

I have a site with two separate bbPress installs that share a single users table: one is a Message Boards forum, while the other one is for Classifieds. They are on two separate subdomains:

* boards.weddingbee.com

* classifieds.weddingbee.com

Some users post classifieds listings to the Boards, which creates tons of admin work: I have to mark the listing as spam, message the user and ask them to repost it to Classifieds. It’s a big pain, and the problem is only growing.

After doing this several hundred times, I finally realized that maybe there was a better solution . It’d be great if I could click a button and have the topic be deleted from the Boards server and added to Classifieds.

Is it possible to have a plugin “cross over” and send data to another bbPress install? In this case, both the Boards and the Classifieds bbPress installs are on the same physical server… maybe that helps here? Or maybe that doesn’t matter, and this can all be done through API’s or something…

Any insight on this one? Thanks!

[chrishajer]

Put it in your root, but in a folder of its own. So, if you have WordPress here

/home/www/example.com/wordpress/

you can put bbPress here:

/home/www/example.com/wordpress/bbpress/

Then, your website/blog is http://www.example.com and your forum is http://www.example.com/bbpress/

You can call your folder whatever you want, it might be forum, forums, bbpress, anything at all.

[suzkaw]

I just ported the awesome iNove wordpress theme over to a bbPress template. Here is a link to download it and see a demo:

http://ericlbarnes.com/inove-for-bbpress/

Hope someone finds it useful!

[matteoraggi]

in installation manual is written to upload files, but not in which folder of wordpress, into plugins or content or on root or where?

[chrishajer]

Agreed. I’ve brought it up before, but I think they must be working on other things.

Bozo problem

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Abbpress.org%2Fforums+blockquote

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

At a guess…

RewriteRule ^forum/faq(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/forum/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^forum/mcp(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/forum/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^forum/member(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/forum/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^forum/search(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/forum/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^forum/ucp(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/forum/ [L,R=301]

RewriteRule ^forum/view(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/forum/ [L,R=301]

That’s the majority of the links, I think. At least the ones off the main page of a forum.