[chrishajer]

Did you try installing it? Since bbPress is beta software and has undergone lots of changes in the past year, a lot of the early plugins don’t work without modification.

There was a reply recently by sambauers about subscribing yourself to the new posts feed and front page feed (I think) via an RSS to email service like Feedblitz. Then you could get notification in your email rather than RSS.

I think the creators of bbPress have gone down the path of RSS rather than email, for notifications. Adding back in the functionality for delivery via email is most likely going to always be via a plugin. Just my opinion.

[chrishajer]

I’ve seen a bunch of replies today regarding things you’re unhappy with being missing from bbPress, things that are handled by plugins that should not be. I think your idea of forum software is different from the creators ideas for bbPress. I don’t think all the functionality you are missing in bbPress is ever going to be in the bbPress core. I have no official word on the subject, but from watching the replies over the past two years regarding topic like this, I don’t think these things will ever be part of the core, but will be available as plugins.

Also, bbPress is alpha or beta software, depending on the version you installed, around two years old, where phpBB is something like eight years old.

bbPress isn’t for everyone. That’s why there are lots of forum packages out there. Something for everyone.

[chrishajer]

I don’t want those things in the bbPress core – I would never use them. That said, normally things like this can be added via plugins, which are optional and I wouldn’t have to install them. Best of both worlds.

I am curious why you selected bbPress over phpBB if these core features are already present in phpBB but not in bbPress? Not a flame, an honest question.

[eclipsenow]

Why on earth is there an image plug in? Why isn’t it a standard part of the main install? It seems that the BBpress logo should be…

“BBpress, the bulletin board that looks deceptively lean because… it is! Everything you take for granted isn’t there until you add a plug in”.

Surely email notification, email notification by forum subscribed to, images, WYSIWYG formatting, are all soooooo important and standard on other bulletin boards they should be part of the standard install?

But, I may never know the answer because I won’t get an email if someone replies to this thread.

[chrishajer]

Your users probably want to mark a topic as a favorite if they want an email when there is a reply. A topic created by a member does not automatically subscribe them to it as a favorite (I think in some versions of phpBB that’s how it works.)

For buttons, you probably want one of these two plugins:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-buttons/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quicktags-4-bbpress/

You’ll find with bbPress that most of the things you want to do can be accomplished with plugins.

[eclipsenow]

Personally, what I want from an email notification service is:-

1. To notify me of when someone replies, but not EVERYONE that replies.

I love the fact that in phpbb.com the email notifies you, you click on the url and go to the next reply to your last post, and then you note that there are 20 other replies that you can read through neatly on the BB, but NOT 20 other emails to delete! The whole point of BB’s is that they save email stress. I’d hate to lose this function just because we decided to go with bbpress not phpbb.

2. Being able to subscribe to not just threads, but FORUMS is also important for some users. In some large forums, some specialists need to know everything going on in that forum and might be so busy that they’d appreciate an email every time someone started a thread.

This sort of functionality should be standard in bbpress. I’m an activist spread very thinly over the internet, and RSS just doesn’t cut it. I might see a thread, register, comment, and then forget about that whole forum until someone eventually replies. The email keeps me going back. With so many bulletin boards and forums to reply to and keep track of — that ALL pretty much notify of reply by email — why would I bother messing around with RSS as well? My email box is king, only it grabs my attention. This function should not be a plugin.

3. There should be a function in my profile where I can just click an automatic email generator, so that ANY time I reply in ANY thread, I am automatically emailed if someone replies.

This is standard, basic bulletin board protocol and absolutely has to be in the standard installation.

[eclipsenow]

Hi all,

I’m used to phpbb.com software. Does BBpress have an email notification function that lets members know of replies to threads (instead of RSS)? I’m introducing a bunch of email list users to Bulletin Boards for the first time, and am really hoping this software works well.

Also, they are not very technical. Does BBpress have easy to use buttons for customising posts?

[blankpoint]

Looks great. What versions WP and BB are you using. If the most recent of each, how did you get the cookies to integrate? Right now, I and most other people it seems, can’t get it all working correctly. Logging in on one side results in only partial access and functionality in the other, it seems.

[xyhn]

Here’s my recently launched WordPress/bbPress site.

http://nightsed.com/

http://nightsed.com/forums

The custom design is integrated between the two sites. I’m using several bbPress and WordPress mods, but there is also some custom php work.

Cheers!

[chrishajer]

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/ was for the older version of bbPress. Not sure how well it works with 0.9.0.2. If you browse the bbsync tag, you will see some discussion.

[chrishajer]

On that page you sent, I can navigate forward and backward with the page number 1 or 2 and the next and previous links. So what is supposed to be broken? Looks like there are supposed to be 22 posts in that topic and I see 20 on the first page and 2 on the second page.

There was another topic that had 21 posts and it had two pages, 20 on the first page and 1 on the second.

I am focusing on the bbPress generated links at this point.

Maybe it’s different when you’re logged in? I was not. Also, FF3.

[epiphone]

To benefit fully from intergrating bbPress with my WordPress, I downgraded and went to WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.2. Now I know a plugin that allows you to display the last topics/discussion on your blog exists for bbPress 1.0, but I was wondering if something like this has been made for bbPress 0.9.2?

Thanks,

James

[mciarlo]

http://www.cairoshell.com/forum/topic.php?id=888&page=2

I’m using a page link plugin for the main page, but the links inside the thread are bbPress.

[-javier-]

I have found a problem with the login between WordPress and bbpress. Alpha 1 didn’t have this issue.

It’s the same as @bharatk reported.

[-javier-]

Any news about it? I have the same issue. May be downgrade to alpha 1 can be a solution?

[chrishajer]

Do you have a link to the page that’s a problem?

And is the link you’re clicking generated by a plugin or by the bbpress core?

[grenoli-dk]

I am having problems with the phpbb2bbpress converter (http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/).

When I run the file I just get this message. There isnt a sql-file to download or a file created on my server.

1: I downloaded the file from: http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/

2: I edited the lines I have written in bold.

Code:

define(‘DB_PHPBB_USERNAME’, ‘[strong]databasename[/strong]’);
define(‘DB_PHPBB_PASSWORD’, ‘[b]databasepassword[/b]’);
define(‘DB_PHPBB_DATABASE’, ‘[b]databasename[/b]’);
define(‘DB_PHPBB_TABLEPREFIX’, ‘phpbb_’);

define(‘DB_BBPRESS_HOSTNAME’, ‘localhost’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_USERNAME’, ‘[b]databasename[/b]’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_PASSWORD’, ‘[b]databasepassword[/b]’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_DATABASE’, ‘[b]databasename[/b]’);
define(‘DB_BBPRESS_TABLEPREFIX’, ‘bb_’);

I only have one database on my server, so the databasename and password is the same on the phpbb and bbpress part

Code:

define(‘EXPORT_TO_FILE’, true); // Should the converted DB be exported to a file ?
define(‘FILENAME’, ‘/tmp/phpbb_imported.sql’); // Which one ? (Ensure this path is writeable by the server)
define(‘AUTO_IMPORT_EXPORTED_DATA’, false); // Should the script automagically import the converted DB ?

3: I created the folder tmp at the root and used chmod on it.

4: I uploaded the file to the root and tried to open it but I couldnt. So I removed the s in .phps and it worked. But i only got this message – but nothing really happened. I cant download a file, and there is nothing on my server. What am I doing wrong?

Q! wrote:

phpBB to bbPress database converter

This script can convert a PhpBB 2.0.X (www.phpbb.com) forum database to bbPress “Bix” 0.73 (www.bbpress.org) format.

Developed by Jaime GÓMEZ OBREGÓN from ITEISA, based on the previous work of Bruno Torres and The phpBB Group.

The latest version of this file can be found on http://www.iteisa.com/phpbb2bbpress/.

Starting conversion

1.

Connected to the phpBB database host

2.

Selected the phpBB database

3.

Exporting forums…

4.

Exporting users…

5.

Exporting user metadata…

6.

Exporting topics…

7.

Exporting posts…

8.

Sending all your database e-mails to all major world-wide spam sending mafias…

‘strong’dsfgds’strong’

[wizzard1981]

Hello,

I’m having troubles with the bbPress 1.0-alpha-2 when removing in the admin page some posts.

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /usr/home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php on line 527

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.php:527) in /usr/home/xxx/domains/xxx/public_html/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 214

Cheers,

Kris

[vannak]

Hi all,

bbpress integrated with wordpress works fine but there is only one problem. the problem is that username which is registered in bbpress and it is blank in the post author in wordpress.

please help…

thank in advance

[chrishajer]

No.

Kakumei is a theme (WordPress terminology) or a template (bbPress terminology) and controls the display of the content on your site. Any modifications you make to your site should be done in these template files, never in the core. Changing core files makes it hard to upgrade to newer releases: you lose your changes with every upgrade. So, if you make the changes in a template file, you can maintain them between releases.

Also, by default, the stock kakumei theme is used and it’s in the bb-templates directory. I recommend creating a new directory called my-templates (if it’s not there already) at the same level as bb-templates. So, in a directory listing, they’d be at the same level. Then, inside there, create a directory called mytheme or some other name that is descriptive for your forum. This directory name does not matter. (The my-templates one DOES matter.)

Now that you have a my-templates directory, and inside that a new directory with a name you choose, copy everything from inside the bb-templates/kakumei/ directory to this new directory you created. Then, open up style.css and change the header to give this new template a unique name on line two. You will see this there:

Theme Name: Kakumei

Change that to “Theme Name: My Cool New Theme” or whatever you want. Then refresh your admin panel, and you will see a new theme. You can change the rest of the lines in that header as well, to things that are meaningful to you. Be sure not to modify the text before the colon, just change the text after, to your values.

Now, modify the php and css files in this directory to change the look of your forum. You can switch back and forth between themes here. If you break something, just choose the default theme until you fix the one you were working on.

[mciarlo]

I’m running bbPress 0.9.0.2.

I’ve noticed the page links are working incorrectly. We have 20 posts to a page, but bbPress is counting too many posts. For example, one thread only has 19 posts, but the thread link clearly says it has 21. When you click the link to page two, you get a blank page with just the topic title and the reply form.

http://www.cairoshell.com/forum

[epiphone]

Sorry for the really late reply. Didn’t see my topic with a reply.

To bbPress’ credit I got that error and alot more when intergrating the wordpress database and theme intergration (But it is currently alpha) and I am looking forward to the stable release of 1.0 now that I’ve seen it and essentially test drived it.

If your still having problems I can only assume your also using the 1.0 alpha as well, in which case I’d suggest you consider downgrading to WordPress 2.5.1 and bbPress 0.9.2. I did a couple days ago and it is very stable, the intergration is perfect and I have no problems with permalinks etc.

[teo7]

I forgot update the bbpress user’s role. When I did that, the problem disapeared. Now my forum is working perfectly.

[chrishajer]

You know, there was a post here a year or more ago about using javascript to prevent duplicate form submissions, but I can’t find it right now. I did find some results with google though, just not at this site.

http://www.google.com/search?q=prevent+duplicate+form+submission+javascript

The solution posted here at bbpress.org was similar to this one (at the end):

http://www.ahfb2000.com/webmaster_help_desk/showpost.php?s=95582078bfca56f52bafd97c9de84643&p=12854&postcount=2

[wonen]

You guys are really doing a great job!