Just in case this thread (and bbPress development) is still alive:
The question was: How to handle feeds with no items. Currently bbPress responds with an empty page when a feed wouldn’t contain any items.
The expected behaviour would be to respond sending a valid feed with no item entries.
The file /rss.php (see http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/rss.php) calls die() in all cases when no posts are found.
Comment out all “die()” calls and you’re fine!
I’ve set up dozens of bbpress forums, but this has got me stumped. This is a fresh install, with NO WordPress integration.
The install appears to work fine, but afterwards I cannot access the admin pages (it just redirects to the homepage). I AM a keymaster (I can see this from editing my profile). I do NOT have any .htaccess files anywhere.
I have tried everything I can think of – deleting bb-config.php, dropping all the tables, re-uploading all the files, even deleting the subdomain and database from the server and re-creating it.
This is BBPress 0.9.0.2, on Apache 2.2.9 (Linux) and PHP 5.2.6
Well that’s all for now, hope you enjoyed it.
Your feedback and ideas are encouraged.
I should note that sites that seem to be spammer operated or that I detect are infected by XSS scripts have been dropped from the list. There are currently eight sites affected by XSS and I have attemped to notify the owners (apparently without success). These infections are not from a bbPress fault but rather the overall security of their server and other software running on the site (otherwise it would be rampant).
A new feature this month is an analysis of Server and PHP software popularity. What’s interesting is how Apache use is slowly being eroded by other options. Also, PHP4 is still VERY popular (1 in 3 servers use it!)
Server Popularity (alphabetical order)
Abyss/2.0.0.20-x2-win32 : 2
Apache : 800+
Apache/1.3 : 900+
Apache/2 : 40+
Apache/2.0 : 800+
Apache/2.2 : 1000+
Ideawebserver/v0.50 : 3
Lighttpd/1.4 : 15
Litespeed : 20
Microsoft-IIS/5.0 : 12
Microsoft-IIS/6.0 : 80+
Microsoft-IIS/7.0 : 2
Nginx : 19
Nginx/0.3 : 2
Nginx/0.5 : 17
Nginx/0.6 : 10
Nginx/0.7 : 2
Webserverx : 16
Zeus/4.3 : 2
(abnormalities and unknown entities have been dropped)
PHP Popularity (by version)
4.3 : 200+
4.4 : 900+
5.0 : 40~
5.1 : 200+
5.2 : 2000+
bbPress is being used in over 80 countries (or regions).
Here is a sample in order of popularity:
. 1. United States
2. Germany
3. Spain **
4. United Kingdom
5. Russian Federation
6. Italy
7. Turkey
8. France
9. Sweden
10. China
11. Denmark
12. Netherlands
13. Canada
14. Japan
15. Europe
16. Romania
17. Czech Republic
18. Brazil
19. Norway
20. Austria
21. Poland
22. Australia
23. Switzerland
24. Hungary
25. India
26. Chile
27. Belgium
28. Argentina **
29. Indonesia
30. Finland
31. Ukraine
32. Saudi Arabia
33. Greece
34. Lithuania
35. Israel
36. New Zealand
37. Slovakia
38. Latvia
39. Mexico **
40. South Africa
** This list is subject to some inaccuracies based on guesstimates of language used or target audience. For example, a page in Spanish may be intended for an audience in Mexico, Argentina, or in Spain. A page in Arabic may be intended for several countries in the middle-east, etc.
bbPress is currently installed on at least 5,000 sites.
Here is a breakdown of bbPress forums by total posts:
Posts Count
0 - 99 3,000+
100 - 999 640
1,000 - 4,999 180
5,000 - 9,999 52
10,000 - 49,999 44
50,000 - 99,999 12
100,000 - 499,999 7
500,000 - 999,999 2
By my calculations, a bbPress forum will break a million posts by the end of this year!
It’s time for the (completely unofficial) TOP 100 report!
I am very pleased to report the list has swelled to OVER 4000 sites, even though 200 sites have been dropped since last month due to domains expiring, disappearing DNS or other reasons. This means in the past 30 days, well over 1000 sites have been added!
This month also brings new features to the list – considering it’s now overwhelming size I have added a basic search ability to the Top 1000 list.
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000
(Top 1000 requires free registration/login)
User voting on sites is still pending, sorry (my limited time has unfortunately been taken doing plugin fixes for 1.0 alpha). I hope to have it working in time for bbPress’s TWO YEAR birthday next month (October 14th).
This month I have also calculated some additional, interesting statistics on the data to give a better analysis of bbPress’s incredible growth…
@_ck_ Sorry missed about the WPMU, I´m on WP 2.6 and having theese problems.
I assume you both asked on the WPMU support forum?
I just finished a test integration of bbpress into word-press and all is working very well with one exception. The static front page for word press has stopped functioning when I add the following to the end of the wp-config.php file:
if ( !defined(‘BBDB_NAME’) )
{
require_once(ABSPATH.’forum/bb-load.php’);
}
If I remove this and the couple of bbpress calls that I’m using which require this, the static front page works again. I think I’m just too tired to find the answer in the source.
Has anyone solved this? BTW — this is WP version 2.5.1 and bbpress 0.9.
Thanks in advance for any help.
It’s not available AFAIK. I was trying to search the forums here for the last time it was discussed but I can’t find it. It was a custom theme they had done by Happy Cog, I think.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-wordpressorg-forum-theme
Nah, mine wont let the WP users post or do any thing except login.
I think I might have the same problem. I can log in an post with one admin user. This user can post both on WP and BBP. If I add another user. It can semi login to WP but not to BBP. If I change this user to an admin nothing happens, the user cannot do anything more than before.
hi,
I would really like to use the WordPress Forums <http://wordpress.org/support/> theme at my bbPress forums. Is there anywhere I can download it?
I am going to use bbPress for a client’s web site, but she has one requirement and I am not sure if it can be implemented. She wants a membership list that can include the members’ title and company (if provided). I was lookin at the Memberslist plugin, but while someone commented that they wanted that feature, there was never any response at to if that was possible. Any ideas?
yes – creating the autoload plugin apperently did the trick !!!
(I still need to test if all functionality works, but at least I can now see the posts 
)
thank, this issue is resolved for now
Same database or same tables within the database? Same database, sure, just use a different table prefix, like bbalpha_ or something.
For the same tables, I would need to look at the schema changes between 0.9 and 1.0, but I *believe* there are changes, which means it would not work to use the same exact tables.
edit: _ck_ beat me to it
No, 1.0 alpha CHANGES the database upon install/upgrade that will make the database incompatible with 0.9.
You may find yourself thinking it’s still working with 0.9 afterwards, but there will be critical updates missing, for example the topicmeta table is no longer used or updated in 1.0, even though it’s left in the db.
The integration won’t work with those versions, as you know.
For the refresh thing, that’s what you posted about initially. Can you post the link to your forum?
Does any of this help?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/infinite-loops-on-posts-and-profiles
The same for me – right now, bbPress needs a lot to be the perfect community, but by time I’m sure it’ll be the one! And the fact, that its possible to integrate it with WordPress is great.
I have high hopes that bbPress becomes everything that everyone wants it to be. I wish I was a coder, so I could contribute!
I have a few forums using .9 on a single database. Can I also install 1.0 alpha for a new forum on the same database without any problems to my forums using .9?
bbPress 0.9.0.2, WP 2.6.2, running on 2008 server
cookies may not work (due to the incompatibilities), but at least users can now log on just fine.
thanks for the link
Now I’m still faced with another problem : nobody can actually open a forum, post, profile or anything else,
(e.g. http://www.mysite.com/forum/forum.php?id=1)
then the page goes blank (browser looks like it’s trying to constantly reloading the page)
The admin panel works fine
This is a fresh install, integrated with WordPress, running in a separate folder (not as a subfolder of WP)
any ideas ?
or should I open an new post for this ?
