[thion]

> What do I get with bbPress?

The most coder-friendly Engine Core I ever seen . If you know how to code of course – coding plugins for bbPress is a pure pleasure.

[chrishajer]

> What do I get with bbPress?

Free forum software that is under active development

> Is it secure?

Yes.

> Will it get spammed to death?

No. It comes with Akismet to prevent spammers from posting, and you can use the Human Test plugin to prevent them from registering in the first place.

> Is it stable?

Yes. Even the latest Alpha version has been stable for me.

> Is it designed for personal sites or can businesses

> use it with confidence?

It’s designed for people who need forums. Businesses and individuals alike use it. Check out these people using bbPress.

[pab1953]

In vBulletin, if I want to pay $180, I could get the Porsche (reportedly) of message boards. In phpBB, if I want to grapple with a sizable infrastructure, I could get perhaps the most seasoned of the free forum systems.

What do I get with bbPress? Is it secure? Will it get spammed to death? Is it stable? Is it designed for personal sites or can businesses use it with confidence?

Here’s one very specific question: How do I add a link to bbPress to take people back to my WordPress home page?

BTW, the installation was a breeze.

[malaiac]

I have a bbpress setup on a subdomain : support.domain.com ( directory /home/domain/forum/ )

on -www.domain.com a WP setup (directory /home/domain/blog/ )

I tried to activate Permalinks.

/bb-admin/options-general.php : Pretty Permalink set to Numeric ( /forums/1 )

I created a /home/domain/forum/.htaccess with Options +MultiViews

bbpress pages are still 404 ( -http://suppport.domain.com/forum/1 )

I paste /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php lines into the .htaccess. Still 404.

-www.domain.com is ok, permalinks working (same hosting)

It seems that no .htaccess works with my bbPress install…

bbPress 0.9.0.2

[keppy]

Take a look at https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/#templates

That is a list of all the template files and when each of them is called. You’ll have to edit each applicable file to hide the things you want to hide.

[haagendazs1]

thanks! the Joined thing was done from a plugin, very simple!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/post-count-plus/ check it out

[haagendazs1]

Come check out my bbpress forum for lucid dreamers!

http://dreampush.com is the main site

http://dreampush.com/forums/ is the bbpress forum

Tell me what you think!

[geekymom]

More about this—When I click on the New Topic link, I get this error:

Warning: ldap_search() [function.ldap-search]: Search: Operations error in /var/www/html/bbpress/my-plugins/ldap-authentication.php on line 337

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/bbpress/my-plugins/ldap-authentication.php:337) in /var/www/html/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 188

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/html/bbpress/my-plugins/ldap-authentication.php:337) in /var/www/html/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 228

But if I go into a topic and at the bottom, it says, you must log in to post, when you click on the login link, which goes to bb-login.php, a blank user is created and they can do anything.

[geekymom]

Hello, since everyone’s been so helpful here, I thought I would give a little back. This seemed like the place to post this. I spent the last few days working with my system administrator to get the ldap plugin to work with our AD. We had done this successfully with WordPress and we were going to integrate bbpress with WordPress, but that layer of complication with ldap on WPMU made it too complex.

So we decided to leave bbpress on its own and use the ldap plugin posted here. Only we couldn’t get it to work at first. When we finally got it working, the local logins, specifically the Key Master account, could no longer log in. So here’s what we changed to make it work:

(1) in function connectUser, where $uid is set (line 327), change the first chunk of the string from ‘uid=’ to ‘cn=’ (this change may be specific to Windows/AD LDAP).

(2) in same function, comment out line 344 (ldap_unbind) because it is both redundant with line 345 and is using the wrong parameter (wants a connection object but $result is just a boolean value).

(3) in function newUser, add the user_nicename field to the database insertion and set it to the variable $user_login. This is a unique key in the database, and if it’s not set, all user additions after the first one will fail because of a duplicate (blank) key field.

We still don’t have local logins working, but that’s okay for us because we don’t want them. It might be something we’ll want to use in the future. I hope this helps anyone who might want to use this.

[mimicvii]

And it looks like the fix to that is to logout and sign back in through the bbPress site (instead of your wordpress site). Once you do that, wordpress recognizes you are logged in and you can access the Admin section of both sites.

[mimicvii]

Might have spoken too soon. That at least fixes the login integration and being able to login to my wordpress site, but now, while I show as logged into my bbPress site, I cannot access the Admin section.

[mimicvii]

I’ve fixed my particular problem. So this is more or less to point out what the problem is so anyone else having the problem can fix it as well.

Once I installed 1.0 Alpha and logged into it, I was unabled to login to my wordpress site. The only way I was able to log back into my wordpress site was by deleting all the cookies for my domain (had to repeat this each time I logged into my bbPress site).

I believe the problem was due to me installing 1.0 Alpha over an 0.9.0.2 install that had wordpress integration already enabled (0.9.0.2 of course wasn’t working since I had also already upgraded to wordpress 2.6). Once I installed 1.0 Alpha, the *_salt values between wordpress and bbPress did not match.

After some cookie juggling to get logged into my wordpress site so I could see it’s *_salt values, then logging into my bbPress site (in another tab), I was able to set the correct *_salt values, delete my cookies once more, and log into my wordpress site. At this point the integration is working again and my bbPress site recognizes that I’m already logged in.

[_ck_]

Technically you’re not supposed to have more than one H1 on any given html page (though browsers don’t care and will render anyway). The trailing BR is a problem with bbPress’s parser.

Why don’t you use the built in ability of BBcode to do SIZE instead?

Large Text

[size=+1]text larger than default size[/size]

default size

[size=-1]text smaller than default size[/size]

[lstelie]

Hello,

I didn’t search enough.

In case it could help, this plugin :

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/

Works like a charm

Luc

[lstelie]

Hello, is there a plug in that allow to display in WP sidebar latest BBpress messages ?

Thnks in advance

[chrishajer]

There is no rich text editor right now. There are quicktags.

There are several versions of a quicktags plugin for bbPress: not sure which one is best or still works.

For images, if people can host it somewhere, you want the Allow Images plugin.

If you want to allow people to upload attachments (including images) you want the bbPress Attachments plugin.

If you read the instructions for the bbPress Attachments plugin, you will see how they can attach an image first, then embed that image in their post.

[artcoder]

Does bbPress have a rich text editor or an post entry where the user is able to embed a photo or graphic to their forum post? I’m looking for something where ideally, the user would be able to browse and pick out the photo from a file on their local disk, and up it goes to the post without needing to upload the photo in some photo share first.

[chrishajer]

Sounds more like a PHP question than either a bbPress or WordPress question. Sessions are outside the scope of what’s built in to bbPress and WordPress (unless I am completely off.)

[chrishajer]

Use this procedure:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/delete-post-by-its-owner#post-18737

Make it its own plugin, or put into a plugin file with other tweaks.

[Ryan Markel]

I’m working on some theme development for a bbpress installation, and it struck me that it would be really helpful if I could simply add to the #wrapper a class declaration like “forum-1” or the like that would identify the forum in a clear way for theming purposes.

(I have a need to theme each forum separately to match product web sites.)

Does anyone know if this is possible? I’ve spent a good amount of time digging through the functions, but I have to admit that I can’t figure it out and was wondering if anyone here had any ideas. I tried searching the forum to no avail.

[_ck_]

Oh and as far as the rest of bbPress security, the bbPress password/cookie method has never been more secure than the method used in 1.0 (and WP 2.6) It’s based on a security researcher’s design (first implimented incorrectly in WP 2.5 and bbPress 0.9)

[_ck_]

There’s no hacking involved in that process.

It’s just a simple workaround.

The foolish forum operators are allowing anyone with the user-agent of “GoogleBot” into their private forums. And/or they are allowing Google to cache their private forums. The reason why they do this is they want Google to send them traffic and the only way they can do that is to let google see the content of the hidden forums.

bbPress doesn’t do this by default and no known plugin does it either, certainly not my “hidden forums” plugin.

My Mini-Track plugin can tell you the difference between real Google and people pretending to be Google. It’s very easy, you just do a rDNS on the ip and see if it goes to a google owned ip block. rDNS is very slow (1-5 seconds) so people don’t normally do it by default.

You wouldn’t have to delete the spammer profiles if you didn’t let them on in the first place. Install my “Human Test” plugin and 99.9% of them will never register.

[kannued]

I came across these articles that says usernames and passwords do not necessarily mean privacy thanks to Google’s cache system. If you have the knowledge, these private areas are easy to hack. I’m wondering how bbpress’s privacy plugin stacks up against this hacking.

http://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=25040

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/22/accessing_restricted_sites/

On a slightly related issue:

I have noticed that ALL profiles in any forum are public. If you keep sequencing then, you can see each person’s profile, which means even the spammers that are blocked can still be viewed with their websites, emails, and interests. This unintended promotion bothers me. If I start deleting the spammers profiles, I will just have a lot of work to do. The perfect world is that profiles that are approved should be the only ones available by sequencing.

ie.

http://www.example.com/forums/profile/1042

[chrishajer]

Sounds like a WordPress question?

bbPress and WordPress both use cookies not sessions for storing the state. Not sure how you would go about this.

[lstelie]

yes it is !

PHP Version 4.4.8

Does BBpress 1.0 require Php 5 ?

Thanks

Luc