[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

[chrishajer]

No

Integration means your users can log in to either bbPress or WordPress and be logged in in the other application. That’s all the built in integration accomplishes.

If you want the cross-posting between bbPress and WordPress, you want bbSync.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbsync/

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

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbsync-broken-plugin-like-it-bb-10#post-18577

Also, integration has nothing to do with the visual look and feel of bbPress. If you want to make bbPress look like your WordPress installation, you need to modify a theme to look like it (CSS and XHTML work.)

Pretty thorough discussion of what works and how to do it:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

[tmmaersk]

What does this integration actually means?

Does it mean that if I install bbpress and wordpress, i can make posts to my forum trough wordpress – which again means I can use rss feeds for that, so a post on a rss feed would be a post on the forum?

Thanks

[Tom Lynch]

I am trying to integrate WPMU 2.6 and bbPress 1.0, it will let WordPress users login but the privileges don’t work, I end up having to delete the wordpress integration setting for table prefix to get the old bbpress users to work.

[_ck_]

By the way, for those on a linux server with shell and want to just install SVN as a client (and not the full blown server function) this is how you do it:

wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.6.5.tar.gz

wget http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.6.5.tar.gz



tar -xzvf subversion-1.6.5.tar.gz

tar -xzvf subversion-deps-1.6.5.tar.gz

cd subversion-1.6.5



./configure --prefix=$HOME --without-berkeley-db  --with-ssl --with-editor=/usr/bin/vim  --without-apxs --without-apache

make

make install

Then you are ready to use it via the command line svn

[_ck_]

I don’t follow.

You want to add dd/dt tags or do you want PHP code formatting/colouring?

There already is another plugin to do code formatting/colours but due to the spectacularly bad search and lack of 3rd party tagging on plugins, I can’t find it

Ah here it is:

BBPress:Syntax Hiliter

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpresssyntax-hiliter/

[_ck_]

This mini-plugin will fix your layout/graphics

for visitors that insist on using IE 8.0

function fix_ie8() {if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"MSIE 8")) {header("X-UA-Compatible: IE=7");}}

add_action('bb_send_headers','fix_ie8');  // for bbPress

add_action('send_headers','fix_ie8');    // for WordPress

Essentially it makes IE8 render like IE7 by sending a special (invisible) header only to IE8 users.

Problem solved.

It blows my mind that a page that can render perfectly in Opera – which is THE standards browser – can be messed up by Microsoft attempting to conform to standards. What a (continued) waste of everyone’s time.

ps. For those that don’t want to install IE8 permanently to just test their sites, this version will run in it’s own virtual box so it doesn’t affect the rest of your system:

http://start-o.xenocode.com/layers/ie8/8-0-0-0__2/ie8.exe

[hhuskies]

It’s finished! I finally completed my layout for the bbPress that’s attached to my personal blog.

The layouts are synced – and when you’re in the forum the design is the same; thus making you feel like you’re still on the site. I’ve integrated forum search with the layout, a JavaScript “switch” button for hot tags and stats – and a few other fun little features.

Overall I’m very happy with the product – and thank you for all your time. I still have a few more forum tweaks, css issues, etc….but it’s progressing quickly.

I’m always open to constructive criticism, so let me know how I can improve!

Forum: http://smartboydesigns.com/forums/

Main Site: http://smartboydesigns.com/

[chrishajer]

Yes – to upgrade, just remove the old files, saving any you’ve added or modified (bb-config.php, my-templates and my-plugins, at least) then install the new version. Then, you normally access a URL like http://www.example.com/bbpress/bb-admin/upgrade.php which takes care of the database changes.

Always back everything up first (both filesystem and database) so you can go back if something goes wrong.