Thanks, guys. Have done as recommended and changed to http://
This is weird though: Chris’s link to the https:// site, which I’ve now replaced with an http:// one, still opens! How could this be, that it’s still floating around out there when I’ve replaced it?
I’ve cleared my cache in case the link was bringing up the cached site, but the link still works. What am I not getting here?
That would be a nice plugin or feature for bbPress. Wink wink…
And me, I would like to say “thank you!” at the developers! :p
Indeed, I myself separate of phpBB for bbpress 1.0, a forum for ~ 100 members. I think that even if bbpress is less natively provided, he went on good bases with excellent management of urls and rss excellent! Even if it takes a twenty plugin to find features like on other forums, well bbpress seems better already!
I’m just frustrated to not find IRC channel and there have not an integration process native of the best plugins: p (perhaps should organize competitions, is not it?). therefore it lacks a bit of “fun” lol. But bbPress is already super:)
we want the fun :p
I see it now, thanks.
I think this is how they do it on vBulletin:
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=65152
I haven’t seen anything like that yet for bbPress.
In bbPress there’s a function “<?php bb_location(); ?>” – can this be used to create something like this:
if ( current page is front page only ) :
echo "something";
endif;
I need to display welcoming box only on my front page, but I don’t really understand what this how to use bb_location() for this (if this is possible at all)
Look about half way down the forum and you’ll see the Vista Newsgroups. This is the official microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup being accessed by the forum instead of Windows Mail or Outlook.
I’ve seen this on many different forum systems and always wanted to know how it’s done.
For now this project looks like a hobby
Lol, sorry but I think Open Source is hobby – that’s why it’s free. If bbPress develpers would be working on this project like on normal job, then you wouldn’t get open source, but forum software for $250.
People should stop complaining and start helping. Write some plugins, release some theme – why not? Oh, because you can’t? You don’t know how? I don’t understand people who don’t understand how hard work is coding, but who are still complaning…
I see the forum at that site. Where’s the newsgroup?
How do I set up bbPress to interact with a newsgroup similar to this website (http://www.vistax64.com/)?
I suspect the development of TalkPress will eventually cause the menu integration of WordPress and bbPress somewhere down the line (perhaps WP 3.x and BB 2.x).
Not sure if that’s what I personally would want as the WordPress admin menu is getting a bit crowded but I guess it would be handy to be able to mange users in one place, etc.
There is only one person currently working on bbPress. WordPress has a few main people in charge and dozens (if not hundreds) of people contributing additions and bug fixes.
Look, your complaints are doing nothing to help. There’s no amount of comments you could make which is going to instantly put dozen of people working on the project. bbPress costs nothing. It’s free. If you have something which is a priority or commercial in nature you need to find something else to satisfy you.
Apparently you are already using SMF so why are you even complaining here?
I’m a bit confused to if bbpress will be compatible with wordpress 2.6, will it be? And can you guesstimate when we might see something?
I’d love to be able to use bbpress but I’m running 2.6 so may have to look for something else, not sure if there are any good alternatives?
And bbpress has had many weeks of … nothing. And some funny old bugs.
Look at WordPress. How many lines of code you can find? And how many tickets are closed for a week? This is “development time” for me.
In other hand the bbpress development team does not give people timely versions … and news. For now this project looks like a hobby.
_ck_ I think you’re right.
Here is the https page:
https://ashb.proofreadercentral.com/bbpress/
And if you click the button to go back to the main site, you get the warning that you are leaving a secure site for a non-secure one.
But it is also available at:
http://ashb.proofreadercentral.com/bbpress/
and if you click the button there, you don’t get the browser dialog with the security warning.
Just use http:// everywhere and it will be fine (website and forum.)
I suspect the problem is they have a link to bbPress’s http url from a page that is already https. So the browser gives a warning that the visitor is traveling outside of https.
You could install bbpress as normal to the http url but link from that page as https and just rewrite the url.
Offhand, if you really have a SSL cert though, the next version of bbPress, like WP 2.6 will be able to handle https logins for what that’s worth (even the current version could be forced to with with SSL but it’s overkill).
https is *not* the default protocol when installing bbPress. What gives you the idea that it is? Was a field pre-filled with a https:// value? Did you navigate to the installer from an https page? Or is the link to bbPress coming from an https page?
Just change it to http:// unless you have an SSL certificate and require the security.
Oops – edited after _ck_’s message below.
SMF has had over five years of development. vBulletin has had over eight. phpBB, eight years. punBB, five years. Vanilla, four years. Invision, six years.
I wish people would compare by software development time. bbPress is just over a year old, just imagine what it will be like in five years!
Development has been slow this year so I understand the frustration but technically it’s not even 1.0 yet so anyone using it is considered an “early adopter”.
Yes you can download old versions through the svn or trac, which will work correctly for anything up to 0.9.0.2 (this technique won’t work on the trunk because of backpress).
I’m not sure why you’d want an old version because many plugins won’t work properly in any any case:
0.7.x: https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/1606/branches/0.7?old_path=%2F&format=zip
0.8.x https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/1606/branches/0.8?old_path=%2F&format=zip
0.9.x https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/1606/branches/0.9?old_path=%2F&format=zip
or use the ZIP link at the bottom of any of these specific versions: https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/tags
Is it possible w/o having to download anything else to be able to download previous versions of bbPress out of the svn directory? (http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/tags/0.7.3/)
I have a navigation button on my website linking to a bbPress forum, which works fine in IE, but won’t work in Firefox. Apparently it is a security issue.
My host Support has advised that changing the bbPress URL from https protocol to http will resolve the issue, but I’m wondering why https is the default protocol when you install bbPress?
I am aware that https ensures security for exchange of credit card info etc, but in the case of my forum, there won’t be any such security issues as far as I know. The forum is just a place for students to post research proposals and the like, and feedback to each other, and for their lecturers to do likewise.
Does anyone know, please, if there is any reason I should NOT change the forum URL from https to http?
Hmm, is this the default in WordPress? define('COOKIEHASH', md5($_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]));
does that actually appear in wp-config.php by default? Because that would override the cookiehash calculation. Make sure then you have this in your bb-config.php
define('BB_HASH',md5($_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]));
also, since you are trying to do “full” (complex) integration. You may want to see here for more ideas: http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/
Use SMF then 
That’s the magic of open source. YOU can choose.
