[lelandf]

I wish I knew about the integration problem before I upgraded to 2.6. I’m experiencing more problems than the upgrade is worth. Like someone said above, 2.6 is not really anything special.

Is there any surefire way of downgrading back to WordPress 2.5.1? I have backups but made a few posts since then and don’t want to lose them.

[Ben L.]

Is there any form or pseudo-cron in bbPress?

[Ben L.]

http://llamaslayers.net/daily-llama/541/tech/bbpress-forum-categories/

Here you go! I just finished it and submitted it for consideration for the bbPress plugin directory.

[767427]

Here’s the thread that mentions categories in the trunk:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/categories-in-0901

And the old patch for 0.8

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/patch-categories-for-version-08/page/2

I installed revision 1588 but until I resolve the URI error I can’t even view any pages to see how the categories and per-user permissions are coming along. I realize that using a bleeding edge revision in a production environment isn’t a good idea but if it’s stable enough I don’t think my users would really care as long as it doesn’t randomly self destruct.

If there is a way to patch that functionality into the current release that would make my day, probably even my week.

[767427]

I’ve decided to go with bbPress for my new website because of my love for WordPress because of the relative ease of user integration and it’s light weight. I have everything nailed down except that I’d like to customize my installation to show categories like other forum software, i.e.:

Category

+Forum

+Forum

+Forum

Category

+Forum

+Forum

+Forum

You get the idea I’m sure. I’ve searched quite a bit and found only some posts from a year ago where this was brought up and supposedly this is in the trunk now. Has anyone managed to do this to a current stable installation or know how I could do it myself? It seems there used to be patches that did this for old revisions and I thought about playing with them to try to produce the desired effect on the current stable version. Has anyone else tried that?

I figure one option I _could_ use is trying out the current trunk (which I have almost up and running, got it installed but have an error that says it cannot find the uri) but I worry about stability.

I’d appreciate some tips and tricks if anyone has any. The lack of organization isn’t a deal breaker but it would be very nice. I don’t feel like waiting until version 1.0 which I know will be a long way off and I don’t want to try to cram together wordpress and another bloated beast of a forum like phpbb3.

[RossB]

Sure, Chris – and thanks. The forum link is: https://ashb.proofreadercentral.com/bbpress/

I’ve got it password protected at the moment, before it goes “public”.

User: tester

Password: testing123

The main site I want to link to the home page of from the forum is password protected with the same user name and password, and the link is:

http://www.ashb.proofreadercentral.com/

Appreciate your help!

Cheers

Ross

[kernow]

Appreciate these things are always developing and improving, though the integration of the two is an important part of their dual improvement, so perhaps some notification via the WordPress panel which says, do NOT upgrade yet if you are using the current version of bbpress perhaps…?

[chrishajer]

Take a look at this source.

<form id='tag-form' method='post' action='http://support.westciv.com/tag-add.php'><fieldset>

<form method="post" action="http://support.westciv.com/tag-add.php">



<input name="tag" type="text" id="tag" size="10" maxlength="30" />

<input type="hidden" name="id" value="354" />

<input type="submit" name="Submit" id="tagformsub" value="Add" />



</form>

<input type="hidden" name="_wpnonce" value="907a29b341" /><input type="hidden" name="_wp_http_referer" value="/topic.php?id=354" /></fieldset></form>

 

I don’t think bbPress normally has a form within a form for adding a tag. Not sure if that’s a problem or not, but the hidden fields for_wpnonce and _wp_http_referer are outside the first form tag: maybe FF can handle it but other browsers cannot?

[chrishajer]

More data. Here is the request to add a tag when using FF3:

cookie=bbpress_a2763cd41fe17b461fa952334e00e45c%3Dchrishajer%257C1216783299%257Cb630b90e0e5d52cf8499cfbe58629223&action=add-tag&tag=style.css&id=350&Submit=Add&_wpnonce=bd6cc486c3&_wp_http_referer=%2Ftopic.php%3Fid%3D350&topic_id=350&_=

Here is the same request when using IE7:

tag=style.css&id=354&Submit=Add

FF3 works, IE7 does not.

[RossB]

Could someone please post an example line of code that could be added to the appropriate php page to add a navigation button to the header, or just under the header, of a bbPress forum?

I have added a bbPress forum to a website, and just need a nav button on the bbPress forum that can take a user stright back to the home page of the website. I have no idea about php, though, so would be great if someone could add an example link showing the part I should customise in bold, or something like that.

Also, could someon please explain how I position the nav button on bbPress so that it is left-aligned to the header, or just below the header?

Apologies for this demonstration of coding ignorance!

Cheers

Ross

[_ck_]

Hmm, this is going to require some thought…

That error occurs when bbPress thinks the source of the post is not coming from bbPress (ie. a spammer trying to do a direct post without first visiting the topic)

The way that’s done is there’s something called a “nonce” which is vaguely like a hidden captcha code that is automatically sent along with the post (via POST data) to tell bbPress it’s genuine.

So for some reason it’s not getting that “nonce” other than Firefox, which is incredibly strange. Do you happen to have a personal firewall or some kind of add-on that’s blocking certain data like that?

I would do a “view source” in both firefox and IE on a page with a textarea (http://support.westciv.com/?new=1) and look at the fields inbetween <form> </form>. See if anything is different.

[_ck_]

Again, I’m not an official voice for bbPress, but I don’t see how any of the points listed above are incompatible with the idea that bbPress isn’t a finished program. All of the points are true, it’s a useful and usable program, but it’s not done yet.

Over time, based on feedback and user code contributions I am very confident that integration will become virtually painless and almost instantaneous.

bbPress is only a year old in code development. I’m not sure if you realize that. Polished products like vbulletin are EIGHT years old (and $85 a year plus support plus most plugins and themes are commercially sold)

If you are curious about future features you can always browse the TRAC which will give you a rough idea (ignore the date schedule, they’re just vague estimates). Remember, it’s a community project, you can suggest features and contribute bug fixes too via TRAC.

[guyleech]

As of fairly recently, other users and I have only been able to post in Firefox. In all other browsers the error message of “Your attempt to create this topic has failed.” comes up.

The bbPress is not hooked up to a WordPress install, and is running no plugins. I haven’t touched the core code, only the template files (and I’m aware they’re slightly out in IE).

I’ve tried with both a newly registered account, and using my Admin account – both work in FF, but not in anything else.

If anyone could offer some guidance as to why this may be, it would be greatly appreciated.

The URL is: http://support.westciv.com

Cheers

Guy

[_ck_]

hyperhoo, I’m kinda on a bbPress break for the summer so major updates to my plugins will be a month or two…

“admin to hide disable registration”

I need you to explain that a bit better.

Per forum based moderation is something that is likely to happen in a future version of bbPress. They have added forum metadata and supposedly forum permissions and I feel that definitely should be done in the core and not via a plugin (it’s just way too complicated via a plugin)

I may eventually include it but I always found age verification humorous, because who gives their real age on the internet? You’d be crazy to put in your real birthday into a website you have no control over because if the wrong person gets ahold of that it’s useful for social engineering. For now maybe just put in the TOS that they must be “18” or whatever age you want. If they agree to the TOS they are therefore that age. Otherwise you are collecting personal information (their birthday) and are liable for that if it falls into the wrong hands.

“make a report plugin”

You mean report a bad post? I’ve already done that.

[hyperhookup]

Also what about allowing certain members to only moderate x number of sub forums or sections? I didn’t see a plugin for that yet.

[hyperhookup]

@citizenkeith

anonymous posting – I did see that plugin but it doesn’t say it works with bbpress 9.0.xxx Does it work with the newest version?

Ck’s attchment plugin- Where do I get it?

banning option- yes by ip maybe a custom ban page or something

no registration- meant hide or disable registration

moderation – What do you mean to some extent? Any plugin to extend it more?

Accept tos- Any idea how I would modify it. I am not much of a coder.

Video would it have to be resized?

Thanks

[citizenkeith]

anonymous posting – There’s a plugin available.

attached images – Allow-images Plugin or ck’s Attachment plugin (which is in development but is available for use)

video – bbVideo automatically embeds videos from YouTube and other video websites. If you want people to load avi, mpg, etc, then you will probably need to use ck’s attachement plugin (which is in development but is available for use)

banning option – hmmm… how would you ban somebody without registration? IP Address?

no registration – how is this different from Anonymous posting?

moderation – part of bbPress to an extent

unlimited sub forums – part of bbPress

report option – I haven’t seen anything like this… nice idea though

accept tos before entering certain forums – There’s a new Terms of Service plugin that might be modified for your needs

log by ip – part of bbPress

resize images or videos to right size – maybe the Lightbox2 plugin for images? Not sure about video…

[falcon1986]

Thank you. I removed it without negatively affecting WordPress.

[kernow]

…If you are using bbPress, you are considered an “early adopter”

I have noticed of late that early users of bbpress are now being categorised as ‘early adopters’ whereas one of the reasons I used it was that it was described thus:

• Light and fast
• Tired of getting your forum hacked? etc
• Integrates easily with WordPress
• If we could re-write WordPress, it would be a lot like bbpress

All of the above suggesting that it was a ‘finished product’ and technically superior to WordPress in some respects.

What features will the ‘released version’ have and will there always be integration problems? Will bbpress adopt common forum features or develop unique features of its own?

[hyperhookup]

Hi all I am looking to set up an image board with no registration allowed and anonymous posting. It will be similar to 4chan.org. I am also looking for it to be able to have these features. anonymous posting, attached images, video, banning option, no registration, moderation, unlimited sub forums, report option, accept tos before entering certain forums, log by ip and resize images or videos to right size. I am hoping that bbpress can do this because I like the fact that it is lite and you add only what you need. If it can’t does anybody know of a forum software that can?

[thion]

Until now, I never had problems with Flickr rss (I mean these cool latest 75×75 images) because I was using WordPress plugins. But now, I have no idea how to put latest images from Flickr group in my bbPress. I was reading API docs for two days now, and I don’t understand it completely .

Can anybody help? Or more, anyone have proper plugin? .

[Dennis Whiteman]

No problem. I like to keep WordPress up to date and the XDForum plug-in was holding me back.

[_ck_]

Unfortunately the search feature in bbPress is very poor. It can’t be (easily) modified like you are asking.

I’ve been working on a search replacement but it won’t be released for awhile:

http://img183.imageshack.us/img183/2061/sscy1.png

Note that you can see all posts by a user in their profile.

[_ck_]

Thanks for sharing this!

[_ck_]

Note that bbPress is not a finished final product. It’s pre-release and therefore in a state of flux. bbPress has always been a bit behind WordPress changes. If you are using bbPress, you are considered an “early adopter” and therefore you have to accept that things aren’t going to be perfect.

No one but maybe Sam or MDA can say when bbPress will have a release that’s 2.6 compatible. There is code in the trunk that supposedly will work but I wouldn’t recommend using the trunk. It has to be ported to the 0.9 branch and then tested. I suspect they may even wait for the 1.0 beta release and I don’t know if that’s two weeks away or two months away.

Again, there is nothing special about the WP 2.6 release – it only has a handful of extra features and no security bug fixes over 2.5.1 – in fact people are having a bunch of little problem with 2.6 still so why rush to upgrade? I was able to easily downgrade back to 2.5.1 with no problems.