[chrishajer]

What role *exactly* do you want to give to multiple people?

In the Admin section > Users, there is a drop down on each user’s “profile> edit” page where you can select the role for them. My installation shows:

• Keymaster
• Administrator
• Moderator
• Member
• Inactive
• Blocked

There was also a plugin for forum-specific moderation and I’m not sure if it works with the latest release.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-moderators/

[chrishajer]

I imagine it’s possible with a plugin.

This would be pretty close.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-moderation-hold/#post-245

It holds the post for moderation. You could probably modify it to not hold for moderation, or if nothing else use the same filters and actions for your own plugin to just email on a new post or topic.

[chrishajer]

I suggest anyone trying to integrate bbPress with WordPress should read the sticky at the top of the forum.

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

It’s in there, very first post.

[775251]

During step 3 of the installation process, I accidentally inputted the wrong URL for my forum.

It asked me for the Site address (URL), which was defaulted to:

http://mysite.com/wp-content/plugins/bbpress/

I changed this to

http://mysite.com/forums/

Now I can’t access the forums at all, and I can’t figure out how to change the URL back. I looked at bb-config.php, but didn’t see any way to fix this.

I’m not good with PHP and I’m new to WordPress in general, so any novice advice would be much appreciated!

[_ck_]

It’s definitely not ready for production use but the 1.0 alpha in the trunk is looking really good. Sam (and MDA) have been hard at work.

Looks a great deal like WordPress behind the scenes – I mean the new 2.5-2.6 look with rounded everything – but in our familiar and sharp looking green.

BackPress is now powering it which should unify us with WordPress more than ever before and accelerate feature development.

Hey it’s got a dashboard like WordPress now!

[screenshot]

I also see they added Display Names to bbPress.

[screenshot]

This actually is to my dismay but I guess other people may like them. (Personally for me it will be the first thing I disable – nothing but trouble with pesky childish users).

It also has categories built in: [screenshot]

If you are a power user and know what you are doing, give it a try in a test environment – do NOT overwrite an existing install, it’s not stable yet. Sam says they could use some testing bug reports on TRAC for it.

ps. even more good news is that many of my plugins seem to work hassle-free on it…

[_ck_]

I’ve confirmed the newest trunk build now fixes this problem (at least for me)

build # 1598

[Sam Bauers]

My guess is that you didn’t specify a charset collation for the database on install.

I’ve just made a change that should fix your problem (if that was it).

[775016]

I am very new to wordpress. I read your post late. Have not yet installed BBpress but plan to do so. How do I downgrade 2.6 to 2.5 I could not get any information on the web regarding steps for downgrade. Please help and thanks in advance. I am sure mor epeople would want to know the same as more people will find out 2.6 and bbpress dont work

[_ck_]

Er that’s the trunk and subject to being broken at times.

I don’t recommend you go beyond the 0.9 branch:

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/branches/0.9

or if you are using svn

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/branches/0.9/

[csseur3]

Hello,

with the last installation of bbpress revision 1595, i have sql errors:

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: forum_bbpress (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_forums (

forum_id int(10) NOT NULL auto_increment,

forum_name varchar(150) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_slug varchar(255) NOT NULL default ”,

forum_desc text NOT NULL,

forum_parent int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

forum_order int(10) NOT NULL default 0,

topics bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

posts bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

PRIMARY KEY (forum_id),

KEY forum_slug (forum_slug)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ”;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ”

SQL ERROR!

>>> Database: forum_bbpress (localhost)

>>>>>> CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS bb_meta (

meta_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment,

object_type varchar(16) NOT NULL default ‘bb_option’,

object_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default 0,

meta_key varchar(255) default NULL,

meta_value longtext default NULL,

PRIMARY KEY (meta_id),

KEY object_type__meta_key (object_type, meta_key),

KEY object_type__object_id__meta_key (object_type, object_id, meta_key)

) DEFAULT CHARACTER SET ‘utf8’ COLLATE ”;

>>>>>> Unknown collation: ”

SQL ERROR!

etc, etc…

why?

bye

[_ck_]

Oh wait, here’s the broken part in bb-settings.php

do_action('bb_init', '');



if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() && bb_has_broken_pass() )

bb_block_current_user();

I don’t see how a user could both be logged in AND have a broken password. If their password is broken, they can’t login.

This might have broken during the radical password/cookie changes in >0.8

I opened a TRAC ticket

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/899

[_ck_]

Block may never have worked like one would think.

I think it just treats them like “bozo” status.

It gives them the capability of “not_play_nice” = true

hmm actually…

function bb_block_current_user() {

global $bbdb;

if ( $id = bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) )

bb_update_usermeta( $id, $bbdb->prefix . 'been_blocked', 1 ); // Just for logging.

bb_die(__("You've been blocked.  If you think a mistake has been made, contact this site's administrator."));

}

function bb_reset_password( $key ) {

global $bbdb;

$key = sanitize_user( $key );

if ( empty( $key ) )

bb_die(__('Key not found.'));

if ( !$user_id = $bbdb->get_var( $bbdb->prepare( "SELECT user_id FROM $bbdb->usermeta WHERE meta_key = 'newpwdkey' AND meta_value = %s", $key ) ) )

bb_die(__('Key not found.'));

if ( $user = new BB_User( $user_id ) ) :

if ( bb_has_broken_pass( $user->ID ) )

bb_block_current_user();

if ( !$user->has_cap( 'change_user_password', $user->ID ) )

bb_die( __('You are not allowed to change your password.') );

.

According to all that, their password should be scrambled and they should be unable to reset it – so they can’t log in.

But you can’t stop them from seeing the website.

There’s no IP based blocking (yet) in bbPress.

To really block an IP, you’d have to go into htaccess and add a “deny from” – at least for now.

I guess someone could write a plugin to block the IP of blocked users, perhaps for 48 hours or so. Since bbPress doesn’t store the last login IP for users by default, this makes it difficult, the plugin would have to start storing IPs on every login.

[chrishajer]

There used to be a plugin that was hooked to someone marking an item as a favorite: that was the only time it would run. If you wanted to run it manually, you just marked something a favorite. That was a random sort of way to run it occasionally.

I think this was the plugin:

http://boakes.org/download/bbpress_sitemap.txt

[Göran]

Thank you very much chrishajer! It worked and I now have a forum on http://www.enkelwebbplats.se/forum

I am writing a little book in Swedish on how to start a website with WordPress and include bbPress for a discussion forum. The major fault with bbPress is now that is does not work to use Swedish names with diacritic characters like my own, Göran. I have asked for help in this forum before but no solution seems to exist. Strange since many other languages also use such characters and most people are somewhat offended if they cannot use their name if they want. All suggestions how to solve this problem is highly appreciated!

[Ben L.]

BuddyPress is a social networking addon for WPMU. It does not have a built-in forum, and it will not be replacing bbPress. Vanilla in this context just means plain.

[chrishajer]

You might want to start a new topic for that new topic, now that you have the subforums thing sorted.

You situation sounds like this one from a while ago

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-do-this

I am not sure what the best way to do it is. Did you try making the forums and subforums all in one forum installation, and see what the actual loading time is? That would be easiest for user login integration I think.

Can you imagine updating 50 forum installations?

[chrishajer]

WordPress 2.6 is not compatible with the current release of bbPress.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/why-is-integration-so-troublesom#post-17387

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/adding-bbpress-to-wordpress#post-17403

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409

[_ck_]

Their best bet is this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x#post-15776

and to set it up using gmail for sending mail.

[_ck_]

This was discovered by someone else here:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getmypid-often-disabled-on-shared-hosting-systems

Apparently getmypid is disabled on some hosts for security and your host may have turned it on suddenly or after an automated upgrade.

[_ck_]

Dollar sign might have to be urlencoded? Also you can integrate bbPress 0.9 with older versions of WordPress using these instructions:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-to-integrate-bbpress-09-with-wordpress-23-or-lower

[771868]

Correction: I’m using BBPress 0.8.3.1, and it seems to have allowed the dollar sign here. Hmm…

[771868]

Hello,

I have a problem with links like this:

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/PDF/fcpn9.pdf/$FILE/fcpn9.pdf

In case it’s been stripped out here as well, there ought to be a dollar sign before FILE. It’s in the db, so it’s being taken out on output.

I’m probably being a bit simple, but I couldn’t find the code that was doing this – I’d guess it’s something on the post_text filter.

I’m using WordPress 0.8.3.1 with the bbPress integration and WordPress Integration plugins. I would upgrade, but I don’t want to use WordPress 2.5 yet.

Thanks, Mike.

[755628]

Hi! Thank you _ck_ and chrishajer. It works wonderfully now.

I have a few more questions if you don’t mind:

1. Is there any way to optimize bbPress for extremely large forums? My forum will have 50 forums, followed by subforums for cities, followed by 5 subforums for each city. (I’ve thought it over through as well, and this is the best way to organize it)

2. If there isn’t, is there a way I can create 50 forums that are different, one for each state, and have them running congruently? Would that alleviate the loading time and the strain on the database?

3. Is there any way to have many separate forums that are sharing the same users table? They are going to be separate forums. I just want to have it so that 1) if one person is logged into one bbpress, they are also logged into another, and 2) if they are registered on one, they are also registered at another. Is there a way to do this?

What would be the best way to handle this? It’s just that when I release the site, I want to have every section and everything up so that I don’t have to worry about expanding. I just want to do everything now (and having a lot of free time during the summer doesn’t hurt either!)

Thanks.

[davidbaldwin]

after upgrading to wordpress 2.6 i have a bit of a problem with bbpress

I’m trying to login to bbpress at:

http://lifelightcam.com/bbpress/

when i login, i am brought back to the same page, but I am not logged in.

Usuing the login form on that page, Does log me into wordpress.

what’s up?

[chrishajer]

Does any of this help?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-is-the-setting-for-mail-server-config

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mail-senging-problem-with-mail-function

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/users-dont-receive-password-after-registration

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/trick-to-fix-some-email-problems-with-08x-plugins-on-09x

Edit – I see you found the last one.