I disagree.
The reason I’m going with BBPress is because I like the clean and simple look. I don’t want users to post images and turn the forum into a graffiti wall, and I don’t want BBPress to be loaded up with the ability to post pictures when I’m not going to use it.
Keep it in a plugin and let me install it if I decide that I want to install it.
What you are probably looking for is Flickr-in-a-box as a separate application with a common user database. Just as I’m looking for a Facebook-in-a-box application to run alongside the forum to foster the more personal social side. I don’t believe these should be core parts of the forum software, but there is a need for them somehow.
This notion of modular is important, because it is easy to get side-tracked and try and build the entire internet into one application. That might ultimately happen (mirroring the history of the Microsoft platform model), but at this stage of the game, nobody has the resources to do everything, so doing one part of the jigsaw well is the best plan.
BBPress should focus development on its core, which still has weaknesses. IMHO the most urgent is augmentation of futuristic geek-only features with the traditional ones that most users understand. The need for these functions has been acknowledged in BBPress’s design, however the current implementation is lacking because they are too complex for “normal people”.
So RSS needs to be mirrored with bespoke email notifications, because the only people that “get” RSS are ‘bloggers. Gravatars need to be mirrored with uploadable avatars, because the only people that get Gravatars are ‘bloggers.
Ok, I generalise on the “bloggers” part. But I know moderately technical people that can’t manage to set up a Gravatar, and have no idea what to do with an RSS feed. So the clueless masses stand no chance of using these features for the purpose they were designed.
BBPress’s killer feature at the moment is spam control without forcing users to jump through hoops just to register and post. Easy to work with code, and general lack of bloat are good to. But take a look at this, and tell me the #1 feature requirement of forum software (and if anyone can point to why that’s affecting phpBB 2 sites more than other software, I’m curious). That’s literally hundreds of spam posts an hour. Most admins faced with that kind of nightmare won’t be too worried about forcing users to host files elsewhere.
I am having the exact same problem now. Trying to integrate, added wp_ in the Admin control panel for BBPress under the WordPress Integration settings and I’m getting the same errors.
Can you show me an example of how these lines should look in the wp-config.php and bb-config.php files?
Is it absolutely necessary to rebuild the database?
Thanks!
I don’t want this functionality included in bbPress. Do it with a plugin. Keep bbPress lean. That’s my vote.
I disagree. Post your image elsewhere and then use the “Allow images” plugin. Don’t dump them on my server. I don’t have a need for images in my forum. Maybe we use bbPress for different things, which is what makes it great. Customize if for the functionality you need, nothing more.
1. Hopefully you are using 0.9.0.1 not 0.9
2. All of the sudden, people are deleting forums and running into this typo-bug.
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/error-when-deleting-forum#post-15089
To be considered a major player in the forum world, it is necessary to have at least some option for attaching files to posts.
Personally, I was actually shocked to learn that this was not a feature until I installed it to test it out.
bbpress is listed up there with the most popular free forum software: phpbb, yaf, smf, vanilla. But it is the ONLY one which LACKS the ability to attach a file.
I hope that this issue is addressed before the 1.0 release, I think it should be the FIRST priority for a new feature.
IF YOU AGREE – Please respond to this post to let the developers know that this is a feature you are looking for in a forum and whether you think it should be intrinsic (like almost every other forum) and not a plug-in.
bbPress seems to be the ONLY forum software that I’ve been testing which does not have this feature.
In fact, the ability to attach items to forum posts (as well as the administrative authority to limit the size of these attachments) seems critical to almost any forum – especially ones that I have setup for clients.
I would consider this more important than an avatar. It should be a high priority on the development list for the forum – a feature, not a plug-in.
From what I’ve seen, yetanotherforum.net handles attachments very well – but I prefer the look of bbpress.
Let’s put the pressure on bbpress dev teams…
Anyone else have good experiences with a forum that allows image attachments?
i was having severe problems with the upgrading to 0.9 so i did a fresh new 0.9 bbPress install, by cleaning the database (renamed all bb tables) etc.
everything seems to be working and even my force login plugin is working.
Question: How to do I get the old data back? Should I simply again rename old tables to the correct ones (after dropping current 0.9 bbpress tables) ?
any help on this will be highly appreciated.
Here is the error I get when I log in, I have reinstalled multiple times and cant figure out how to change this error.
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db236562054.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT ID FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘skehoe’
bbPress database error: [Table ‘db236562054.wp_users’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT * FROM wp_users WHERE user_login = ‘skehoe’
the problem with the first install is:
1 – I did not integrate the forum with WP (the now infamous secret cookie key thingy)
2 – the username I registered and got the password for does not work. So now I can’t login to bbPress myself.
3 – the forums are open. I have a plugin for the older version which hid the forums from the outside world except the authors but that seems to not work with 0.9
are there any things I need to modify in the database to reinstall bbPress?
Is there any way I can hide forums in 0.9?
I am currently installing bbpress in /bbpress/ on my web server. WordPress is already running in the root directory, and I am trying to integrate the two user databases. While the installation process seemed pretty straightforward, I ran into a couple issues fairly quick. First off, my wordpress config file didn’t have a lot of the values that bbPress wanted from it. There was no line for a secret key, and there was no a $table_prefix line but no wp_table_prefix line like bbPress asks for. After getting frustrated and messing around a little bit I tried using the prefix of wp_ to see if maybe that was the wordpress prefix (as the installer said wp_ is default) but all it ended up doing was causing errors and now I can’t even log in to change the setting back since it can’t find the user file. I even tried re-uploading a fresh version of the plugin and the settings stayed the same. What can I do to fix this and integrate with wordpress? Thanks
I would like to revert back to an old version of bbPress where my forum was private and inaccessible instead of using the latest version where no solution exists to this problem so far. The privacy is of utmost importance without which i cannot run the forums.
could someone please tell me what modifications do I need to make in the database before moving the old files?
I for sure know that the integration part did not work with my wp 2.5 version. is there a solution to making an old version of bbPress handshake with wp 2.5?
WordPress.org forum is about 500Mb of data.
Using one server will only ever get you so far no matter how lean the application you are running is.
Massive query caches are no use if you don’t have the data to fill them. WordPress.com forums (all languages) doesn’t amount to more than 200Mb of data. So even a 1Gb query cache would be mostly empty or stale. WordPress.org wouldn’t be much bigger (and may be smaller). I don’t actually know what the query cache size is on the servers by the way. Query caching is great. Massive query caches aren’t anything special IMHO.
I am using the latest versions of both wordpress and bbpress. It seems that when a post is made on the forum, it doesn’t update in the amount of comments a blog post has, but vice versa works just fine. also, when I delete the comments through wordpress admin panel they are deleted in the admin panel, but are still there in the post.
I changes ifmodule to IfModule but it did not fixed the problem. And I dont know why it is lowercase for my .htaccess file. It may reason from a previous bbpress rewrite-rules.php or not. I dont know, and I also could not figure out that difference.
I also tried to rename wordpress’ .htaccess file to check whether it creates a problem or not. When I do that, I get my website working for root and all wordpress pages are not reachable. Forum is the same. So I get an idea, is there any problem with the server or apache for reading the .htaccess file located on /forum folder. Is there any option on apache, or somewhere on the server to read or not to read the .htaccess files on subfolders?
And I contacted to technical stuff of hosting company, and he asked for the apache version where I was using my site with no problem. It was Apache 1.3 , and this vps has Apache 2. So he said he will try it with apache 1.3 to check whether it is working or not.
UPDATE: I added a rewrite rule to .htaccess file on /forum folder to check whether it works for a simple redirect or not. And it worked for:
Redirect /forum/a/ http://www.domain.com/b/
I’m newer to bbPress but I promise I’ve read all the threads on fixing login problems for the key_master, but they aren’t working for me with the latest version.
First, everything worked great with a vanilla install. I then used this converter to import my phpbb forums. Unfortunately, this converter has a couple of issues, including messing up the ID of the admin user.
So, I simply upgraded a few of my users to keymasters and got rid of the original admin user. Unfortunately, even though I have multiple keymaster users, when I log in as one, I cannot access the control panel.
I’ve been looking through the databases and everything looks right to me. My example user is “rob” with an ID of “3”. In bb_usermeta user_id 3’s bb_capabilities are set a:1:{s:9:”keymaster”;b:1;}.
I tried this solution in the bb-config.php file, since there isn’t a config.php file anymore, but it didn’t seem to do anything. Oddly, I couldn’t get it to emit an error either and I don’t see the function new_keymaster referred to anywhere in the current code so I’m not sure that still works.
Thanks in advance for any help with this. Right now, I’m stumped.
-Rob
Looking for a solid IPB 2.3 to bbPress current. Will pay $$ for a flawless clean GPL script that can be released to the bbPress community. If specific forum #’s can be selected for conversion, even better. Where’s a good place to post this?
Your site isn’t loading. Can you provide a script that will convert an IPB forum to bbPress?
just upgraded to wp2.5 and now trying to upgrade bbpress, but stuck at step 2 cause I don’t have a wp cookie secret key and wp database secret.
how can i move forward?
also my bbpress was private – it could only be accessed, read and written by my wp authors only. will this be lost? how can i get the same feature back?
As fascinating as it is, unfortunately the setup that automattic uses can’t be compared in any way to a single stand alone server (or VPS) running it’s own mysql processes since you can use a radical amount of caching ram on the dedicated db servers.
However bbPress could benefit someday from a port of wp-super-cache (or even just wp-cache2) to send non-logged in/non-members cached pages. There’s a big difference between a forum with 1000 active logged-in users where pages have to be customised via the core and plugins vs. 1000 guests/bots who all see the same pages.
It bothers me that my fully loaded demo at bbshowcase.org has now beached the 100ms mark for front-page generation (bare bbPress is like 40ms) but I can’t think of any easy ways to speed that up further without removing features. Maybe when PHP 5.3 comes out which seems to promise a 10-15% code speedup.
Private messaging will not be in core in the foreseeable future.
The idea is to make the import/export process hookable, so that if someone authors an IM plugin for bbPress, they can query for IM import data and place it where their plugin wants it. They can also hook in to the export process as well.
