[chrishajer]

I use 1&1 without any trouble with many bbPress and WordPress installations. If you need help, just post. Every host is a little bit different, but I have 3+ years of experience with 1&1 on all types of servers.

Cheers.

[Sam Bauers]

That plugin is old and won’t work with 0.8.4 (and maybe not with 0.8.3.1)

Once 0.8.4 is released this should work as a plugin for both WordPress and bbPress:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Lax user names

Plugin URI:

Description: Makes all user name sanitisation non-strict

Author: Sam Bauers

Version: 0.0.1

Author URI: http://unlettered.org/

*/



function i18n_sanitize_user($username, $raw_username = false, $strict = false) {

if ($strict) {

return sanitize_user($raw_username);

} else {

return $username;

}

}



add_filter('sanitize_user', 'i18n_sanitize_user');

?>

[_ck_]

It unzips for me, what utility are you using?

web.archive tends to add stray characters to the header or afterwards and that may be confusing your program. I use WinRar.

I might make a local archive on my site for abandoned themes.

[_ck_]

This should fix it: https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/usernames-i18n-fix/

I need to find out if this is fixed by default in 0.8.4

[_ck_]

This would be a good beginning project for a first bbPress plugin, I’d encourage you and just ask for help if you need it.

Basically you’d want to store within and display within the topic meta adding the user id number to a list so people can’t thank twice – or so you can list the names of those that thanked. Use “implode” and “explode” to make the list and count the names.

As a shortcut you could store the actual username and output the raw string with the commas to show all the names that thanked. Then by counting the commas (+1), or exploding into an array and counting the array, you’d get the number of people that thanked. You could give admin the option to show the list of names that thanked or just the count (or both).

The trickiest part is you have to give a button to thank with, which gives you either a form or an href. Then you have to look for the get/post data and process it. I recommend using a href via a GET instead of POST so bbPress doesn’t have to redirect to clear the post data (it’s nasty to reload twice).

I just realized you mentioned “posts” vs “topic” and the problem with that is that bbPress doesn’t have a per-post metadata table. This would make it a bit more complicated as you’d have to track which post number within a topic was thanked and store it in the topic’s meta anyway. But if somehow a post is moved to another topic, this becomes a problem as the meta would not move with it (rare but could happen with plugins like move-it).

[ironbound]

except it doesn’t unzip

[ironbound]

_ck_ = the best!

[ironbound]

Everything is working fine except the post and forum links. I can use the admin area perfectly. I can log in and out, and register new users fine.

However, I cannot access:

*View your profile

*Your first topic

*bbPress (under Hot Tags)

*Main forum under MAIN THEME (1st post)

* Topics with no replies

* Topics with no tags

Clicking any of the above brings me to a 404 error page

Please help me through this one. Thank you for your time and patience.

[Sam Bauers]

[Update: this release will now be version 0.9 instead of 0.8.4]

bbPress 0.9 will be released on the 10th of March, 2008 to coincide with the release of WordPress 2.5

A full blog post on the bbPress blog will outline all the changes in the near future.

In the meantime if anyone wants to give the latest 0.9 beta a test run, simply download a zip package of the current version of the “0.8 branch” at the bottom of this page.

If you find any problems then please login to the bbPress Trac site and create a new ticket to report it as a bug. Alternatively, you can see if either sambauers or mdawaffe is in the #bbPress IRC channel on irc.freenode.net and report the problem directly to them.

[ironbound]

Thank you for your help chrishajer. I did eventually figure it out… after 13 different installations. It was easy (bbpress) but shared hosting is difficult to deal with.

[ironbound]

The problem is that I have this stupid shared hosting BS with 1and1. Right now I have mysite.com which is actually mysite.com/forum. Then I have the files under mysite.com/forum/bbpress. It installs fine but then I get 500 errors on any of the forum links.

[harryworld]

zappoman,

Thanks for your sharing. I am exactly looking for the features. Could I help somehow to make this work? (Even I’m quite new to bbPress )

You may send me an email at harryworld(at)gmail(dot)com

[crossroads]

Does anybody know why when a forum is clicked from the main menu does it go to my wp index page. I suspect it has to do with bbpress files being in a folder not on the main root, but i can’t figure out what i need to change.

Same thing happens when I go to my profile page.

Thanks for any help.

[crossroads]

Does anybody know why when a forum is clicked from the main menu does it go to my wp index page. I suspect it has to do with bbpress files being in a folder not on the main root, but i can’t figure out what i need to change.

Same thing happens when I go to my profile page.

Thanks for any help.

[scrumtralescent]

I’m having what looks to be a common problem, my forum has no style in Firefox.

I read up on this post:

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/themes-in-firefox#post-5089

and it seems I need to change a backslash to a forward slash, I just can’t figure out where the offending backslash is located. What file do I need to look at to find and change this backslash?

Thanks!

[chrishajer]

OK – I still don’t see those actual line numbers in that release (in fact bb_settings.php has only 209 lines.) So, can you open up /home/www/web316/html/ps-t/bb-settings.php and post line 294 (maybe a couple before and after as well) and /home/www/web316/html/ps-t/bb-includes/pluggable.php and post lines 193 and 231. The code on those lines will help point the way to solving these problems.

My hunch is this is related to the glob issue and there being no underscore plugins in a bb-plugins directory. Because there are no plugins that begin with an underscore, and due to problems with the way the glob function is tested for, an error like this can occur.

You can try installing this plugin to see if it fixes your error, even though the line numbers and messages really don’t match up:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bb-benchmark/

I think you can also just create a bb-plugins directory in your installation root, then in it create a file called something like _nothing.php – I think that also causes this block of code to NOT fail, so you wouldn’t see these warnings.

[chrishajer]

Put it here:

/home/"mywordpressblogsname"/public_html/bbpress/

Then in config.php set bb->uri:

$bb->uri = 'http://"mywordpressblogsname"/bbpress/';

(assuming your blog is visible at http://”mywordpressblogsname”/ not http://”mywordpressblogsname”/public_html)

You can name the bbpress folder whatever you want. Sometimes people call it forums. Just be sure to change it to the same thing in config.php.

[scrumtralescent]

At first I uploaded the folder bbpress-0.8.3.1.zip to

/home/”mywordpressblogsname”/public_html/wp-content /plugins

where I unzipped it and modified the necessary files. Obviously, that didn’t work, as it’s not a plugin (I think I was on autopilot, as I’ve only installed plugins up to now).

So, where do I upload bbpress to exactly? I have some ideas, but I’d rather get some help than bumble around again.

FYI I am not integrating my forum users with my wordpress blog users (actually, my blog doesn’t allow user login at all).

Thanks!

[sensifreak]

https://bbpress.org/latest.tar.gz

this file here i think ists the 0.8.3.1

[janellers]

I do some more testing:

if i use the “bb_is_user_logged_in() )” Function on the entry site it returns false every time. but if I go to the register.php wich uses the same function for displaying the content it shows: “You’re already logged in, why do you need to register?”

If I now go back to the front page by clicking a link on the register page, bbPress recognize that I’am logged in. Due this process I never used the “Log in” Button of the Forum. I was justed logged in by my WP Site.

Another test:

If I login thru my bbPress site all works fine. But if i go back to my WP Site and return to the Forum I have to log in again…

[Göran]

My name is Göran but when I test bbPress and use my name as username I am called Gran and when I try to use Göran to get around the problem I get Goumlran as my name. How can I solve this? I want users to be able to use their real names including all Swedish letters.

[LMD]

Aha! That error string comes from a much older version of the plugin — please can you try installing the latest version and see if you still have errors?

Latest Version: 0.8.3

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/

[janellers]

thanks _ck_

But the problem is that if i logged in into my WP Site and go to the Forums my login form shows up instead of the welcome message.

But if i go directly to a forum typing “forum.php?id=2” i see the forum, can make new topics and instead of the login form i see the welcome message.

So it seems like the cookies are set and working correct with bbpress but the view has any problems… same problem in the standard Theme. Private Forums Plugin is not the problem. I try to edit the config files like in the other threads but that doesn’t help and I installed all integration Plugins for bb and wp.

[rkudeshi]

Thanks for the pointer to the “Custom Profile Fields” plugin, never saw it before.

As for the “Use Display Name” plugin, I think that only works on a WordPress-integrated install, and I’m trying to get it to work on a BBPress only site. Any ideas?

[chrishajer]

TJworld, did you try sambauers plugin:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-registration#post-13337

And is it just registration emails with the password people are not receiving?