Thanks for sharing this… I am sure it will help others…
I added an “internationalization” tag to try to help people find it.
you want get_topic_id() for the current topic id
or get_post_id() for the current post id
By default bbpress does not have this ability built in.
However it would be possible to edit your templates to allow only mods to start topics in certain forums, or do this via plugin.
Integration is better than running under wordpress.
This allows your wordpress side to be down while the forum still works and via versa.
Once backpress and talkpress is available I suspect however there will be much more shared code and essentially they will start to merge together in many ways.
ps. the forum plugin for wordpress supposedly has or had security issues if I remember correctly…
You need to follow the instruction to syncronize the cookie paths in bbpress and wordpress.
Essentially both have to be set to your site’s webroot (ie. /)
Look under the cookie section here
https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/
or look through the integration tag here like so:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cookie-question-wp-bb-and-beyond
You’re asking about gravtars but then talking about uploading avatars which are two different features.
There are plugins for bbPress to show a user’s gravatar but if it’s a locally uploaded avatar within WordPress, someone would have to come up with some code to display it on the bbPress side. So it’s possible but would take someone to look at it.
The avatar upload plugin on the bbpress side has some documentation or user comments on how to access the avatar from wordpress.
If you can find a wordpress plugin that does this, it will be very easy to convert to bbpress.
I wish I had experience with that but I don’t.
However following other posts with this tag might help:
https://bbpress.org/forums/tags/internationalization
Well you’re asking two different things but the answer to both is yes with some code changes to your templates.
You can get the last poster for any topic in the list via this:
<?php echo '<a href="'.get_topic_last_post_link().'">'.get_topic_last_poster().'</a>'; ?>
but there is also a plugin that I believe will change the last poster’s name into a link too. So either way.
You might be able to paginate the lastest discussions by putting this at the bottom of latest discussions outside the loop:
<?php forum_pages(); ?>
However it’s a 50/50 chance it won’t work.
Or you can use the “My Views” plugin which will give you a paginated Latest Discussion view that you can link to.
example:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/latest-discussions
plugin:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/my-views/
Someone has been working on some new export/import functions but I don’t believe they are ready yet.
There is an old phpBB convertor for bbpress, so if you can get yabb into phpBB, you might be import from that.
If the background goes yellow that probably means it flagged you as a “bozo” which is a feature that has never worked quite right in bbpress.
You can disable the “bozo” feature completely by editing bb-settings.php and commenting out the line:
// require( BBPATH . BBINC . 'bozo.php');
around line 110 or so
Be sure to get the newest version here and not the above download:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
I think I better understand what you are asking about after running into a similar problem today on my bbcode lite plugin. I filed a trac ticket:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/795
bbPress seems to encode non-ending tags into html entities if you save a post twice. Not good.
I just ran into the problem, they must be fiddling.
Delete all your bbpress.org cookies and you’ll be able to log in again.
Here’s a bookmarklet to zap cookies for just the site you are on it if you don’t want to search through your settings:
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html#zap_cookies
(just make sure it’s bbpress.org in your window when you run it)
I don’t believe there is a CAPTCHA plugin yet, but there is a “Human Test” plugin:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/signupregistration-captcha#post-13429
exist plugin of security anti-flooding?
your welcome!!
yep, same problem here:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/firefox-wp-cookies-are-not-acceptet
I think i found the problem: I’am logged in but bbPress just don’t show it… but i haven’t tested it enough so wait a little bit and probably I can say more…
Doesn’t your code zap all BRs?
This is not quite what you are trying to do, but maybe you can add BR to this list and see if bbpress will bypass the self-closing requirement.
function bb_allow_extra_tags( $tags ) {
$tags['del'] = array();
$tags['strike'] = array();
$tags['s'] = array();
$tags['b'] = array();
$tags['i'] = array();
$tags['u'] = array();
$tags['bq'] = array();
$tags['blockquote'] = array();
$tags['pre'] = array();
$tags['hr'] = array();
$tags['br'] = array(); // see if this allows non-closed br
$tags['BR'] = array(); // see if this allows uppercase BR
return $tags;
}
add_filter( 'bb_allowed_tags', 'bb_allow_extra_tags' );
As far as uppercase/lowercase that would be tricker if it’s hard coded in the code. You’d have to filter the post text ahead of time, find all tags and convert them to lowercase. Or try adding $tags['BR'] = array(); to the above list and see if that makes a difference.
Personally I’d just add the bbcode plugin if you’ve got people trying to make fancier posts. It’s far more common across all forums.
I’m new to bbpress, and was playing around with an install. I noticed that it doesn’t allow all forms of line breaks, only the current proper one that is self closing.
<br> and <BR>
Do not seem to work properly. This was an issue because I noticed that my users are sloppy HTML coders and the tags would just print out.
I don’t know if it has been covered before. I searched and found nothing. I did get it to work with a small php tweak.
In formatting-functions.php, I put the following under bb_encode_bad:
$text = preg_replace('|& lt;BR& gt;|', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('|& lt;br& gt;|', '', $text);
$text = preg_replace('|& lt;br /& gt;|', '', $text)
(The code tag won’t output the code correctly, so I put a space after the &, so they wouldn’t get converted.)
It works, but all three forms now convert to<br>, instead of
Which works well enough, but even self closing br tags will now drop the /
I’m not strong at PHP. Only enough to get by. What do you think. Is there another way to do it? Or a better way? Or hell, a plugin?
Awh, thanks! Well not sure about “vigilant” as I wax and wane here as I have the time and energy but I try to help when I can. Hope it’s helping someone! bbPress installs seem to have doubled since October 2007 so that’s probably a good sign… appreciate the hugs, I needed that…
ps. that would be guys and gals! 
I joined IRC #bbpress last night, and a kind soul figured it out.
It was all because of the plugin. After installing the plugin, all went great.
#chrishajer; on my server, the admin-tool lets me turn glob on and off. “off default”
and, it IS an error when I cant login 
This plugin-problem should be in the FAQ.
Thank you both..
I would like to, but the plugin I am using is restricted to WPMU exclusively (not normal wordpress) and was purchased through WPMUDEV Premium services and the copyright is so that you have to pay them to use it.
If you are looking at a combination avatar plugin, have you searched google for “wordpress bbpress common avatar” or something similar? Have you checked out the plugin directory to see what is offered here for avatars up and above the “service” company avatars like gravatar?
Trent
It works!
Thanks Chris! It seems I was uploading the contents of the bbpress folder *and* the bbpress folder itself to the website. Once I uploaded just the contents of the bbpress folder it worked fine. Oh well, live and learn.
