[_ck_]

Build 1075 has gotten pretty good on the nearly auto-install part.

It’s smarter than previous versions.

Since it’s password compatible with WordPress 2.4, if no other build is public-ready by then, I’d suggest releasing 1075 as bbPress 0.8.4 to somewhat match numbers.

[gusleig]

Hi, I did a brazilian portuguese translation for last version of bbPress. Portugal users can use it too since I cared about using words used for Brazilian and Portugal Portuguese language.

http://www.gusleig.com/sos/2008/01/internet/traducao-do-bbpress-para-portugues-do-brasil/

[_ck_]

Here’s one I forgot I wrote awhile back:

Grab the number of users who call any particular topic a favorite:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/favourites?replies=5#post-8764

[Sam Bauers]

Also, BackPress may or may-not be incorporated into WordPress. bbPress is a testing ground for the concept. If it doesn’t get incorporated into WordPress it doesn’t really matter, hopefully we’ll at least have a better structured core in bbPress as a result.

[_ck_]

Sending email to hotmail and aol accounts is impossible from any host that you can’t setup a proper rDNS and more importantly SPF.

SPF is critical (only gmail seems immune – thanks google, whew). If hotmail doesn’t see SPF or doesn’t like it, you’re screwed. Microsoft also caches the SPF results so if you change it, you have to write a support message to them and wait a week until someone sees it.

As far as host reliability, here’s my strange take on it over the years: you’ll never find a large host that you’ll be happy with. They all have issues. If someone thinks their large host is perfect they either just have been lucky or not with them long enough. Large hosts are constantly changing employees so customer service quality varies tremendously. And the more you need customer service on any host, the more you are in trouble.

For bbpress (and wordpress) make sure you find a host with locally attached storage to the server and not NFS like Dreamhost which makes file access very slow. There’s no caching module like wp-cache for bbpress so file access is even more critical.

The two first big questions I always ask are: what kind of hardware is my server running on and how many neighbors will I have. Backup quality is probably the next question. Everything else is either hype or irrelevant IMHO. You might also ask if the host is within their own datacenter and can literally reach out and touch their own hardware if they need to replace a hard drive or if they are at the mercy of yet another third party’s technical support to do it for them.

If you can afford it, get your own VPS with a low number of neighbors on the same node. But that’s definitely more expensive than shared hosting so you have to be willing to pay for it. At least with VPS you can migrate the entire setup within the same host fairly easily if your neighbors turn out to be abusive.

[_ck_]

As I was reverse integrating the WP trunk with the bbPress trunk this weekend I was thinking a lot more about this – and the more I think about it, the more I am getting confused about what is being planned.

If WP and bbPress are being coded to use to a unified function library that would definitely break wordpress hooks. But Matt would never do that as it would break 1000’s of plugins and themes for the far more popular WordPress.

In some ways, bbPress’s db/load process and hooks are slightly more thought out/evolved than WordPress because they came later and WordPress has to maintain some backward compatibility.

So then it occurred to me that to leave the WP hooks alone, I hope you are not trying to replace the core of bbPress only with WP-like functions? I don’t see how that could be done without breaking every single plugin and theme for bbPress? Will the next (non minor) release of bbPress have a nearly-unified WP core?

In trac I see BB functions being renamed to their WP counterparts. But no wrapper functions for backward compatibility are being written. I see the backend of bbPress being hammered into backPress and I imagine the next bbPress as simply a front-end being re-written to only use the backPress, ie. wordpress, hooks.

So I guess the final question is: is there a plan to write wrapper functions or is the general attitude just to abandon all third party work to date for the next bbPress release and just hope we go along for the ride?

[chrishajer]

I use http://www.1and1.com and have for the past 4 years or so, since their 3-year free preview began. You will find lots of negative things online about 1&1 if you look around, but honestly, I haven’t had any major issues with them. I did have a problem at one point with the box they had me on being overloaded, and it took some work to convince them that the problem was some other site dragging the whole box down, but since they moved that site (or my account, I’m not sure which) things have been great. Convincing support to escalate a ticket is sometimes difficult, but if you know what you’re talking about, they do it. They always follow up via email as well. I have called for things and been on hold, but I don’t know of a hosting company out there where that won’t happen occasionally. Thankfully, I haven’t had to call them much in 4 years.

They have been rock solid reliable for me, and I have never had a problem with email delivery. MySQL, Perl, PHP4 and 5 all included on a shared Linux server.

I also have two root servers with them which I’m entirely happy with.

[edwinfoo]

The 2 key issues are server uptime and email reliability.

In the short 4 months that my forum has been running, I’ve had so many incidences of users registering 2 usernames. I’ve come to learn that the 2nd one is out of frustration that the email containing the password did not arrive.

This weekend, I have had no outbound email and sick of spending money on AdWords to bring in people that can’t sign up.

Apart from the registration email, I am using both Auto Favorite & Post Notification plugins. Therefore, reliable email is very important to maintain posting activity.

I’ve read alot about concerns that bbPress isn’t sending email. After extensive testing and in my situation, the problem is with the host.

I’m looking to avoid dedicated hosting at this time because my day job is funding this venture already. Can anyone recommend a hosting service that offers good reliability in both uptime and email?

[howtogeek]

This is a great idea.

I’m not sure if anybody made an official plugin out of this one:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/limit-long-words?replies=13#post-10120

[fel64]

Maybe post-1.0. I think the barrier for entry for running a pre-1.0 thing should be at least being able to install it yourself.

[chrishajer]

That’s a good idea: if a host can offer it pre-installed, it would definitely increase usage. We’d need to get it to a pretty stable point before doing that though.

[_ck_]

I’ve never participated in the WP one but if it’s straightforward enough and has no liability I’ll volunteer to do basic bbPress installs.

I’ve been thinking of looking at the fantastico script for wordpress and hacking it to do bbpress and sending to them to include. That would radically increase the number of installs. Maybe even try to make a regular cpanel script too like the phpbb install (cpaddon).

[_ck_]

If you are installing on a home pc, try installing XAMPP to get an instant (like 1 minute tops) install of apache+mysql+php

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61776

It’s absolutely wonderful.

this is the one for windows specifically if that’s what you have:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61776&package_id=89552

[_ck_]

Before I got to the bottom I almost knew right off it was dreamhost and a localhost issue.

Slugs aren’t working because they don’t do multiviews.

You’ll have to place a real htaccess file into the directory with rewrite rules.

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

[salman1485]

problem solved..

instead of localhost i had to enter the other thing which dreamhost told me …

but now another problem

the forum is working fine http://test.nofullstop.com/bbpress/

but the slugs arnt??

what went wrong now??

[Olaf Lederer]

Well done, maybe you should change the pathes a little. I use geshi on other parts of my website and can’t/won’t use it this way

[_ck_]

I have now updated “My-Views” to support pagination (multi-page) views for all the standard style views.

version 0.09 should be in the plugin browser shortly…

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/67

you can see a demonstration of the feature here:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/latest-discussions

[egonvomberg]

no I didn´t delete the bbpress data. only the wpdata.

I reinstalled all, but still no admin panel.

Users can still register and posting are still there and possible to make.

is there no other way?

[chrishajer]

I think installing PHP and MySQL on localhost is beyond the scope of the bbPress support forums. Looks like you already found this:

http://us2.php.net/mysql

It would be less stressful to just get a hosting account that already supports those PHP and MySQL, then install bbPress there. Then the site can be Internet accessible as well.

Regarding flat file forum software:

myUPB

PBLang

I don’t have experience with any of those, just found them at http://www.opensourcecms.com/

You could also use a hosted solution like Yahoo! Groups or something like that.

[thetooth]

ok ok i’ve try to set it up on my pc again, i installed mysql but how do i compile it with php

ok all i can get is: For compiling, simply use the –with-mysql[=DIR] configuration option where the optional [DIR] points to the MySQL installation directory.

wtf dose that mean can someone tell me what to do. :'(

[thetooth]

hi i was wondering if there is a way to get bbpress to run on a flat-file insted of my sql

i really need this so if you can write something i’d like that too

[Graeme]

There is a facility in the plugin to enter additional URLs that will be generated into the sitemap. This is a way to point google at “/forums/” for a bbPress installation that falls under a wordpress main site. If the sitemap is not valid then I expect it is unlikely that the sitemap will be crawled.

There are also other tools around for validating sitemaps but the google webmaster tools would be the one to trust.

[Andrew]

After much hacking about I figured out the problem.

This post offered a clue:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/getting-bbpress-and-wordpress-to-talk-to-each-other?replies=6#post-6068

It turns out that any global variables declared or set in header.php must also be set in the calling page. I added the following to the top of front_page.php and now the variables are properly set after calling bb_head().

<?php global $research_subscriber; // ‘1’ if user is research subscriber

global $forums_subscriber; // ‘1’ if user is forums subscriber

?>

The global variables don’t need to be set in the calling page in wordpress (single.php, search.php). I have no idea why bbpress handles this differently – must be in the way the header is called.

Much frustration. I hope someone finds this post useful.

[_ck_]

This was my fault apparently.

Somehow the pluggable.php within bbpress was built 1074 when it absolutely needs 1075 to have the new wp_salt function.

So future note for integration to others:

to use the new WordPress 2.4/2.5 trunk

you MUST use bbpress build 1075

build 1074 and build 1076 will not integrate properly as is

[salman1485]

I am not sure what is wrong with my config.php file..

this is a test forum which i am not finalising so i created a new database with new password and new user and updated the config.php file with the details…please tell me what is the problem..am copying the file here (pwd, akismet key, email have been removed)

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<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘testforum’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘testforum’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://test.nofullstop.com/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘test forum’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘something@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = slugs;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 15;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 1;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ‘en’);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

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please help me ..