[tgallaud]

thank you very much guys. I really appreciate it — I have a lot of great recommendations to go on! (I haven’t had a lot of time to spend on wordpress or bbpress and I appreciate your help to make my customization time easier!)

[fel64]

You can always load bbpress and then check, by:

require_once( 'path/to/bb-load.php' );

Otherwise you could check if the cookie is set and has a password parameter. You won’t be able to check if it’s a correct password, of course.

[benbeltran]

Hello.

I’m trying to make a bar that stays constant in every part of my website and I want to include the login form/profile link in it, but I have to check if the user is logged in or somehow be able to use bbpress functions out of bbpress.

Any recommendations for this?

[tgallaud]

I’m really just thinking of an extremely simple one-thread message board (where the users don’t ever get a choice to pick a thread, instead they just post to an ongoing line of comments). I want exactly what this thread is doing without the rest of the functionality, like creating new threads etc. I can tweak this software to do this — I don’t mean to make this over complicated, but was just wondering if anyone had already created a tweak like this or could point me to some other software that could easily/quickly do this. A guestbook might solve this problem, but I’d rather tweak bbpress (if no one else has already) to do this because it’s such a great base to work from…

thanks a lot for any advice.

[tgallaud]

thanks for your quick reply.

using wordpress would work and that’s a good thought, but I would have to customize it quite a bit I think…?

I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to dumb down bbPress (or wordpress) so I can really just utilize its comments functionality — so I can have a page with a one thread based conversation and that’s it. (I’d like other users to be able to add their comments like they can on a wordpress blog entry…) Any recommendations on how to do this easily?

Is there other software that just focuses on this?

thanks very much.

[Sam Bauers]

I’m running a discussion on bbPress at WordCamp Melbourne this weekend and I’m looking for a good WordPress/bbPress integrated site (or two) to show as an example.

Preferably one run by someone here, with a reasonable amount of traffic, so I can prod them with questions about it.

Anyone?

[chrishajer]

Also, I didn’t realize there were forum plugins for WordPress until you posted this. From the looks of them, this one (of 4) appears to be most current and most actively maintained:

http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/simple-forum/

Never used it, but just learned about it after you asked the question.

[chrishajer]

Yes, use the same database (it’s easier later with integration) and you can even leave the default table prefix in the bbPress config.php. By default, WordPress uses a table prefix of wp_ and bbPress uses bb_, so there is no conflict, and even if bbPress goes horribly wrong, it won’t hurt WordPress at all.

Good luck. I’m in Chicago too if you need any help.

[chgogrrl99]

Ok, I see that I can use same database…thanks anyway

[chgogrrl99]

OK, thanks for responding guys.

I think I’m going to go for bbPress. If I can’t do it or it just becomes too much of a pain, I’ll try the plugin.

One question though…It is Ok to use the same database as my wordpress right? It makes sense to me to do so, just want to be sure.

Thanks

[tgallaud]

Hi — I’m looking for a very simple rendition of bbPress where I can just have one thread displayed on my main page and have users interact with just that one thread (and nothing else). Ideally, I’d like to utilize the comments part of the software only — where I can have a page where people can post comments only and post them indefinitely…

Can someone point me in a direction to configuring the system to do this? Is this easily possible?

thank you very much.

[fel64]

Copy and pasting per se is not a problem. It simply irritates me that you ask for help but cannot be bothered doing more than the minimum in doing so.

You can always backup your databases. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database; this will mean that no matter what you do, you can get a fully functioning wordpress install back.

[chgogrrl99]

Thanks for getting back to me and sorry about the copy/paste. I didn’t know it would be a problem.

I really like the look and feel of bbPress. I’m leaning toward using it.

As long as it’s no harder than installing WP, I think I’ll be fine. My only concern is screwing up my database (not bbPress screwing it up, but me screwing something up).

Thanks again

[fel64]

Uh, yeah, thanks for copy-and-pasting. When you are asking other people to spend their time helping you, the least you can do is take a little time to make it easy and appropriate for them.

> So, as a newb to using databases and php, should I choose a stand-alone like bbPress or a plugin I just upload to Wp?

If you can install wordpress, you can install bbpress. It’s no harder. Integrating them is also not difficult. Despite never having used one I’d assume a plugin would be a little easier though.

But if you care about the potential and speed of your forums, you should go for actual forum software, not something tacked onto something unrelated. In this case you should choose bbPress.

You can certainly do both; which is better for you is something you’ll be best at deciding.

[chrishajer]

Not my site, a forum at a WP plugin author’s site:

http://gbellucci.us/forums/

I didn’t realize it was a bbPress installation for a few minutes until I looked at it. It was just a support forum, nothing screamed out kakumei to me

[chgogrrl99]

(I cross posted this in the WP Support forums)

Hi,

Last night I did my first install of WordPress with a little help from the nice people hanging out in the Installation Forum – thanks again everybody. BTW, it took me a long time to do as I’m very new to mysql, php, ect.

Today, I’d like to add a forum. I’m very worried about screwing up my database or having to tinker with too many files. I’d like to add it now because I’ve yet to start customizing my site (WP is my main page BTW)and figure I should get all the things I want in there first, then go to work adding content ect.

I’ve read (or at least looked at the headlines for the first 100 post in these forums related to forums plugin).

So, here’s my question:I want a forum that will have about 10 or so categories listed under about five different cities. For instance: Chicago Jobs, Housing, For Sale, Events, ect.

Of course I want people only to log in once and I understand that bbPress and some plugins can do that.

It doesn’t have to be fancy or anything.

So, as a newb to using databases and php, should I choose a stand-alone like bbPress or a plugin I just upload to Wp?

I’m asking you assuming you are much more experienced with these things than I and will know which is better for someone at my level.

Thanks for reading this long post

[ericakadisco]

Hi,

How do you change the size, mainly height, of the input boxes in registration.php like in http://bbpress.org/forums/register.php?

You might need to log out and go to that page to see what I’m talking about. I want to change the height of the input boxes next to username, e-mail, website, etc.

Thanks,

Eric

[chrishajer]

To prevent the registration in the first place, why not a CAPTCHA?

http://recaptcha.net/index.html

It could probably be added to a bbPress install with a plugin. Or, a while ago, Trent mentioned he added a couple of fields to his registration form, and the bots haven’t figured that out yet.

Also, it seems like the bots all tend to fill out the interests and website, but users normally don’t. Maybe you could add something to your template that says “Please don’t fill out this field” that a bot could not read, would fill out, and then you could write a plugin based on that?

[Trent Adams]

There is a plugin that you can find over at https://bbpress.org/plugins/ but I just use one of the RSS widgets for wordpress and then use your bbPress forum RSS feed to do it.

Trent

[Null]

How about a different direction, ad an activation code in the e-mail while registrating. The password is already e-mailed, so put in an activation link aswell. If not activated using the link in 1 or 2 days, the person wont be registrated at all.

Many forum software have something like this, why not bbpress?

[_ck_]

This wouldn’t be related to “bozo” issues would it?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/fix-or-remove-bozo-function-before-it-kills-bbpress

Bozo is first thing I disable on a new bbpress install.

[fel64]

Yo!

What you could do is make bbsync look at your custom data, create the tables and hang them onto the post it puts into bbpress. However, there’s a better way IMO.

Every synced topic has the attribute wp_post, giving the id of the wordpress post. Since you probably run wp when you run bb (if you’re fully integrated), you can do (something like …) this in your bbpress template:

if( isset( $topic->wp_post ) ) {

$wp_post = get_postdata( $topic->wp_post );

if( isset( $wp_post->custom attribute you're interested in ) ) {

// some code to output a table into your template here

}

}

Much more interestingly, you could probably make that into a plugin so you can switch this behaviour on and off, and probably reuse it somewhere too. Could be very neat.

It’s feasible to replicate the functionality to want, but the best way would be to write a seperate plugin that only relies on bbsync for one thing: providing the ID of the wordpress post you’re interested in.

[As a general note: every wordpress post in wordpress has the attribute bb_topic too, giving the topic id for bbpress.]

[Null]

Well, interface is dead. It will not be developed further. Instead they have created jQuery UI and replaces interface.

My question, bbPress uses the interface libary (which part of bbPress uses it anyway?), will it be dropped and be replaced with jQuery UI?

Though UI is still a bit buggy, it is going to replace interface.

More info:

http://www.jquery.com

http://ui.jquery.com

[andorko]

Are the two fully integrated? Just users or functions as well?

With MU 1.2.4/bbpress 0.8.3 I am able to put this in the end of the wp-config.php file just fine.

// Include bbPress functions

define('WP_BB', true); // Avoid duplicate functions

require_once( ABSPATH . '../forums/bb-load.php');

With MU 1.3/bbpress 0.8.3 having that yields a Cannot redeclare update_user_status error.

[mikeygyse]

The solution is to rip out the code

<h2><?php _e('Forums'); ?></h2>

<table id="forumlist">



<tr>

<th><?php _e('Main Theme'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Topics'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Posts'); ?></th>

</tr>



<?php foreach ( $forums as $forum ) : ?>

<tr<?php alt_class('forum'); ?>>

<td><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a> — <small><?php forum_description(); ?></small></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</table>

from Superbold-bbpress/front-page.php

and replace it with

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e('Forums'); ?></h2>

<table id="forumlist">



<tr>

<th><?php _e('Main Theme'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Topics'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Posts'); ?></th>

</tr>

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>

<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>

<td><?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a><small><?php forum_description(); ?></small><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</table>

<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

from Kakumei/front-page.php