[Sam Bauers]

The slower development cycle on bbPress at the moment is mainly because there is one active committer – mdawaffe – one other committer – matt – and only a few regular core contributors (i.e. patch suppliers) – so10, sambauers and very few others.

mdawaffe has been a little absent from bbPress recently, but he also works on WordPress and other projects within Automattic a lot, so maybe that is where he is concentrating at the moment. There is a chance that mdawaffe is working on some non-public project that has to do with bbPress, but I can’t confirm that.

matt started bbPress, but these days doesn’t work on bbPress much at all.

so1o has been quiet around here lately too, although he recently revamped his personal website (built on wordpress/bbPress). Maybe he can tell us what he is up to at the moment himself?

I (sambauers) am in the middle of finishing a major release of my own open source project and won’t be doing anything at all (besides lurking in this forum) until next month.

So it basically comes down to these four people to make bbPress go forward at the moment, and for various reasons they aren’t working on it at the moment.

Please keep in mind that I can’t speak with any authority for the others I have mentioned here and I am happy to be corrected, but this is the best account of the situation I can give at the moment.

[Andrew]

Yes, I am curious too. I can’t contribute so I always feel guilty asking.

[so1o]

try this

http://www.adityanaik.com/integratepress-part-i/

[talgalili]

Hi schmitt, thanks for the reference. It IS reassuring to see trac changes. perhaps I should rephrase my question:

Could we expect a 0.9 (or even 1.0) release in the near future (or maybe after WP2.3 stabilizes) ?

(Surely, I am not the only one who is curious)

[Andrew]

That’s not true… there is activity.

https://trac.bbpress.org/timeline?from=09%2F11%2F07&daysback=90&milestone=on&ticket=on&changeset=on&wiki=on&update=Update

[talgalili]

Hi all.
I notice there where not any major releases in the last few months.
Are there developers who are planing to boost this project ? or should I fear it to be in sleeping-beauty mode ?

Thanks,
Tal.

[_ck_]

You can’t compare one of the most popular commercial forum programs with 7 years of development and thousands of ($$$) extensions to a fairly new open source project that’s not even a 1.0 release yet.

If you are running a small non-commercial forum, vbulletin is too much. If you are running a large forum that needs many powerful features, bbPress (currently) is too little.

Virtually all of the features you are asking for are possible on bbPress, with a bit of work and sweat. None of them are available without 3rd party plugins, some of which are not complete or bug-free.

[Nola1974]

that matrix seems to be fairly outdated as many of the items are blank when they should be ‘yes’ or at least ‘plugin’ for bbpress.

[mpm]

Thanks guys.

Permalinks set to off in config fixes the problem so I better have a better look at how to set that up properly.

[Cal]

Hey guys, I got a question about the MD5 hash…..

I don’t understand which MD5 to use… Every user has a different hash right? So which one do I enter?

Can anyone try and clarify this for me, I almost got it working….

[chrishajer]

http://www.forummatrix.org/compare/bbPress+vBulletin

[ronjroy]

Actually, the host is bluehost and I started uploading today. I am not sure, but yes, I originly had this forum as a project on my system using EasyPHP. I now would like to have it with my website. I have tried to create a data base with the host and I reinstalled with download bbpress and filled in the new info. It came back as cannot read DB. In the host area, is this my domain,com or what?

In conjunction to the last question, I think the problem is how to set-up the data base at host location and how is this info put into the config.php? The BBDB_Host is my site ?

[ronjroy]

Hi,

blueplato.com is up and running. Take a look and feel free to offer some gentle criticisms. One problem, I had my service with bbpress installed on my computer using EasyPHP and using localhost in the config. I had the location set to http://blueplato.com/forums/bbpress and since uploading my files to the host directory I am getting 403 error access denied. I know enough that this is because my data base as it was set-up for my local host will not work on the host. So, I ask…the quick fix would be to uninstall and reinstall using the host address…? is this correct?

Also, when doing this, is the location given as http://domain name.com/public_html/?

[mrmacmac]

Hi there… I’m a vBulletin veteran, but am considering a switch over to bbPress to use in tandom with wordpress. Can anyone out there tell me the advantages of using bbPress compared to vBulletin? Is it just as powerful? Does it tie into WordPress seemlessly?

I also need to know if some features I require are available in bbPress… Here is my shortlist:

– Ability to act as forums admin (edit everything)

– Ability to add moderators to specific forums

– Custom avatars and signatures for users?

– Spam and ‘bad word’ filters?

– Private email/messaging system?

– Can I create categories/subcategories?

– Can I create little thumbnails for these categories?

There’s more but that’s a short list… Any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated

[roniabirk]

I would like to customize my bbpress installation so topics in one specific forum do not display the authors of the replies. This is different from anonymous posting because I want admins to know who is posting, but just don’t display it to everyone else. The purpose is to allow a silent auction type function.

Does anyone have pointers on how I could modify bbpress to accomplish this? I am fairly comfortable with PHP. Thanks in advance!

[Cal]

Hello

I’m testing out some things and trying to synchronize WordPress, BBPress and Amember Subscription software. I have pretty much everything worked out, but need a little cookie help if it’s out there.

I’ve read this post, which outlines cookie settings

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpressbbpress-single-sign-on?replies=22#post-9010

The problem is that I don’t want to install the cookie plugin for WP because I already have this in my Wp-config file

define(‘COOKIEPATH’,’/’);

define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, md5($_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]));

I guess my question is, what do I put into my BB config file for cookies?

I realize this may not be a direct BBPress issue, but I thought maybe one of you had an idea.

Thanks

[ganzua]

I’m realizing that I have more undefined pages. I have a custom login page here -> http://www.joseperdicion.com/wordpress/wp-login.php , ultimate tag warrior pages, for example this one; http://www.joseperdicion.com/wordpress/index.php?tag=onirica

Besides, some single pages are not tall enough to put two ads blocks in the sidebar.

Where did you read how to build ” is_smthing () ” functions? I wonder if I coud build one for is_login, is_tag (I presume this one will be solved in wp 2.3), is_aparticularfolder.

Is it possible to build a conditional tag for page height?. For example; ” if it is taller than x number of lines then put two ads blocks”.

[karaboga]

Hi again,

We couldn’t find any solution for that problem. If that’s a bug; I hope it will be corrected in new versions.

By the way, I’d said that we’ve integrated our bbPress forum to our WordPress blog. Now, forum users’ data is taken from WordPress’ wp_users table in database. And now, we do not have bb_users table.

If we want to seperate bbPress from WordPress (cancel the integration); what can we do? If we cancel the integration; does the bb_users table created automatically?

[Sam Bauers]

> “Client API version 3.23.49” – I think bbPress requires at least version 4.0 MySQL

That’s definitely the problem here. Just to clarify, your MySQL client library that PHP is using is too old. Adding new extensions to PHP in windows is comparatively easy. Check the PHP manual for info on how to do it, but basically you should have the extension you need somewhere in your PHP folder already. It’s just a matter of moving it to the right place. Perhaps a windows person can help out here?

[chrishajer]

Is there an .htaccess in the directory one level above? .htaccess rules are additive, I think. So if there is one in the directory one level up, those could be conflicting with the .htaccess you have in the community directory.

edit: sorry, I just reread all the notes you posted. I don’t understand enough about .htaccess to know what the problem is. SamBauers here has made several posts about .htaccess.

Here’s one:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/pretty-permalinks-not-working?replies=24#post-7743

[mpm]

I have .htaccess in my community directory for permalinks that says:

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /community/

RewriteRule ^community/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /community/forum.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^community/([0-9]+)$ /community/forum.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /community/topic.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^topic/([0-9]+)$ /community/topic.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /community/tags.php?tag=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/(.+)/?$ /community/tags.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^tags/?$ /community/tags.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /community/profile.php?id=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)$ /community/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)/([a-z]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /community/profile.php?id=$1&tab=$2&page=$3 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^profile/([0-9]+)$ /community/profile.php?id=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)/page/([0-9]+)$ /community/view.php?view=$1&page=$2 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^view/([a-z-]+)$ /community/view.php?view=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/$ /community/rss.php [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/community/([0-9]+)$ /community/rss.php?community=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/topic/([0-9]+)$ /community/rss.php?topic=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/tags/([a-z]+)$ /community/rss.php?tag=$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^rss/profile/([0-9]+)$ /community/rss.php?profile=$1 [L,QSA]

</ifmodule>

I have .htaccess in my root that says:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

#uploaded files

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

and .htaccess.dist in root that says

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase BASE/

#uploaded files

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d

RewriteRule . – [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]

RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*.php)$ $2 [L]

RewriteRule . index.php [L]

[chrishajer]

Not for the bbPress forum as far as I know. There are lots of picture galleries available for blogs like WordPress:

http://www.google.com/search?q=wordpress+photo+gallery+plugin

(which integrates nicely with bbPress) and even standalone photo galleries:

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+photo+gallery

I don’t know of a plugin for bbPress so I think you’ll be integrating something else into your website.

[chrishajer]

1. I know nothing about hosting bbPress on a Windows server.

2. The one thing that stands out to me is “Client API version 3.23.49” – I think bbPress requires at least version 4.0 MySQL. The Client API version is not always the same as the MySQL version installed, but maybe the problem is due to an old MySQL version?

Do you have access to a control panel or a shell where you can access something like phpMyAdmin to check the actual MySQL version installed?

[chrishajer]

Can you post the output from phpinfo? That error message comes up when the installation cannot find either the mysql or mysqli extensions. It’s possible PHP was configured without those extensions.

Create a file (maybe name it info.php or anything.php) and put this into it:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

Go to the location of that file with a web browser (like http://www.yourserver.com/info.php) and that will echo a whole bunch of data back about the PHP installation.

http://www.php.net/phpinfo

That would be the first step, seeing if your PHP was compiled with the proper modules for MySQL.

[stevepowell]

My bbPress

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