[Trent Adams]

Any web host can use a slew of stats programs. They are all web based and work well like sitemeter, awestats, webalizer, etc. As well, you just need to add your Google Analytics code off their site to your header.php and your bbPress forum is listed. You don’t need any special software. Just add the script they give you when you signup to your header.php file of your template.

Trent

[Inquirer]

Google Analytics at http://boakes.org/software/

Rename the file googleanalytics.php and copy it to your /wp-content/plugins directory.

Enable it on the plugins page.

Enter your Google Analytics User Account string (it’ll be something like UA-12345-6. It appears when you “Add a channel”)

Apparently, you have to signup with Google and receive a User Account string.

Google Analytics is free to all advertisers, publishers, and site owners.

Does this free apply to Discussion forums?

Does anyone have an opinion on Google Analytics or another forum statistics plugin?

[rfleigh]

i dont understand what “define USER_BBDB_NAME, USER_BBDB_USER, USER_BBDB_PASSWORD, and USER_BBDB_HOST” means..

here is my config.php file. please let me know if this is correct.

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘USER_BBDB_NAME’, ‘XXXXX’); // The name of the database

define(‘USER_BBDB_USER’, ‘XXXXX’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘USER_BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘XXXXXX’); // …and password

define(‘USER_BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

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

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

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

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value

// 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://richardfleigh.com/richardfleigh/bbpress/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘Richards new bbpress site’;

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

$bb->admin_email = ‘richard@mediosone.com’;

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

$bb->mod_rewrite = true;

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

$bb->page_topics = 30;

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

$bb->edit_lock = 60;

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

$bb->gmt_offset = -5;

// 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’, ”);

// 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 = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

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

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://blog.richardfleigh.com/&#8217;; // 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’ );

?>

[ajd777]

I’m working on a project that calls for a seamless integration of the two with all the bbPress functions available in WordPress and vise-versa. I have finished nearly everything including adding the bbPress admin menu items to the WordPress panel.

However, the items don’t actually display because when WordPress checks to see if users can access them, the roles, such as “moderator” aren’t listed.

Is there a way, in bbPress, to just get a list of the current users capabilities, so it can be filtered into the WordPress list? The project requires that it be done entirely through plugins.

[1drummergirl]

I just updated my bbpress forum after a few months of neglect and I’m looking to pump some new life into it and add some new plugins.

There’s not near as much activity in the forums as my regular blog, but I do get some folks who would rather post in the forums than on the front page of the site.

Let me know if anything looks amiss.

http://www.girlscantwhat.com/forums/

[benbeltran]

Nice idea! I’ll have to work on making my forums nicer if I want them to appear on that list

[_ck_]

IMHO validation is just a syntax check and the least of bbPress problems right now.

The most useful doctype for the next decade is:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

Get back to me when a browser DOESN’T support that

Makes life sooo much easier. Then posts can contain <b>, <u>, <s> and <i> and all sorts of standards people have been used to for the last decade instead of reinventing the wheel!

Now instead go round up a dozen php plugin developers and get them onboard and we’ll have some real momentum

[_ck_]

I’ve been considering making this ability but it really worries me about the volume of email if someone subscribes to many, many topics. Spam filters, not to mention your server host can trigger bans if too much email is being sent.

But I do have all the routines I need however to build such a plugin based on code from my signatures plugin and ignore member plugin. (Digests are another matter however, that’s a bit of work and requires tracking of last message seen, which is not natively built into bbpress)

There is just too much to create but too little time to do it though. I’ve got too many little projects going.

[lstelie]

Hello,

Another view on integration..

I’d love to use BBPress as a repository for WP coments (at least some of them).

When they are a lot of comments, WP is not very usage. FGor example I have a popular post with 141 comments ans loading the page takes a long time and cause errors to google ads. I’d love to use BBPress as a repository for that but I don’t know how import a thred of WP comments as a BBpress forum.

Luc

[Andrew]

Ah, you were right. With pretty permalinks off it works. Now I have to figure out how to get bbPress to play nice with WordPress. Hmm.

Thanks much!

[_ck_]

Wow that’s a nice one Novellino, very active too.

I’ve added it.

List is coming along slowly but surely.

It will have to wait for next weekend to come out unfortunately but that will give me more time to find other lurking sites.

[_ck_]

The /~username is known to mess up both wordpress and bbpress permalinks. If you are trying to run that way permanently that way it will require some hacks.

You might be able to setup the username as subdomain if you know what you are doing and get around the problem ie.

username.example.com

Or there might still be some decent free subdomain services around, unsure – you could use one to park onto of your account and then run that way to solve your problem.

[fabianzaf]

Thanks for the lengthy response

It is kind of strange that forum permissions was not their main priority when creating this package. I don’t want this to dampen how I feel about bbpress though. Since the private forums feature works it already fixes half of my problem.

One easy workaround for now would be to manually close all your posted topics in a forum.

I dont see how this would prevent users from creating new topics altogether. These parent forums are simply supposed to act as titles… i’ll see if I can find anything in the code to fix this.

^^

[_ck_]

Read-only forums are tricky to do as bbPress does not have any structure in place for forum permissions to the best of my knowledge, only user permissions to a certain extent. Apparently no-one considered forum control important in a forum program? Hmm.

The private forums plugin has to insert alot of code just to mange making forums invisible to certain users (and still can miss some areas). To make them read only, while removing the “new post” form seems obvious, it wouldn’t solve the problem as there are two or three places to create a new post (and apparently in future versions via trackbacks). Unfortunately none of that can be done via plugins, it would have to be a direct hack.

Perhaps in a future version they will consider forum permissions to make this easier. Other mature forum software has this ability, easily. I will look into how tricky the direct hack might be, probably not too hard, but keep in mind you’ll have to re-do it every time you upgrade.

One easy workaround for now would be to manually close all your posted topics in a forum.

[fabianzaf]

Hey guys,

I’d like to know whether there is a possibility to do either one of the 2 things.

– Close a forum from posting (read-only)

– Set all “top-level” (parent) forums to view without href and when accessed through typing url get a redirect to /bbpress

I need a quick solution so if anyone knows of any suggestions.. even if crude please let me know. Thanks!

[neyoung]

First off, sorry mods if this is a double post. I left a comment on the Allow Images plugin page, but I don’t think many people read those comments unless they themselves are having a problem. So I thought I would be better off starting a new topic.

I’ve been stumbling with getting images to work on my bbpress 0.8.2.1 forums for a day or two now. For some reason the Allow Images 0.7.1 plugin doesn’t work for me. When I post an image it gets truncated down to <img /> in the database.

I’ve tried using the two spaces before the ending slash – No Luck

I’ve also tried editing the bbpress core files like meeciteewurkor recommended – No Luck.

I did notice that if I used phpmyadmin to edit the database manually and put the <img src="http://domain.com/image.jpg" /> code into a post the image shows up. So there has got to be a function that is filtering out the src part of the image tag or something

Anyone have any suggestions? Is there a function I should be looking at in particular?

[fabianzaf]

Probably wont work but try making

$bb->wp_home and $bb->wp_siteurl both “http://www.subventions.fr/wordpress&#8221;

[amajindat]

im getting the same error, just install bbpress but cant access my profile page, or post, is there another solution to this problem

[chrishajer]

The forum is located here:

http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php

But the config entry is wrong, because the server thinks the URI for the site is here:

http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/

So, in your config.php, you have this:

$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/';

instead of this:

$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/';

Change that line, and you’ll be good to go. The site looks like that because the path to the style.css file is wrong (among other things). In fact, once the URI is corrected, the site looks like this:

http://www.chrishajer.com/bike/XLF/ClayStreet.png

Good luck.

[gro11ver]

I installed and seem to have a database connection, yet my page looks like this: http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php.

i cant find info how to fix this. thanks for helping.

[adriengeille]

After a few tests it seems the problem comes from the last paragraph

// 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 = ‘wp_’; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

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

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

$bb->cookiepath = ‘/’;

$bb->cookiedomain = ‘.subventions.fr’;

define(‘WP_BB’, true);

require_once(‘/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

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

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

?>

Where is the error guys?

[chrishajer]

Sounds like your server does not support mod_rewrite, or there are other rewrite rules in another .htaccess file (for WP?) that are conflicting.

There were a couple good posts by SamBauers regarding the rewrite rules. Here’s one:

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

I think if you turn off the pretty permalinks and take that stuff out of your .htaccess file, you’ll find things work again. Then, you just need to figure out how to get them working on your server.

[novellino]

What about mine?

http://www.inblog.it/forum/

[bobbyh]

I had a user write a post with this title:

This creates a post like this:

* http://www.kosmosity.com/forums/topic/?replies=1#post-2

I’m using the “slug” option on this test forum which uses the default theme and bbPress 0.8.2.1. It looks like the is being sanitized to “” (an empty string), which confuses bbPress and leads to that topic resolving to an error page. On the test forum to which I just linked, I have no plugins except WordPress Integration.

Has anybody else run into this bug? Is there an existing workaround? If other people can replicate this bug, I’ll create a ticket in Trac. Also, if there’s no existing workaround, I’ll try to create a plugin workaround.

Thanks,

Bob

[Elias]

Oh, thank you SamBauers – this is the information missing on this site…

But as I read at the trac site, the problem is already known. It is fixed by changeset 867 – at least in my test environment. I’ll upload it to the real server, it seems to be okay and of course it will be better than my quick and dirty “solution”…