[riddle]

Cool, this is exactly the kind of bbPress-specific best practices I need to know and am not going to get from “PHP and MySQL in 30 Minutes”!

Is topicmeta documented anywhere? I’m looking at the code and can’t say it’s entirely clear…

[_ck_]

Okay anyone wanna see a prototype?

You can’t vote yet, but you can create a fake poll and see what it looks like so you can give me feedback and ideas.

I gave up on migrating an existing poll program after realising all the issues with custom bbpress integration, even from a wp port.

I’ve locked the demo to moderators (and higher) for now so even when you create a poll, no one else should be able to see it, or the options.

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/bb-polls.txt?v001

rename .txt to .php, install, activate

create a new topic of any sort and then look below the meta at the top for the option to create the poll

try creating one with a few options, it should be saved and then you’ll see some randomised results for a little colourful demo.

[fel64]

I’m sure that folks have thought of that but I think that like official documentation that’s a post-1.0 priority.

[fel64]

Actually, post_form is called immediately before the form is closed.

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-includes/template-functions.php#L163

[M]

I’ve been using subversion on my personal site for a while now, and I absolutely love it. However, I’m working on more than one project. Should I create a new repo for each project, or should I make subfolders like the bbPress plugins-svn site? Other than version numbers, what’s the difference? I should be able to check out just one subfolder, right?

[fel64]

Did you try downloading from the plugin browser? https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/56

Trent if you see this could you take out the rapidshare link from the first post and replace it please?

[goodwyne]

I assume most people are using bbPress to replace comments in WordPress. At least that is what we are doing. We’d like to redirect trackbacks to the corresponding bbPress thread instead of comments in WordPress. Has anyone already done that? Or is there a plugin that does it?

[goodwyne]

http://www.forthardknox.com

[_ck_]

It’s a good question and something I vaguely remember reading before around here.

In theory (don’t try it until you hear from others) you could rename the bbpress user + usermeta tables for wp, and then tell bbpress to look at the wp tables like a typical integration.

You’ll also need to install several plugins and tweaks to make sure that wp registrations are properly handled on the bbpress side.

(whatever you do, backup first!)

[larsvegas]

Maybe somebody can help:

I have a workin’ installation of bbPress with lots of users and content. Now i want to get a fresh copy WP up and running and want to get all registered users from bbPress into WP.

As far as I know, I can’t just tell WP to use bbPress-Usertable. Maybe somebody can give me some tipps know how to get it done.

[_ck_]

It’s a very nice integration.

There’s a problem with the text contrast though, the text colour is too light on the white background and that makes it hard to read for some people.

IMHO there’s also too much text on each page with nothing breaking it up like smaller images.

Am I imagining things or is this like the third weightloss site using bbpress posted here? Are these just “made for adsense” sites?

[MaryJane]

May i make a suggestion. Is there anyway that the themes can have a permanet place once submitted to be downloaded from? I hate following link after link only to find the link dead. The plugins and themes needs to have a permanet repository/database to be downloaded from. It would make things easier.

[_ck_]

Never insert your own columns into the bbpress core data.Use the meta or create a new table.

Just a warning the the bbpress api is still in a state of flux so some plugins will be obsolete or non-functional soon. For example my “My Views” plugin will be useless once the next trunk becomes stable as they’ve change the entire “views” structure and basically anything else dealing with a query. It’s somewhat confusing (and messy) to me and I’ll have to wait to see examples in new plugins.

[MaryJane]

Ummm im seeing wordpress and bbpress.

[riddle]

Sorry — I missed dbDelta and didn’t have a WP install handy to compare with.

As for whether I need a new table: is it advisable for a plugin to mess around with adding columns to standard bbPress tables? I suppose I thought I could do less damage by creating my own.

My application: I want to add geolocation (latitude and longitude) to topics. From a strict DB schema point of view there’s no reason for my data not to go into the topics table.

[MaryJane]

This is a very good idea! I would like this. I dont really like wp’s dashboard profile page. This would make wp and bbpress more intergrated!

[gtim]

kallekn, I posted it at: blogg.gurka.se/2007/03/04/svensk-bbpress-oversattning/

[fel64]

Interesting. Can you comment out line 262? Actions and filters are a nice system but a nightmare to debug. Invisible gotos.

I would really, really like to be able to tinker more with a setup that has problems. Can you give me the full details of what you’re running? What OS, what thing to run PHP, what version of PHP and the like?

[riddle]

More specifically: does bbPress have mechanisms for automatic table creation and updating like the ones described in the WordPress docs?

See: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Tables_with_Plugins

Should I start my Foo plugin by creating a function foo_install()? And can that function call dbDelta()? (I don’t see dbDelta in my bbPress anywhere.) If not, what’s the recommended alternative model for creating tables to be used in plugins?

[_ck_]

Here we go!

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/new-plugin-bbpress-signatures/

updated to v0.11 – now with admin menu!

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/07/bb-signatures.txt

(rename .txt to .php)

If you have plugins for smilies and/or allow images in post text, it will obey them, this is probably a good thing and desired.

You can set the minimum user level needed to show signatures and also the ability not to repeat a user’s signature more than once per page.

Instructions: install, activate, tinker with settings in admin menu

If you would like the optional toggle on new/edit posts to disable signatures you must edit the edit-form.php & post-form.php templates and place at or near the bottom:

<? bb_signatures_checkbox(); ?>

(you can wrap it in a DIV and float it to the left, right style anyway you’d like

sorry but there’s no way to do this directly through a plugin)

Here’s a fancier version that I use:

<div style=”float:left” ><? if (function_exists(‘bb_signatures_checkbox’)) {bb_signatures_checkbox();} ?></div>

Version History:

0.05 :slashes & autop fixed, replaced input with textarea, max_lines now supported in post-processing, max_length checked in realtime (as well as post processing)

0.06 :internal testing/bugfix

0.07 :per-post signature toggle

0.08 :toggle for allow html and allow images should now work

0.10 :basic functioning admin menu

0.11 :more intelligent admin menu

[riddle]

I’m working on my first bbPress plugin. Between the limited bbPress documentation and the more extensive WordPress docs (and some unofficial WP tutorials) I can figure out most of what I need to know, but there are still some gaps.

Does anyone have a favorite simple, well-written plugin for a newbie to use as a model?

Preferably one that manages its own table(s) in the database?

Thanks.

[fel64]

Crowspeaker, would you mind editing a core file? If you can edit line 257 of bb-includes/capabilities.php to this:

$this->cap_key = 'foo_capabilities';

Then save/publish a post as you always do and see if the entry foo_capabilities is created?

That would bizarrely mean that the BB_User has an ID but no capabilities.

[_ck_]

Oh this is driving me crazy.

Every so often, the private forum settings reset back to open to all and expose the moderator forum to everyone. Not good.

Until this bug is found I need to know how to hardwire a forum by number via code to always be moderator’s only.

update: I hardwired private_forums_custom_get_options, adding

if (!bb_current_user_can("moderate")) {$private_forums_for_user[8] = "MODERATOR";}

This should make sure no matter what, #8 stays private

Hopefully you can find the bug soon… it might even be a bbpress core bug which is scary… then again, your settings are the only ones that seem to reset?

[crowspeaker]

fel,

I posted this on the plugin in page as well:

The upgrade did not fix my problem. Trying to post with default forum left blank failed to create a post in BBpress. Posting with a default forum would post only to that forum (no override on the writing page). User_meta with the key capabilities still being created.

Sorry.

[_ck_]

I’m now getting a median response time of about 0.125 seconds for 8 queries on the top page and 0.205 seconds for 12 queries on a topic page.

That’s like night and day compared to what you had before. It was taking almost a full second in some cases, look at the bottom source of the static.html !!!

Now can you believe most shared hosting environments have mysql cache turned off by default!!! Even your VPS neighbours may have it turned off which is causing high disk load that’s affecting you. This is where all those who claim how VPS is superiour are wrong. Disk access is the achilles heel of VPS (and shared hosting).

Next performance improvement you can do is install eaccelerator. Though it’s nowhere near as easy as editing mysql and restarting services.

Do you know how much guaranteed ram you have on your vps? Because the mysql and eacellerator cache will eat into that. If you have less that 128mb it will limit the sheer number of simultaneous connections you can have. Though for your needs I don’t think it’s a big deal unless all the search engines start scanning you at once.

ps. don’t worry any more about mysql tuning and phpmyadmin status reports, it’s really all you can do for now – the rest is a limit of how wordpress/bbpress works and can’t be avoided

pps. most of your pages are now coming up in 1.5 seconds for me when they were taking up to 6 seconds before – there are still some weird delays sometimes though which must be OS loads