[howtogeek]

I haven’t tried the trunk yet either… I just opened my forum a week ago and I’m trying to keep up with all the traffic and add the most important missing features.

The one thing that is very frustrating is that administration and moderation in bbPress is not only virtually non-existent, but it’s not even all in one place. If I want to delete a user, I can’t do it from the admin panel, I have to go to their profile instead… annoying.

I want a plugin that lets me take a reply post and turn it into a new topic. That’s a sorely lacking feature. Your move-it plugin almost fits the bill, but I have to create a new topic first, and then move the post, and then delete my original post in the new topic, or just make it say “look below, moving post into topic”.

[Sam Bauers]

I think there is a bug in the naming of the hooks….

I’ve reported and patched it:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/717

[netsleds]

Heres one. http://www.netsleds.com/netsleds_forums still working on an image upload thing that the members are patiently waiting for other than that bbpress is EXCELLENT!

[Null]

Hmmm got this error:

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/sites/site116/web/bbpress/my-plugins/bbmenu.php on line 390

the foreach:

foreach( $r1 as $rw ) {

Null

[_ck_]

I’d actually make this plugin for you as it doesn’t take much for it to happen – I just wanted to save some time by understanding how you are sending bbpress a predetermined future time and date rather than the current time and date for a new post. I haven’t looked at the core code but I didn’t think it was looking for time/date fields in a new post.

a quick look shows bb_new_post posting post_time as bb_current_time(‘mysql’) – so it’s not even checking if a different time has been submitted, it’s forcing it to use the time it calculates…

[_ck_]

The front page topics plugin was driving me crazy because I really did want to have a different number of topics for the front page, forum pages, view pages, while leaving the posts per topic page alone and not have to hack the core.

But there is a huge flaw in the fundamental design in that if you force bbpress to see a different number of topics-per-page, it will calculate the last post page entirely wrong, based on the page IT’S ON, vs the destination page.

ie. front page set to 50 topics, posts-per-topic-page set to 25, last post is #30 on the page -> bbpress will calculate the page number for the last post as PAGE ONE off the front page, because that’s what the topic count is set to for the front page.

This got me really annoyed so I researched the heck out of it and figured out this trick – it’s nasty but works (for 8.2.1 at least).

so in config.php you’ve got

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

$bb->page_topics = 20;

now you can make a plugin with this, edit each page limit to your heart’s desire (anything without a $limit defined uses the config.php default)

function custom_topic_limit($limit) {

switch (bb_get_location()) :

case  'front-page':  $limit=45;  break;

case  'forum-page': $limit=35; break;

case  'tag-page':  break;

case  'topic-page':  break;

case  'feed-page':  break;

case  'search-page': break;

case  'profile-page': 	break;

case  'favorites-page': break;

case  'view-page': $limit=50; break;

case  'stats-page': $limit=50; break;

case 'login-page': break;

default:  $limit=20;

endswitch;

return $limit;

}

add_action( 'bb_get_option_page_topics', 'custom_topic_limit' );



function fix_post_link ($link,$post_id) {

remove_action( 'bb_get_option_page_topics', 'custom_topic_limit' );

$bb_post = bb_get_post( get_post_id( $post_id ) );

$page = get_page_number( $bb_post->post_position );

return  get_topic_link( $bb_post->topic_id, $page ) . "#post-$bb_post->post_id";

}

add_filter( 'get_post_link','fix_post_link',10, 2);

The magic is in fix_post_link where it trashes whatever incorrect calculation that “get_post_link” has now done because of custom topic limits, and relculates it after unhooking the custom_topic_limit.

No core hacks required!

[Null]

A plugin would be best I think.

[Sam Bauers]

There are some very specific requirements to claim one of those OpenID bounties. bbPress doesn’t have enough users to qualify.

Currently I can’t imagine bbPress getting native OpenID support, so a plugin is your best bet.

I’m happy to help with the plugin, I’m pretty familiar with bbPress’ authentication routines.

[so1o]

If you integrate bbpress and wordpress.. you can use openID plugin for google on bbpress as you will be sharing the users from wordpress on bbpress..

[neoen]

Hello, my WP 2.2.1 installation has utf-8 encoding –

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

But when I try to integrate WP and BBpress with the help of plugins (bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp.0.9 and display-name.0.7.2) there are encoding problems.

When I save a post with word “Administrátor” in WP 2.2 – to MySQL it is saved “Administrátor”, which is right. But when I save a topic with word “Administrátor” in BBpress – to MySQL it is saved like “Administr�tor” (or something else – but always wrong), but on forum it can be seen right like “Administrátor”. So, I think there are problems that WP 2.2 and BBpress uses different DB CHARSET (in WP 2.2 it is utf-8, but in BBpress it is something else – I think cp1250). Is it possible to change this somewhere in source files to work properly? Thank you very much for your help…

[_ck_]

Too bad Google also has it’s own API and doesn’t do openid (yet?)

But in theory bbpress could be made to use google identities… interesting….

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/Authentication.html

[_ck_]

Apparently there is a $5000 bounty for putting openid into a project? So the bbpress folks could claim that possibly and get some headlines:

http://iwantmyopenid.org/

[_ck_]

I’m looking at how openid is done and I think I’ll make the login even more simple for users – I’ll let them choose from like the top five or ten providers in a dropdown, ie.

1. aol

2. livejournal

3. wordpress

4. ??

5. ??

and then tell then to enter their username on that service – that way they don’t need to figure out it’s username.website.com

[_ck_]

I wonder if I force all my bbpress logins through wordpress if I can just use that openid plugin there and it will work on bbpress…

only one way to find out I guess…

[howtogeek]

This would be an excellent addition to bbPress. Hopefully somebody has lots of free time to work on this!

[MaryJane]

Well i knew about the wordpress theme switcher. What i was really wondering was if someone had already made one for bbpress or was currently making one i guess. Or if there was another way to do what i wanted without having to use a theme switcher.

Thank you for the link though. Ill look at it.

[_ck_]

Instead of xml-rpc pingbacks for 0.84 I’d love to see a more useful feature – OpenID support

Apparently wordpress.com has had openid support since March:

http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/06/openid/

and here’s a wordpress plugin to allow logins via openid, now we need to port it to bbpress…

http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

This would allow the quarter-million wordpress.com members and 120 million other openid participants to post on any bbpress forum with verified authentication.

[_ck_]

I solved all spam on my blogs quite easily – any post with more than one url never gets approved, never displayed. I’ve yet to see spammers not be greedy and only post one url.

I had forgotten about the OpenID standard! We need to try to suggest that to the right people making WP/BB. That would be one of the most useful features ever (wordpress.com has nearly a quarter million registered members!)

update: WAIT! It’s been done?!?!?

http://wordpress.com/blog/2007/03/06/openid/

How do we get openid support into bbpress then?!

added: here’s a wordpress plugin to allow openid, now we need to port it to bbpress…

http://verselogic.net/projects/wordpress/wordpress-openid-plugin/

I’ll start a new topic on this…

[howtogeek]

It sounds like you really have a wordpress question since everything is running under wordpress… but here’s a plugin for wordpress to switch themes (I haven’t tried it myself)

http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/ThemeSwitcher

I don’t believe there is one for bbPress at the moment, considering there aren’t a lot of themes out there.

[howtogeek]

We are in perfect sync on that one… having xml-rpc pingbacks in a forum is the most worthless feature idea to ever be thought of. I’ve completely disabled them on wordpress because I don’t think they provide any true value to the reader, and most of them are spam anyway. I’ve written my own simple spam plugin to run in conjunction with Akismet because I was unsatisfied with what I was getting.

Your idea of the wordpress logins would work if they implemented OpenID in bbPress and had wordpress.com as an openid server. Would actually be a killer feature, I’d think.

I’ve hacked up my wp-cache2 to allow for more dynamic code to be called on each post. Most of my content is really very static, so I don’t need it to be updated often.

I’ve never had any issues with it caching the wrong versions though.

[MaryJane]

I have a theme i ported over to wp and bbpress. It has the option of being one, two and three column’s layout. Im working on getting the other columns ported over i have the basic three column working now.

Theres links under the header to click to switch to each column layout. I want to keep this feature to offer my members. My question is there a simple way for me to let users switch columns? Like using a theme switcher or some other way? Ive searched the support forum here and so far i havent found a user theme plugin switcher on here. Is there one made that im overlooking? Even if there was one just because a user switched themes in the forum doesnt mean it would switch themes in the wordpress….

Can someone help me figure out to accomplish this?

website url: http://slickwhenwet.com/forum <– work in progress

[_ck_]

Oh I didn’t realize xcache is just an opcode cache. I already use eaccelerator which seems to have zero quirks compared to other solutions. But yeah, any opcode cache for wordpress/bbpress is a must for any active site.

I already create the sidebar statically across my sites, saves a lot of work and repetition on the db.

the wp-cache “plugin” has flaws in it’s logic. I noticed that unregistered visitors were getting edit links on posts, not good, even if they couldn’t actually edit. Then it has an exclude feature to keep certain parts dynamic, but you can’t have wordpress calls in those dynamic parts because wordpress isn’t actually loaded, which is the whole point. so it won’t work and gives error (#1 confusion to most people trying to use it)

In the end, I hacked wp-cache to only cache the RSS feeds which were causing the most requests, yet the most static of all the content. Caching rss feeds on bbpress should be an easy, useful thing too, but then on a forum I highly doubt the use of rss feeds on anything but the latest discussions.

What really worries me about the 0.84 release is the xml-rpc pingbacks. bbpress is going to become known as the spammers forum of choice with a bad rep, until novices are given an easy option to turn it off, or better yet it’s off by default. I cannot disagree more highly with the entire feature idea. It defeats the entire purpose of a forum. What they are trying to do is have a universal way to cross post across forums but the whole point of a forum is *community* and getting people to actually visit, not stay away.

What they really should do instead of pingbacks if they want easy cross communication, is have a universal login based on a database at wordpress.com – Basically anyone with a wordpress account could visit your wordpress or bbpress site and instantly post if they wanted as “wp.membername” without having to register again and again. Sure there are security issues to be tackled but it’s better than anonymous spam heaven on pingbacks. Akismet won’t protect pingbacks, I see spam in my wordpress.com account every week.

[howtogeek]

I’m using xcache with very good luck for wordpress, wordpress mu and bbpress on the same server. Also using mysql caching with very good success.

On a forum, the cache probably shouldn’t be the entire page, but rather sections of it or at least the more expensive queries. A visitor who isn’t logged in should probably see an almost completely cached version of the page.

wp-cache2 for wordpress seems to handle this pretty well, and the built-in caching in wordpress mu also seems to work quite well.

[Sam Bauers]

> I have to eventually code it to store the country data in the usermeta. But there’s the issue that their IP/location can change on a per-post basis

An upcoming feature is post tagging, you’ll be able to store this data in an “invisible” post tag I believe.

[Sam Bauers]

From what I remember the inbuilt cache in bbPress (when turned on) is just an optimised list of topics, posts, forums etc. Not entire pages of html.

MySQL caching is definitely a good idea. I’ve had trouble with eAccelerator in the past though – it used to munge multi-dimensional session data (can’t say if that’s still the case, or if it is a problem for bbPress).