My other option is to make the update check more atomic. Here, your pagination idea could help. So instead of fetching all the plugins, I could just fetch the first page, then the second etc. etc. on request. More complicated to code, but it might be the best long term solution to keep the best of both worlds. I could also add a way to list installed plugins first, or even have a separate view of installed plugins.
I wouldn’t think Trac is faster, it has a few more overheads on the server side I think. I don’t think it will come down to that though.
Neither the Trac site nor the SVN repository use compression on their output, so gzip is useless, but that was a good suggestion. I’m not sure the SVN repository could use gzip anyway as it would potentially get in the way of some SVN clients, I’m not sure SVN even supports compression techniques like that (although it probably should).
This is fixed in the latest trunk. I believe, the WordPress tag closing function has been moved across to bbPress.
fel64, the string is internal to bbpress, not the template loop.
Fair enough, shoulda checked that. So I went and looked through the code, you know, to find the problem. bb has quite an interesting structure there. Couldn’t find the problem, though, so I looked at the code in the .8.2.1 version and it’s missing a bit.
It’s fixed in trunk. Claire, upgrade to the latest version and it’ll work just fine.
Sooner or later you may want these other tweaks too:
http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/bbpress-plugin-bb-tweaks/
1. Get rid of the ?replies=# ugliness in topic links
2. add nofollow to post links
3. add target=_blank to post links
4. auto-close tags – bbPress’s auto-close tags is broken by default
5. get rid of [closed] on subjects – useful if you have a narrow template
fel64, the string is internal to bbpress, not the template loop.
Look at forum.php template to remind yourself
<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>
<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>
$forum is being treated as a global and not reset back.
I could remember and reset $forum I guess before and after the while-loop $temp=$forum; loop-here; $forum=$temp; but that’s an ugly hack. It’s got to be fixed in the core and that’s beyond my knowledge of bbpress.
fel64, the string is internal to bbpress, not the template loop.
Look at forum.php template to remind yourself
<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>
<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>
$forum is being treated as a global and not reset back.
I could remember and reset $forum I guess before and after the while-loop $temp=$forum; loop-here; $forum=$temp; but that’s an ugly hack. It’s got to be fixed in the core and that’s beyond my knowledge of bbpress.
Unfortunately no clue how to fix.
Did this not work?
The terminology here is too close to “auto-close tags” which refers to the bug in bbpress where it’s not closing markup automatically (try posting < strong > here without a closing tag and you’ll see)
What you mean is auto-suggest tags (which I wish were called categories but the blogophere does love it’s crazy little terminology).
The features you ask for are way outside the core and would obviously have to be a plugin (but don’t look at me, I disable tags on my forums).
when I create a forum and subforums, if I post in the main forum the post automatically goes to the last of the sub forums – how do I correct this?
oooohh! That explains why I keep having to move posts.
That’s probably somehow associated with this bug I found:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/704
It is indeed very annoying. Unfortunately no clue how to fix.
Yup. Just don’t display the forum if $forum->forum_parent is true. Change the bit in your templates that goes like this:
<?php foreach( $forums as $forum ) : ?>
//blaaaaah HTML
<?php endforeach; ?>
to this sort of thing:
<?php foreach( $forums as $forum ) :
if( !$forum->forum_parent ) { ?>
//blaaaaaah HTML
<?php }
enforeach; ?>
(ugh colon syntax)
[Edit] Beat me to it ck (by the way, blockquote is already allowed and you’re overwriting it. Doesn’t really matter but could add conflict problems if someone wants to allow it to have attributes). Claire, worth mentioning that this method means it will ignore any subforums without you having to tell it it’s a subforum.
Claire, markup is like this:
<anytag> your text here </anytag>
so actually HTML tags go between < and >. Actual code, like php code, will be shown as code if you put backticks around it. 
You can also use a simplified markup like http://www.loinhead.net/files/felise (just copy that into a plugin file and activate), which means that *this* is bold, _this_ italic and this@someurl turns into <a href="someurl">this</a>, etc. More on that https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/markdown?replies=10
If you are trying to use <b> instead of “strong” it won’t work because it’s not the “leet” xhtml standard that bbpress wants to enforce. But you can trick bbpress to allow it with this tweak:
function allow_extra_tags( $tags ) {
$tags['del'] = array();
$tags['strike'] = array();
$tags['s'] = array();
$tags['b'] = array();
$tags['i'] = array();
$tags['u'] = array();
$tags['bq'] = array();
$tags['blockquote'] = array();
$tags['pre'] = array();
$tags['hr'] = array();
return $tags;
}
add_filter( 'bb_allowed_tags', 'allow_extra_tags' );
note as you can see I allow other tags too
If Login failed, then you’re not giving the right details to log in.
If the name automatically changes to spyparkreborn, then that’s your browser.
Are bb and wp sharing a database? Is the database info in bbpress’ config.php the same as that in wp’s wp-config.php?
hi all …
i use plugin synchronize bbPress registrations with WordPress but it doesn’t work. I create new user bbPress but in WordPress that user doesn’t have any role. Someone tell me what i miss ???
and when i login to bbPress use user registered in wordpress (spypark.reborn), i got report Log In Failed and user name automatically change to spyparkreborn. Another word bbPress integration not work well or i miss something.. i don’t know ????
Okay I have a working prototype.
Who wants to beta test?
http://ckon.wordpress.com/2007/07/28/new-plugin-bbpress-signatures/
Okee well just let me know.
Not responsible for any melted servers or sudden calls from the voyager probe.
Listen!
i know the way of bbpress minimalistic design and minimalistic develop so
we need attachment feature for our support to wp users sometimes they need to upload their file to show and share them it comes form my experience now lets gather to make attachment plugin something like wp attachment any ideas?
If we could take polls I would know if there is interest but simply out of the curiosity to learn more about the bbpress core I might give this a shot this weekend.
update: will have a prototype posted within a couple hours or so of this post
See that’s the thing, you won’t be able to pre-guess everywhere it will show up. Any future plugins will not know to obey your time logic.
However most code should know to check for topic_status==0
If you set it higher and then set it back when the time is right, then you should be able to get around all functions. Just don’t use 1 or 2 as a marker.
Then every few minutes do a mysql check for any topics that have that unique number set in topic_status and if their time has past, set topic_status to zero.
That reminds me, bbpress will need a pseudo-cron that can be hooked with a real cron job if so desired.
Finally a thread to use this page I was saving:
http://photomatt.net/2004/12/29/bbpress/
Matt doesn’t want bbpress to have features.
He actually recommends punbb if you want more features like file attachments.
[bbpress] is never going to have a tenth of the features of phpBB or vBulletin … bbPress is not going to have avatars, or put post counts next to your name
What he wants is pingbacks so a million spammers, er, I mean a million micro-forums, can add posts to your site without ever visiting it or following topics. He wants to de-centralize any sense of community.
(if you don’t get my humour, I disagree with his logic but don’t get me wrong I still respect him – bbpress is growing on me far more than punbb – also note that punbb is at least a year older than bbpress and has far more developers – bbpress has not even approached any kind of critical mass yet – punbb does not have built in private-messaging, polls and file attachments either)
ps. compare
I don’t think your technique will work universally.
I bet your early posts still show up in search before they are “published”. Maybe even the rss feeds too.
By tinkering with the topic_status field it will make sure virtually all routines in bbpress will hide the post from visitors until set down to zero.
>For a lark I pointed the plugin to the WordPress Plugin SVN. It got about 1/4 of the way through retrieving the list of plugins and died (script timeout).
With many people accessing it, yeah it will necessary to pre-compile a default list of a full revision weekly.
Or to be sneaky for now you can set a flag in options after each curl fetch and restart bbpress if you calculate approaching 30 seconds.
Both ways sound like headaches.
I wonder if the trac cache is faster/more efficent?
ie.
https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php
vs.
https://plugins-dev.bbpress.org/browser/plugin-browser-for-bbpress/trunk/plugin-browser.php?format=raw
I wonder if trac can be tricked to pre-gzip it all to download beforehand as a bundled revision? It’s got to compress wonderfully as it’s entirely plain text and repeating php functions.
ps. be sure to take advantage of gzip support in curl / fsockopen – I have some code I wrote somewhere to do this if you need ideas
I started out just working on changing a color, but got carried away. I am still working on tweaks and css changes for the various forms, but I thought I would share it and see what you all thought. If anyone is interested in it I would be happy to post it for download.
The theme is based on kakumei, which is really easy to play around with (good stuff Bryan Veloso) and has css rounded corners on the header and footer. What else. Oh its blue and orange, but thats easy to change if you like other colors.
Links – http://www.realdisney.com/bbpress/
In theory it should be possible to use the topic_status field to set a future topics flag ie. “4” and check the database everytime bbpress runs for that flag, then change it to 0 when the time has passed.
I don’t see this as a big need for forums (wordpress is another matter) but it’s a simple enough plugin so maybe I’ll try later this weekend.
This is the request forum but I think that feature suggestions on http://trac.bbpress.org are more likely to be seen, so I recommend making your pitch there.
I don’t know off the top of my head. What I’d do in this case, as for pretty much every question that’s asked, is open my copy of bbPress and look around in the files. So that sort of thing sounds like a template tag, so I’d look at bb-includes/template-functions.php, then search for “profile_link” or a couple other similar terms if I couldn’t find it.
This time I tested it and searching for “profile_link” will pretty quickly get you the function you want. But finding out what you need is something you can pretty easily do yourself most of the time.
(Not that there’s a problem with you asking anything, this is just teach-a-man-to-fish thinkin’.)
