I’ve read through multiple posts about WordPress/BBpress integration but cannot find the answer to one question.
Is single sign on supported?
I understand that the same username and password is shared between the two sites, but if I log into WordPress do the same cookies automatically log me into BBpress?
Posting jobs from company websites (NOT job boards) is fine. Infact, you are doing them a favour.
Job postings are like advertisements.
I don’t know. But they have 306 plugins http://lussumo.com/addons/index.php?Sort=Recent.
Looking through the documentation, it’s quite interesting but you’ll find writing plugins much more difficult. It really requires you to understand, or at least work with, OO (extending classes and the like), whereas in bb you can do well with just functions.
_ck_: Thanks for the Tweaks plugin. Very useful! 
I’m not sure I understand. Is this a technical problem with bb or a conceptual problem with your idea?
If you make fake accounts so you can post threads with the right dude’s name, and the right dude turns up later, just give him your fake account. That’s not automatable by default, you would have to manually edit the profile to set their email and then let them set their own password. But it would work.
Do you have the right dude’s permission to post his jobs?
Changing the width of the theme is easy; all it takes is a single change in a CSS file. If they hard-coded the width into the HTML, they deserve the extra work. 
I think that if you use they backticks on an inline basis the overflow is hidden, but if you use it for paragraphs (specifically: backtick is in line above your code, I think) the overflow remains.
For example, a really long path like var/www.mywebsite.com/htdocs/wordpress/bbpress/bb-includes/template-functions.php or whatever will be cut off. If there had been spaces, it should wrap.
But a paragraph of code will have the scrollbar.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: o/
*/
function withareallylongnamethatjustneverstopsandthefunctiondoesn'tevendoanythinguseful() {
return true;
}
Sorry i meant wordpress.org
wordpress.com is the hosted blog service of wordpress. Go to https://wordpress.org/support/ to search
Trent
Ok.
No offence to the wordpress.com people. But i just went on the wordpress.com support forum and searched for ‘CMS’ and almost everyone there has a lot of trouble making wordpress.com into a CMS.
All the reply posts about CMS on there have all been just ‘advice’, no real action to build on.
Can you please show me some websites that use WordPress, that are not blogs?
Something with some functionality in them.
Thanks,
Talbina
Hello ck,
thanks for the help.
I keep on thinking that wordpress is a blog software, but i guess its just like any other CMS.
Furthermore, what im trying to do now is reduce cost. That means, try to use the software that has the most features that i need already.
BBpress already has categories (different job types) , posts (job posts) , users (companies) and avatars (for logos).
Just way too confused for a person like me who doesnt know anything.
I am not sure, but how big is the development community on Vanilla?
Trent
Yeah the only problem I can foresee is that the plugin browser looks like a semi-custom job and I am uncertain if it’s hard coded into the template.
(In other news I finally figured out how to use SVN last night and posted my two little plugins directly… we’ll need to have a “100 plugins party” when bbpress hits that many… 
A new version of Avatar Upload is now available – for changes see the plugin browser thread:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/46/page/2?replies=34#post-373
Hi!
I run a vanilla board. I think Vanilla is a very complete, fast and stable forum software. The only problem i have is that none of the add-ons i programmed work the way i wanted. This is because the design of Vanilla is extremely object oriented so there are rules that you have to follow.
BBPress doesn’t have that. Instead you have a lot more freedom to do things, and that’s what i wanted, so i’m moving to BBPress.
Of course the object oriented structure of Vanilla is extremely well designed. I just don’t think extreme OO is completely adecuate on this kind of software.
Another difference is that in Vanilla you just enable an add-on and it works. You don’t have to add code nor modify files (again, this is because of the structure of Vanilla. This is a very good feature, specially if you don’t have experience in PHP). In BBPress mostly all of the time you’ll have to modify files in your template to use some plugins (i like this, because i have more control over what’s happening).
In short, Vanilla is excellent, but it’s not for me 
If you are just making one locked post with no replies then WordPress will suit you better. Forums are best for users being able to start threads themselves. Blog-like CMS software is best for 1-to-many.
The other benefit of WordPress is that you can have unlimited alias nicknames and anonymous self-posting with alias nicknames. So you could pretend to be “Microsoft” when you post and then later if Microsoft really becomes a client you can give them a true login with the real username.
Last but not least wordpress has far more development and plugins and contributors than bbpress at this time. Something to consider for a commercial application.
Ah….here! That would make sense for sure since even the wordpress.com forums are using a larger layout for posts! I will pass it along up the chain!
Trent
Be sure to see my nifty update at the end of that thread.
I suspect 4.01 will be out shortly
I really like this plugin, gives bbpress a higher end forum feature.
I guess I meant Kakumei which will use either 800×600 or 1024×768 much more appropriately than this old layout.
This layout isn’t even 800×600, it’s 600px wide, not because there is a sidebar or anything, just because.
There’s no-one left using 640×480. If they are using a mobile browser they can just use the rss feeds and a converter.
Wait are you saying we can change the theme here ourselves? I guess you really meant on your own site(s).
You mean having a template that is completely ‘auto’ driven so that it adjusts to each browser window width? I know that I constantly get users a little mad at me because I like ‘big resolution’ on my computers and my users are still at 800 X 600 screens so my sites have a tendency to have to be scrolled.
Not sure about the overflow as I don’t use the default theme myself. Anyone else?
Trent
Hello,
I am trying to make a job board but im not a developer and i dont know anything.
I will be making it with BBpress, but i just found out about Vanilla.
So i need to know what are the differences and why i should choose BBpress instead.
Thanks,
Talbina
oops, sorry, i double posted a thread
Hello,
I am planning to make a Job Board using BBpress (after 8 months of research, i though this is the best thing), but i have been having some problems trying to decide some things and i was wondering if someone would help me out here.
So each thread will be one job post, and that thread will be locked.
What i cant figure out is what will the employer use to sign in?
Well, i want the username to actually be the name of the employer. For example, if the employer is Microsoft, then the employer will post a job post (ie;make a thread).
So what is the problem with that?
If i (the job board owner) wanted to populate my job board, and make job posts of Microsoft jobs taken from there website, i would have to make a username called ‘Microsoft’. Ok, thats cool. But then, one day, when Microsoft wants to post jobs themselves, they wont be able to becuase the username ‘Microsoft’ has already been taken.
So how is this problem solved? Well, the best solution is to have Guest posting, but that is not avaliable yet.
So does anyone have any ideas on what i can do?
Thanks.
Any chance you’ll switch to the new wider template here?
Narrow templates require too much up/down action and look kinda 1990’s-ish – might be turning off some potential new <s>victims</s> users.
Also, did the overflow:auto get removed for posts? I am noticing this week that posts with wide code seem to be overflow:hidden and the text gets cut off. Didn’t do that before… used to get scroll arrows…
_ck_, there was no misconception – I tested bbPress thoroughly with MU before I decided it was the right move for us. I would expect any other user to do the same. And I’ll just chime in and say that the bbPress site and forums made it very clear to me before I began that bbPress and WordPress are two different applications and would need manual integration.
Prior to bbPress, I tried integrating PunBB directly with our WordPress install, and while I wouldn’t call it difficult exactly, it was unnecessary: the features that separate PunBB from bbPress went largely unused by our community, so why not use forum software that uses a similar table structure, takes advantage of the wp_users table, and is supported by the same community of interested users that brought us WordPress?
I’ll admit my needs are very specific, and that the alternative to using open source software is writing it myself, which means I can get pretty excited that bbPress ONLY requires a certain amount of integration. Also, as specific as my needs are, I posted the conversion script I used for the one or two other people who find themselves in the same position. I don’t know that it’s a common request, and I imagine that anyone who’s in the position of converting already has a bbPress install they’re happy with, whether it’s integrated with WordPress or not.
