After over 5000 posts and 3 million unique visitors, I’ve finally made it professional. (or at least one step closer) ihatestarbucks.com is now running bbpress! feel free to drop in and vent your spleen or share your kudos.
Sorry Trent.
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Feel free to edit the post if you’d like.
Ryan
1) I would ‘t worry about the plugins to help out if you need it (small percentage) as they are intended to get it fixed which will eventually make it into the core. Those plugins would only require minor changes if something was changed in bbPress, but I doubt it would happen often.
2) I had great luck with the phpbb converter myself and have stated in one of the threads which one I used. I would just look around a bit before choosing one.
3) Since the upgrade process is so easy, there is no need to wait! As well, the changes scheduled for the next series of releases are small changes and no worth waiting for!
4) So1o just released a new version of the private forums plugin that is exceptional and recently addressed the problems with the RSS feed being private. It is found in the ‘extend’ tab of this forum in the plugin browser!
5) fel64 is absolutely right. mdawaffe is the head dev and he is working on wordpress code at the same time. They will always be compatible as they are working toward more shared function (at least not conflicting). Issues will be worked out as we go, but shouldn’t be a problem.
Thanks,
Trent
Please let me know what you would charge to make these changes.
Please don’t do that people! Contact stuboo through their website or if you are reading this stuboo, leave a contact address as we don’t want to use the forums as a place to bid or bidding wars.
Trent
I need a couple of things done that I don’t have time or knowledge to do.
1. Upgrade my bbpress
2. Fix my bbpress (users create accounts but never receive emails telling them what their password is).
It’s possible that fixing #1 will fix #2, but there may also be a chance that the upgrade will break my theme. I need you to not let that happen.
Please let me know what you would charge to make these changes.
http://www.pharmboard.com
1. Some dudes do, yeah. But it seems to be a minority; who can tell? Maybe bbPress does just have a few new users a week 
2. Haven’t seen one. Believe there was some trouble with older converters somebody dug up.
3. New version is in development, and I expect there will be new versions in development for a while. Don’t let that stop you getting it now. There’s no release planned for the next week as far as I know.
4. It’s not in the core and there’s no indication that’s what’s being worked on right now. It’d have to be a plugin. Last I read they fixed their RSS problems? It will say in the plugin topic, anyway.
5. It’s one of the wp devs that’s developing bb at the moment. They all work for the same small company. I don’t think one release would ever break the other.
The user login handling functions are all pluggable. They’re in bb-includes/pluggable.php, always check if a function of that name already exists before defining the default one, and is loaded after plugins are run. So you can overwrite any of them.
I don’t know. But do you know about the plugin I wrote that does things similar to markdown? No. No you don’t. Because I haven’t mentioned it yet. Basically it lets you italicise, bolden, and link in a very elegant way (although I think syntax-wise slightly different way to markdown). It respects code and it auto-converts the lists you only wrote casually (list items starting with #, -, *, (1, 2, 3 …), (a, b, c …)) into proper HTML. If I could think of a goddamned name I would have uploaded it yesterday. But it is a different, very likely smaller feature set to Markdown, and if you need Markdown then that’s no use at all to you. If you’re interested I’m happy to provide a copy of the script.
Have you tried these filters ck removed? https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-plugin-admin-post-anything Check for the last post because he made some changes, but those should be all.
hi guys, please help..
i have a regular php website to which many people are already registered. is it possible to integrate the BBPress login to be the same ? or does integration only work between BBPredd and WordPress?
i would like people to only log in once to my site and have access to the registered people content, as well as to the forums without loging in again.
thank you
I’m integrating bbPress fairly tightly into an existing site. I use the lefthand sidebar for nav throughout, and I’d love to put the the list of forums in that sidebar. Doing it on the front-page was easy enough, but I can’t get it to work on the forum page.
Any help?
I just set up a bbpress forum and use the WP user database. It works well though plugins are needed and some hackery of bb-config is required (see here.
I use the private forums plugin. There is another plugin that blocks all access to the site. You could always make ma minor mod to bbpress source to force login and not rely on a plugin.
I’ve seen some discussion on WP about BBpress. I believe they changed the way they handle tags in order to not step on bbpress.
I’ve monitored bbPress for some time and plan to use WP for a big site and would need to convert a phpBB(2) forum over to bbPress. What’s the latest on:
1) WP integration – last I heard you had to fiddle with cookie settings and some usernames wouldn’t work on the forum login. I’d be wary of using plugins as this could cause problems upgrading in future.
2) phpBB(2) conversion – is there any script that will convert everything perfectly?
3) future plans – is there a new version in development or is everything on hold for now? (i.e. should I just go and install the current version or wait another month or two)
4) private forums – an essential feature for me is to have a staff board that is 100% secure. Again I didn’t really want to rely on a plugin for this and last time I think I read it wasn’t secure because of an RSS problem.
5) lastly – is bbPress compatibility high on the list when new versions of WordPress are released? (i.e. could a new WP break by forum?)
Cheers.
Vanilla seemed great for a while, but I found integrating it very annoying. Writing your own extensions is extremely hard unless you’re doing something very basic. Having said this Vanilla is good if it can do everything you want straight away. Just make sure you’re capable of theming it properly as it’s annoying seeing yellow posts on every Vanilla install. But their community was very friendly, if a little nontechnical, but this was +6 months back.
Hi, i tried to find a contact mail on the homepage but i haven’t find it, so i ask this there.
At this very moment i need to request to add another user to a plugin project ( http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/48?replies=5 ) that i started, in particular i need to permit this user to access the svn server to upload its improvements as a new user.
Is possible to it? If so how to request for this?
Thanks in advance.
Hi fel. I’ll post up later today the process I went through. I’ll get the latest version of the class right now! 
Thanks for the heads up.
I’ve also done some work with CodeIgniter and Flash integration which I’ll post a link to later in case anyone does CI development (off topic I know but still valuable).
i just downloaded and installed bbpress. everything worked fine. i have the most recent release of wordpress installed in my main site directory and bbpress is installed in the /forums/ directory.
when i go to http://www.mysite.com/forums/ it displays the main page, but with no images/styles. when i try to view my css file in the browser (http://www.mysite.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css) it displays my main wordpress page.
i have pretty permalinks running on both and would like to keep it that way.
Oh, sorry. Yeah. I getchoo. Yes. The filter you want to use is bb_title. The way filters work is that you tell bbpress what you want to filter, bbpress gives you the input and you return the output. In this case:
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Title Modifier
Author: You
*/
add_filter('bb_title', 'titlemodify');
function titlemodify( $title ) {
//your code that does something to $title;
return $title;
}
?>
Paste this into an empty text file, save it as whateveryouwant.php, edit the code so it actually does something with $title, then upload and activate.
Coolio. Few problems recently (apart from Sneaky 
) so I uploaded. No topic for it yet but I expect there will be at https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/56
[Edit] And it is! Rate it please
It is funkin’ brilliant. I hope you downloaded the latest release ( https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk, at the bottom of the page is the Zip Archive link to the latest) because it has a bunch of fixes and changes.
Can you detail anything you had to do to make it work, for future people who want to do this stuff?
This means their bbpress login will mysteriously fail.
No it won’t. No matter what cookies users have, they will not prevent them logging in.
schmitt, must say I really liked your site. Not at all interested in things financial but it was engaging nonetheless.
You could put these lines at the top of your bb-login.php:
header('Location: http://www.example.com/');
exit;
Obviously changing the URL to that of your wp-login.php. I don’t know how else you’d do that. This may have all sorts of crazy adverse effects because I haven’t tried it myself; maybe ck can say how he did it?
the old cookie will never delete
bb logs you in for a week, wp if you set it to ‘remember me’ for a year I think.
If you take the forum software online before really knowing what it can do and what you need to do, that’s also your problem.
For the moderation tools, something you may have found useful is doing what all the automattic forums do – keeping an RSS feed of threads tagged, by members, ‘modlook’. But I don’t want to get into a debate on the relative merits of moderation mechanisms, this is just an aside.
I guess part of my concern is how casually it’s either told or assumed that BB integrates with WP, and that BB is ready for primetime. There’s good reason why it’s set at a pre-1.0 version number.
It _does_ integrate. It _is_ ready for a lot of primetime; look at wp.com and .org, 9rules and technorati. But if you think that means that it toasts your bagels too, you’re wrong (and it’s your fault for assuming or believing that). It _is_ a pre-1.0 release, and if you use it and expect a 1.0 feature set, you’ll inevitably be disappointed. I don’t really get your bitterness about it – or at least, what comes across to me as bitterness.
The BB_Query class is funkin’ brilliant! I now have abstraction class to communicate between Flash and bbPress.
#profile-menu {
list-style: none;
position: absolute;
left: 200 px;
}
It fixes to the left.
I have tried varaiations.
The style_old.css has the same code for the profile menu.
I wonder how it got out of wack.
This is probably something that might help me out with what I’m trying to do…
I just noticed I can actually download it from the Roadmap in the development section…
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/657
Without documentation I guess it’ll be a case of figuring it out myself lol.
Will the new version of bbPress have any structural changes to the database? I’m hoping I can use this class with the current version of bbPress.
