[neziniux]

Thank you. Well, if it is save enough, then i should leave it as it is. I am just worried about the server because i am expecting a few dosen of members. My 1st website was overwritten once (aaaaahhh!…), therefore i am interested in all the measures against bad luck.

I wonder if there is some code in bbPress where i can change its cookie’s life duration? I think i came accross it somewhere in but cannot remember now where exactly.

[pensandpencils]

Hello,

I am intergrating BB into WordPress and am hitting a wall.

When I attempt to go to step three of installation I meet the following text:

bbPress database error: [Column ‘post_text’ cannot be part of FULLTEXT index]

CREATE TABLE bb_posts ( post_id bigint(20) NOT NULL auto_increment, forum_id int(10) NOT NULL default ‘1’, topic_id bigint(20) NOT NULL default ‘1’, poster_id int(10) NOT NULL default ‘0’, post_text text NOT NULL, post_time datetime NOT NULL default ‘0000-00-00 00:00:00’, poster_ip varchar(15) NOT NULL default ”, post_status tinyint(1) NOT NULL default ‘0’, post_position bigint(20) NOT NULL default ‘0’, PRIMARY KEY (post_id), KEY topic_id (topic_id), KEY poster_id (poster_id), KEY post_time (post_time), FULLTEXT KEY post_text (post_text) ) TYPE = MYISAM

1. Created table bb_forums

2. Created table bb_posts

3. Created table bb_topics

4. Created table bb_topicmeta

5. Created table bb_tags

6. Created table bb_tagged

7. Changed type of wp_usermeta.meta_key from varbinary(255) to varchar(255)

8. Changed type of wp_usermeta.meta_value from longblob to longtext

9. Changed type of wp_users.user_login from varbinary(60) to varchar(60)

10. Changed type of wp_users.user_pass from varbinary(64) to varchar(64)

11. Changed type of wp_users.user_nicename from varbinary(50) to varchar(50)

12. Changed type of wp_users.user_email from varbinary(100) to varchar(100)

13. Changed type of wp_users.user_url from varbinary(100) to varchar(100)

14. Changed type of wp_users.display_name from varbinary(250) to varchar(250)

15. Added index wp_users UNIQUE KEY user_login (user_login)

bbPress database error: [Table ‘louise.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]

INSERT INTO bb_posts (forum_id, topic_id, poster_id, post_text, post_time, poster_ip, post_status, post_position) VALUES (‘1’, ‘1’, ‘1’, ‘

First Post! w00t.

‘,’2007-05-10 15:35:23’, ‘192.168.2.4’, ‘0’, 1)

bbPress database error: [Table ‘louise.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT post_id, poster_id FROM bb_posts WHERE topic_id = 1 AND post_status = 0 ORDER BY post_time

bbPress database error: [Table ‘louise.bb_posts’ doesn’t exist]

SELECT * FROM bb_posts WHERE post_id = 0

Finished!

I am doing everything to the letter and cannot see what I’m doing wrong…..

The only things I change to install is the directory titles from:

wordpress to ‘journal’

and

bbpress to ‘message_board’

Help would be greatly appreciated. As its driving me mental. All of this just so I can have people sign in to both wordpress and bbpress at the same time.

Thanks

[fel64]

You can hack your WYSIWYG plugin editor in fairly easy apparently but there’s no plugin released to do that to my knowledge. Quicktags does the job without all that annoying incredible slowness.

Great emoticon plugin, unfortunately not available through the plugin browser.

[Vili]

Hmm. I took a look at the “Connections” theme by Vanilla Mist, and it seems that the header file in that theme is not used for actual header information, but only for the header DIV. This will make your life somewhat more difficult if you want to integrate your bbPress seemlessly in the manner that I described above.

[metalvalley]

I’d like to see a smilie plugin like wp-grins for wordpress!

[fel64]

Plugins for bbPress have to go in /your-bbpress-folder/my-plugins. They will not work in any other place. If the my-plugins folder does not yet exist, you have to create it.

[fel64]

I don’t know about “feature”, but all it means is that it sets a cookie that isn’t cleared until a week from when you log in. Unless you log out, that cookie remains. In WordPress, you can untick the “Remember Me” thing; I don’t know if bbPress can (yet) be configured to not remember you like that.

If you’re worried, just log out when you’re done.

[neziniux]

I did it again (restarting the pc) and now i see that this forum does the same thing – i did not need to log in to post this message. Ok, i will accept this as a normal bbPress feature, am i right?

[wittmania]

Fel, great work as usual. I just implemented your original hack (with a few minor mods of my own) on the team blog I just started last week. It is my first attempt at a bbpress-as-comments install, and it is working very well so far. This hack adds the extra comment visibility I was missing.

Keep up the good work.

[neziniux]

Hello there, you masters of bbPress!

I am very new to this software, so please have patience with me. I installed it some days ago and noticed a strange thing – whenever I restart the pc the next day – I am automatically logged on. It is very practical but since I am paranoid about security, it does not contribute to peace of mind. It does not matter if this is a Firefox2 or IE7 browser, I noticed the symptom on both.

Has it something to do with session cookies on my system? I don’t have this issue with 2 of my WPs nor any other website. My bbPress and wp are separate bodies, not integrated.

I find bbPress very cute and I hope I can make it work somehow with your help.

[startribe]

Any word on a simple WYSIWYG plugin or feature for bbPress. Something similar to what is on WordPress support forums would be awesome.

[fel64]

Rather than filling up pages of this forum, it would be nice if you could use something like pastebin.

That’s not your only stylesheet. Style declarations for your forum are also made in http://www.bozzysworld.com/wp-content/themes/k2, which is where you need to make the changes to .secondary and so on. Since you have several different stylesheets referenced they may be conflicting. Changing that stylesheet may have knock-on effects on your main site’s theme. Are you using your wordpress header? It may be easier to recreate your header for bbPress but with seperate stylesheets, so that modifications for your forums will not affect your front page.

[Trent Adams]

Can you export vBulletin over to a phpBB format? That seems to be the best common thread to imort into bbPress from forum packages that don’t have importers written yet. There is a great phpBB importer here in the forums that might be able to bridge the gap!

Trent

[arthurk]

I am not a developer, so that I can’t write something like a converter!

And I also have a paid license for vBulletin. But BBPress seems to fit much better to my needs. That is why, I look forward for somebody to help us switching!

Common, vBulletin (at least in Germany) has 60% market share!

[Trent Adams]

The only place that you specify the domain of your bbPress installation is in the config.php file. If you change over to a domain name, you just change the path in config.php and you should be up and running again. As for installing with an IP address, I haven’t tried it and wonder if anyone else has tried. Might leave it for another to answer.

Integrating with wordpress requires a little work, but if you click on the ‘documentation’ tab in the forum, there is a detailed description of getting it working with the same users and cookies from wordpress. The integration of style has a couple of posts here on the front page that seem to work well. Integrating will not screw up WP at all since the ‘integration’ is really having bbPress use the WP users and metatable in the database and has no real effect on it.

Trent

[bozzy]

I’m not sure I get it… here is what my css file looks like:

/*

Theme Name: K2 for bbPress

Theme URI: http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/253/k2-for-bbpress/

Description: A port of the famous k2 to bbpress

Version: 0.01 theta-beta

Author: Nick [LINICKX] Bettison

Author URI: http://www.linickx.com

*/

/*

Derrived from Bryan Veloso orriginal style sheet that ships with bbpress, added a little style from the sheet availble from http://getk2.com, copyright of that to the people at http://binarybonsai.com !

*/

/* Globals

=================================== */

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

body {

font: 62.5% ‘Lucida Grande’, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; /* 62.5% sets 1em to about 10px */

background: #EDEDED;

color: #444;

text-align: center;

margin-bottom: 30px;

}

a { color: #27d; text-decoration: none; }

a:hover { color: #27d; text-decoration: underline; }

.alt { background: #fff; }

code { font: 1.0em Monaco, ‘Courier New’, monospace; }

p { margin-bottom: 1.0em; }

.left { float: left; }

.right { float: right; }

.delete:hover {

background: #c00;

color: #fff;

}

h1 { font-size: 2em; }

h2 { font-size: 1.5em; }

/* Structure

=================================== */

#wrapper {

width: 780px; /* controls the main width of the page, if changed also change #content and .sidebar */

margin: 0 auto;

background: white;

text-align: left;

}

#header {

padding: 0;

margin: 0;

position: relative;

height: 200px;

background: #3371A3; /* header color default is #3371A3, for images – background-image: url(example.jpg); */

}

h1, h2, h3, h4 {

font-family: ‘Trebuchet MS’, Verdana, Sans-Serif;

}

#header h1 {

font-size: 3em;

font-weight: bold;

letter-spacing: -1px;

margin: 0;

padding: 75px 0 0 40px;

}

#header p { margin-bottom: 0; }

#header h1 a, #header h1 a:visited { color: #fff; text-decoration: none; }

#header h1 a:hover, #header h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

#main {

font-size: 1.2em;

width: 760px;

margin: 10px auto 25px;

position: relative;

}

.bbcrumb {

text-transform: uppercase;

font-size: 0.9em;

letter-spacing: 1px;

}

#footer {

margin: auto;

color: #666;

font-size: 1.0em;

letter-spacing: 2px;

text-transform: uppercase;

padding-top: 10px;

clear: both;

text-align: center;

width: 760px;

}

#footer a:link, #footer a:visited { /* more link link color fixes for nav & admin stuff */

color: #777;

text-decoration: none;

font-weight: bold;

}

#footer a:hover, #footer a:active {

color: #000;

text-decoration: underline;

font-weight: bold;

}

.notice {

border: 2px solid #4c9545;

background: #abd8a2;

color: #4c9545;

font-size: 1.1em;

font-weight: bold;

padding: 10px 15px;

margin: 0 0 1.1em;

}

.notice p { margin-bottom: 0; }

/* Login Form

=================================== */

.login {

color: #000;

margin: 10px 40px;

}

.login a, .login a:visited { color: #000; text-decoration: none; }

.login a:hover, .login h1 a:active{ text-decoration: underline; }

.login p { padding: 0 0 5px; }

.login label {

display: block;

float: left;

padding-right: 10px;

}

.login #submit {

font-size: 1.2em;

margin-top: 13px;

float: left;

}

p.login {

font-weight: normal;

font-size: 1.2em;

}

form.login input {

margin-top: 3px;

border: 1px solid #999;

}

/* Front Page

=================================== */

#front-page #hottags {

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

width: 150px;

overflow: hidden;

}

#front-page #discussions {

margin-left: 0px;

width: 500px;

float: left;

}

.frontpageheatmap {

font-weight: normal;

line-height: 30px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

#front-page #main h2, h2.post-form, #userlogin, #currentfavorites, #register {

color: #333;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;

margin: 0 0 10px;

padding: 0 0 5px;

}

#front-page #discussions ul { padding: 0 0 0 14px; }

.sticky {

background: #EDEDED;

}

/* Topic Page

=================================== */

.infobox {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

border-width: 1px 0;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.infobox ul {

margin: 10px 0 10px 12px;

padding: 0;

}

.infobox ul li { padding-bottom: 3px; }

#topic-tags {

border-left: 1px solid #ccc;

float: right;

margin-top: -2em;

padding: 0 1em 1em;

}

.nav {

margin: 15px 0;

padding: 12px 0;

}

.nav span { font-weight: bold; }

.nav span, .nav a { padding: 6px; }

#thread {

background: #eee;

list-style: none;

margin: 0 0 0 100px;

padding: 0;

width: 500px;

}

#thread li {

padding: 1.5em 1.0em;

line-height: 1.5em;

}

#thread li ol, #thread li ul { margin-left: 40px; }

#thread li ol li, #thread li ul li { padding: 0; }

.threadauthor {

margin-left: -110px;

overflow: hidden;

position: absolute;

width: 95px;

}

.threadauthor small { font: 11px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; }

.poststuff {

border-top: 1px dotted #ccc;

margin: 10px 0 0;

padding: 5px 0 0;

font: 10px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;

text-transform: uppercase;

width: 500px;

}

.num, #forumlist small {

font: 11px Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;

text-align: center;

}

.postform {

background: #fff;

padding: 1em;

width: 500px;

}

.postform textarea {

height: 12em;

margin: 5px 0;

padding: 5px;

width: 500px;

display: block;

}

.postform label { display: block; width: 500px;}

.admin { padding: 10px 0 0; }

#manage-tags {

margin: 10px 0;

list-style: none;

}

#manage-tags li {

float: left;

width: 200px;

padding-bottom: 10px;

}

.submit { text-align: right; }

.topiclink { display: block; }

.topictitle {

font-size: 26px;

font-weight: normal;

display: inline;

}

/* Other

=================================== */

#content .frontpageheatmap a {

font-weight: normal;

text-decoration: none;

}

#content .infobox li { margin-bottom: 2px; }

#content .nav a {

border: 1px solid #ccc;

font-weight: normal;

}

#content .nav a:hover {

border: 1px solid #999;

}

#content a:visited {

font-weight: normal;

}

#front-search {

float: right;

margin-top: -8px;

}

#latest td, #forumlist td, #favorites td { padding: 5px 10px; }

#latest tr:hover, #forumlist tr:hover, #favorites tr:hover { background: #cbd9e4; }

#latest th, #forumlist th, #favorites th {

/* border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa; */

background: #3371A3;

color: #fff;

padding: 5px 10px;

text-transform: uppercase;

font-weight: bold;

}

#latest th a:link, #latest th a:visited, #latest th a:active {

color:#fff;

}

#latest, #forumlist, #favorites {

background: #f7f7f7;

margin-bottom: 2em;

width: 100%;

}

.bozo { background: #eeee88; }

.alt.bozo { background: #ffff99; }

.deleted { background: #ee8888; }

.alt.deleted { background: #ff9999; }

/* Profile Page

=================================== */

#profile-menu {

margin: -35px 0px;

padding: 0 0 30px 0;

float:right;

}

#profile-menu ul {

margin: 0;

padding: 0;

position: absolute;

bottom: 0;

left: 20px;

width: 90%;

}

#profile-menu li {

display: inline;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu,

#profile-menu li a {

padding: 5px 15px 6px;

}

#profile-menu li a {

font-size: 1em;

color: white;

margin: 0;

}

#profile-menu li a:hover {

background: #333;

color: #eee !important;

text-decoration: none;

}

#profile-menu li.current a,

ul.menu li.current a:hover {

color: #333 !important;

background: white;

text-decoration: none;

}

#userinfo { margin-top: 10px; }

#userinfo dt { font-weight: bold; }

#userinfo dd { margin: 0 0 5px; }

#useractivity { margin: 15px 0 5px; }

.user-recent { margin: 0 0 10px; }

.user-recent ol { margin: 5px 0 0 28px; }

.user-recent ol li { margin: 0 0 3px; }

/* Profile Edit

=================================== */

fieldset {

border-top: 3px double #ccc;

border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc;

border-left: none;

border-right: none;

padding: 10px 0 10px 10px;

margin-bottom: 15px;

width: 500px;

}

legend {

font-weight: bold;

padding: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table {

text-align: left;

margin: 0 15px;

}

fieldset table td { padding: 2px 0; }

fieldset p {

font-size: 11px;

margin: 10px 16px;

}

/* further additions by Nick */

/* this is for my 48 x 48 avatars */

.post {

min-height: 60px;

}

Can you tell me if it’s right?

[stricha]

Can you install BBPress using an IP Subdomain (example: http://111.111.111~directory)? I’m working for a client who wants to get their new site set-up before switching over their existing domain name. I’m wondering: can I install BBPress using the IP address or should I wait for the domain transfer? If I can install now using the IP subdomain, what are the implications for the install when the domain transfer goes through?

I’m planning a BBPress integration with WordPress, which I have installed and customized nicely and don’t want to mess-up at this point or else I’d go for it with BBPress and see what happens. Does anyone have experience with this issue they can share?

Thanks.

[migpilot]

chrishajer,

It’s more the conversion that was the issue. Dunno what it was but when we ran it through the phpBB converter, it basically made a motza of the sql, preventing the posts from being brought into the new DB ( entry double ups, funny characters etc., etc)

While we have got everything else in with only minor work, we are having to totally hand edit the 370,000 lines that make up the bb_posts sql file as all sorts of strange thing have happened to it.

It’s all fixable but just time intensive.

[fel64]

That’s easy enough to do; it’s implemented already in the bleeding-edge not-officially-released version of bbPress (which is actually perfectly stable and bug-free for me). This direct link will give you the currently newest version, revision 817. To activate these super-pretty permalinks, open your config.php and set the pretty permalinks option to 'slugs' instead, then if applicable (you’ll probably know if it is) change the contents of your .htaccess file to whatever /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php tells you to.

[fredvee]

Hello!

I’ve been working on my first plugin for a while, and I don’t even know if it’s useful! It deals with users with websites to promote for fun or for profit. The concept is this: users can specify tags in their profiles possibly related to their website. Then, in the topics they start, everytime another user use one of those words in their posts inside the topic, these words are wrapped in a link to the topic poster’s website.

Am I clear? Now you too can have annoying intellitxt’s on your forums without the thousands of visitors! And you’re not referring to big advertising companies but to your dudes with a web presence. It is a give and take thing. Cause you might raise their pagerank like this, but they have to come to your site and post good topics and take care the discussion goes along etc. It might even be a socializing exercise in tricking the posters to type the tags you’ve specified! Cause they are not visible to the public.

And here comes the reality check part. I’ve been just “hacking around ” with this thing and I’m aware things should look prittier than they are now. First things first, it requires the ra_custom_profile_keys plugin as an easy way to add a field in the registration. Which is not a so bad thing after all. Good plugin. But more importantly I needed a way to hide the tags field in the profile view and I only managed to do it by modifying one of the template-functions, which I know is absolutely an ugly thing to do, even if I just added a line.

It’s all in the code

and you can see it in function here. (I was hunting for a marketable domain name, sue me).

Btw, if you happen to try it out and things go wrong… I really hope I could help you about it but don’t hold your breath.

Ciao

[arthurk]

Hello!

I use currently vBulletin 3.6.5 and would like to switch to bbpress. 2 questions:

1) Is there an importer? For threads / forums / users?

2) How does it look like with performance? Is it comparable? Especially with larger boards (300-500 users online)?

Thanks!!!

[emildorbell]

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. In order to do that, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).”

Just uploaded bbpress and tried doing this on http://www.ceciliabjerling.com/wordpress/forum/

You can see the error message there and perhaps tell me what I’m doing wrong.

I changed

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

to the path where my wp-blog-header.php is

[jessiebirks]

Thanks vilimaunula! I’m going to try this as well.

Honestly, what I really want is for Vanilla Mist to just re-write the Connections theme as a bbpress theme. That would make my life so easy. Someone convince her she needs bbpress on her page.

[Sam Bauers]

Active Directory can be interrogated using the PHP LDAP functions, but it may need to do different things to what this plugin does. I don’t have an AD server to test against, so I won’t be building the functionality into this plugin any time soon. You still need to configure PHP with ldap to bind to active directory.

[bruz]

Hu I’ve been searching this forum before posting, so I thought I had really missed something in first place

Yea, the plugin is for WordPress, I think I will try if I can make it work for bbPress…