I’ve been fiddling around inside Ardentfrost’s Private Messaging plugin, which is very cool!
One question I have, though… it seems that when a PM is sent, it ignores the line breaks from the text area so that everything runs together. I suppose you could hard code the paragraph tags in, but most users would never take the time to do that.
This might belong in the discussion on that plugin’s page, but my question is a general one. In the normal BBP post routine, it automatically converts the double line breaks so they show up correctly in the post. How is this done, and is it simple enough that I could add it somewhere in the plugin to make it perform the same way when a new private message is posted?
Thanks!!!
This is my migrated phpBB forum. It’s integrated with my main site rather tightly (UI-wise, not database), and I did a bit of modification to the post layout, making the best use of the narrow column I think. Other than that, just your usual CSS tweakage.
It’s not live yet, so I welcome feedback:
http://automatorworld.com/bbpress/
The plugins I’m using are:
Comment Quicktags
Front Page Topics
Post Notification
Page links
Quote
edit: Please feel free to register and test post, I would welcome the Q&A 
It works if you are willing to download the latest TRAC version from https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/ and then scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking the ‘download in other format – Zip format’. That is the latest development version. Then you have to change your config.php to have:
$bb->mod_rewrite = 'slugs';
Your .htaccess file should just be back to whatever you had before. Mine is just the + MultiViews part.
Trent
Once 1.0 comes out, it will be a standard part of the release. There was much discussion on how to include a ‘prettier permalinks’ structure into bbPress and this was agreed upon and is committed to the TRAC development version of bbPress. I personally love it!
Trent
I thought I had it figured it out…
It seemed like the pretty permalinks ruined the frontpage-rss. Therefore I removed followed step 3 in How do I get Pretty Permalinks working? and that seemed to do the trick, eventhough the Pretty Permalinks did work before with just: Options +MultiViews in the .htaccess file.
It doesn’t work though, the rss feed looks like this: http://voipbloggen.dk/forum/rss/
- But it is not up to date,
- and the link doesn’t work
trent, sorry was away. no I’m keeping wp and bbpress seperate except for the user integration plugin. I’ll create a user for you and send it to you right away.
Let us give him some more time…
I am over my head when combining WP and bbPress functions and know next to nothing with Ajax. Hopefully mdawaffe (Michael) will see this post or head over to https://bbpress.org/about/development/ and see if you can contact him another way!
Trent
If you changed from 1.3 to 2.2 in Apache and it worked before the upgrade, it must have something in there that it doesn’t like with the Mod Rewrite handling. I am not sure myself, but I would change my .htaccess in the bbPress root folder of http://www.canadianbookclubs.com/forums/ to have only:
Options +MultiViews
Nothing else. Try it in that and in your http://www.canadianbookclubs.com/bkrv/ test run with the new version as well. Either way, it should work for one of them. That works best with most servers I have used and they are using Apache 2+. Try that out maybe and if not, take Fel64’s suggestion and put the contents of what is outputted by: /bb-admin/rewrite-rules.php
Trent
Comment out this line in the plugin to get page 1 showing.
unset($links[0]);
That’s line 82 in version 1.0.2
I mis the page 1
I know clicking the title you go to page 1, but we are all known with the vbulletin way…
So if it has one page, dont show the page tags
If it has two, show the page 1 and page 2 tags
etc etc
Currently i’m trying to develop something using wordpress & bbpress.
Everything flows pretty good when talking on functionality and the rest of features, but there is a problem.
Actually 2 problems. First I already posted here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/867
And now the second one:
The final release has to be in another language but english. It’s true, I found no troubles translating bbpress in my language and the rest of updated wordpress. But after what I’ve integrated both of api’s: the wordpress and bbpress; this resulted in the following error:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class streamreader in /var/www/pm/forum/bb-includes/streams.php on line 26
I suppose it’s because of the translations, cause when I did not defined BBLANG, everything worked well.
After a bit I thought, that a solution for my problem can be joining both of the bbpress and wordpress translation .mo’s and defining just WPLANG for my language settings. That worked, but I dont see this as a pretty simple and accessible solution for everybody!
I would be glad getting some help on that, If there is any other more easier solution, that would be cool.
“If you have already installed bbPress then I think you will have to get rid of it and install it again, but integrating this time.”
Is this true?
mdawaffe is aware of this issue….believe me, he is working hard to get this fixed! Sorry for the problems folks!
Trent
I see your problem there bedbugger. It seems to head over to the wordpress install and give a 404 error when you try and access the forum. What version are you running of bbPress? If you change back to the default theme, do this still happen? Do you have any plugins? If you replace forum.php in your template with the original from the download does that help?
Trent
Just curious – is anyone working on such a thing? I had a terrific plugin for my WP comments section, but now that I’ve migrated everyone to bbPress and shut comments down, we’re in a bit of a bind. I’d gladly have them just color tag their text, but I’m not sure…
Could I create a custom tag that worked like ‘blockquote’ with its own CSS info?
Oh….akismet is in the config.php and it shouldn’t have a number in there, but be false. If the posts are not showing up in Akismet, then they are most likely not being stopped by it…..you are using the plugin for WP to show the lastest bbPress topics then?
Trent
Strange….could you give me a URL to see this problem in action? Maybe create me as a user if you confine bbPress registration to your WP or give me the URL of your forum? I might be able to test this and see if we can fix it.
Trent
It will be more like how wordpress.com does it:
[youtube=videolink]
Trent
Brilliant Sam! I will implement this one for sure and test it out!
Trent
The only thing I play with was on the 20th, more than 24 hours ago, was the config.php file. I changed the $bb->edit_lock = 60; to $bb->edit_lock = 99999;
as in here, https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/271?replies=2#post-1357
I check with my ISP for system upgrades. They did say:
“The only recent change was an upgrade of the Apache web server software, from Apache 1.3 to Apache 2.2 (the current version). This happened last Wednesday night, March 21.
Looking the your website, I see that the forum topic links point to non-existent files. For example, the link for topic “Circles in the Sand” points to http://www.canadianbookclubs.com/bkrv/topic/9 but there is no subdirectory called “/bkrv/topic” in your account, nor any rewrite rules that would map that URL to a real file. The same goes for the forum links. Something seems to be missing…”
Hi there
I think this is a fantastic plugin but for now I’ve had to disable use of it on my site forums. Why? Well I’m no dab hand at PHP but I do know it’s using the user_login to display users in the drop-down menu and what I want it to do is use display_name instead as, otherwise, my site login name is shown and I keep that deliberately long and complicated and it’s nothing like my display name, to help protect against anyone finding out my login details and getting into my blog admin.
I run the bbpress plugin to use display names not login names but it has no impact on this plugin, so I was really hoping you might consider changing it, or producing a different version, that doesn’t use login names but uses display names instead in the drop-down menu that appears under forum posts?
Many thanks for considering the change, as I really do think this plugin is fantastic – and I love the idea of ‘summoning’ people to topics!
You both ask very reasonable questions
Basically, my forum is such that people tend to sign up just to ask 1 question and disappear. So over the years it has amassed about 700 users with 1-2 posts, tops.
My current setup is pretty much a mirror of the old forum (it’s at my site at /bbpress if you want to see the design in progress), which can of course work fine, but being the anal type I was thinking of starting this forum with a “clean slate”, as it were. Maybe 2-3 users would be returning and bear the burden of re-registering.
But I guess I’ll leave it be. As new posts come in the old ones will “flush” off the front page anyway. Thanks for the insights.
This is very interesting to me. How about these ideas?
For the close a forum, I don’t know how you would do that. There’s nothing I know of in the bb_forums table that marks it open or closed. The best I think you could do is mark the topics closed. To do that with SQL, you could do something like
UPDATE bb_topics
SET topic_open=0
WHERE topic_id IN
(your comma separated list of topic_ids)
You could drop the WHERE part if you wanted to mark all existing topics as closed. Before you do anything with SQL though, be sure you have a backup of the data.
I can see why you want to take a snapshot of the old forums and mark them “archived/old” but, I would assume if you are moving things from phpBB to bbPress that your forum structure is going to be similar, so closing the forums to new topics wouldn’t make sense anyway.
Another option is to create a new forum called “phpBB Archive” or something then move all the topics and posts over to that “archive” forum, then create your forum hierarchy again in bbPress like it was in phpBB (i.e. World News, World Labs, Support, etc.)
For the users, why not just change all the passwords? That would make the usernames still valid, so no one else could re-register as an existing name, no one could log in with the old name, and all the existing posts would still be attributed to the original poster.
Just my thoughts: maybe they’ll be useful. Good questions though…
