[maker]

Firstly, that’s a fantastic looking site!

[spencerp]

What I did was, followed this guide here:

http://www.phileplanet.com/archives/2006/08/how-to-setup-ssh-on-windows-xp/

Reference links:

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/xp-wont-run.html

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

I login to my domain with START > RUN > CMD >

plink mydomain.net

-will give your user and ask for passphrase.. enter passphrase.. hit enter

-it will give you server prompt thingy.. I type and hit enter: ls

-will show you what’s on your domain’s root, then type and hit enter: cd public_html (which changes you to the public_html directory)

-then I type and hit enter: ls

(will show me everything in the public_html directory..)

-then type and hit enter: cd forums (changes you to the forums directory folder)

-then I type and hit enter: ls (shows me everything in forums/ folder)

-then I run this line command:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ .

Only thing is though, if you already have folders/files in there, you’ll have to delete everything EXCEPT the my-templates/, my-plugins/ .htaccess, any special plugin files outside the my-plugins folder, and config.php files. Before running the SVN CO line command..

I also tried doing this:

svn co http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/ . –force

Which should FORCE file overwrites within that directory, however, it won’t work on a svn checkout… Not sure why though, but.. if you follow basically what I said above, you should be ok…

You should be good to go then… I hope this helps.. Good luck!

spencerp

[spencerp]

Oh ok, that makes sense. Just curious though, should the database query that we had to run, be reversed, or..anything in the database that needs changed?

I’m guessing that nothing major was really changed in the database, so no real worries of anything being screwed up, correct? Thanks for your reply Sam..

/So I guess this means I won’t have to worry about styling the “Gathering theme for bbPress” with Forum Categories in mind..

spencerp

[Sam Bauers]

I’m not sure what an SVN checkout over the top of an existing installation will do. Considering how clever SVN is, I’m guessing that it will just work and create a working SVN copy.

Check the very helpful subversion book http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

[macwise]

My friend, this is the ONLY way to go. I previously had used PhpBB, and I was in the same boat. I wanted something simple, powerful, yet it HAD to integrate with WordPress. I was reluctant to go down this path, but I was swayed by two things:

First, I love WordPress, the community, the customizability, etc. I was impressed with the simplicity available, with more complexity/power possible depending on what the user needs. Second, I was extremely enticed by the prospect of a “seamless” integration. I won’t say that it’s been a total breeze, but compared to the PhpBB/4Images integration I did last year, integrating BBPress with WordPress was a breeze…AND A HALF! Don’t be fooled, though, this can be as simple as installing it and adding two plugins. Just depends on what your needs are.

95% or more of what I’m modifying is template based files, NOT core files. This is quite different from my PhpBB/4Images integration, where I had to hack the core to the point that an update would have been disastrous. (Consequently, I never updated it, though it didn’t matter since the site never really went live.)

So, yes, this is a beta product. And yes, some of the administration options and a few specific features present in other bb systems aren’t here.

Would I use something else if I could do it over again? NO

Do I miss any features from PhpBB? NO. In fact, what I suspected is exactly what has happened, that being that I’m as happy with what BBPress DOESN’T do as I am with what it does. Anything that I’ve needed so far has already been addressed in the forums, usually with a plugin. That makes modifying core files safe and simple. Bottom line, it works great, and I haven’t looked back.

Hope this helps.

Ron

Check my site at http://www.babyquestions101.com. And here you can see the Pregnancy Forums. Let me know what you think, and feel free to ask any questions/comments there on the contact page.

[Sam Bauers]

Looks like there is some work going on to create “forum hierarchies” in the core. I think this will allow nesting of forums inside other forums. This has made some major changes to the files that were patched, so the patch will not work on the latest revisions. This patch solution will no doubt be deprecated by the changes being made now in core. I think that there was some resistance to adding another table to the database to perform this function, also the new solution will probably be more flexible, allowing for sub-sub-categories, sub-sub-sub-categories, etc.

So we may have a category-like solution by 1.0 – Personally I’ll be happy not to have to update the patch file anymore. I picked bbPress for my work, because it had modern features and a release-often ethos. The category patch filled a hole in functionality for me and a few others, it was a relatively quick hack – fairly brain-dead coding. So I won’t be too sad to see it usurped. Hopefully, if anything, this patch helped make inclusion of this functionality a priority, and perhaps helped provide a UI implementation to use as an example (good, bad or ugly).

I won’t be updating the patch anymore, at least until I am sure the new hierarchical forum features cover that functionality.

[maker]

How does BBPress compare to Simple Machines, PPHB and VBulletin?

I’m a bit worried it’s /too/ simple!

How well does BBPress integrate with WordPress?

I have an illustration blog (WP) at http://300.mpm.org.au

I want a forum at http://www.mpm.org.au

that works with the illustration blog

can bbpress and wordpress do this?

[fel64]

The bozo problem has a fix now, so if you can get your theme sorted you’re set. https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/37?replies=4

[Alex]

Very sexy theme! I love K2, I love bbPress, and now I love this theme!

For that added *thang* you could try and inject some FamFamFam, just as K2 has, and they would look like twins.

[Alex]

Nice clean theme

– Make “login” button same height as text-boxes

– Change link colours in footer, cannot read the “BBPRESS” link for example.

– I like the blue RSS logo on the right sidebar, but it seems cut off on top and bottom?

Overall, I like it!

[macwise]

Trent, I’m not sure I understand your response. I think what you’re saying is that if bbpress stores the information for the user’s profile in wp_users, as does wordpress, then we’re ok. However, if bbpress stores the information in a different place, then the update won’t work.

Well, that led me on a little journey to see how wordpress stored the information in the extra fields such as first name, last name, im username, etc. I found it is stored in wp_usermeta, and I’m guessing bbpress doesn’t have anything to do with this. So, I’ll look into this further.

In the meantime, does any moderator/contributor have any other ideas as to how this can be achieved? I would really like to add the necessary fields for my signup, such as First/Last name, and then more specific things for my site such as how many children, their names, etc. Any suggestions would be very well appreciated.

Thanks – Ron

[stuboo]

While this theme is a long way from being ready for public release, I thought I’d solicit comments. I’m having some trouble with character encoding (as mentioned here http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/823?replies=5 ).

The site is currently on a live testing server and I don’t want it to get indexed. Hopefully, the nofollow will work. Anyway, take a look and let me know your thoughts!

I’m definately open to feedback.

Cheers!

Ryan

[chiensavant]

Hi,

I installed BBpress today as well as someone else, on the same server though (in case that’s the problem). This person couldn’t make the admin password to work, although mine worked like a charm.

I tried to reset the password and was prompted with the message saying

An email has been sent to the address we have on file for you…

But neither I or the other person (who complained it wasn’t working at first) did receive the mail.

I wonder if this wouldn’t be a bug of the latest 0.8.1 version ?

Anyone has a fix ?

[chiensavant]

Hi,

I discovered that bbpress.png located in the bb-images directory was corrupted somehow on the fresh archive I downloaded from here.

Eventhough it was present on the directory, it would refuse to show up on the various webpages. Even a direct link would cause a 404 error (!?).

I downloaded it from http://bbpress.org/bbpress.png and got it to work this time.

[zeug]

Actually I’ve got a standalone javascript that does everything the WP plugin does … except load buttons to automate the code. And I’ve had it working in several BBPresses since mid last year. Add the js call in the header and it will load any simple href link to mp3, flv, mov etc. in a player.

I’ve been meaning to get around to modifying the WP plugin for BBPress since the official release, it’s on my todo list when I get to upgrading my BBPress installs for several WPMu’s. That’ll be a while yet though and I’ve yet to acquaint myself with BBPress plugins, is there a good quicktags plugin I can check out for starters?

[fel64]

Brilliant – works straight away again and has all the options I wanted. Thanks.

[Atsutane]

Recent Change: (2007-03-04)

• Bbpress Latest Discussion Option Page.
• Ability to set Bbpress url
• Ability to use different database

[chrishajer]

This is a problem with the path to the CSS, check the source:

http / vindicationdurotan.combbpress/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

That backslash should not be there. There have been a couple threads about this lately:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/795

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/820

IE can deal with the backslash but FF cannot. Once you correct that slash problem, things will look fine in FF.

[Pravin Paratey]

They are line numbers.

Index: register.php

=============================================

tells you the filename.

http://www.dustyant.com/articles/running-bbpress-on-sourceforge

That link has the patch file without wrapping.

[M]

Worked like a charm. 25 seconds of my time to fix a problem plaguing myself and my admins, very nifty.

Can I assume my bozo checkbox will return with the next version of bbpress? Until then how would I mark someone as a bozo… type a ‘1’ into their bozo textbox?

[mirce]

I am having the same problem. Will this patch solve it or the changes are already included in the latest version?

https://trac.bbpress.org/attachment/ticket/497/ticket-497.patch

Mircea.

[stuboo]

Yeah. I saw that post but the collation is the same in my bbpress install and my wp install. In addition, I’m currently running Invision Power Board on the same server (so same mysql database) with the same data – I’m trying to convert from IPB to bbpress.

Server info can be found here http://pharmboard.dreamhosters.com/info.php

Thanks for your help.

Ryan

[macwise]

Hello all,

I seem to have stumbled on another oddity I can’t solve…my user registration times are based on GMT, not on Pacific time as I have configured in the bbpress config.php file, as well as the wp Admin->Options page. I have added the following php script to a page to detect the server time.

<? print date("F d, Y H:i:s", time())?>

The time returned is the correct (Pacific) time, (-8 GMT). Any suggestions where else I can look, what else to try?

[macwise]

allrightythen. Guess I’ll post again

[chrishajer]

How about the server version (or is that the server version)?

This thread talked about collation in the database, maybe that’s related?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/620