[macwise]

Hello,

I need to add a custom page to my forum that acts like any other page, but with custom content I have added. It’s actually going to be a “Contest Status” page, where users can check to see if they have completed the steps necessary to enter the contest, and once they have to track the contest’s progress. I know how to create a custom page in wordpress that just points to:

http://www.myurl.com/chosen-page-name

but I can’t quite wrap my brain around this in bbpress. I want the most elegant, simplest, and most unobtrusive solution I can find. I would love the page to resolve to:

http://www.myurl.com/forum/contest

Is this functionality built in? Is it plugin-able? (I’ve never built a plugin). Is there a simple workaround?

Any tips or information is greatly appreciated.

[M]

1. Under the “Installation” header: “ugrading instructions” – it should be “upgrading.”

2. Under the “Development” header, second paragraph: “bbPress Trac enviroment” – it should be “environment.”

I know to some of you it isn’t a big deal, but there’s nothing worse than having a professional, well-built application being represented by misspellings.

[mirce]

Thanx,

I am not sure that ?page=2 will be followed by search engines. bbPress have a better spiderability then all the other forums and WordPress, it would be a shame to loose so many pages.

[mirce]

I’ve made something similar. It still needs some work. You can see the result at http://www.dfur.com and download the plugin from https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/771

This is my first plugin wrote and it needs some more work with the .htaccess rules. The pagination is not yet fixed and if somone could help me please let me know.

Thanx.

[mirce]

Hi,

Mod rewrite rules set up for bbPress are OK and are better then the ones WordPress uses. However some tweaking can be done to make things better.

I’ve tried to put up together a permalinks plugin. I think that I am half way done but I need some help finishing things up.

The plugin can be downloaded from:

http://www.phpdigest.net/

You can take a look to my test site:

http://www.dfur.com (the template is not finished)

The forum link was changed from:

http://www.example.com/forum/forum_id

to

http://www.example.com/forum_name

The topic link was changed from:

http://www.example.com/topic/topic_id

to

http://www.example.com/forum/topic_id

I need help with creating the pagination mod_rewrite rules (page_2 ). Please let me know if anyone can help with setting up new pagination mod_rewrite rules for this page:

http://www.dfur.com/designer_furniture/topic5

Thank you,

Mircea Piturca and Paun Narcis Iulian.

[bbolman]

To throw in my two cents… I personally would lean towards “themes.” My reasoning: since one of the biggest parts of bbPress is the WordPress integration, I believe bbPress and WordPress oughta use the same lingo for that. If a template author wants to do matching templates for bb and WordPress he’ll have to have the “Blank Theme” for WordPress and the “Blank Template” for bbPress. To me this adds to the confusion, and since WordPress has been around and people are used to theme, why make them have to learn more lingo?

[Sam Bauers]

Here’s a sneak peak at the patch functionality….

http://www.network.net.au/bbpress/patches/permalinks/teaser.gif

Still working out a few details.

[Sam Bauers]

I’d need more info to help out. But assuming:

1. The host/ip and optionally the port specified is correct.
2. The domain string is correct.
3. You are logging in using the uid of the user, not their full name. Usually “johndoe” instead of “John Doe”.
4. Your password is correct

Try these steps:

1. Turn off TLS encryption if it is on. Some webservers don’t handle requesting TLS connections.
2. Check the LDAP server firewall to see if it is letting you in.
3. Make sure you have set any necessary options.

Can you connect to your LDAP server using any other tools, web sites on the same server as bbPress?

[chrishajer]

I think template is simple enough, it’s just different

I also personally feel “template” is more ‘correct’ than “theme”. Unlearning “template” when starting with WordPress was hard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theme

I think bbPress is correct, and WordPress is wrong.

Also, if you’ve ever used K2 with WordPress, you know that they have something called schemes which are pure CSS modifications to change the look. To confuse things even more, the “schemes” in K2 are in a folder called “styles.”

sorry for all the edits …

[intellivision]

I agree that how they work is more important. But having used phpBB, where they call plugins “mods” — easily confused with “moderator” — now is the time to simplify. That’s just an example of how terms can be misunderstood.

Newbies will be using this software every day for 1, 5, even 12 years. Every 10th or 100th newbie will waste a 1/2 hour because of the theme/template overlap disconnect, and you’ll come up with a ton of unnecessary hair-pulling-outing.

I guess my point is with all the elegance and simplicity inherent in bbPress, why leave this confusion?

[Null]

Ahh ok, then I suggest to make things simpeler, perhaps on bbpress install:

ask the user to enter his/her askimetkey with an option to request a key if not heaving one

and/or

add an area in the admin where you can change/enter a key

Or should I make a trac about this suggestion?

[Null]

Hi,

Plz go to this thread and keep an eye on this one since the beta is closed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/743?replies=11

Thx

[rkruk]

i am trying to get the LDAP plugin to work however I get the following error when using the LDAP Plugin with BBPress,

Warning: ldap_bind(): Unable to bind to server: No such object in /srv/www/htdocs/forum/my-plugins/ldap-authentication.php on line 322

any ideas on howto fix?

[Trent Adams]

Without stepping out too far on a limb, I think that each blog (or forum) has it’s own key to keep track of what is done with each user and require their own key. Since they are free, it isn’t too hard to get one, just go to this post and follow the directions.

I see what you mean about having a special bbPress key, but I doubt if it will ever happen in the near future.

Trent

[Null]

Why not put an hidden special key in it? We all hate spam, now we have to sign up to get a key, edit the config file etc etc…

I say, put in a special bbpress askimetkey in it so we dont have to bother about spam

[chrishajer]

When registering on a bbPress forum, this is displayed after you submit your registration:

Make sure to whitelist our domain (http://www.mywebsite.com) so the confirmation email doesn’t get caught by any filters.

That’s not really how whitelists work. Normally, you whitelist a domain or an email address, so wouldn’t it be better to say this in register.php on line 11:

<?php printf(__("A password will be mailed to the email address you provide. Make sure to whitelist our email address (%s) so the confirmation email doesn't get caught by any  filters."), bb_get_option( 'admin_email' )) ?> 

Make sense?

[linickx]

yeah, this forum is still online, feel free to play, I’ve been testing in this thread, but my css needs updating as not all effects are visiable (i.e. quotes are marked up in html, but css show’s white on white – doh !)

[Null]

I agree with this all. This is also one of the reasons I’ve started the bbPortal project (bbportal.org) The idea is to use bbPress as the basic and build some nice stuff around it. It’s not much yet, I’ve just started it).

WordPress is great for BLOGGING and some people forget this. It’s designed for a personal blog not for a whole community. Sure you can extend it with plugins etc, but still.

bbPortal is/will be more for communities like clans/guilds that use the forum heavily. (so forum driven and not blog driven.)

You can also take a look at wordpressMU (multiuser), That can give every user a own wordpressblog that you can administrate. If I may be so bold I see it like this:

Personal/blog………….>>…………Community driven

..wordpress

……………………….wordpressMU

………………………………………………………. bbPortal

(ignore the dots, they where needed for outlining)

Joomla and Drupal are way bigger, but to my oppinion, needs some more understanding about php and coding aswell.

Though choise huh

[Null]

Also see:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/705?replies=2

[bbolman]

Alright I’m wondering if someone is willing to do me an extra-special favor and write a plugin that puts a little drop-down box at the top of your bbPress installation allowing people to choose a different theme. I’m interested in allowing people to demo out all the themes available for bbPress over at Pro Forums.

Accidentally put this in install, can someone move it to plugins?

[lonemadmax]

Sometime ago I adapted a script that imports data from phpBB. Some of the changes are probably a Bad Thing, but it worked for me (about 40 users, 15 forums, 150 topics and 800 posts).

Among the changes:

• Keeps current users, forums, etc. in bbPress. The new forum had started, so I wanted that, even though most new messages were just for testing.
• When an SMF username is found in the bbPress DB, the bbPress user is assigned to the SMF one. Otherwise, a new user is created.
• Imports tags that can’t be used in bbPress, such as table, flash and some stupid formatting stuff.
• Probably other things I don’t remember.

Jump to the CONFIGURATION SECTION and change to match your setup and liking. Wherever you see phpbb it really means smf, of course. One of the things I didn’t do was that type of cleanup. Also, despite the comments saying that you need a fresh new install of bbPress, that’s not true anymore.

Keep in mind that data reuse only happens with users. If a forum or a topic exists in bbPress with the same name that one from SMF, you’ll probably get two topics with the same name (different ID number, though). I haven’t tested this, and I don’t know if that means problems.

Also, subforums become forums on their own, as bbPress uses a flat one-level system. If you are using the plugin that allows for subforums, you may be able to correct this afterwards, or even add the code to the script so that it is done.

If you don’t want any of the probably Bad Things I introduced, get the original one and look compare the

$export_sql

lines to have a feeling of what to change.

Now, if there’s any interest, where do I send it?

[davidbessler]

Hey I need some help solving the RSS problem for my plugin. I don’t really know how most people use RSS so I can’t figure out what changes need to be made. For me, I have Private Forums and Forum Restriction BOTH enabled, and as far as I can see, RSS is unfettered unpassword-protected acess to the info on the board. I can’t really see how anyone would want that. Can someone explain what the permissions of RSS on bbPress might look like? I can’t fix the problem if I don’t use the feature.

[davidbessler]

An educated consumer is our best customer. Take a look at Drupal (www.drupal.org) and Joomla (www.joomla.org), as these may be more along the lines of what you are looking for. They are the equivalent of the all-inclusive resort of online community systems. They offer a lot of what you are looking for almost out of the box. The idea behind bbpress is that while WordPress is a great system for blooging and news (A few people write, lots of people read), it did not offer anything in the way of serious egalitarian discussion, like many conventional message boards. So, bbPress was born to fill that gap. But, it was just born. I think, the future lies in modular community bulding, where people pick and choose each module of their system, and they all work together. bbPress is along those lines, and that’s why I love it. However, if you want to plop a community down on the web with all sorts of gadgetry, chattery, and photo-uploadery, check out Drupal, Joomla, or some of the other CMS (Content Management Systems) … Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_content_management_systems

Sorry, fellow bbPressers, I have to give an honest opinion.

So, again, bbPress and WordPress are like booking a vacation to the far east and choosing a great hotel your friends recommended, then reserving a spot on a cool mountain-climbing excursion you read about in a magazine, and then dining at that revolving restaurant you had always heard about etc … Drupal or any other CMS, is like calling 1-800-awesome-trips, plunking down your credit card, and relying on them to decide all those things for you. Truth is, you may have an AWESOME vacation EITHER way. It depends on the person. And THAT’S the truth.

[Trent Adams]

I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet, but it looks interesting! Do you have a forum with a post that this is working at for a demo linickx?

Trent

[Trent Adams]

I know there are only a couple of us viewing this on the weekend and I am not sure what to change to get the CSS changes for colors. The only thing we have so far for editing the size is:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/67?replies=5#post-295

The color is determined by the #hottags portion of style.css in your theme! There you can change a few color things around!

Trent