Greetings! So I recently upgraded to the latest version of BBPress and for whatever reason, Me (KeyMaster) and all my mods are marked as bozos. I was doing some reading and there is supposed to be a checkbox in the admin panel to check wether or not a user is a bozo right? In my admin panel, there is no checkbox, just an area to enter a number and me and my mods are listed as 1. Trying to change it to 0 doesn’t have any effect. Is there a fix for this? Thanks!
As for the centralized wiki, bbPress is going to change so rapid with major upgrades that the developers have opted to stay out of that idea until we are well into more substantial releases.
I will admit that I plan on helping Pro Forum as much as possible because it is a site dedicated to bbPress, but really doesn’t have to be affiliated with bbPress at all. Later on, if it turns out to be a great resource for bbPress users, it will get around on its own. These things take time to play themselves out.
But like I said before, this really isn’t a support issue and is best discussed in the dev lists.
Trent
Speaking only as an interested observer with nothing to gain beyond a better piece of GPL software, I can’t see anything wrong with the idea, except that if there’s a link for one site, then egalitarian spirit would dictate that there should be a link to every site that claimed to be supportive; so then there’s a need to create some kind of criteria for worthy sites, then the list has to be maintained, or it’s of little worth, etc. etc.
So, what’s needed therefore, perhaps, is wiki.bbPress.org where such discussion and linkage can naturally live and die without too much administrative overhead.
I’m wondering if maybe somewhere in the extend area of the bbPress site we might be able to add a link to the Pro Forums website (click my name-link thing). While you may think this is only shameless self-promotion, I assure you my intentions are better. I think that, if you are someone who isn’t quite as addicted to the bbPress forums and doesn’t sniff around the plugins area every second for new bits to come out, and doesn’t spend Saturdays looking at bbPress bug reports, it can sometimes be difficult to really keep up on all that is new with bbPress, and thus a little less user-friendly then one could hope for. That’s where Trent and my site comes in. We keep track of all that’s going on in the bbPress galaxy and slim it down so John Doe can keep track. So, I guess in conclusion, I’m wondering if you might be able to add a link to the Pro Forums site (proforums.palmansworld.com) in my efforts to spread the word and get more people involved with bbPress. I won’t be offended if the answer is no, by the way, so don’t worry.
If the format isn’t 100%, bbPress has a tendancy to strip the HTML out of the post. It will automatically hyperlink a URL, but if you try doing a simple a href and it strips it, it might have been a missing ” or something. Let us know, but I have no issues with this unless the formatting is not 100% correct.
Trent
I’m working to setup a new site with WP 2.1 and bbPress 0.75 So far the integration has worked very well and I’ve primarily been tweaking the themes.
Anyway, one weird thing I’ve noticed is if I include a link in a post (std a href=””) and submit it, the href attribute is stripped out completely. All that is left in the post when I edit it again is the link text surrounded by empty a tags (tried to use & lt ; in my post and it got converted to tags – wild)
I plan to dig through the code a bit and see what might be causing this. I’m not using any plugins beyond the standard WP integration on. It’s a fairly stock install.
Wouldn’t that be the allowed tags in WordPress, not bbPress forum though right drmike? 
Trent
It has to be related to this post
Make sure you post your solution when you compare your template versus the default!
Trent
nope..I didnt..Ive uploaded again again bb-post.php … and still nothing… I really dont know whats the deal..Ill back-up my curent theme..and Ill upload the default bbPress theme…to see what happens
I like it! Very nice! I am sure Brad with proforum this!
Trent
Sorry about that as I wasn’t look at the sticky posts, what language are you after? There is some language links in the bbPress Internationalization post as well as maybe search for your language using the search function of the forums!
Trent
First off, it hasn’t even been on hour on a Saturday for a volunteer support forum! So what version of bbPress are you using? Did you recently install and plugins or upgrade your bbPress installation. Do you have a URL that we can take a look at?
Trent
I dug around the bb-includes last night and found where the allowed_tags (or whatever it was called) function was and just added it.
I’m using bbpress as a checklist and wanted the tag to mark off stuff when issues were completed.
del? Didn’t think of that. Well, they’re both in there and Igotta admit XHTML isn’t high on my list for a support forum.
Thanks,
-drmike
edit: Could have sworn we had them on the wp.com forums…
Hi All,
I thought I’d share my crack at k2 for bbpress, just replace style.css with my one, it’s not perfect, but I think it’s a good start !
Download: http://www.linickx.com/files/k2-for-bbpress.v0-01.style.css
Demo: http://forum.linickx.co.uk/
Blog Post: http://www.linickx.com/blog/archives/253/k2-for-bbpress/
let me know what you think 
“a list of all the functions in /my-includes/template-functions.php”
Indeed, and to be honest I forgot about that.
Anyway, wouldn’t it be neat to see some examples, etc a la the WordPress codex.
If we assume for a moment, that there a several people who would be happy to contribute to a topic like that, where do we go to from here, and how does it get collated in documentation.
FWIW, bbPress forums are terrific, but they are often answering simple questions (like mine??) that really should be in documentation. Someone suggested a wiki but I think WP has been there and done that. Somehow the user community needs a forum (excuse the pun) to help build the documentation.
Gee, sounds like I’m all fired up, which I’m not. But I can see bbPress dying on the vine for want of continuous improvement in documentation.
Similar to the “split topic” idea, another moderator tool that would be a boon would be the ability to create a post in the name of one of the users.
Say, for example, they’ve left a comment on a WP thread; it would be nice to be able to migrate that comment (ok eventually an automated migration or total integration would be nice, but in the meantime manually doing it is acceptable, but it’s seems a bit impossible currently).
Another question that would be a solution… is there a way to limit the length of bbPress forum title posts?
Hey Community,
I had a question about this latest discussion plugin, which is awesome by the way:
http://www.atsutane.net/2006/11/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wordpress/
Is there a way to shorten the length of the titles being pulled from the forum.
For Example, for a forum with a title as:
“this is a forum title and I am a bad poster who make titles way to long”
to this:
“this is a forum title…”
This would really help out because our latest discussions from the forum on our wordpress home page break a bit when the titles get to long.
Any ideas or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Orion
Sam, thanks for giving us a different direction. I forgot all about the database collation. This post in particular, and the thread too, had some good information about this:
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/90?replies=19#post-407
You folks are a hoot….
I’m a creative designer/web-monkey/illustrator/writer/under-paid literary assasin who has two kids and an ex-wife – and who loves to play around with WordPress and bbPress.
so there!
:p
Greets:
Is there any reason (ie security?) why not to use the strike tag within out bbpress install?
Thanks,
-drmike
Where is the documentation on implementing a search from the first page of bbpress? Or could someone tell me how to do it? Thank you.
Ok fixed, thanks.
But now when I browse to /forums/ it isn’t integrated with theme?
The register link from the forums is integrated into wordpress theme, though the page is messed up.
I am a technician for Audio, Video, and Control equipment. The only programming I do at work is control programming, but it’s not like php and stuff. I got into bbpress plugins because I wanted to brush up on php skills and learn SQL… plus it’s fun (and doesn’t look bad on a resume).
From the source of install.php:
// Let's check to make sure bb isn't already installed.
...
if ( $installed )
...
die(__('<h1>Already Installed</h1><p>You appear to have already installed bbPress. Perhaps you meant to run the upgrade scripts instead? To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.</p>') . '</body></html>');
I think it would just work by browsing to your forum in that case.
