With .htaccess, you’d need to use one of the two following commands:
#PHP4
php_value magic_quotes_gpc off
#PHP5
php_admin_flag magic_quotes_gpc off
Sure, I’d be glad to help rewrite and edit info on bbPress.org on a separate site – as well as contribute to a codex wiki.
But just to be clear: I’m not attempting to evangelize bbPress on Wikipedia. I think of Wikipedia as an fairly comprehensive encyclopedia, and as such it should have an article on software like bbPress. Some outside references would help on that front, which is where the impetus for this post came from.
Just let us know how we can help with the copy editing and codex writing, and I’d be glad to pitch in!
The deletion from Wikipedia was pretty random and I think a better structured and written page would probably survive. Interestingly the BuddyPress page has only one self-published reference.
I appreciate people’s desire to evangelize bbPress (thanks johnhiler) but I at least agree with kevinjohngallagher’s sentiments about putting the cart before the horse. If there is willingness to write something to promote bbPress, then how about we put some effort into our own site?
If anyone wants to have a go at comprehensive editing and/or rewriting any of the information on bbPress.org I’m happy to help with that process. I think this would be far more valuable to us.
So I guess I’d like to hijack the enthusiasm that some people are showing and direct it closer to home. I can easily create a sandboxed WordPress install that volunteer editors can use to re-work the existing content. Then once we are happy with it, we can migrate it over to the main site.
I also think that a “codex” wiki site for bbPress would be beneficial at this stage but I need some reassurance that it won’t just sit there empty either. So take this poll and we can see if there is traction for that to be created…
http://www.polldaddy.com/p/1650020/
Hello,
I’ve been running 0.9.4 for about six months now without major problems but today something happened. No new posts can be made and the following error displays:
bbPress database error: [Duplicate entry '7582' for key 1]
INSERT INTO bb_posts (<code>topic_id</code>,<code>post_text</code>,<code>post_time</code>,<code>poster_id</code>,<code>poster_ip</code>,<code>post_status</code>,<code>post_position</code>,<code>forum_id</code>) VALUES ('6','
test post text text text text
','2009-05-25 11:56:28','3','88.222.104.78','0','121','8')
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 232
New posts get registered in the latest-discussions list but the link to them is “#post-0” and they don’t display in the actual topic, nor in the admin panels. They actually don’t exist in the DB.
The last existing post in bb_posts is with post_id of 7581
Luckily I have a working backup before the error occurred but I want to know what might have caused it.
Hi, coud you please suggest how to display users’s email addres or nickname (display_name) instead of user login in page header? bbpress 0.9.0.4
thanks 
One of the things BBpress does really well is putting the horse before the cart.
Given that we skipped the last alpha, wrote off all the grand plans that had been coded to for 1.0a7, entirely skipped the beta stages, and released an RC thats not exactly been put through its paces yet… maybe just maybe we should hold off on getting on Wikipedia until, i dunno, the software is ready?
Apache version 2.2.11 (Unix)
PHP version 5.2.9
MySQL version 5.0.77-community
Architecture i686
Operating system Linux
Kernel version 2.6.28.8-VISION
It isn’t our job to promote unfinished and undeveloped software.
What Automattic’s marketing staff think about missed “reliable souces”?
OK, OK I know – it’s not my job too
Problem is, where would you find a site that talks about new software? BLOGS!
Review sites are blogs essentially if you think about it
I mean, I don’t recall seeing phpBB in the news anytime recently..
While I have not reviewed Nightgunner’s code, that version is a completely rewrite so I suspect it avoids the pitfalls of the original version and is probably safe to use.
In your template file called front-page.php, find the section that outputs the table of forums (#forumlist) and make the cells taller or fixed width and variable height or something. It can all be done in your template files and your style.css.
Drag them into order in the admin area.
Yes, yes they can. You should NEVER have blank lines outside the wrapping <?php ... ?> (they cause all sorts of weirdness)
Good catch, magicgirl.
Never mind I figured it out.
<?php topic_posts($bb_post->topic_id); ?>
it seems i have no secure_auth_salt listed in options.php :S
@byles; ive replaced all security codes a few times
I’ve got the exact same problem, and it’s driving me mad.
I’ve tried to get this working on several fresh installs and it just ain’t happening!
Update: Oh! Fixed! I went to wp-admin/options.php and changed the salts to something else (button mashed), and updated those in bbpress too, and now it works. Don’t quite understand why nobody mentions this in any of the tutorials… Never mind
Yes, you should create a page with the same name as the directory where you installed bbPress. So, if you installed bbPress in a directory called /forums/ create a page called “Forums” with a slug of “forums” and WordPress will use that directory before it ever shows your blank page.
If that does NOT work, there are simple plugins to redirect any WordPress Page to a URL, so you could use one of those if you wanted to do that instead.
With bbPress you don’t access bb-admin directly. You log in with your keymaster account, and next to your name, if you are truly a keymaster (or someone with admin capabilities) you have a link to Admin. Click that and you are in the bbPress admin. If you don’t have that link, then the account you logged in with is no the keymaster account.
What version of bbPress are you talking about, and are the logins integrated with WordPress?
// Custom Topic Starter Avatars
function topic_author_avatar( $size = '48', $default = '', $post_id = 0 ) {
if ( ! bb_get_option('avatars_show') )
return false;
$author_id = get_topic_author();
if ( $link = get_user_link( $author_id ) ) {
echo '<a href="' . attribute_escape( $link ) . '">' . bb_get_avatar( $author_id, $size, $default ) . '</a>';
} else {
echo bb_get_avatar( $author_id, $size, $default );
}
}
Congratulations on bringing bbPress to 1.0 RC1! I am a big fan of bbPress, appreciate this positive and helpful community, the great codebase, the ease of installation and customizatoin, and the overall more “bloggy” feel of the forums, rather than most forum software which feels a lot more like a 1990’s bulletin board.
I’ve looked over past postings about the 1.0 series and about releases in general. I’ve read that 1.0 is based off of BackPress, that it integrates with newer versions of WordPress, that it supports a new plugin for WordPress called “bbPress Live.” What else is of note? (and out of curiosity, what did not make the cut?
With 1.0 on the horizon, can you please summarize some of the key features/changes in 1.0?
Just a little Easter Egg for Release Candidate testers 
So it’s only available in 1.0 huh, that sucks cause I think the forum is still using 0.9 something.
The way I’m doing it now is creating a plugin like chrishajer mentioned but it just seems odd to me as a prolific WP user. Unfortunately I’m not sure the forum can be upgraded since the Envato devs had to integrate it with a RoR app and hacked the core. Hopefully they can upgrade it cause the theme I’m working on is crazy complex and I had to add a lot of extra functions to my plugin to make the theme work based on the design. I just think some of the code I wrote is probably included in the 1.0 core.
There’s a good overview of bbPress’ translation framework (with links to existing translations and to useful posts) on bbshowcase.org:
http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/bbpress-translation-internationalization-into-local-languages
According to that, bbPress uses the same translation approach as WordPress:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#gettext_files
The approach seems to be:
1) You download the POT file, which has all the English strings in it.
2) You translate the strings into your language (Greek) and save the file as a .po file
3) You optimize the .po file into a machine readable .mo file
Looks like you can get the bbPress POT file for whichever version you’re using here:
http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress-i18n/pot/tags/
Good luck!
.. the latest bbpress with the latest wordpress. Could I use the bbPress forum list loop on the frontpage of my wordpress theme? so i can show all the latest discussions.. this wont be on a sidebar, so i dont want a plugin to do this, I just want to use the same code bbPress uses but on WordPress to show the forum topics?
is this possible.? thanks in advanced.
FCK editor. I added FCK into my theme and that is the root of tag problem in my case. when I remove FCK script from head.php, tag functions starts to work again.
so, now i have to figure out if its possible to have both (probably it is, but its not easy for me as I am not developer
