[_ck_]

You can disable all javascripts and things fallback to non-js mode (usually, except in 1.0 I think they broke some things, again)

comment out this line like so in your header.php

<?php // bb_enqueue_script('topic'); ?>

Everything is being eventually moved to jquery like wordpress.

[Billy Wilcosky]

I don’t want bbpress to get more famous honestly. I like the fact that this is a forum software that not a lot of people use, it makes my forum seem unique. But, oh well.

[pixelfreak]

One of bbPress’s focus is to be fast, but like a lot of framework, it seems to ignore the basics rules of good client-side performance. For instance, if you are logged-in and if you are on topic’s page, there are 7 external JS requests, all of them placed in the head. Page rendering is blocked until those JS files are fully loaded. Ideally, we should minimize the number of requests (concatenating all the JS files into 1) and put them at the bottom of the page before body.

bbPress is also using two JS frameworks that has overlapping functionalities (Prototype and jQuery), ideally we should choose one and stick with it (preferably jQuery, imho). There are also some code that duplicate functionality that already exists in the JS framework, for instance: add-load-event.js.

I realize this might be easier said than done, but I would like to know if this is at least being considered in the roadmap. If not, is there any suggestion before I hack the core? (I don’t think a plugin can do this?)

Thanks,

William

[chrishajer]

WordPress functionality means being able to use WordPress functions, in bbPress. There are WordPress functions called get_header():, get_footer();, get_sidebar(); that exist in WordPress. Some people would like to use call these functions in their bbPress templates so they can get the exact same footer, header and sidebar in their forum as they have in the WordPress site. To do that, you need to do “full integration” which is what _ck_ is recommending against.

To just put a list of images with links in your sidebar, you need only modify your template files. You need to create space in the template where you want the sidebar (maybe forum.php in your template folder) by creating an additional div, maybe call it #rightsidebar. Now, you need to edit your style.css to make the other divs smaller (less wide, and then make the rightsidebar wider to fill the space you created. If they theme you’re using doesn’t have enough space for all that, you might need to increase the width of the whole layout.

I think the first step is to make the space on the page where you want it, get that working. Then, get the list of images and links in there. That’s how I would go about it. It doesn’t sound like you need access to specific WordPress functions.

[Andrew]

I am upgrading an old .83 bbpress installation to Alpha 1.0r6.

I have about 6k posts in the .83 database.

After upgrading the database I’ve noticed the following problems. Several of the posts in the database were made by users no longer in the database. If a topic containing posts by these now ‘anonymous’ users is displayed, I get the following error at the top of the screen.

DB Error in wp_users::append_meta: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '32) /* WP_Users::append_meta */' at line 1



SELECT user_id, meta_key, meta_value FROM wp_usermeta WHERE user_id IN (1,,32) /* WP_Users::append_meta */

If I delete the anonymous posts in the thread, the problem goes away. Using PHPAdmin I checked the user ID’s assigned to the posts and there are no users with those user ID’s in wp_users. (I have an integrated installation).

I thought the problem was a result of an upgrade, so I created a new user, made some posts, and then deleted that user. The problem still exists. I have not tried this on a clean install and it would be useful if someone could try that.

I am running the default Kak. Blue theme.

I believe I tracked the problem request to a backpress file.

bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-users.php:

if ( $metas = $this->db->get_results("SELECT $meta_field, meta_key, meta_value FROM {$this->db->$meta_table} WHERE $meta_field IN ($ids) /* WP_Users::append_meta */") ) {

I am not a SQL sleuth but I believe the $ids field is being populated with nulls associated with deleted users.

[ganzua]

The problem with adding a filter is that you lose the function for counting the total amount of posts.

How can you convert nolageek code into a new function “topic_replies”? ;

<?php

function bb_decrement( $value ) {

return $value-1;

}

add_filter( 'get_topic_posts', 'bb_decrement', 1);

?>

<?php

function bb_decrement_topic( $value ) {

global $forum;

return $value;

}

function bb_decrement_forum( $value ) {

global $forum;

return $value-get_forum_topics();

}

add_filter( 'get_topic_posts', 'bb_decrement_topic', 1);

add_filter( 'get_forum_posts', 'bb_decrement_forum', 1);

?>

[chrishajer]

Looks like the function bb_tag_heat_map takes some parameters. In your tags.php template file, you will find something like this:

<?php bb_tag_heat_map( 9, 38, 'pt', 80 ); ?>

That calls this function:

function bb_tag_heat_map( $args = '' ) {

$defaults = array( 'smallest' => 8, 'largest' => 22, 'unit' => 'pt', 'limit' => 45, 'format' => 'flat' );

So, the smallest is 9pt, largest is 38pt, UOM is pt (points) and the limit, at least in my template, is to return 80 tags. That much you can control from just calling the function with different parameters. As far as most recent tags, I am uncertain how to do that, but it sounds like it would be a good plugin (not sure if this does what you want: I don’t think so):

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/enhanced-tag-heat-map/

The information is stored in the database when something is tagged, so I’m pretty sure you could grab the latest N tags by date, DESC and display them as Recent Tags.

[chrishajer]

I just added the tag “futurama” to the following 4 topics:

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/womanizer-cover-by-the-all-american-rejects

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/cowboy-mouth

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/new-releases-on-dvd-and-blu-ray-december-30-2008

http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/topic/amazon-quick-linker

I took a look at the hottags div before and after. There were lots of changes, due to the increase in the use of the futurama tag, but here is the futurama tag information:

Before:

<a href='http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/tags/futurama' title='1 topics' rel='tag' style='font-size: 8pt;'>Futurama</a>

After:

<a href='http://geek.thinkunique.org/bb/tags/futurama' title='5 topics' rel='tag' style='font-size: 14.2222222222pt;'>Futurama</a>

So, the hot tags are updating. What makes you think they’re not?

[chrishajer]

I knew this was going to be a good discussion

[karlheinz]

The Problem ist the IE 6. The Menu is outside the Window. In Opera and Firefox it is ok.

[yokima]

Hello,

I would like to have bbPress in two languages, using the same forum DB. So when viewing in language 1, the forum’s interface would be in language 1 with all the postings listed, and in language 2, the interface would be in language 2 with the same postings listed.

I plan on achieving this with bbPress theme switcher ( http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-theme-switcher/ ) and the link to switch between the themes/languages would be /bbpress/?bbtheme=lang1 and /bbpress/?bbtheme=lang2

I would also like to set up a php page at the root of the web domain to auto-detect and forward to the appropriate mediawiki language page based on

1) user’s browser language preferences if this is a first time visit

2) last connection’s languages preferences, which would be saved in the form of bbPress’s theme preference cookie.

with a file structure of

/blog

/blog/bbpress

/blog/wiki

/langdetect.php

My code so far is:

?php

/* langdetect.php */

$defaultlang = ‘en’

$lang = $defaultlang;

/* bbPress theme cookie detection */

if cookie exists {

(read cookie and set $lang to either en or ko.. bla bla)

}

/* WordPress and/or MediaWiki last visit language detection */

elseif previous visit info exists {

(i’ll figure this out later)

}

/* detect in-browser lang pref … modified from http://kaldung.com/en/php_detectbrowserlanguage.html */

else {

$langlist = explode(‘,’, $_SERVER);

foreach($langlist as $curLang) {

$curLang = explode(‘;’, $curLang);

/* use regular expression for language detection */

if (preg_match(‘/(ko|en)-?.*/’, $curLang[0], $reg)) {

$lang = $reg[1];

break;

}

}

}

/* redirect */

if ( $lang==’ko’ ) { header( ‘Location: http://ENGLISHPAGE’ ) ; }

else { header( ‘Location: http://ENGLISHPAGE’ ) ; }

?>

How can I read the bbPress cookie that contains the Theme Switcher theme preference?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

chris, add that code to your functions.php in your theme folder. No plugins needed.

[ganzua]

You can create a function to remove wanna and add something new. This is an example that Ipstenu provided in another thread;

// This sets closed lable to read as 'read only' instead of 'closed'

remove_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'bb_closed_label');

function my_closed_label( $label ) {

global $topic;

if ( '0' === $topic->topic_open )

return sprintf(__('[Read Only] %s'), $label);

return $label;

}

add_filter('bb_topic_labels', 'my_closed_label');

1 You find the function where “wanna” is.

2 Next, you copy/paste the function between remove/add filter lines of the code above.

3 Modify the copy-pasted function; change “wanna” for “want to”

4 Then, rename that function with a new name, ie “no_wanna”

5 Change accordingly the remove/add lines

6 Finally, place the whole code in a plugin or a functions.php in the template folder.

Another option is probably using a language file but I don’t know if you can set an english-english file.

[chrishajer]

There are a couple place where bbPress uses the word “wanna” as in “are you sure you wanna do that”. I’d like to change that to something more professional, like “want to” but I don’t want to change the core. How can I accomplish that with a plugin?

Using bbPress Alpha trunk (but this “wanna” wording has existed for a long time, maybe back to 0.73). The word wanna can be found in these files:

./bb-includes/js/topic.js

./bb-includes/functions.bb-script-loader.php

./bb-includes/functions.bb-script-loader.php

./bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php

./bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php

Thank you.

[eclipsenow]

Anyone know if Lynda.com is about to do the latest WordPress, (let alone bbpress?) They covered using WordPress.com 2.6, but not 2.7 yet, and have about 3 courses on Joomla.

I’m there to learn Adobe CS4, and have ambitions of learning Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Indesign, etc and delusions of grandeur that I might one day understand my mac almost as well as my wife. (Who’s a VERY professional graphic designer, but a web-illiterate like I currently am). So I paid up for a year at Lynda.com (and will claim that on tax), and sat through 10 hours of CSS training and 3 hours of XHTML and am now starting on Dreamweaver. All this slowed down by Christmas, kids home for 6 weeks in the Australian summer break, and my messing about with Joomla! (There are some things I like about Joomla, but some bad experiences with trying to modify their templates left me a bit blech…. as well!

Yet I hear there is a state of the art Dreamweaver integration pack for $60 that will let me style up WordPress themes in DW! Woah! That almost won me over and gave me delusions of grandeur about one day donating a few state-of-the-art templates to the WordPress world as advertising for my own WordPress theme’s business.

And then the kids came in demanding ice-cream, and reality slapped me across my fantasising, drooling, delusional face.

So… in this vulnerable state of mind, I need a hug. Cult like it is, this “choosing software before you know software” business and frame of mind!

As a bit of an activist with other causes (and having had a little exposure to marketing, not a lot but enough) can I just comment that I think it would be better “press” if bbpress had some more features turned on in this forum? I personally really rely on email notification that someone has replied to a forum, and only check my RSS about once a day. (It’s all inconvenient). Instead of just clicking “Send post” I have to then click RSS, and then click Google Reader when that comes up, and then remember to check my RSS. I think the vast majority of bulletin board users like email notification of a reply. Is there a reason bbpress decided not to showcase some of their best plug-ins on their leading forum?

Anyway, so tired I’m nearly hallucinating. Night night, and no offence meant by any of the above.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Not yet they haven’t. Be nice, but I still keep a backup of my site on a separate DB so I can play with things like ThemeHybrid

[John James Jacoby]

I think I may try to tackle this plugin when I have more time, because I find myself wanting it more and more.

I guess I come from the old school, where a webpage is basically just a snazzy interface for a database, so the interface should allow for any kind of manipulation of the database that you’d need, and only stop you from doing something silly.

[John James Jacoby]

The title of this post made me chuckle, so I had to chime in.

If worse really comes to worse, I am willing to assist on a more personal level. I can’t ethically advertise myself or my services here, but if you can google your way into contacting me outside of bbPress.org, I’d do my best to help you.

…And Joomla, blech…

[chrishajer]

Just edit the link in header.php in your template folder to point it to your WordPress home page, rather than the bbPress home page.

So instead of this:

<a href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a>

You would have something like this:

<a href="http://www.example.com/home/">WordPress Home</a>

[chrishajer]

When you say “copy” do you mean “have the wordpress sidebar in bbPress” so it will be dynamic, just like it is in WordPress? Or, will you just copy and paste the code for a static sidebar into bbPress and it will never change?

If you want the former, you need integration, and you need to include WordPress inside bbPress so you have access to WordPress functions, like get_sidebar();.

If you want the latter, you just need to modify your template files to include the sidebar where you want it, and then modify the CSS to allow the space to exist in your forum.

[chrishajer]

Did you try any of the WordPress-style tricks?

<?php $topics = get_latest_topics('exclude=3' ); ?>

<?php $topics = get_latest_topics( -3 ); ?>

[tinkerer]

Hi,

chrishajer ist right, the wp-blog-header is required in order to make it work.

But apparently this is still not enough; you’ll need to make sure bbpress accesses the event calendar’s CSS files as well; furthermore the events list from this plugin is designed in a way that it will display the details of an event by making use of javascript; this, however, fails. I couldn’t get this to work yet. So in my bbpress people see that there is an event on a certain day, but cant click on it.

Any ideas how to fix that?

Also I’d like to know whether there is a way of accessing the plugin via the bbpress dashboard instead/in addition to the wordpress dashboard. Or, skipping the bbpress dashboard altogether and have one dashboard for WP and bbpress.

[vertus]

I’m not a php-programmer… Where I can add the code from topic starter to make it work?

[eclipsenow]

Thanks, that’s a really useful post.

Almost won over.

However, that installation + configuration video did freak me out a bit. I remember something about copying over cookies looked quite intimidating? How do I store the WP cookies the way the install video did, that didn’t seem clear?

Also, what’s your favourite theme been? I note that this thread alternates between grey and white, and that’s nice, but what happens when people just want it to be one colour and have quotes in some other colour? (So you can automatically tell, phpbb3 style, that someone is quoting someone else and replying to them specifically.)

[mousenator]

Just wanted to thank you for this post, you’re a genius