[chrishajer]

I was able to make the links clickable by adding this to the SmallNav CSS:

position: relative;

z-index: 3;

 

Then I removed the four margin settings. You might have to experiment with the positioning, but this at least makes the links clickable.

[chrishajer]

To post source code here, just use the backtick (upper left on a US keyboard, under the tilde) before and after your block of code.

I noticed in your forum source there is a link to this style.css which does not exist:

http://www.addiva.net/bbpress/style.css

Not sure if that’s a problem or not, but it’s not right. In addition, you should validate your CSS here and fix any problems.

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator

I would start with those things and maybe something will stand out.

[keress]

Actually, that’s not the way the code looks. I guess there’s no way to get code to read as code here. I guess you’ll just have to take my word for it I’m using standing HTML a href’s to dish up some links.

[keress]

I’ve copied the same navbar I’m using on WordPress into BBPress, it has hard links, so it should be straightforward, but for some reason, within this header.php file, the links aren’t live.

http://www.addiva.net/bbpress/

The code looks like this:

<div id=”smallNav”>

Home

| Possibilities

| Events

| Blog

| Forum

| Store

About ADDiva

| Meet Linda

|Media

| Resources

| Contact </p>

</div>

<!– end smallNav –>

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Oh, possibly.

Operating system  	Linux

Kernel Version 	2.6.9-67.0.4.ELsmp

Apache version 	1.3.37 (Unix)

PERL version 	5.8.8

PHP version 	5.2.1

MySQL version 	5.0.51a-community

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

@sam: The function ‘display’ in the bbpress-live.php class ‘bbPress_Live_Widget_Forums’ appears to echo out the fora lists etc. Look who I’m preaching too I must have missed something!

Curious Ipstenu that the rest of your wp blog functions with this plugin enabled and in this state. Not my current experience. Server differences?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Viewing source was the first thing I tried. Old habits die hard But really, there was nothing.

I did not check the error logs, so I did that right now.

On Server:

Make sure error-log is set to verbose for now.

On bbPress:

Enable XML-RPC – YES

On WordPress:

Install plugin – Done

Activate Plugin – Done (no errors)

Configure Plugin –

URL (http://jorjafox.net/forums/)

ID/Password (Ipstenu / 555Nope!)

Caching Enabled - NO

Enable forums widget - YES

Enable Topics widget - YES

Copy new WordPress posts to bbPress (not implemented)

Then I went into widgets and picked ‘bbPress latest topics’, put it at the bottom of my sidebar. I gave it the title of ‘Latest Topics’ and saved my changes.

The header shows up on the bottom of the side bar, no content.

Error log is empty. Frustration resumed

By the way, if the standalone function is called to be echoed like print_r($myarray);, shouldn’t that output something?

[_ck_]

I just wanted to announce I have a primitive prototype of OpenID working with bbPress and should have a more stable version for experimental testing within a few days (likely by the end of the weekend). The only requirement is your PHP needs CURL with https (ssl) support, which many servers have or can easily add ie. via cpanel’s rebuild PHP (check your PHPINFO to be certain).

I finally got an old openid 1.1 framework working with openid 2.0 so this makes it possible to use it with all the newest providers: aol, yahoo, microsoft and now even Google (as a “consumer”, not as a server).

The biggest problem was making it work without extra libraries like the complex math support and even DOMXML which is not available on many shared hosting PHP4 servers. But found a way around that too I’ll eventually add fsockopen support with ssl so even CURL is not a requirement.

ps. OpenID on WordPress.com needs to be fixed to offer a secure login when a cookie is not present like every other provider. This is annoying

[johnhiler]

I have been getting reports that registrants on my bbpress forum aren’t receiving their auto-generated password emails from my server.

I’ve read a few threads on this forum that suggest workarounds. But I’m more interested in allowing my users to set their own passwords.

There’s a neat WordPress plugin that does exactly what I want:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-password-register/

I don’t even need the email confirmation/validation code part. I just want users to be able to specify their own passwords. If bot registrations become a problem, I’d just install a captcha plugin.

Can someone adapt that code into a bbpress plugin that allows for user-defined passwords? I’d be glad to pay $100 to anyone who can deliver a working plugin! Plus I’d be eternally grateful and would have no objections to open sourcing any code that came out of this.

Please let me know!

[Sam Bauers]

The standalone functions in bbPress Live don’t print anything to the screen, they return an array. You need to do something like this:

<?php

$bbl_topics = bbpress_live_get_topics();



foreach ($bbl_topics as $bbl_topic) {

echo '<a href="' . $bbl_topic['topic_uri'] . '">' . $bbl_topic['topic_title'] . '</a>';

}

?>

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Thanks Deadpan11,

The core behavior of bb-settings.php is to append BB_HASH to the cookie name on line 638:

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ($bb->wp_cookies_integrated ? 'wordpress_logged_in_' : 'bbpress_logged_in_') . BB_HASH;

Even in a non-WPMU installation such as this one, I would agree that this is a good coding protocol to follow. I did try your suggestion though, because I do want to understand, but the cookie was still created as wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8.

This caught my eye over the weekend…

In bb-settings.php line 592:

$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = false;

$bb->cookiedomain = bb_get_option('cookiedomain');

if ( $bb->wp_siteurl && $bb->wp_home ) {

if ( $bb->cookiedomain ) {

$bb->wp_cookies_integrated = true;

I even tried setting $bb->cookiedomain=” to allow the code to construct the value… no joy. No problems logging into bbPress, which is just fine for the moment.

The code is alpha! Since others had had success I was trying to nail down my server environment deltas…

I’ll push on with other projects for now

[timskii]

Technically, it’s not just about pretty links and sitemaps. BBPress can produce much cleaner, better structured page code than certain other forum software.

Meta descriptions and keywords are still used by search engines where available. Personally I take the tags associated with each topic and add them to the list of keywords. In the keywords meta:

global $tags;

if($tags) {

foreach ($tags as $t) {

echo $t->raw_tag.', ';

}

}

That said, I still believe that asking whether something is SEO-friendly is asking the wrong question. Work on making forums user-friendly, which then attracts “quality” posts, and the search engines will follow.

[_ck_]

What they are asking for might be closer to post-count-plus.

It doesn’t display it graphically though which would require some extra code to simply display a div with a background image at a designated width.

[_ck_]

Very nice work.

Demo:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=WPMimic

don’t forget to add the info at the top of style.css

/*

Theme Name: WP Mimic

Theme URI: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/topic.php?id=1

Description: This theme is called "WP Mimic" because it is structured after the current themes of WordPress (.com and .org) forums.

Version: 0.02

Author: limited

Author URI: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/

*/

and make a proper screenshot

[Deadpan110]

@musnake – as you are not using sub domains, the only thing i can see wrong with your setup is the:

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8';

Try changing to:

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';

[Deadpan110]

Im not sure if I have set my bbPress 1.0.alpha2 to work with WordPress MU 2.6.3 correctly, but its working.

http://domain.com = my WordPress MU

http://forums.domain.com = bbPress sub domain

As you can probably see, there are things within the config files that might not be needed.

WordPress/wp-config.php

define('AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

I copied and pasted the existing lines straight into bb-config.php replacing what was already there and then added the BB_ to each.

bbPress/bb-config.php

define('BB_AUTH_KEY', 'authkey');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY', 'secureauthkey');

define('BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT', 'secureauthsalt');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY', 'loggedinkey');

define('BB_SECRET_KEY', 'secretkey');

define('BB_SECRET_SALT', 'secretsalt');

define('BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT', 'loggedinsalt');

In BOTH bb-config.php AND wp-config I added:

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.domain.com'); // remember the '.' prefix

define('COOKIEPATH', ''); // this is empty

Then I visited http://forums.domain.com/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php (Settings > WordPress Integration) and scrolled down to ‘Manual bbPress config file settings’ and copied all the text below ‘WordPress cookie integration speedup’ and pasted into bbPress/bb-config.php.

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->wp_home = 'http://domain.com';

$bb->cookiedomain = '.domain.com';

$bb->cookiepath = '';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_LEFT_THIS_ALONE';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_'; // DELETE the hash part

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';

Oh, and I added the$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'wp_'; too.

NOTE

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_';

The hash was removed and the line reads EXACTLY as above.

To test, just make sure you are logged out of both and then log in and visit your other site.

Final Note, as stated above – there is probably a lot of unneeded clutter in the bb-press config, but all works for me – no matter which domain I log into!

I hope this helps someone

[umdenken]

I’ve started a project to allow people to integrate apps like bbPress into existing Rails applications. From the README:

The Integration API is an Open Source project with the goal of making

it easy to integrate an existing Rails application with any number of

off-the-shelf apps, such as WordPress, Beast, PunBB, or Vanilla. The

focus is on enabling transparent single sign-on between the

applications.

The basic idea

---

The key idea is to add a web services API into the existing Rails

application, which allows one or more 3rd party apps to get the

information they need, when they need it. The API should be

configurable enough and general enough so that it can be added to any Rails app without modification. The Rails app stays in control of all sign-in and sign-out functions.

…so, the idea is to write a plugin for bbPress that works something like WordPress’s LDAP plugin. But I’m not a big bbPress coder … anybody interested in helping with this?

Project page: http://greenfabric.com/page/integration_api_home_page

[beernews]

sorry for not being more clear.

It was a javascript that I didnt realize had been left behind the code in the header file:

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://onvertigo.com/anarchy_media/anarchy.js”></script&gt;

Nice work on this template, Trent. :thumbsup:

[Sam Bauers]

@limited

Automattic generally don’t have a problem with this sort of thing at all unless of course you were using it to pretend to be WordPress.org or WordPress.com in some sort of deceptive way. Which of course you aren’t.

[Sam Bauers]

Try:

foo {

border-collapse: collapse;

}

.

Where foo is what you are trying to affect.

[rensenieuwenhuis]

forum: http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl/r-forum/

blog: http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl

New forum on R-Project and statistics in general, based on BBPress 1.0 alpha-2I didn’t change much to the original code (other than some minor tinkering on the CSS).

Plugins:

• Support Forum
• Unread Posts
• Post notification
• Moderator post notification
• Google adsense
• Akismet

Also use BBpress Live to mirror on my blog what’s going on at the forums. Finally, the forum is accessible through a ‘page’ on my blog: http://www.rensenieuwenhuis.nl.

In the future, I plan to use BBpress Live to send a selection of my blog-posts to a subforum.

[thion]

http://forums.astateofmind.eu

Plugins:

– Human Test for bbPress

– Forums Moderators

– Allow Images

– bbSocialize

– bbPages

– bbPress Smilies

– bbFlickr

– Forum Last Poster

– BBPress Private Messaging

– BBcode Buttons Toolbar

– Private Forums

– bbPress signatures

– bbPress Polls

– BBcode Lite

Modifications: A lot! bbSocialize and bbPages plugins has been created specially for this website, there is a lot of conditional php tags (if, else, etc.), I’ve created a function to create a sidebar, and I’ve integrated some jQuery stuff, and more .

If I could only attract members as I’m coding things .

[fuzzmop]

I’ve been wondering how to remove the borders or padding in the stylesheet for Kakumei. I can’t find *anything* that would lead me to changing this. I’ve tried this:

table, th, td, tr { border: 0; padding: 0; }

But it doesn’t work unless you’re “adding on” to it.

Here is an example of what I’m trying to do: http://img79.imageshack.us/img79/2452/paddingtp9.png

I’m running BBPress 1 Alpha 2 if that’s of any help.

Can someone please help find out how to remove the border/padding? It would be greatly appreciated.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Hmm,

With all the path and cookie info stripped out of bb-config and wp-config, cache and cookies cleared, the logging into bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /forum/

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/my-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /forum/bb-admin

Note the trailing slash on the /forum/ path.

The only ‘integration’ info in the bb-config.php is the db connection stuff. That’s it.

Now, this may be/probably is totally natural, that `wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin` cookies are set, and this goes to highlight how wrong my perspective is! Here I was thinking that I had configured at least part of it correctly, the auth cookie stuff, but it was doing it all along, haha.

I wonder if one of the WP user permissions plugins (WP-Sentry comes to mind) is affecting this -nah! Cookies are set before output is sent.

Time to back off of this.

Users will just have to log in twice (between the blog and the fora).

Thanks rowoot.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Sounds familiar.

I have been brute-forcing it (after reading the cookie-related code to see where it’s getting what) and have discovered that if I strip ALL of the integration code, I can still get the correct wp cookies to be generated which sounds like a cache issue…

I’m going to flush cache now… and if it still works, I’m going to try and turn water into a nice Shiraz.