[_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.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

So I was thinking about this in the shower, if I can get bbPress to set a cookie for / instead of /forum I think my woes would be over (See Step 2 above…)

Now, before looking into it further, I don’t think this is how it works. If the script calling for a cookie to be set is in folder ‘/forum/’ then the domain scope for that cookie is going to be set to ‘/forum/’ by the webserver.

But to test the obvious, I rushed to bb-config and tried variations on

// Cookie Scope

$bb->cookiedomain = '';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '/';

No joy.

Maybe if I had the wp-login code on the forum site…with bb-admin cookies… let me try some things…

The ‘/’ cookie to rule them all is the way to go. If I can just get it to work…

[Vietson]

Its my first time using bbPress and first time theming it. I must say, the easiest forum to theme I’ve ever come across.

I mimic WordPress (.com and .org) forums layout structure and color palette. Still working to iron out some css issue.

I wanted to update jquery to the current latest but it broke a few things. So I’m currently writing a plug-in that will hopefully update the jQuery and fixes the few broken items.

BBCode Lite,

BBCode Button

Allow Image

BB Smilies (maybe I should change this to something better)

BB Video

Askimet

TOS (Terms of Service)

Demo: http://idolsavenue.com/forums/

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

I’m only 3 days new to bbPress so I hope I don’t steer you wrong…

There are probably alternating colors too…

#thread li.alt .threadpost

#thread li .threadpost

I think it’s the background color of the li not the img to be changed…

Hmm, I’m going to bow out, sorry. The solution is probably ridiculously facile and I look forward to seeing it. A bbPress content filter for the img tag inside an li?

Sorry!

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

Until someone who know what they’re doing chimes in… you could use CSS Selectors (of your own making e.g. ‘foo’) to trap and apply styles to elements with the ‘foo’ attribute…

[foo]        -- Has an attribute named "foo"

[foo="bar"]  -- Has an attribute named "foo" with a value of "bar" ("bar")

[foo~="bar"] -- Value has the word "bar" in it somewhere ("blue bar stools")

[foo^="bar"] -- Value begins with "bar" ("barstool")

[foo$="bar"] -- Value ends with "bar" ("I was at the bar")

[foo*="bar"] -- Value has bar somewhere ("I was looking for barstools")

So I guess, if you had <img foo='inpost'... and

[foo ="inpost"] { background-color: transparent; max-width:100%;} that might work.

If you posted an actual link to the test site (or emailed it), folks could use FF web developer plugins etc to nail down the CSS tree for that theme…

I hope this helps.

[kannued]

I added this

.threadpost img

{

background-color: transparent;

max-width:100%;

}

But it didn’t change anything. The max-width is to restrict larger images.

[WebDev WaxLotus LLC]

It’s like trying to open the wrapper on a new CD you’re dying to listen to…if I can just get it open without using a hammer…

This is a thread. There are many threads like this thread. This thread is my thread.

Follow the cookie path please. Visit with the config file settings. See the pattern and you will bend the spoon. Then let me eat ice-cream with that spoon, please.

Paths:



WP: http://mydomain.org/

bbPress: http://mydomain.org/forum/



Apache version	1.3.41 (Unix)

PHP version	5.2.5

MySQL version	5.0.51a-community

Architecture	i686

Operating system	Linux



#########################################

bb-config.php:

// URI’s

$bb->wp_siteurl = ‘http://mydomain.org&#8217;; // No trailing slash

$bb->wp_home = ‘http://mydomain.org&#8217;;

// Cookie Scope

$bb->cookiedomain = ”;

$bb->cookiepath = ”;

$bb->sitecookiepath = ”;

$bb->admin_cookie_path = ‘/forum/bb-admin’;

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forum/bb-plugins’;

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/forum/my-plugins’;

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = ‘/wp-admin’;

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = ‘/wp-content/plugins’;

// The name of the cookies

$bb->authcookie = ‘wordpress_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$bb->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘ahhpushit’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘pushpushit’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘realgood’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘andpepper’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘arehere’);

#########################################



wp-config.php:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘ahhpushit’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘pushpushit’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘realgood’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘andpepper’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘arehere’);

$wp->authcookie = ‘wordpress_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$wp->secure_auth_cookie = ‘wordpress_sec_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

$wp->logged_in_cookie = ‘wordpress_logged_in_blah3_blah5_blah8’;

// bbPress WP integration

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ”);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ”);

#########################################



1)Clear all cookies



#########################################



2) Log into bbPress: (mydomain.org/forum/): role 'member':

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

#########################################



3) Visit WP site: (not logged in)

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

PHPSESSID => /

various 3rd party cookies from picasa etc



#########################################



4) Visit wp-login.php: (not logged in)

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

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



5) Log into wp-login.php as 'subscriber' user (same user as bbPress) which puts me /wp-admin/

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

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

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



6) 'Visit site' from wp-admin

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

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

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



7) Click on '//mySite.org/forum' link on main site (bbPress install dir)

Forum's first page displays: No extra cookies made.  These cookies are from WP in the previous step:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

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

PHPSESSID => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

#########################################



 Log out from bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

STILL LOGGED INTO bbPress!



#########################################



9) Visit wp site

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



10) Logout from WP site: (wp-login.php?loggedout=true)

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



11) Visit forum site.



logged out.



#########################################

12) Clear all cookies



#########################################



13) Log 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

#########################################



14)Log out of bbPress:



All cookies cleared.



#########################################



15) Visit WP site + clear cookies.



#########################################



16) Log into WP

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



17) Visit bbPress site.



Already Logged in as wp user.

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_URIHASH => /wp-admin

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



18) Logout from bbPress:

wordpress_logged_in_URIHASH => /

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

Still logged in to bbPress!



#########################################



19) Logout from main site:

wordpress_test_cookie => /

PHPSESSID => /

#########################################



20)  Eat stapler.

[_ck_]

I really wish people would just post in the extend area for each plugin directly. All these fractions of questions and answers all over the forum makes it impossible for the next person to find it .

The span technique should be fine, I just didn’t do it that way because it’s just about as much code to put an image in the foreground that way than the background.