So how about the following?:
bb_forums -> Add a unique key to forum_slug
bb_topics -> Add a unique key to topic_slug
bb_users -> Already has a unique key on user_nicename
bb_tags -> Already has a key on tag which should be changed to a unique key
chrishajer: Ah, sorry. mod_rewrite
timskii: I could have sworn they had it turned off at some point, but maybe I am misremembering. The point is that hosters tend to do stuff like that (often without warning), so as robust a solution as possible would be ideal, naturally.
*I’m a designer, not a coder, so I’m mostly talking out of my ass.
I would also be very much interested in a “approve registration” plugin. I am building a forum for in-house use only so want to make sure that only staff sign up to use our forums 
Would anyone be able to assist with testing a conversion script from IP.Board 2.3.4 to bbPress 0.9? I’ve started writing some code myself to handle the switch. It would be great if any other coders would be willing to assist with this too.
The way it will work currently is to generate a ‘ipb2bb.sql’ file that you can pass to mysql to upgrade the database. It will import users, categories, topics and posts. You can ask it to limit it’s import to select categories only instead of all categories.
Hey guys,
I have a busy bbpress board (http://boards.weddingbee.com) that uses slug-based permalinks. The database has been slow lately, so I started optimizing tonight. While scrolling through the queries in the slow query log, I saw many log entries like this:
SELECT topic_id FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_slug = 'gerbera-daisieswhere-can-i-order-them-wholesale';
Let me back up. The default install for both the old school 0.83 and the new 0.91 has URLs like this:
* http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic.php?id=999
However, I set my bbpress to use “slugs”, so that topic redirects to:
* http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/need-advice-re-florist-mess-up
The problem is that a slug-based URL requires a database query to translate the ‘slug’ (need-advice-re-florist-mess-up) into a topic_id (999). However, the topic_slug field in the bb_topics table is not indexed. in the bbpress database. Thus, the database needs to scan the entire bb_topics table to find the topic_id!
In short, if you want to use slug permalinks, you should go in and index the topic_slug in your database, or your database will be slow once you have lots of topics. You may also want to index tag (in bb_tags) and forum_slug (in bb_forums). I saw a substantial improvement in performance upon adding these indices via phpmyadmin.
Anyone else run into this issue?
-Bob
P.S. In a perfect world, bbpress might automatically index these fields if the keymaster selects “slug” or “name-based” permalinks.
We could try to appeal to the mercy of whoever the current plug-in coders are. I’ve seen something at TextDrive where a group would donate some money into a pool for development purposes.
I think it’d be great if they added the “Ideas” feature here at bbPress like they have for WordPress also.
https://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/
Try putting this in your bb-config, it should rename those bbPress cookies for you:
$bb->usercookie = 'wordpressuser';
$bb->passcookie = 'wordpresspass';
.
You may also need to adjust the cookie domain and path, but try that first.
Ah, in that case all you need to put there is mail.ru without the asterisk or leading dot.
I installed bbPress on a directory called /discussions on the root of my hosting account, where I have also installed WordPress 2.5, everything on the installation went ok, but after all been done, the admin login to the dashboard gives me the following message:
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
Any solution?
I had the same problem with my plugins with the avatar tab too. It makes tabs duplicate.
I’ll have to lookup the workaround I did…
Okay the bug fix I had to use was to wrap the function that adds a tab and check if $self was set.
ie.
function add_tab(blah) {
global $self;
if (!self) {
// code that adds tab goes here
}
}
So what you probably need to do is change this line like so:
if (!$self && bb_get_current_user_info( 'id' ) == $user_id) {
@Beer: When/if I get the time I’ll be sure to make it public. As you know it’s quite something else to make it work generically rather than for one specific site.
Thanks for the praise though, appreciate it.
@_ck_: Thanks. Yes, I also had a good mind of making that “online” banner that phpbb uses, available per user but other things caught my attention. 
Anyways, glad you both liked it.
Front page topics plugin isn’t working? Hmm. Should be.
I have a modification I’ve done somewhere…
Try this:
// fix number of front page topics
function bb_custom_topic_limit($limit) {
switch (bb_get_location()) :
case 'front-page': $limit=5; break;
case 'forum-page': $limit=10; break;
case 'tag-page': break;
case 'topic-page': $limit=15; break;
case 'feed-page': break;
case 'search-page': break;
case 'profile-page': break;
case 'favorites-page': break;
case 'view-page': $limit=10; break;
case 'stats-page': break;
case 'login-page': break;
default: $limit=15;
endswitch;
return $limit;
}
add_action( 'bb_get_option_page_topics', 'bb_custom_topic_limit',200);
// required to fix for custom topic limits to calculate correct page jumps
function fix_post_link ($link,$post_id) {
global $topic;
remove_action( 'bb_get_option_page_topics', 'bb_custom_topic_limit' );
if ($topic && $topic->topic_last_post_id==$post_id) {
$topic_id=$topic->topic_id;
$page=get_page_number( $topic->topic_posts );
} else {
$bb_post = bb_get_post( get_post_id( $post_id ) );
$topic_id=$bb_post->topic_id;
$page = get_page_number( $bb_post->post_position );
}
return get_topic_link( $topic_id, $page ) . "#post-$post_id";
}
add_filter( 'get_post_link','fix_post_link',10, 2);
Is there a manual way to get someone set to KeyMaster? I registered and was user #1. There seems to be no use #0 so there is no administer for the forum. I’m totally locked out. 
I found the issue. The table names were custom set to not interfear with anything that that wasn’t called out anywhere in the install process except in an advanced (hidden) area.
I’ve re-installed BBPress 4 times now and I finally go it to work, with all my old posts, but I can’t log in.
This will affect all forums:
global $bb_roles;
$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_topics');
$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_posts');
You can put it into header.php or make a real plugin ie.
members-cannot-post.php (and install into /my-plugins/)
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Members Cannot Post
*/
global $bb_roles;
$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_topics');
$bb_roles->remove_cap('member','write_posts');
?>
I think I will make a real plugin which can control this on a per-forum basis since this seems to be a requested feature that is not too hard to handle in 0.9 Look for it in the plugin section over the next day or two.
I have a karma plugin in development but it is not available yet and most likely will not be until early May.
You can preview it in use at http://bbShowcase.org
The code in brackets is BBcode so you want my BBlite:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-lite/
I think it is. The only issue is if you had an integrated install, then you would have bbPress users in your wp_users and wp_usermeta table. You would probably have to manually remove those entries from those tables. Don’t drop the wp_ tables, just the bb_tables.
I think that’s about it. Once the code is gone from the filesystem, the database doesn’t matter much except for keeping things tidy.
<strong>like this</strong> and it will look like this. Not bbcode, HTML.
and i am trying use code or something… how i can type this?
[strong] hello[/strong]
I don’t have pretty permalinks on. I don’t have an .htaccess file in the bbpress install. My root .htaccess is this
php_flag register_globals off
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/print/?$ /wp-print.php?year=$1&monthnum=$2&day=$3&name=$4 [QSA,L]
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*comment_author_.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wordpressuser.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wp-postpass_.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1index.html.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1index.html.gz [L]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*comment_author_.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wordpressuser.*$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*wp-postpass_.*$
RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1index.html -f
RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1index.html [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
<Files 403.shtml>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>
#AddHandler php5-script .php
Nevermind, I’ve coded it myself . But it’s not ready for release yet…
Hey,
Just wanted to mention that I have released a matching WordPress theme, just in case anyone is using Peacemaker for bbPress.
You can download it here.
UPDATE!!
Figured out a way to integrate WordPress smileys into bbPress. Use this plugin!
http://pastebin.com/f411dfe2a
Hi all,
I’m using this in Japanese. When the user is registered, mail is garbled. It seems that it is because the mail body is submitted with raw UTF8 (not MIME-encode) also this is because of mail in Japanese(encoded iso-2022-jp) being provided as shown in RFC1468.(See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1468.txt)
However, it is possible to display it even in Japanese with UTF8 normally by doing appropriate treatment.
1. Add Content-Type header and etc.
$headers[] = “MIME-Version: 1.0”;
$headers[] = “Content-Type: text/plain; Charset=UTF-8”;
$headers[] = “Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit”;
2. MIME encodes the header.
use mb_encode_mimeheader().
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-encode-mimeheader.php
Regards,
