[livibetter]

1. remove /register.php or redirect it to somewhere, or replace it with your page (tell visitors your forum temporarily doesn’t accept new registrations) then you can skip step 2.

2. remove register link from your login-form.php in you template folder.

3. Use this. You may need these

$roles['member']['capabilities'] = array('read' => true);

$roles['moderator']['capabilities'] = array('read' => true);

$roles['administrator']['capabilities'] = array('read' => true);

[jazbek]

Hi,

I am about to migrate my current bbpress site over to a new server and would like to freeze posting and registration so that the databases don’t get out of sync. I don’t really want to take the whole forum offline, though.. I’d like visitors to still be able to read through the existing posts. Does anyone know of a quick way to do this?

TIA

[honewatson]

I set up an integrated BBPress and MU WordPress on Nginx. There may be a better way of doing the rewrites but these work well for me.

Here are the BBPress Nginx rewrites:

location /forums/ {

root /home/YOURDIRECTORY/public_html/forums;

index index.php;

if (!-e $request_filename) {

rewrite ^/forums/topic/(.*)$ /forums/topic.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/forum/(.*)$ /forums/forum.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/profile/(.*)$ /forums/profile.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/view/(.*)$ /forums/view.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/tags/(.*)$ /forums/tags.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/rss/(.*)$ /forums/rss.php?q=$1 last;

rewrite ^/forums/bb-admin/ /forums/bb-admin/index.php last;

rewrite ^/forums/ /forums/index.php last;

break;

}

}

Here’s a full write up here:

http://dev.honewatson.com/bbpress-wordress-mu-integration-nginx-pretty-urls-rewrites/

[bssfi]

Hi again

I am just trying to post the banners in a thread.

The plugin is already enabled, so that’s not the problem. Most of the banner codes seem to have the closing backslash missing in the closing img tag. It seems that bbpress is particularly fussy when it comes to this type of code.

[bssfi]

This is a regular problem on my forum. bbpress seems to remove the image part of the banner as there is missing code. Usually I can work out where the missing tag goes. In the case of the following TradeDoubler code, I can’t! Any suggestions much appreciated.

<script type=”text/javascript”>

var uri = ‘http://impgb.tradedoubler.com/imp?type(img)g(16463372)a(1422608)&#8217; + new String (Math.random()).substring (2, 11);

document.write(‘<img src=”‘+uri+'” border=0>‘);

</script>

[livibetter]

Currently, bb-admin/admin-header.php uses active template’s logged-in.php. I changed this php in my theme, and it looks a little bit strange in admin page.

I think admin page shouldn’t use any files from templates, even the default template. Could this be an issue?

And it seems no need to use login_form(), it should just include a logged-in.php in bb-admin or simply put codes within admin-header.php.

[suzkaw]

Here is a link to mine: http://www.68kb.com/2007/10/25/bbpress-plugin-68-gravatars/

From browsing your code mine is way way basic. Just one function and one call. Also mine only uses the posters registered email as well.

[livibetter]

echo make_clickable($content);

If you pull posts from database, then trying to make it possible to use template functions may be a better solution.

[suzkaw]

I wish I would have seen this earlier. I just hacked in gravatar support by using the wordpress plugin. Since I didn’t see any listed in the extensions section I went ahead and applied to have mine added. I will go ahead and delete mine since their is really no point in having two.

If you have any use for the code I used let me know I can send it on.

[Null]

Hi,

I’m trying to add a new custom page to my forum. It’s very simple, this is what I have so far:

– 1 custom page called test.php

– the page includes the forum header and footer

– The content (middle) part is pulled from the db aswell

All works fine except hyperlinks! Links like http://www.test.com will NOT appear as a hyperlink, but just as plain text. How to fix this? I want this to behave just like this textfield I am typing in right now (auto hyperlink converting).

bbcodes like bold do work.

_Null

[livibetter]

This plugin can validate more deeper. Not only the HTML tag’s attributes, but also the contents of attributes. You can set your own regular expression for attributes. For example, you want limit users to post Flash videos only from YouTube or Google, then you can restrain the src attribute.

Sample posts: This post shows you an embedded YouTube video and this has a image floating at right side.

Visit Plugin page or directly download HTMLTagAttributesValidator.php.

Any comments on this plugin are very welcome.

[livibetter]

I only tested one case, the dollar sign ‘$’ on my testing forum with commenting out the entire function bb_user_sanitize except last line. I can register with ‘$’ in username, post with that account and the username is showed correctly.

[livibetter]

add a filter for bb_user_sanitize to allow those characters you need (choose carefully!). Check line 114 in formatting-functions.php for the parameters which you can use in your filter.

I personally don’t agree to allow users having fancy or funny usernames. You may encounter more problems that you have never thought.

[livibetter]

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: NoNewsPostsForMembers

Plugin URI: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/no-new-posts-for-members

Description: No New posts for members

*/



function NoNewsPostsForMembers($roles) {

$roles['member']['capabilities']['write_posts'] = false;

return $roles;

}



add_filter('get_roles', 'NoNewsPostsForMembers');

?>

Put it in my-plugins with any filename.php you like. Activate it. Then this should work.

[bluegeek]

Hello!

I want to restrict new posts in bbpress only to moderators and admins. What is the best way to do it?

I’ve found a very simple way editing capabilities.php but I would like to avoid editing the source code.

'member' => array(

'name' => __('Member'),

'capabilities' => array(

(...)

'write_posts' => false,

Thanks.

[zenonx]

So there should be special user that would “post” all such comments.

Anyway, I can’t use this plugin because as soon as first comment appears, I’m not an admin anymore

[sethi2000]

I am still getting error after making all the recommended changes

Warning: mysqli_get_server_info() expects parameter 1 to be mysqli, boolean given in /home/.mascot/digitalguruz/sheetudeep.com/bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysqli.php on line 80

Cannot select DB.

[livibetter]

I made some changes to have paginated search results on relevant post. However, I am not sure is this what you need. You need to modify two files: search.php in root of bbPress and search.php of your template files.

Replace if block start at line 9 in search.php of root of bbPress with:

if ( $q = stripslashes( $q ) ) {

add_filter( 'bb_recent_search_fields',   create_function( '$f', 'return $f . ", MAX(post_time) AS post_time";' ) );

add_filter( 'bb_recent_search_group_by', create_function( '', 'return "t.topic_id";' ) );

$bb_query_form->BB_Query_Form( 'post', array(), array( 'per_page' => 5, 'post_status' => 0, 'topic_status' => 0, 'post_text' => $q, 'forum_id', 'tag', 'topic_author', 'post_author' ), 'bb_recent_search' );

$recent = $bb_query_form->results;



$bb_query_form->BB_Query_Form( 'topic', array( 'search' => $q ), array( 'post_status' => 0, 'topic_status' => 0, 'search', 'forum_id', 'tag', 'topic_author', 'post_author', 'count' => 'found_rows' ), 'bb_relevant_search' );

$relevant = $bb_query_form->results;

global $relevant_round_rows;

$relevant_found_rows = $bb_query_form->found_rows;

$q = $bb_query_form->get( 'search' );

}

I added a query parameter 'count'=>'found_rows' to second $bb_query_form for retrieving total post count. And I added global $relevant_found_rows to pass to template search.php (you can use bb_load_template to do same thing).

Insert the following code just before second <?php endif; ?> from bottom in template search.php

<div class="nav">

<?php

$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if (false !== $pos = strpos($uri, '?')) {

$uri = substr($uri, 0, $pos) . '?q=' . urlencode($q) . '%_%';



if (!isset($page))

$page = 1;



global $relevant_found_rows;

echo paginate_links(array('base' => $uri, 'format' => '&page=%#%', 'total'=>ceil($relevant_found_rows/$bb->page_topics), 'current'=>$page));

}

?>

</div>

Should look like:

<?php if ( $relevant ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e('Relevant posts')?></h2>

<ol class="results">

<?php foreach ( $relevant as $bb_post ) : ?>

<li><h4><a href="<?php post_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title($bb_post->topic_id); ?></a></h4>

<?php echo bb_show_context($q, $bb_post->post_text); ?>



<small><?php _e('Posted') ?> <?php bb_post_time( __('F j, Y, h:i A') ); ?></small>



</li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ol>

[insert the code above here]

<?php endif; ?>

You can find paginate_links in bb-includes/wp-functions.php.

[chrishajer]

I was not happy with bbPress search functionality a long time ago, now I just live with it. The results were always weird looking to me.

Anyway, now I just use Google to search my site if I want to find anything. Something like:

site:mysite.com term1 term2 at google.com does the trick. Of course, the content needs to be indexed at Google for that to work. An alternative I heard about was Google Custom Search Engine:

http://www.google.com/coop/cse/

I have no idea how that works but it’s an option.

I think doing what you propose with the search results would require a lot of work (having 3 sets of search results complicates it in my mind), but maybe one of the plugin writers will show an easy way to do what you propose. Maybe you could perform all three searches and aggregate the results, then paginate them. That would be easier than breaking them into title matches, recent posts and relevant posts. That begs for having advanced search options anyway. Like, why can’t you search for a user’s name? I thought you used to be able to, but searching my forum now for a known user name doesn’t return anything like “User Name matches”: I thought it used to.

Looking at how a user profile works is interesting. If you click on a user’s name to get to profile.php?id=the_user_id, you’ll see a paginated list of all posts made by that user ordered by the last time they replied (so, that user’s posts in the order that they made them, most recent first) and a list of threads started, I think. Maybe a plugin could be written to replace the search queries with something like what profile.php does, except instead of selecting all posts and threads for a user (which are returned in $posts and $threads) maybe you could do a similar query with your search term, in all the fields you want to check, then return that? Hmmmm…

I think search is a weak point for lots of blogging platforms and forum software, and I think getting it right is important, so it’s worth looking into.

Good luck.

(sorry: edited version substantially)

[simon551]

not sure if I understand that. I forgot to put the backticks around my links code which I’m sure didn’t help. the code you provided is already contained in the header.php file in templates. The link as is is to mysite/forum

but I’d like to make one that goes to mysite. Or even better, the end link would be like this:

<a href="http://mysite/">My Site </a> -- <a href="http://mysite/forum"> Discussion Forum</a>

[krussell]

I’m looking for advice on how to modify the search functionality to paginate the results that are returned; i.e. the default functionality returns N matches in each of the following categories: thread title, recent posts and relevant posts, but I would like to allow a user to scroll through repeated pages of search results.

I’ve had a look at search.php and this is structured around returning a fixed number of results for each query, which effectively hides anything that doesn’t come up in the first N results of the search. The concept of listing the results of 3 different queries in one results page also seems to be incompatible with providing a pagination mechanism (which list do you paginate?). I feel that the default method of handling search results is a bit limited and confusing for users familiar with a typical Google-style search that returns one simple list in multiple pages.

I have had a look at the code, but I’m no PHP guru; is there any way of getting the sort of results I would like without fundamentally rewriting the search mechanism?

p.s. not being overly critical here – I think bbPress is a great piece of work!

[Trent Adams]

It would be easier to do the following if you want to change your title back in config.php and then download your header.php from your template folder and do something like this:

<h1><a href="<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a></h1>

Then save the file and upload to /my-templates/ so if you make a mistake, you can delete it and bbPress will use the original!

Trent

[intellivision]

Fixed. It was the path to the .js file that got changed with the template change. Check this in your source code, and if the path isn’t correct the buttons won’t show.

[chrishajer]

Never mind

[livibetter]

I see. Then that would be

require_once '../wp-blog-header.php';