[rosebud]

Thanks for the words, both of you.

@ w3creativa:

Actually, the translation I am using is from a bbpress related site. I can’t remember which one though. I’ll try and upload the files if you want them.

@ benbeltran:

Dodecá is indeed from Uruguay.

[benbeltran]

“Insulting” != Insulting … It’s more like calling a great piece of markup tag-soup because of some details is a bit exaggerated, and it could even be an insult to the developers who carefully thought it, but it’s not really serious, nobody is getting angry because of that

[benbeltran]

rename config.example.php to config.php and upload config.php

[benbeltran]

Standards are good, but sometimes It’s not wise to sacrifice usability or maintainability for standards. Proper isn’t always best, but when you can do the best properly, then it’s recommended.

When I said it was not important, I meant it’s not as important as many other things on the forums, I’m the kind of people that sticks to standards when possible.

And yes, what’s tag soup?According to wikipedia it’s “HTML code written without regard for the rules of HTML structure and semantic”. Honestly I think that applying that phrase to software that is mostly standards compliant is not right. Changing one ingredient doesn’t turn a steak into a soup, this term should be applied to websites that step on the whole HTML specification. It could be “insulting” to call this carefully coded software “tag soup”. But that’s just me …

It would be nice though, to see what you can contribute to the project, I know your comments are intended to help, and it would rock to see them turn into palpable produce.

[chrishajer]

Edit the file called config-sample.php to reflect your database and site settings, then save it as config.php. Or rename config-sample.php to config.php. You don’t need a file called sample-anything anymore, you just need a file called config.php with your settings in it.

[youngmicroserf]

Hi, I’m having problems with the character encoding on a WP/BBpress integrated site. In WP, I can tell the system to encode the page in ISO-8859-1 (which is necessary in this case), in bbpress I don’t know how. I declare the doctype and the meta-content-charset in the theme’s header, but as opposed to the WP pages, the bbpress generated ones are encoded as UTF-8. Looking at the page properties in Firefox, I can see “encoding: UTF-8” and “meta information… charset:ISO-8859-1”.

Can someone help, please? Thanks in advance!

[chrishajer]

Where is it displayed now? Chances are, it’s in the config.php:

$bb->name = 'New bbPress Site';

That is used for what might be called the ‘name’ of your site.

[benbeltran]

Nice design, nice color scheme. Great forum software .

Great work, dodecá is from uruguay? (.uy)

[_ck_]

Yeah all the “users online” and user tracking can only come after I release a user tracking plugin

[baptiste]

I put together some code to implement a real bread crumb trail for BBPress that should support any level of subforums. I’ll open a ticket for the change too, but until it’s in the trunk (hopefully), you can use it by doing the following.

In bb-includes/template-functions.php, just above the // Forum Loop // line, add the following:

(UGH – Why if I put code inside code tags is bbpress insisting on parsing it and tossing in backticks everywhere! To see the code, check this file: http://onthepitch.org/talk/bb-includes/template-functions.txt)

You’ll have to update your template, mainly forum.php and topic.php. Look for the line like this”

<h3 class="bbcrumb"><a>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a> &raquo; <?php forum_name(); ?></h3>

and replace it with something like this:

<h3 class="bbcrumb"><?php forum_bread_crumb(); ?></h3>

And it should work for you.

[Null]

How about some: this is what I did and this is the CSS I used. You can download the plugin here

I would like to use Gravatars myself too

_Null

[mciarlo]

Thanks guys! We put a lot of work into the forum design. However, we are updating the entire website and the forums are getting a complete re-design (for the better of course). Feel free to stop by in the next few days to check it out .

-Michael Ciarlo

[benbeltran]

Nice nice . Maybe a “Most users ever online” or something. Personally I like to keep statistics simple and compact, but some people like to display a lot of statistics.

Top Taggers maybe? Who knows.

[outchy]

i finally found it! you were right fel, i was missing a </div> in post.php. that sucker was elusive! i feel so accomplished right now

[ganzua]

It is quite interesting . Perhaps “top topics by posts” and “top topics by views” will overlap.

[bedbugger]

great plugin.

one question: can Bozos pm?

[benbeltran]

I display statistics on my forum, but not with a plugin I just did this:

<div id="onlinelist">

<?php include_once("bb-includes/statistics-functions.php"); ?>

<h2>Statistics</h2>

Our users have made a total of <?php echo get_total_posts(); ?> posts in <?php echo get_total_topics(); ?> topics. <br/>

We have <?php echo get_total_users(); ?> Registered Members. Our newest member is <?php if ( $users = get_recent_registrants(1) ) : foreach ( $users as $user ) : ?>

<a href="<?php user_profile_link( $user->ID ); ?>"><?php echo get_user_name( $user->ID ); ?></a>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

<br/>

<p><?php show_online_users(); ?></p>

</div>

This could be easily pluginized though, I might do it. But instead of waiting, I recommend doing it yourself or just pasting this on your front-page, wherever you want it to be displayed.

[benbeltran]

SamBauers is right, text/html is right and “application/xhtml+xml” + IE6 = headaches. And it’s really not that important.

On the other hand, the inline styling parts are more of a problem for people who want to design a theme. To edit the tag cloud I had to edit the code so it could support changing colors. If you could make a class for each step, it would be easier to customize the cloud.

point 4 .. .well I wouldn’t know about it since I don’t have a colour deficiency, but I can barely notice the change of color. Still, because of the structure of the forum, I am able to differentiate between topics easily, might be something to think about.

Why not help the project out by editing the default theme so it validates properly and is more accessible (I wouldn’t change the text/html part though) without changing the current looks, if it’s properly executed and it doesn’t make things harder for developers, it might become the official one. Collaborate

[Sam Bauers]

Thanks for your notes.

What is the problem exactly with serving XHTML using text/html?

It’s allowed under the standard:

XHTML 1.1 documents SHOULD be labeled with the

Internet Media Type text/html as defined in [RFC2854]

or application/xhtml+xml as defined in [RFC3236].

And as far as I know IE6 tends to bork out when you specify “application/xhtml+xml”.

[Trent Adams]

Any web host can use a slew of stats programs. They are all web based and work well like sitemeter, awestats, webalizer, etc. As well, you just need to add your Google Analytics code off their site to your header.php and your bbPress forum is listed. You don’t need any special software. Just add the script they give you when you signup to your header.php file of your template.

Trent

[mazdakam]

also never forget to put strings in __ and _e

for my view yu have forgotten!!

also never forget to putting load plug in function and po files

coffee?

[outchy]

that worked perfectly, thanks

[1drummergirl]

I just updated my bbpress forum after a few months of neglect and I’m looking to pump some new life into it and add some new plugins.

There’s not near as much activity in the forums as my regular blog, but I do get some folks who would rather post in the forums than on the front page of the site.

Let me know if anything looks amiss.

http://www.girlscantwhat.com/forums/

[benbeltran]

Nice idea! I’ll have to work on making my forums nicer if I want them to appear on that list

[outchy]

i’m having a small problem with pretty permalinks. when i first created a particular forum, i named it ‘general discussion’ but later i changed the forum name to ‘sk6ers talk’. the problem is, the forum link is still /forum/general-discussion when it should be /forum/sk6ers-talk. i’m having this issue with a few other forum names as well. any thoughts on how to correct this? thank you!