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
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”.
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
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?
that worked perfectly, thanks
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/
Nice idea! I’ll have to work on making my forums nicer if I want them to appear on that list
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!
IMHO validation is just a syntax check and the least of bbPress problems right now.
The most useful doctype for the next decade is:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
Get back to me when a browser DOESN’T support that 
Makes life sooo much easier. Then posts can contain <b>, <u>, <s> and <i> and all sorts of standards people have been used to for the last decade instead of reinventing the wheel!
Now instead go round up a dozen php plugin developers and get them onboard and we’ll have some real momentum
I’ve been considering making this ability but it really worries me about the volume of email if someone subscribes to many, many topics. Spam filters, not to mention your server host can trigger bans if too much email is being sent.
But I do have all the routines I need however to build such a plugin based on code from my signatures plugin and ignore member plugin. (Digests are another matter however, that’s a bit of work and requires tracking of last message seen, which is not natively built into bbpress)
There is just too much to create but too little time to do it though. I’ve got too many little projects going.
“Of course this blocks admin too which is bad so”
I have no reason to use the forums that I wish to restrict. Im only using them for titles sake 
Thanks for commenting
I fixed this problem
the topic_views plugin was also sending out a session and did not have the @ symbol in place.
All is fixed ^^
What you are trying to do with read-only has to be done in post-form.php
You’d have to wrap it in a check for which forum id # it is and not allow the form to render if it’s one of the forums you don’t want posts in. Of course this blocks admin too which is bad so you’d have to check bb_current_user_can(“administrate”) too.
Then there is the dropdown section, where you’d have to prevent the forum name from listing, so that needs a replacement function. It’s not 10 minutes of code unfortunately or I’d do it for you.
Basically you’d need a completely custom post-form.php in your template.
Thanks for the lengthy response
It is kind of strange that forum permissions was not their main priority when creating this package. I don’t want this to dampen how I feel about bbpress though. Since the private forums feature works it already fixes half of my problem.
One easy workaround for now would be to manually close all your posted topics in a forum.
I dont see how this would prevent users from creating new topics altogether. These parent forums are simply supposed to act as titles… i’ll see if I can find anything in the code to fix this.
^^
Or simply don’t let the post be made with titles that get sanitized into nothingness, or better yet, titles that are shorter than X characters – something like:
function title_regulation($text) {
if (strlen(trim($text))<
bb_die(__('Your title is too short, please say something meaningful!'));
if (strlen($text)>80)
bb_die(__('Your title is too long!'));
return $text;
}
add_filter('pre_topic_title', 'title_regulation',100);
hi again
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al of you know that notification email is very important for tracing a post
i am using post – notification plug in
but it need to be better:
don’t send any email until you visit the post from your email link
i got crazy this month because for every new post i will give notification email and the trafficked of my forum is high
many other forum systems have this feature
so i recommend this:
an option for users to select didgist summary or per post or until he/she visit(default!)
Read-only forums are tricky to do as bbPress does not have any structure in place for forum permissions to the best of my knowledge, only user permissions to a certain extent. Apparently no-one considered forum control important in a forum program? Hmm.
The private forums plugin has to insert alot of code just to mange making forums invisible to certain users (and still can miss some areas). To make them read only, while removing the “new post” form seems obvious, it wouldn’t solve the problem as there are two or three places to create a new post (and apparently in future versions via trackbacks). Unfortunately none of that can be done via plugins, it would have to be a direct hack.
Perhaps in a future version they will consider forum permissions to make this easier. Other mature forum software has this ability, easily. I will look into how tricky the direct hack might be, probably not too hard, but keep in mind you’ll have to re-do it every time you upgrade.
One easy workaround for now would be to manually close all your posted topics in a forum.
First off, sorry mods if this is a double post. I left a comment on the Allow Images plugin page, but I don’t think many people read those comments unless they themselves are having a problem. So I thought I would be better off starting a new topic.
I’ve been stumbling with getting images to work on my bbpress 0.8.2.1 forums for a day or two now. For some reason the Allow Images 0.7.1 plugin doesn’t work for me. When I post an image it gets truncated down to <img /> in the database.
I’ve tried using the two spaces before the ending slash – No Luck
I’ve also tried editing the bbpress core files like meeciteewurkor recommended – No Luck.
I did notice that if I used phpmyadmin to edit the database manually and put the <img src="http://domain.com/image.jpg" /> code into a post the image shows up. So there has got to be a function that is filtering out the src part of the image tag or something 
Anyone have any suggestions? Is there a function I should be looking at in particular?
The forum is located here:
http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/index.php
But the config entry is wrong, because the server thinks the URI for the site is here:
http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/
So, in your config.php, you have this:
$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/forum.html/';
instead of this:
$bb->uri = 'http://claystreet.uparkforfree.com/bbpress/';
Change that line, and you’ll be good to go. The site looks like that because the path to the style.css file is wrong (among other things). In fact, once the URI is corrected, the site looks like this:
http://www.chrishajer.com/bike/XLF/ClayStreet.png
Good luck.
Nope, once a month mdawaff comes out of his cave, fixes a ton of bugs and crawls back again.
No 1 can find him afterwards, no 1 knows when he will appear again….
And one day, you check this site and a new release is there…..
The end
I had a user write a post with this title:

This creates a post like this:
* http://www.kosmosity.com/forums/topic/?replies=1#post-2
I’m using the “slug” option on this test forum which uses the default theme and bbPress 0.8.2.1. It looks like the
is being sanitized to “” (an empty string), which confuses bbPress and leads to that topic resolving to an error page. On the test forum to which I just linked, I have no plugins except WordPress Integration.
Has anybody else run into this bug? Is there an existing workaround? If other people can replicate this bug, I’ll create a ticket in Trac. Also, if there’s no existing workaround, I’ll try to create a plugin workaround.
Thanks,
Bob
I have a certain user at my forum http://www.doublepeace.se/forum and some of his posts aren’t showing up for the rest of us. He took a printscreen and showed me the post but when I went to the topic myself I couldn’t see it. This has only happened to this particular user. Any ideas?
Actually… that wasnt such an elegant solution @_@ If logged in it redirects me to the control panel.. and when I access bbpress directly it still redirects
Maybe its because I dont have an ifelse going on.. not sure.
Out of curiosities sake.. isnt there a way I can disable the wordpress control panel for subscribers and have them redirect to the bbpress profile page? That would be awesome…
>_>
Hey man.. thanks for your reply. And yes I’ve went extensively through all the hacks. (By the way you made some wicked ones… without your contributions bbpress wouldnt be so awesome)
Vbulletin might have been around for a very long time but its so generic it makes my head hurt. Every vbulletin site you come across looks the same and its pretty hard to customize. Sure you can edit the templates quite heavily but it still heavily depends on tables and executes one massive css file.. even though most of their style attributes is stuck on tables @_@ Sure bbpress uses tables but definitely in a more elegant way.. (frankly I wouldnt want any tables on my page to start with.. will make a theme later thats css only)
I like the idea of having a very small bare bone forum install that can be extended from there.. I’m sure in no time the plugins will be in the core where its just a matter of switching it on in the admin panel. Either way, the plugins are pretty easy to install anyway.
As for my problem.. I made a relatively elegant fix! 
add this at the top of your header.php
<?php if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>
<?php
header("location:http:/......../wp-login.php?redirect_to=%2F");
exit;
?>
<?php } ?>
Got my site almost sorted now.. just need to find a way to make a tickbox in “post-form.php” that sets the thread to go to favourites 
As well as perhaps a tickbox next to the comment button