I think it’s possible using a cleverly-written plugin that will kill the postform to reply to a thread if you’re not a mod or admin. It hasn’t been done, though, so you’d need to make it yourself.
To make mods or admin, the best thing is to let people register and then go to their Profile > Edit and change their role to mod or admin. 
How does this crazy devlist thing work? Signed up but got no emails, so I assume no-one’s talking. I send an email to bbdev@lists.bbpress.org? I don’t want to completely break etiquette or somesuch first time, so I thought I’d wait and see but there isn’t that much to see.
Yup. I think it is, I heard about it in the context of bb a while back. No news, no secrets, although there seems to be some code for view management in the bb-includes which may mean that a proper views system will be introduced (… sometime).
WordPress. I have deleted Dan’s. When I try to activate it or on every single page when it is activated. Can you e-mail me the code so that I have the exact version or post it in the plugins bit. Awgandrews ATHIS gmail.com .
Same again through:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in /homepages/27/d120217802/htdocs/wp-content/plugins/cmdavatar.php on line 193
I haven’t intergrated it with bbpress yet, but since I can’t get it to activate, this doesn’t seem to be the problem.
Thanks!
I had the same partial 404-links.
For me the right htaccess solved the issue.
It was really the missing Options +MultiViews in the .htaccess (root or bbpress-folder – both works). So maybe You’ve a further look?
Manually query the category database and output it? Not that it matters. 
Is this on a WordPress or a bbPress page, dyaddydad? Have you done a full bbPress integration, including the “functions” section? Do you use the $forumpage variable as suggested in my post with the code? Did you uninstall Dan’s plugin before uploading mine?
I would’ve thought the duplicated code wouldn’t be more than some basic HTML; CSS can easily be linked to and you have a different API anyway. I can’t say I really know, I haven’t done it. Your function to create the links could easily check if it was called from bb or WP automatically and respond appropriately, but I understand needing the WP API.
bbolman: https://trac.bbpress.org/timeline
Few things regarding the wordpress header. The main reason for this is that I want access to the wordpress functions. This is because the sidebar has bbPress user account functions, such as view / edit profile. I need to know what the user’s wordpress id is in order to create these links when bbPress isn’t running. Granted, I could just send them to the wordpress profile, however I don’t care for the wordpress user profile page. It takes them completely out of the site. In addition to this, I dont really want them on the dashboard, for any reason. I eventually plan to extend the profile pages to include user comment activity in addition to forum activity, etc. I couldn’t do that without both systems running. As for the rest of the general integration, faking this functionality by copying and pasting code and duplicating everything seems lazy and sloppy.
That’s a nice site, and I love the fact that you made a ‘fancy’ menu without using Flash. Also I really like the effect of that Start Selling badge . The colour for stickies in your forum is a bit dodgy though, it might look nicer if you used the sidebar orange for that (and for the green headers maybe).
I don’t understand the necessity to use WP headers, though. Surely the amount of work needed to standardise the header is far less when you just copy the code? That’s got poor maintainability I admit, but there shouldn’t be anything you need to edit often in templates and if you really needed it you could write and use some wrapper functions that would determine which stuff to load.
Actually, when I just try to add a new identity for testing, it seems to have automatically been set as a moderator.
That’s a bit worrying! What happens if every user becomes a mod?
Also remember WP is in version 2.1, while bb is still before official release at version 0.8.
Works great vilimaunula! I really love Dans/Vili avatar thingy It’s a nice solution.
Sorry for the confusion.
It’s a WordPress plugin. And no, you don’t need to install any avatar-upload thing, or indeed any other extra plugin to get this to work.
The function works both on WordPress and bbPress, but since it is a WordPress plugin (and thus a WordPress function) you will need to make WordPress functions available to bbPress. This is covered in the Integration with WordPress page in the bbPress documentation (see the last section, “Functions”).
I hope this clears things up a little.
ohhh i really wish i could do that . I am no where close to programming in php . Is it not possible for me to request such kind of plugin as normally if you see its a feature in most of the sites as they show the lastest joined users and also online users with avatars 
Trent, do you think you could point this topic out to one of those people with mighty WP/bb mojo? Just a gentle pointing out or something. Nothing pushy.
I have my wordpress install as the root of my website and then there is a folder beneath that for ‘forums’.
So, my directory structure looks like this:
/var/www/wp-config.php
/var/www/forums/config.php
In the bbpress config.php I have these (relevant) lines:
$bb->path = '/forums/';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.website.com';
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.website.com';
For yours, since you have WordPress at wp_01, you would have something like this:
/var/www/index.html <---- your website home, not WP home
/var/www/wp_01/wp-config.php
/var/www/wp_01/forums/config.php
your config.php:
$bb->path = '/wp_01/forums/';
$bb->wp_home = 'http://www.intar.org/wp_01';
$bb->wp_siteurl = 'http://www.intar.org/wp_01';
HTH
Chris
Thanks for the brainstorming!
Exactly, something relevant to the keyword. Cause as things are now, they give ways to ‘cheat’ somehow, and for example put in very common keywords. This would be partially avoidable by blacklisting articles and stuff like that maybe. I think it would be cool to read the page they wanna promote and get the keywords from the meta-tag “keywords” in that page. Just cause it is less comfortable to change those just for a forum, I hope people have more interesting things to do Furthermore they would be supposed to be relevant to the content.
But this introduces other complications… As far as I know this would imply the use of function calls like get_file_contents and stuff, that many hosters deny for not local files. There is a way to get around this by using the curl libraries (?), but will they be installed on the hoster?
Your idea is cool cause it basically resolves the problem! The only flaw I see is this would improve the pagerank of GOOGLE and not of the poster’s website. Cause I was in a ‘business stuff’ mood… Yeah, it would raise the visit counts. And in a trend of helping the spread of informations sounds like a plan. If I’ve seen right, it would definitely be more ‘forum users’ oriented than ‘topic poster’ oriented.
Let’s not forget what fel64 said… cause if this system is based on the keywords (not tags) I still tend to think it would spoil the content of the topic itself. While if all is shifted to the tags of the topic, the magic happens (links from google, whatever) if the topic is well formatted (good tags etc.)
But it’s early in the morning again, sorry.
Ok, this time I deleted all the Media Wiki tables from the database, then reinstalled Media Wiki. This time, I didn’t use a prefix for the table names.
I uploaded Authpress.php and added the code to Localsettings.php.
Now when I try to login, I get these errors:
Warning: Compilation failed: characters with values > 255 are not yet supported in classes at offset 33 in /web/abc/abc/citizenkeith.com/forums/wiki/includes/User.php on line 224
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /web/abc/abc/citizenkeith.com/forums/wiki/includes/SpecialUserlogin.php on line 320
fel64 – Thanks for the rundown. Unfortunately, I know very little about coding, so I’ll leave it up to somebody else. And that somebody may be dyaddydad!
dyaddydad, I’d love to check out the plugin. Can you send it over to me so I can test it? kamera at gmail dot com. Thanks!
No reason to delete the db! You can always use something like PHPmyAdmin to change entries. The relevant settings should be in wp_options.
This was directly after you were in WP Admin > Options > General and changed only WordPress Address and Blog Address? You’d need to change back the options named “siteurl” and “home” respectively. Change them back to IP and see if the problem disappears.
daddy, you will need to use the “Vili’s avatar thingy” code that I posted above, and then just use the same function as with WordPress:
<?php if(function_exists('cmd_show_avatar')){ cmd_show_avatar(); } ?>
The only other stuff is on this site: https://bbpress.org/documentation/
Help out with the bbpulp site, though, if you can.
List of filters; there’s probably 5 – 10 there involving RSS. One of them will let you check if a topic is hidden and if so remove it.
That would be a cool plugin. Add it when done.
If anyone is interested, I just hacked together a plugin to so this.
It was crazy as it look aproximately two seconds to do it, using the code base of the Forum Restriction plugin and about one line of change. Allow me to get a backend worked out and if someone likes I’ll post it up.
Does anyone know how one would go about filtering the RSS feed out as well to prevent users from seeing this?
No, but it won’t be hard to write your own. Add a link to each topic (visible only to mods) to /hide.php?id=%topic_id%. In hide.php, check if the user is actually a moderator, if so add an entry to bb_topicmeta indicating this topic is hidden. Then use the right filter to monitor the topics and remove them from the list if it’s marked as hidden and the user isn’t a moderator. Finding the right filter might be hardest; I suspect it’s forum_topics but don’t know. List of filters here.
[edit] oh yes, also worth adding another element to the new topic creation form, asking if it should be hidden, so that the topic won’t be visible in between creation and being marked as hidden.
