[Steve]

Its not natural traffic – it just seems to be bbpress doing repeated head/gets on links that are pasted in posts – it also seems to do it to links out to other sites – well it used 195MB of bandwidth against another server in less than 1 day.

And I’ve found it does do it if the file is in the same domain – just missed it in the access logs.

Checking my server access logs the only odd thing I see is

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:07:59:44 +0000] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 483 "-" "The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- bbPress/1.1"

184.168.193.192 - - [16/Nov/2011:07:59:53 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/please-help-with-wordbooker-image-problem HTTP/1.0" 200 42632 "-" "WordPress/3.2.1; http://alt3redegos.com"

184.168.193.192 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:05 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/please-help-with-wordbooker-image-problem HTTP/1.0" 200 42632 "-" "WordPress/3.2.1; http://alt3redegos.com/dev/relaunch"

184.168.193.192 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:12 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/please-help-with-wordbooker-image-problem HTTP/1.0" 200 42632 "-" "WordPress/3.2.1; http://alt3redegos.com/dev/relaunch"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "HEAD /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "GET /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 862574 "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "HEAD /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:21 +0000] "GET /wp-content/uploads/debugs/wordbookerdebug200406.zip HTTP/1.0" 200 862574 "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:40 +0000] "HEAD /2011/10/12/the-new-posting-options-explained/ HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:41 +0000] "POST /xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 483 "-" "The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:41 +0000] "HEAD /forums/topic/debug-204-6 HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:42 +0000] "GET /forums/topic/version-204-released HTTP/1.0" 200 28310 "-" "bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:08:00:41 +0000] "POST /forums/xmlrpc.php HTTP/1.0" 200 446 "-" "The Incutio XML-RPC PHP Library -- bbPress/1.1"

192.168.0.1 - - [16/Nov/2011:07:46:44 +0000] "POST /forums/bb-cron.php?doing_wp_cron HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "bbPress/1.1"

So why does that bb-cron call at 07:46 appear after the 08:00 activies. What does bb-cron do?

[shyaam]

pimarts: I really need your help in understanding if there is a documentation on how you did it or if you could provide me more assistance directly, that would be great as well.

kangenguru: When I did it using your technique, I had issues the BBPress plugin did not have the bb-config.php, so I used the bb-config that is within the buddypress. Hence, I couldnt get the bb-press 2.0 to work. But again when I did it with what is built into buddypress itself, all the files and folders showed up like they were missing.

I am not saying that integrating buddyPress+BBPress is bad, but all I am saying is that I did not know how to work with this issue (could be the lack of knowledge). If anyone could help, that would be awesome.

PS: please do not ask me to google for the documents… I have googled for the past 3 weeks and found several solutions and most of them did not work in my situation. So any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Tommy Kolkman]

Hello,

We’ve got a really big bbPress forum running at http://realmadridcf.nl.

At some point though, the site crashed because of heavy query. After some inspection of the SQL slow query log, we found out that it was this query:

# Query_time: 2.798700 Lock_time: 0.000138 Rows_sent: 5 Rows_examined:

366600

SET timestamp=1321347478;

SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS wpecs_posts.* FROM wpecs_posts INNER JOIN

wpecs_postmeta ON (wpecs_posts.ID = wpecs_postmeta.post_id) WHERE 1=1

AND wpecs_posts.post_type IN ('topic', 'reply') AND

(wpecs_posts.post_status = 'publish' OR wpecs_posts.post_status =

'closed') AND ( (wpecs_postmeta.meta_key = '_bbp_forum_id' AND

CAST(wpecs_postmeta.meta_value AS CHAR) NOT IN

('8365804','8558913','8558914','8561009','8561010','187','8365804')) )

GROUP BY wpecs_posts.ID ORDER BY wpecs_posts.post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 5;

You can see that this query is obviously way too heavy: Rows_sent: 5 Rows_examined:

366600…

After some examination we found out that the query was made through bbp_forum_functions.php – line 923 – function bbp_pre_get_posts_exclude_forums.

Has this problem ever occurred before? Is there someone with a solution?

Regards,

Tommy

[Trobee]

I think you misunderstood my question. I have my roles and capabilites set up, I am just missing the php code to display the role in forum posts, (ie where it says member under my name and moderator underneath yours)

[WhiteRau]

as you like. my blogs and forums are all working. no need to be offended! i just found that after reading this thread *most* people’s questions came from not reading the sticky all the way through. and you are correct: the sticky doesn’t mention merging files. i read that elsewhere (i’ll try and recall where). does it matter? regardless: what i outlined works.

as for duplicates, they override eachother. there’s duplication, overriding and modifying all over the place in WordPress and bbPress. this is nothing new. all that matters is precedence at the end of the day.

nitpicking is pointless and unhelpful. take it or leave it. don’t really care. all i’m interested in is helping people sort this out. my way works. end of story. if you can indeed write a new plugin, then by all means give ‘er! yours might be the halcyon we’ve all been hoping for! that’s the beauty of all this stuff!

WR!

[WhiteRau]

okay. this is an addendum to my previous post, something was nagging at me and it has to do with the way bbPress’ functions enqueue the stylesheets.

you are going to have problems. i forgot a CRITICAL MODIFICATION. and it may ONLY apply to CHILD THEMES. i haven’t finished testing it on standalone themes, but put it in your watch folder…

if you look at the bbPress’ functions, near the middle, there is a section that enqueues stylesheets. i’m not sure why this is there because, in essence, it COMPLETELY OVERRIDES any style changes you make to your child theme’s CSS. what it does is load ANOTHER copy of the parent-style’s stylesheet with a version number tacked on. this forces a precedence over your own style.css, essentially making the newly loaded CSS sheet last-defined. and we know what that means.

so. the fix:

1) find this line in your functions.php file (the one you have the merged bbPress functions.php code in):

wp_enqueue_style( ‘twentyten’, get_template_directory_uri() . ‘/style.css’, ”, $this->version, ‘screen’ );

it’s on line 149 of the original functions(2).php file from my post above, so to make it easy to find, you can do some quick math to find the relevant line number in your (merged) functions.php file. (hope that made sense…)

2) comment it out by simply adding ‘//’ in front of it.

3) reload. your style.css sheet will now be dominant and the css/bbPress.css file will act in a better support role, as it should.

i understand the long-view logic of why this function does what it does, but at a non-galaxy-class-developer level, it makes for massive headaches… and you still have the fun headaches with the bbPress tags…

hope this was also useful. it will save you going bald.

WR!

[WhiteRau]

i got mine working almost without effort. i literally read the sticky at the top of this thread and it worked.

a couple of things to note, that people are stumbling over:

1) READ THE STICKY. don’t peruse it. READ IT.

2) the sticky actually says the same thing twice. COPY the CONTENTS of wp-contentpluginsbbpressbbp-themesbbp-twentyten to YOUR theme’s folder, whether it be a child theme or not. in my case the path was wp-contentthemesSuperTurboTheme.

3) it’ll ask it you want to overwrite ‘style.css’. don’t. just let the OS rename it to ‘style(2).css’.

4) ditto for the ‘functions.php’ file. it should, temporarily, be ‘functions(2).php.

5) MERGE the two functions.php files. i just copy/pasted everything from ‘functions(2).php’ to the bottom of the ‘functions.php’ file. just like in the sticky. i didn’t merge the ‘style.css’ and ‘style(2).css’ files. but i DID make sure the ‘Tags:’ line in my ‘style.css’ file included ‘bbPress’ as the first item, just to be sure. it was an old requirement that doesn’t seem to have been deprecated anywhere and i’m a belt-n-suspenders boy…

6) at the very top of your newly expanded ‘functions.php’ file, add the line ‘add_theme_support( ‘bbpress’ );’ to the very top. just like in the sticky. EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A SIMILAR LINE IN the bbPress’ functions.php file, YOUR functions.php file MUST HAVE THIS LINE as well. EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE MERGED.

7) reload.

don’t get clever. don’t reinvent. don’t assume anything. just follow the steps and you should be fine.

your only challenge now is figuring out how to do your CSS. the ‘style.css’ will control the WordPress portion of the site. it CAN handle the bbPress styling as well, but i prefer to leave it to bbPress.css (located in the ‘css’ folder you copied over) to handle the forum styles. its a bit of a headache sorting out the bevy of tags that get generates, but hey, it works. and i DO mean headache.

not to beat a dead horse, but the real challenge IS sorting out the secondary CSS. i recommend Firebug to help you drill down the the styles. the byzantine class structure can make your head spin. try using the elements that are relatively easy to spot. and REMEMBER THIS: NOT ALL CLASSES ARE IN THE STYLESHEET. this can really toss a wrench into things. they are added for future slice-n-dice, but seems overkill to me. low-order CSS has proved easier for me. i can’t foresee a reason to slice the site up so finely…but it’s futureproofed to the wheel-wells!

good luck. hope this was useful. i apologize if i missed anything. i tried to be thorough AND simple.

feel free to correct me if i stepped wrong somewhere. this is what worked to me.

WR!

[Philip John]

I just spent hours figuring this out so I thought I’d try and save others the bother by sharing it here.

The basic aim was to hide the contents of topics in a bbPress 2.0 forum from any users not logged in. This makes for a nice private forum.

I found suggestions about making forums hidden, private and so on but none of them really worked as they hid them for logged in users too.

My final solution was to make bbPress ‘dumb’ when it comes to logged out users. I.e., it could either be clever and say “there are topics, but you’re not allowed to see them until you login” or it could just say “there are no topics”.

The following code does the latter, dumb version by hooking into the forums, topics and replies loops.

Code:

function pj_hla_logged_in_topics($have_posts){
if (!is_user_logged_in()){
$have_posts = null;
}
return $have_posts;
}
add_filter(‘bbp_has_topics’, ‘pj_hla_logged_in_topics’);
add_filter(‘bbp_has_forums’, ‘pj_hla_logged_in_topics’);
add_filter(‘bbp_has_replies’, ‘pj_hla_logged_in_topics’);

I simply placed this within my theme’s functions.php but you could just as easily wrap this in a function.

Hope that helps someone!

[Dan Milward]

That is a really good idea.

I wonder if it would make more sense to add hooks or filters so that it could be made to integrate with the Achievements Plugin?

Would that be cool?

http://achievementsapp.com/

If people think that is cool then we should probably find a developer willing to do a days worth of paid work on this to make this and all the other suggestions happen

[GregKeen]

Sure, but it’s in Hungarian. Also, it’s a work in progress (the live site still uses the old bbPress which came with an older BuddyPress), so don’t judge!

The topic page which shows the wrong odering is located at: http://beta.gitartanfolyam.hu/forums/forum/bazar/

To help with the Hungarian wording: the last column shows freshness, the words “napja” means “days ago”.

Thanks for any help in advance!

[GregKeen]

Yes, I have, but it didn’t help. Thanks for the suggestion though!

[John James Jacoby]

@thecolab – A lot of the things you mention are more functions of a complete site than they are functions of only a forum. As such, bbPress can only predict so much of how any theme is setup, and sticks hard to the WordPress conventions of shortcodes, widgets, and theme hierarchy.

Since WordPress doesn’t have ‘section specific widgets’ neither does bbPress. Some people want full-width forums, others do not. bbPress comes with some examples on how you can make some of these things happen, but it doesn’t yet work for 100% of all themes and sites all the time.

Really what bbPress needs is for someone (other than me) to start developing themes and widgets for it. Until that happens, some things will remain balkanized my design to appeal to the greater 80% of WordPress users.

In addition, having someone contributing code patches and new features is also helpful. For a while Gautam was able to consistently help, and Jared helped with Genesis integration. If someone wants to dream up new features and code them under my tutelage, I’m happy to help someone else get things done.

[thecolab]

Glad to see BBpress so tighly integrated with regular wp now, still it seems getting it running smoothly out the box is a bit of a challenge for the non-developer.

For instance, using the shortcodes scenario to list forums in a regular wp page is fine, but then when you click any of the forums the bbpress template is used instead, so any sidebar content which might have been added like logins, topics etc needs to be placed into the bbpress templates as well.

any advice on how to set it up so we can have a forums home, with all the bbpress widgets in the sidebar, and then maintain those throughout the forums.

Also off the bat the homepage of the forums doesn’t even have login or register buttons.

Finding some of the simple things you would expect missing.

[warezjasz]

Yes, I found one theme where everything works fine. (short codes can be placed in sidebar by pulling there text bar and shortcode on it)

How to make it work on other themes?

OR….

How to make new widgets for bbpress plugin? There is default login, list of topics etc, but I need let’s say Tag Cloud on the sidebar.

[mesayre]

Hey folks. Got back up and running again. It is a load order issue. WP was attempting to load my theme files before it loaded the bbp core files. Since the class BBP_Theme_Compat is referenced in core, this makes wordpress asplode.

I disabled the theme via FTP to get access to WP admin, then disabled bbpress. Then re-enabled bbpress and lastly re-enabled the theme. Seems to have solved it for now. If I had better WP/php chops I’d know how to write some code that ensures BBP core always loads before any themes. But I don’t. Maybe that can go on the list for next release?

Have a good one.

[redcocker]

I tried to check about other tags.

'span' => array(

'class' => array ()),

I allowed “span” tag and “class” attribute successfully.

'code' => array(

'class' => array ()),

“class” attribute was removed.

[redcocker]

I am using bbpress2.0 (bbress 2.0.1 plugin) on WordPress 3.2.1 and want to allow “pre” tag and “class” attribute for non-admin users.

I modified /includes/kses.php in the WordPress.

I placed fllowing code in the definition of $allowedtags.

'pre' => array(

'class' => array ()),

Nevertheless, “class” attribute was removed.

So, <pre class="value">my code</pre> was replaced with <pre>my code</pre>.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

[gourou]

The error when I tried to update to 2.0.1 was “Cannot remove old plugin” or similar.

The result was the same as above

Fatal error: Class 'BBP_Theme_Compat' not found in /var/www/karting/www/wp-content/themes/karting2011/functions.php on line 46

I deleted the bbpress folder from wp-content/plugins and then uploaded version 2.0.1 from here:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress/

To the same place as the old folder. The template for bbpress in my theme were untouched.

This got the site working again.

[woodwardmatt]

Hey All,

I have installed the bbPress plugin on a few wordpress instances and tend to favour a vanilla install coupled with CSS overrides to provide the look & feel I need.

On a recent install I have spotted an issue with user profiles. When I try and navigate to the user’s profile (typically yoursite.com/users/<username>) I am receiving a 404 page from WordPress.

I can browse to another users profile and it resolves fine. The only difference I can see is that the profile which is not working has a username which has spaces e.g. FirstName LastName as opposed to FirstNameLastName.

Has anyone else had this issue and know if its a genuine bug or a “feature”?

Cheers, Matt

[tony webb]

I have changed my theme to twenty ten which is supposed to be bbpress friendly but I still can’t get bbpress to run correctly in wp

I have downloaded the following plugins;

bbpress login (I assume that I won’t need this now)

bbpress topics

bbpress forum

bbpress reply list

bbpress view list

bbpress integration and pasted a line of define code to the correct

wp config file

I have no idea where to add them or what is the actual content of the plug in. i.e. I expected the topics plugin to show the actual forum front page but there is nowhere in the wp plugin set up to put this. There is only margins or footers. What I do get is the topic title in the margin.

What I would like is to see my bbpress forum displayed in my blog as it appears in bbpress but I am unable to set this up.

What do I need to do to finish the integration process. I can’t find any documentation in bbpress or wp that explains the process. If there is one I am happy to work through it if you send the link.

[iftomkins]

i’d love to know, too!

[iftomkins]

Yes! I very much want to use bbpress template tags within wordpress theme files. I tried it and get an error. I know the bbpress 2.0 codex will come out soon, and maybe that will help. But in the meantime? Thanks!

[tyskkvinna]

I currently use the shortcode bbp-topic-index quite heavily to display the top list of topics currently being discussed. What I want to do is be able to manipulate how the information is displayed inside of that shortcode.

Specifically, I want to change the links in the topic title to have the same function as “freshness” (so that when you click on the topic subject it takes you to the most recent post). It’s a feature my users have been asking for…

Unfortunately I’m having some trouble discerning exactly WHICH file to edit. I’m sure I can take it from there.

Thanks!

[shooo]

Hello,

thank you board, I tried, but it doesn’t work.

I copied this code in my page function.php of my theme. but no widget is created.

/**

* bbPress Replies Widget

*

* Adds a widget which displays the replies list

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @uses WP_Widget

*/

class BBP_Replies_Widget2 extends WP_Widget {



/**

* Register the widget

*

* @since bbPress (r3389)

*

* @uses register_widget()

*/

function register_widget() {

register_widget( 'BBP_Replies_Widget2' );

}



/**

* bbPress Replies Widget

*

* Registers the replies widget

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_replies_widget_options' with the

*                        widget options

*/

function BBP_Replies_Widget2() {

$widget_ops = apply_filters( 'bbp_replies_widget_options', array(

'classname'   => 'widget_display_replies',

'description' => __( 'balbalbalbalbalbalba.', 'bbpress' )

) );



parent::WP_Widget( false, 'bbPress Reply List 2', $widget_ops );

}



/**

* Displays the output, the replies list

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @param mixed $args

* @param array $instance

* @uses apply_filters() Calls 'bbp_reply_widget_title' with the title

* @uses bbp_set_query_name() To set the query name to 'bbp_widget'

* @uses bbp_reset_query_name() To reset the query name

* @uses bbp_has_replies() The main reply loop

* @uses bbp_replies() To check whether there are more replies available

*                     in the loop

* @uses bbp_the_reply() Loads up the current reply in the loop

* @uses bbp_get_reply_author_link() To get the reply author link

* @uses bbp_get_reply_author() To get the reply author name

* @uses bbp_get_reply_id() To get the reply id

* @uses bbp_get_reply_url() To get the reply url

* @uses bbp_get_reply_excerpt() To get the reply excerpt

* @uses bbp_get_reply_topic_title() To get the reply topic title

* @uses get_the_date() To get the date of the reply

* @uses get_the_time() To get the time of the reply

*/

function widget( $args, $instance ) {



extract( $args );



$title     = apply_filters( 'bbp_replies_widget_title', $instance['title'] );

$max_shown = !empty( $instance['max_shown'] ) ? $instance['max_shown'] : '5';

$show_date = !empty( $instance['show_date'] ) ? 'on'                   : false;



// Query defaults

$replies_query = array(

'post_status'    => join( ',', array( bbp_get_public_status_id(), bbp_get_closed_status_id() ) ),

'posts_per_page' => $max_shown,

'order'          => 'DESC'

);



// Set the query name

bbp_set_query_name( 'bbp_widget' );



// Get replies and display them

if ( bbp_has_replies( $replies_query ) ) :



echo $before_widget;

echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; ?>



<div id="lastreply">



<?php while ( bbp_replies() ) : bbp_the_reply(); ?>



<div class="post">

<h4>



<?php

$author_link = bbp_get_reply_author_link( array( 'type' => 'both', 'size' => 80 ) );

$reply_link  = '<a href="' . esc_url( bbp_get_reply_url() ) . '" title="' . bbp_get_reply_excerpt( bbp_get_reply_id(), 50 ) . '">' . bbp_get_reply_topic_title() . '</a>';



/* translators: bbpress replies widget: 1: reply author, 2: reply link, 3: reply date, 4: reply time */



printf( _x( $show_date == 'on' ? '%1$s on %2$s, %3$s, %4$s' : '%1$s on %2$s', 'widgets', 'bbpress' ), $author_link, $reply_link, get_the_date(), get_the_time() );

?>



</h4>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

<div class="clearfix"></div>

</div><!-- fin de post -->



<?php endwhile; ?>



</div><!-- fin du last reply-->



<?php echo $after_widget;



endif;



bbp_reset_query_name();

}



/**

* Update the forum widget options

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @param array $new_instance The new instance options

* @param array $old_instance The old instance options

*/

function update( $new_instance, $old_instance ) {

$instance              = $old_instance;

$instance['title']     = strip_tags( $new_instance['title']     );

$instance['max_shown'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['max_shown'] );

$instance['show_date'] = strip_tags( $new_instance['show_date'] );



return $instance;

}



/**

* Output the reply widget options form

*

* @since bbPress (r2653)

*

* @param $instance Instance

* @uses BBP_Replies_Widget::get_field_id() To output the field id

* @uses BBP_Replies_Widget::get_field_name() To output the field name

*/

function form( $instance ) {

$title     = !empty( $instance['title']     ) ? esc_attr( $instance['title']     ) : '';

$max_shown = !empty( $instance['max_shown'] ) ? esc_attr( $instance['max_shown'] ) : '';

$show_date = !empty( $instance['show_date'] ) ? esc_attr( $instance['show_date'] ) : ''; ?>



<p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title'     ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Title:',                   'bbpress' ); ?> <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'title'     ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'title'     ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" /></label></p>

<p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'max_shown' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Maximum replies to show:', 'bbpress' ); ?> <input class="widefat" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'max_shown' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'max_shown' ); ?>" type="text" value="<?php echo $max_shown; ?>" /></label></p>

<p><label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'show_date' ); ?>"><?php _e( 'Show post date:',          'bbpress' ); ?> <input type="checkbox" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id( 'show_date' ); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name( 'show_date' ); ?>" <?php checked( 'on', $show_date ); ?> /></label></p>



<?php

}

}

sorry, I feel as bad as otter. :'(

[alleny33]

I want to browse for apps

Many “community” forums available on the internet have attempted to create a list of apps that are available for android tablets for sale but they all have on thing in common, poor execution. The list is unintuitive and uninteresting. A very bland list of apps with no description or screenshots-that’s not how I want to browse for apps. starzmart