[bbuser12345]

^ And here is the attitude of so many in the “open source” community.

The question is are you making your software for the end user or as a plaything for other developers. So many open source projects look like a giant circle jerk.

If it takes editing .php files and knowing SVN and other developer centric things just to get basic functionality then your software will never get out of the ghetto you have created for yourself. At least have a help page that walks people through installing the latest trunk (what is that anyway?).

I can’t even read the blog updates and get any real sense where the project is because of all the jargon and “project in-group speak”. And here is the kicker I write code all day. I am not even close to the kind of user I would think you would want to be able to run your software.

It just gets really frustrating and the dismissive tone with which our concerns are often met exacerbates the problem.

[bbuser12345]

^ And here is the attitude of so many in the “open source” community.

The question is are you making your software for the end user or as a plaything for other developers. So many open source projects look like a giant circle jerk.

If it takes editing .php files and knowing SVN and other developer centric things just to get basic functionality then your software will never get out of the ghetto you have created for yourself. At least have a help page that walks people through installing the latest trunk (what is that anyway?).

I can’t even read the blog updates and get any real sense where the project is because of all the jargon and “project in-group speak”. And here is the kicker I write code all day. I am not even close to the kind of user I would think you would want to be able to run your software.

It just gets really frustrating and the dismissive tone with which our concerns are often met exacerbates the problem.

[anabecse]

can you please provide the code you used?

I have this exact problem.

[RandomGuySays]

Don’t get me wrong, I want to. bbPress looks wonderful, I love the simplicity and ease of use, as well as it’s integration features which are a huge plus to me. And while I acknowledge that bbPress is going through some tough times (being semi-new and through my understanding, the project lead leaving), I cannot choose bbPress for my site. The worst part about my specific situation is that I’ll most likely end up using it in the future once it’s matured, and knowing that is even more of a kick in the pants.

A lot of times with software, the more simple it is to use, the less features it has to be used. However, bbPress lacks basic bulletin board features – like poll creation, simple appearance settings such as customizing visible forum structures, and even a pre-made registration EULA. Other bulletin boards include prepared terms and conditions to protect your site, bbPress simply asks for your e-mail which with the lack of spam prevention filters like Captchas, even with the right plugin becomes an open door towards floods of spam. Other bulletin boards also give you the ability to, for instance, change the number of how many subforums are visible: Say you have a video game forum, organized as follows: Games (Category), Console/PC (Forums), Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo (Subforums), Xbox/Xbox 360 (Sub-subforums), Hardware/Accessories (etc.). On most forum software, the appearance settings default to showing one set of subforums per-page – e.g. when you click, ‘Console Games’, the next page displays only, ‘Microsoft/Sony/ Nintendo’, and you go from there. bbPress however, defaults to listing them all at once, resulting in enormously long forum pages that can only be changed by editing code. This may not be a problem for a lot of people as it should only require changing one or two lines to fix, but as a basic feature found in most other bulletin boards, to expect people to know how bbPress’ code works would just be wrong, and as such becomes a huge turn off.

In my opinion, one of the biggest bottlenecks and double-edged swords of open source software such as WordPress, bbPress, and even other open source forums, are the plugins. I remember reading a blog discussing the state of bbPress where the poster used the phrase, ‘there’s a plugin for that’. Plugins can be great, but they should also be considered an added bonus and not relied on for basic features. Most plugins are created by a third party, or even people like us. Just for talk sake, lets use wp-united for example. Wp-united is a plugin that links accounts between WordPress and phpbb so people can use their account from one, with the other. Say I used WordPress with phpbb, and then used wp-united to link the two. One day the wp-united team ceases support, and their latest version is incompatible with the new phpbb/WordPress. Now what happens to the huge install base I’ve developed? Do new users now have to register twice? Is my database going to be completely screwed up? bbPress eliminates this problem by having seemless integration with WordPress, but it just shows an example of how plugins can be both a good and bad thing, and how some features (like poll creation) need to be made a part of the main software despite, ‘less code being more’.

And lastly, arguably the number one issue preventing me from using bbPress, is the state of bbPress itself; the development of this software is up in the air with there being two completely different places to discuss it’s progress (this being one of them), and the other claiming talks of turning bbPress into a BuddyPress plugin. So the people new to bbPress, such as myself, don’t know what to do. Should we install the software now? Or wait until it’s a plugin? If we install now and they change it to a plugin, what happens to the standalone installations? Do they get screwed? Are they forced to install BuddyPress and switch everything over? Now I’m only human. I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong, I make mistakes. But even if not all my facts are straight, the fact that doing the research lead to this whole scenario makes for quite the first impression.

I didn’t post this to bash bbPress, I just hoped it would clear some of the confusion and thought it might in some way shape or form help bbPress and it’s users by getting these issues out in the open.

[anabecse]

I have installed a fresh copy of bbpress onto my server. Everything works except 1 thing.

On the start page there is a spot that says “Topic — Add New »”

When clicked this is the message I always get.

403 Forbidden

Access to this resource on the server is denied!

---

Powered By LiteSpeed Web Server

LiteSpeed Technologies is not responsible for administration and contents of this web site!

How do I make it so it takes the user to a login or register an account screen.

I can provide my url if requested but I am not sure of the rules so I didn’t include url.

Also don’t want my url cached hehe!

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,

[Gautam Gupta]

Hello folks,

I’ve ported the famous Mystique theme for WordPress over to bbPress and it can be downloaded from here.

For the time being, there is no settings page – I’ll add one soon. Till then, you can edit the file settings.php located in the lib folder of the theme (from lines 11 to 20) for some basic settings.

Requirements: bbPress 1.0+ (works best with bbPress 1.1+ – it hasn’t been released yet)

Screenshot: http://gaut.am/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/bb-mystique-full.png

Announcement on my blog: http://s.gaut.am/1f

[OreilleMalade]

I just checked and… this is exactly the one I’m already using (Google Sitemaps Version 0.1 | by Olaf Lederer)

bbPress Sitemap Generator (0.6.1) Author: Rich Boakes & Frédéric Petit is no good ?

[OreilleMalade]

Hi !

Any idea ?

Shall I try to install bbPress Sitemap Generator (0.6.1) Author: Rich Boakes & Frédéric Petit ?

Or this one ? :

http://www.finalwebsites.com/bbpress/google-sitemap.php

Is there another sitemap plugin for bbpress 1.0.2 ?

Regards

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thi is a unique theme. It has not been released.

It’s not overly hard to replicate from code on this forum.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Thi is a unique theme. It has not been released.

It’s not overly hard to replicate from code on this forum.

[_ck_]

Some interesting statistics for the entire 10,000+ collection of all bbPress installations:

bbPress Version Popularity

1.1 : 1%

1.0 : 48%

0.9 : 36%

0.8 : 15%   (includes sites below 1.x that hide their version

as 0.8 has no consistent way to be detected)

PHP Popularity

5.3 : 4%

5.2 : 70%

5.1 : 4%

5.0 : 1%

4.4 : 6%

4.3 : 1%

?? : 15% (unknown)

So PHP version 5 adoption has finally taken off in late 2010.

Server Popularity

Apache 	 	: 40%  	  (specific version unknown)

Apache/2.2 	: 35%

Apache/2 	: 10%	  (sub-version unknown)

Apache/1.3 	: 5%

Nginx 		: 5%

Microsoft-IIS	: 3%

Litespeed 	: 2%

(and quite a few others/variations but below a single percent each)

Downloads via bbPress.org as of October 2010

bbPress 0.9 : 150,000+

bbPress 1.0 : 129,000+

_ck_ plugins: 102,000+ (total, all included)

[_ck_]

Some interesting statistics for the entire 10,000+ collection of all bbPress installations:

bbPress Version Popularity

1.1 : 1%

1.0 : 48%

0.9 : 36%

0.8 : 15%   (includes sites below 1.x that hide their version

as 0.8 has no consistent way to be detected)

PHP Popularity

5.3 : 4%

5.2 : 70%

5.1 : 4%

5.0 : 1%

4.4 : 6%

4.3 : 1%

?? : 15% (unknown)

So PHP version 5 adoption has finally taken off in late 2010.

Server Popularity

Apache 	 	: 40%  	  (specific version unknown)

Apache/2.2 	: 35%

Apache/2 	: 10%	  (sub-version unknown)

Apache/1.3 	: 5%

Nginx 		: 5%

Microsoft-IIS	: 3%

Litespeed 	: 2%

(and quite a few others/variations but below a single percent each)

Downloads via bbPress.org as of October 2010

bbPress 0.9 : 150,000+

bbPress 1.0 : 129,000+

_ck_ plugins: 102,000+ (total, all included)

[_ck_]

bbPress is now being used in over 100 countries/regions in over 50 languages!

Here is a sample of the Top 50 countries/regions:

United States

Russia

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

France

Italy

Turkey

Poland

Brazil

Canada

China

Netherlands

Sweden

Japan

Australia

Denmark

Romania

Ukraine

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Finland

Norway

Argentina

Thailand

Bulgaria

South Africa

Iran

Hungary

Austria

Latvia

Lithuania

Belgium

New Zealand

Israel

Indonesia

Slovakia

Portugal

Tokelau

Ireland

Chile

Mexico

South Korea

Serbia

Taiwan

Saudi Arabia

Greece

Malaysia

Estonia

Philippines

Note that the targeted audience as indicated by the flags on the right of the list is more of an art than a science, so please do not be insulted if my algorithm got it wrong. It’s a combination of looking at the TLD and the declared language type being used on the page.

For example a site may have a flag for Spain if Spanish is used but no other specific variation or TLD is used, etc.

The most popular TLDs for bbPress forums are:

.com (by 50% !)

.org

.net

.ru

.uk

.de

.it

.info

.ca   (honourable mention as .ca has 50% less than .info

however pl, fr, nl, se and au all have over 100 sites)

[_ck_]

bbPress is now being used in over 100 countries/regions in over 50 languages!

Here is a sample of the Top 50 countries/regions:

United States

Russia

Germany

United Kingdom

Spain

France

Italy

Turkey

Poland

Brazil

Canada

China

Netherlands

Sweden

Japan

Australia

Denmark

Romania

Ukraine

Switzerland

Czech Republic

Finland

Norway

Argentina

Thailand

Bulgaria

South Africa

Iran

Hungary

Austria

Latvia

Lithuania

Belgium

New Zealand

Israel

Indonesia

Slovakia

Portugal

Tokelau

Ireland

Chile

Mexico

South Korea

Serbia

Taiwan

Saudi Arabia

Greece

Malaysia

Estonia

Philippines

Note that the targeted audience as indicated by the flags on the right of the list is more of an art than a science, so please do not be insulted if my algorithm got it wrong. It’s a combination of looking at the TLD and the declared language type being used on the page.

For example a site may have a flag for Spain if Spanish is used but no other specific variation or TLD is used, etc.

The most popular TLDs for bbPress forums are:

.com (by 50% !)

.org

.net

.ru

.uk

.de

.it

.info

.ca   (honourable mention as .ca has 50% less than .info

however pl, fr, nl, se and au all have over 100 sites)

[_ck_]

In October 2010, to make the Top 100 (out of 10,000+ installations) now requires over 50,000 posts!

We have a new leader Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine

beating out the old champion Simon & Schuster (international book publisher).

with nearly 1.8 MILLION posts. Absolutely incredible growth!

There are five bbPress powered forums with over a million posts now!

singletrackworld.com  http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/

simonandschuster.com  http://forums.simonandschuster.com/

wordpress.org         https://wordpress.org/support/

greedyorneedy.com     http://www.greedyorneedy.com/forum/

weddingbee.com        http://boards.weddingbee.com/

Nearly 300 more have over ten thousand posts,

and nearly 1,000 have over one thousand posts.

Over four dozen new bbPress powered forums are put online every week on average!

[_ck_]

In October 2010, to make the Top 100 (out of 10,000+ installations) now requires over 50,000 posts!

We have a new leader Singletrack Mountain Bike Magazine

beating out the old champion Simon & Schuster (international book publisher).

with nearly 1.8 MILLION posts. Absolutely incredible growth!

There are five bbPress powered forums with over a million posts now!

singletrackworld.com  http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/

simonandschuster.com  http://forums.simonandschuster.com/

wordpress.org         https://wordpress.org/support/

greedyorneedy.com     http://www.greedyorneedy.com/forum/

weddingbee.com        http://boards.weddingbee.com/

Nearly 300 more have over ten thousand posts,

and nearly 1,000 have over one thousand posts.

Over four dozen new bbPress powered forums are put online every week on average!

[mr_pelle]

Exactly.

[mr_pelle]

Exactly.

[OreilleMalade]

My sitemap.xml url :

http://www.oreille-malade.com/sitemap.bb.xml

urls are not correct but that’s very strange…

For my example, url in the sitemap is :

http://www.oreille-malade.com/forum/cinema/noomiz-nouveau-talent

In fact all urls in the sitemap look like this :

http://www.oreille-malade.com/forum/cinema/ […]

I really don’t get it !

Shall I change sitemap plugin ?

Thanks a lot for your help :-]

PS :

I have a Google webmaster account and submitted the sitemap

[MathiasB]

I found this for Style Sheet:

<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>

But i need something like that for the directory of the style…

[MathiasB]

I found this for Style Sheet:

<?php bb_stylesheet_uri(); ?>

But i need something like that for the directory of the style…

[chandersbs]

Simple Machine Forums, even though I’m using bbPress at the moment, I don’t recommend it

[chandersbs]

Simple Machine Forums, even though I’m using bbPress at the moment, I don’t recommend it

[auphoria]

the plugin’s not working for me, it goes to the reply post form, but nothing’s quoted

[zaerl]

Which template would I need to change

front-page.php

where should I place my Google Adsense code

where you want.