[zaerl]

So I’m suspecting the zaerl plug-in as the cause.

Absolutely not. My plugin doesn’t change roles, doesn’t change permissions neither it attempts whatever action that invole writing of data nor it install nasty things on any of the bbPress tables. It just read and write a single bb_meta value in which there are packed all the visibility rules. Nothing more.

Keep in mind that a user that hasn’t posted anything is actually inactive and become active only when he will post something. Also double-check that role-mapping on /forum/bb-admin/options-wordpress.php.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@Kawauso

Good to see you back

Regarding the plugin, AFAIK the plugin does only tell you the lines you need to add in config file for cookie permissions. The plugin is not needed afterwards. Correct me if I am wrong.

[SusanJohnstone]

I’m running bbpress 1.0.2 and had it successfully integrated with WP 3.0.1. WP is on the subdomain http://wisdom.theheartsvoice.com/ and bbPress is in a folder on that subdomain /forum/. They are sharing a SQL database.

I have the bbPress integration plugin installed in WP and all the secret keys are copied over from wp-config.

I had mapped the user roles successfully and all my users (only 11) had registered on WP as subscribers and were successfully being added as members in bbPress as soon as they logged in there.

In order to create both a private site and forum, I had installed the “registered users only” plugin on WP which is still working fine. And then to make the forum private I installed the “zaerl visibility” plugin, and set it up so that “inactive” and “blocked” users can’t see any of the forums. The roles ‘member’ ‘administrator’ and ‘keymaster’ all had full visibility.

This all worked brilliantly for at least 6 days and there have been no changes that I know of to anything – no one has permissions on my admin, etc but me.

Tonight, I tried to log into the forum and discovered that I’m not getting an admin link anymore and I’m unable to reply to anything or start topics. Then I realized that me and all the other users have been set to “inactive”. They are all still showing as “subscribers” in WP.

However, as an inactive user now I shouldn’t be able to see any of the forums and all of them are fully visible. So I’m suspecting the zaerl plug-in as the cause.

I’ve reviewed most of the threads on this topic here and haven’t found anything that applies.

I’ve tried:

– clearing my cache and my cookies.

– created a new admin user in WP and clicked over to the forum, hoping the role would automatically be translated into keymaster there. No. (And when I checked the wp_usermeta table there had been no new line of code added on login to assign a role for that user_id, so I suspect the role mapping has stopped working completely.)

– logged in directly to the forum with both admin accounts, no admin link appeared, no change in user status.

– I deleted the line in my bb_meta table that set the values of zaerl-visibility and also the line that activated that plugin and then deleted the zaerl plugin file from the bbPress plugins directory (I’m not really a coder, so may be in WAY over my head trying to use phpMyAdmin!)

– I inserted a new line of code in my wp-usermeta table to reset my bb_capabilities to keymaster, by copying exactly what was set before to my user_id.

– I did that also for the second admin user I created.

None of these things has worked and since I can’t get into my admin I can’t reset any of the users from inactive to member and so my forum is essentially dead (and it’s week 1 of a 5 week class)

The WP and bbPress integration is still working fine and I’m still an admin on the WP side and when I get to the forum, I’m still logged in already, but I’m inactive.

How can I get back in and get the roles reset?

[zaerl]

bbPress uses encrypted cookies. If you want to use sessions you must add the required code (in your template files) but you need some PHP knowledge.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

[_ck_]

Ben L. = nightgunner who is a talented coder.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/profanity-filter/

I am sure they can fix it if you just let them know it’s causing the problem and give them some time.

[lurkerofthepier]

This is my forum: http://thepier.bridgeatthedock.com/

As you can see, the hot tags, topics, etc. start too far to the left in relation to the header. How can I fix this in the css code? I edited the Kakumei theme on notepad and can’t find what I did to create this problem.

[korti]

@pagal Thanks, I will certainly try out the plug ins.

@kevinjohngallagher I’m not going to argue with you, not enough time unless I turn on my dragon… akismet works spectacular on wordpress and needs some love on bbpress. If I was a programmer i would be on it. I only need this to work on one site.

yes, for real I have a lot of sites (stopped counting at 70) and you will always find me here at my pc. I have made a living on the internet since 1997. Friends at Google, seo professional and just learning the css stuff loving wordpress.

I love bbpress and do not use any captcha for anything but my email forms, and the people who are not using it are are not getting a lot of traffic. if I didnt have captcha on my sites for email forms it would be game over. I get maybe 1-2 human spams a week if that. And my sales are going up up and up.

BBpress was hard enough to learn how to install it and then get all the spam.

and ya know I may have something goofed up in one of my files causing askimet to not work. I have two forums going and one gets only 3 spams a day the other gets 20. Then again the one that gets 20 I think was just indexed and has a lot of content.

the other was just a test site. I will reinstall and see what happens.

I just wont be able to handle it with one site that it is in the top 5 for many major keywords and we get 50 questions(emails) a day. I know the forum would be a smash instantly as they are using the feed back comments like mad.

I will try a few thing s and see what works. This site makes me way to much money to have it not work. I am still debating on moving it over to wordpress.

Lots of pros and cons to everything these days! Anyways, I have been dong this a long long time, so far my system is definitely working for me. I just have one small hurdle. If I did only have one or two sites it would be a piece of cake. As a SEO professional, I’m like a kid in a candy store. And every day I find an easier way and that is what is all about. That and to learn from one another.

meanwhile imagine bbpress with no forum… and they just got emails all day asking how to do this or how to do that…. that is where I am at.

so all in all i guess it depends on what you are doing on the net and how you are making your money..

captcha has never slowed me down but I type extremely fast to. I forget about the two finger typers.

I can say this, one time I forgot to put a captcha code on one website and wow what a mess 500 spams a day! I have also used every site builder under the sun and they all recommend it. To me it is like a seat belt law, you hate to put it on, but you know it is for the smart thing to do.

Thanks again sorry for typos, sleepy! 240 am here in Texas.

[_ck_]

You’ll get incorrect dates when the bbpress api cannot see the correct time.

But if you are saying the mouseover is working, that means that $topic has the right time.

I suspect you do not have $topic as a global before your loop.

So find the foreach you have and put global $topic; before it.

[_ck_]

It’s possible one of the plugins that relies on post_text is messing with the content.

All these work with post_text

Allow Images

BBcode Lite

bbPress signatures

bbPress Smilies

Improved Spoiler (makes a spoiler bar)

Profanity Filter

If you can consistantly make the problem happen (and cure it) then put bbpress into safemode by putting this into your bb-config.php

$bb->safemode=true;

and then try making the problem happen again.

Safemode will disable all plugins and switch you to the kakumei theme. But it’s not permanent, just remove the line and you’ll be back to normal.

[rajada]

Compresses output… compresses output… if only I knew what that meant… I never installed any plugins to specifically do that.

Nope it still happens even after I clear my cache.

Custom plugins on the bbpress forum I have include:

(explained the non self-explanatory ones)

Akismet

Allow Images

AutoRank (ranks based on posts)

BBcode Buttons Toolbar

BBcode Lite

bbPress signatures

bbPress Smilies

Improved Spoiler (makes a spoiler bar)

Members Online

Profanity Filter

Unread Posts

I forgot to mention… the last time this happened my friend and fellow php’er (i use the phrase ‘fellow’ lightly as he really is the brains of this site, I have a very basic code knowledge compared to him) mentioned that the server’s cpu was pinned at 100% if that helps you any.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

for themes – http://bbninja.com

for custom themes, you can contact me for a quote – ashishsainiashfame[at]gmail[dot]com

[zaerl]

No problems with that text.

Date	Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:04:46 GMT

Server	Apache

X-Powered-By	PHP/5.2.9

Vary	Accept-Encoding

Content-Encoding	gzip

Content-Length	2297

Keep-Alive	timeout=2, max=100

Connection	Keep-Alive

Content-Type	text/html; charset=UTF-8

Maybe you are gzip’ing the output 2 times. One at bbPress level and one at server level. I can see from HTTP response header that your main page is gzip’ed. Are you using a plugin that compress output in your forum?

Or maybe it’s a browser error. Try to clean the cache.

[rajada]

Well that just tells me its not the quotes, I bet if you copy/pasted this:

http://www.nerfarena.net/library/index.php?title=Confessions_of_a_Teenage_NAB_Enthusiast

as I did it would work… not that I think you should. I think after realizing that the html file does it too tells me that it is probably the formatting (IE the bold lettering and stuff).

And sorry, I don’t know what database you mean (site, forum, library?) and even how to check its character set.

And besides, it only destroys the topic, not the forum, so just my thread would die, kinda counter-productive if you ask me.

[zaerl]

Trying to destroy bbpress.org with 11 different quote characters:

” ̏ “ ” „ ‟ ‶ ‵ ‷ ‘ ’ ‛

I have copy-pasted on my sand-box the code but no problems arise. Do your database character-set is utf-8?

[zaerl]

The site will be in dutch and every string that’s not translated will be shown in english.

If the plugin developer did include a dutch translation then it will be automatically translated following you bb-config setting or just revert to english.

Keep in mind that you must download a dutch language file (.mo) and place it in the /my-languages/ folder in order to have your translation.

If the plugin doesn’t export a dutch .mo file then you can translate it using the plugin .pot file. If the plugin doesn’t export a pot site well you can’t do anything apart asking the author.

[Erlend]

Thanks for that. It’s a nice way to know they’re active, but that’s about it. What I’m really looking for is a way to realize:

“aha, they’re designing those features right now, so maybe I could help by making these suggestions and illustrating these example/past/future use cases related to those features.”

But hey, small as it may be, this is a start:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/green-wordpress-admin-color-scheme

[Joe Gibson]

KJG – Thanks for the excellent feedback. As for the spell-checker, that was the version I tried.

From a “reader response” point of view, the one people are most going to bitch about is the lack of a ‘preview’ feature, and that’s especially true with an editor that allows italics, blockquotes, links and pics. As a user, I’ll be screaming for one, too.

From an Admin point of view, I’d deem a ‘subscribe to topic’ feature the most important, simply because every half-decent forum in the galaxy has one and people expect it — not to mention how convenient it is for the readers.

“Awesome, i look forward to you coding them and releasing them. Thanks for offering Joe “

Rats. I knew I should have added that disclaimer, “By the way, I’m not a programmer and COULD be speaking out of my butt.” Still, you’d think if ‘Subscribe To Topics’ once worked, and can still put the dang box on the page, it wouldn’t take much to figure out how to direct a quick message back to the poster. By the way, I’m not a programmer and COULD be speaking out of my butt.

Joe

[Erlend]

Quite nice, and I especially like seeing the forum getting all comfortable-like in the admin panel

Not sure about the strongest green though. Might I suggest an ‘avocado’ theme? Here are some examples:

http://kuler.adobe.com/#themes/search?term=avocado

There’s one there quite similar to what you’ve already got:

http://kuler.adobe.com/#themeID/300652

(looks like a spam-tag snuck in. check the slimex one)

[Erlend]

So a couple weeks back now there was a small rush of activity with concerns to various “what now”s when bbPress-as-plugin was made official. It’s been two weeks since there was any activity on bbdevel.wordpress.com, same goes for developer meetups and blog updates.

When will the community get to participate in the future of bbPress?

I know I could easily be throwing in feature requests at will, but it would be a lot easier to make relevant suggestions and inquiries if I knew what was going on in terms of design and code right now.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’ve now asked about these in two other bbPress forums (subsections of WP forums)

I’d not waste my time there. The WP.org forums are really great for WordPress stuff (if you now the right terminology), but quite useless for bbPress.

Post Notification

Since I started using RSS (which most email clients and phone now handle nicely), I’ve never had a need for this.

It’s a fairly simple one to code though (with pitfalls), if there was a big enough need for it.

Subscribe To Topic

Yeah, that won’t work, and isn’t being worked on.

Matt annouced in December that it was going to be part of 1.1, but then ran away when people disagreed with him (can you believe a moderator actually asked him a question – sacrilege) and started telling people not to use bbpress while he was making KeyNote speeches at WordCamps.

It should be working in the trunk version of 1.1, which will be the last version of bbPress to be released.

After The Deadline

I typed “after the deadline bbpress” into google and this came up:

http://gaut.am/2010/06/after-the-deadline-v1-point-7-released/

Whether it will work with the plugin by a different author i’ve no idea. In honesty, IE7’s the only browser I have that doesn’t have a spell check built in natively, and its got it via an addon; so i’ve never really seen the need for this. Clearly others have though.

Someone said that part of the reason they haven’t been updated is because the authors are waiting for the new ‘plugin’ version of bbPress to be released

Sadly the WordPress (small p dangit) plugin will eradacate all code/plugins/themes/support from the current version. Nothing will be compatible.

A large part of why things aren’t updated is because bbPress looked like it was dying. The decision to rewrite a large chunk of code and go with BackPress made the majority of plugins not work overnight, and the initial thrust of 1.0 made it not worthwhile to upgrade them.

If we assumed they worked once, and all they’re not doing now is the notification part, you’d think that wouldn’t be very difficult to fix.

Awesome, i look forward to you coding them and releasing them. Thanks for offering Joe

[EyeSeeSound]

Hi Chris,

yeah, i tried adding the style elements from the main section and it worked in a way, but it wrapped the style around the whole thing so if i kept the mergin left at 130px it put the user name within the post section, and when i removed that obviously the style ran the whole length.

Basically i figure it is something to do with the way it is coded and i can’t alter php (break it, yes, alter it properly, no and I can live with how it is now, unless someone else has actually adressed this before and can post the steps to it…

Thanks though mate, appreciate the time.

[Joe Gibson]

Greets –

Well, I’ve now asked about these in two other bbPress forums (subsections of WP forums) and have gotten nowhere fast, so I thought I’d run them through the official forum again:

•Live Comment Preview — I could get it to put the ‘Preview’ button on the page, but otherwise it’s dead in its tracks. IE reported an “error on page” when used.

•Post Notification — Notifies Admin when someone posts in the forum. Dead.

•Subscribe To Topic — Puts the little checkbox on the page but doesn’t do the notification part.

•After The Deadline — Spell-checker, doesn’t work with BB Editor.

Someone said that part of the reason they haven’t been updated is because the authors are waiting for the new ‘plugin’ version of bbPress to be released. That’s great, except it doesn’t do any good in the meantime — for what could be a fairly simple tweak of the original code. Both “Post Notification” and “Subscribe To Topic” look like they’d fall under that heading. If we assumed they worked once, and all they’re not doing now is the notification part, you’d think that wouldn’t be very difficult to fix.

Someone else suggested I downgrade to bbPress v0.9, but (1) my heavily-tweaked theme wouldn’t load and (2) neither Zaerl Editor or BB Editor worked, so I canned the idea.

Any suggestions for replacements or fixes for the above?

Thanks,

Joe

[notApro]

Quote:

INdeed: http://umar.hostjiffy.com/ doesn’t load at all.

lol

Website hits counter?

Thats so Retro..

Last time i’ve seen that on around, i was riding my dinosaur..

[zaerl]

While it pains me that this is the best use of both Matt and Otto’s time, it would be really nice if this code was shared, or at least exmplained

Thanks in advance.

This is how I parse the text: http://pastebin.com/zQunD0Kv

The a href regexp is a little naive. make_clickable doesn’t expose a filter.

[EyeSeeSound]

Ha ha, figured it out. Don’t need to change a langauge tag at all, just make sure you change the name of the forum in the General Settings

I deleted the coded title and added my own HTML so i didn’t bother changing the General Setting. Still, if someone else has this issue i hope my initial stupidity and ultimate resolution helps someone else along the way