[Gautam Gupta]

Any email response from Matt yet?

He didn’t reply to me, but you can also check here – https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress09-support-finishing-early#post-69893

For one thing, a bunch of plugin coders have repeatedly requested access to updating their old plugin files and better access to maintaining their plugin’s “page” or information.

Any plugin author can update his/her plugin. That problem didn’t arise.. where did you hear/read that from?

the point of an open source community is that everyone is communicating and sharing developments regularly and publicly

That is what Trac is about, anyone can see the developments, communicate and contribute.

Also, if bbpress is 90% becoming a WP plugin, why hasn’t this process been decided on or initiated yet? Will it be initiated after the 1.0.3 release?

In an IRC meetup, Matt said that bbPress will start becoming a WP plugin near 1.2 or so. (and that IRC meetup is also posted on the blog)

@citizenkeith, thanks for providing another example of bored whiny bbpress trolls. If only we could get rid of users like you, we might have more progress around here.

citizenkeith is a valuable member to the community and has been here for long, so please.

[Gautam Gupta]

@kevin

The code has not been deleted and it wont be deleted, only the milestone is deleted. You can still download the 0.9 branch from Trac which contains a few bug fixes from 0.9.0.6.

Also, 1.0.3 is same as 1.1 (except that it wont contain new features if it is released), nor there are any database changes in it till now. If any user upgrades to 1.1, he/she can easily downgrade to 1.0.2 any time.

[sureshdrim]

Thanks a lot Kevin and Chris..

As mentioned by Kevin above,if I remove the top and bottom code it works fine.But the problem lies with the SEO.By removing these lines,the title mentioned in header.php file will be applied to front-page.php which will be common for all pages.For better SEO title and description of each page needs to be different.

I tried to put title tag value in header.php as <?php forum_name()?> – <?php bb_title()?> which works really great for topic pages but not the front-page.For front page,title tag value will have just the name of website,this will definitely affect Search Engine Ranking (I think so) as compared to title mentioned above.

I hope you are getting what I am trying to say.

Anyways without changing code,pages are properly displayed in IE just by refreshing it.

[wtfmatt]

@Gautam,

Your response is appreciated. Maybe a mod can copy paste your answers into a sticky thread. Any email response from Matt yet?

So mdawaffe is the only confirmed webmaster for bbpress.org, and he doesn’t seem to pay attention to any feedback or bugs. I guess that has been confirmed at least… Chris, do you have access or not? This really ain’t the biggest concern right now, but it would help the community to know who deals with this site, as Matt does not actively. For one thing, a bunch of plugin coders have repeatedly requested access to updating their old plugin files and better access to maintaining their plugin’s “page” or information. This is whay I mean by “higher ups” – its great that 3-4 devs are having private IRC chats together and exchanging emails, but last time I checked, the point of an open source community is that everyone is communicating and sharing developments regularly and publicly. Hell, this forum itself barely has any staff or moderators to speak of. And even the forum regulars have no way to get in touch with “higher ups” even if they wanted to, so bbpress is 99% hearsay at this point. BIG PROBLEM.

Also, if bbpress is 90% becoming a WP plugin, why hasn’t this process been decided on or initiated yet? Will it be initiated after the 1.0.3 release?

Coders and designers want and need to know these answers guys. I’m only speaking up for the silent majority and dozens of unanswered threads, this is not just my personal rant.

@citizenkeith, thanks for providing another example of bored whiny bbpress trolls. If only we could get rid of users like you, we might have more progress around here.

[chrishajer]

login-less posting is a feature present in the latest trunk release. It’s not packaged for release yet, and there are some dependencies (notably BackPress). If you can download via subversion to your intranet server, that would be the best way to get it.

svn co -r2434 http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk ./forums

That will check out revision 2434 which is very stable, into a directory called forums on your server.

The revisions after that revision got a little weird with a couple problems that I am not sure are fixed yet.

[copperblade]

I’ve been on trunk now with few problems. But I don’t see this great facelift on my site I guess this isn’t available yet? I really like the bigger gravatars.

[chrishajer]

Why not use Apache Basic Auth to require people to log in before getting anywhere near your forum?

Or you can use a plugin like hidden forums or zaerl visibility. You could also wrap parts of your forum output in code that checks to see if the user is logged in.

I don’t think it would be difficult.

[KentonMr]

I’m still struggling with this one – and it seems everyone is flummoxed as well.

The problem has evolved a bit.

I’m looking to change the default topic list view not only as described above but also to give the user the option by clicking a image button in each header to change the display order. Also taking the view count out and into a column. So a user can view the most viewed as well as most posted as well as the freshest – all sub listed by ascending alphabetical order.

Although i can change the image buttons and the raw sql for ordering the data – I still cannot get my head round how it is currently working (or should that be not working)

[zaerl]

Ah. It would have been funny (for me) to make that plugin but Tapatalk is a paid closed-source application. Ah. And I’m not a bbPress developer

[severus]

Hi,

I just wanted to present the result of an integration of BBpress to an stablished WPress site.

BBpress: 1.0.2

Wp: 2.9.2

WP site: http://www.severus.es

BBpress site: http://www.severus.es/foro

We are very happy with the results!

Thanks

Severus

[kevinjohngallagher]

<blockequote>

you are genius

Ha, thanks alot, but i can’t tell you how wrong that is

I’ve no idea about Google Ad’s i’m afraid.

Initially, I’d output a div with a border on it to make sure your code is working spot on, and then take it from there

[sureshdrim]

@ kevinjohngallagher

Hey dude you are genius.My problem is solved.

But just a small doubt-I made a counter (initial value=0) which will count number of posts in foreach loop (Line 33 of topic.php),if counter is equal to 4 – code for ads – reset counter to 0,else increment counter by 1.This works.Ads are displayed after every 4 posts.But only first two ads are visible rest of the ads are invisible i.e a white space is felt at the place of ads after second ad.

I just want to ask u,is there any policy of google which doesn’t allow to put ads in a loop or doesn’t allow to display same ad repeatedly on a page ? Any idea about this ?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Line 33 of topic.php has the for loop that goes through all the posts.

Insert your code there

[sureshdrim]

Hello Guys,

Is there any way to insert some code between/after every fixed number of posts.

For Example:If I want to display google Ads after every fourth or sixth post on topic.php page,where can I put Ads code.

Any help will be really appreciated !!

[kevinjohngallagher]

I don’t think anyone’s against getting the next version of bbPress out the door

My concerns are:

• If bbPress0.9 support was meant to last until late 2010, why end it in May?
• Why/When was this decision taken?
• Why not inform us before the code was deleted?
• In fact, why not inform us at all?

Basically:

Sam wrote, as an employee of Automattic, that bbPress0.9 branch would be maintained until ‘late 2010’, how can this be true if we’ve had patches for 0.9 sitting since July2009 without a rollout, and are now not being released?

bbPress 1.0.2 and bbPress 0.9.0.6 legacy version released

That effectively means we’ve not been supporting 0.9 since 0.9.0.6 was released on 28thJuly 2009. Awesome, we supported it for a whole 25 days after 1.0 was released (on 3rd July 2009).

Thats a heck of a decision to go back on One’s word like that. And a considerable slap in the face to those of us who have forums still stuck on 0.9 due to 1.0’s failings.

Here’s another issue.

I don’t think we should update the 0.9 branch anymore, and probably not 1.0 either. (Same as WP.)

Matt looks at this project as if it’s working in the same way WP is. It’s not. And I think thats why he’s found the “bbPress community” so hard to get a grip on.

bbPress0.9 and bbpress1.0 are very very different. It’s not a simple upgrade in the way that many versions of WordPress have been – it’s a total and utter rewrite of the backend to use external code being run by a totally different team as an independant product.

bbPress0.9 and bbPress1.0, whichever you prefer to work with, are not incremental releases in the traditional sense – they are very close to being different products. That was reflected in the communities strong desire to have support for bbPress0.9 extended when Sam asked us. Thats right folks, we were asked and voted. Then a decision was made. And thats the crux of the problem.

Saying one thing, doing another, then not mentioning it in the hope no-one notices until weeks after – man, thats just not cool. And the kicker is, I don’t think it’s intentional at all. That’s worse though, because it means we’re a total afterthought (maybe not even an afterthought).

If the decision was made to drop 0.9 support, all someone had to do was make a blog post, or a forum sticky before hand and give folks a heads up. Why is it so hard to treat us with any respect?

Those of us who can’t write brilliant code, attempt to do our best by answering questions on the forums. My plugins will never rival some of _ck_s / Nightgunners / Zaerls. Thats a good thing. My code will never be as good for the Core as Gautam / Sam / mdwaffe. Thats even better news. But really, how can we answer questions that people ask with any certainty at all, when things like this happen (constatly)?

Help us, help you!

please.

[_ck_]

Okay I think I found a fix – we simply have to bypass the malfunctioning secure_auth method in 1.x and just use the regular auth cookie. It’s what’s fighting us as soon as it detects SSL mode.

So add this to the bottom of the plugin for 1.x

function bb_validate_auth_cookie( $cookie = '', $scheme = 'auth' ) {

global $wp_auth_object;

return $wp_auth_object->validate_auth_cookie( $cookie, $scheme );

}

Test it carefully of course.

view: http://pastebin.com/embed_iframe.php?i=wSYPsdjT

download: http://pastebin.com/download.php?i=wSYPsdjT

[Elias]

Ouch, “minor errors” and “Forums not installed” isn’t exactly user-friendly…

I suspect the installer script wasn’t able to create the file bb-config.php caused by too restrictive permissions in the directory bbPress is installed in. To create this file, the directory have to be writeable for the user running the webserver. If this is the cause of this failure (look for a file bb-config.php in the bbPress directory, if it is missing, it is the problem), just give the directory 0777 permissions before starting the installation. After the installation completed, the permissions can be (and should be) set more restrictive.

[ckeck]

Yes, lets get 1.1 out the door please

[kevinjohngallagher]

Glad it helped mate.

If building your own theme, I’d advice making a wordpress theme first.

The technique is the same and once you’re in the right mindset, you’d be amazed hoe easy theming bbPress is. But you will/might hit a few roadblocks if you try and pull data in a differnet way. Don’t be peturbed, just come back and ask

[kevinjohngallagher]

At the current rate of maximum of 1 release a year… no idea, sorry.

That said, there are some really good people working on it, so just add your bug report to http://trac.bbpress.org and someone with the technical know how will look at it eventually

[driz]

Would work as a quick fix. But would much rather use built-in code etc. Any ideas how long this bug will take to fix?

[kevinjohngallagher]

Kool and the gang. We’re one step closer.

EDIT: Yes, you’re partly right. I get the same. Ok, thats a bug. Well done!

When logged out, visiting a user’s profile page the default avatar is replaced with the profile owner’s avatar.

That said my code above definately works to not display the gravatar if you’re logged out, insteadyou can display any image you want.

if (empty($bb_current_user) || $bb_current_user == 0)

{

echo "create an image output here to any image on yoru server";

} else {

echo bb_get_avatar($bb_current_user-&gt;ID, 100);

}

[kieranyo]

Thanks for the constructive crit

Yeah it’s going really well.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Cameron, you “build awesome websites”… look at the source code. It’s a lovely well formatted multidimentional array. It’s not a mess, it’s the most concise and beautiful debugging tool you’ll ever have. Trust me, you’ll love it bro

When you go to a profile page, what does the array say? (don’t post it)

Does it say the information of the logged in user, or the person who’s profile page you’re on?

No matter where I go, on the site, I get the informaiton of the logged in user. If you don’t, then you’ve found a bug.

This code here should solve the logged in/out issue – though there is probably a better way to handle it

if (empty($bb_current_user) || $bb_current_user == 0)

{

echo "&lt;img src='grey_man'&gt;";

} else {

echo bb_get_avatar($bb_current_user-&gt;ID, 100);

}

[kevinjohngallagher]

Coolio, right mate, first thing, edit that to delete your email

I’ll write more , just wanted to get you that asap