[Paulo Faustino]

Hello People,

I’ve made a deep integration of Bbpress into my WordPress blog as you can see at http://www.escoladinheiro.com/forums but i’m getting a very big problem. I can’t make page/post title to appear as my bbpress topic/posts titles. I’ve searched for about 8h on google and i didn’t found any solution for this. There’s anyone that can help me define this titles?

I’m using the header and footer of my main WordPress blog. There’s any way i can define that if the page/post is from bbpress, it’ll call the page title from bbpress? With this mess, i can’t even make a sitemap for the forum

If anyone can share some sort of code to implement on my wordpress for fixing this, i really appreciate. If needed, i can pay for the work.

Thanks in advance.

Paulo

[chrishajer]

On this page:

http://www.homedesignsense.com/forum/topic/video-test

There is no embedded video, just the code you pasted in there. The plugin is not working. It did not parse your post for the video bbcode and replace it with embed code, which is what the plugin is SUPPOSED to be doing.

[KentonMr]

As I have not see it listed yet

Bluefish http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/

on both Linux and Win platforms

for just about everything coded.

but sill use Notepad++ for txt files (don’t know why – force of habit I guess

[KentonMr]

@Lethality

Sorry I’m late to this topic but what you are asking sounds very similar to what I was asking here

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/feeding-topics-from-external-source

It seems as if I differ with @kevinjohngallagher’s interpretation of what users and communities want from their forum/blog/wiki/crm solution

However what you seem to be looking for is very similar to what we have decided on PmWiki+bbPress

We voted firmly against wordpress as a product mainly because

1. It has become dreadfully bloated

2. It is difficult to customise (partly as a result of 1)

3. It is a blog (a time driven format) conversation centered around one individual and un-managed comments from visitors. Typically “this is my opinion” followed by “I agree” comments.

I would also steer fairly clear of IP.Board and IP.Blog it is very much under development and considering it is a commercial product is very expensive for what it does.

I feel that someone with a basic knowledge of worpress should be able to add a similar button form to wp code to allow a “Forum This” from wordpress.

[chrishajer]

It does not appear that the plugin is processing the short code. I would say the plugin is not working in your installation. Did you activate the plugin? Can you post a screenshot of your plugin admin screen?

[KentonMr]

@kevinjohngallagher

I’ll ignore all the personal rhetoric and slight aimed in my direction and try to respond to the points raised.

I am new to bbPress (you may have noticed that this is my first topic/post on the forum) so know nothing bbPress, its history, development and evidently tight allegiance to wordpress.

bbPress was selected because “out of the box” it works, and from what I have seen of the plug-ins they also work well.

I think my original topic title has been mis-understood by you, and maybe others as well.

“Feeding topics from external source”

In the external source users will not have the option to set a topic title it will be predetermined by the PmWiki page that is being edited.

In fact it is the reverse of the “Blog this” that has been suggested elsewhere though restricted to the same site’s forum rather than the user’s own personal blog.

Any member has full access to the forums and so is able to start a new topic with a slightly varied topic title. That is not a major issue as the moderators will attend to them. However when posting externally a new topic there is the chance that any editor of the Wiki could initiate the “Forum this” button to start a discussion of that page in the related forum. Therefore without the check the potential of having 100’s of topics created with the same title is great.

In the end it has been very easy to code – It works well and I will even look at the possibility of including it to generate a warning to users in the forum so that we can cut back on duplicate topics in general.

Every forum/blog/wiki open to members has to have a set of accepted policies to govern usability. The site is very specialised with nearly 2000 wiki page-topic combinations. The topics are specifically for a parallel discussion about each wiki page. Elsewhere just about any reasonable discussion is possible.

[kevinjohngallagher]

@Quicoto

Respecftully, you’re very wrong.

SEO in no way shape or form is affected by having the same Post title on a forum (note it’s not the title of the page).

Search Engines are smart enough to differentiate between pages on a website if they have different URLS.

You’ve made the same very wrong assumption the original poster had, that by having a post with the same title, that the post title is not checked and given a unique URL. Don’t get me wrong, it’s only been that way for 3 years here on bbPress…

@KentonMr

But. I am astonished that there is no checking in bbPress to see if a topic already exists in a forum before allowing a topic with exactly the same title to be created.

Um, there is.

Surely this is an important feature and should be handled by bb_new_topic() if only through an optional arg.

I generally find that people who use the word “surely” have decided something, and think everyone should agree And the function you reffer to is pluggable, so you can overwrite it to do what you want.

Given that you’re the first person on this forum in the 3 years I’ve been here to request this feature, or worse, assume it’s already there (even though WordPress/BackPress/every-other-automattic-product handles it the same way as bbPress does); maybe just maybe you should not make so many assumptions.

Thats not me having a go, its just that you’re opnly going to be disappointed

However, in some forums (especially one of the forums on the site I am building I do not want users repeating the same topic and would want them to add to the topic that has already been started.

And here we hit 2 issues:

1) Waaaaaaah. I’ve decided that bbPress should work in the same way as other forums, even though it clearly doesn’t, say it doesn’t, and is far from bloated or as feature rich as these other un-named forums.

Btw Can i ask what other forums have this feature? (i’m not doubting you, i’ve just never come across it before)

2) I need X custom feature for MY forums, and bbPress doesn’t have it. Why not? grrrrrr

$bbdb->get_var($bbdb->prepare(“SELECT topic_id FROM $bbdb->topics WHERE topic_title = %s”, $topic_title))

If users can create topics, then users will eventually duplicate topics. All you’re doing is assuming that every user will use the exact same title for the exact same subject and all spell the title the exact same way. My friend, thats a very large group of assumptions.

You’re also assuming that no users will decide that their opinion is v important and deliberately start their own post with a slightly different title – just to get round your warning.

Or what happens when a subject gets bogged down in a flame war?

Or when people start taking it off topic?

Or what happens when people don’t want to wade through 15 pages of “+1” or “lol”?

That will get harder and harder as your forum grows, especially if it’s got a rather specific subject matter. I can understand where this idea comes from, from a website owner point of view, but the usability and long term goal of the this feature is seriously flawed.

Users on a forum, by their very nature, want to create new threads. Creating 1 stream of replies for 1 single topic… thats a blog. Forums are “many to many” or “n to n”. To restrict that in any way is to deviate from what the userbase expects, and inherantly, their desire to use the system.

You come across as very intelligent, and you’ve clearly thought this through from your point of view. Have you thought it through from your users?

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[kevinjohngallagher]

If you’ve any issues with this theme, you should probably take it up with the original creator on his forum/website. Not that we can’t help, but just that you’ll get better/quicker support there

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m not a huge fan of these themes, as for the most part its just the wrapper of the forum that’s themed differently (which will mostly be removed if made to look like a wordpress website); but I’m very grateful to Refuelled for working on them and releasing them.

Thank You, It’s very much appreciated!

And Xevo, don’t worry about. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, even… people who’ve been on the site for 6 hours, who use 3 different themes on their own website and can’t get their email to work

[kevinjohngallagher]

I think I see the confusion.

Pete, you’ve assumed the plugin does something it doesn’t do. It doesn’t allow you to upload videos or images, and doesn’t give you a separate post field in which to type the URL of the video.

All it does, like every other forum software, is allow you the automatic convertion of some code into HTML.

i.e.

What your user types:

[video] www.youtube.com/abcdefghijk [/video]

What bbPress outputs:

The video

Sorry, but hope this helps clear things up

[chrishajer]

Paste this into the post area:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxDlC7YV5is[/video]

After you submit the content, does the video show up embedded? That’s how it’s supposed to work. No more to it than that.

[Petehds]

Tried the easy video plugin. There is no place in the post area to add a video. Just the post and images. Is there something in the easy video that needs to be changed to work with my template (Crystal)?

Will download the bbcode buttons and see if anything works. Will let you know.

[JesusDude.com]

Looks like there is a syntax error in that template file. Where did you download the theme from?

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in before,i downloaded from this page:

http://ericlbarnes.com/projects/snowski/

installed date:

about 5 months ago.

just 【try new version】 from ┳一:

http://github.com/ericbarnes/snowski/blob/master/snowski/

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great! it is finished!♡♡

[Ricard Torres]

@Xevo: I think it should not be the same! SEO, SEO!

[zaerl]

But. I am astonished that there is no checking in bbPress to see if a topic already exists in a forum before allowing a topic with exactly the same title to be created.

In a forum is perfectly normal to have one or more topic with the same title. But the slug created is unique cause a number is appended with bb_slug_increment.

[KentonMr]

Thanks, I already have a way round that one.

In the main site the “create topic” is a simple button on a blank form POSTing to bb-post.php with the other fields as ‘hidden’ inputs.

But still not working.

As may have been gathered the operation needs to be silent or with error handling by the main (pmWiki) site

I would have preferred to go down option 1 route:

essentially stripping out most of bb-post into a new ext_post.php

bb_new_topic()

bb_new_post()

bb_add_topic_tags()

redirect – to site page

however this does not appear to be enough!

I would rather not go down the route of having to deconstruct these routines simply to recode them to store the in relevant tables – especially when re-usability should be possible. Besides that requires an understanding of each table in bbPress – something I have not seen documented anywhere.

[seoswamy]

I am useing free webhosting services

[chrishajer]

Did you try the plugin? It seems to me the user just puts the URL of the video inside the video shortcode/bbcode, and it embeds the video into their post or reply. Has that not been your experience?

Do you have bbcode or bbcode light installed with your editor now? If so, you can add a video button there to make it even easier.

There was another video plugin for bbPress where you just pasted the URL of the video in to your reply, and it did all the embedding for you. I think that was called bbVideo and for 0.9.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbvideo/

That’s a very old plugin and probably will not work with 1.0.2

[Petehds]

That’s correct. So; there is no easy (download) way for members to post their videos? Does the code take you to the video page or post it directly on the forum?

Thanks.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Lethality,

Sadly WordPress/bbPress integration isn’t well defined anywhere outside this website – it basically means shared users and login (though for alot of people thats ideal).

If you have the cash to spend on something that already works, I’d definately favour that option.

The idea of extending bbPress into WordPress is a good one, but of course you’d still need to edit WordPress to either post comments to the right forum, or to redirect to the right forum if someone tried to add a comment. I’d be surprised if there was much desire for this on the whole, so going with the existing solution might be your best bet.

Good luck in whatever you decide, and let us know

Kev

[chrishajer]

I am going to guess it’s this plugin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/easy-video-embed/

From that page, it does not appear there is an admin page. Just use the bbcode [video][/video] with the URL of the video in between.

There is no admin and there doesn’t appear to be any buttons added to the editor. Just follow the instructions. If you do that, and have a problem, post back.

[kevinjohngallagher]

Can you provide a link to the “Easy Video Embed” plugin here on this website, and we might be able to shed some light?If you downloaded it from another website, i’m afraid we’ll not be able to help unless the author of it frequents this forum regularly (fyi – unlikely)

So you know, if the plugin was a bbpress0.9 plugin, your chances of getting an admin panel are about 1/100. Your chances of it getting an admin panel if you’re using bbpress1.0.2 are very close to non-existant.

Basically, if you could also expand on this a little that’d be ace:

I know you need a code from the video site

What sort of code, and from what video site?

[Petehds]

OK.

Maybe you can help with this. I just installed the “Easy Video Embed” into my forum (bbpress 1.0.2 – Crystal Theme). The plugin is activated and the list shows in the admin panel.

How do I access the application from the admin panel to post a video? I looked at posting but there is no video posting in the area…just photo upload links.

I know you need a code from the video site; but there is no place to post it.

The forum is: http://www.homedesignsense.com/forum

Thanks

[kevinjohngallagher]

bbPress and WordPress users can be sync’d without too much hassle.

Sadly I don’t know the answers to the SMF question, but Paul Hawke has been working on an import to bbPress feature, i think it’s in this thread:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/import-data-from-system-xy

That would certainly be my first port of call.

As much as I like bbPress, I’d also strongly advise thinking long and hard before moving to it. It’s feature list is limited at best, and right now Automattic can’t even get the theme fo this website right. AS long as it meets your criteria then Awesome, but definately look into this first

Kev

[chrishajer]

Thank you Sam.