[nakedpersonals]

…I’m new to BBpress, so I hope this isn’t a stupid question. (I can’t find the relevant code in any of my template files.)

P.S. my username/url is meant to be taken figuratively.

[Anonymous User]

Hi all,

my first test shows that the trunk version of bbPress breaks ‘BB Anonymous Posting’, ‘Post Meta for bbPress’, ‘Human Test for bbPress’ and ‘bbPress-WordPress syncronization’.

And the new “Login-Less Posting” doen’t work in my installation.

So I will do more testing tomorrow …

[chengdu-living]

I added that bit to .htaccess and it doesn’t seem to have changed anything. Perhaps it takes time to take effect? Here’s what my .htaccess looks like:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



RewriteEngine on



RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.:]+.)*chengduliving.com/bbpress.?(:[0-9]*)?$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.chengduliving.com/forum/$1 [R=301,L]



# END WordPress

[johnhiler]

Ah yah, this plugin doesn’t seem to work in 1.0:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/read-only-forums/

Your best bet is to ask or hire someone to upgrade the plugin to support 1.0? The number of changes needed is probably fairly low…

Or there’s always the ultra-hacky solutions!

1) If your entire forum is read-only, you could hide the “Add New” link from your template, and only share it with people you want to post into your forums!

2) If you only want specific forums to be read-only, you could turn them into a “Category”. Then nobody can post into those forums… but when you want to post, you could just change it from a Category back into a forum temporarily.

[kadr]

oh, and because of the code I am using to explain what my problem is, my message on this board get’s all messed up…

sorry ’bout that…

[kadr]

Hey,

I changed this line in my theme:

<p><?php _e(‘Allowed markup:’); ?> <?php allowed_markup(); ?>.
<?php _e(‘You can also put code in between backtick ([…] ) characters.’); ?></p>

to this line

<p><?php _e(‘Allowed markup:’); ?><?php allowed_markup(); ?>`. <?php _e(‘ ‘); ?></p>

And then I got this error on the forum:

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening ” for inclusion (include_path=’.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear’) in /domains/lijstblanco.nl/DEFAULT/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 45

So I changed it back, but the error remains!

Any idea what to do now?

[chrishajer]

OK, that’s fine. To get buttons, you need something like BB Code Lite or Comment Quicktags to get the button toolbar.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-lite/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/quicktags-4-bbpress/

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbcode-buttons/

[johnhiler]

Use a program like Beyond Compare to compare (or “diff”) the default theme versus your custom theme:

http://www.scootersoftware.com/moreinfo.php

That should quickly identify the changes between the two…

EDIT: I must’ve left this comment *just* after you edited your previous comment! Glad it worked out for ya…

[thion]

I know something’s wrong with my theme, that’s why I’m asking about important things that changed in new version of bbPress . Where’s that change log for Thyme Mint…

<b>Update</b>

Found it, fixed it! Turns out that what worked in previous versions doesn’t work in new one, I’m talking about this:

<?php bb_profile_admin_form(); ?>

This works, in previous versions I was using this:

<?php bb_profile_admin_form('input'); ?>

This doesn’t work .

[chrishajer]

file naming convention:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Translating_WordPress#Repository_File_Structure

[chrishajer]

The define statement should look like this:

define( 'BB_LANG', 'nl_NL' );

if your file is named nl_NL.mo in the my-languages/ directory

The format for the name of that file is

language code_underscore_country code.mo so nl_NL.mo and in the config you drop the .mo

More info about Dutch for bbPress here: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/dutch-translation#post-56700

[kadr]

Ok, Still no luck.

The right folder should be:

my-languages in the root folder of my bbpress install. (same directory as were the config file lives for example).

I changed the name of the file to nl.mo

At the bottem of my config file I now have this line:

define( 'nl.mo', '' );

Is this all correct?

If so, then why doesn’t it work?!

[paulhawke]

My experience of the WordPress codebase extends to version 2.9.1, I cannot speak to what is going on with version 3.0. Matt said something about bbPress being hosted on a page using a WP short-code at one point. As far as I know, there is no facility for page slugs to handle wildcards (from what I have seen). If you wanted to host bbPress as a plugin using a short-code on a WordPress page, it’s my guess that you would need to have different short-codes for the front page, topics page, views page, single topic, etc. Either that, or you recode the entire bbPress GUI to be Ajax based and run on a single page in-place. Somehow you need to extend the WordPress roles to encompass the bbPress side of the house.

When you go down this road you eventually get to the point of Drupal – amazingly vague and configurable database, slow because it’s got to be all-things-to-all-people and … well … yeah. I would rather not see either WordPress or bbPress end up there.

It it’s favour we can strip out a large portion of the codebase that deals with preferences, users, filters, plugins, themes, sidebar widgets and so on. We gain a lot from the main WordPress codebase but its worrying the “bloat” that comes with that approach.

[LeftCoastMichael]

Hi. I installed a widget for including images. It is called allow-images.php

However, it just includes a line of text:

Allowed Markup:

BBcode a blockquote code em strong ul ol li font strike center u hr img

In other ppPress versions, such as the pagelines one http://www.pagelines.com/forum you can see they have buttons for inserting the code.

How can I achieve the same look and function?

[LizFilardi]

Hey,

I’ve followed this forum and included the following code:

function add_sidebar() {

include ('sidebar.php');

}

add_filter('bb_foot', 'add_sidebar');

But how do I get this sidebar to fit into the main div?

Thanks.

[Gautam]

@Olaf

That would pile up even more work. I would probably go forward and extract the code in bp-forums of BuddyPress and make a WordPress plugin to integrate bbPress forums.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I’m a big fan of people speaking their mind, I probably do it too often, but if we’re being honest, threads like these aren’t going to change anything. Even if you got 90% of the people that are on these boards to all come out and say that they agree with you, nothing will change.

Can we talk openly about this? It means sharing some hard truths…

1) There are roughly (roughly), 25 -30 different people that post on these forums every week. I’m sure you’ve noticed its the same folks for the most part over and over. Each of these people (you and I) represent a tiny tiny portion of the BBpress users. Its not that your opinions aren’t valued, it’s just that unless you come up with objective reasons behind your arguments then you’ll never see any changes you want.

2) You’re not programmers. Harsh, i know. But you’re on a support forum saying that you’re unhappy about proposed changes to free software that you don’t contribute to.

3) When did private companies start listening to people taking “votes” on their support forums. Oh, that’s right, never.

4) I’m going to make an assumption here (apologies if wrong), but you’re not project managers or BA’s either. Making BBpress a WordPress plugin (while not something i am happy with at all), makes sense from [the company that owns bbpress] stand point.

5) Matt, et all, are human and just trying to do their best. If you think they’ve overlooked a point then tell them. But it has to be a point that will make sense to a company like [the one that owns bbpress], and that rarely involves the phrase “i want” or “my vote”.

Look folks,

BBpress as a WordPress plugin is not going to come around any time soon. In honesty, it’s not going to be this year. if you don’t want a forum software that is focussed on integration with WordPress that’s cool, that’s a personal preference, but have a look on the tag list on the home page, and see what stands out.

WordPress integration is the single most talked about issue on the BBpress support forums because it’s the reason that a large percentage of people came to BBpress for.

We all have a different Wish List of features for this lovely piece of software, but that doesn’t mean that if BBpress doesn’t go our own personal way that it it’s “bbpress back on track”. if we’re honest, BBpress hasn’t been “on track” by it’s own standards for well over a year, but if you’re not contributing code or testing time, then frankly, your opinion is never really going to count for anything unless you back your points up with really really good objective reasons.

[Gautam]

@johnhiler

I think you misunderstood me. I am saying to only extract bp-forums part of BuddyPress and make a new WordPress plugin out of it which would integrate bbPress into WordPress.

By the way, the trunk version of BuddyPress can be installed on a normal WordPress install.

[Gautam]

I think it is just a modified version of BBcode Lite plugin by _ck_.

[OKTeaRoom]

I just made a post over at http://wordpress.org/support and I really like the formatting code buttons they are using for their forum.

Firebug has some code that eludes to ed_toolbar

Is this available in a plugin that I can use? Thanks.

[Gautam]

There was some discussion about making bbPress a WordPress plugin. This would lead to a complete re-write of the project, but I have a better idea:

1. bbPress should be a standalone platform, so it can also be run without WordPress.
2. There should be a plugin on WordPress plugins repo (for eg. bbPress Forums Integrator or simply bbPress), which would have bbPress as svn:external and load the bbPress files as BuddyPress does it. Basically the plugin could be what can be found here – http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums
3. This way both type of users would be benefitted – those who want bbPress as a standalone and those who want it to be deeply integrated with WordPress.

Some of my thoughts…

Gautam

[Gautam]

Thanks for the appreciation, grassrootspa!

Though I feel Ben is the new _ck_ (except for the fact that he is male.. lol )

[Gautam]

You can interact with bb-admin/admin-ajax.php to make AJAX calls. bbPress also used to do ajax posting before, but then it was removed due to some small bugs. There is a ticket to bring back AJAX posting – #718

[Gautam]

I’d love to take on the development of bbPress project, but I would be only available in March, after I get over with my exams.

[chrishajer]

1. I’m not a programmer, I’m a motorcycle mechanic

2. I appreciate the vote of confidence but I am happy to be a moderator and help bbPress users. I’m certain that if Matt thinks bbPress needs a PM other than himself, he knows where to find one.