[johnhiler]

Wait, where is it strongly recommended to use 1.0 over 0.9.6 for security reasons?

The 0.9.x branch has been around for a lot longer. 1.0 hasn’t been out for that long, and the primary developer hasn’t been around to root out and/or patch any security issues.

I’m not saying that 1.0 is insecure – just that there’s nothing inherent about 1.0 that makes it more secure cuz it’s more recent.

[m291]

one more question:

what is the code to authorized only specified user groups?

thanks for help

[Michael]

I have never used that particular plugin – so I can’t help you there.

I do recommend, however, what seems to be the most stable plugin for avatars:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/avatar-upload/

If you’d like to see it use before making a decision, see this post on my forum:

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/topic/php-creating-a-voting-poll

Hope this helps.

[esprit]

I did need an anonymous posting in my installation of bbPress and after checking few threads I realized that would be probably worth to try do it by my own. So if anyone interested, I am releasing the alpha version of plugin + source patch (yeah its hack for testing.

You could get it on http://trac.espr.it/wiki/bbPress/AnonymousPosting – feel free to raise a ticket there if the plugin is not working or in case of any other problems but I am full time working so don’t promise any quick fixes and reaction.

Just what the plugin actually does. Any non-logged user has a opportunity to log in as anonymous user (with very restrictive permissions) through standard form. He has to pass security question which is possible define in plugin administration.

The code should be working again 1.0.2 version of bbpress.

[Ben L.]

Oh, typo. Here’s the correct one:

<?php require_once 'path/to/bb-load.php'; bb_auth( 'logged_in' ); ?>

[citizenkeith]

Feature request: I would love to see an “attachments browser” in the admin panel.

[Michael]

– hmm … I thinkMichael means these three plugins are the basis for an “interesting” forum.

I was actually in a rush when I posted this – did not mark everything that I thought should have a star.

So, the Moderation Suite and Project Honey Pot should also be marked – but I can’t edit it now…

@NiksE: Also remember: Don’t be like me and use almost every plugin there is – well I’ve removed many of mine. Just use the plugins that you think will be good for YOUR forum. Also, what do you think your users will want?

[Anonymous User]

Items marked with a star are quite important, in your case.

– hmm … I thinkMichael means these three plugins are the basis for an “interesting” forum.

[Michael]

Hi

Well, for a start, if you have a WordPress.com username, you must enable Akismet – it’s the best spam protection you’ll get. I also recommend ‘Human Test for bbPress’ – also good for security.

Here’s a list of the plugins I recommend: (I may miss some because I don’t use all of them, obviously) Items marked with a star are quite important, in your case.

1. Allow Images *

2. Avatar Upload *

3. bbPM (for Personal Messages)

4. bbPress Moderation Suite (not always used in some forums, but very handy to have)

5. bbPress Smilies *

6. bb Topic Icons

7. bb Topic Icons/Support Forum Connector (comes with the above plugin)

8. Burning Tags

9. The MyViews Suite

10. bbPages

11. Project Honey Pot (Spam protection, prevents spam users from registering)

12. Signatures

There are plenty more, but those are my most common ones.

Hope that helps a little.

[Sabuntu]

I tried tweaking this problem by the reinstalling the bbpress

I deleted the forum file completely and I dropped all the tables that are related to bb_

and reinstalled the forum again as subdomain again

BUT I’ve had another problem now “installation failed”

the key master could be established although I’ve deleted all the tables

as I mentioned in the previous post I’ve integrated my blog to the forum and this might be the problem for not creating the key master for the second problem

any Ideas !!?

[Ben L.]

<?php require_once 'path/to/bb-load.php'; bb_auth( 'logged-in' ); ?>

[m291]

i think, i need only a little code like ” if user_session has id then show page”.

does anybody can help me please? i have used the search, but i found only integrations with other login-systems or wp systems. but not for my problem

[NiksE]

Hello everyone!

I am creating a fishing forum! Of course on the bbpress !

I would like to ask what plugins do you recommend to use (which should be mandatory…I mean for security and antispam) and which do you recomend to use (to make the forum interesting)…? I would like to allow users to upload pictures and files to articles and pictures to their profiles! And how to properly activate the plugins!

Thank you!

Niks

[chrishajer]

Ben L, does adding this to bb-config.php still work? (the value in bb-config.php overrides the value from the database):

$bb->uri = 'http://www.example.com/forum/';

[chrishajer]

I’ve often wondered about indexing the tag pages anyway and wondered if there was a duplicate content penalty from Google. For WordPress, the Robots Meta plugin by Joost recommends noindex for tag pages. That doesn’t resolve your problem but I wonder if getting them indexed is the solution to any problem or if they shouldn’t be indexed in the first place.

http://yoast.com/wordpress/meta-robots-wordpress-plugin/

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hello folks,

I appreciate you all taking the time to comment.

@chrishajer

Thanks very much for posting the links to where the IRC logs are kept. That is very useful information indeed. Its the sort of thing that should be on this website somewhere Respectfully, far too much information about BBpress is hidden in replies on threads, that once off the front page are relegated to history.

You’re also right about the 3 most common phrases/tags/topics on this site being independent (i.e. not “a wordpress integration plug-in” but rather plug-in being separate). But with BBpress not delivering on the wordpress integration part, and having changed so much under the hood in 1.0 that the plug-ins don’t work; surely we’re failing on the very key topics the community are worried about.

I wouldn’t waste any time developing plug ins for a platform that I know is going to change in the near future, possibly breaking my plug-ins again

-chrishajer

Which is where we find ourselves now. BBpress1.1 isn’t going to change any of this. its a “holding pattern” release. Matt’s already stated that BBpress is going to be a WP plug-in ( so integration’s not going to be looked at for 1.1) and that none of the big issues stopping plug-ins from working are going to be looked at in depth. So other than “rallying the troops” so to speak, what is BBpress1.1 going to give us? ANd what are we rallying the troops for – as you yourslf said, you/me/others aren’t going to build plugins for the moving target?

I suppose it reminds me a little bit of this:

http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2003-10-12/

You have a product that’s meant to do one thing, you rally support for the next version, present it to the masses and right before you do you tell them how awesome later versions that will make their code redundant will be. “Hey there developer, come make plug-ins and code for BBpress, yes sir code that will be pretty much gazumped when we integrate it to WP as they already have code that does this stuf… what do you mean you’ll wait for the working release? “

@Ryan Heller

I’d rather be developing plug-ins for BBpress, but as pointed out above, there’s not much point developing plug-ins for a moving target.

– Ryan Heller

Is BBpress1.1 going to change that?

@ipstenu

This made me smile a lot mate, thanks.

I’m an independent contractor and have worked as a PM/BA for the smallest to the largest companies; and you’re not wrong

That said, Project Management exists for a reason. Its a different skillset from development. And no matter the size of the company or organisation, holding a requirement gathering session and then ignoring the data is just daft.

@chrishajer

You’re spot on that we’re in no position to judge anyone. Matt, and automattic, have done some truly incredible software – I’d hate for my posts to be seen as criticising or judging for the sake of it. But I also feel that its ok for us to point things out from a different perspective. We all know what its like to be tied into software, even cool software like this.

We want to help, we want to make it better, we want to do that in a positive way; but I don’t know about you and don’t want to speak for anyone else – but the last 9months/year as a BBpress user/enthusiast has been really… difficult.

In that respect “We’ve done this before” isn’t a comforting statement.

This is free software, I’m trying to give back in the only way I can My plug-ins no longer work, the group of folks I used to make plug-ins and themes with have all abandoned the project. One of my sites is sitting with about 1000 comments a day/post and a forum that’s taking 200 posts a day (way more on match days – especially if my team lose). I’m tied in, and many others are too.

I’m not wanting to have strong words at Matt the person or Matt the head of automattic, heck the dude’s lovely and I can’t thank him enough. But “we’ve done this before”, while a throw away line and not a mission statement, isn’t that helpful right now. I appreciate Matt posting on the thread greatly, especially as he’d only posted 4 times in 2 years previous to Sam’s leaving (and probably for a good reason, that’s not a dig) – so I’m not going to hang the phrase around his neck forever. Its just that, from a PM point of view, which I know everyone hates, “We’ve done this before. Relax.” is a statement that strikes fear into my heart. Seriously, Kryptonite fear!

P.S. The captain of the Titanic had actually been on a ship before too

P.P.S Can’t believe I check in here on a Sunday! Have a great weekend all, and once again, thank you for reading

[chrishajer]

Try adding this to your bb-config.php:

$bb->uri = 'http://www.example.com/admin/';

or wherever your forum is located. If that does not work there is a config setting stored in the database that you will have to change. This *should* override that though.

[Michael]

No problem. I should’ve just posted here instead of asking on your plugin comment feed.

Thanks for that – I have blended it with the bullet separation I mentioned before:

<?php echo implode( ' &bull; ', bb_get_tag_heat_map( bb_get_top_tags( array( 'limit' => '') ), array( 'format' => 'array' ) ) ); ?>

All seems to work okay – thanks.

[Ben L.]

I misunderstood your question. I thought you wanted the unfiltered list of tags, but you actually meant you wanted every tag on your forum.

Anyway, here’s the code:

<?php bb_tag_heat_map( array( 'limit' => '' ) ); ?>

[Michael]

Nice to see spoilers for bbPress.

Does this plugin work perfectly? Don’t want to use it till I know for sure…

[nerieru]

Just added a new plugin, it’s called improved spoiler. And it’s based on spoiler-bar.

Download:

Improved Spoiler

Demo:

[to be added]

Features:

– A spoiler function for things best left unseen to the unknowing eye.

– users can add a title by using

– hovering over the hidden text will show the spoiler.

To do:

– Add a spoiler button option, so the block that’s not meant to be seen is completely hidden unless you press the button.

Discuss it here.

[thierryyyyyyy]

The _CK_ plugin is nearly what I needed because it disable display_name for all user, also for admins and moderator.

But with my previous plugin to show display_names in bb_press 0.9.x and this new plugin to disable them in bb_press 1.x , I could make my own version of plugin

BBpress : Display Name 2

I just proposed it in the official bbpress.org/plugins list, but I don’t know how this “requests” works. I guess I have to wait some validation/moderation.

Thank you all for your answers

[notdamd]

Just downloaded the bbpress-1.0.2.zip went through the install. Tried to activate it and received the error The plugin does not have a valid header.

WP 2.9.1

Any suggestions?

[Casemon]

This is a new installation, so am just seeing it. Didn’t notice it during development, and really have no idea how to track it down.

Integration steps taken:

– bb-config.php has COOKIEPATH, BB_AUTH_KEY, BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY, BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY, BB_NONCE_KEY (all keys match values in wp-config.php) & require_once($_SERVER . ‘/’ . ‘wp-blog-header.php’);

– WordPress-bbPress syncronization plugin v0.8.0 installed & active in both WP & bbP.

– bbP has a few other plugins but nothing I would think would affect any of the above issues (allow images, auto add favs, bbcode buttons, bbcode lite, new post notification).

Thought I followed all the integration steps to the letter, but I guess something is amiss. Seen anything like this before?

[kevinjohngallagher]

We’ve done this before. Relax.

Greatly appreciate you posting Matt, thanks.

With absolute respect though, we know Automattic’s done this before:

• we were here for BBpress 0.9 not integrating to 2 new versions of WordPress and not getting an update when WP did.
• we were here for Sam not posting an update/techy questions answered etc for almost 3 months weeks after 0.9’s release
• we were here for major announcements being slapping into page 3 of non-stickied threads – now apparently they’re half way down IRC logs no-one posts.
• we were here with the BBpress1.0alphas (who remember that fun and games)
• we were here with the awful BBpress1.0 rollout
• we were here with the awful BBpress1.0 testing/bug-fixing (“we have decided to scrap Beta testing and bug fixing and will move to RC1 next week”)
• we were here when the sole developer left
• we’ve had 1 upgrade to BBpress to coincide with 5 updates of WordPress

Thats not me being angry or upset or anything, its just that since the move to BBpress1.0 and the removal of the documentation site to be a porn site, all i can do is ask PM/BAquestions. I know we’re not the most loved bunch by developers (or anyone?? ;-]) but we have a skillset thats sometimes often overlooked by developers.

The developer, BBshowcase.com and BBprogress.org (2 main plugin developers/resources) have left the sinking ship. Heck the ship couldn’t do what it actually said for the last 18 months. With silence from Automattic for months all people could hear was the sound of the band who played us out. It’s great that you’re coming with liferafts and a new engine and any other nautical anaology (really shouldn’t have started this ;-] ), but when you get here and start making the same mistakes I don’t think its wrong for us to at least point them out.

Its great you’re here Matt, its great all the people putitng time and development into it are here (thank you all), and heck even if you don’t take BBpress in a way I personally want, thats cool. I’m not here for a personal agenda of the features i personally want. It just that this project screams out for a PM and instead its got a truly lovely lead developer that everyone likes so much they’re too scared/in-awe to say “Dude, please, take a step back a sec, this is mental”.

We’ve done this before. Relax.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

– George Santayana