[Gautam]

Thanks

[Michael]

I missed this one – sorry about that. Looked like an interactive meet – nice to see some changes happening.

I would still like to contribute to/work on a new design for the bbPress website, considering that I can’t be of too much help on the coding side of bbPress.

Can’t wait to see the new version.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[nextwave]

Looking for info on top forums using bbpress (most specifically- if Mozilla forums were using it)- and find the links to a sort of cryptic message saying that this moderator has been removed and that the development is slowing:

“The bbPress Showcase has been discontinued.

The removal of Sam Bauers and the halting of bbpress.org 2.0

was a clear and final sign that there is no interest in allowing

bbPress to become a mature, robust program and community.

By now bbPress 1.5 could have been in alpha but instead

bbPress development has been deliberately stagnated,

which should be a very alarming warning to everyone.

In addition, bbShowcase had only six donations in 2009,

which indicated to me there was no interest in my work.

My code will remain on bbpress.org as open source GPL

for those that wish to use it, however I caution you to

consider bbPress’s lack of leadership before continuing to use it.”

What gives?

[Michael]

Looks nice – you’ve got a nice blog there Gautam.

[Gautam]

I think I’m now an expert at porting themes

1 day for a theme (without a large settings page)

[Gautam]

Agree with grassrootspa.

By the way, mimicked your forum’s looks (only the table part ) – http://forum.gaut.am/ (This is the Mystique theme which I have ported today to bbPress, still under development)

[Michael]

There’s still plenty I want to do with it – most of that will happen when I purchase a new domain for it. I’m glad you like it. I must say, however, that I’m not too happy with it.

I also preferred the fluid look for a while, but I found that more and more people are using wide-screens – some even HD, so there’s a lot of white-space, even on 1280×800 (my current resolution).

I quite like those designs. If you didn’t have the ‘Powered by bbPress’, I wouldn’t even know which forum software you were using (only at a glance, though). I like what you have going there. I’ve been trying to incorporate avatars in the forum list, but with no luck.

I’m not too sure what you mean. I think you should open up a new topic for this – I have a funny feeling this one might be closed because we’re going off topic.

[grassrootspa]

Hmmm, here is an example of what is being generated. Looks like the ahref is remaining blank ( <a href=""> ):

<tr class="bb-precedes-sibling bb-follows-sibling bb-child alt">



<td class="num" style=padding:2px><img src='http://newstalkpa.com/graphics/redfolder20.gif' width='30' height='20'><br></td>



<td><div class="nest"><a href="http://newstalkpa.com/forum.php?id=23">Montgomery County</a><small> – Norristown, Conshohocken & Pottstown</small></div></td>



<td class="num">1</td>

<td class="num">3</td>

<td class="num" style=padding:0px>

<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=9d50ea21b75d0928eaf9487d20e9da06' width='24' height='24'><br></td>

<td class="num">

<small><a href="http://newstalkpa.com/profile.php?id=118" >amstay</a></small>

</td>



<td class="num"><a href="">Castor replacement</td>



<tr class="bb-precedes-sibling bb-follows-sibling bb-child">



<td class="num" style=padding:2px><img src='http://newstalkpa.com/graphics/redfolder20.gif' width='30' height='20'><br></td>



<td><div class="nest"><a href="http://newstalkpa.com/forum.php?id=26">Bucks County</a><small> – Doylestown, Levittown, Quakertown & Yardley</small></div></td>

<td class="num">1</td>

<td class="num">2</td>



<td class="num" style=padding:0px>

<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=439035a0912b61919d4611d60a7904b2' width='24' height='24'><br></td>

<td class="num">

<small><a href="http://newstalkpa.com/profile.php?id=21" >frank</a></small>

</td>



<td class="num"><a href="">Pat Toomey In Bucks County - July 18th!</td>

[Michael]

Gautam: Thanks. I thought that because I made the forum only show categories, the recent conversations should have more information. Otherwise there would be too much whitespace.

If you do, let me know so I can comment.

grassrootspa: Thanks very much. You think so? I still would like to make changes to it. Would you do that if it was your forum?

I downloaded a template called BusinessLike from AwesomStyles.com and modified most of it.

Thanks for your kind comments guys.

[kevinjohngallagher]

If you look at your outputted HTML mate (ctrl+U if on firefox) can you tell us what that is?

I’m guessing its:

title

off the top of my head there is a “topic-slug” that might be what you’re looking for, but i cant check my own code until i get home.

[grassrootspa]

Hey guys,

I have a weird forum display issue and have no clue what I’m doing wrong. (My site is NewsTalkPA.com)

I’m trying to get the lower forum section on FrontPage.php and Forum.php to display like this:

CATEGORIES_TOPICS_POSTS_(GRAVATAR)_LAST POSTER_LAST POST (see: http://newstalkpa.com/)

1) Everything seems to be working for the first 3 headings (which are standard), but the “Gravatar” and “Last Poster” seem to show up in the wrong rows (the Gravatar and Last Poster for the corresponding sections appear one row off.)

I have no clue why this happens. It’s probably something very silly.

Any idea what I messed up in the coding?:

2) Also, any advice on getting the LAST POST to generate a clickable link to that post (right now the link is not clickable)

Thanks in advance as I am stumped!

<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>

<h2><?php _e('Forums'); ?></h2>

<table id="forumlist">



<tr>

<th style="width:20px;"></th>

<th style="width:660px;"><?php _e('Categories'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Topics'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Posts'); ?></th>

<th style=padding:0px><?php _e('<i><b><font size=+1><font color=#a81817>!</font></font></b></i>'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Last Poster'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Last Post'); ?></th>

</tr>

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>

<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>



<td class="num" style=padding:2px><img src='http://newstalkpa.com/graphics/redfolder20.gif' width='30' height='20'><br></td>



<td><?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a><small><?php forum_description(); ?></small><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num" style=padding:0px>

<?php echo "<img src='http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=".md5(bb_get_user_email($topic->topic_last_poster))."' width='24' height='24'><br>"; ?>

</td>

<td class="num">

<small><a href="<?php user_profile_link($topic->topic_last_poster) ?>" ><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></a></small>

</td>



<td class="num"><a href="<?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = current( get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ) ); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></td>



<?php endwhile; ?>

</table>

<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>

[skipcollege]

I’ve searched for hours but can’t find out how to accomplish this…

If I have WPMU subdomain blogs installed at: blogname.domain.com, how do I install a bbPress forum within one of these subdomain blogs at: blogname.domain.com/forum?

Since there is no actual subdomain configured within cPanel and the WPMU subdomain blogs are virtual, I don’t have a folder there to install bbPress into.

I only need to install a bbPress forum within 1 WPMU subdomain blog, however, I will take a solution that does this for all subdomain blogs, if need be.

From there, I’m assuming that I can integrate the bbPress installation(s) with WPMU so that user accounts can be shared, like usual?

Need to figure this one out very soon!

Thank you!!

[grassrootspa]

My apologies for bumping this up but:

<td class="num"><a href="<?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = current( get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ) ); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

…makes the last forum post appear, but the hyperlink does NOT work (the link generated is the current page that the reader is on).

Any idea how to resolve this?

[Gautam]

I really like the way you columnize the topic table. Thinking to follow the same layout in my future designs, if any

[Hard Seat Sleeper]

Can anyone tell me how to link to the current commenter’s profile page? ie:

http://www.mysite.com/forum/profile/username

currently the template I’m using links to any url specified by the author (usually his own website), but I want everyone’s name to point to their profile page on my forum.

using bb 1, and the function looks like this

function post_author_link( $post_id = 0 ) {

if ( $link = get_user_link( get_post_author_id( $post_id ) ) ) {

echo '<a href="' . esc_attr( $link ) . '">' . get_post_author( $post_id ) . '</a>';

} elseif ( $link = bb_get_post_meta( 'pingback_uri' )) {

echo '<a href="' . esc_attr( $link ) . '">' . get_post_author( $post_id ) . '</a>';

} else {

post_author( $post_id );

}

[Macmenddotcom]

Nothing is dead until it stops breathing and its heart stops beating, bbpress is opensource, if you like it as a forum and want it to continue then get coding, the wordpress codex says of opensource:

“open source – is simply programming code that can be read, viewed, modified, and distributed, by anyone who desires. …”

The next thing is promote it, if you have a blog do what I have done here: http://www.macmend.com/archives/114

If you just have a forum with no blog then use what I have done above as a sticky topic.

[Michael]

Thanks so much! Works like an absolute charm!

I’m not too worried about internal links being opened in a new tab, as I’d like people to not be taken away from the topic until they are happy to close it. If I find it needs to be that way, I will try and implement the code to only work when there is an external link, by checking the domain name.

Thanks again – happy holidays!

[Michael]

Sorry, none of the solutions posted there work. They all seem to either do nothing, or strip away the HREF param from the code.

I would try and figure it out, but my knowledge of Regular Expressions is quite limited.

Does anyone know how to fix it? It seems to just be a problem with the RegEx.

[Michael]

lol – should’ve searched ‘ey? Thanks for the link

[Fernando Tellado]

Yo pondría el bloque de login en el sidebar, igual que en el theme de wp

I would put login block in sidebar, as in wp theme

[Fernando Tellado]

Open Links in new window

[Michael]

I take it no-one has a clue about this one ‘ey?

Not to worry though – I might find out how to do it next year.

[hpguru]

I check my friend bbPress 1.0.2 forum. This is new forum, not from 0.9.0.6, i converted 0.9.0.4->1.0 etc. Friend install first time 1.0.2. But there same problem. Index.php in admin says 299 posts, posts.php says 302. This is bug.

[Michael]

Hi all Hope you’re doing well, not keeping too busy around Christmas (unlike me )

I hope someone can help me here. As some of you know, I run a small Development forum. In this forum I post tutorials and posts with quite a few links. It’s quite irritating that each link opens in the same window, making the user have to return to the forum every time.

Is there a way to make sure that all the links in a post open up in a new window? I tried doing it manually in a post, but it trimmed the target="_blank" from the code. I also have BBCode Lite installed. I did try editing that code, but with no success. There’s obviously something in the core that I need to change. Anyone know where it is?

Thanks in advance – and have a lovely Christmas!

Michael

[paamayim]

Just an update, I read elsewhere that this is deprecated in latest WP versions:

require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-blog-header.php';

This should be used instead:

require_once dirname(dirname(__FILE__)) . '/wp-load.php';