[timskii]

You need to recognize that there are distinct groups of people with different answers. For example:

Plugin Programmers: Lack of stability of core behavior and data structure over the last year-or-so has become a real grind. A lot of 0.9 code partly stopped working in 1.0 – “partly” being particularly annoying, because those issues are harder to spot. For the rest of us, that grind means that plugins cannot be relied upon: There’s a risk of being unable to upgrade because a key plugin won’t work anymore. While you can argue “that’s inevitable”, if important features rely on plugins, a lot more care needs to be taken to ensure those plugins don’t break.

Server Administrators: One look at this forum tells you all you need to know. WordPress’s installation is accessible to people that know almost nothing about teh internet. In contrast, BBPress integration sucks: Manual, generally bewildering, and prone to unexplained failures. Worth adding here that there is a valid “no bloat please” option: BBPress is currently attractive precisely because it can deal with massive amounts of traffic. Not everyone wants to re-create the internet in one piece of software.

End Users: Joanna Average forum reader doesn’t care about any of that, and is probably keener on things like WYSYWYG, email, etc.

Obviously these groups influence one another, but it seems likely that this poll will be swamped by the desires of the Administrator group. Now, if nobody ever installs BBPress, nobody will get to use it or write plugins for it – so there’s no harm keeping the administrators happy. But don’t forget the other groups – they’re also important!

[af3]

oppss.. i think this works 9to show topis started by the user) to be shown in bp profile:

<h2>Latest Topics Started in Forum</h2>



<ul>

<?php

$query="SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=0 AND topic_poster=$current_displayed_user ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10";

$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);

foreach ($results as $result) {

echo "

<li><a>topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a></li>

";

}

?>

</ul>

[af3]

The code from detective works. I’m using wpmu+bp+bb; so i added this to bb theme functions.php (yes! if you dont have custom functions.php, just create one) and it works.

add_action(‘bb_init’, ‘profile_redirect’);

function profile_redirect() {

if (is_bb_profile() && $_GET != ‘edit’ && $_GET != ‘favorites’) {

$user = bb_get_user($_GET);

if ($user) wp_redirect(“http://www.example.com/members/” . $user->user_nicename);

}

}

now, trying to find code to show user’s forum (bbpress) posts to show in the BP profile.

[Michael]

I didn’t even know there was a download counter! This is great!

When bbPress 1.1 comes out, I’m sure it’s counter will reach 100k in no time at all.

[Gautam]

Just checked the counter. It’s 50k+ now – http://bbpress.org/download/counter/

Also, bbPress 0.9 is close to the 150,000 mark: http://bbpress.org/download/counter/legacy

[Gautam]

It should be added (also signatures, emotions, bbCode etc.). People should get to know the power of bbPress on this forum itself.

[Gautam]

Hey,

That’s great news!

[QuickD]

It mentions in the readme file to do this:

Copy and paste this: <?php bbad_ad_block(); ?> as the first line of post.php (before <div class="threadauthor">)

but I cannot find (before <div class="threadauthor">)

anywhere in post.php file, can it be the very first item of post.php?

[fundomaat]

The theme you’re using is a very hard one, so you could expect problems ]

And thanks to you for releasing this plugin, make sure to get in the directory!

https://bbpress.org/plugins/forum/requests

[Michael]

This ia a great plugin! Thank you very much!

I did have to make quite a lot of edits to get it to display correctly, but I’m sure most will – depending on the theme they’re using.

I’ve been looking for this for a long time. Kudos!

[Maurice]

I’ve finally finished bbBlog 2.0. This plugin adds a blog page to you bbPress forum, using posts from a forum category, specified by you. (For those wanting to do some simple blogging without the WordPress installation hassle…)

You can download it here:

http://www.bbportal.org/bb-downloads/bb-blog2.0.zip

Demo:

http://www.bbportal.org/mssp/view.php?view=blog

Features:

– Total rewrite of the bbBlog plugin (1.0 compatible)

– Now a link to the blog is created under the “Views list” at the front-page (forum index)

– The blog items are now correctly filtering bold text, hyperlinks, smilies, etc (thanks _ck_)

– Comments() link now goes to the first comment made (thanks _ck_)

– You can now prevent members and guests to start blog posts (they can still reply)

– Now also showing topic tags

– Added sticky support: Topics marked as sticky now show on top on the blog page

– Admin display redesigned to match bbPress 1.0 admin area

– Blog post date uses the same Date Format as set in: Admin -> Settings -> General -> Date Format

– Now shows blog main category no subforums yet)

– Now pre-loads the selected (blog) forum in the dropdownlistbox in the admin area (thanks Ben L.)

To do:

– Set as start page, can be done by htcacces, how does WP do this?

– Generate a nicer error message when there are no topics in the blog like: “No blog started yet”

– Show some confirmation when settings are saved (this is broken in 1.0)

– Add pagination

– A “Read more” functionality. Show a Read more link after an amount of words set in the admin

– Add: You are not allowed to create new topics (like when locked topics)

– Sub category support (admin option?)

– Separate tags with commas

Enjoy!

ps: I am NO programmer, so don’t expect much support. Code suggestions and help (esp. with Read more and pagination) are welcome.

[arpowers]

We have to charge to make these types of things possible; we’ll be doing a BBPress addon for each of our current themes plus the new ones coming.

Currently the forum code is GPL; although we do things to prevent ‘free’ distribution.

I will say that being on Automattic’s good side is pretty core to our business model and I think Thesis has taken the wrong approach.

[Bluealek]

PLEASE make the integration of bbPress into WP just as simple as WP Forum / Forum Server – for these plugins all you have to do to integrate the forum is to make a blank page and insert a HTML code like [VastHTML].

I’m still running Forum Server only because I can’t integrate bbPress the way I’d like to, but I’d really love to switch because of it’s far superior forum possibilities (and it looks like the WP Forum / Forum Server development has been discontinued, so their bugs will probably never be solved).

Oh, another important thing for the wishlist: make it possible to import the WP Forum / Forum Server database.

[grassrootspa]

If I had to rank them:

1) WYSYWYG / rich editing (tie!)

1) Facebook Connect (tie!)

3) Integration with WordPress (that login cookie thing really needs to be fixed)

The rest: interesting but the above 3=LOVE

4) Anonymous posting

5) Private messaging

6) Embed support, like videos

7) Email notification

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OMG, it would be awesome if ‘FB Connect’ was introduced into 1.1. This would mean it would only be a matter of time before ‘IntenseDebate Connect’! WOO HOO!

@ Olympus: I bet FB connect was a second or third choice for many folks

[illustrationism]

How do you post a ticket there? I don’t see where I can do that.

[Michael]

Hi all

I’m embarking on a little change in appearance on my forum. I have got most of it sorted, though there is a little something I’d like to add.

In my forum, a member pointed out that a new forum should not have too much on it – well at least too much with lots of zero’s at the end. I have a lot of sub-forums, and half of them have not been utilized yet.

So I changed the front page code to only display categories, instead of a huge list. I also had hidden some irrelevant forums, for the time being.

What I need to do now is add columns that will list the total posts and topics for all the forums in that category and the last person who posted in that forum, in the same format as I have for my ‘Recent Converstations’, and an extra line in the row that would display the sub-forums that have posts in them.

For example, this is what a row’s format would look like (Category | Posts | Topics | Last Post):

Category Name – Category Description | 92 | 24 | 3 minutes ago by Michael

Sub Forum 1, Sub Forum 2, Sub Forum 3

Can anyone point me in the right direction? Even a little bit of help here would be great.

Michael

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

You can only vote for one thing (Facebook was my second if I coulda)

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’m assuming (based on Matt’s leanings) that he would like it to be a plugin and accepting that as probably the way it’ll go. A gross assumption, but the chat sounded rather pro-plugin to me. Could be wrong!

There’s no need for deep integration either : you just make bbPress work with the WordPress stylesheet .

Which is what I did, but it begs the question: Why?

If BuddyPress can make it work with one (two) clicks to integrate login and theme, why can’t WordPress and bbPress? Integration means I don’t have to edit two places if I want to modify my theme which, with a superficially ‘integrated’ WP, BB, Wiki and gallery, is much nicer! One less thing to do!

Some people also invested a lot in bbPress ( energy or money ), and trusted the bbPress team, so why make this big and unexpected change to bbPress ?

… I don’t see what that has to do with the price of rice. We’ve all invested time and money in bbPress, WordPress and a hundred other free, open-source applications. If bbPress ‘belongs’ to Akismet, then it’s their right to make the changes they feel would make the software more supportable and usable. They don’t have to ask us anything, but there they are, being good peoples, asking our feelings on the matter. They’re well within their rights to say we’re all fools and do what they want.

And bbPress is GPL open source, so unless I’m mistaken, you can port it to your own forum app. As long as you stay in the GPL too.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Can people now use these plugins created and improve upon them so that they are now available in the latest version of BBpress?

Yes, that’s called GPL Just credit her original plugin in your spin-offs and make sure to release them under GPL.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Also, with deep integration, the theme works instantly, except that it seems to be discouraged in the installation instructions because of the heavier load. But if bbPress turns into a plugin, wouldn’t the end result (and load) be the same as in deep integration?

Yes and no. As it is now, deep integration with standalone bbPress duplicates many functions included in WordPress. The load gets larger becuase you’re doing the same thing multiple ways, multiple times.

If bbPress was a plugin, one would presume that instead of duplicating WP functions, it would instead utilize them.

Mind you, I’m neither pro-nor-anti plugin, I’m just accepting that was the decision, and wanting to make the move the easiest Same as the whole WP -> WPMU eventuality. It’ll happen, regardless of my opinion, it can be made to work, so let’s make it work! (tm Tim Gunn).

[daudev]

We have progress, now I can login in wordpress and after that in bbpress and to be active logged in the two sites, but I’m not automaticaly in bbpress, when I login into wordpress

[QuickD]

Looking for a plugin to put Adsense Code in between forum posts. Is the Adsense for BBpress plugin working?

[Olympus]

The thing is, even if an official said it, and even if the author of the GNU Project said it ( officials aren’t gods ), I still defend my opinion : themes or plugins aren’t changes to the code itself, and so, they don’t have to be GPL’d . Just take the Linux proprietary drivers example .

So, in my opinion, arpowers doesn’t need to GPL the theme, because it’s not a change made to bbPress’ code .

[Steven Hodson]

@bEn L .. thank you very much .. we really need a codex with bbPress template tags

[buddha-trance]

@Jim R – I see, thanks for the info. Can be helpful for future reference.

@Olympus – I agree about the theme integration.

With clear instructions it’s really easy. With a code rewrite, the templates could use the same header and footer calls used to build wp themes, and put the hot tags in a sidebar call.

Also, with deep integration, the theme works instantly, except that it seems to be discouraged in the installation instructions because of the heavier load. But if bbPress turns into a plugin, wouldn’t the end result (and load) be the same as in deep integration?

Another option, is to create an “A list” section in the WP themes directory for those themes that already come with bbPress-ready templates. This could encourage theme developers to add those files with a few simple tweaks, and have their themes be the “complete package”. A member of this forum arpowers has done this: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-theme-for-bbpress

If bbPress turns into a plugin, would it be expandable through extra “modules” (the current plugins)? How would one customize the capabilities?