[Mufasa]

Hi Guys,

My name is Dan Milward and I’d like to help. I’ve always yearned for a better bbPress + WordPress integration. Ages ago when we integrated bbPress on our site I thought it would be cool to make a shortcode to run bbpress or significant portions of it from WordPress.

This is how we want to contribute – by doing this.

Skills are advanced.

Best,

Dan

[bbhack]

I might be able to help out as well. I’ve certainly got some ideas

I have 16 years of software and backend web development experience working on some of largest sites on the net (eBay and others).

[Michael]

Not to worry – I did some research and found what I was looking for. Simply integrated it into the existing htaccess file – all is working just fine.

[Ben L.]

Add this line to your bb-config.php:

error_reporting( E_ALL & ~E_DEPRECATED );

[littleoracle]

Hi gang,

I’m an enthusiast of all things WordPress and would love to help out if I can.

Being unemployed right now, I’ve definitely got some TIME.

My php/javascript skills are kind of entry level, my html/css skills are fairly advanced. That being said, I’d love to get my hands dirty with the code end of things and I’m more than willing to do any testing that’s necessary or write up some documentation.

Just point me at a problem and I’ll get to work.

[Michael]

Hi there

I’m not 100% sure how it would work on a manual basis. There is a plugin called bbPages (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpages/) that will have support for “pretty permalinks” in the near future.

Some-one may have to take over the development of this plugin. It may happen in the next couple of months.

[hpguru]

Try disable ALL plugins. Then try if site works/recount. If no, activate all plugins, problem is maybe in bbPress installation. So try this next.

[Michael]

I had 6 plugins with extra spaces – some more than one space.

It seems to be working just fine now. Thank you.

[Michael]

Will give that a try – I can see very well how that kind of thing would happen.

Wish me luck – I have 43 plugins.

Will let you know.

[Michael]

Greetings all

I installed my bbPress forums (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation) about 2 weeks ago. I have also added many plugins to it – and everything seems to be just peachy.

However, I now have a problem with my RSS Feeds. I am getting the following error in Mozilla Firefox:

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity

Location: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/rss/forum/news-and-announcements

Line Number 1, Column 2: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

-^

I have replaced all the RSS files with the originals just in case the were corrupted – with no luck.

To see an example, go to this topic and click on the RSS link at the bottom right:

http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation/topic/from-the-blog-recieving-and-parsing-twitter-feeds

[Michael]

I had huge troubles changing the permissions, so I simply deleted the my-templates and my-plugins folders (as there was nothing in each one) and re-created them using the necessary permissions.

All is working fine now – thanks.

[Mark McWilliams]

I’m sure it could be changed to Member Info, Moderator Info and so on?… While I’d have attempted to create a ticket in trac for the change, I wouldn’t know where to start looking, nor would I know if it’d ever get accepted! But adding ‘Info’ onto the end really would help!

[DeMBones]

Hello,

I am aware that there have been several topics in regard to this subject. I am also aware that none of them solved my problem. I wish to have bbPress add target=”_blank” to all external links. I have tried _ck_’s plugin, but it results in an empty anchor: <a >url</a>. I am using the latest version of bbPress. Help is much appreciated.

Ryan

[chrishajer]

First you need to get it on your server somewhere. Unzip it on your desktop and then rename that bbpress folder to whatever you want to call your forum (some people us “forums”, like here, or “forum” or “discussions”. If you don’t change it from bbpress, you will be accessing it at http://www.example.com/bbpress/

Once you unzip it, rename the folder if you want, upload it to your server. It’s commonly installed in a subfolder of WordPress. So, if WordPress is here: /var/www/htdocs/wordpress/ then you will want bbpress here /var/www/htdocs/wordpress/bbpress/ (with whatever you called the bbpress folder.)

Once it’s uploaded there, you will access the installer online like this:

http://www.example.com/bbpress/ (assuming http://www.example.com/ displays your WordPress site.)

Once you are this far, you can work on the integration with WordPress.

[Michael]

I somehow managed to download the Read only forums plugin. Forgot how/where.

You can grab it from my server: http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/bbpress/plugins/read-only-forums.zip

The only thing I found was that it didn’t remove the header (“New Topic in this Forum”) for read only forums. Oh well – it still works, which is grand.

[Ben L.]

Is it in your my-plugins folder?

[Elias]

Sometimes, this weird error occurs if you have pretty permalinks, but your .htaccess dows not reflect the permalink settings.

In any case, you have to do a recount, the negative counts are surely wrong.

[Elias]

For dutch, better save it as nl and set BB_LANG to nl…

(de is german)

[Ron Rennick]

Hi Matt,

I’ve been programming (or teaching it) for a living for 20+ years. I wrote my first few plugins for WordPress in 2005 and started working with WordPress MU in early 2006. The merged WP/WPMU codebase I mentioned in October can be downloaded here: http://wpmututorials.com/hacks/community-service/. More recently, I developed buddymatic which was one of the demos in the theme plugin/competition at WordCamp NYC. I also have a sharded database plugin for MU (based on HyperDB) which will be released this month. The database plugin itself is done and in use on production installs. I’m currently working on a site admin tool for migrating an install from a single database to the sharded structure.

Buddymatic is great illustration of what I do best: approach problems & solutions from an unusual angle. (For other people reading the thread Buddymatic is a port of Thematic that has the BuddyPress theme functionality embedded in it that auto detects whether BP is active.) What I would like to do with bbPress is make it a canonical plugin. IMO, that’s the way to ensure its longevity and continued development.

[Ben L.]

Okay, now that we’re ready to get this show back on the road, let’s get this show back on the road!

[Ben L.]

That would be translating bbPress, and you’d need two things: Poedit and The bbPress POT file from your version.

You’d want to make “new from POT”, then save it as de.

Find the things you want to translate and put the translations in for them, then save again, and upload the de.mo to your forum’s my-languages folder. If it doesn’t already have one, make one.

Then, in your bb-config.php, set BB_LANG to de, and you’re done!

[Ben L.]

Put <?php if ( bb_is_front() ) { ?> before the widget and <?php } ?> after it.

[Ben L.]

Assuming that $mydata_curpage is the current page number (starting from 1):

bb_paginate_links( array( 'total' => ceil( $mydata_count / $mydata_pagelimit ), 'current' => $mydata_curpage ) )

You’ll have to do the actual pagination yourself, but that’s as simple as an array_slice.

[Null]

Hi,

I have the data, but how to use it with bbpress’ pagination? Where to put the data?

I have for excample:

$mydata = the array with rows from the database that gets displayed

$mydata_count = total rows counted

$mydata_pagelimit = total rows that must be shown each page

Is there any way to hook this into bbpress pagination at all? Or do I have to write one myself?

Kind regards,

[Null]

Ahhhh so simple once you know how to do it Thanks a lot, it worked!