[Ben L.]

<?php bb_forum_dropdown( array( 'selected' => 2 ) ); ?>

[Null]

Hi,

With <?php forum_dropdown(); ?> I get a dropdowlistbox that shows all the forums on my forum. Works great, but how can I get the dropdownlistbox to preselect a forum instead of showing the first one in the list?

Tried:

<?php forum_dropdown(2); ?> Where 2 = forum id of the preselected forum

<?php forum_dropdown('Forum2'); ?> Where Forum2 is the name of the preselected forum

Any ideas?

Kind regards,

[arpowers]

ya my fault

not used to the way BBPress saves options yet.. haha

[Matt Mullenweg]

Groovy. This is the fun part. A merry band of hackers trying to change the web, or at least our small slice of it.

I’m going to send everybody an email so we can start up a discussion and let’s also try for an IRC meetup next week.

MT reached out to Sam for the redesign files he was working on as well, and we can decide what the priorities are for the redesign when we chat.

[Ben L.]

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk/bb-templates/kakumei/front-page.php?rev=2362#L36

To save you some time, the code is <?php topic_page_links(); ?>

[sockmoney]

It doesn’t matter that nobody reads them, as long as they agree to them…

[Dennis]

My name is Dennis Morhardt, the man behind the german communities of BuddyPress and WordPress MU. (For you Matt, the guy from the WordCamp in Germany). I think bbPress 2.0 sould the release with the best WordPress integration, maybe as plugin or a combination of plugin and stand-a-lone version with the possibile to use normal wordpress themes. But my focus is internationalization and localization and I would like to help

[Marius-]

Nobody reads forumrules, good luck

[r-a-y]

@sadness

No need for speculation, hearsay and playing the blame game.

Posts like this do not help matters.

@michael888

If you can’t wait for the WP/WPMU merge for BuddyPress, use Mingle, a social networking plugin by Blair Williams that works on regular WordPress. It’s already quite stable for such a young plugin.

Good news is you can still use your existing bbPress as well

[sadness]

Automattic is funded and have enough money to hire a lead developer to take charge (same way as wp), what Matt posted really gives me the chill when it comes to bbpress roadmap…

_ck_ already said three months ago that if things didn’t change by December, she wouldn’t be doing plugins upgrades for 1.0: http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/suggestion-to-ck-regarding-donations#post-1641 I can’t understand why Automattic doesn’t send her a $5-10k donation… bbPress would lose so much momentum if she stopped contributing.

I agree with both of you. I was the one that made that post on bbshowcase suggesting to _ck_ that she accept paypal for donations and/or monetize her site in other ways. But the main sentiment she shared with us is that she feels under-appreciated, which we all can understand because it is TRUE.

At the end of the day, there is absolutely nobody to blame for all this madness except Matt. He had 2 amazing programmers running the bbpress project for him, for FREE, and instead of showing them some appreciation, let alone paying them for all their hard work (out of his millions of dollars), he decided to be selfish and focus on WP and screw the people who were making bbpress such a huge success.

He barely gave bbpress any recognition, and still doesn’t. He has just never cared much about it. Christ, look at how shitty the WP.org forums are. They haven’t been updated in years. He just grabs the basic forum code for WP and BuddyPress and hacks it to work smoothly, and that’s it.

There are only 2 reasons why Sam and _ck_ “left”, “are leaving”, or “were removed” and that is because there have been sour relations for a very long time between WP and bbpress. There are only 2 causes:

1) they were being taken advantage of

2) they were being under-appreciated

Both of these are the fault of Matt, who in his juvenile ways has never given 2 shits about the worker bees that he has been so blessed with and who have made his open source projects take off. It’s the same exact attitude that you see with the a-holes at Facebook and other “startup successes” that were simply at the right place at the right time yet who think of themselves as gods.

Matt, get your shit together, and show some respect and appreciation for the people around the world who made, and continue to make, you successful. You didn’t create yourself buddy. Grow up and show a little generosity and maturity and manage bbpress with some true class.

This project will not go away people so stop with the farewells.

…That’s unless Matt deletes it, of course.

[Steven Hodson]

In a previous question regarding problems with getting plugins to play nice (http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/plugins-in-my-plugins-not-installing) you replied (which is strangely missing from the thread at this point) with a link to a piece of patching code. Unfortunately with your reply going AWOL the link is missing now so is there any chance you can point me to it again. As well any chance of a hint to where the code is added to (file name) as I am new to bbPress so it would help to know what file it is that I need to patch.

many thanks in advance.

[chrishajer]

The width of that #main div is set in the kakumei style.css.

#main (line 155) {

width: 760px;

}

Change that to something wider and you will make the whole layout wider. There might be other things to change to take up some of that space, but start with the #main.

[chrishajer]

I think Marius- is asking for something more along the line of making the Member text more usable. That title doesn’t really say anything about where that link is going to take you. So, if it were ‘info’ clicking it would make more sense since you are actually getting info about that member. Not everyone would have the title Member: some would be moderator or keymaster.

[buddha-trance]

I have a workaround for the navigation issue.

This does not solve why some plugins are not working with integration (which would still be nice to know, and what code would fix it), but allows to have consistent menu tabs when integrating the theme. It involves using theme options for excluding pages, rather than a plugin.

Incidentally, my theme already comes with the option to exclude pages from navigation, but I still used PageMash for other handy features… Then it occurred to me to test if the options would be reflected into bbPress, and sure they were!!! This way, no core code changes, all is controlled from within the theme.

@arpowers – I am sure you already know how to do this. Posting links just in case, for others as well.

To create the theme options page, there are tutorials, showing code to add to functions.php

http://forthelose.org/how-to-create-a-theme-options-page-for-your-wordpress-theme

http://blog.themeforest.net/WordPress/create-an-options-page-for-your-WordPress-theme/

in the arrays to exclude the pages, this is what I have:

array(	"name" => "Main Menu Settings",

"desc" => "The navigation menu tabs at the top.",

"id" => $shortname."_admin_heading",

"type" => "info"),



array(	"name" => "Exclude",

"desc" => "Enter a comma-separated list of Page IDs to be excluded from the main menu tabs (example - 5,9,22).",

"id" => $shortname."_exclude_pages",

"std" => "",

"type" => "text"),



array(	"name" => "Sort by",

"desc" => "'<strong>menu_order</strong>' - sorts the Pages by Page Order<br /> '<strong>post_title</strong>' - sorts Pages alphabetically (by title)<br /> '<strong>post_date</strong>' - sort Pages by their creation date.",

"id" => $shortname."_sort_pages",

"type" => "select",

"std" => "menu_order",

"options" => array("menu_order", "post_title", "post_date"))

I hope this helps!

[Michael]

I see – thanks for telling me that. The change is not urgent – so I’ll stick to my current bbPress installation. It seems to be doing the trick just fine. I’ll probably even land up extending it myself.

[buddha-trance]

@mrsparex – I see, there was one more!

You can edit tag-single.php the same way as before, on these lines:

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php bb_new_topic_link(); ?></th>

<?php post_form(); ?>

[buddha-trance]

@Alex Luft – Focused intent within a community can move mountains!

@Michael888 – As of now, BuddyPress works only with WPMU. It does not run as a standalone, because it is built as a set of plugins. Rumors said that the code for WP single user and WPMU would merge soon. I still have a test community area with everything installed and it’s the ideal combo. Didn’t transfer the blog there because of the announced merge… have been waiting for a year now. If the social network capability is urgent for you, you may want to use WPMU for the time being, and merge later.

BuddyPress is another good reason why I don’t see bbPress coming to an end. A forum is an integral part of the social networking (group forums, etc.). BP itself relies on bbPress currently. From their site:

Groups also include a group forum (bbPress), and wire where group members can engage in discussions.

[bingsterloot]

Hi all

I have been looking for the solution, but only found small hints here and there with no real complete guide on how to do it, so i have made a small one that should explain it in a simple way.

(THIS IS BASED ON WP 2.8.6 AND BBPRESS 1.0.2 WITH WP INTEGRATION VIA BBPRESS ADMIN.) If you have older versions installed, i recommend to read this exelent post by ck: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

step one: Add this string to your bb-config file in your bbpress folder:

require_once(‘/home/ your username/public_html/your wordpress folder/wp-blog-header.php’);

NOTE: The path might be different from host to host, but this is what my path looks like……you get the idea ;O)

step two:

Go to your WP template folder, and open up the file: header.php from your chosen template.

Copy over the content you want after the <BODY> tag, and copy it into your BBpress header.php template file after the <BODY> tag.

What i did here was to take a backup of the original BBpress header.php file, so i could paste in the things i needed from this file to the new one i just

created with the WP header content.

step 3 your css files

My approach to this was of course to take backup of both WP css and BB css files first. I used the BBpress css file as my main css file. I then took the css strings from the WP css file i needed, and simply copied them into my BBpress css file. In my case i needed the header and navigation strings.

NOTE: You might also need to copy the WP css body string, if your BB css Body string has different font measures. Some use EM´s and some use %. This will affect how your fonts react.

And that´s it folks. I hope you understand this, and if other people has something to add to this plz. do so we all can learn.

Mike

[Michael]

I’m happy to hear it that way. After looking at bbShowcase, I just thought that it was done. I’d be so happy to see 1.2 come out. In fact, I can’t wait to see 2.0 – I’m sure it’ll have a stack of new features.

But you’re right, and like I said as well, there’d be no good reason to end it.

I know this is off-topic, but I’d just like to ask something. BuddyPress seems to be such a brilliant piece of software. Can it only be integrated with WordPress MU? Can it not run standalone? The whole idea for my site is to have a simple community-driven system for all areas of development. The forum seems to be doing the trick, and as good as it is, BuddyPress would cater for the concept so much better than bbPress does.

Thanks for the optimism – I wasn’t worrying, however.

[Alex Luft]

Then, we’ll see WP 3.0 (with wpmu merger) + BuddyPress 1.5 + bbPress 1.2

the perfect blog/social network/forum combo

I can already visualize it on my dashboard!

A cheerful moment of optimism

I hope you’re right! I really do! I really like bbPress for its simplicity and flexibility. There still remains work to be done (better commenting integration with WP), but I hope it pulls through!

[mrsparex]

…my pennyforums.com is more narrow. Would I change something in the code or get a new theme?

Thanks for any replies! Wonderful folks here!

[paulhawke]

I would be glad to help out in any way I can.

I have an offline monthly fiction writers group I run, who coordinate via a bbPress forum. Administration of that’s been a breeze, and I can think of no better forum software to use. So I’ve had experience simply administering a bbPress installation (admittedly with only a couple of dozen active users).

I’ve been creating custom themes & plugins for bbPress for a while for my own enjoyment, aiming to bend the software into new and interesting places. For instance

1. making a very “blog-like” theme giving strong emphasis to opening posts with all replies looking like comments & discussion of the opening post
2. writing and enhanced form of the RSS portion of the site to use bbPress as a super-flexible podcast hosting site generating iTunes compatible feeds
3. Forum specific theming (a gaming site who wants an “XBox theme” active for certain forums, a “W.o.W theme” in others, etc)
4. creating a fine-grained access control mechanism for forum/topic/board ownership and read/write privilages (to support separation of gaming forum admin, and multiple podcasters for 2 instances of its use)

Prior to hacking on the bbPress codebase, plugins and themes I lived in WordPress land – themes and plugins – using it for blogs, CMS and podcast hosting.

I write HTML/CSS/PHP for pleasure. Java/XML/etc is the day-job.

[buddha-trance]

@Michael888 – bbPress won’t come to an end. We are just going through a temporary halt.

Once we see v. 1.0.3, we’ll know that bbPress has made it though the bump. I bet things will pick up again after WP 2.9 is released.

Then, we’ll see WP 3.0 (with wpmu merger) + BuddyPress 1.5 + bbPress 1.2

the perfect blog/social network/forum combo

I can already visualize it on my dashboard!

A cheerful moment of optimism

[Michael]

Hi all

I downloaded bbPress about a week and a bit ago, and I find it extremely user-friendly. It’s such a pity it had to come to an end.

It’s also unfortunate to hear that it had ended mostly based on the fact that Sam left – a replacement could have been appointed to continue developing such great forum software.

Unlike most forum software – bbPress is extremely easy to extend. This is one of the reasons I am using it. It’s compatibility is great.

If I was able to – I would continue the development of bbPress myself – though it would not feel right as I am not part of Automattic, thus I do not have the rights to the source-code. All I can do for now is work on what I have, and continue using bbPress for as long as possible.

At present, I run a [new] development community called dev:station (http://www.inniosoft.co.cc/devstation), proudly powered by bbPress. The only reason I would switch from bbPress is to extend my concept in to a social-site, instead of a forum-based site.

I really do hope that, in the future, bbPress will be re-incarnated – maybe as something completely new. In fact, if anything, that would be a good idea: Create a new package. Start from scratch.

Furthermore, WordPress still uses bbPress for its forum – I doubt that it will be gone for too long.

@buddha trance: I completely agree with you – I think we should keep it alive and kicking. If anything, Automattic may realize that bbPress should be in continual development. It would make me very happy, if not everyone else.

[johnhiler]

There won’t be any changes to bbPress for quite some time… if Matt does replace Sam, it will take time for any new release to come out.

So actually, this is probably the most stable time in the history of bbPress’ codebase to be making themes or plugins!