[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!

[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.