[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!

[Matias Ventura]

@chandersbs.

See if this other code works for you.

<a href="<?php echo get_user_profile_link(bb_get_user_id($topic->topic_last_poster)); ?>"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></a>

I tried it with the three permalink types without problem.

[hpguru]

bbPress is best forum software! I use 1 years -> and i’m happy.

[Navin]

I’ve been using this code for a while now, untill I discovered in my Google webmaster tools account that it’s giving some broken URL’s. Appearantly this code only works when you have pretty URL’s turned on — which is not in my case.

Is there a way to link it to profile id’s instead of profile names? (e.g. domain/profile.php?id=2 instead of domain/username)

Thanks in advance.

[Tomcraft1980]

It’s a shame…

[bingsterloot]

Hi all

Hope someone here can help me. I have translated 1.0.2 to a foreign language and all is fine…almost )

I can´t figure out why the data and time is still in english?. All looks fine in the .po file, but maybe i am missing something here?

Thanks

Michael

[buddha-trance]

I remember struggling a bit to make it work, and I have tried several different recommendations I found in these forums. Now there is this guide that may be very helpful

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101

Let me tell you what I have defined in my config files, to make it work seamlessly:

1 – wp-config

SECRET_KEY your value

AUTH_KEY your value

SECURE_AUTH_KEY your value

LOGGED_IN_KEY your value

NONCE_KEY your value

then, at the end of the wp-config file

define('COOKIEHASH', 'your value');

define('COOKIE_DOMAIN', '.www.yourdomain.com');

define('SITECOOKIEPATH', '/wp-admin');

define('COOKIEPATH', '/');

– on the cookie_domain there must be a . (period) before the url

– sitecookiepath is for root installations, if you have WP in a subdirectory, then change the path to, for example /blog/wp-admin

– cookiepath is OK with just ‘/’ (also if WP is in a subdirectory, at least this was my case, even if the integration plugin told me otherwise, which did not work for me)

2 – bb-config

BB_AUTH_KEY to match the WP key

BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY to match the WP key

BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY to match the WP key

BB_NONCE_KEY to match the WP key

then, at the end of the bb-config file I have

// Start integration speedups



// WordPress database integration speedup

$bb->wp_table_prefix = 'yourprefix_';



// WordPress cookie integration speedup

$bb->wp_siteurl = 'url to match what you have in WP general settings';

$bb->wp_home = 'url to match what you have in WP general settings';

$bb->cookiepath = '/';

$bb->authcookie = 'wordpress_here goes the same sequence of numbers to match the cookiehash in wp-config';

$bb->secure_auth_cookie = 'wordpress_sec_here goes the same sequence of numbers to match the cookiehash in wp-config';

$bb->logged_in_cookie = 'wordpress_logged_in_here goes the same sequence of numbers to match the cookiehash in wp-config';

$bb->admin_cookie_path = '/forums-directory/bb-admin';

$bb->core_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums-directory/bb-plugins';

$bb->user_plugins_cookie_path = '/forums-directory/my-plugins';

$bb->sitecookiepath = '';

$bb->wp_admin_cookie_path = '/wp-admin';

$bb->wp_plugins_cookie_path = '/wp-content/plugins';



// End integration speedups

– the last two if WP is installed at the root, otherwise

‘/blog-directory/wp-admin’

‘/blog-directory/wp-content/plugins’;

to get sets of keys

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/

https://api.wordpress.org/secret-key/1.1/salt

I can’t remember how I got that cookiehash value…

a possible helpful thread, just in case

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/where-do-i-define-user_cookie-pass_cookie-auth_cookie-secure_auth_cookie-log

Currently on WP 2.8.6 and bbPress 1.0.2

I hope this helps.

[Denis de Bernardy]

@Matt: I’ll be needing a new forum on my own site shortly; one that fully integrates with multiple WP installs. So I can certainly babysit the code base if you need someone to oversee BBPress for a day per week or so.

It *would* be much more appropriate if CK and Sam were around, however. My understanding is CK got pissed. Where is Sam at?

D.

[buddha-trance]

What you can do, is edit forum.php of your theme files and edit out

<?php post_form(); ?>

it’s at the very end, just before the call for the footer. This will display only the topics.

You also edit, in both forum.php and front-page.php

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

to become

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

This should do it.

[buddha-trance]

@arpowers – from your site:

iBlogPro now is one of the only WordPress themes with its very own matching BBPress forum Template.

This is a wonderful idea that any theme developer should keep in mind! Kudos for that.

Themes that already come with the matching forum templates for bbPress, will help in keeping the momentum going for this great platform. Such implementation will make bbPress the logical choice, rather than having people looking around for forum platforms, and getting confused.

As for the looks of the theme, what can I say…. I am a mac addict… Very cool!!!

[skybrother]

This is an old post, but I found a GREAT fix for this issue detailed in this article >> http://www.adrogen.com/blog/wordpress-wp-blog-headerphp-causes-404-in-ie/

The code I finally replaced the “wp-blog-header.php” is here.

/***********************************************************************

* Blog Header Error Fix *

***********************************************************************/

// Include WordPress functionality

$currDir = dirname(getcwd());

// Make sure this isn’t install or admin (go up if it is)

if(!file_exists(“$currDir/wp-config.php”))

$currDir = dirname($currDir);

if(!file_exists(“$currDir/wp-config.php”))

die(“Cannot find WordPress integration files.”);

// ***** OLD Blog Header Line *****

//require_once(“$currDir/wp-blog-header.php”);

// ***** New WP Integration stuff *****

require(“$currDir/wp-config.php”);

$wp->init();

$wp->parse_request();

$wp->query_posts();

$wp->register_globals();

/***********************************************************************/

Made my life ALOT better….

[kriskl]

it is sad news indeed

few months ago, I have paid some developers to convert the site from phpbb to bbpress. except into 1.0 version so many plugins were not updated, and new forum didnt go on line,

and we were waiting for some movement on bbpress and plugins front..

it looks like time & money was wasted

Maybe, can anyone suggest a viable alternative to bbpress? so we could have a deep integration of wpmu with forums & buddypress

of course, there has to exist some converters from phpbb…. I have looked and found NO alternative

[Ben Huson]

Definitely don’t want to see BBPress fall by the wayside so if I can do anything to help, I will.

I have done a couple of BBPress implementations alongside wordpress, mainly theming and small tweaks, but it’s fair to say at the moment my main knowledge is based around WordPress theme and plugin development.

Happy to contribute in any way, wether it’s minor core patches, front end design/coding, or just adding documentation to a codex etc.

[bingsterloot]

this sux (

[batarista]

Dear All,

I’m making a first-time installation of bbPress-1.0.2.zip on localhost, following the instructions at http://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/

I unzipped to wwwrootbbpress, browsed to the installation script “Welcome to the bbPress installer”, created the MySQL database, and for simplicity, skipped WordPress integration.

However, at the final step “Site settings”, when I press the “Save site settings” & “Complete the installation” buttons, I receive the following error…

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 98304 bytes) in F:wwwrootbbpressbb-includesbackpressclass.bp-sql-schema-parser.php on line 170

Does anyone know how to resolve this problem?

My server is WAMP5 on WinXP; it already serves up a WordPress blog (I’m in “learn about blogs & fora mode”).

Many thanks in advance :>)

[arpowers]

We’re interested in helping (PageLines.com)

Tons of experience with WP and BBPress Addons for our themes due out shortly

[Justin Tadlock]

I’ll try to help out in any way I can. I mentioned in another topic here that bbPress needs a Codex, so I’m all for volunteering some of my time to work on documenting functions and such. I’d even help out with some inline documentation of the code too (though I’m not as familiar with it as WP).

Most of the work I’ve done with bbPress is for my own use here:

http://themehybrid.com/support

I’ve dabbled in bbPress plugin development, but most of the work I do is with themes.

[buddha-trance]

This is all so confusing. I will use bbPress as long as possible (keeping in mind the security issues) and really hope that it will continue to grow. It’s such an elegant platform and a perfect match for WordPress.

I find it odd that it would die like this… and WP is still using it, though I’m sure we’ll all miss _ck_’s great knowledge and contribution. Oh my…

[Navin]

Wow

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.

http://www.bbshowcase.org

[Ben L.]

For me, it’s bb-login.php?action=logout. I think your theme might have the link hardcoded. If so, change the link to <?php bb_logout_link(); ?>.

[thierryyyyyyy]

Seems that bbPress is useful for Automatics, even if it is not really profitable.

On the “sticky” topic https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/help-out-with-bbpress Matt asked YOU for helping bbPress, so if you feel like all of us in this topic the need of bbPress continuation, please put a message there.

At a time, I thought that updates where too frequent. But now, it is really scary too see the slow death of this marvelous forum script.

After her long work for the community, we could perhaps let _CK_ free

She seems to really want to go away from bbPress coding, I fully respect her choice.

[wiseacre]

Folks, bbpress is dead because of it doesn’t make money for Automattic I think. Read one of the last Matt’s topic between the lines –

“… and I just wanted to let everyone know that bbPress is still an important project for the WP community. (It powers our forums and plugin directory, for one thing!) It’s not going away.”

That’s all