[psymatix]

Hello,I’m a wordpress user and I just downloaded bbpress for a project I’m working on since I can’t get some key features on wordpress. My project involves polls that can be created by users of the site, and also regular forum topics.

I have gotten the polls plugin bbpress polls and it adds ‘[poll]’ in front of the topic title. now I want to use this feature to display topics with polls separately from topics that don’t have polls since this seems to be the most distinguishing factor.

My question is how can I get the topic title in the loop for use in my code? the Function topic_title() displays the topic i.e. it echoes it, but I would like to get it as a string that I can use in functions.

Also, I would like to know how I can get a reference of all the index keys in the $topics array so I can use them in my code.

[Basti1900]

Hi all,

just installed bbPress at http://www.autogas-umruestungen.de/forum

Do I have to protect this directory somehow? The index.php is in the same directory with bb-config.php etc. and other vital files?

Seems unsafe? Or am I wrong?

Thanks for your help..

Great tool this bbPress

Sebastian

[Pomy]

where are coders… I’m waiting for reply… please help

[Bagi Zoltan]

I faced with the very same problem with two bbpress installations along with a WP. I slightly modified the function is_404() in the /wp-includes/query.php so the function returns true when the requested uri belongs to the forums.

function is_404 () {

global $wp_query;

if (preg_match('/(firstbbpressfoldername|secondbbpressfoldername)/i', $_SERVER))

{return true;}

else{

return $wp_query->is_404;}

}

After saving the irritating 404 issue has gone.

Regards

Zoli

[Elias]

There are simply no stylesheets for div.discussions and other kakumei CSS classes, so they are displayed unstyled.

[John James Jacoby]

felabria, keep in mind that at WordPress.org, they do not have cookie sharing setup; so logging into the forums does not mean you’re logged into the codex, etc…

[cratercraver]

@chipbennett: “Is it approaching something that others would find useful?”

You bet! I am relatively new to forums hosting and very new to bbPress so it would be wonderful to see how you set it up.

Thanks!

[dtiddles]

2. Add “post_avatar();” (between the php tags) in post.php or wherever you want it if using your own template.

ok guys, i don’t see a post.php is it bb-post.php?

Also looking in bb-post.php I havent got a clue where to insert it.. can some give me a clue

[Abhinav Sood]

You’re getting these errors only because the PHP version from your local server environment is quite new.

Simply put this at the start of your bb-settings.php file after the first opening PHP tag

error_reporting(0);

This should remove most of the errors.

[fifthhouse]

Ah this is great! I don’t know much about code but this much I think I can figure out.

Much appreciated

[chrishajer]

Since there doesn’t appear to be any interest, or at least anyone interested hasn’t posted, maybe you should consider hiring someone to code it for you. You could then share the code with the community if you are so inclined.

[heredia21]

How or where do i add the code to have the avatars show up in bbpm?

[KillerSneak]

http://test2.cell-systems.net/forums <- Template + Forums I’m working on now (test domain) it will be moved to http://www.cell-systems.net this weekend once i finalzie it.

AdSense for bbPress

Version 1.0.1 | By Seans0n

Akismet

Version 1.1 | By Michael Adams

BBcode Lite

Version 2.0.0 | By KillerSneak/_ck_ | (customized to work with WYSIWYG text editor)

bbPM

Version 0.1-alpha10 | By KillerSneak/Nightgunner5| (customized to work with WP theme layout)

bbPress-WordPress syncronization

Version 0.8.0 | By Ivan Babrou

bbPress Attachments

Version 0.2.7 | By _ck_

bbPress Recent Replies

Version 0.1b | By Ashfame

Bozo Users

Version 1.1 | By Michael Adams

Role Manager

Version 0.1 | By Nightgunner5

Other:

* Integrated theme with WordPress

* new and easy HTML text editor (customized to work with “BBcode Lite Version 2.0.0 | By KillerSneak/_ck_ | -customized to work with WYSIWYG text editor)

* Custom top user nav + user icon’s on group eg:

-Admin icon

-Moderator icon

-Clan Memeber icon

-Donators icon

-Member icon

* 1 tag cloud to work for BBpress and WordPress

– and allot of other customized stuff to get everything WP/BB to look the same.

[c00l2sv]

The only ans single database solutions you might consider at this moment (except MySQL which is already supported) is PostgreSQL ans SQLite.

I would switch my WordPress to SQLite. Thought SQLite has no full support for alter…

[hpguru]

Or you can use a phpMyAdmin.

[apam]

I’m still having trouble…tinymce seems to break up my template, doesn’t show pics in the post content untill I save and preview the post (not all images though…) and tag management keeps giving me errors. Everything seems to go away when I disable the plugin.

I must say it’s getting quite difficult to get this forum to work as I’d like…must say if I can’t find a solution I might go back to my old smf forum…but I’d love to keep to bbpress.

I can’t find help on other tinymce forums either…

[bbhack]

I’ll echo some of the other comments and say that having a Codex for bbPress is key to it’s future. Shouldn’t this be something that is very easy for someone at Automattic to setup?

The other thing is better, easier integration with existing user database tables and site features for sign-in/out, registration, change password, etc. Most everyone using bbPress probably already has the rest of their site already setup.

You don’t users to have to have two logins, two registrations, two login pages, and two registration pages ,and two records in the database with the same info. This type of integration needs to be dead simple and straightforward in bbPress but it is not. If this was done properly, the most common site integration (bbPress with a WordPress blog) wouldn’t be the mess it is today.

Also, support for Oracle databases would go a long way to helping adoption.

[yangers101]

I was able to get the adsense code to display on my forums front page, but not on any other forum pages

[c00l2sv]

I remember some years ago (probably I was one of the first who tried to integrate bbPress with WordPress in a different language, fully localized integration [1]), and it was a pain. Now, years passed, I can see bbPress and WordPress rising and shining, but I wouldn’t pay anymore so much attention into their integration.

The main problem I/folks met when choosing between BB software and taking bbPress as a possible solution, is it’s lack of real BB features, like already mentioned quoting, nice fluid design themes… classic stuff which makes a forum software look accordingly.

I do respect the WordPress choices when it comes to design (including software designs and tehnologies), but if you want bbPress get over FluxBB (ex PunBB, which was sold and it is it’s main competitor), forget about Joel Spolsky’s thoughts, people are looking for something they got used to already. Bring options to core and hide them under checkboxes, but don’t apart them in plugins (at least until bbPress has no such plugin installer like WordPress has).

Dunno why, but bbPress still looks much like it was first time released by Matt after a weekend of smart coding. Time to grow up a bit.

Just my 2 cents…

[arena]

Hi Matt,

“how to integrate bbPress better with WP, … as to where bbPress goes in the future, I’d be curious to hear who wants to help with that. “

Answering to that question with some questions can be helpfull :

* bbPress today ? (point A)

* WordPress today ? (point A’)

* Can they meet at some point ? (point

* What is the code in common between WP(µ), bbPress ( and BuddyPress) ?

* Is there somewhere an underlying FrameWork with some engines inside (blog(s), forum (social networking) engines) ?

* Could we imagine in a future to come to install a Framework and plug into it a blog(s) engine, a forum engine, (a social networking engine, ) all of them at the same time ?

ready to help

arena

[rich! @ etiviti]

quickly note some of the important things

1) documentation, examples, and more documentation – from plug-ins to core. it is very difficult to ramp up and extend the functionality of bbPress when you have to spend considerable time researching how to hook into things. php is not my first language but i’d be more enticed to extend if there is something to fall back upon.

2) cohesiveness of technologies used in other automattic products – bring bbPress into the fold and create a common experience; UI. why do we have a scaled down editor in bbPress for example. IMHO, it should be the same as WP – if i’m using another automattic product, i’d like the same experience as those are the reasons why i use it. …i understand the lightweight approach (which i like) but its also important to consider the expectations.

2a) IntenseDebate – to me this is just a forum add-on to a blog post (topic). frankly the feature subset of ID is what a lot of forum administrators like (Comment Threading, Reply-By-Email, Email Notifications, Moderation/Blacklisting, Reputation Points & Comment Voting, +openid/etc login). again, just common experience of automattic.

3) the whole standalone, bbpress => wp, bbpress <= => wp thing (if i want bbpress and wp to talk to each other, this should be a core level thing instead of a plug-in to cross pollinate content – sometimes it is just easier to shy away from bbpress and opt for ID – in this instance buddypress is too much for a small community) but i need another cup of coffee before i can touch further on this subject

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I just realized that i miss a “quote” button in bbPress

There’s <blockquote> actually bbPress uses regular HTML syntax, not bbCode.

The future? Optional integration, but DEEP integration. If I didn’t have to re-theme my forums every time I make a change to my blog, I’d be happy. Honestly, it works as much as I need it to right now, but the reason I picked bbPress has jack to do with integration and all to do with simplicity.

I came from the Invision/phpBB/SMF world and I was always turning off options I didn’t use or want. Much like WordPress, the best thing about bbPress is that it’s little and you can add on if you want.

That said, much like how people can (and do) port Akismet to other platforms, bbPress has to decide if that’s it’s future too. To whit:

Is bbPress going to be a sibling to WordPress (intended to be used with it, but available as stand alone) or a cousin (available to be used with or without WordPress)?

Right now it’s a kissing cousin (legal only in the backwoods), trying to be both. If we keep along the currently available integration path, it will become the cousin. That said, if it moves on to the sibling, being tied in like … Akismet (available from the get-go, but optional), then you’d probably get a lot more pick up from WordPress users.

Integration with WordPress, knowing that WP and WPMU are in route to becoming the same thing (unless the rumors are a lie, it’s just what I heard), would really make things like BuddyPress be a home run.

Of course, if we get better integration, we need better user management. A way to flag users as bozo is nice, but banning people would be even better.

I’m going to get more coffee and think more about this. Mostly, I’m happy we’re not forgotten.

[bikingtoronto]

Brand new adsense units often take more than 10 minutes to start showing up… so you may not see them immediately.

Not sure what to do about them showing up in the wrong place – but knowing your forum address would let us have a look and try to help you solve.

[vwcamper77]

@arba you are a genius! thank you! have a nice day also

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

$out = preg_replace( '|/!]*?[^[*?]|si', '', $out );

That should take bbCode out, put it after $out = strip_tags( $out ); . Not tested it, but it’s adapted from a function I found on Google