[johnhiler]

A lot of those features do exist… although you’re not going to have much luck getting all those features/plugins to work on bbPress 1.0. bbPress 1.0 is a very new release, and most of the plugins won’t be upgraded until later this year.

That said, I get the feeling that you would like WordPress and bbPress to interoperate more? I don’t just mean integrated signins – some of your points suggest that plugins would ideally work on both systems interchangably… I don’t think that’s on their product map. Even having more interoperability between the two themes systems seems pretty low on the bbPress priority list.

It’s all good to have concerns about bbPress! I have many concerns myself. I’m staying on bbPress for now, because it is the only option for a lightweight forum with a plugin model. I’m very concerned about the 1.0 path though, and am starting to think through whether or not I want to stay on the bbPress platform in the long term. So I especially appreciate hearing your concerns.

[DennisH]

@gardenfl: My main complaint would be that sifting through this site for solutions it is sometimes difficult to figure out version compatibility.

Yes, searching for solutions is really frustrating. Like most people trying to decide if they should jump in I looked trough the plugins and other mods only to find out later many/most are out of date. Installing a older version of BB isn’t a real option when you want a forward looking cms. This is of course no ones fault (at least not the plugin developers), I am very thankful for what is there.

@chrishajer: bbPress is not right for some people, but it’s just fine for a lot of others.

But how do we define “a lot of others?” I think there are huge numbers of users out there looking for a truly integrated solution. I don’t see many people using bbPress as a stand alone community forum. There are other forum platforms that fulfill that need. I believe most of the adapters of BB will be users that want to integrate a forum into their current site. BB may be good for someone that just wants a support forum (or something along those lines), but the true market is site owners that want to add more community features…. and that means true integration.

@johnhiler: I agree that bbPress lacks many social features… but that’s not really the scope of the project, which is more focused on forums? If there’s a specific feature you’d like to see, let us know in the forums!

A forum is a “social feature.” Now that does mean it has to be Facebook, but it should have some basic features.

These are some of the features I would love to see some day (I know some can be done with plugins and hacks, but I would like to see more “stable” solutions):

bbPress “login box” in WP (with new private messages and profile link).

Integrated bbPress in a WP page that strips out the bbPress header and footer (theme integration)

Integrated Avatars

Blog Comments listed in bbPress profile

Current forum topics/replies in WP

Integrated bbcode in WP comments

Facebook Connect, Twitter, OpenID etc.

I’m sure I can think of more, but those are the ones that come to mind.

Here is a good list of features I would like to see:

http://www.wp-united.com/features/

The reason i decided to post this is to help voice concerns that may one day lead to a better BB and that will in turn lead to more developers and users. Not yet being knowledgeable enough to create these add-ons myself my voice is all I can currently contribute. Although, I soon hope to share how I overcame some of these issues and provide some inspiration and tips for others.

[Detective]

I use this on my site to login via wpmu and get redirected to bbpress:

add_action('bb_init', 'bp_redirect_registration');

function bp_redirect_registration() {

if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'bb-login.php') !== false) {

$ref = wp_get_referer();

wp_redirect('http://ryuuko.cl/wp-login.php?redirect_to=' . urlencode($ref));

}



if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'register.php') !== false)

wp_redirect('http://ryuuko.cl/register');



if (strpos($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], 'profile.php') !== false) {

if (bb_is_user_logged_in() && isset($_GET['id']) && isset($_GET['tab'])) {

$user = bb_get_current_user();

if ($_GET['tab'] == 'edit' && $_GET['id'] == $user->ID)

wp_redirect('http://ryuuko.cl/members/' . $user->user_login . '/profile/edit');

//TODO: see how to handle moderators editing user profiles



}



}

}

of course, it’s not complete yet (check out the TODO). But it works OK.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Yes, but modding core files is bad Makes upgrades a PITA.

[johnhiler]

Role Manager only works on version 1.0 and up…

_ck_ just wrote a plugin last week that removes the ability for moderators to see IPs anywhere in bbPress:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/how-do-i-remove-the-posters-ip-address-from-the-post-display#post-55575

Just stick it in a plugin information wrapper:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Writing_a_Plugin#Standard_Plugin_Information

And you should be good to go!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Okay, so take your totals and divide by 365 The numbers appear to be correct.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Put this in your forum’s .htaccess for a simple way:

Redirect 301 /forums/register.php http://yourdomain.com/wordpressmu/wp-login.php?action=register

Redirect 301 /forums/bb-reset-password.php http://yourdomain.com/wordpressmu/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword

I’m using it on my WP/BB and WPMU/BB/BuddyPress sites

[Detective]

I have the same problem, I solved it by filtering the display names:

add_filter( 'get_user_display_name', 'rk_display_name' );

function rk_display_name($name, $ID = 0) {

if ( !seems_utf8( $name ) )

return utf8_encode( $name );

return $name;

}

Put this inside a plugin.

[DKB]

Hi, I want to change the time and date format to Dutch. I saw this code for it

‘<?php topic_time(); ?>`

in post.php:

` <?php printf(__(‘Posted %s ago’,’rag’), bb_get_post_time()); ?> <a href=”<?php post_anchor_link(); ‘

[bhujhangi]

resolved hadn’t had to delete my wordpress install but have to check whether the integration works or not

well it is due to the keys character support may not be the problem but keys surely are because of

1. wrong defining of salt key

2. mismatch of keys

had defined secure auth key salt longer than the secure auth key cookie and wordpress LOGGED IN salt was not matching the bbPress LOGGED IN salt cookie, this wasn’t the root but wrong definition might have been.

advice:

while filling up these keys be patient and double check them.

i am currently facing Fatal error: Call to undefined function in almost every file virtually

that i think is due to functions integration with wordpress

this all is due to this little function:

require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’);

https://bbpress.org/documentation/integration-with-wordpress/

thanks for the help

[Rohan Kapoor]

Well, I deep integrate most sites I end up installing so the page makes sense as a link to the forums,

[Oxhorn]

So my bbpress is broken, and I don’t know how to fix it.

I built my site with wordpress in a sub directory. I integrated my bbpress with my wordpress and it worked great!

Then I decided that I wanted my URL to look like its own domain, instead of a subdomain. My wordpress went from being

brandonmdennis.com/oxhorn

to

oxhorn.com

I saved my pagelinks and presto, everything is snazzy. I went to check my forum, however, and it was broken. My forum was missing, but I still saw the admin section. So no sweat, I logged into the dashboard and proceeded to change the URL in settings from

brandonmdennis.com/oxhorn/forum

to

oxhorn.com/forum

Thinking that this would solve the issue. I clicked update, and got to an “oops! page not found” screen. But now I can’t even log into my bbpress install dashboard. Everything I do now sends me to an “oops” error page.

I tried uninstalling bbpress by removing the folder and removing the wordpress bbpress integration plugin. I tried doing a new, clean installation of bbpress, but when I get to step two I see the message “Woops! Looks like you already have bbpress installed” and it wont let me go further. I even tried installing it in a different subdirectory and got the same problem. My questions are:

1) How do I re-install bbpress?

2) Is there some code I need to remove from my wordpress installation?

3) How do I re-integrate my bbpress with wordpress so that they share the same database? I had it working splendidly until I changed my WordPress domain name.

WordPress site:

oxhorn.com

Bbpress installation:

brandonmdennis.com/oxhorn/forums

Thanks all!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Then you can create a PAGE in wordpress called Forums and it will link to the forums folder automatically.

That entirely depends on your permalink structure. You shouldn’t need to make a page for ‘forums’ at all, if WP is set up correctly, even as a subfolder under the main wordpress folder. I never do

[jurasiks]

don’t works with google translate http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=en&tl=ru&u=

works only at main page

[_ck_]

It’s PHP 101

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

[jurasiks]

Hello, i need to use current page link for some code, how to get it from bbpress?

bb_uri(); returns main page link, but i need to get link where is user now.

it’s possible?

bbpress 1.0.2

thank you

upd1: found after 1 min: <?php bb_location(); ?> don’t works (returns only current name of page, etc: topic-page, forum)

[hpguru]

Thank you. Works to me.

[_ck_]

I’ve put a ticket into Trac for you. If Sam agrees, it might show up in 1.1

If you simply must have it now, you can try making a plugin:

<?php

add_action( 'bb_admin_notices' , 'forums_started');

function forums_started() {printf('<p>'.__('Forums started %s ago.').'</p>', bb_get_inception()); }

?>

[anandasama]

In order of importance (1 being the most critical):

1. When I see a highlighted topic with new posts, it redirects me to the First page when I click the link.

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2. To update the “All Topics Read” I have to push this button Twice. I dunno why.

edit: Is there like this only when I have both last read and New topics function on?

3. [RESOLVED] I would like the topic to be automatically read after looking at it. How to achieve this?

For now they keep higlighted until i clear all posts read. I, as a forum user, would only like to be notified if there is a topic with new posts. I dont want it to be flagged red again until it got new unread posts.

edit: Sorry I just had to disable the

$unread_posts['indicate_last_login']=false;

4. It would be nice with a function to mark specific threads as read. Like If i dont want to be notified anymore of new posts in a specific thread.

[Stunt]

Yes. Bad idea?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’m assuming you have it like this:

/site1/wordpress files

/site2/wordpress files

and not /site1/wordpress/wordpress files

Right?

If so, just put it the site1 folder as a ‘forums’ folder and you should be fine.

[Rohan Kapoor]

Yeah an iframe would do the job properly and it wouldn’t look ugly either,

[deadlyhifi]

I find that very odd. As it’s working perfectly well for me. Did you put function filter_front_page_topics($where) in a plugin and activate it?

[anandasama]

I still have one problem. the TinyMCE seems to strip alot of the p tags in the WYSIWYG environment when editing a post, and everything appears on one line. But after saving the changes, the post looks normal with the tags in correct place. It’s just the editing that looks strange.

I have no idea how to solve this. I tried to add a class to each P element created but then TinyMCE wanted to create extra <p>&nbsp;</p> elements, spacing everything out in the posted text.

[recronin]

Hello,

I saw a somewhat similar post on here about integrating bbpress into wordpress pages, but what I want to do is relatively simpler than that.

Basically all I want to do is to “embed” a given bbpress forum into a static webpage. I’d like to not have the top header and all of the navigational links appear, but I’ll take what I can get for now ; P

Using the <php include> tag I was able to embed a forum into a webpage, but the problem is that the area I want to embed into is 500px wide. The bbpress forum is inside of that area but also spills out onto the rest of the page. The php include is being placed into a <div> area and I want the width fixed while the height changes based on how much content is inside it.

My code looks like:

<?php include(‘http://example.com/forums/forum.php?id=12&#8217;); ?>

I’m sure the best way to do what I want would be something like:

<?php include(‘../forums/forum.php?id=12’/main_forum); ?>

but I’m not too sure.

Any ideas?

Thank you!

Adam Lawton