[_ck_]

For those not using the XML-RPC functionality (95% of you) I strongly recommend you delete xmlrpc.php immediately after install. Several of WordPress’s security issues over the years have been through that API.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Answer – Yes they work, kinda. Allow-Images doesn’t work right, but it’s messed up in a lot of ways

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Either one works. And you can integrate with a separate database as well, if you’re so inclined. There’s no data overlap until you integrate, and even then it’s replication, so you may as well do it in one DB if you have the inkling you might want to integrate users later

[michael3185]

Plugins – blimey…

admin-add-user

allow-images

approve-user-registration

auto-add-favorites

avatar-upload

bb-chunk

bb-tweaks

bb-code-lite

bbPM

block-long-requests

enhanced-tag-heat-map

header-meta

human-test

move-it

my-views

new-favorite-notification

no-follow-on-reg

private-forums

profile-fields

related-topics

show-error-page

terms-of-service

year-long-cookies

Some are simple things taken from code in forum discussions, and the error-page one is my own.

I just tried one to notify mods of new posts, but it failed with a DB field/table missing, so I assume it was written or upgraded for 1.0, and of course a lot of plugins will be upgraded now. Still thinking, but I can always test drive it on an empty forum.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I bet you could even write a quick ‘If email has gravatar, then show nothing, if NOT, directions…’ PHP query. But I too find most posters are happy with the Identicon

[John James Jacoby]

With a name like grassrootspa, I figured this would make more sense.

I for one hope the core of bbPress never includes that kind of thing, as it works perfectly well as it is without needing to turn a thousand features off.

There are plugins available, and if they don’t suit your needs, newer betters ones will come in the future.

I think what you want, is BuddyPress + bbPress.

[michael3185]

Cheers Ipstenu. I changed the post image so text wraps, and left the avatar as it was;

img { float: left; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-width: 3px; border-style: double; margin-right: 8px; }

img.avatar { float: none; display: block; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-width: 3px; border-style: double; }

Amazing how a simple change makes everything look so different.

[Billy Wilcosky]

I’m hoping someone creates a plug in for google friend connect… I’ve been trying to find a way to let anyone sign into my site. I know there is OpenID, and bbpress has an OpenID plugin thanks to _ck_, but I can’t get it to work like I want. The main issue is, I use wordpress for my registrations, and then bbpress as my login… I chose wordpress as the registration part because it’s very simple… they just have to enter their name and e-mail. And, I forget why I chose to use bbpress as the login part… haha . Anyway, again, I’m hoping to one day find a way to let anyone login using other popular services like google and facebook and twitter.

If anyone has any ideas let me know…

I’m wondering if it is possible to allow people to login to my site using google for example, without having to mess with my user database. In other words, I know there are plugins that will allow people to register with their google account, and then behind the scenes the plugin creates a wordpress or bbpress account… I’m wondering if it is even possible to have a separate system so if someone wants to sign up for my site they can, but if they just want to log in via google, for example, they can do so without the plugin creating a new user in my database…

[rich! @ etiviti]

Dump your browser cache. That should have been fixed a couple trunks ago, and it’s fine on my site. That WAS how it was uglified mid-process

ah bugger, fireftp decided to append instead of replace the CSS file. all fixed and beautified

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Rock on If you specify it my way (or img.threadpost I imagine), it won’t affect images outside of a post.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Put it in your CSS?

.threadpost img

{

Your CSS Here

}

[michael3185]

I’ve just added the Allow-Images plugin to a forum to bring a little life to some topics. There’s a post you can see at http://mbforum.letsdoo.org/topic/visitors-who-arent-registered#post-17.

I’m trying to figure out a way to put a 1 pixel grey border around images, like the avatar image on the left has. The avatar has its own CSS formatter, but I’m not so hot with CSS and can’t work out how to do it for the image in a post. I’ve used the usual bbcode [ img ] xyz [ /img ], but putting a CSS format tag in the [ img ] part stops the image from being displayed.

I guess I could hard code it into the plugin, but any better ideas..?

Edit:

Duh. I answered my own question. I just changed the stylesheet

img.avatar { display: block; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-width: 3px; border-style: double; }

to

img, img.avatar { display: block; border: 1px solid #ddd; border-width: 3px; border-style: double; }

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

This is NOT an attempt to knock _ck_ (any more than she meant to diss on Sam), as her points are totally valid and, in fact, I’m a member of ‘If it ain’t broke…’ If you’re ON .9 and everything works and you’re happy, then STAY. If you have needs that can no longer be met by .9, however, you may need to start looking into 1.0. There’s a reason that some people are still on WP 1.5ish releases. It works and they’re happy. There’s nothing wrong with it.

My reasons to use 1.0

1. You haven’t installed bbPress yet, so you don’t have an existing stable site.

2. You don’t actually use a lot of plugins anyway.

3. You can integrate with WP 2.8 and WPMU without having to hack the bbPress cookies (thanks to WP changing things all over the dang place…)

4. The Admin area ‘matches’ WP and, lets face it, pretty is better

5. If you’re going to write new plugins for bb, you may as well write them for the release version since that’s the way it’s going to be.

6. While it is slower, we’re not talking ‘it now takes 3 minutes to load a page’ like some bbs out there. And it’s still faster than WP.

7. Given the speed of servers these days, you may not ever notice the DB queries.

8. No matter how long you spend debugging, you’re never going to find all the bugs until something’s used for real by hundreds of users, so months vs years really doesn’t mean as much as you might think. Now DAYS versus months… Still, until a lot of people get out there and try to use it for weird ways, 1.0 won’t be as well tested as 0.9, but that’s true of any new release of software.

9. RC seems rushed, with a lot of slapped up fixes, but that’s because a group of us were out there breaking things for the rest of you. The major kinks are fixed.

10. Once you bite the bullet, the small upgrade to 1.0.1 (which is inevitable and we all know it) will seem like nothing.

11. You really want to see that download counter MOVE!

Okay, so some of mine are for the amusing side.

I’ve been on the 1.0 train since I started, since at the time you couldn’t do 2.7 WP and 0.9 BB. I’ve never had a major OMG! show stopper problem and I think bbPress is far far better than the old systems I’ve used. Small, simple, easy.

Thanks to Sam and also SO many thanks to _ck_ for her patience with stupid questions

[johnhiler]

@frooyo – I agree that changing the name to Release Candidate greatly increased community involvement. Marking a release as 1.0 stable seems like a scary way (to me) to increase involvement! But maybe the release will be stable, and my skepticism is unwarranted. Looking forward to seeing how the release goes.

But can I ask that you please not attack active members of the bbPress community? _ck_ has done more than almost any other volunteer to help extend the power of bbPress. I’ve seen a number of open source projects where someone is told that if they disagree with something, they should shut up and just fork the code. I hope that bbPress doesn’t become one of those sorts of projects.

Good luck with the release Sam!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Y’know, most of my users never realize they can change that so it’s never come up before. That’s a good point! You used to be able to use post_author_id(), but that stopped working in the 1.0 series.

[_ck_]

A reminder to those using 0.9 not to upgrade to 1.0 yet as many of my plugins (and others) do not support 1.0. I will not be addressing plugin upgrades until December.

10 reasons why to wait a few months to upgrade to bbPress 1.0

1. Your 0.9 install is stable and the core is secure

2. Roughly half the plugins for 0.9 will not currently work with 1.0

3. Once you upgrade you cannot downgrade due to database changes

4. It does not have significant additional features over 0.9

5. It doesn’t use the proven 0.9 core, major parts have been rewritten for BackPress

6. It’s slower, uses 50% more code when producing the same output as 0.9

7. It uses more database queries per page than 0.9

8. It’s code has only months of debugging vs years for 0.8 + 0.9

9. RC was rushed, some changes were made only days ago and are not well tested

10. Version 1.0.1 will be out in a few days (if not a few hours)

[Filipe Deschamps]

Wow, really nice! I was expecting this only in 2010

[frooyo]

@Sam

Thanks for the 1.0 release !!!

Quick question. I don’t believe what you changed in the core is still the desired result.

I only have 1 forum, and that forum is called = “All”.

I have the following code in my post-form.php template

<label for=”forum_id”>Category:

<?php bb_new_topic_forum_dropdown(); ?>

</label>

It’s printing/echoing to the screen the forum name (“All”) –> see image below

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4105/categoryy.png

The generated HTML is:

<label for=”forum_id”>Category:

<input type=”hidden” name=”forum_id” id=”forum-id” value=”1″ /><span>All</span> </label>

It seems to me that if someone only has 1 forum, that you should simply have the hidden input and NOT print the forum name in any SPAN element at all.

Do you agree?

[Gautam]

I just wanted that plugin to work, so just researched a little bit and here is the fix.

Open the plugin-browser.php

Add this line below <?php at the top:

if ($_GET['plugin'] == 'plugin_browser_admin_page') { include( '../bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-plugin.php' ); }

Note: If you have plugin-browser file in another folder within my-plugins, then use this:

if ($_GET['plugin'] == 'plugin_browser_admin_page') { include( '../../bb-admin/includes/functions.bb-plugin.php' ); }

[plop]

Hi all,

I have a bbPress 1.0-alpha-6 running, and I don’t know why the favorites link on a topic doesn’t entirely work.

When I click on the link “Add this topic to your favorites”, it creates a meta on the database “bb_favorites” with the proper id, BUT, the link still shows “add this topic to your favorites” instead of a link to the favorite page.

AND, if I add another topic to my favs, it doesn’t add the id with the previous ones, but overrides the meta_value with the new one

Is it a known bug or is something wrong with my bbpress ..?

[Gautam]

Thanks Mate

I am the 24th to download it

I will also write a blog post on it….

[Arturo]

ehi Sam thanks!

is possible have the pot for the 1.0 release? in the svn repo the last pot is for the rev 2285… i have to make the localization before update or my users kill me

Thanks!

[teknohippy]

Like the download counter, I was twelfth to download at 12 minutes

Admin looks loverly now.

Draggable forum order is nice.

[clarklab]

I’m also curious about this. Using

<a href="/profile/<?php post_author(); ?>">User Profile</a>

doesn’t work for me since some users have display names that aren’t their user name. Is there not a simple bbPress template tag for calling the link to the user profile?

[chrishajer]

Or, the FAQ here:

https://bbpress.org/documentation/faq/#pretty-permalinks

Note, for people who cannot get this to work on a 1&1 server, you need to put this at the top of your .htaccess file:

Options -MultiViews

The Options +MultiViews does not work (IME) at 1&1, so in addition to creating the rewrite rules manually as in the FAQ, you need to DISABLE MultiViews to make this work. Worked for me.