[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Loss of admin access problem has happened to several people (almost all of them, if I am not wrong).

Have you tried my method of integration? You will end up with what I did. Moreover, I am new to bbPress and learning it slowly. So, I might be doing something that I am not supposed to but I guess I am right. Who knows? Atleast I don’t.

[grassrootspa]

I’m a newbie, so please don’t beat me into a pulp

So the code above works with BBPress RC2, etc?

Anyone develop any sort of plugin to do this?

[vikram_gripsack]

Thanks Atsutane and CK , this is working perefectly fine.

[michael3185]

Duh. Too tired to be let loose near a PC.

[massbase]

reference: http://www.massbase.com/topic/php-if-structer-how-does-it-wokr-im-an-idiot-i-dont-know

this is proving hard, especially with so much in such a little piece of code … e.g. <?php topic_tags(); ?>

all i want to do is, inline the lists, and remove that “Tag:” text before the tags… and possibly inline the input field and submit button… but i dont know where the code is that is pulled by the <?php topic_tags(); ?>

thanks

[frooyo]

@massbase

Since you have some free time (and it sounds like you understand the inter workings of bbPress), would you mind taking a shot at converting the WP Super Cache plugin for use with bbPress

Again, the key here is that it really only needs to work for non-logged in users since they will generate the most traffic (most load on the server).

[massbase]

@ashfame – i just graduated …….. which is why im bugging the hell out of everyone here. got all the time in the world… until i find a job, bit like finding a needle in a haystack though.

@frooyo…. CK doesnt even have the time to make BB-Attachments compatible with RC1+ (i asked earlier) which is far more important than caching one of the litest forums available. …

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Its just code that works. Real power is the pluggable nature of bbPress & WordPress which lets you add almost any functionality without bloating the code for mass consumption.

[chrishajer]

> Can I use the latest production/stable releases of WordPress (2.

> and bbPress (0.9.0.5) together?

You can if you use something to make the cookies compatible:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/

or

http://superann.com/2009/02/26/wordpress-26-27-bbpress-09-cookie-integration-plugin/

Those were using bbPress 0.9.0.4 and WordPress 2.7, and there has been some additional talk about adding a line to (or was it removing a line from??) your bb-config.php to make the 0.9.0.* cookies work with WordPress 2.8:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/bbpress-10-release-candidate-1#post-30330

> Is that the best combination?

Best is up to you to decide. I think you will find you can integrate logins and also have the greatest number of bbPress plugins available with 0.9.0.5.

> Will most of the plug-ins or extensions for bbPress be available with those versions?

The majority of the plugins were designed to work for 0.9 and below. There are significant changes to the 1.0 RC that some plugin authors are not updating their plugins until 1.0 becomes finalized.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/list-of-plugins-that-work-on-rc1#post-37033

[Sam Bauers]

bbPress 1.0 incorporates the shortcode API from WordPress, so most shortcode based video insertion plugins for WordPress will work with only minor modification.

[wire42]

Can I use the latest production/stable releases of WordPress (2. and bbPress (0.9.0.5) together? Is that the best combination? Will most of the plug-ins or extensions for bbPress be available with those versions?

I like the look of a lot of the plugins and just wanted to make sure that they will work. Thanks!

[bzmillerboy]

I guess you can’t embed video objects huh

I am trying to setup a buddypress community but the client wants to be able to post videos. Since you can’t directly link a blog to a group (or have a link to your the groups blog on the groups page), I was thinking I’d use bbPress for posting videos and images. …guess not?

[Sam Bauers]

Because the loop relies on the $topics global being set by the base index.php file.

$topics = get_latest_topics(false, $page);

You can add this to your template if you like just above that loop, to make sure $topics is always available…

if ( !isset( $topics ) ) {

$topics = get_latest_topics( false, 1 ); // Only fetch the first page

}

[_ck_]

You can get a 25% speed boost or more by running 0.9 instead of 1.0 depending on how many simultaneous connections you are serving.

1.0 uses 50% more code and several more queries per page when generating the same content.

[ITguy]

John, first please enjoy your vacation. As to your question, yes I do use ‘deep integration’. I have deleted the 3 groups I had that would not allow the recreation of the forums via the toggling of the ‘Enable discussion forum’ option. That was my only remaining problem. I was able to recreate the groups from scratch and transferred the topics and posting db entries from my backup. Everything is now working

I did a quick search through the BuddyPress forums about the issue you mention but have not found it. I will do it again over the weekend. Should I find it I will try any suggested fix by setting up another copy my setup (code and database) saved this morning before I deleted the problem group forums. I have a spare domain I can use just for that purpose. Should you find it please feel free to post the URL here.

Thanks again for all your help, hopefully I can help you with identifying the issue you referring to for your screen casts.

[massbase]

if you goto the frontpage.php at http://www.massbase.com&#8230; on the side bar to the right, (which is the footer.php) there is an extra loop that shows the instant classifed forums (in the black box)…

however if i click on any topic or any page on the site… that loop stops displaying the topics of that forum..

how come ?

this is the code im using for the loops in that black box (which is the same code for all the forums on the frontpage)

<h3 style="color: red;"><?php forum_name(4); ?></h3>

<?php

$count=0;

if ( $topics )

{

foreach ( $topics as $topic)

{

if ($topic->forum_id=="4")

{

if($count<5)

$count++;

else

break;

?>

<br />- <?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a style="font-weight:bold; color: white;line-height: 2.5em;" href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a><?php topic_page_links(); ?>

<?php

}

}

}

?>

<br /><br /><a id="sub-link" href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>forum/instant-classified"> View all General Topics</a>

[John James Jacoby]

ITguy, are you using deep integration? If so, I think there’s something else that needs to be done before the group forum creation will work.

I ran into the same issue as you a few months back. Burt’s XMLRPC check would work, but forums wouldn’t get made. If memory serves me right, the XMLRPC was reincluding something that was mucking up the forum creation, but I don’t recall exactly what that is at the moment, but I banged my head against it for a week, and there’s a topic somewhere in the BuddyPress forums to prove it.

I’m packing for a week long vacation tonight, and am flying all day tomorrow. I’ll have my laptop and access to all my code by Wednesday night, and will be back to help support this again. In the meantime I invite you to scour buddypress.org/forums and see if you can find any of my past replies or recent topics. Check from about April or so. Getting this figured out is important to me too, as I’ve got a series of Integration screen casts I’m going to put together and give to the *Press sites to help answer all of the questions everyone has about integration, since it is a very popular topic and many of us spend many hours developing and supporting it.

Talk soon, and good luck until then.

[John Blackbourn]

@Michael3185:

The user profile fields are simply items in a PHP array. You can remove an item from the array to remove the profile field, or add a new item to the array to add a new profile field.

<?php



/*

Plugin Name: My Profile Fields

Description: My profile fields for my lovely forums

Version 1.0

*/



function my_profile_fields( $fields ) {

/* This removes the Occupation profile field: */

unset( $fields['occ'] );

/* This adds a new optional field called Favourite Band: */

$fields['faveband'] = array(0,'Favourite Band');

/* This adds a new *required* field called State: */

$fields['state'] = array(1,'State');

/* You must return the array at the end of the function: */

return $fields;

}



add_filter( 'get_profile_info_keys',  'my_profile_fields' );



?>

Save the code above as a .php file and upload it to your my-plugins directory (you may need to create this directory in the root of your forums installation) and then activate it from the Plugins menu in the bbPress admin area.

Edit: Code updated as a complete example of a plugin.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Inching forward.

When I share tables, the default role of the admin of forums has a subscriber role in capabilities, thats why the admin access is lost.

Right, but WHY does that happen to you when it doesn’t to everyone else (that I’ve heard of) who sets up bbPress/WordPress the way you described It’s weird and I wonder what happened. It’s not the different wp_/bb_ prefixes, I’ve tested that.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Yes! It was pretty weird problem. It didn’t work when I copy pasted the string from my blog post but when I did from console (value from another integrated copy), it did the job.

They were not messed up. When I share tables, the default role of the admin of forums has a subscriber role in capabilities, thats why the admin access is lost. May be we are again going in circles now

[michael3185]

@ghengisyan: “I have been messing with the php files (mostly guessing)” – that’s my methodology too! Seems to be working though, as I’ve managed to do some more than I thought I would, with the help of online PHP tutorials.

An Extra Profile Fields plugin would be pretty neat. When I was testing Vanilla 1.8, that was one of the things I liked about it. At the bottom of the profile page is an empty ‘name’ field and a matching ‘content’ field. You add what you want, then click a link to add another, etc. It means users can customise the extra information they enter, and I think it feels more personal to them as they get to name the content field. Feeling that it’s more personal is bound to make people stick around I think.

@johnbillion: I found the filter at line 2201 of functions.php in 0.9.0.5, but have no idea how to use it. If you have a few minutes spare sometime, could you perhaps give us some hints, and a brief snatch of code?

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

@ashfame I didn’t say they couldn’t, I said they didn’t. I chose that word on purpose

The way that WP-Super-Cache was originally written, logged in users DO NOT get cached pages. Now I understand that Donncha added in a toggle to turn that option on and off recently, but I’ve not used it and I’m not sure exactly what that does.

As for ‘why’ logged in users don’t get cached pages (historically), well, Donncha says this:

If you’re logged in or have left a comment you’ll never see a super-cached page. You’ll see plain old regular WP-Cached pages instead. That’s not so bad since a huge majority of your visitors will never leave a comment.

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

We’re going in circles. And yes, I know it’s working know.

My question is this: WHY were your xx_capabilities and xx_usermeta messed up in the first place? There’s no reason I can think of that the setup you described (install WP, configure. Install bb, configure. Integrate bb and WP) should have whacked those settings. You see why I’m confused?

[leggo-my-eggo]

I found a much more elegant solution by slightly modifying some other code I found here on the forums. I created a plugin like this:

/* Plugin Name: Filter Today Only Topics */



function filter_today_only_topics($where){

$today_only_forums = array ("4"); // The id# of the Today Only forum(s)

foreach($today_only_forums as $forum) {

$where .= " AND (forum_id != " . $forum . " OR topic_start_time > CURDATE()) ";

}

return $where;

}



add_filter( 'get_latest_topics_where', 'filter_today_only_topics');

add_filter( 'get_latest_posts_where', 'filter_today_only_topics');

This has the advantage of working in any list of recent posts without modifying the templates. The counts are still wrong in the forum lists, and I can’t find a filter that let’s me change the query for just those, but I’ll just write a template function for that.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Ok. But in my case I was using custom table prefixes, so instead of editing the plugin I directly run a sql query

Problem is solved now!

Thanks for your help!