[checkfront]

Hello,

We’ve been using bbPress for a couple of weeks now, and have been getting a couple dozen automated accounts each day. Now it appears they are coming alive adding spam posts to the forums.

We’re using the instant-password plugin because we don’t want our users to have to wait for e-mail, and I personally despise captcha (see http://www.stopcaptcha.com).

After cleaning out the bot accounts, here is what we did to stop it:

Our registration page: http://www.checkfront.com/community/register.php

Using CSS, we hid the occupation and interest fields (don’t need them). Spam bots will often fill out all the forum fields on a page. If a new registration comes in with one of those filled, we discard it.

We also added a hidden field (potpan) that gets filled with a unique id generated on each page load via javascript. If the potpan id doesn’t match the one in the session, we discard it.

Since we put it in place yesterday, it’s blocked all 35 automated registrations.

If anyone is using the instant-password plug in and would like the modified code, let me know and will zip it up. Perhaps this functionality could make its way into the standard registration.

Cheers,

-J

[johnhiler]

Here are some more detailed instructions for you:

1) First, create a new forum and call it “Hidden” or something similar.

2) Upload and activate the Hidden Forums plugin.

3) Get the forum id number here: http://yoursiteurl.com/forums?forumlist

For the sake of this example, let’s say the forumid of your new forum you want to hide is #3.

4) Now edit the settings manually at the top of the plugin:

http://svn.automattic.com/bb-plugins/hidden-forums/trunk/hidden-forums.php

Use the settings below, at the end of this post.

5) Reupload your plugin with the new settings, and see if it works!

Hope that helps!

$hidden_forums=array(3); // hide these forums, list by comma seperated number

$hidden_forums=array(‘keymaster’,’administrator’); // these roles can always see ALL forums regardless

$hidden_forums[3]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’); // exact formal role name, *not* ability

$hidden_forums=array(1); // these users can always see ALL forums regardless

$hidden_forums=”[H] “; // text, html, css or image to indicate hidden forums/topics, make it =””; if you don’t want any label at all

[royho]

Try this, in your CSS, put a statement like this.

table#forumlist tr.bb-child {

text-indent:50px !important;

}

That will indent out the sub-forums…

[gerikg]

“manage the bbpress forum via the same admin login as the primary WP install.”

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-admin/

“…main wp widgetized sidebar”

If you did the deep integration you just have to stick <?php getsidebar() ?;> somewhere in you bbpress theme file then mess with you bbpress css to make it fit.

“..same sort of functionality with editing php and css templates, etc. in bbpress as with WP”

no such thing

[adaptistration]

I’ve recently completed a deep install of bbpress (great tuts here at the forums!) but it didn’t do what I thought it would do, which is allow me to insert bbpress as an integrated component of my main WP install. What I would like, is to be able to use the main wp widgetized sidebar and manage the bbpress forum via the same admin login as the primary WP install.

I would also like to have the same sort of functionality with editing php and css templates, etc. in bbpress as with WP but after reading around, it seems that I am out of luck (any advice here is greatly appreciated).

I feel like I’m missing something or off track. Any help/insight/feedback is greatly appreciated.

[jdh1178]

Hi there,

For some reason the text (in the default theme) drifts off the area it should be in for replies to posts.

Here is a modified css file, but the problem is the same even with the default files.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!

http://twistedtools.com/forums/topic/how-to-download-freebies

[xananax]

Ok, thanks to your idea, I’ve got it working. I quickly slapped together a theme that names the forums “categories” and uses the “latest topics” as the main view. It’s a very awkward theme, the CSS is crap, there is repeated code here and there but it is just a proof of concept. I’ll work more on it later.

You can get it here:

http://www.yelostudio.com/dump/yelobbpress.zip

[rlebowitz10463]

Hi Kevin,

Thank you for your reply. The problem is, when I do what you suggest to widen the header, the sidebar gets pushed away to the bottom of the screen.

To explain better what I mean, here are two screenshots.

My header is only 75% of the way across:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=ouodqd&s=6

What happens when I extend the header:

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=29c5e08&s=6

Again, I would be willing to hire someone to make the fix in the css.

Thank you!

Robert

[kevinjohngallagher]

Hi Robert,

I’m guessing really but i’d suggest:

in style.css

Line 31:

#header, #posts {

width:760px;

}

should read:

#header, #posts {

width:[input new width];

}

in style.css

Line 45:

#header h1 {

background:url(“images/jillijheader4.jpg”) no-repeat scroll center top #999999;

border-bottom:1px solid #999999;

font-size:2em;

height:182px;

line-height:80px;

width:760px;

}

should read:

#header h1 {

background:url(“images/jillijheader4.jpg”) no-repeat scroll center top #999999;

border-bottom:1px solid #999999;

font-size:2em;

height:182px;

line-height:80px;

width:[input new width];

}

replace [input new width] with either a fixed width (1000px) or a percentage (100%).

Good luck

[rlebowitz10463]

Hi,

I am using bbpress for my forum page, located at polina-such.freehostia.com/bbpress.

I am using the cool TooNewsy theme. (http://www.bbpressthemes.net/too-newsy/)

The only problem I have been having is that I cannot extend my header across the page without it somehow knocking the sidebar under the forum posts! I want the sidebar to stay where it is, but I also need the header to stretch across the page and not end prematurely.

I have tried for days to fix the css to no avail. I have also tried reaching out to the developers but have not as of yet gotten a response.

I would greatly appreciate it if anyone here can help. Thank you very, very much!

Robert

[chrishajer]

@uhclem – I think you have exactly the right attitude to be involved with bbPress. Some tips:

1. Don’t modify any core bbPress files. Restrict your modifications to files in the my-templates and my-plugins folders. If you don’t have those folders, create them. They will be at exactly the same level as bb-templates and bb-plugins.

2. To start modifying the look of your forum, make a folder inside the my-templates folder, call it whatever you want (something unique, but it doesn’t matter. Maybe it a filename with no spaces though, like newtheme.) Now, copy every single file from the kakumei folder into this new folder. Now open up style.css and change the line that says Theme Name: Kakumei to say something like Theme Name: Custom Theme by uhclem. This name can have spaces in it. It’s this Theme Name that will show up in your bbPress admin section when you go to select a new theme in the Appearance tab. The screenshot will be the one from kakumei, but that’s only because you didn’t change it yet. You can worry about that later. If your new theme name does not show up in the bbPress admin, you did something wrong.

The files that end in .php are just like HTML files, but they are processed by the web server before sending to your browser. If you put just HTML into a file with a php extension instead of a htm or html extension, it will display just as if you had named it with html or htm. Try it.

Now, you need to look through some of those existing php files and see what’s going on. You will see some plain old HTML but you will also see some stuff inside blocks that look like this:

<?php do something(); ?>

PHP code will being with a <?php and end with ?> – the stuff inside those brackets is PHP code that will be interpreted by the web server before sending it to the browser. Any PHP code in a file with a PHP extension will not be sent to the browser. It is processed, for good or bad. If you get a white screen, it means you probably have a syntax error in your PHP code.

You can edit the PHP files with notepad, just as you did with batch files, but it’s better to use an editor with syntax highlighting, so you can see when you make a mistake in your PHP. Notepad++ is good and free on Windows. http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm

Once you get to that point, you can learn about all the cool things you can do with PHP and bbPress.

[kevinjohngallagher]

You’ve hit the nail on the head Aaronski, any form of moderation on bbPress is poor.

The simplist way to do this, is to remove the “Add New” link from your theme (simply add HTML comments around it), or you could hide the “Add New” link via CSS (which should be quicker):

a.new-topic

{

display:none;

}

The realism is, if your forum needs actual configuarable moderation, this might not be the software for you. Hope it is though, Kev

[johnhiler]

It’s probably easiest if you add this CSS to your style.css file:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/remove-tags

[kevinjohngallagher]

Marius,

My friend, no-one is attacking you here. You’re not using the default theme, you’re using a modified theme. I have the default theme and it doesn’t have a picture of Micahel Jackson anywhere (that i can see at least).

Your issue was a CSS issue, because you had placed attached your CSS code to the wrong DIV for what you were wanting to achieve. It’s nothing to do with BBpress, honestly mate, the issue was a CSS issue with CSS code that you added when you didn’t know what you were doing. A CSS website would make a world of difference to you and your knowledge and ability to edit the themes. I’m not saying that to be cocky, i’m saying it to give you the tools to do these things yourself

When Im asking specifically for location of a code, in the DEFAULT THEME that comes with BBPress, the best place to ask is of course BBPress own forum

That’s the key thing here mate, you were not asking that. You maybe thought you were, but the code that was wrong was in your CSS file, that you added – that’s nothing to do with BBpress.

Given that it was your 2nd thread and your 4th attempt at asking for this solution in under 24 hours, I tried to help out – i gave you the simplest answer because your understanding of CSS was limited . You didn’t understand the simple solutions presented, that’s your web development knowledge, nothing to do BBpress.

No-one is paid to be here matey, we’re all doing this because we want to help BBpress grow But that doesn’t mean we have to be at your beck and call for real time support, nor does it mean that we have to answer basic web design/development questions that don’t have anything to do with BBpress. I’m going to leave this here, clearly we have different opinions, and that’s cool – but for your sake mate, not mine, learning a bit of Web Development skills will make your BBpress life alot easier.

Take care

[chrishajer]

Marius-, kevinjohngallagher is correct. The issues you were having were purely CSS and template issues, not bbPress issues. Just because you’re using bbPress doesn’t make your question a bbPress question. To answer those questions would not be supporting bbPress, they’d be helping you design a forum theme. I just skipped over the question initially because it had nothing to do with bbPress.

[kevinjohngallagher]

I was hoping that someone could point me towards BBpress or Automattic’s official stance on this. From what I’ve read, the PHP code that interacts with WordPress/BBpress should all be released under the GPL, but HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Images are not.

I bring this up, because a fellow developer (an old Bbprogress contributor), pointed me towards this piece by Jeff Chandler: http://weblogtoolscollection.com/archives/2010/02/08/where-is-the-line-drawn/

The main thing that caught my attention was the comment of Chip Bennet , who states that:

[a] plugin uses a separate library – and it is that library (presumably not released under GPL) that requires purchase if it is used on a commercial site.

This practice is perfectly acceptable under the GPL. Whether or not it is acceptable under the double-secret probation, unwritten, subjective rules of the plugin repository is anyone’s guess.

Can anyone shine some light on this from a BBpress perspective?

I’m going to quote Matt here:

…that themes link and use lots of internal WordPress functions, which make them linked under the GPL and subject to being a GPL-compatible license.

If a theme (or a plugin) used no internal WP functions or APIs, then it could probably be considered independent, but that would be really really hard for a theme.

Basically, I’m asking because BBpress, probably more than WP (at least if you’re only using WP as blog platform) has potentail for premium theme’s and plugins at this moment in time. Getting some clarification would make things alot simpler.

My real concern here is one that won’t go down well…

BBpress forums have 1 current/active moderator

I ask for two reasons.

Should a premium theme/plugin be created and sold, and given that BBpress currently has 1 active Moderator, what is there to stop someone posting the code here or reusing the code that is NOT under GPL?

Not a huge concern of mine just now, but it seems like a likely question of anyone supporting premium BBpress additions.

[Miroslav Popov]

Hello,

my forum (http://forexstrategybuilder.com/forum/) doesn’t show the icons for attachment plugin and from topick icons plugin. I think there is problem with finding the right path to the images. The IE shows broken image icon.

The attachment plugin attaches images properly in the post. The problem is only with the icons. Probably the path set in the CSS is wrong. I haven’t change it.

Any ideas?

[gofastbargains]

we actually did it manually, cutting and paste from wp-header to bb-header, it was rather intensive work, and you have to know css, it was a good thing my bro is a css pro. simply copy and paste did not make it work, he had to realign and figure out the original wp theme and past in the correct line in the bb theme. if you look at… http://gofastbargains.com/ and open another tab and open http://gofastbargains.com/Forum/ . you’ll see they do not match up perfectly. We’ll fix it eventually, but it was about 6 hours of work, installing, integrating, and theme matching.

[Ryan Hellyer]

Hi everyone,

I’ve written a WordPress plugin which allows you to integrate your WordPress theme, widgets and many plugins into your bbPress theme. This is an alpha launch, so it’s probably buggy. Please file bug reports in the comments of the blog post please.

http://pixopoint.com/theme-integrator-alpha-launch/

This system DOES NOT require deep integration and does not suffer the performance hits that deep integration normally applies. This simply copies your HTML markup over after you set a bunch of things in each theme. If you don’t know how to do a 100% perfect integration of your theme already the old fashioned way (copying HTML and CSS across), this new system will not help you at all as you need to set that up already. Once it is setup however, the changes you make in your WordPress theme will be automagically applied to your bbPress site, along with changes such as plugins, widgets etc.

I’m not providing free support for this. Doing these types of integrations is very time consuming and I can’t afford to spare that much time to help you all integrate your themes sorry. I am keen to see bug reports etc though and will try to get them sorted as soon as possible.

The system works across a range of different softwares, not just bbPress. You can see a demo of it in my own support forum which uses SMF … http://pixopoint.com/forum/index.php?topic=1385.0

[paulhawke]

@Michael R – I am creating an admin page to let you change the voting text – it will let you say whatever you like. Out of the box, it will say “Add your vote of thanks”, and “# said thanks for this post”. The admin page will let you purge all votes, choose if you want the thanks div to appear before or after the actual post (to aid in CSS styling) and some prefix / suffix suffix text (to aid in CSS styling).

Note: if you enable the plugin you will need to tweak the CSS of your forum template to style it. That goes way beyond the scope of the actual plugin itself though!

[chrishajer]

You’re going to need to add an extra div in there, to wrap around everything in the middle that you don’t want to have a transparency on (so you can make it white or grey.) Right now, there is no element you can apply that background to without affecting the header and the nav. So, you need to add a new div that starts right after the nav, and ends right after the footer, then you need to give that a background color or more opacity.

You also have some weird inheritance going on with the CSS. There are at least four stylesheets loading. Hard to see right off the bat which one is messing with you.

http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

http://www.justinbieberzone.com/wp-content/themes/MusicGlobe/css/screen.css

http://www.justinbieberzone.com/wp-content/themes/MusicGlobe/css/print.css

http://www.justinbieberzone.com/wp-content/themes/MusicGlobe/style.css

[Michael]

If seen numerous forums with the same problem.

It seems the link to your CSS for the forum is wrong. I may be incorrect on this, but that’s where the background is declared. You have this:

/home/metroadv/public_html/justinbieberzone/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

It should be this

http://www.justinbieberzone.com/forums/bb-templates/kakumei/style.css

See if that makes a difference.

[merc70]

Hello everyone, we’ve started a forum about a week ago and decided to use a template to skin the board. After a good couple of hours, we managed to match the forums colors and feel to our main website. I’m not really well-versed with CSS or PHP but i’m familiar enough to experiment, tinker and achieve the results I usually want. And besides, i’m learning as I go!

But there’s one thing that’s sort of baffling me. I’m trying to add our “logo” image in the header, right where the normal forum name text would appear. Usually, that’s just as simple as going to the header itself and replacing the PHP code used to get the name of the forum with an IMG html tag with width, height, etc.. However, the image won’t appear at all! We’ve double checked the directory, made sure it was pointed to the right place, checked the chmod settings on the image and everything should be fine, but the image still doesn’t appear. The result is in the screen cap below:

http://marknine.com/image/ioforums.jpg

Is there something specific i’m supposed to be looking for? In the CSS file or the header.php file itself?

header.php

<div class="header-wrapper">

<div class="header pagewidth">

<!-- TITLE -->

<h1><a href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a></h1>

<?php if ( bb_get_option('description') ) : ?><h2><?php bb_option('description'); ?></h2><?php endif; ?>

<!-- END TITLE -->

</div>

</div>

CSS

/* header & nav */

div.header-wrapper {

background:#222 url('images/header.png') repeat-x scroll left top;

}

div.header {

border-top:10px solid #E05900;

padding:40px 0 40px 10px;

margin:0 auto;

}

[Adam Harley (Kawauso)]

Sure.

Some example output

<ul>

<li class="forum_subforum"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/ideas-comments" title="">Ideas & Comments</a>

<ul>

<li class="forum_cat"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/questions" title="">Questions</a>

<ul>

<li class="forum_subforum"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/metsoc" title="">Meetings / Socials</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="forum_subforum"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/tips-amp-tricks" title="">Tips & Tricks</a>

<ul>

<li class="forum_subforum"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/gigs" title="Music, bands, all that...">Gigs</a>

<ul>

<li class="forum_cat"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/everything-else" title="">Everything else</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

<li class="forum_subforum"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/sports" title="">Sports</a></li>

<li class="forum_subforum"><a href="http://www.foo.bar/forums/forum/minutes" title="">Minutes</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

In a sidebar, styled with CSS: http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/385/capturecr.png

[ootes]

Inside my loop in front-page.php i want a custom class

like:

<tr class="bb-precedes-sibling bb-follows-sibling bb-child ????"><br />

<td><div class="nest"><a href="http://www.example.com/forum/example">Example</a><br /><small> Examples of examples</small></div></td><br />

<td class="num">99</td><br />

<td class="num">1029</td></p>

<p></tr>

on the place of the questionmarks i would like to have a category id as a class.

so i can customise each category in css

can someone help me out?