Obviously this is an old post but it didn’t really give any answers and the link is to a PHPBB install.
Can anyone tell me how to add a dropdown to change between forums? The function below lists the forums in a select options list, but I need a way to submit the options to a form that would switch forums. What would the action and method be? I’m running short on time and need to get this working asap so any help would be awesome.
<?php bb_forum_dropdown(); ?>
No, not the wiki-post. We want to be able to output a message under any post that has been edited by its author or by a moderator. phpBB has that functionality and it prints something like:
“This post has been edited [number-of-edits] times. Last edit by [username] at [time].”
And since bbPress has the option to edit posts it will be good to have some kind of indication about edits. It’s a forum board and integrity of posts is important.
Can someone please help me out with this, I’m willing to pay anyone who can solve my issue.
Thanks,
Russell
matiaspunx I am receiving the same error as gavinj77, I tried to download your fix at http://www.mediafire.com/?nmmymgg0z0j but the file was no longer available. Could you kindly repost the updated file?
Thanks,
Russell
Actually, BuddyPress uses bbPress, so it could be argued that bbPress is a modification for BuddyPress.
BuddyPress is a modification for WordPress MU.
I think BuddyPress is the best modification for bbPress. 
Yah I can do all that account stuff myself… it’s just starting to take a half hour a day or so, so was starting to think about self-serve options… 
You can deactivate accounts in the profile editing screen if you’re an administrator or keymaster.
Thanks for the feedback!
I guess for the username/password stuff, I’m just mentioning what we get emails from our users about. We get requests almost every day from users who forgot their username or want to reset their password.
Rather than deleting the account, maybe a username shutdown would be a good compromise? The account would have signin disabled, and the profile would show “this username has been shut down”. Old comments from that user would still appear on the site, and link to the “shut down” profile page.
Thanks for the feedback!
I guess for the username/password stuff, I’m just mentioning what we get emails from our users about. We get requests almost every day from users who forgot their username or want to reset their password.
Rather than deleting the account, maybe a username shutdown would be a good compromise? The account would have signin disabled, and the profile would show “this username has been shut down”. Old comments from that user would still appear on the site, and link to the “shut down” profile page.
Other than changing and deleting their own username, those are all great ideas! Changing usernames messes up lots of code, and deleting your own account?!
The Role Manager has been submitted to the bbPress Plugin Repository – in some future version, it will have 0.9 compatibility (if 1.0 isn’t released first).
The BuddyPress PM plugin is for WordPress MU, not bbPress, so you’d be switching over from a forum to a blog hosting social network. The existing PM plugin probably needs to be scrapped — it would be easier to start over (for me, at least), but importing the old data would help everyone that had Private Messaging installed.
The avatars plugin (in my opinion) is doing the right thing the wrong way. By making the plugin a “real plugin” (no editing core files, no putting files into other directories) and splitting the avatars into separate folders, the plugin would be a lot better.
As for resetting passwords, or for that matter, the entire password system of bbPress as a whole, the idea is already being discussed.
A good role manager would be awesome. Right now I have to create a new plugin every time I create a new Role… kind of a pain.
If someone took the existing PM code and then refactored it and removed security holes… that would be huge. It’d be particularly awesome if it used the same database model, so the old PM’s were still readable! I’ve heard BuddyPress is working on a PM plugin, so I was considering just switching over to that (if I could use it without installing BuddyPress).
The Avatars plugin out there is hard to configure (there are at least 3 separate files you have to install in different places), and it dumps all avatars in a single folder (not sure if that scales). It’d be fantastic if someone could clean that up.
Fundamentally, bbPress needs better user account management. Users can’t easily reset their passwords or look up their usernames… and there’s no ability to change or delete your own username. Those would be huge additions.
Thanks for asking!!
Okay, I’ll try another, less confusing question.
What features are missing from bbPress that in your opinion, a good forum software should have?
(Can a mod please add that to my first post?)
Yes but defining ‘better’ is really subjective!
Look, better for ONE of my sites is a barebones bb. Better for the other is Invision. It has to do with what you, as an admin, want to support, what kind of users you have, what you need to integrate your site with, etc etc etc.
In short: Any answer you get will be based on the specific individual needs.
You’re never going to get a definitive answer. Instead, you need to ask a better question: “What features do you feel are important in forum software?” Then you get a list of the default features in each board software and list them all.
From THAT, you can make a breakdown of ‘Who handles which plugin better?’ and have multi-choice.
Which would kind of be a cool app to help people pick the right forum software, but it still rolls back to ‘what’s right for you?’
There have to be some features that phpBB does better than bbPress. Otherwise, everyone would be on bbPress and nobody would use phpBB! I just need to know what they are.
Better is subjective.
I don’t want a cash mod. I don’t want PMing. I don’t need a full role manager.
So I vote for ‘other’ as ‘none’
Thank you John. I just didnt see it…too used to phpBB.
http://poll.fm/xxa8 Vote here if you’re too shy to post.
Now, before you say “it isn’t”, I’m not looking at the forum software as a whole. My plan is to make all of the important features of phpBB available to bbPress users.
So far I can think of a few things:
- The Cash Mod – I accepted this project over a year ago and I still haven’t released the first version.
- A private messaging feature that doesn’t have 24512 security vulnerabilities
- A full role manager
From my point of view, bbPress is easier to use than other (more popular) forum software.
For example, in phpBB, plugin installation is measured in minutes. In bbPress, plugins get dropped into a folder and that’s it.
im a phpbb user and im eally digging this bbpress software. figured i would give it a shot on a new forum i started.
is there an SEO modification or even a way to add some meta tags to the header of the pages so a search engine bot can gather up some info or even pull from the tags? or is this already included into the software?
HParticipant
Yes, this works very well. Just google phpbb2bbpress
Is there a way to import a forum that is already established using phpBB?
I think this would be a huge feature for all the people out there suffering from forum spam using phpBB.
Anyone have any success doing this?
I’m dealing with 2 databases for my site, one for wordpress and a different one for the forum.
I have converted my phpbb3 forum to bbPress recently, (they were both installed on the same database to enable the conversion).
When I tried to integrate my WordPress blog with my bbPress forum it went bad. I want to backup my bbPress forum via phpmyadmin (as a sql file) and start all over with the install. I’d like to install bbPress on the same database that WordPress is on & also integrate it with WP when I install.
Is there a way I can restore my sql file of my bbPress forum so I don’t lose anything? If so, how do I restore do the restore into bbPress? I’m unable to access the control panel of bbPress now because of the failed integration. I’m still able to log into WordPress.
