[baptiste]

My favorite Captcha by far:

http://www.kessels.com/captcha/

May send your users into convulsions – but it’s hard as heck for bots to read! I used it for a phpBB forum I ran and users always managed to register – but stopped the bots cold.

[prowsej]

I am getting a number of spambots registering on my bbPress at http://www.fcgottawa.ca/forum/ I would like to try having an image verification captcha that registrants have to enter in order to register. I searched this forum and didn’t see anybody talking about this – does this exist? It’s a standard part of many other forum packages. Is there a plugin for this functionality?

Thanks for your suggestions.

[ronjroy]

I am seeing a number of errors on validation that must be in the forum script, i.e. some areas of the forms are registering errors with id’s and labels missing, and body id left empty. Is there access to this scripting for corrections to be made? It seems to me that making changes to the forum is difficult to decipher the location of certain function values that could be changed to allow for easier theme changes. i.e. Changing post_forum title names etc. Is this something I can learn to manipulate or not?

[fel64]

No, the felbbreplies() function will show all comments/replies made anywhere by a registered member. Or should.

[kboan23]

I just discovered something and wanted to run it by the forum. I agree…when I registered in bbPress and then logged into WordPress as the administrator, that new registrant was not given a role.

However, after I actually logged on as the new person and then logged BACK on as the administrator to see what was what…the person’s role was actually changed to “Subscriber” – my default role in WordPress.

So, if this is true, and I’m not missing something that could catch me up…it seems that this whole issue might be mute. Once the user actually logs in, their role is set as the default role so their rights are restricted by that role.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I perhaps missing something that I’m really going to regret if I don’t fix this?

Thanks,

K

[kboan23]

Two things:

I DO have my bbPress folder running inside my WordPress folder. You’re thinking this is a bad idea??? Any suggestions as to why? I thought I read on here that it wasn’t a bad idea to this. I probably read wrong though……

Second — if my bbPress IS actually inside my WordPress folder, any other ideas why I’m getting the error message?

I guess one more (sorry)…if you’re forcing all registration links to go to WordPress, where does this process take your users after they register? Back to bbPress? To WordPress? That might work…but for my site, I’d need it to go back to bbPress; I’m dealing with a lot non-techies and any weirdness will throw them for sure. I need to try and make it as easy as possible for them.

Thanks again for any help,

K

[kboan23]

I’m trying to create this plugin. When I try to register using bbPress, I get this error message…

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_User’ not found in /home/sbisdedt/public_html/web20/forum/my-plugins/default-role.php on line 11

The registration actually takes place; the person receives the email with the password; their registration shows up in both WordPress and bbPress.

But how do I stop that error message from appearing. What could I have possibly done wrong.

Thanks for your help.

K

[airdrawndagger]

1. The post only shows up for the user who posted

2. It’s not registered in the users postcount

3. It’s not registered as “last poster” in the topic list

4. The thread is not moved to the top in the topic list

5. It does not happen every time

6. It has happened to several users

I think I’m beginning to lose users over this Anyone? Ideas?

[chrishajer]

I guess after re-reading, you are not sure what files to modify. Each of the php files in the template folder are used to display SOMETHING. When I first started out, I had no idea what file was used to display each page, or view, or whatever. So, I usually found a page I didn’t like the look of, just by looking at it in the browser, then I found a word on that page that seemed distinct enough that I could grep through all the template files for that word. In a lot of cases, I would find one file or maybe 3 files where that word occurred. That’s how I knew what page to modify. I’m sure someone with more knowledge could tell you that forum.php is used to display a single forum, or that topic.php is used to display a single topic.

One thing I did right off the bat to see which php pages were actually displayed and not called from other php files was to look in the template folder for something called header.php. There’s always a header.php and a footer.php, it seems. So, there is indeed a header.php. Now, since that is the header for each page, that has to be called from any page that is displayed in the browser. So, I grepped through all the php files in the template folder for header.php and found there are no files called header.php. I know they have to call header.php somehow, maybe it’s a function. So, I grepped through all the files for header without the php, and it returned a ton of files with header in them.

shell:~/forum/my-templates/mytheme > grep -i header *php

edit-post.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

favorites.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

forum.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

front-page.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

header.php:             <div id="header">

login.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

memberlist.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

password-reset.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile-base.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile-edit.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

profile.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

register-success.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

register.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

rss2.php:<?php header('Content-type: text/xml'); ?>

search-stock.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

search.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

stats.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

tag-single.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

tags.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

topic.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

view.php:<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

OK, so they call the header with a function called bb_get_header. I grepped again for that, to eliminate the other places the word header appears (div id=”header” for example.)

Now, I have a list of every page, I think, that’s used to display some content to the user in a browser. If you are trying to change the structure of a certain page, it’s going to be one of those php files listed there.

If you’re just trying to modify the look (not the actual structure) you might just be able to make a change to the style.css. Find the id or class of the element you want to change (view source in your browser to see what’s being used currently) then change that element in the style.css.

One thing I did right off the bat was styled the blockquote. By default (when I installed a year ago) there were no styling rules for blockquote. No indent, no different font, no border, no color change, nothing. So, I added a definition to the style.css for blockquote.

In some cases you’ll be modifying existing rules, in others you’ll be created new ones for things that might be unstyled.

I find Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Toolbar add on for Firefox invaluable for modifying CSS.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60

You can make a change while viewing the page and see the effect right away. Then, you can make the change permanent by modifying the style.css. The changes made in with the web developer toolbar are local only, they’re not saved. Play all you want there, you won’t break anything. Make a change you like, then make it permanent in the style.css.

[_ck_]

You probably have an incomplete WordPress+bbPress integration.

Go through the steps here and see what you missed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/user-intregation-between-wordpress-038-bbpress-not-work?replies=7#post-10428

I bet it’s the cookies not being set to the same location.

[benbeltran]

try adding the www at the beginning to see if they’re logged

Like

urbanvelo.org/bbpress <– not logged in

http://www.urbanvelo.org/bbpress <– logged in

Could it be that? Maybe I Misunderstood the problem though.

[jeffg243]

My forum, http://urbanvelo.org/bbpress, asks users to “register or login” every time they visit, even though they’re already logged in. Anyone want to venture a guess as to what I screwed up to make this happen?

Thanks in advance.

[_ck_]

All these problem are both cookie path

and forbidden character problems.

Both are poorly documented (or not mentioned at all)

but the good news is that fixes exist for both issues.

I have to find my previous instructions on this but

because bbpress search is so poor, this may take awhile.

Could someone please get this into a wiki or faq at some point:

Steps required for more complete and problem-free bbPress+WordPress integration:

1. cookies paths need to be changed to the same path in both WordPress and bbPress (change to domain root recommended)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpressbbpress-single-sign-on?replies=22#post-9010

2. the integration plugin should be installed

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/4?replies=26&more=1

3. the allow spaces in usernames plugin should be installed (also add my underscore hack for characters bbPress by default forbids but WordPress allows – see my message later in same thread)

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/usernames-with-spaces-do-not-work?replies=28#post-7904

4. add the ” set default role when registering new user though forum” mini plugin should be installed:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/yet-another-integration-bug-no-role-set-on-registration?replies=10#post-8768

5. search your bbpress templates and force all registrations/logins through wordpress from the several places they are buried on the forum (the WP login interfaces are far more developed) – unfortunately at least one bbPress login location is hard coded in the core which will require a direct hack everytime you upgrade. ie:

<?php $request_uri=$GLOBALS["HTTP_SERVER_VARS"]["REQUEST_URI"]; ?>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-login.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Login'); ?></a>

<a href="/wordpress/wp-register.php?redirect_to=<?php echo $request_uri; ?>"><?php _e('Register'); ?></a>

6. optional but highly recommended, install the “use display name” plugin for mods+admin:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/2?replies=6&more=1

[Anne-Lise]

I have more or less the same problem. My forum is only accessible to WordPress users of the blog the forum is linked to. They cannot register themselves. Therefore registration is not possible on the forum either. All user names consist of two words. When I, or another user, is logged in in WP and then switches to the forum, he or she has to login again. When user name and password are filled in correctly and the login button is clicked, the user is redirected to a page where it says that the login failed and that he or she has to try again. But this time the space between the words of which the username consists is deleted (‘tester twee’ becomes ‘testertwee’). Logging in with the newly formed username doesn’t work either, of course. Logging in with a username that is made up of one word is no problem (for example ‘admin’).

This problem didn’t exist in the previous version of BBpress and it doesn’t have anything to do with the browser either since I tested this with Firefox as well as with IE. I also tried deactivating all plugins, but wasn’t the solution either.

I hope there is anyone who can help me fix this, because it’s really annoying. I was so glad I finally found a rather simple forum that could be integrated with WP.

[benbeltran]

I display statistics on my forum, but not with a plugin I just did this:

<div id="onlinelist">

<?php include_once("bb-includes/statistics-functions.php"); ?>

<h2>Statistics</h2>

Our users have made a total of <?php echo get_total_posts(); ?> posts in <?php echo get_total_topics(); ?> topics. <br/>

We have <?php echo get_total_users(); ?> Registered Members. Our newest member is <?php if ( $users = get_recent_registrants(1) ) : foreach ( $users as $user ) : ?>

<a href="<?php user_profile_link( $user->ID ); ?>"><?php echo get_user_name( $user->ID ); ?></a>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

<br/>

<p><?php show_online_users(); ?></p>

</div>

This could be easily pluginized though, I might do it. But instead of waiting, I recommend doing it yourself or just pasting this on your front-page, wherever you want it to be displayed.

[fabianzaf]

“

now is how I can get BBpress to use wp-login

“

Oops. I might confuse people with this line.. what I mean that is that if people dont have enough permissions with the registered only plugin that they can redirected to

/wp-login ^^

[fabianzaf]

Hey folks,

Wow.. I don’t even know what to say.. when I stumbled on this I felt like bashing my head against my desk repeatedly. As an avid user of Vbulletin for about 2 years+ and spending hundreds of dollars for plugins and the package itself; bbpress.. being opensource and not even at version 1 makes VB look like a crock of shit!

I’ve been using WordPress on a couple of my sites and have tried to find something that can be well integrated with my favourite blogging software ^^

I’m completely inlove with WordPress and BBpress.. all that is left is to complete the integration. So far I’ve got it to share users.

What I need to know now is how I can get BBpress to use wp-login and whether I can get BBpress to be locked down with this WordPress plugin.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/registered-only/

Shot,

Fab.

[Elias]

I use bbPress 0.8.2.1 for a small forum. My user table is shared with a wordpress blog. My bbPress plugins are UseDisplayName 0.7.2, AllowImages 0.7.1, Private Forums 5.0, Forums Moderators 1.0, Google Analytics 0.68. I use the german localisation file, it is a german forum.

There is a strange bug in the user list. At the moment, 8 users are registered. But the Users/Find admin panel displays a wrong number of users. It says there are 61 users.

I took a screenshot a few days ago with six users, displayed as 48, if you don’t understand the problem, take a look in my weird numbers. And I thought that reckoning is something a computer can do.

Is the problem caused by one of my plugins, or by another reason? And is there a workaround? It is a bug that does not harm me now, but it is a strange one I do not understand.

[dennylin93]

I installed bbPress version 0.8.2.1 on Windows XP Pro SP2 with Apache 2.2.4 and PHP 5.2.3. I installed a few plugins, and everything worked fine. However, when I tried to register a new user for testing, I couldn’t receive the e-mail with the password.

I checked the error log and found this:

[Sat Aug 18 21:18:09 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] PHP Warning: mail() [<a href='function.mail'>function.mail</a>]: Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or use ini_set() in \Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs\forums\bb-includes\registration-functions.php on line 105, referer: http://127.0.0.1/forums/register.php

Most things on Apache and PHP are set to default, so I’m not sure if I skipped any processes. I’ve been having trouble with SMTP for a long time now.

[Sam Bauers]

Here are a couple of other reasons why SMF might be faster.

* SMF doesn’t use php-gettext for translation, it uses an array of text that can be replaced. This method approaches the speed of a native gettext implementation.

* bbPress has a lot of functions to register.

* SMF has (auto-detecting) built in support for memcached, eAccelerator, MMCache, AlternativePHP Cache and the Zend Optimiser

* Most (all?) of SMF is written inside PHP, i.e. the HTML is in strings that are echoed out of PHP, this is slightly quicker than dropping in and out of PHP to output to the browser.

* Many bbPress plugins don’t need to load on every page, they could start with some sort of conditional that requests the current bbPress location and then just send a “return” when they aren’t required.

That’s all I can think of after a quick look.

[ronchicago]

Not sure where things go either. I wish to integrate the forum into existing WP blog (more on this later) so I have common registered users, similar look, and I can easily go back and forth from blog to forum.

Blog resides here = mydomain.com/blog

or another way = public_html/blog

I am going to change the folder name of “bbpress” to “forum” so I position just like blog rather than “inside” blog.

mydomain.com/forum

public_html/forum

Right?

[fel64]

I don’t know why nothing would happen, but I’d advise you to use the API instead of a db query. If μ isn’t already loaded when you load bb, it might be good to load it when someone registers and use a μ function to set their role instead.

[neyoung]

As everyone knows, if a user registers in bbpress instead of through wordpress(mu) that user doesn’t get a default role set.

I’ve dug and dug on both the bbpress and wpmu forums and haven’t found a fix for this. I did find a fix that apparently works for wordpress, but I tried it for wordpress mu with no luck.

The 4th post in this thread explains a way to set roles in wordpress mu.

I imagine that a plugin with the combination of the two solutions would allow users to register through bbpress and get a default role on the main wordpress mu blog. But, unfortunately I have no clue what I’m doing. If anyone has a free minute or two to look at the bits of code and maybe hack something together that would be awesome.

Oh, and I’m using the latest versions of both bbpress and wpmu.

[neyoung]

I’ve got wpmu and bbpress both installed and working. I’ve also got the user databases integrated for the most part. Things work well so far for the most part. If a user registers through wpmu the user is created and they are also able to login to bbpress. However, if a user registers through the forum they are not able to login to wpmu because no role is set.

I installed the bbpress-integration plugin <http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bbpress-integration/&gt; to the mu-plugins directory which should fix the problem, no dice. I’ve read that some people just remove the bbpress registration and just make everyone register through wpmu to avoid this. That just seems dirty to me.

If anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them

[neyoung]

Where do I put this code? In bbpress/register.php somewhere I’m assuming?