[Gautam Gupta]

Just to keep you people updated, this is the progress so far:

1. Topic & Post Counts – This works fine, except for displaying post counts in forums, jjj said that he’s working on a patch which would be ready by Sunday.
2. Voice Counts – Check #1330, has patch
3. Rough Template – Done, except for front-end posting
4. Admin area clean-up – This is pretty fine
5. User’s Profiles, Posts, Favorites – Todo

If you’re interested in development, then you can checkout a copy of the plugin, test out patches or create tickets for bugs/enhancements etc.

[Mealin]

Hi,

I’ve some strange trouble with my bbpress forum (host with 000webhost) :

Sometimes, after posting something i’m not able to join it again. Can’t access to it even if i empty cache, cookie …

It go back normally few times after each times but it’s very very unpleasant…

2 forum with the same issue and pretty much same plugins

Allow Images

BBcode Buttons Toolbar

BBcode Lite

bbPM

bbPress Polls

bbPress signatures

bbPress Smilies

bbPress Suite de la Modération

bb Topic Views

BBVideo

Hidden Forums

Hidden Forums Tag Filter

Human Test for bbPress

Live Comment Preview

Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More!

Post Notification

Super Search

Terms of Service

Topic Icons

Unread Posts

Any ideas ?

Ps : my english is ugly so if something isn’t understandable say it please

[zaerl]

So take the codomain.

Just kidding. Just try the software in a test server.

[zaerl]

So take the codomain.

Just kidding. Just try the software in a test server.

[Jive Dig]

I’m just setting up a test forum, and i quickly made 2 forum titles.

When i click on either i get an Error 404 – Not Found

Whats going on?

[Rich Pedley]

the plugin isn’t due for release, a version for alpha testing is though. It is unlikely to be ready for a live site for some time.

(at least that is my understanding)

[chrishajer]

Where did you download bbPress from? Sounds like you don’t have BackPress and possibly downloaded the latest trunk release, which will not include BackPress. The best way to run the latest trunk version is to install via subversion.

[chrishajer]

Where did you download bbPress from? Sounds like you don’t have BackPress and possibly downloaded the latest trunk release, which will not include BackPress. The best way to run the latest trunk version is to install via subversion.

[bbuser12345]

^ And here is the attitude of so many in the “open source” community.

The question is are you making your software for the end user or as a plaything for other developers. So many open source projects look like a giant circle jerk.

If it takes editing .php files and knowing SVN and other developer centric things just to get basic functionality then your software will never get out of the ghetto you have created for yourself. At least have a help page that walks people through installing the latest trunk (what is that anyway?).

I can’t even read the blog updates and get any real sense where the project is because of all the jargon and “project in-group speak”. And here is the kicker I write code all day. I am not even close to the kind of user I would think you would want to be able to run your software.

It just gets really frustrating and the dismissive tone with which our concerns are often met exacerbates the problem.

[bbuser12345]

^ And here is the attitude of so many in the “open source” community.

The question is are you making your software for the end user or as a plaything for other developers. So many open source projects look like a giant circle jerk.

If it takes editing .php files and knowing SVN and other developer centric things just to get basic functionality then your software will never get out of the ghetto you have created for yourself. At least have a help page that walks people through installing the latest trunk (what is that anyway?).

I can’t even read the blog updates and get any real sense where the project is because of all the jargon and “project in-group speak”. And here is the kicker I write code all day. I am not even close to the kind of user I would think you would want to be able to run your software.

It just gets really frustrating and the dismissive tone with which our concerns are often met exacerbates the problem.

[RandomGuySays]

Don’t get me wrong, I want to. bbPress looks wonderful, I love the simplicity and ease of use, as well as it’s integration features which are a huge plus to me. And while I acknowledge that bbPress is going through some tough times (being semi-new and through my understanding, the project lead leaving), I cannot choose bbPress for my site. The worst part about my specific situation is that I’ll most likely end up using it in the future once it’s matured, and knowing that is even more of a kick in the pants.

A lot of times with software, the more simple it is to use, the less features it has to be used. However, bbPress lacks basic bulletin board features – like poll creation, simple appearance settings such as customizing visible forum structures, and even a pre-made registration EULA. Other bulletin boards include prepared terms and conditions to protect your site, bbPress simply asks for your e-mail which with the lack of spam prevention filters like Captchas, even with the right plugin becomes an open door towards floods of spam. Other bulletin boards also give you the ability to, for instance, change the number of how many subforums are visible: Say you have a video game forum, organized as follows: Games (Category), Console/PC (Forums), Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo (Subforums), Xbox/Xbox 360 (Sub-subforums), Hardware/Accessories (etc.). On most forum software, the appearance settings default to showing one set of subforums per-page – e.g. when you click, ‘Console Games’, the next page displays only, ‘Microsoft/Sony/ Nintendo’, and you go from there. bbPress however, defaults to listing them all at once, resulting in enormously long forum pages that can only be changed by editing code. This may not be a problem for a lot of people as it should only require changing one or two lines to fix, but as a basic feature found in most other bulletin boards, to expect people to know how bbPress’ code works would just be wrong, and as such becomes a huge turn off.

In my opinion, one of the biggest bottlenecks and double-edged swords of open source software such as WordPress, bbPress, and even other open source forums, are the plugins. I remember reading a blog discussing the state of bbPress where the poster used the phrase, ‘there’s a plugin for that’. Plugins can be great, but they should also be considered an added bonus and not relied on for basic features. Most plugins are created by a third party, or even people like us. Just for talk sake, lets use wp-united for example. Wp-united is a plugin that links accounts between WordPress and phpbb so people can use their account from one, with the other. Say I used WordPress with phpbb, and then used wp-united to link the two. One day the wp-united team ceases support, and their latest version is incompatible with the new phpbb/WordPress. Now what happens to the huge install base I’ve developed? Do new users now have to register twice? Is my database going to be completely screwed up? bbPress eliminates this problem by having seemless integration with WordPress, but it just shows an example of how plugins can be both a good and bad thing, and how some features (like poll creation) need to be made a part of the main software despite, ‘less code being more’.

And lastly, arguably the number one issue preventing me from using bbPress, is the state of bbPress itself; the development of this software is up in the air with there being two completely different places to discuss it’s progress (this being one of them), and the other claiming talks of turning bbPress into a BuddyPress plugin. So the people new to bbPress, such as myself, don’t know what to do. Should we install the software now? Or wait until it’s a plugin? If we install now and they change it to a plugin, what happens to the standalone installations? Do they get screwed? Are they forced to install BuddyPress and switch everything over? Now I’m only human. I have no problem admitting when I’m wrong, I make mistakes. But even if not all my facts are straight, the fact that doing the research lead to this whole scenario makes for quite the first impression.

I didn’t post this to bash bbPress, I just hoped it would clear some of the confusion and thought it might in some way shape or form help bbPress and it’s users by getting these issues out in the open.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Take a backup of your site and get the trunk running.

P.S. – Trunk means the latest development version, generally not yet released.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Take a backup of your site and get the trunk running.

P.S. – Trunk means the latest development version, generally not yet released.

[brian atwood]

I’ve looked around, but most of the plugins are for older versions of the software, not the latest release, and have members reporting errors.

The latest version can also work very well. You have to configure it properly.

[brian atwood]

I’ve looked around, but most of the plugins are for older versions of the software, not the latest release, and have members reporting errors.

The latest version can also work very well. You have to configure it properly.

[ethanthekiwi]

I found the answer to download the trunk

http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/01/download-zip-latest-trunk-wordpress-bbpress-buddypress/

[surya109]

I have been able to successfully install and configure the following as a clean installation:

WordPress MU 2.8.1

bbPress 1.0.1

BuddyPress 1.0.3

I will post a *rough* outline of the steps for the installation. My installation is on a test server (Mac running php 5.3.0 under xampp ??? beta)

You need to get WordPress 2.8.1 and bbPress login integration working successfully first.

These steps are for WordPress MU 2.8.1, bbPress 1.0.1 and buddyPress 1.0.3.

1. Download and install WordPress MU 2.8.1

2. Install the “bbPress Integration” plugin version 1.0 via the “Plugins” -> “Add New” menu of your wordpress mu installation.

In the search box enter ‘bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

Click the “Install” link for the “bbPress Integration” version 1.0 plugin.

Click the orange “Install Now” button.

Click the “Activate Plugin” link.

3. Download and install bbPress 1.0.1 in a sub-directory of your wordpress installation.

I chose the sub-directory “/forums/”.

4. Load up the bbPress installation script by going to http://<yourdomain>/forums/

5. Click “Go to step 1″.

6. Enter the database name, database user and database password that you used for your wordpress installation.

You will not usually need to click “Show advanced settings”.

7. Click “Save database configuration file”.

You should see a message “Your settings have been saved to the file bb-config.php. You can now continue to the next step.”

8. Click “Go to step 2″.

9. Next you add the integration settings. This is the important part!

– click “Add integration settings”

– click “Add cookie integration settings”

– you will be presented with a list of eight text entry fields

– the first two are for your wordpress and blog url. For each of these enter your exact urls. I just used the same value for each. They need to commence with http://

– for all the cookie values just enter “COMMENT OUT”. These will become reference points in the bbpress config file for later.

10. Click “Add user database integration settings”. This step is also important!

Leave the existing value in the “User database table prefix” field.

Enter the WordPress Primary blog id value “1″ – THIS IS IMPORTANT.

11. Click “Save WordPress integration settings”

If all is well you should see this message.

Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. They will be saved after the next step.

Once you have finished installing, you should visit the WordPress integration section of the bbPress admin area for further options and integration instructions, including user mapping and the correct cookie settings to add to your WordPress configuration file.

12. Click “Go to step 3″.

– enter your site name

– enter your site url. I entered the url to the forums including the http://

e.g. http://bp.dev/forums/

– select the “admin” user for your wordpress installation

– enter a name for your first forum e.g. “Announcements”

13. Click the “Save site settings” button

14. Click the “Complete the installation” button

15. You should see a screen indicating installation has completed.

– click the “Show installation messages” option. Scroll through and see of any errors are reported.

16. At this point you should be able to login to your bbpress installation with your wordpress admin username and password.

17. Login to bbPress

18. Click the “Admin” link to go to the admin screen

19. Go to “Settings” -> “Writing” and enable XML-RPC publishing protocol (this is needed by buddyPress)

20. Go to “Settings” -> “Discussion” and enable pingbacks (I think this is needed by buddyPress ….?)

21. Go to “Users”

22. Go to “Settings” -> “WordPress Integration”

Set the mapping of bbPress roles to WordPress users roles

For the WordPress Administrator role select “bbPress Key Master”.

For all the others select “bbPress Member”.

Click “Save Changes”

23. Login to WordPress MU as the admin.

24. Go to “Plugins -> Add New”

25. Enter “bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

– you should see “bbPress Integration” 1.0 listed

– click “install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Acrivate Plugin”

26. Go to “Settings” -> “bbPress Integration”

Ensure there is a full url for the bbPress forums entered.

Select WordPress type “WordPress MU”

Click “Save Changes”

Copy the values listed in the dark grey box at the bottom of your page into your clipboard. There will be four lines that look something like this:

define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘da4672dda66fd60a6b80e420d32ef26c’ );

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.bp.dev’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

Don’t worry – these values will be different for your installation.

Open wp-config.php in an editor and insert these lines immediately after the opening “<?php” line.

Whilst you have wp-config.php open, copy the authentication keys to your clipboard. They look like this:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80′);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8′);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34′);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

They will be different for your installation.

Save wp-config.php

27. Open bb-config.php

Find the lines containing the Authentication Unique Keys. They will have the values “COMMENT OUT” if you followed the instructions above. Comment these lines out!

Insert the lines from your clipboard into bb-config.php below the lines you commented out.

You need to edit each line you inserted and prefix the name of each constant with “BB_”

After doing that, the lines will be something like:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80′);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8′);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34′);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

Save the file and exit.

28. Clear cookies and Refresh for your domain. In Firefox you can clear cookies for a specific domain pattern.

29. Login to your wordpress installation as the wordpress admin user.

30. Assuming you managed to follow the setps above, If you go to your bbPress page you should find that you are logged in!

31. From WordPress Admin go to “Plugins” -> “Add New”

– in the search box enter “BuddyPress” and click “Search Plugins”

– find BuddyPress 1.0.3 in the list

– click “Install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Activate Plugin”

32. BuddyPress is now installed. Follow the BuddyPress instructions for installing the themes to the correct locations and activate them.

33. In wp-admin go to “BuddyPress” -> “Component Setup” and check that the “bbPress Forums” component is enabled.

34. In wp-admin go tp “BuddyPress” -> “Forums Setup”

– ensure that the URL for the forums is entered

– ensure that the bbPress username and password details have been setup

– click “Save Settings”

35. Create a group with option selected for a forum.

36. Check that you can post topics in the group forum!

37. Take a break!

Rocky Patel

Opus X

[surya109]

I have been able to successfully install and configure the following as a clean installation:

WordPress MU 2.8.1

bbPress 1.0.1

BuddyPress 1.0.3

I will post a *rough* outline of the steps for the installation. My installation is on a test server (Mac running php 5.3.0 under xampp ??? beta)

You need to get WordPress 2.8.1 and bbPress login integration working successfully first.

These steps are for WordPress MU 2.8.1, bbPress 1.0.1 and buddyPress 1.0.3.

1. Download and install WordPress MU 2.8.1

2. Install the “bbPress Integration” plugin version 1.0 via the “Plugins” -> “Add New” menu of your wordpress mu installation.

In the search box enter ‘bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

Click the “Install” link for the “bbPress Integration” version 1.0 plugin.

Click the orange “Install Now” button.

Click the “Activate Plugin” link.

3. Download and install bbPress 1.0.1 in a sub-directory of your wordpress installation.

I chose the sub-directory “/forums/”.

4. Load up the bbPress installation script by going to http://<yourdomain>/forums/

5. Click “Go to step 1″.

6. Enter the database name, database user and database password that you used for your wordpress installation.

You will not usually need to click “Show advanced settings”.

7. Click “Save database configuration file”.

You should see a message “Your settings have been saved to the file bb-config.php. You can now continue to the next step.”

8. Click “Go to step 2″.

9. Next you add the integration settings. This is the important part!

– click “Add integration settings”

– click “Add cookie integration settings”

– you will be presented with a list of eight text entry fields

– the first two are for your wordpress and blog url. For each of these enter your exact urls. I just used the same value for each. They need to commence with http://

– for all the cookie values just enter “COMMENT OUT”. These will become reference points in the bbpress config file for later.

10. Click “Add user database integration settings”. This step is also important!

Leave the existing value in the “User database table prefix” field.

Enter the WordPress Primary blog id value “1″ – THIS IS IMPORTANT.

11. Click “Save WordPress integration settings”

If all is well you should see this message.

Your WordPress integration cookie and database settings have been successfully validated. They will be saved after the next step.

Once you have finished installing, you should visit the WordPress integration section of the bbPress admin area for further options and integration instructions, including user mapping and the correct cookie settings to add to your WordPress configuration file.

12. Click “Go to step 3″.

– enter your site name

– enter your site url. I entered the url to the forums including the http://

e.g. http://bp.dev/forums/

– select the “admin” user for your wordpress installation

– enter a name for your first forum e.g. “Announcements”

13. Click the “Save site settings” button

14. Click the “Complete the installation” button

15. You should see a screen indicating installation has completed.

– click the “Show installation messages” option. Scroll through and see of any errors are reported.

16. At this point you should be able to login to your bbpress installation with your wordpress admin username and password.

17. Login to bbPress

18. Click the “Admin” link to go to the admin screen

19. Go to “Settings” -> “Writing” and enable XML-RPC publishing protocol (this is needed by buddyPress)

20. Go to “Settings” -> “Discussion” and enable pingbacks (I think this is needed by buddyPress ….?)

21. Go to “Users”

22. Go to “Settings” -> “WordPress Integration”

Set the mapping of bbPress roles to WordPress users roles

For the WordPress Administrator role select “bbPress Key Master”.

For all the others select “bbPress Member”.

Click “Save Changes”

23. Login to WordPress MU as the admin.

24. Go to “Plugins -> Add New”

25. Enter “bbPress Integration” and click “Search Plugins”.

– you should see “bbPress Integration” 1.0 listed

– click “install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Acrivate Plugin”

26. Go to “Settings” -> “bbPress Integration”

Ensure there is a full url for the bbPress forums entered.

Select WordPress type “WordPress MU”

Click “Save Changes”

Copy the values listed in the dark grey box at the bottom of your page into your clipboard. There will be four lines that look something like this:

define( ‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘da4672dda66fd60a6b80e420d32ef26c’ );

define( ‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.bp.dev’ );

define( ‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

Don’t worry – these values will be different for your installation.

Open wp-config.php in an editor and insert these lines immediately after the opening “<?php” line.

Whilst you have wp-config.php open, copy the authentication keys to your clipboard. They look like this:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80′);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8′);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34′);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

They will be different for your installation.

Save wp-config.php

27. Open bb-config.php

Find the lines containing the Authentication Unique Keys. They will have the values “COMMENT OUT” if you followed the instructions above. Comment these lines out!

Insert the lines from your clipboard into bb-config.php below the lines you commented out.

You need to edit each line you inserted and prefix the name of each constant with “BB_”

After doing that, the lines will be something like:

define(‘BB_AUTH_KEY’, ‘800345c011dfad9261cedec0a3d914ffa1b40d67b23b66e4809797ce728f0b80′);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘5d6d3f657c9fb496e3f5488044fc174c238554a1b5347eb633ea8baecf0dcc7c’);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘6749832494719d8217e06c233326cb86da9ec040b16f705156660e1642a5f0e8′);

define(‘BB_NONCE_KEY’, ‘87a5b149e95e0a13020541040353548eaf65b68452be91c685e96a7fbab685bc’);

define(‘BB_AUTH_SALT’, ‘8ff197cc15f311c975bd14ce131e7872eb390706bd316f72435c081836d14f34′);

define(‘BB_LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘642683992ae38da46082bf9850ab90273deb7d5d1034baf80a3fd32871b5e04a’);

define(‘BB_SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘7c066b9c14bd558737b74b76c77f928e3612935832a6a47bd70842e118c947fa’);

Save the file and exit.

28. Clear cookies and Refresh for your domain. In Firefox you can clear cookies for a specific domain pattern.

29. Login to your wordpress installation as the wordpress admin user.

30. Assuming you managed to follow the setps above, If you go to your bbPress page you should find that you are logged in!

31. From WordPress Admin go to “Plugins” -> “Add New”

– in the search box enter “BuddyPress” and click “Search Plugins”

– find BuddyPress 1.0.3 in the list

– click “Install”

– click the orange “Install Now” button

– click “Activate Plugin”

32. BuddyPress is now installed. Follow the BuddyPress instructions for installing the themes to the correct locations and activate them.

33. In wp-admin go to “BuddyPress” -> “Component Setup” and check that the “bbPress Forums” component is enabled.

34. In wp-admin go tp “BuddyPress” -> “Forums Setup”

– ensure that the URL for the forums is entered

– ensure that the bbPress username and password details have been setup

– click “Save Settings”

35. Create a group with option selected for a forum.

36. Check that you can post topics in the group forum!

37. Take a break!

Rocky Patel

Opus X

[intimez]

@johnjamesjacoby Anything I can try now to test and file bugs?

[nealparry]

I would like to add Google Adsense above the “Latest Discussions” but below the main header. Which template would I need to change and where should I place my Google Adsense code?

I’ve looked around, but most of the plugins are for older versions of the software, not the latest release, and have members reporting errors.

[Ricardo]

Altough i’m waiting for the next bbpress version i can recommend one forum script that has a importer for phpbb2 and others, its MYBB, they’ve got a great comunity forum with international support.

http://www.mybb.com/downloads/merge-system

i like mybb but it has too many options etc, nothing wrong with it, if you use phpbb i think you’ll find it simpler but i prefer it even simpler like bbpress.

ps: i tested the importer a few weeks ago, imported from phpbb and smf and the importer worked perfectly (tried it on wampserver with dummy forums)

[Ricardo]

Altough i’m waiting for the next bbpress version i can recommend one forum script that has a importer for phpbb2 and others, its MYBB, they’ve got a great comunity forum with international support.

http://www.mybb.com/downloads/merge-system

i like mybb but it has too many options etc, nothing wrong with it, if you use phpbb i think you’ll find it simpler but i prefer it even simpler like bbpress.

ps: i tested the importer a few weeks ago, imported from phpbb and smf and the importer worked perfectly (tried it on wampserver with dummy forums)

[zaerl]

http://www.yoursite.com/example/ -> /

http://www.yoursite.com/example/index.php -> /example/index.php

http://www.yoursite.com/example/index.php?a=test -> /example/index.php?a=test

http://www.yoursite.com/example/index.php/dir/test -> /example/index.php/dir/test

[zaerl]

http://www.yoursite.com/example/ -> /

http://www.yoursite.com/example/index.php -> /example/index.php

http://www.yoursite.com/example/index.php?a=test -> /example/index.php?a=test

http://www.yoursite.com/example/index.php/dir/test -> /example/index.php/dir/test

[cichlid]

I had this functionality in my phpBB installation before I switched to BBpress,. A friend of mine wrote me a piece of code which does essentially the same thing. Don’t ask me to extend it. I’m not a programmer.

What does it do:

It will automatically replace keywords and link them to a page you have specified.

Example use:

Deep linking to affiliate products or articles on your website.

How to install it:

1) Open the file “Text2Aff.php”. Specify the keywords and links.

2) Upload it the folder “text2aff” to “my-plugins” folder.

3) Log in to your admin panel and activate the plugin

Version: This is version 0.1 and has been tested with BBpress 1.02

Planned:

Would be great to have some sort of admin panel to manage the keywords and urls. Moving this into the database. You are welcome to extend it. Any comments appreciated.

Credit: Jason from http://www.sourcegps.com

Download URL:

http://sourcegps.com/txt2aff/txt2aff.zip