I am using the default WordPress and Kakumei themes at the moment. It seemed that bbPress was very sluggish, so I activated the default theme in order to check the load on the server and found that it was significantly less with the default theme than with the integrated theme. In my case it’s a personal call in favor of performance. This is a well known trade off about which there is plenty of information available.
Having an integrated and non-integrated theme created no issues of which I am aware. Unless I am forgetting something the only change to the WordPress theme was the call to the bbPress style sheet in header.php. All other changes are made to the bbPress theme. So either remove, comment out, or leave the call – I don’t think it hurts performance. I commented it out so that I can do some testing. I may be wrong about something here, but it’s all working for me at the moment.
I’ve just setup bbpress and installed a whole bunch of plug-ins, but I realize there’s no backup option and I think I need to do it manually in my server setting, which I think is annoying.
Another thing is that I realize there’s no option in filling the birthday in the user account information. I would also like to have a restriction on some pages where only certain ages are allowed to enter/browse. And I would also want to restrict users must fill in the birthday, and without privilege to change it.
I have tried to added the plug-in for admin to add users, but it failed to work with an error. Is there other way to do so?
So I would like to know if there is a plug-in or something like that available that works on the latest version of bbpress. Thanks.
I’ve never used bbPress before and went for the latest stable release but most of the plugins I want to work don’t work.
Should I regress or should I wait?
It’s really only what I consider the most important ones – the bbCode buttons, the page number links on topic lists and quoting other people’s posts that I’m after
I’ve solved the problem of sending email. Now I only need to put all posts on moderation queue.
Can anyone help me, also with a link?
Is anyone moderating posts in the latest version?
It always seems to load homesite/community/wp-load.php instead of homesite/wp-load.php when you test it out. Any thoughts?
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Is it possible to improve this plugin a little bit as –
1. It will allow admin to post any clickable links(including outgoing) on the the topics
2. It will allow anyone to post clickable links ONLY when the link is from the same domain as the forum? (internal links)
To give an example, lets say this plugin is activated in bbpress.org.
A member post a topic saying
“Buy cheap Viagra from http://www.cheapest-vira-xyz.info” <– this link would be plain text.
“A member post a topic saying “Has any one got this working? https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-switch-themes-in-081” <– this link would be clickable
again if any member post a topic saying “have you read this bbPress blog here ? https://www.bbpress.org/blog/latest/bla-bla-bla-bla” <– this link would be clickable as they are from the same domain as the forum
If the above functions can be implemented on this plugin, that would be a brilliant tool to put off most of the spammers.
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Any tips from anyone?
That query IS working properly on my test copy.
I purposely changed the topic_posts on a topic from 46 to 99.
Then ran this
INSERT INTO bb_topics (topic_id, topic_posts)
(SELECT topic_id, COUNT(post_status) as topic_posts
FROM bb_posts
WHERE post_status = '0' GROUP BY topic_id)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE topic_posts = VALUES(topic_posts);
and it reverted it back to 46
So try changing the 80 to 81
then try the above query and see if it changes it back to 80 or not?
Actually I can simulate the problem on a test copy.
I’ve just got three other things going on right now so this is taking me longer than the few minutes it should have taken to investigate
Yes but I didn’t want you to do that.
We need to find out why the post count is failing to update.
Or you will just keep running into the same problem over and over.
Actually I guess I can simulate the problem on a test copy.
I must be missing the problem here.
The “latest reply” link works.
When I am on page 3, the page 4 link works.
What specifically is not working?
Are you saying the problem is intermittent?
ps. I use an ebike with a custom lifepo4 battery 
Oh wait, I see what you saying now
he problem vanished when one reply was written.
It will reappear when someone writes a reply last on that page.
so it’s an even/odd problem
if there are an even number of posts, it works,
if there is an uneven number, it does not work
Did you try the trick of deleting one post and then undeleting it?
There must be a bug in the way bbPress calculates post-position when there are deleted posts. I wonder if it’s specific to 1.x
No, I do not. I have following plugins:
Akismet
Allow Images
Avatar Upload
BBcode Buttons Toolbar
BBcode Lite
bbPM
BBVideo
Bozo Users
Hello Louie
Human Test for bbPress
Instant Password
Skip Akismet
SourceCode Highlighter
<table id=”latest”>
<tr>
<th>Forum</th>
<th>Discussioni</th>
<th>Messaggi</th>
</tr>
<?php
global $wpdb;
$query=”SELECT * FROM bb_forums WHERE topics!=0 ORDER BY forum_order ASC LIMIT 10″;
$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);
foreach ($results as $result) {
echo “<tr><td>forum_id.”‘>”.$result->forum_name.”</td>”;
echo “<td class=’num’>”.$result->forum_topics.”</td>”;
echo “<td class=’num’>”.$result->forum_posts.”</td></tr>”;
}
?>
</table>
why this code don’t display the number of discussions and posts?
kikko088
sorry….I don’t know this is a support forum.
looks like a demo site…
Well the title of this page is “okiss test topic << bbPress Support Forums.”
Can someone please give an update on whether or not bbpress as a plugin will be available for testing this week and let us know where we need to go for updates? I check http://bbpdevel.wordpress.com/ and http://bbdevel.wordpress.com/, but neither has been updated in a while.
From a user prespective
@kevinjohngallagher and _CK_
i agree with you two, specially the parts where you say bbpress.org users and mods are updated on bbpress stuff through other sites, relying on wordpress dashboard to spread the news sounds like a last minute attempt to minimize damages, but hey…nobody is perfect)
A lot of bbpress sucess is due to pluggin developers and i think its “out of order” to post bbpress news on buddypress blog, there are moderators here that are pluggin developers that feel “betrayed and hopless” because they spend countless hours and days and nobody tells them nothing… how would you feel JJJ if it was you? i’m aware nobody is perfect but you did talk about bbpress there and even linked to bbpress.org so why not say something here first? “i feel” your pain mods…
about the name change… i aalso agree it should be called bbpress 2.0 but i think that alone wont stop all the confusion around different versions… i agree with you (_CK_) but newcomers will still be confused wether its 2.0 or 1.2 because the real confusion its not the name but the several different versions.
All in all i think the next version is what a lot of users wanted (pluggin integration, no more backpress etc), thing is a lot of the sucess is due to pluggin authors that spent countless hours making sure their pluggins/themes work across several versions, now they have (or not) to start over.
2 last questions:
can we install the next version on its own? where can we download the alpha/beta of it? where is it? i would like to test even if its not fully functional like we do for wordpress, i can only find reference to the pluggin version at: http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/branches/plugin/
not enough communication around… Good luck and thanks to everyone that works on bbpress wether coding/theming/pluggins or here maintaining the forum.
yes..
I will survey more in google.
thanks for your reply.
maybe you can delete this strange test…
sorry for bothering..
bbPress 1.2 (the plugin) should be stable enough to start testing as soon as September 15 (give or take a few days and/or missing features) with a full release due around the same time as BuddyPress 1.3.
ref: https://buddypress.org/2010/08/buddypress-and-bbpress-the-future/
that is why people are asking.
lol
testing live on support forums, thats new 
Ok, so I have managed (??) to install the latest version.
But the problem now is that admin area doe not look correct. If I understand correctly it should look similar to wordpress and it does not.
Also, if I wanted to make changes to a theme, is there any way to make the changes inside the admin area or do I have make changes to the actual file and then ftp?
I totally agree that _ck_’s involvement is crucial.
Y’all don’t need me. I highly encourage you to keep going with the fork and there doesn’t have to be just one fork.
Remember, WordPress itself is just one (big) fork (of b2evolution).
I’ll be taking a sabbatical for the rest of the year starting next month or so as I have serious real-life things to deal with, and then *maybe* announcing my own project next year in the spring. Instead of a fork it will be a 50% or more rewrite of the entire core, fixing a few legacy problems. But it would not be available to the public for at least a year from now at the soonest and it won’t be fully backwards compatible.
It literally took me three years but I kinda figured out an indirect way of doing something like this. Part of the solution is so simple that I guarantee WordPress will “steal” the idea within six months of me publishing the code because it’s backwards compatible and a great idea that no-one else apparently has thought of yet for some mysterious reason. I’ve already tested a proof-of-concept and it’s one of those things that once you see it, everyone says “well that’s so simple anyone could have thought of it”. But no one has, yet.
<ul class="topicmeta">
<span id=”topic_posts”><?php topic_posts_link(); ?></span>
<span id=”topic_voices”><?php printf( _n( ‘%s voice’, ‘%s voices’, bb_get_topic_voices() ), bb_get_topic_voices() ); ?></span>
<?php printf(__(‘Started %1$s ago by %2$s’), get_topic_start_time(), get_topic_author()) ?>
<?php if ( 1 < get_topic_posts() ) : ?>
<?php printf(__(‘Latest reply from %2$s’), esc_attr( get_topic_last_post_link() ), get_topic_last_poster()) ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php if ( bb_is_user_logged_in() ) : ?>
<li<?php echo $class;?> id=”favorite-toggle”><?php user_favorites_link(); ?>
<?php endif; do_action(‘topicmeta’); ?>
In there just remove one of the li’s which contains the date
‘trunk’ ?
I’m still a newbie – I though the download was the latest release “approved”
I didn’t even know of that bug list
… so good is the documentation … and I’ll bet that most users don’t or can be bothered to dig around in the maze of code to figure out why it doesn’t perform how expected.
This sort of bug fix is easy to apply – affecting only a couple of lines of code there ought to be a forum/list somewhere to enable these sort of changes to be publicised – perhaps there is but I just haven’t connected with it yet.
Still at least I managed to fix this problem one on my own … I get the feeling watching others struggle that this is what comes with bbPress … being on your own
lol @ vanilla forums. I’ve been testing them for two weeks and would not recommend them to anyone.
I’m trying to show the latest topics across the entire board in a sidebar. I foolishly tried creating a standard loop (if ($topics) : foreach ($topics as $topic) : ?>), but of course if you’re on a forum you only see topics within that forum, not across the entire board. I can’t puzzle out how to make the right query. Should I use bb_query? $bbdb_get_results()? Something else?
Thanks.
