[Ricardo]

can’t help you porting it to wordpress but i have a suggestion for you:

WP-captcha free

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-captcha-free/

its the one i use and it doesnt require any action from the user.

its very clever how it works…i’ll try to explain…

a normal form for comments has 3 fields, all spam bots automatically fill all 3, what this pluggin does is addding a fourth field only visible to spam bots, if the fourth box id filled it automatically means its been made by an automated spam bot and that coment its blocked… at least its how i understand it works but i might be confused with another one.

Try it, visitors don’t like math problems etc.

Edit: it seems you want to block spammers from the registration form… don’t know if this pluggin works when a user tries to register.

[bb-lover]

I don’t know why my this topic is closed without any reason.

@Moderators: Did I say something wrong?

@_ck_ I think this plugin is for only comments?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/

I need simple math captcha plugin for wordpress registration form, like Human Test for bbPress.

If you are not interested then other developers are welcome here and their help would be appreciated.

But if someone else wants to convert it they are more than welcome.

If anyone else want this plugin please ask in this topic.

I’m hoping this topic will not be closed if any Mod don’t like it.

Thanks,

bb-lover

[Ricardo]

Hi everyone!

Ive been playing with some forum software/scripts and i would like to ask the bbpress/wordpress coummunity some questions/opinions on this.

I’ve tested bbpress and so far i can see its a very lightweight forum system, it integrates nicely with wordpress, it doesnt have many functions the competition has but in my opinion most of them are really not needed and make the forum heavy on server resources.

Having said this here’s the questions?

1- Spammers – How’s the protection/management on this, is there a way of bulk deleting spammers or keeping them “at bay”?

2- Translation – i’ve been trying to translate bbpress but the info on how to do it is mostly wordpress as the process is very similar…so i looked in to online translation tools but none of them have bbpress as a project…not even Glotpress itself…i know there are desktop tools but for example i tried poedit and i only want to translate what the user sees not the admin panel, but it seems i have to copy every line to the translated section…there isnt a method to copy all strings and then edit the ones i want, i would take me a while doing it one by one and my professional life doesnt allow me, im sure more are interested in this and adding bbpress to glotpress would be a good idea as “everyone” could “chip in”.

3- search engines – some of the traffic to forums are made by search engines but unlike the competition bbpress doesnt have a method to manage them, the last forum script i tried was mybb and it has a whole section dedicated to bots and their permissions. Can this be overcomed in bbpress with a simple sitemap? the way i see it a sitemap only has urls not the content… if i keep the forum readble to everyone will the sitemap be enough, the way i see it the bot finds the url in the sitemap and then crawls the pages for content, i think this is enough.

4- Besides bbpress what other forum scripts would you recommend, personnaly mybb and fluxbb caught my eye and seem very lightweight, also i noticed the wp-foum pluggin as been forked into the WP Forum Server, one of the things i like on a forum is the ability to have a name based permalink like wordpress and bbpress, i find this feature very usefull as people can see by the words on the url (hovering mouse above link) what the link is about.

I know its a lot of questions but any info even if little is apreciated.

Thanks

[zaerl]

I have written a plugin that does what you want but isn’t released to the public.

The code that follow deactivate all HTML tags. Keep in mind that it’s not tested at all.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: zaerl No HTML

Plugin URI: http://www.zaerl.com

Description: no HTML tags in posts

Author: zaerl

Author URI: http://www.zaerl.com

Version: 0.1

*/



function za_nh_allow_tag($tags)

{

return array();

}



function za_nh_initialize()

{

add_filter('bb_allowed_tags', 'za_nh_allow_tag');

}



add_action('bb_init', 'za_nh_initialize');



?>

If you are interested contact me.

[_ck_]

Don’t take it personally – akismet screws up dozens of posts here each week, seemingly at random. It either doesn’t like your IP or email address or some weird combo of keywords. It’s also probably why you had so much trouble registering.

At least you spoke up, imagine how many other people have tried to post here and gave up in vain and wrote off bbpress entirely.

This is why I tell people not to use akismet but human-test/blocklist instead and rely on mods to look for bad posts.

[DKB]

Hi I installed the latest trunk version now my feed wont show via Buzzboost of feedburner, anyone have a clue?

[Ricardo]

Hi everyone!

I´ve just installed bbpress and the nicer permalink pluggin (http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/nicer-permalinks/), it works but it kind of messes up the sitemap, ive tried 2 sitemap pluggins and same result

for example the topic url is:

mydomain/forum/mytopic.html

but the sitemap url is:

mydomain/forum//mytopic.html (double // before the individual topic permalink)

Can anyone tell me if im doing something wrong or check if its the pluggin fault?

i deactivated the nicer permalink plugin, added a dummy post to refresh the sitemap and voilá the url is correct without “//”, i guess its the pluggin fault here.

think i might have found something in the nice-filters.php file, altough im no expert it seems the error comes from here, but i think its a fix from someone, so removing the “/” will break something..

function get_forum_nicer_link( $link ) {

global $bb;

// Remove redundant "forum" word from forum link and append '/'. Mandatory! Props: Mohta

return str_replace( $bb->uri . 'forum/', $bb->uri, $link ) . '/';

heres my forum (test) url: http://www.ricardouk.com/forums/

and my sitemap url: http://www.ricardouk.com/forums/sitemap.xml

Thank you

Original post started here: (someone should take a look at the registrations here as i’ve been unable to register, so far i tried 3 times until CK told me i could use the wordpress.org forums account over here)

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/nicer-permalinks-plugins-messes-up-the-forum-sitemap

[_ck_]

I probably won’t be working on WordPress anymore, at least I hope.

But if someone else wants to convert it they are more than welcome.

I find it hard to believe with the dozens of captcha plugins for WP, none can satisfy you. How about this one?

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/

[bb-lover]

Hi _ck_

I hope you’ll be fine. I always praise your work that’s why I was really happy when you came back to bbPress.

I know this question is not related to bbPress. But I need your co-operate.

I am looking the Simple Math Captcha Plugin for My WordPress.

Yes there are lot of captcha plugins, like Sabre, Register Plus.

But they are really complicated. I need simple solution, like Human Test for bbPress.

Humble Request: Can You please convert this plugin for WordPress.

I hope, Once again you’ll give me a chance to praise your work.

Thanks, and God Bless You Always and All The Ways.

bb-Lover

[Erlend]

Will the new bbPress be able to support co-authors?

Apparently this here is the most commonly used co-authoring plugin, and it reportedly works with 3.0. I’ll test it myself soon.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/

[Marcel Deelen]

I am wondering how I can show on topic.php the latest discussions from within the same forum that the current topic is in.

A sure it should be pretty simple but i cant seem to get it to work.

For instance here:

http://airportroute.com/test/forum/topic/simon-latham-august-10-11

I want to show the 3 other discussions that are at this point in the Mixes forum.

(this is all still in deep Beta testing)

I guess the secret must lie in this line:

´<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>´

Any ideas?

Thanks

[minervaa]

Hey CK, thanks again. I activated all of the “views” related plugins just to make it work.

The “Forum” section views is working and showing the total number of views but if I click on the “Forums” it brings the list of discussions but again the views column are empty.

I am quite confused as the list of the discussions are showing the views on the Latest Discussions list but when seeing them under “Forum” name none of them are showing the view counts

Is there any other plugins I shall be using?

[minervaa]

Hi CK,

As you advised, I newly installed the forum and template in another server. After activating your plugin “bb Topic Views” the view count on the latest disccusions is working, but it is not working on “Forum names” section. It just shows an empty column.

Any idea why it’s not working on that part?

Thanks

[ph23man]

I’m using bbPress 1.1-alpha-2518 and there seems to be something broken with the drag-and-drop interface for forum ordering.

I have 3 forum levels, the top level and 2 nested levels. When trying to order the forums, I can drag and move the top level forums and 3rd level forums. But the 2nd level forums won’t budge.

I tested this in all major browsers with the same result.

Maybe upgrading to jQuery 1.4 broke something in the script that handles forum sorting?

[andrusch]

Hi, I’ve made some tests and I have seen that the topics are not loading (links not working) when the permalinks are set to be name based.

[Rich Pedley]

It is still in the process of being developed, you can keep an eye on the progress here. Though I think when it is near to be being ready for a few people to test it it might be added to the plugin repository over on WordPress.org.

The last estimate was that it might be ready for some initial tests in a month – but don’t expect a full release for several months as yet.

[slee]

I have just started using bbpress and I would like the theme to look like the main wordpress theme ie use the header and footer. I came across themepress but when i installed it i get:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_header() in /forums/bb-templates/ThemePress/front-page.php on line 1

I am using the latest version of bbpress and wordpress ie wp 3.0.1 and bb 1.0.2

is there a better way to integrate the theme?

[brucini]

sorry didn’t see this

Possible to make certian forums not appear in latest discussion?

the core bit of info posted in this thread below. this worked fine for me with BBPress 1.0.2:

Just edit it to exclude whatever forum numbers you want and add it to the plug-ins folder.

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: exclude

*/

function filter_front_page_topics($where){

$exclude_forums=array ("13","19"); // enable this to manually specify specific forums by id #

// $forums = get_forums(); foreach ($forums as $forum) {if ($forum->forum_parent) {$exclude_forums[]=$forum->forum_id;}} // exclude ALL sub-forums

if ( is_front() ) {foreach($exclude_forums as $forum) { $where.=" AND forum_id != ".$forum." "; }}

return $where;

}

add_filter( 'get_latest_topics_where', 'filter_front_page_topics');

add_filter( 'get_latest_posts_where', 'filter_front_page_topics');

?>

[brucini]

hi,

I’m not using a latest discussion plugin, but want to prevent posts in a specific forum from showing in the latest discussions.

how can I do this?

cheers

b

[kaihsynliu]

This is my first try to translation.

Have tested on my own install of bbPress for couple times.

How do I submit it to the bbPress?(Can I?)

Sincerely.

[chrishajer]

It’s because your host is using PHP 5.3. Those deprecated messages can be hidden without affecting the functionality of your site at all.

Tons of Depreciated Errors

This is fixed in the latest trunk release of bbPress, but turning off the display of deprecated messages will resolve the problem as well.

[aspen102]

Example:

Let’s say front-page.php lists 3 categories

Fruits

Veggies

Meats

If you were to click on Fruits; I’d like the next page to show the subforums of that parent excluding veggies, & meats forums. Any comments appreciated.

Basically, I want categories with sub-forums but in a format/structure that you would find in phpbb where subforums are cleanly kept on the next page. Why? Because showing everything in one location can get a bit messy. Especially with subforums.

I have searched through the bbpress forum for this and was able to get the following to work related to the front-page.php portion. Now I just need to get the 2nd page to show the children of the category. Currently it isn’t doing that.

*****front-page.php which works in only displaying the categories****************

<?php foreach( $forums as $forum ) : if( !$forum->forum_parent ) { ?>

<tr<?php alt_class(‘forum’); ?>>

<td>“><?php forum_name(); ?> <small><?php forum_description(); ?></small></td>

<td class=”num”><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php } endforeach; ?>

---

Now I would like the child accounts to show up in forum.php

Any suggestions? Or where I could look? Once you click on the parent forum it just takes you to that category forum.php page, with no children. i need the children to show up but only for that parent.

*****forum.php which I need to show the children*********************

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>

<?php if ( is_bb_profile() ) profile_menu(); ?>

<?php login_form(); ?>

<div id=”main”>

<div id=”forums”>

<h3 class=”bbcrumb”>“><?php bb_option(‘name’); ?> » <?php forum_name(); ?></h3>

<?php if ( $topics || $stickies ) : ?>

<table id=”latest”>

<tr>

<th><?php _e(‘Topic’); ?> — <?php new_topic(); ?></th>

<th><?php _e(‘Posts’); ?></th>

<th><?php _e(‘Last Poster’); ?></th>

<th><?php _e(‘Freshness’); ?></th>

</tr>

<?php if ( $stickies ) : foreach ( $stickies as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php _e(‘Sticky:’); ?> <big>“><?php topic_title(); ?></big></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td>“><?php topic_title(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class=”num”><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

</table>

<p>“><?php _e(‘RSS feed for this forum’); ?></p>

<div class=”nav”>

<?php forum_pages(); ?>

</div>

<?php endif; ?>

<?php post_form(); ?>

</div>

</div>

<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

</div>

******************************************************************************

Thank You —

[kevinjohngallagher]

HI Pastor Bob,

writing on an phone, so can’t write out full code, but you also want to test for “post_position=1” to check if it’s the first post.

[pastorbobsforum]

Hello.

I want to start by thanking the following developers: _ck_, Nightgunner5, Yu-Jie Lin, Olaf Lederer and michelwppi; for their time and effort in bringing about some very useful plugins.

I have a few comments of my own, and in some cases, very important questions as well.

Even though I have very few genuine users on my forum – four to be more precise, I have decided to (try to) offer as good of a service as I can. I have had a couple of spam posts (5.88%), which Akismet handled impeccably so far.

Also, in the last few days I have had about 20-25 new users that only registered, and considering some of their email addresses, have no other intention but to spam. In this case, another useful plugin came to my rescue, Enhanced Registration, which appears to be doing the perfect job. In conjunction with this plugin, I am using New User Notification Email, so I am always notified whenever a new user registers and if in X hours he/she doesn’t login, then their username is removed and my database kept clean. A very good combination in my opinion.

Further on, a common plugin for moderation that I am also using is bbPress Moderation Suite, and I am sure that it would prove its worth when people will be more interested in what I have to say on my forum. Anyway, I think it’s missing a very useful feature, provided (luckily enough) by Moderate new members’ first posts. Now, I have no doubt that this last plugin is working fine with some people, but not with me. What I wanted was to be notified once at an email address of my own choice (other than admin_email), whenever a new member made his first post (or after two). After that, he/she would post unhindered.

So, I (think that I) have identified the section in the plugin that needs attention, where the post count is made:

if(!is_moderator($bb_current_user->ID)) {

$sql = "

SELECT COUNT(*)

FROM $bbdb->posts

WHERE poster_id = $bb_current_user->ID AND post_status = 0

";

$userpostcount = intval($bbdb->get_var($sql));

}

And where they are marked for moderation (as spam):

if($userpostcount <= POST_NUMBER_MODERATION) {

$sql2 = "

UPDATE $bbdb->posts

SET post_status = 2

WHERE poster_id = $bb_current_user->ID

";

$markedasspam = $bbdb->get_results($sql2);

}

Now, I wouldn’t know what or where to edit in order to have it do what I want, and that is why I would appreciate it if someone who does know it would assist me. No matter how many times my dummy user called “testing” makes a post, I always get a notification, at the default email address.

I only want to be notified of the first post because I am using xili New Post Notification (xnpn) for the rest of them, at a different email address. What I like about this plugin is that it gives me the possibility to assign an email address of my own choice. It’s true that I would get an email twice when an user would post for the first time (2 plugins), but I can live with that, since they are at different email addresses (the default and my choice).

Thank you,

Bob

[ph23man]

Yep, that’s probably it. Thanks for pointing this out! At least now I know why it’s happening.

That IS a pretty serious bug, but there is no public, stable release of bbpress that contains this fix. Latest version is 1.02 and it’s affected by this bug.

How safe is it to run the trunk version on a production site with existing 1.x plugins? You guys seem very close to having a stable release – milestone 1.03 has no open tickets and 1.1 only has 3.