“Even reading the blog, irc and this forum – it’s still unclear to me what should be worked on for the next release.”
Please read them again. In summary: 1.1 release will include email notifications and anonymous posting, both of which are in trunk and would appreciate testing and patches. After that it’s bug fixes, and release.
If you would like to contribute to 1.1, please test the two major feature additions to 1.1 and submit patches for improvements and/or bug fixes to those features.
There is no date because it’s hard for me to predict how much time I have.
Hi:
I discovered an issue that I just wanted to share:
I installed bbpress in a subdirectory of WordPress without integrating. I used a new database and did not touch cookie integration. There are no plugins or content, as this installation is just for building a new child theme.
My WordPress child theme was designed using the Thematic theme framework. Now, I’m trying to design a bbPress child theme with the Hybrid theme framework.
However, my bbpress child theme will only refer to my WordPress Thematic child theme stylesheets in a completely different directory. This was even true when I tried to hardcode the @import lines in the bbpress child theme functions.php file.
I don’t know the solution, here, but thought I’d share for anyone else. If you want to test a child theme on your server, make sure you don’t install bbpress in a subdirectory of WordPress. I don’t know yet if it will work when I integrate WordPress and bbPress, but I assume it does since so many have already done that.
Email notifications are built in to the latest trunk version. You can “subscribe to topic” here, for example, and you will get an email when there is a reply to your post. It requires the manual step of you actually subscribing. There were also plugins to enable this in older versions, to email you when someone replied to a favorite of yours.
I can confirm that I’ve just had the similar scenario play out with the latest version 1.02 and also received the email not sent, failed to install message.
I popped into the bb_forums table, and added the actual data that I wanted for that first thread, and viola, the site comes up like a clickety clack.
Thanks for the insight!
Now, for something really cool…is there some magic php code that will let us test for whether we’re executing bbpress or wordpress, and make this function call conditional? Like:
if (we’re under the wordpress directory)
get_bloginfo(etc)
else if (we’re under the bbpress directory)
bb_get_option(etc)
end if
This would be extremely helpful in developing robust modules that are used by both wp and bbpress.
Thanks!
Chrishajer thank you. I somehow managed to completely ignore that button. Dont know why. I have deleted him now.
Here is a patch posted by me to mass-delete users, you may use it – https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1202
Marius- when I am using 1.0.2, and I view the profile of a user when logged in as keymaster, I have a “Delete User” button on the bottom of their profile page. Do you not have that? That’s how I delete a user if I have to (which almost never happens these days.)
Screenshot: http://twitpic.com/11zdpu/full
In addition to deleting them, you could just set their status to “inactive” as well, also on their profile page.
You should be able to block the user without any plugins…
Chrishajer, what you mean just delete him in the admin?
There is no way to delete users in bbpress.
Not without mass delete plugin, which i had to delete, because it screwed up my forum.
Marius- – to remove him, just delete him in the admin.
Don’t you just love people that say “Bump” and dont add anything to the conversation?
I also love it when it’s their only post on the forum ever – way to give back 
Deep integration is not supported by automattic, and apparently was never the intention of the BBpress developers. To that end, getting BBpress with a WP “deep integration”, to then call WP plugins is never going to be something that’s going to get any development time or priority.
I think this is a shame because we could make use of WP plugins that we’re effectively replicating in BBpress, but we shouldn’t be reliant on plugins for layout.
That said, i wonder if anyone has testing creating a call to a plugin function from inside an added function in the your WP’s theme’s functions.php file?
To reiterate though, try and avoid WP plugins for theming. What will happen if there is a WP upgrade that breaks the theme?
Also, every time someone bumps a thread, God kills a kitten. Please think of the kittens.
There are many bots like this (made in VB, etc.) which stops when they see a captcha (or math problem or a clickcha), waits for the user to enter/click that and then it does the rest. A more reliable way to be to install Project Honey Pot for bbPress plugin by Ben (though that also blocks the admin sometimes).
Its been a while since i used this plugin, but as i recall it asked an X + Y = question (4+4 = 
.
Seems to me, as more and more people use this sort of protection, that spambots have become quite intelligent about reading the line before the <input> and seeing if it has a + in it. That seems fairly straightforward to do, i’ve done it myself when accessing a remote site using cURL to grab some data.
Either way, it’s hardly a “plugin fail”, because the plugin does exactly what its set out to do, not to mention, they could just be simply putting the answer “5” in every unknown field and eventually it would match.
You ask how is this possible, is it really beyond our imagination that a computer could answer a question about adding one digit to another? The only way to combat spam is to moderate constantly. Akismet, Human Test, Honey Pot and every other tool out there are just tools, they are not solutions. YOU are the solution.
Spambots are constantly evolving. Do you have the latest version of Human Test plugin installed?
How is this possible?
I have had Human Test installed, and managed to keep spambots out.
The Mass Delete plugin caused trouble to my bbpress, so I deleted that, but still a spambot managed to register. How can I remove him now?
paul – I understand private messages aren’t part of the bbpress core, and I haven’t investigated all the possible plugins yet. If there could be an optional conversion that relates to a certain plugin, then of course that would be great. However, at the moment if I’m going to transfer my forum across, I was planning to inform my users before the move just to backup their PMs if they have anything important in them.
I just got a test conversion to work so will start to check out possible plugins etc next! Thanks for the help, hopefully bbpress can continue to grow!
@yoyopop – I have been looking at what is core to bbPress thus far. It hadnt even crossed my mind that private messages would want to be converted. But there’s a problem – if I convert them, what do I convert them to? Does the community feel that any one private messaging plugin should be endorsed over any other, and, does the private message plugin provide the code I need to create its raw data? If the answers are “yes” (or a ‘qualified yes’) then I’ve no problem working it in.
For those interested in beta testing, the plugin (at present) is grossly inefficient as far as memory goes and now that it works at a basic level, I’m looking at optimizing & reducing memory footprint.
I have an experimental plugin for bbPress I’ve been working on this week that adds an “Import” wizard under the admin area “Tools” menu. As it stands I have been using a phpBB 2.0.23 forum with 3 users (“Anonymous”, “admin” and one other) and about a dozen posts for testing and things look pretty good.
The “Import” plugin needs beta testers who’re willing to give it a run through and provide feedback.
The plugin reads data from the phpBB database, and rather than generate an enormous SQL file that is version specific, the plugin calls the same internal methods inside bbPress as occur when you manually create forums/topics/posts/users. A mapping is maintained between old and new user/post/topic/forum ID values, and referential integrity is maintained throughout.
I’m assuming your bbPress forums folder is on a separate domain than the buddyPress install? It’s not in the ‘default’ /forums location, right?
Correct, standalone bbPress is installed on a subdomain (forums.mydomain.com) and obviously the group forum is activated within buddypress (mydomain.com/forums) as well. All share the same bb tables; so group discussions can be carried on via a more direct forum feel with extra bells and whistles.
How the heck have you gotten BuddyPress’s activity stream to work with an external bbPress install?
There is a plugin for BuddyPress called bbGroups (uses xmlrpc) but is outdated. I had to update the code for 1.2 due to the activity stream changes. (and i need to update once more since 1.2 RC1) – the XMLRPC is not ideal but does carry over the hidden/read-only and who has access. (i’d probably code it to access the db directly – but it works for my testing)
Seems redundant to have 2 forum interfaces but this allows “outside” forums which may not be appropriate for setting up a group.
But at some point BuddyPress 1.2 now expects the dates in GMT while standalone bbPress 1.0.2 must insert the timestamp on a topic/post differently. (I just haven’t had the time to sift over the code to figure it out yet)
Paul,
I know this may be really obvious, and apologies if it is, but PHP’s built in functions for handling json are very much release dependant. There was a large change from php5 to php5.2 as i recall.
It’s 5.36am here, so you’ll have to forgive me for the lack of links, but i’d do a little googling into that. At the end of the day you either stats a minimum PHP version, or test for the php version and do and if/else.
Hi Neotoxic,
No i’m afraid you’ll have to figure out your own SQL script for the users. My code isn’t tested or anything, i’m afraid you’ll have to write teh custom code for your own specific solution yourself. the code i’ve posted above just does 95% of the work for you
Thanks for the update Paul, I’m up for some beta testing when your ready
Hi all
Does anybody know if it is possible to add buttons like “view resolved”, “view un-resolved” and “view non support topic” so it fetches the data like the (latest discussions).
Thanks
Bingster
hi all and thanks for your answers which were (not what i hoped for) but expected ;O) I know going back to v. 0.9 would solve most problems, but i have based everything on the latest build and i am quite happy with that. I will just have to wait and see where things is going 
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thanks
