[Ben L.]

I can get to https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/human-test.zip just fine.

[Michael]

Ths SVN is the repository where all the plugins are stored. It is completely safe to use it.

[crobinson18]

This link does NOT work for downloads:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

What is the -svn and is it safe?

Thanks!

[Michael]

They are both the same.

[johnhiler]

I was able to download it from here:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

If that doesn’t work, you can always get the files from svn:

https://plugins-svn.bbpress.org/human-test/trunk/

Good luck!

[crobinson18]

Where can I find the Human Test plugin now that bbshowcase.org is NOT online?

[Michael]

I am very glad it worked. Now I can finally see what your forum looks like.

If you need any help with customizing, don’t hesitate to ask.

I don’t want to be a show-off, but you might want to have a look at my forum to get some rough ideas – such as the way my table columns are structured etc.

Another thing to keep in mind: The ‘Add New’ link on the Latest Discussions table is not so much a great thing. If you like at the one on my forum, you’ll see that I have changed it to ‘RSS Feed’. I did this because people where simply adding a new topic from that link, and not choosing the correct child-forum for it to live in. So, now people have to navigate to their forum to create a new post.

Quite a nice thing to have – especially considering your forum doesn’t show only categories like mine does.

All the best

Michael

[Michael]

First thing’s first, you have a nice forum layout – I like the edits you have implemented.

There are quite a lot of options for you, and which ever one you choose should not make your forum look to ‘full’.

As Chris said, if you want to do it on the front page, it would be as simple as copying the loops that are run on the profile.php file in my-templates. There should be two – but I’m not sure. Don’t have access to my server right now.

The other option is to create a view, just like The one’s displayed at the bottom of your front page. It would be quite a nice idea to create a view for the user’s latest topics and replies – thus having it on a separate page, but easy to get to as the view would be marked ‘See your Posts’, for example.

Now, unfortunately, I can’t help with the setting up of views (I would be able to if I had access to my server). At least you have some options on the table. There are some highly experienced members here that will be able to assist you in setting up a view.

Take care,

Michael

[hpguru]

I test too.

[bingsterloot]

i am testing now, please dont hate me )

[timskii]

I’m clearly not awake yet (the email did arrive with Ben L.’s update), but:

It looks like it sends out an email regardless of how many minutes have elapsed since the last email.

This is going to get a few forums marked as spammers, because the sheer volume of almost-identical emails sent out could be huge. And imagine subscribing to a big forum topic, only to wake up the next morning to discover 20 emails telling you the topic had been updated. It doesn’t seem to scale well for very long and/or frequently updated topics.

Perhaps wait until the user does something on the forums before sending anything other then the first email? But BBPress doesn’t seem to record any actions against the user.

Added: A very crude test could only send out an email if the user’s last_posted time fell in between the time of this post and the previous post. It’s a very approx measure of activity, neither relating directly to the subscribed topic, nor reflecting a visit to only read. And would need some explanation (“you won’t be updated again until you post on the forums”). I already don’t like that as a solution, but it would put a cap the spamming, while still being somewhat useful as a means of getting the author back to the forum.

Second random thought: Since this function is already looking like something that might need to be turned off, perhaps it should be sitting in bb-plugins?

[Gautam]

testing…

[kickerman360]

Hi,

So far from browsing the forums, there is a somewhat minor issue regarding WordPress and bbPress when it comes to shared cookies and logins. Here is what happens:

WordPress Login = WordPress Dashboard

bbPress Login = WordPress Dashboard

Wordpress Login != bbPress Dashboard <– Problem

bbPress Login = bbPress Dashboard

So basically whenever I login via WordPress (there is a main site login form in the header), I can access the forums and it even shows I am logged in however when I click “Admin”, I am redirected to the forum index.

Other forum posts which didn’t have a solution (in my case atleast):

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cant-access-admin-dashboard

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forumbb-admin-redirects-me-to-forum

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/forumsbb-admin-just-redirects-me-to-forums

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-link-redirects-to-front-page

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/admin-link-doesnt-take-me-to-dashboard

Things I’ve tried:

Going directly to the mysite.com/forums/bb-admin/index.php

Checked all hash keys and other wp/bb-config.php stuff

Updated to the latest WordPress and bbPress

Deactivated all plugins (I only had Akismet and reCAPTCHA bbPress anyway)

Clearing cache (Firefox)

Trying in another browser (Internet Explorer)

Does anyone have a clear cut solution? Most people are happy with just using bbPress to get to the admin panel but it would be nice if it worked.

[Steven Hodson]

@Ben L … this is maddening because I know from your testing that it works fine. I also had my host get the guys at his data center run some tests (he’s also a good friend which helps) but they come back with this

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Two of the engineers at the data center have run tests and looked at the logs and they have ruled any server side issues.

This is what they said in conclusion

At this point, I believe we can safely exclude obvious server side problems… If your customer has some concerns about missing .php modules, etc. (which they may confirm by creating a phpinfo page) we’ll be happy to address this, but so far we’re still not seeing a server side problem…

It is possible that the add-on may require more php modules installed but I would need to know more to go further

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So I am at a real loss to figure out where to go next to try getting this to work. Very frustrating to say the least

[mjepson]

Hello,

We use bbPress as our forum on woothemes.com and users sometimes have a hard time finding their support query when they come back to the forum. I know you can click on your user profile and see it there, but most new users don’t know that.

Is there any code that we can use to add a list of the last 5 posts created by the user and place it on the forum index page?

This is how it looks now: http://is.gd/5GOQm

I’d like to add it either at the top above “Latest Topics”

[chrishajer]

The problem is using the very latest version of PHP. A slightly older version won’t show those warnings. Or turning off the display of warnings will also prevent this problem.

Not sure in what version of PHP they deprecated this…

[dougjoseph]

I found that the problem affected all my domains hosted on that account, and every subfolder in all those domains.

I called GoDaddy.com and they were unable to fix it. The best I can figure is that somehow I caused it with a mix of adding and removing virtual directories.

I ended up having them cancel that whole hosting account and creating a new one, and then I restored all my domains from the backups.

As soon as the DNS info repopulates out through the net, I will be able to test to see if wiping clean and starting over… fixed the problem.

[dougjoseph]

I just tried again using Apple Safari 4.0.4 on a Win XP SP3 system. Problem is reproducible.

In all three browsers the OS stayed the same.

@chrishajer: Your test was also on Win XP. Common element?

[dougjoseph]

Hello!

I just downloaded and installed the latest version of bbPress — version 1.0.2.

In the database ( bb_option | uri ), we see the full URL to the forum:

http://domain.com/folder/

Now, if I type that address into a browser, the forum loads fine.

However, if I type it this way (without the trailing frontslash)…

http://domain.com/folder

… I get redirected to this:

http://domain.com/domain.com/folder/

Which leads to nowhere!

To see this in action, paste or type these two URIs into your browser:

http://authorstock.com/forum/

http://authorstock.com/forum

…With the only difference being the trailing frontslash.

Argh! Can anyone help me know how to fix this?

Thanks!

[Mikado]

OK, tested the nightgunner5’s patch and it works for me on Windows XP.

Thank you very much chrishajer!

“Why would you use a testing environment?”

Because we are 2 developpers.

[chrishajer]

Thanks for the additional information.

If you’re using Windows locally, there was an old bug that was resolved, but I think there might be a new one. It had something to do with the slashes being forward or backward, and subdirectories.

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/625

Maybe this one is more current:

https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/1019

OT: Why would you use a testing environment that is different from where you are going to host? It introduces all sorts of other variables that you end up trying to fix that ultimately don’t matter on the final host. Whenever possible, the testing environment should be identical to the final host environment.

But, I think the issue you are having is due to it being on Windows. I’ve seen it reported a couple times, I just can’t find the exact ticket I am recalling.

[Gautam]

This is the CSS from the default (kakumei) theme:

/* Page navigation

=================================== */



a.page-numbers,

span.page-numbers {

border-right: 1px solid #bbbbbb;

border-bottom: 1px solid #bbbbbb;

padding: 4px 4px 2px 5px;

margin-left: 5px;

background-image: url('images/page-links-background.gif');

background-repeat: no-repeat;

background-position: 0 0;

}



span.page-numbers.current {

color: #ffffff;

background-position: 0 -100px;

}



#latest a.page-numbers {

font-size: 0.8em;

padding: 3px 3px 1px 4px;

margin-left: 3px;

}



a.prev.page-numbers,

a.next.page-numbers,

span.page-numbers.dots {

border-width: 0;

padding: 0 4px;

background-image: none;

}



span.page-numbers.dots {

padding: 0;

}



a.page-numbers:hover {

background-position: 0 -100px;

}



a.prev.page-numbers:hover,

a.next.page-numbers:hover {

color: #006400;

}

[hpguru]

I was able to reply in your forum. Check test reply.

[chrishajer]

If you want the issue to be addressed, it needs to be in trac. If it’s not there, it will probably not be worked on.

[kevinjohngallagher]

In the nicest possible way, i haven’t looked at Trac since it was so woeful before, and a cause of some pain for the community (ask a question -> go to trac. Go to trac -> ask why trac is wrong -> earn wrath of ck -> be told to leave bbpress). As i look at Trac now, for the first time in 9 months, I see that YouTube support and Smileys are in there as bugs.

I apprecaite your efforts greatly Chris, but this might be the straw that pushed the camel back to other forum software until after 1.1.