@dailytalk – thanks for posting your real world experiences. I would like to ask that you also include the version of bbpress that you are using?
@all –
I am under the impression that most of the plugins do not work properly with the current version, so a fresh install today is even MUCH further away from the basic functionality of smforums, phpbb, vbulletin, etc.
A serious problem that plagues wordpress, bbpress, and I should mention similar projects including phpfox, is companies that develop new releases often leave lots of broken plugins and themes – most users get so frustrated not knowing to upgrade and lose functionality – or stay downgraded and have possible security issues. This is a major problem that has me admiring the way vbulletin posts whether or not plugins / extensions will be supported by the core company.
The main thing that keeps me using bbpress in a few sites is the price, along with the glimmer of hope that since it is integrated into buddypress. Certainly at some point there will be functioning photo, attachment, moderation and other functions, that the WP / BP /BB community will have to have – even if new versions of one break the other. – Unfortunately it’s tough to hold one’s breath with these projects, and seeing the nightmares of bugs, lost functionality, and the time it takes to get back to square 2 after one of the other projects has been upgraded to square three – it’s devastating.
I for one would love to see image and file attachments, along with something like tinymce incorporated into the core of BBpress – but even if they are not, I would like to see important plugins like these and moderation, etc, all be maintained and tested and upgraded along with any new releases by the bbpress developers.
The svn is just short for “subversion” which is version control software you can use for checking out code. It’s still a bbpress.org domain: it’s perfectly safe. Just a subdomain.
The link Ben provided works perfectly. If you get an error (404 not found) then try again. The file exists.
Is there another link to download this? Is SVN the safest provider?
Instead of loading zlib via .htaccess, you should use Apache’s built-in module mod_deflate because it is better for server’s performance. By using code below, you will compress all textual content from your site (html, css, javascript, rss). Simply remove type you don’t want to compress from list and it won’t compress after that. Note that you shouldn’t add any more types because other file types can’t be compressed this way.
Just copy/paste this code in your .htaccess file in root of web site. You can use this on ANY kind of website, no matter if it is powered by bbPress or not. Just watch-out that some script you use doesn’t already compress some type, because it will than double compress which will be worse than using uncompressed type.
Also note that on some bad configured servers this can make additional load on servers so be careful (this applies to zlib comrpession too).
<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/javascript application/x-javascript application/x-httpd-php application/rss+xml application/atom_xml
</IfModule>
You can test your site before and after with tools like WebPagetest (just click on images on result’s page for detailed information) and Web Page Analyzer. And share your results here.
what do you think about hosting ga.js locally and keeping it up to date?
You shouldn’t store popular JavaScript files (like from Google Analytics, AdSense, StatCounter etc) on your server because they are probably in visitors’ cache so he will not even load that files while visiting your site.
This is because most sites nowadays use Google Analytics and when man without that file in cache visits page that use it, that file is saved in it’s cache for seven days (because Google gives information to browser in file’s HTTP headers) and it is not loaded again until it expires from cache.
Hi Chris,
Thanks for jumping in, are you / twitter link telling me that BuddyPress is now available for WordPress single? Would I just download the latest version of BuddyPress even if it is MU? Is this it? https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddypress/
Thanks for clarifying _ck_ is a female. 
So am I!
Toni
tonicarr, have you seen this re: WordPress single and BuddyPress?
Single WordPress support in BuddyPress trunk is already quite stable. Who’s tried the latest?
Also, _ck_ is female.
Ths SVN is the repository where all the plugins are stored. It is completely safe to use it.
This link does NOT work for downloads:
https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/
What is the -svn and is it safe?
Thanks!
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!
Where can I find the Human Test plugin now that bbshowcase.org is NOT online?
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
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
i am testing now, please dont hate me 
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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?
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.
@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
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
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
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”
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…
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.
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?
