Can people now use these plugins created and improve upon them so that they are now available in the latest version of BBpress?
Yes, that’s called GPL 
Just credit her original plugin in your spin-offs and make sure to release them under GPL.
I understand that she is annoyed that she didn’t get much support financially in developing all of these plugins but is it professional to not recommend people continue on with BBpress. Can people now use these plugins created and improve upon them so that they are now available in the latest version of BBpress?
Theme integration can still be performed without having to turn bbPress into a plugin, and in fact, it can be done via a simple CSS trick ( that means that the default CSS of bbPress should be rewritten so that it becomes more flexible, and every element ( forum tables, forms etc… ) should act as “objects” which can be automatically stretched vertically independently of their parents or I don’t know, where the parents will be objects in the WP stylesheet ) . So again, for theme integration, NO NEED TO TURN BBPRESS INTO A PLUGIN, because it’s just a CSS issue ( + little PHP coding, nothing serious ) !
Connecting the Admin sides of WP and bbPress ? This can be easily done via an OPTIONAL plugin ( or via XML-RPC calls, so that you can handle your bbPress forum even if it isn’t in the same host ) .
Turning bbPress into a plugin would be a nightmare, think of all the unnecessary WP calls … Why did I choose bbPress again ? To have a light forum or to have TWO frameworks ( WordPress and bbPress ) + unnecessary calls and files ?
The reason I choose bbPress at the beginning ( 3~4 years ago ) is because it’s from the creators of WordPress, so I hoped that it will be as easy to customize as WordPress, and that’s what I got ( even though, at the beginning it was really hard for me because I had to guess the function names, as there’s no Codex for bbPress ) and I’m very satisfied . I had the choice between bbPress, PunBB and Vanilla ( the lightest forums out there, and at the time, Vanilla had a greater number of plugins than bbPress ), but I stick with bbPress because it’s the easiest one to customize . So for those who think that bbPress can’t compete in the light forums market, you’re wrong !
The code is also 1 year old mate, and for a version of BBpress long since given up on since the RC1 was rushed out with no beta testing and very little alpha testing.
in bb_post table there is lots of test post not been deleted,
i searched forum but i have no solve plan
I tried what Ben L. suggested and it works fine even with a forum with no topics (in which case there is no topic title shown because there is none, and it shows a view count of 0)
I implemented it this way:
<td class="num"><a href="<?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = current( get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ) ); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>
I’m having this trouble too. I tried comparing everything that is topics.php, post.php, and post-form.php to the files in the kakumei theme, and there are no significant differences, yet the form won’t appear.
Example here: http://bookclub.plutonica.net/topic/test
I can create new topics as an admin and as a guest, but not reply to them. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Oh! I see the problem! (Or at least one of them)
Try <?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = current( get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ) ); ?>
<tr<?php bb_forum_class(); ?>>
<td><?php forum_icon(); ?> <?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><b><?php forum_name(); ?></b></a><br /><?php forum_description( array( 'before' => '<small>', 'after' => '</small>' ) ); ?><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>
<td class="num"><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>
<td class="num"><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>
<td class="lastp"><?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ); ?><small>by <?php topic_last_poster(); ?><br />on <a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>"><?php echo date("D M j Y G:i:s", strtotime($topic->topic_time)); ?></small></a></td>
</tr>
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on Wed Dec 31 1969 19:00:00
gerikg – please post what you find. Maybe it’s a simple mistake that everyone is making, or you can show how the integration documentation needs to be updated to make this easier for everyone.
I know it’s sometimes easier to just go and fix stuff yourself instead of going back and forth in a forum trying to figure out what’s wrong, but I really do hope someone posts a procedure for integrating logins that will work for everyone. alpacino85 did what I think most reasonable people would do: download the most recent version of both software packages and then follow the latest integration instructions (even though they’re out of date), but that doesn’t seem to work. Lots of people have the same exact issue (logging into WordPress logs you our of bbPress or vice versa) so I hope there’s on little “gotcha” or “ah ha” that can be posted to take care of this for most people. Thanks.
I tried the following:
<?php $topic = $GLOBALS = get_latest_topics( array( ‘number’ => 1, ‘forum’ => get_forum_id() ) ); ?><?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>
But all it returned was:
http://bookclub.plutonica.net/topic/#post-
Is there any documentation on the tags available with bbPress? I’ve tried searching this site and Google, but I can’t seem to turn up anything comprehensive.
Thanks.
Add <?php $topic = $GLOBALS['topic'] = get_latest_topics( array( 'number' => 1, 'forum' => get_forum_id() ) ); ?> before the snippet you posted. (Untested, but I think it will work)
Michael, I am already working on bb Cumulus, and it is almost completed.
You can see it active on my test site – http://forum.gaut.am/
OK, here is a possible quick workaround for now. Really late at night here, so I don’t have enough neurons to come up with a different solution.
The popular tags feature has a limit of 80 tags.
If you create another template and call it all-tags.php, put it in the forum directory, and use the call for the popular tags, but without the limit, it should work.
all-tags.php
<?php
require('./bb-load.php');
?>
<?php bb_get_header(); ?>
<div class="bbcrumb"><a href="<?php bb_uri(); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a> » <?php _e('All Tags'); ?></div>
<p role="main"><?php _e('This is the list of all tags that are currently used on the forums.'); ?></p>
<div id="hottags">
<?php bb_tag_heat_map( 9, 38, 'pt' ); ?>
</div>
<?php bb_get_footer();
then call for youdomain.com/forums/all-tags.php
or the path where the file is
I don’t have that many tags, so I can’t test it.
At least, this is the principle, maybe there is another template code for that, like bb_get_tags or so…
Just finished reading up…ecstatic to see this chat.
Random thoughts (from someone who has been periodically messing with this for a year and still learning the ropes):
-Don’t like the idea of eliminating bbPress’s stand alone ability and REQUIRING it be a WP plugin (some of us just want to run stand-alone forums without having to install WordPress first.) Prefer to keep it as a separate project.
-Love the idea of adding new OPTIONAL features to the bbPress core (bbPress 1.1) . Here are my top 6:
(1) Optional TinyMCE addition
(2) Ability to edit plugins and templates from within bbPress admin
(3) Ability to add widgets to certain areas without having to mess with the template (will be handy for easily editing ‘sidebar’ stuff from the admin page rather than having to play with the template code each time
(4) More Avatar/Gravatar options, such as easily adjusting their size on Profile pages and including instructions on how to get a Gravatar built into the ‘edit profile’ pages. People want to customize their forum character. Make it easier for them to do it right out of the box: display a click-able link to Gravatar.com!
(5) To combat spam registrations, build optional ‘Human Test’ and ‘Terms of Service’ registration page features (which can be further modified and tweaked by plugins/user modifications). I’m sure everyone else there has noticed ‘Spam’ user signups. A built-in human test and/or TOS box to check will go a long way in eliminating them!
(6) Better bozo management notification on the admin page (have numbers pop-up like for new comments and plugins in case a legitimate user has been marked as a bozo. I’ve had this happen a couple times because I didn’t check the bozo list.
-Pleased to hear bbPress.org design will be revamped and include Codex
-THRILLED to see folks from the message board helping bbPress.org and the overall project in various areas
-In summary, EXCITED about bbPress 1.1
Greetings 
I guess I could do the show off thing. Here’s mine: Dev:station
It has quite a lot of plugins installed – and everything works – though there may be a few bugs that I don’t know of.
Plugin List:
Admin Add User
Allow Images
Avatar Upload
BBCode Lite
BBCode Toolbar
bbPM
BBPress:SyntaxHiliter
bbPress Moderation Suite
bbPress Smilies
Bozo Users
Favicon
General Statistics (my own plugin)
Hot Tags Plus
Hot Topic
Human Test for bbPress
Indicate New Posts
Member List
bbPages
Post Count Plus
Project Honey Pot
Read-Only Forums
Related Topics
Reputation
Signatures
Simple Online List
Support Forum
Terms of Service
Topics per Page
Twitter
I know the address to this forum isn’t that great – I’ll be getting a .com domain for it some time next year (hopefully January).
Enjoy!
Michael
Hi Ben
I’m running quite a few:
Admin Add User
Allow Images
Avatar Upload
BBCode Lite
BBCode Toolbar
bbPM
BBPress:SyntaxHiliter
bbPress Moderation Suite (obviously )
bbPress Smilies
Bozo Users
Favicon
General Statistics (my own plugin, not the problem – have tested it extensively)
Hot Tags Plus
Hot Topic
Human Test for bbPress
Indicate New Posts
Member List
bbPages
Post Count Plus
Project Honey Pot
Read-Only Forums
Related Topics
Reputation
Signatures
Simple Online List
Support Forum
Terms of Service
Topics per Page
Twitter
Unread Posts (I should disable this one as I already have Indicate New Posts enabled)
I have gone through and disabled each one – this did not solve the problem.
Any help would be great. Thanks
Hi
You need to open the PHP file and edit the settings in there.
Greetings all
I hope someone can help me here.
I have a strange feeling there is a function for this, but I can’t find it. I’d like to add a column into my Latest Discussions on the front page that shows the forum that the topic resides in. I’d like to do this so that users don’t have to explicitly state it in the title itself. I have a large structure for my new forum, and I’d like it to provide as many neatened features as possible.
Kind Regards
Michael
Hi all, needed some help with wordpress.
my wordpress add is at http://www.myfairmissy.com/janie/
my bbpress add is at http://www.myfairmissy.com/janie/forums
followed instructions for the cookies and still resulted in me loggin in 1 side and auto-logout on the other.
also would like to know which plug-in should i use for the wordpress if i want ,primarily to…
– i want my wordpress homepage to show 5 columns x 5 rows of latest post image, which will be grabbed from a few specific forum in BBpress. i also need a few buttons to sort or filter results by recent,by view counts, by specific forum
-i want my wordpress to have a few horizontal navigation bars at the header instead of the default ones at the side.
-i want to be change the default header image to my own and able to make my left/right sides blank like this forum. the left/right sides should be easily customized with my preferred wallpaper.
i hope i’m not asking for too much.
thanks in advance
Interesting, I never looked into this before (due to the higher number in my settings), now that I tested it it looks like one can only have one setting for both the topics in the front page and the actual posts in a topic. Wondering if it’s possible to have them set differently… For example, if the posts are long bodies of text, one may want to show only 10 posts per page, but 25 topics listed on the front page, so the layout doesn’t look too short…
Well, there is a way I just tested, by modifying core code (which I really don’t like doing).
If pointing out where the change occurs could help someone to come up with a way to change it via a plugin, here it is…
functions.bb-capabilities.php
line 166
$roles->add_role( 'member', __('Member'), array(
change to
$roles->add_role( 'member', __('Info'), array(
same goes for the other roles in the same file (Moderator, etc.)
Hope this helps.
Hi all
I installed bbPress Moderation Suite two weeks ago. It was working perfectly for a good amount of time, until 3 days ago, when I appointed a new moderator for my forum.
It seems that the Moderation Suite is only allowing key-masters to access the moderation control panel. I have a funny feeling that this my have something to do with one of my other plugins. The minute the new mod was appointed, he went straight in to have a browse around my modified admin panel. He told me at that point that he had access to the Mod Suite – but now it seems he doesn’t.
I have created a test user and changed the levels between Moderator and Administrator – nothing worked. It’s only letting Keymasters in.
Any ideas?
Kind Regards
Michael
Hi gang,
I’m an enthusiast of all things WordPress and would love to help out if I can.
Being unemployed right now, I’ve definitely got some TIME.
My php/javascript skills are kind of entry level, my html/css skills are fairly advanced. That being said, I’d love to get my hands dirty with the code end of things and I’m more than willing to do any testing that’s necessary or write up some documentation.
Just point me at a problem and I’ll get to work.
