[Spell]

Hi!

I’m running bbPress 0.9.0.2 and I noticed that it shows some weird posting times on few of the last posts. It says that they’ve been written “-1 year ago”. Minus one year ago? What could it be that’s making this happen? Something wrong with the server clock? I haven’t changed any of my bbPress settings in a while..

Here is the board (in Finnish): http://www.viekkausliiga.com/pulina/

Problem is the “Pulinaboxi” thread. It says that a user has written the last post “-1 year ago”. This causes the sites front page (http://www.viekkausliiga.com/) RSS-feed parser to malfunction as in not showing the latest posts…

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

My original post is simply trying to understand *what* makes one of these forums systems better than another (pro/cons).

I’ve said this many times before: It all depends on your needs in a forum.

I’m not trying to avoid the subject, I just think it’s SO subjective that there is no answer. _ck_’s needs are different from mine, mine are different from yours. We may all have some things in common, but not all. Make a list of what’s important to you and then go find a forum that fits the bill. There is no one answer that forum A is better than B and they’re both better than C but worse than D except if you want to do foo and bar … You see how that gets weird?

I didn’t like Vanilla when I tested it, and I certainly didn’t find it easy to integrate with WordPress. In fact, their Single Sign On page says it’s still in Beta.

Also most apps talk like their competitors don’t exist not to be mean, but because it quickly turns into bashing and no one likes that. The beauty of open-source is that anyone can do anything with everything

[frooyo]

@_ck_

According to this video interview by RedWriteWeb, Mozilla.com, OReilly.com and others use Vanilla

http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/06/vanilla-forums.php

What’s interesting is the founder, Mark, goes on to call Vanilla the “WordPress of forums”

[neilogic]

I did have the same problem but in different context where I never wanted to dive into the code because the theme I was making was to be used by someone else and thus I just wanted the person place it and activate it and it should worked rather then him diving into the code and replacing the files.

In the end what I did was , as BBPRESS 1.0+ supports the use of functions.php in theme files . so i just copied the function from the function.bb-template.php and changed the funciton name a bit and then replaced it in theme files.

Example : like “You must login to post.” is in post_form function in function.bb-template.php file. I copied the function to functions.php in my bbpress template. renamed the function from post_form -> post_form_edited and made the replacements I wanted and then in my theme files where ever it was using the old function of post_form() i replaced it with my new edited function post_form_edited().

like in your functions.php after you copy the post_form function and change it to post_form_edited you can find the line “__(‘You must log in to post.’),” and change it to anything you want. And use the new function in your theme. Like this you won’t have problems upgrading the bbpress installation too in future.

then I dived in the theme files and replaced all the post_form() with post_form_edited() and voila it worked. But in my case I knew what I was using like the plugins and stuff and thus i tested it with everything first.

I hope this helps you out . Some of the stuff I told above has been applied to the postform in http://forum.ubuntu-in.info.

[blah]

Sorry.

I meant I wanted to pull the latest replies for topics (bbpress, not wordpress) into my sidebar.

[batrachoid]

Can you be more specific? Do you want to pull the latest comments from your wordpress site into your forums?

[blah]

I’m still trying to figure out a way to get this worked out. Any takers?

[_ck_]

Some bug fixes and additional features have been added to 0.9 branch and 1.0 trunk

For those that know how to download them off svn/trac and read the changes on trac, we’d appreciate some testing before a wide release tomorrow.

http://trac.bbpress.org/timeline

Notable on the 0.9 are my fast recount functions that will really help large sites, be sure to backup your db “just in case”.

[buddha-trance]

When I edited the Kakumei files, I recreated a sidebar to match the look of the blog with the forum tags and other stuff (blog latest posts, etc.), but without the widgets. The look still matches the blog, though the content of the sidebar is different. Whatever you have as text widgets in the blog you can always hard code in the forum sidebar.

The “sidebar” is in front-page.php, under

<div id=”hottags” role=”main”>

hard code any sidebar content there, then match the css in the stylesheet. You can even float the div to the right, rather than the left, depending on your blog’s theme.

[_ck_]

If this appears in your front-page.php, then you have bbPress 1.0.x and you have a bug

<?php bb_latest_topics_pages( array( 'before' => '<div class="nav">', 'after' => '</div>' ) ); ?>

The same bug was in some rare cases of 0.9

and I programmed around it in topics-per-page

I doubt it will work properly on 1.0 but you can try installing the plugin, remove the above line and replace it with

<div class="nav"><?php front_page_pages(); ?></div>

[mjjinvincible]

I’m trying to integrate WordPress MU 2.8.3 and bbPress 1.0.2

When I access my site through WordPress everything works fine, I see myself logged in at bbPress and I can access the admin area. When I access my site through bbPress and then go to /wp-admin/, it redirects me here: /wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mydomain.com%2Fwp-admin%2F. I can fill in the login name and password, and it’ll let me in, but it should just appear the dashboard in the first place…

I’ve followed Sam’s screencast, step by step, and tried it over three times with fresh installs… but still happens the same. But I don’t know, maybe I’m missing something.

First I install Wordpres Mu. Then I go to the bbPress installation page. I fill in everything to integrate it with WordPress. Then I map the user registrations, although I have also left this step for the last one in another installation/integration. I go WordPress, download the bbPress plugin, copy the cookies configuration, paste it into wp-config.php. The I delete all the cookies and temp files in my browser.

It’s strange, cause when I go to the home page of the site I can see I’m logged in:

WordPress µ

This is a WordPress Mu powered site.

You can:

* Site Admin

* Log out

* Create a new blog

* Edit this file at wp-content/themes/home/home.php with your favourite text editor and customize this screen.

But it still won’t access the administration dashboard. I’ve tried registering another user giving it administration control, but the redirection thing still happens.

It’s kinda funny cause one of the times I installed WordPress Mu and bbPress while I was testing, I could integrate them with no problem. But when I tried it under the final domain, it always happens the same, and gives me that ‘little’ problem.

These are the cookies when I access the admin areas:

After WordPress login:

wordpress_logged_in_*****************

wordpress_*************

bb_user-settings-time-1

After going from WordPress Admin Dashboard to bbPress Admin Dashboard:

wordpress_logged_in_*****************

wordpress_*****************

wordpress_*****************

wordpress_test_cookie

bb_user-settings-time-1

wp-settings-time-1

wp-settings-1

I delete all the browser’s cookies and do the opposite.

After bbPress login:

wordpress_logged_in_*****************

wordpress_*************

bb_user-settings-time-1

After going from bbPress Admin Dashboard to WordPress Admin Dashboard:

This is when the redirection problem comes in!

wordpress_test_cookie

wordpress_logged_in_*****************

[anandasama]

Ah but I use Buddypress and when users create groups in bp, automatical Subforums are created (Under the Parent forum id 1) in BbPress. But if I hide forum 1 (The parent), the other forum topics will still show in the latest discussions.

And Its too painful to go and edit this afterwards. It must be automatic.

I got some if Statement working with the forum loop. I excluded some subforums showing by using:

`<?php if ( bb_forums() ) : ?>

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : global $forum; if ($forum->forum_parent != 0) continue; ?>

<!– insert forum stuff to be looped –>

<?php endwhile; ?>

<?php endif; // bb_forums() ?>`

but I cant get it working with topics.

[hpguru]

Yes.

[deadlyhifi]

Not sure about that since I don’t have any sub forums.

Have you tried adding to $exclude_forums? Like this $exclude_forums=array ("3", "4","6");?

[HimSelf (Gregory)]

Ok thks,

i think the good uri is https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/

thanks.

[Josh Leuze]

@johnhiler: I am using 1.1, the latest version of Akismet.

I should also mention that I can’t replicate this. If I mark a post as spam, and then go in and mark that post as not spam, it shows back up just fine in the thread.

It only appears to be happening when Akismet itself filters a post as spam.

[anandasama]

Yeah ! It works by doing that. Thanks!

But Is there a way to add to the query ? If there is a Forum Parent (ie, if the post lies in a subforum) I dont want to display it.

[anandasama]

Yeah I have the same problem. Though everything else work smooth!

[hpguru]

Hi,

Enjoy https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/topics-per-page

[HimSelf (Gregory)]

Hello,

i’m a new user of BBpress, & i wish to thanks you for the fabolous work done behind. This tool is really powerfull & helpfull for me.

it should be great if we will be able to setup individually the “latest discussion” numbers of message to display, instead of changing the numbers of message par page. ( Separate the both option. )

& also to have the possibility to not show the pages numbers for those “latest discussion”.

Best regards

Gregory Janssens

[buddha-trance]

I forgot to deactivate all plugins prior to upgrading to latest version (from 1.0.1), but everything seems to work fine… is deactivation a vital step?

[Sushubh]

i am facing the same problem on my own server. i have successfully tried installing the .x.x versions. this was my first test with 1.x.x release.

PHP 5.2.8

MySQL Version 5.0.51a-community

Web Server apache2handler

Hmm. managed to fix my problem…

check for extra spacing at the end of the bb-config file. that might be causing these problems.

[recronin]

*note – I’m not trying to integrate bbPress into a WordPress page but rather a static page. I already have the login integration between bb and wp working.

I’ve been able to “embed” my WordPress posts into a static web page with the help of an online tutorial using PHP includes. Basically, on the page that you want to have WordPress embedded in, you paste:

<?php require(‘../../../blog/wp-blog-header.php’); ?>

into the very top of the page above the DTD, and then paste The Loop wherever you want your posts to appear.

What I’d like to do is the exact same thing except with bbPress. I’ve tried applying the same basic principle as described as above, but am pretty much stuck and can’t get anything except errors to appear.

Here’s what my code looks like at this point. I’ve used the header file from the kakumei templates folder as that’s the only header file I can find. At the very top above the DTD;

<?php require(‘../../../forums/bb-templates/kakumei/header.php’); ?>

Now I’ve searched high and low for anything talking about “The Loop” (or it’s equivalent) in bbPress but have found zip. The closest things I have seen have been inside the bbPress/index.php and forum.php files, which I pasted and tested each separately into the area that I wanted to have the forums appear, but with no positive results.

If anyone knows how to do this properly I will be grateful.

Thank you

Adam Lawton

*The page where I found the WordPress integration tutorial is:

http://moshublog.com/2005/07/05/integrate/

[_ck_]

I’m willing to bet permissions are NOT correct despite what you think.

Chmod /my-templates/ and /mythemetest/ to 750

[Olaf Lederer]

Hello,

just upgraded to 1.02 and found some issues regarding the “unique email address” bug from before.

Btw. in older version that was a problem too

update the email address in your profile:

If you change the email address into an existing one, it works fine but there is no message about (This is a tiny one)

Register process

I was busy to find some better way to add the recaptcha to the register form and noticed that the login form field is only tested if the email field is already filled. That worked better in version 0.9

everything else looks fine