[grassrootspa]

Hey fellow bbPress enthusiasts,

I have just spent forever playing with PHP trying to get the name generated by “Last Poster” in Latest Discussions on Forum or Front-Page to link to THAT user’s bbPress profile.

My apologies if I am missing an easy “<a href=” command to surround the php in:

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

Nothing seems to work.

Many thanks as my brain has been fried working on this.

[Tommie Hansen]

My Swedish language files doesn’t seem to translate any time -related stuff like weeks, months, days, seconds etc. When i check the .po-file for it there doesn’t seem to be any problem at all with the language file. The file is taken from the latest trunk of language files.

Does anyone have any idea why it doesn’t work as it should and is there any language file for Swedish that does?

[still giving]

Hi

I have language problems with with v.1.0.1.

bbpress is installed and working in English.

installed directory my-languages

installed ja.mo and ja.po

But when I write ‘define(‘BBLANG’, ‘ja’);’

I get an error …

Fatal error: Call to undefined function __() in /usr/home/vegan/public_html/chat/bb-includes/functions.bb-core.php on line 26

I have spent hours on this now, download a few different MO and PO files. Tried user language switcher plug in etc … I am getting nowhere.

Anyone had any luck or is it a bug in the latest release?

Thanks.

[Elias]

I think that this problem occurs in forums w/o posts, when the various numbers are divided by the number of posts, which is zero. But it is a bug, the code must test for zero as denominator…

[johnhiler]

Akismet looks at a number of factors – ranging from email addresses to IPs and the texts of posts.

_ck_ also suggested not trying to test Akismet with spammy comments:

I don’t recommend trying to purposely cause spam to test it because akismet might flag you globally as a spammer and you’ll end up being bozo’ed across multiple forums/blogs.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/what-do-your-posters-see-when-their-posts-as-flagged-by-akismet#post-31467

I’ve marked a few posts as spam on my forum, and noticed that every subsequent comment by that user got flagged by Akismet. Your mileage may vary… but you’re welcome to take your chances.

[bigspottcom]

hi

i have installed latest version of bb press. but my dashboard is incomplete.

pls suggest and help.

http://fanclub.bigspott.com

http://www.bigspott.com

[johnhiler]

If you’re not getting spam, then you don’t have to worry too much if it’s working or not!

What I usually do on a new install is set it up with Akismet and then wait a week or so… for it to catch its first piece of spam!

Definitely do not try and “test” Akismet, as you don’t want to get blacklisted from all sites that use Akismet!

[chawarong]

Actually, I am not sure if it doesn’t work and come to this forum to confirm. What I did though, I have a spam post sample that Akismet can catch with Simplemachine forum. So, I post the exact same post on bbpress to test.

[johnhiler]

It’s not a good idea to try and test Akismet by posting fake spam… if Akismet decides you’re a spammer, then you could have all of your future valid comments blocked too!

How do you know your Akismet isn’t working?

[chawarong]

Hi,

I install bbpress Version 1.0.1 that comes with Akismet. I saw most people got Akismet working automatically, but for me it’s never working and I would appreciate if someone can tell where to look such as a log or some clue why it’s not working. I test it with akismet-test-123 and viagra-test-123, but still I can post the topics. Please someone kindly give me a hint where to start.

Thanks,

Chawarong

[gardenfl]

I currently use 09.5 but would like to upgrade this weekend. I do need to clarify a couple of things first.

To begin with I set up a temp/test forum and tested the plugins I currently use. All seemed to work just fine.

OK, not to the trickier part.

Originally I installed BBPress through SimpleScripts, which my host makes available on dashboards.

Then, changing my plans I moved the forum to a subfolder of a WordPress instillation.

I will ask my host, but I don’t think there is a way to change the SimpleScripts info, which thinks the forum is located at the original location.

Does anybody know if SimpleScripts adds anything that could complicate a normal upgrade? I am a very cautious upgrader and will of course back up the data base. But I want to go into this knowing about any potential problems.

[bigspottcom]

hi

i have installed latest version of bb press in my subdomain http://fanclub.bigspott.com

but my dashboard is incomplete i can’t see anything except theme changing option

anyone can help?

[katastrov]

Hi all,

I’ve just installed BBpress and it seems that everthing works “ok”. I’m still surprised that I have to download a plugin for so many basic things… There are minimum things that could come along with the forum such as “smileys, avatars etc”… these are standards in all forums.

Anyway, I’m asking for help because I have tried to register a test account and it seems that no mail is being sent eventhough I get the “congragulation page” saying i will receive one within minutes. I’m having my forum hosted by Yahoo web host.

Does anyone have a clue where to start troubleshooting?

Thanks a lot for your help

[_ck_]

If you are using bbPress 1.0, you can use a display name instead of your user login name, and the display name can be anything in the UTF8 character set.

There is also a workaround for bbPress 0.9 that might also work on 1.0 that removes all restrictions for the user login. It’s not been well tested to my knowledge but apparently works. I’ll try to find it for you.

Here it is, try this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/accents-in-username#post-19037

[anti-sec]

Hi bbpress staff and coders ,

I want to ask u the bbpress 0.9.x latest pack ( 0.9.5 ) . Currently I need to study the code of this previous version for security pourpose , and I would be very glad to u if can provide my request .

Sorry for nuisance .

Regards.

[dz7]

Still trying to figure this out–I think I just need to find the place where bbPress finds out the ID of the current user, and insert my own function.

I looked in class.wp-auth.php as well as pluggable.php. As a test, I tried changing the validate_auth_cookie and get_current_user functions to “return XXXXX” in order to login user XXXXX automatically, but it didn’t work. I’m not sure if I’m changing the right functions, or if I’m returning the wrong information.

Is the ID number enough information to log a user in?

Where does it need to be provided?

There are a number of old threads with similar questions, but it seems like nobody has found an answer…

Thanks again!

[Rhys Wynne]

If you’re familiar with ReCAPTCHA I’ve written a plugin that integrates this spam prevention tool with bbPress.

It’s still waiting to go into the SVN, but you can download it here – http://www.gospelrhys.co.uk/plugins/bbpress-plugins/recaptcha-bbpress-plugin

I’ve tested this on a 0.9 site, and it’s completely eliminated spam (since Sunday…at least!)

[katastrov]

Hi everyone,

I’ve successfully installed PHPBB3 forums, WordPress blogs etc etc… and somehow, I’m having a nightmare installing BBpress…

I’m not a coding/IT guru but I’m not a beginner either so this makes the thing even more frustrated. By wanting to make the installation process easy, the description lacks a lot of details I believe. Here’s what I have:

– Yahoo web hosting

– MySQL Server version: 4.1.14

– MySQL client version: 3.23.49

– phpMyAdmin latest version

Steps:

1. download bbpress

2. upload it to gufugumu.com/bbpress

3. go to the url gufugumu.com/bbpress -> installation window appears fine

4. Step1 – fill the information

– Database name : guillos

– Database user : admin

– Database password : *********

Then comes the famous error : “There was a problem connecting to the database you specified. Please check the settings, then try again.”

So I can’t pass step1. I then look in the forum but could not find anything usefull. One would expect that installing a forum should not require advanced PHP or MySQL knowledge. This is quite annoying.

Also, if I try to remove the “-sample” from the “bb-config-sample.php” then I get the error message “ERROR: Could not establish a database connection”. Finally, I have also created the database in phpMyAdmin. Of course there’s 0 tables.

Any help would be extremly nice as I’m about to give up and go for PHPBB3…

Thanks in advance

[_ck_]

Can someone test this new version of Freshly Baked Cookies with bbPress 0.9 + WP 2.8.1 and let me know if it works and cookie sync is maintained?

http://bbshowcase.org/plugins/freshly-baked-cookies.zip

Don’t forget to copy over your settings at the top of the plugin and remember to set the AUTH_COOKIE_VERSION to 2 for WP 2.8

I have a hard time believing it’s that simple to fix for WP 2.8 vs 2.7 but here’s hoping.

[citizenkeith]

As of yesterday, I was using the following plugins:

Allow Images 0.7.1

BBCode Buttons Toolbar 0.0.9

BBcode Lite 1.0.3

bbPress Smilies 0.0.8

Human Test for bbPress 0.9.2

Members Online 0.0.1

Topics Per Page 0.0.5

Unread Posts 0.9.3

Autoloaded:

Hidden Forums 0.0.9

Quote (mod by ck) 0.2mod

Year Long Cookes – Remember Me 0.0.2

I didn’t have a problem for days. This morning, I uploaded and activated the following:

bbPress Signatures 0.20

New User Notification Email 0.0.2

Hidden Forums Tag Filter 0.0.6

Just a few minutes ago, I tried to post to the forum, but I was logged off after hitting “Send Post” and my post didn’t make it. I then went to the admin panel and had the dreaded “Database Upgrade” message again. After upgrading, I checked my plugins. They were all fine, except Members Online,

Topics Per Page and Unread Posts were deactivated.

My guess is that there’s a problem with New User Notification Email.

Thoughts?

[Florian]

I have written a simple plugin for TinyMCE to make it compatible with bbPress’ usage of double line breaks as paragraphs. The plugin replaces all paragraphs with said double linebreaks and br-Tags with single linebreaks upon posting. When editing an existing post, all linebreaks get transformed back into br-tags for TinyMCE. So you can use TinyMCE with bbPress without changing anything in bbPress.

You can download it here:

http://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2009/07/12/bbpress-compatibility-plugin-for-tinymce/

You also need to set remove_linebreaks to false, or all linebreaks will get removed by TinyMCE.

Currently, it still has one limitation (besides not being thoroughly tested): When you edit an existing post, double line breaks do not get converted back to paragraphs in TinyMCE. Instead they become two br-tags.

[azcs]

Hello,i have a site called azcs.co.uk, im using wordpress and bbpress and im trying to make the forum like my word press with no joy yet, i also whant to know how can i the Latest Discussions show only latest 5 posts only and on the forums i have forums saying modding, software and gaming i want to make these in bold and the background a different colour so that they stand out i also would like to know how to put a background image on the bbpress.

i hope this is not too much to ask

the forum can be found at forum.azcs.co.uk

[rizzn]

I’ve got WPMU latest, BuddyPress latest and BBPress latest installed.

Everything’s mostly working how I want it (few minor quirks here and there, but i’ve been ironing them out pretty handily so far)….

… except BBPress. I did the full integrated install, and it went through without too any major issues, everything seemed to work fine. The database has been modified how it should be, from what i can tell, and everything looks fine in the directory structure…

… except I get this error on all bbpress pages now:

500 Server Error

A misconfiguration on the server caused a hiccup. Check the server logs, fix the problem, then try again.

URL: http://siliconangle.com/ver2/bbpress/bb-admin/

I doublechecked everything in the config files, and database stuff is configured properly. Permissions checked – no issues there that I can find.

i’m up against a wall, i can’t figure out what the deal is. any thoughts?

[johnhiler]

There’s no official support for this… but someone wrote a script a while ago to unofficially pull this off for 1.0:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/permanently-deleting-topocs-and-posts

I haven’t tested it though and it hasn’t been packaged as a plugin. If you try it out, definitely backup your database first – and test carefully!

[taboo]

Hi. I use v1.01 and love it!

I decided to give pingbacks a try and I believe they are not working for some reason. I checked “Allow link notifications from other sites.” in settings, my theme is a direct port of (v1.00) Kakumei and no pingbacks show.

For instance: this is a test link to check pingbacks… and nothing shows in the linked thread. How to use it?