[citizenkeith]

Update: I disabled bbPress Attachments and all the other plugins were able to be activated.

I’m assuming the bbPress Attachments was being “bad”. Anything else I can test to confirm that?

[citizenkeith]

Plugins used:

Allow Images

Approve User Registration

bb_benchmark (autoloaded)

bb_chunk

BBcode Buttons Toolbar

BBcode Lite

bbPress Attachments

bbPress signatures

bbPress Smilies

bbPress Theme Switcher

bb Topic Views

BBVideo

Censor

Check for Updates

Hidden Forums (autoloaded)

Hidden Forums Tag Filter

Human Test for bbPress

Members Online

Move It

New User Notification Email

Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More!

Quote (Mod)

Spoiler Tags

Strike

Super Search

Topics Per Page

Unread Posts

Wiki Post

Year Long Cookies – Remember Me (autoloaded)

I didn’t have these problems when I was running .9, but when I moved to Media Temple from Dreamhost I upgraded to 1.0 RC1. I probably shouldn’t have done the upgrade at the same time.

[johnhiler]

Wow… that’s incredibly aggressive given that 1.0 hasn’t had time to be field tested, and also the state of 1.0 plugins.

Sam, can 0.9 be restored as an easily available option? It can be played down if you’d like – even something low key like the WordPress release archives would be great:

https://wordpress.org/download/

[_ck_]

Ah I see it was even pulled from the download page, which bothers me of course.

It’s always available via trac too:

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset//tags/0.9.0.5?old_path=%2F&format=zip

or the branch might have a few fixes someday in the future

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset//branches/0.9?old_path=%2F&format=zip

[_ck_]

I actually had it tested in 1.0, if it’s not working in your theme and it’s a custom theme, make sure you have a do_action('topicmeta') somewhere in there.

Adding avatars makes it much more complicated, I’ll give a shot at the code in a minute.

[clarklab]

Are new users created in WP left as inactive (no role) until they sign in? We saw a bunch of users marked as inactive, but plenty of users posting just fine.

When I went into WordPress Integration Settings – User Role Map everything is set as it should be. Clicking ‘Save Changes’ (without actually making any changes) automatically switched all users marked inactive to member.

We had someone report they were unable to login so I went to check the user’s account and that was when I found his inactive role along with dozens of other users.

When trying to replicate it myself with new, test registrations any user I can create that shows up inactive is immediately switched to member on the first log in.

The main reason I ask if because the number of inactive users seemed very high and simply clicking ‘Save Changes’ and having them all switch in unison seems a bit odd.

[aberrantphoto]

John,

I do not have a WordPress install attached to bbpress. The upgrade went smoothly except for one error that said I already had forums. Other than that, everything seemed to work fine except for the registration. For registration, I am using the plugins “approve user registration”, “terms of service”, and “human test”, but I had deactivated all of these prior to upgrade and then again when testing the default theme.

[ArnyVee]

I’d like to create a menu / navigation bar at the top of my forums.

I want to place it between the header area and the latest discussions area. Which file do I have to edit to do so? And, does anyone know of a menu / navigation bar option out there already?

[Josh Leuze]

Andrew, I just converted a test install of phpBB 3.05 to bbPress 1.0.1 without any problems.

[Sam Bauers]

https://bbpress.org/dl-archive/bbpress-0.9.0.5.zip

[ademmler]

hi,

because 1.0 and some of my needed PlugIns are not working together I want to download the latest Version 0.9.

Where can I find this one? Do i have to browse svn for that?

Greetings Alex

[Gautam]

Click advanced settings and check if the host name there (default: localhost) is correct.

[grassrootspa]

_ck_, I love you, (and you are without a doubt the absolute best when it comes to plugins) but I for one am very excited to have the ability to use gravatars and voice built into the core bbPress program.

Respectfully to all, just because the ABILITY to use a new feature is built into bbPress DOES NOT force one to use it. It’s still totally up YOU. No one HAS to incorporate Gravatars or Voices into their site, but it is very cool for newbies to simply turn a core feature on or off rather than needing to download a plugin that is probably months or even a year old…praying it will work with the latest version.

Am I saying Sam should build an NES Emulator and a Weatherbug Widget into bbPress 1.2? HECK NO.

(Sam, start with the Atari emulator instead)

But things like Gravatars, (which Automattic owns) have tremendous potential use (goodbye individual avatar uploading for every single forum, hello universality). And the ABILITY to display voices makes sense to add in (being able to show the number of different people contributing to a topic certainly enhances bbPress).

Perhaps I am in the minority here, but I am hoping future versions of bbPress will continue to add these sorts of new features that make the bbPress experience more enjoyable for all users.

[buddha-trance]

_ck_, I was fully aware when I upgraded, which I did first on a test install. I am glad I did. Everything works beautifully and it was worth it. All the plugins I am using are working fine. There is only this minor glitch and I thought it was clear enough that I understood you are not supporting the plugins with the new version, and that the question was not addressed to you, not to bother you. I said it’s understandable that you are not, and in no way I was expecting that you drop everything, nor I was thinking that I knew any better.

I am very grateful for the plugins you have written and that I am still using on 1.0. There is nothing wrong with asking if other testers (starting from the alpha) are also using the anonymous feature and if the display name was working for them. It’s a support forum, after all!

[_ck_]

Read Only Forums has not been tested or fixed to work on bbPress 1.0 which is why you are probably having problems. If any of my plugins work on 1.0 it’s mostly luck at this point.

As far as hosting, I wrote this little bit last year:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/some-tech-tips-to-find-a-better-wordpress-or-bbpress-host/

[taboo]

Yeah! That’s it. Works great.

Thank you. Would you add this to 1.01 or whatever it’s going to be called?

test drive: forum ginekologiczne

[foodadelphia]

i will test the functions.php tomorrow, thanks so much, _ck_.

as far as the amount of queries go, i appreciate all help.

thanks again

[_ck_]

Ah here it is, ‘sort_tag_heat_map’

So this is a rough guess, untested:

<?php

// sort hot tag heat maps by descending tag count

remove_filter('sort_tag_heat_map', 'bb_sort_tag_heat_map');

add_filter('sort_tag_heat_map', 'my_sort_tag_heat_map');

function my_sort_tag_heat_map( &$tag_counts ) {

arsort($tag_counts, SORT_NUMERIC);

}

?>

try stuffing that into functions.php and put it into your template folder.

[foodadelphia]

these are the plugins i have activated:

Akismet

bbPress Moderation Suite

bbPress Polls

bbSocialize (since deactivated)

Check For Updates

Google Analitycs

Human Test for bbPress

Instant Password

New User Notification Email

PollDaddy for bbPress

Read-Only Forums

[ovizii]

well I don’t seee anything double on your profile page, but my test forum I linked above still shows double stuff. I tried the default theme, same problem, then I disabled the only plugin that was active adn the problem still persiststs…

besides that, there are only 2 test posts there made by me as key master and every now and then, it shows my user as inactive, if I do a refresh, it shows key master behind my name, go to another post and its inactive again

[foodadelphia]

yikes, i don’t even know what query count means, but yes i’m on a shared host from whom i’m looking to leave (they don’t provide any ssh or RoR support). I’d appreciate an explanation of query counts, _ck_, thanks, man.

as far as the fonts go, i installed ie 6 and 8 on my girlfriend’s pc running vista, i made .posts show up as 1.2em because i kinda like when the content itself grabs attention, and it didn’t look to bad (also increased line height to 1.3em), but it’s hard for me to test xp and ie. i know that macs see 72px and win sees 96px but i didn’t realize it changed it that much. should i just inherit the 1em, which is 62.5% in kakumei?

not sure where the “remember me” thing is. i’m going for the “large text, where the content is the focal point” kind of community, ala phorum (which i considered before deciding on bbpress) but if there are problems with any users i definitely want to fix em. mac w/firefox is a small market share, i know, but those are the on-the-fly-fixes.

anyway, i appreciate any and all input.

thanks again, _ck_, you lead a community of great developers.

[johnhiler]

Someone reported a similar issue with Godaddy – try this?

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/cannot-select-db-error-and-godaddycom

[infected]

I recommend continuing to use the plugin. There are only a few cases where integration might work without it.

Then i´m the luckiest guy on planet For me it seems to work fine without the plugin. I created some test users and i had no problems to access both frontends/backends logged in at the same time. Tested on different machines. But if you recommend it, i will install it just to prevent later problems that may be appear.

Thanks for your help so far! But what about the two folders mentioned above?

[QuickD]

I decided to test out this new version of bbpress on another website I have on Godaddy. I couldn’t link from BBPress to the Msql wordpress database and followed the steps to link to the database. Godaddy tested out and said that nothing wrong with the database.

BBpress asking for

Database Name (so tried with both Name and host name)

Database User (so put in godaddy msql User Name for wordpress database)

Database Password (Put in password to link to that database)

Did not work and gave following message : There was a problem connecting to the database you specified.

Please check the settings, then try again.

Godaddy said that the settings are fine.

Any suggestions.

[_ck_]

If I missed such a large site in the top 100 be sure to let me know.

Sometimes it’s hard for me to find certain sites given how much bbPress is being customized.

(I had written a whole thing here but I accidentally closed the tab and restoring it never brought the text back unfortunately.)

You should never adopt a program based on one person, especially if that person doesn’t do it for a living and even more important since that person doesn’t work for the company that made the program in the first place

To be clear I am not abandoning bbPress, at least not until I find something better and I am not actually looking for something else right now and what I have seen over the past year has not impressed me much. Besides, there are other talents around here and they are slowing releasing more and more impressive plugins or porting them from WP. A couple years from now people won’t even remember me.

My biggest problem with 1.0 is how bbPress was on a course with 0.9 to correct many of the legacy mistakes that WordPress had made, and suddenly with a whim by Matt, bbPress has turned around 180 degrees and steered itself neck deep back into the muck and mire via BackPress. It’s now burdened with many more layers and required compatibility and it will never be any more lightweight than it is now, which is not so fantastic anymore.

Another big problem growing with 1.0 is how instead of taking any feature that is outside of the API functionality and making it external as a plugin, it is being poured directly into the core, setting itself up for more legacy failure, like WordPress. Sam wrote some really great plugins as an independent but now as a core developer he can just slide it right into the core. It’s far easier to modified the core to get new features done fast but it should be resisted at all costs. You’ll notice that WordPress doesn’t have any official plugins outside of akismet and “hello dolly”, it’s a very clear but invisible company policy – “we don’t make plugins, put it into the core”. bbPress is now headed down the same path and it’s not necessary.

Things like:

gravatars

voices

topic page icons

should not be in the core. Instead any necessary action and filter hooks needed to accomplish such features should be carefully created and then the features should be made as plugins that can be enabled or disabled as desired. bbPress already comes with a “factory” plugin directory, it should be put to good use.

bbPress 0.9’s greatest strength was as a lightweight framework.

1.0 is not just a framework anymore, it’s starting to tell you how it should look and feel, and that is bad, because there are dozens of other forum programs out there that will do just that.