[_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.

[vanesta]

Both installation on WP (2.

WP1 is on domain.com, and WP2 is on sub.domain.com (same domain name)

Both allow single sign on between WP1 and WP2 with this on wp-config.php

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.domain.com’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘6428746726478264’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘74829749827489237424’);

define(‘AUTH_COOKIE’, ‘7482647263478623478’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_COOKIE’, ‘985847584758475’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_COOKIE’, ‘98752975897435894375894’);

define(‘TEST_COOKIE’, ‘8947519875894758495’);

So I basically override the cookie also.

Now I installed BBPress (1.0)

These WP-CONFIG setting won’t work even I added BB_LOGGED_IN_COOKIE variable

It only works with BBPress if i use these only

define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.domain.com’);

define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx’);

But if I add anything with _COOKIE bbpress + wp signed on won’t work, if I take it out, it will with with BBPress but multiple WP single sing on won’t work

Thanks guys

Victoria

[infected]

@Jason_JM: Okay, but as i said it works also without having the plugin installed. I tried it on my testblog, before going live. And if the plugin is really needed for integration it should be mentioned in the documentation. It´s the first place to go for users who are trying to integrate bbpress with wordpress…

But one more point: What about those 2 folders called my-plugins & my-templates. Is there a reason for why i can´t access them with my ftp? The folders can´t not opened either i can´t change their chmods. I´m using Filezilla as ftp tool. It reports “Failed to retrieve directory listing” when i try to open on of this folders.

[johnhiler]

Anyone up for updating the bbPress wikipedia page with the latest on the 1.0 release?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BbPress

I’d do it, but wasn’t sure which 1.0 features we should highlight… so thought I’d defer to a fellow member of the bbPress community.

[deadlyhifi]

Just testing version 1.0 before my big upgrade and notice that duplicate user email addresses are allowed to be used with no error or warning. Therefore allowing more than one account with the same email address.

Is this the default or have I done something wrong?

[infected]

Hi!

I have a simple question to bbpress 1.0 (final) and wp 2.8: Is the bbpress integration plugin still needed for complete integration? I followed the screencast on wordpress.tv. After installing bbpress there´s no problem to login into bbpress and wp at the same time. I remeber my first tests with 1.0 alpha where it doesn´t work…

[Sam Bauers]

0.9 was – and is – a stable release. The poll was meant to find out the level of demand on each timeframe. I think there is probably a reasonable cohort asking for support up to the end of 2010, so I’m prepared to maintain security fixes on the 0.9 legacy branch until then – this will however rely on proactive reporting from users of 0.9 as I won’t really be using it at all within a couple of months.

People contributing peer support on these forums can make the choice personally whether or not they help out with 0.9 problems. I’ll also provide a link to the latest 0.9 “legacy” release on the downloads page (with warnings about discontinuing support).

So, I’m thinking that support continues until 31 December, 2010. Anyone particularly unhappy about that?

[clarklab]

I tried inserting

<?php global $forum_id; echo $forum_id; ?>

just to test if I could grab the value and I could not. I tried it in a few places with no luck. What am I doing wrong?

Also thanks for all the plugins. I’ve got like a dozen of them running on my install.

[ArnyVee]

Hello there,

I’m a complete newb when it comes to bbPress, so bear with me.

I’ve installed about 6 to 8 of ck’s great plugins and they’ve all worked with no issues on the latest release (think it was on July 3rd when it was released or something?) of bbPress. Now, I understand that ck has warned everyone about the possibility of the plugins not working on 1.0, but I was wondering if anyone has these working or what I might be able to do to temporarily tweak them.

All of the plugins, except for BBCode Buttons and BBPress Smilies are working. These two are not showing up in the default theme. Any suggestions on what I might’ve missed or something that I should do to see why they’re not working?

BBCode Buttons

I have the bbcode-lite plugin active and working, so it’s not an issue there. I have bbcode-buttons directly in the my-plugins directory, so seems fine there.

BBPress Smilies

I uploaded the full bb-smilies directory to the my-plugins directory and then activated it in the admin panel. But, nothing is showing in the post boxes.

So, I could use some suggestions for those of you that found some work arounds. Thank you!

[vanesta]

I defined USER_COOKIE, PASS_COOKIE, AUTH_COOKIE, SECURE_AUTH_COOKIE, LOGGED_IN_COOKIE and TEST_COOKIE on my WP config for a single sign own with multiple WP hosted on a single domain + sub domain

Can someone tell me where I can define USER_COOKIE, PASS_COOKIE, AUTH_COOKIE, SECURE_AUTH_COOKIE, LOGGED_IN_COOKIE and TEST_COOKIE in BBPress and how?

Thanks

[Jason Giedymin]

SSL will never work if you do this. If you look at your cookies they will never be flagged ‘secure’ and they will not be hashed with the appropriate salts.

If you have redirects it’s because your cookies failed to auth(). Meaning they were not hashed.

I recommend following my SSL threads, perhaps applying some patches and most importantly install that latest everything (not svn trunk).

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

Ending things at a year end is much more tidy than the middle when many more people are away.

Except I feel that more people are off on Winter vacation in December But I’m not all that hung up on summer v. winter showdowns. I suspect the same volume of people will be away in December as July, so why not pull a GeoCities and shut down Oct 26th

The only real reason I can see for stopping 0.9 support is that it’s time consuming in a direction that’s no longer being followed (see _ck_’s explanation). And that’s fair, y’know

0.9 IS stable. It’s more tested than 1.0. But I agree with johnhiler, in that this doesn’t need to be a WarGames, zero-sum thing. There are always reasons to stay a couple revs back. Anyone who runs a server knows that. You want to upgrade to get new things, but you also end up holding off because it works as it, and you don’t want to mess with what works. But. There’s a point where holding off will cause you more pain when you have to upgrade.

Thankfully, we’re not there yet!

Sez Sam:

As long as bbPress 0.9 is maintained some time will have to be spent maintaining the 0.9 branch, mostly with regards to security fixes. I don’t see this as particularly burdensome, but I don’t want to be doing it forever.

12 to 18 months is long enough, IMO, for that. Pick one, carry on. A set in stone date is good so people can’t say they weren’t warned

[grassrootspa]

I agree 100% with the comments of ryanhellyer & frooyo.

Been casually following bbPress for the past year (WordPress is sooooo a Gateway drug to other Automattic projects) but the impending release of 1.0 and the various RCs pushed me to finally jump in and start really fooling around with the software. Couldn’t be happier. God bless bbPress pioneers like _ck_, Sam, and everyone else for the plethora of killer plugins and themes.

Totally understand where people are coming from re: 1.0’s stability compared to 0.9 but it would be much more productive for attention to be focused on 1.0 instead of 0.9. After all, folks using/testing/tweaking 1.0 is how all the bugs, plugin compatibility, and various stability issues will be worked out!

Exciting times are ahead for bbPress and 1.0 is the future. The more focus on 1.0 the better in the grand scheme of things. I’m going to get razzed but 6 months doesn’t seem unreasonable (or even 3 months), especially since everyone has known for quite some time that 1.0 was going to be coming out. Let’s embrace the future: 1.0!

[oakad]

It’s not my “home” machine, so to say.

It’s a test server running quite a few things and sitting on a local domain with working dns.

Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8h mod_auth_kerb/5.4 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.6.2 SVN/1.6.1 PHP/5.2.9-pl2-gentoo with Suhosin-Patch configured

Platform is gentoo-amd64.

[johnhiler]

My site is # 10 on the list of top sites, with just over 150k posts:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

I’m going to be staying on 0.9 for now. I’m not sure what to do about the upgrade path… I’m going to try 1.0 on some test servers, but so far I haven’t seen a reason to upgrade yet.

[bb-gian]

Thanks r-a-y, thanks Jason_JM…

I am now convinced that I need to go straight to WP MU 2.7.1 instead of upgrading to regualr WP 2.8

The thing is that I have a running site with bbPress alpha 6 integrated and didn’t figure out the best way to switch to a WP MU + BuddyPress + bbPress 1.0 configuration.

Anyway, you’re right I should make another post for it, but where? WordPressforum? bbPress forum (here)? BuddyPress forum?

The biggest trouble I am having now is to figure out how can I test all thenew configuration and set up leaving the existing site running and than switch to the new congfig, when I see that everything works properly. Copy the existing into a subfolder and with anew database? Mmmh…

[r-a-y]

At the moment, WP and WPMU are separately maintained. But there are plans to merge the two codebases into one, don’t expect that in the next couple of months. More like next year sometime.

So if you’re planning on using BuddyPress in a few months, I would recommend getting acquainted with WPMU 2.7.1 since it works with the latest version of BuddyPress. This is just my advice, but I wouldn’t upgrade to WP 2.8.

Moving over from WP to WPMU is not that straightforward. You have to do a number of things in order to get things right.

Since this is straying away from the original topic, create a new thread about this and others can chime in.

[michael3185]

@Marcomail; Thanks for raising this point about a sidebar forum list. I was curious and tested out the code I posted above, and it works very well (without the table definition). I just put the forum loop into the hottags div section and it looks fine. The site link is in my previous post if you want a look, and the code I used is;

<div id="hottags">

<h2><?php _e('Forums'); ?></h2>

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

<?php while ( bb_forum() ) : ?>

<a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a><br />

<?php endwhile; ?>

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

<br />



<h2><?php _e('Tags'); ?></h2>

<p class="frontpageheatmap"><?php bb_tag_heat_map( 9, 13, 'pt', 50 ); ?></p>

</div>

It tidies up the front page a lot, and there’s less need to scroll down to see the recent posts. Cheers!