@bzmillerboy – you can’t embed video here. You’re welcome to allow it in your forum, using a plugin, as described.
bbPress 1.0 incorporates the shortcode API from WordPress, so most shortcode based video insertion plugins for WordPress will work with only minor modification.
Can I use the latest production/stable releases of WordPress (2.
and bbPress (0.9.0.5) together? Is that the best combination? Will most of the plug-ins or extensions for bbPress be available with those versions?
I like the look of a lot of the plugins and just wanted to make sure that they will work. Thanks!
there is a plugin that allows you to do this, there are two i can think off
“bbVideos” – allows for people to easily embed videos from common video sharing sites.
“Admins can post anything” – allows for admins to be able to post html
I guess you can’t embed video objects huh 
I am trying to setup a buddypress community but the client wants to be able to post videos. Since you can’t directly link a blog to a group (or have a link to your the groups blog on the groups page), I was thinking I’d use bbPress for posting videos and images. …guess not?
<object width=”400″ height=”225″><param name=”allowfullscreen” value=”true” /><param name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always” /><param name=”movie” value=”http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4573274&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1″ /><embed src=”http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4573274&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” allowscriptaccess=”always” width=”400″ height=”225″></embed></object><p>Harley Clifford Wakeboarding 2009 from Norbi Vasko on Vimeo.</p>
Because the loop relies on the $topics global being set by the base index.php file.
$topics = get_latest_topics(false, $page);
You can add this to your template if you like just above that loop, to make sure $topics is always available…
if ( !isset( $topics ) ) {
$topics = get_latest_topics( false, 1 ); // Only fetch the first page
}
@johnbillion
You might want to upgrade that further to the latest trunk, RC2 has some issues.
im trying to delete all the test lorem epsum posts off of my forum, through admin… when i try, it only goes red, instead of going away for good ? … i have tons of test topics and its annoying as hell trying to go through the topics list and sort things out..
How can i permanently delete topics for good, and out of site
Inching forward.
When I share tables, the default role of the admin of forums has a subscriber role in capabilities, thats why the admin access is lost.
Right, but WHY does that happen to you when it doesn’t to everyone else (that I’ve heard of) who sets up bbPress/WordPress the way you described 
It’s weird and I wonder what happened. It’s not the different wp_/bb_ prefixes, I’ve tested that.
@ghengisyan: “I have been messing with the php files (mostly guessing)” – that’s my methodology too! Seems to be working though, as I’ve managed to do some more than I thought I would, with the help of online PHP tutorials.
An Extra Profile Fields plugin would be pretty neat. When I was testing Vanilla 1.8, that was one of the things I liked about it. At the bottom of the profile page is an empty ‘name’ field and a matching ‘content’ field. You add what you want, then click a link to add another, etc. It means users can customise the extra information they enter, and I think it feels more personal to them as they get to name the content field. Feeling that it’s more personal is bound to make people stick around I think.
@johnbillion: I found the filter at line 2201 of functions.php in 0.9.0.5, but have no idea how to use it. If you have a few minutes spare sometime, could you perhaps give us some hints, and a brief snatch of code?
I found a much more elegant solution by slightly modifying some other code I found here on the forums. I created a plugin like this:
/* Plugin Name: Filter Today Only Topics */
function filter_today_only_topics($where){
$today_only_forums = array ("4"); // The id# of the Today Only forum(s)
foreach($today_only_forums as $forum) {
$where .= " AND (forum_id != " . $forum . " OR topic_start_time > CURDATE()) ";
}
return $where;
}
add_filter( 'get_latest_topics_where', 'filter_today_only_topics');
add_filter( 'get_latest_posts_where', 'filter_today_only_topics');
This has the advantage of working in any list of recent posts without modifying the templates. The counts are still wrong in the forum lists, and I can’t find a filter that let’s me change the query for just those, but I’ll just write a template function for that.
onel0ve, I converted a phpbb2 forum to bbpress 1.0a6 awhile back and it was quite a bit of work. You’ll need to export the entire db, then figure out which forum/topic/post ids correlate between phpbb3 and bbpress. The easiest way I found to rebuild the db in bbpress is to write some regexes that take the exported phpbb3 forum data and format it into correct sql statements to preserve the old id associations between posts/topics etc. Of course, phpbb3 and bbpress 0.9.5 are probably totally different from phpbb2 and bbpress1.0 in terms of db table format, but I remember having to combine data from several phpbb2 tables into single bbpress tables to accomplish the task. Make sure you have a test environment to build the new bbpress db on as you’ll probably need to give it a few tries and test out a few things before attempting to rebuild the entire thing.
Unless you own your server, you’ll also want to be sure to do the actual regexing (if you decide to run it in a php script for example) on your own computer (XAMPP or LAMP), because if your forums are large, that is quite a load on the server to run the regex routines that format your sql insert statements (and your hosts may not be too happy about that). I also ended up having to split up my data into several files to get it to work with a php regex.
This is a bug in the RC 2 release. Grab the latest nightly build instead.
https://bbpress.org/nightly-builds/bbpress-latest.zip
SimpleScripts does a free install of bbPress to many hosts including GoDaddy.
http://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/script:bbPress
I cannot vouch for their quality or security and I highly recommend you change all your password afterwards, but it’s one way to get started if you have little technical knowledge.
SimpleScripts has been tested to work on the following web hosts:
(some may need manual database input)
* Bluehost
* Hostmonster
* Fastdomain
* LunarPages
* HostGator
* SiteGround
* GoDaddy
* WebHostingPad
* LiquidWeb
* StartLogic
* iPowerWeb
* Dot5Hosting
* MidPhase
* 1and1
All the latest poster links go directly to /profile and not a user’s profile.
So you have 1.0-RC-2 except for that one file? Can you please try replacing the entire install with the latest trunk? If you don’t use SVN I can create a package for you.
Yes unfortunately I’m not using SVN so far, so I’d need that package to try it out.
@Ipstenu: Are you using trunk or RC-2 with the fix?
So you have 1.0-RC-2 except for that one file? Can you please try replacing the entire install with the latest trunk? If you don’t use SVN I can create a package for you.
Assuming that this is the latest trunk at
http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/
I actually tried both approaches (only changed that one file, not the entire installation though).
Works for me. Did you make the change manually or did you grab the latest version from trunk?
Something I don’t see mentioned yet (unless I’ve missed it) is what will happen to custom themes if I upgrade to RC2? By which I mean, have the files been changed in the default template? Will I have to re-write them, or will my custom theme from 0.9.0.5 work fine?
I’d like to test out RC2 on a non-live forum, but don’t want to spend ages modifying template files all over again.
@Sam
i’ve downloaded the latest trunk at the mooment is rev # 2192, updated my installation.
bb-config side i’ve $bb->cookiedomain = ‘.www.site.com’; (i’ve tested without www but nothing change…)
in wp-config i’ve deleted
define(‘COOKIEHASH’, ‘whatever’);
define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/wp-admin’);
so i’m
define(‘COOKIE_DOMAIN’, ‘.www.site.com’); (or without www, but nothing change)
define(‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);
the results?
when i login in bb i’m logged out to wp and vice versa, i’m waiting for your plugin to test it.
thanks for your help!
Please excuse my previous longwindedness as it seems it was unnecessary. I just tested a site with WP in the base folder and bbP in a subfolder of WP, and a site with WP in a subfolder of the base folder with bbP in a subfolder of WP. Neither site needs anything added to either config file except that the 3 secret keys match between them (my nonce keys also match but that shouldn’t matter). It is also necessary to fill in the wp-admin’s bbPress Integration Plugin settings, and the bb-admin’s WordPress Integration settings.
On any sites I’ve tested where I have WP in a subfolder of the base folder, and bbP in a subfolder of the WP folder, bbP sets 2 logged_in cookies, one with a trailing / and one without, which poses a problem since WP doesn’t get rid of the one without a trailing / and thus WP cannot logout from bbP if the user logs in from bbP. After I made the change mentioned above to bb-settings.php and tested it on both sites mentioned I found both sites integrating as expected and the double logged_in cookie from bbP login was no longer a problem. That’s why I submitted the patch to Trac.
Do you have WP in a subfolder of your main site? Do you have bbP in a subfolder of WP? Are you 100% certain that you can log in from bbP and then logout from WP, and that you actually get logged out from both when you try that order? I think the easiest way to stop all these integration headaches is to put up a document with a dummy wp-config.php and bb-config.php that have been tested in the situation mentioned and in the situation where WP is the base site folder and bbP is a subfolder of the base.
Everything but that order of action works fine for me without adding anything to bb-config and without adding anything but cookiepath to wp-config. However, every way I tried to line up the configs I’d always get that second logged_in cookie without a trailing / when logging in from bbP and WP won’t get rid of it.
Looking in the bb-settings.php I see that cookiepath always gets a trailing / added on and sitecookiepath always gets the trailing / trimmed, so the check to see if they both exist and are the same, never returns true, and thus bbP always sets 2 logged_in cookies.
