[michael3185]

I tested Vanilla for a while, and liked its simplicity, as do one group I’ve set up a forum for. One neat thing Vanilla has is a Sticky Order plugin. It allows you to drag-move sticky topics in Admin, so that important ones stay where you want them. I can’t find anything like this for bbPress. Is anyone up to creating it? (Hey, _ck_!)

Vanilla’s plugin modifies the sticky db field from 0/1 to 0-9, then uses the value in outputting sticky topics. I’m not up to coding it, but I’m sure many would find it very useful.

[michael3185]

1. Fixed. Finally got to tags.php (duh) after trawling through core files. Moral: don’t work past 2am.

2. Not resolved. I’ve searched through CSS tutorials on various sites, but can’t find an easy test for the browser type without using php or javascript. Is there a way to set a font size in CSS at, say, 10pt for IE, and 11pt for any other browser?

Also – for moderators – I’m not bumping deliberately. I’ve noticed others editing posts now and then, as I have, to say they don’t require help any longer. Can’t the allowed edit time be changed to 24 hours or something like that? Maybe even let members delete their post if it has no replies? It’d keep things tidier.

[Edit]

For the font size issue, could a different stylesheet be selected by browser type, based on something like the code _ck_ gave to stop IE8 messing up the header?

function fix_ie8() {if (strpos($_SERVER,”MSIE 8″)) {header(“X-UA-Compatible: IE=7”);}}

add_action(‘bb_send_headers’,’fix_ie8′);

I can see how this works, but don’t know how to modify it to discover any IE browser version, and select style_ie.css, else select style.css – any ideas folks..?

[michael3185]

Ahem. Spoke too soon. I tested my forum in Firefox and IE7 after working in Chrome, my default browser. I got an error page in IE7 from Bad Behaviour;

Error 403

We’re sorry, but we could not fulfill your request for / on this server.

You do not have permission to access this server.

Your technical support key is: (blah blah).

You can use this key to fix this problem yourself.

If you are unable to fix the problem yourself, please contact badbots at ioerror.us and be sure to provide the technical support key shown above.

On the ‘fix it yourself’ page there are no useful details of how to, and the email I sent got returned as failed.

Any ideas?

[michael3185]

Thanks Ipstenu. Just installed it as you instructed, got no errors. I now have Akismet (with Skip Akismet for admins), Human Test, and Bad Behaviour. Hopefully I’ll see a spam once in a blue moon.

[jstevenson]

I also use Human Test and also moderate all posts with links in them.

[lemon001]

I’m interested in anti-spam measures that the moment, with just setting up two forums. I use Akismet and the Human Test plugin. I guess this berk was human (almost), but Akismet hasn’t flagged it as spam and removed it. I get the impression from their site that it should. If it doesn’t flag it, does an admin have to mark it as spam and delete it..?

[aetorre]

Thanks for your response.

In fact, I’m just interested in sent a mail to one moderator (or mail list of moderators) when every comment or topic is post. Other option could be to impose previous moderator revision to all comments before they are post. However, I have not found any plugin to do so. I tested Moderation-suite but it doesn’t fit our necessities. Any idea?

[jpmendoza]

Hi guys,

This is my first post here, but I’ve been building an wp/bb integrated site for a few weeks now, and I’ve come to the point where I think it’s time to write my first plugin. I want this plugin to redirect users to my WordPress login page if they are not logged in. It is important that the forums remain private and also that there is only one point of entry to the site for users, so as to avoid any confusion.

I have _ck_’s Hidden Forums plugin set up to control access to forums, and that’s working fine, but I need some advice on how to handle an issue or two in the code I’ve written so far. Now, I don’t do a ton of programming, and this is my first attempt at anything like this, so bear with me if I’ve committed any cardinal sins.

<?

add_action('bb_init','login_redirect_init',300);

function login_redirect_init()

{

global $bb_current_user;

$id = (!empty($bb_current_user)) ? intval($bb_current_user->ID) : 0;

if( $id < 1 )

{

$redirection = 'http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/caa/wp-login.php?redirect_to='.$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

if (function_exists('status_header'))

status_header( 302 );

header("HTTP/1.1 302 Temporary Redirect");

header("Location:".$redirection);

exit();

}

}

?>

As it is now, accessing bbPress redirects to wp-login with the proper redirection URL (I’m using the WP Members Only plugin), but then logging in from there kicks me back to the wp-login page again. I’m thinking that perhaps bb_init is not the hook for me, as it appears that the login process is not getting a chance to do its thing, and thus I’m getting booted out. As a test, I tried bb_head, but of course the headers have been sent by then, and the redirect does not work.

So, if this is in fact the issue, what hook should be using? Or am I going about this all wrong? I’d really appreciate any and all input into this. Thanks, guys.

[john500]

bbpress 0.9.04

wordpress latest post 0.20

Reputatioin 0.0.6

BBpress Latest Discussion 1.3

[john500]

and BBPress Latest Discussions. It says someone posting and there name and then their name and post is not appearing inside the topic. In BBPress Latest Discussion will say last post by So and So and then that persons post does not appear and a different topic will then be displayed. Also the number of posts is incorrect. I am not sure if this means that Database is corrupted. Also reputation cannot be fixed unable to have it take away reputation points.

Anyone able to look into this offer solutions. I need this on a emergency basis. Thanks

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@superbison

Are you trying the stable release of both or the latest development ones?

[dawormie]

I know nothing about the Bozo thing so don’t have that activated. i did however activate Akismet!

I think I might just use the human test and if that isn’t enough turn on bozo…

[johnhiler]

I also use the Human Test plugin, and find it invaluable for preventing spammer from joining.

I also use Akismet though. It comes in handy, because my forum has human users who like to promote their websites (it’s a wedding website, and there are lots of wedding vendors). So the Human Test plugin wouldn’t catch those guys.

Basically – if you have human spammers, then a system which can “learn” who is spamming (either through Akismet or through a Bozo system) is critical. If your spammers are just bots, than Human Test is more than enough!

Re: the Bozo thing though… I had too many problems with that, and ended up disabling it. It may work better now… I gave up on it a year or so ago.

Good luck!

[chrishajer]

For 2+ years I have been using the Human Test plugin and nothing else. I have akismet turned off and also turned off bozo functionality. I get very little spam, like none in the past year. Preventing the spammer registrations seems to be key to keeping automated spam out of the forums.

Human Test puts zero additional load on the server.

[nigelhill]

I can’t install this either. There is no install.php file in the latest zipped version!

EDIT: It’s not that it’s missing, it’s that the link to install points to the wrong place, I found the install file in bb-admin/

[mishrapradeep]

i am using latest one which is available at internet which is version .09 etc something like that.I have downloaded plugin which link you have given but how to integrate this plugin with my running forum.Idea of instant password is very good and i want to apply.Please help me on this .I am very new in php programming.Since It is somthing urgent hence it is request to all please help me to integrate it.

Thanks

[Ivaylo Draganov]

Hello,

I’ve been running 0.9.4 for about six months now without major problems but today something happened. No new posts can be made and the following error displays:

bbPress database error: [Duplicate entry '7582' for key 1]

INSERT INTO bb_posts (<code>topic_id</code>,<code>post_text</code>,<code>post_time</code>,<code>poster_id</code>,<code>poster_ip</code>,<code>post_status</code>,<code>post_position</code>,<code>forum_id</code>) VALUES ('6','



test post text text text text

','2009-05-25 11:56:28','3','88.222.104.78','0','121','8')



Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /path-to-bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 232

New posts get registered in the latest-discussions list but the link to them is “#post-0” and they don’t display in the actual topic, nor in the admin panels. They actually don’t exist in the DB.

The last existing post in bb_posts is with post_id of 7581

Luckily I have a working backup before the error occurred but I want to know what might have caused it.

[michael3185]

I tested Vanilla out for a week or so, then bbPress (I’d tried every other flavour out there in the two weeks before). Vanilla is cool, and I love the look of version 2, but bbPress is what I’m going with now for 2 community forums.

As to speed, I haven’t done any ‘proper’ testing, but find bbPress very fast. Also, all the plugins I need worked first time without problems,and the default theme is very easy to adapt. bbPress only uses 8 core tables compared to 14 in Vanilla. I guess that might speed things up a little, as there are less eggs in the air..?

[Sam Bauers]

Just a little Easter Egg for Release Candidate testers

[swaymedia]

.. the latest bbpress with the latest wordpress. Could I use the bbPress forum list loop on the frontpage of my wordpress theme? so i can show all the latest discussions.. this wont be on a sidebar, so i dont want a plugin to do this, I just want to use the same code bbPress uses but on WordPress to show the forum topics?

is this possible.? thanks in advanced.

[the_Wish]

Here’s my working Plugins, transfered from Alpha6 to RC1 without any adjustment:

• Accurate Post Time
• Admin Can Post Anything (_ck_)
• Allow Images
• Avatar Upload
• BBcode Buttons Toolbar (_ck_)
• BBcode Lite (_ck_)
• bbPress Polls (_ck_)(there’s a little oddity when trying to delete polls but it worked on second try, might have to watch this one more closely)
• bbPress signatures (_ck_)
• bbPress Smilies (_ck_)
• bbSocialize
• BBVideo
• Censor
• Check For Updates (_ck_)
• Edit History (_ck_)
• Hidden Forums (_ck_)
• Hidden Forums Tag Filter (_ck_)
• Human Test for bbPress (_ck_)
• Mini Stats (_ck_)
• Mini Track (_ck_)
• Page links
• Post Count Plus – Dynamic.Titles & More! (_ck_)
• Post Edit Look Behind (_ck_)
• Quote
• Related Topics (_ck_)
• Super Search (_ck_)
• Support forum
• Topics Per Page (_ck_)
• Unread Posts (_ck_)

In fact, I didn’t have a single plugin that was not working but for the WP shared logins of course. I didn’t have the chance to test every little setting of these but the basic functionality works.

[magicgirl]

Hi, I have installed wpmu2.7.1, BuddyPress 1.0 and bbpress “Brubeck” version 0.9.0.4.

I installed wpmu first all good

I installed buddy press all good

I installed bbpress all good

I added a few bbpress plugins for groups , comminuty blogs and another for fbconnect all good

Then i read about intergrating the logins and was linked to the screen cast step by step…even tho is said basic wp install i noticed the tag was MU so i continued.

I got to the bit where you generate the secret keys I did this grabbed the 4 keys pasted into wp-config, i left the salt and other keys in tact. Saved and uploaded the file.

Then the video said check you can login…i checked but i canont login to WPMU I get no error only a white screen, this is for admin and member logins.

Any idea what to do if the login test in the video fails?

There are no errors in the error log, there is no error on screen, only a white blank page.

I now cannot install the plugin mentioned above as i have no access to the dashboard.

How can i get the original auth/secret keys back?

Or how can i fix it, i don’t reallly want to start again as i have spent days on other tweaks and skinning and such that would be painful to lose.

I can still login to bbpress fine.

Thanks in advance for any pointers…

[johnhiler]

Try disabling all your plugins and see if it works?

If it does work with all plugins off, turn them on one at a time… and test the ratings/stars after each plugin is enabled. When it stops working, we’ll know we found the conflict!

The other possibility is that it’s a conflict with your CSS. If it doesn’t work even with all the plugins off, try activating Kakumei and seeing if adding stars to that works for you?

[TrishaM]

Hi John – thanks for the code. I copied it exactly & pasted it into my topic.php (except for the styles) but it still didn’t work for me, so I removed the requirement to log in to vote, with still no luck. Hovering changes the stars color, but clicking does nothing at all.

Do you think it’s likely that there’s a conflict with another plugin that might be causing it to not work? I’m using the following plugins (in addition to bbRatings):

Akismet

Bozo Users

BBCode lite

BBCode buttons toolbar

BBPress signatures

BBPress smilies

Topics Per Page

bbPress tweaks

Human test for bbPress

Moderator new post notification

The only one I think I could do without is the smilies, but I really want to keep the others more than the ratings if I can’t figure out how to get it working……P.S. Two days since I posted on mdawaffe’s blog and still no response…..I just get the impression that he doesn’t want to support this any more……

[mcmc]

I dunno if my post gets deleted, but I posted this twice already and can’t find it, so here another try.

I tried installing the latest version of the social network from buddypress two days ago, but I fear it isn’t working properly. Whenever I click on a link, be it a member, blog, post, groups, create groups, etc I get redirected back to my homepage where my blog is. Is there a plugin that I am missing or do I have to set up sth?

Thanks.