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  • #74017
    timskii
    Member

    I’ve been “testing” 1.0 out privately over the last week, primarily by re-writing my custom code and templates, and then working through every user operation (to check both my changes, and the underlying software). So I’ll try and play devil’s advocate to _ck_’s “don’t upgrade!”

    From the user’s perspective, little has changed. The most significant feature to pull out is the use of Display Names. That’s a huge plus on an “international” forum, because users can now set their names to contain non-English characters. And there’s no need to workaround empty display names in WordPress (when a user registers via BBPress).

    Templating is similarly unchanged. About the most significant change is that the contents of tag-form.php can no longer be altered via a template – which was likely never required anyway. Semantically, existing oddities remain (like the profile edit is still a table), and usability can be clunky in places (when you register successfully, there’s a message that tells you to log in, but nothing immediately helpful, like a login screen).

    Plugins very much depends on how deep they go. The only place I stumbled was in user roles, where the underlying code had completely altered. But I’m not using many plugins, and the custom code I had been using, I’d been prepared to rewrite. (Most of it was a mess anyway!) A clear “your mileage may vary” caveat, and particular risk if one doesn’t understand enough programming to work round anything that breaks.

    Technically, 1.0 feels fairly solid. I have found glitches, but nothing worse than some of the 0.9 versions. 1.0 does perform many more database queries. Like 50 on certain pages. Although it is hard for me to assess the load implications without running it on a public site. Integration worked OK as an upgrade, once I’d realised that the upgrade did not automatically add the new cookie-related keys (which needed to be added manually to the existing config files). The whole package feels more “bloated”, but that may be more the fault of WordPress than BBPress. I just hope BBPress doesn’t evolve into the messy, feature-overloaded forum software I had been trying to avoid.

    So, if I was just running BBPress, on balance I’d stick with 0.9, at least until the dust settles on 1.0.

    But. There’s a but.

    If nobody uses 1.0, hardly anyone is debugging it, hardly anything gets fixed, and so on. There’s a danger of putting 1.0 on the shelf, waiting for someone else to finish it, and then wondering why the bugs never get found. So even if you aren’t running it on a live site, it might be useful to try it out privately.

    Rightly or wrongly, WordPress 2.5.1 makes me increasingly nervous: As times goes on, I’m going to find plugins and templates that aren’t designed for that version. And while it is claimed that 2.5.1 has no security flaws, if almost nobody is using it, the chance of any flaw getting found and reported is also low. In contrast, the latest version is sure to get picked apart and patched back up very quickly.

    And then I started to look at BuddyPress, and… I don’t even know if it’s possible to run that on top of 2.5.1. But you can see the way I’m starting to think: An old BBPress is itself rooting me in the past. And while I knew it was unfinished software when I started using it, I had rather assumed it would at least keep pace with WordPress, not get left a year behind.

    So right now, it’s a rather person decision. All other things being equal, I tend to agree with _ck_.

    However, I see a lot of WordPress 2.7+ blogs with phpBB forums hosted alongside. And naturally no integration between them. In the near future, that’s the first big, obvious “market” for BBPress. Yet almost all those people need compatability with the latest WordPress. For us “early adopters” that’s important: Some of those new BBPress users will write plugins and templates, and they won’t bother trying to support outdated code. Once that starts to happen, old 0.9 users will find they are missing out – which will probably be the time for most existing users to upgrade.

    #74011
    michael3185
    Member

    Apologies! I just re-uploaded it after you downloaded it, so grab it again. I added a needed plugin to the bbVanilla.zip file, which you should FTP to your my-plugins folder (no need to activate it). That provides a consistent warning/error page for various things.

    Also, if you really want the Latest Topics at the top of the front page (a mess in my group’s eyes) then I can show you how add back it easily, or do it for you.

    Just noticed on your site (looking sxc by the way); there’s a gap in front of .com in the title (intentional?), and you’ve left the default ‘Just another bbPress community’ message in the banner (Admin, Settings to change).

    #73145
    michael3185
    Member

    Yep, know what you mean. Do install Human Test too – the simple math question stops bots, which can’t answer.

    #73982
    johnhiler
    Member

    Can you check to see if you have the latest version of “My Views” installed?

    https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/my-views/

    You need at least 0.1.1 for Hidden Forums to work properly… I remember I used to get an error from Hidden Forums until I upgraded the My Views plugin.

    If that’s not the issue, I’m officially stumped!

    #73981
    michael3185
    Member

    I’ve tried messing around in Admin in all sorts of ways, and cannot get Private Forums to reset again now. However, in case it might in future, I’ve installed Hidden Forums to test that. I got the impression it hid the forums from guests completely, but I may be wrong as it has a forum label (which I’ve changed to an asterix to keep things subtle). It fails though. I have the following set up in the php file;

    $hidden_forums=array(2,3,4,5,7); // hide these forums, list by comma seperated number

    $hidden_forums=array(‘keymaster’,’administrator’);

    $hidden_forums[2]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’, ‘member’);

    $hidden_forums[3]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’, ‘member’);

    $hidden_forums[4]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’, ‘member’);

    $hidden_forums[5]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’, ‘member’);

    $hidden_forums[7]=array(‘administrator’,’moderator’, ‘member’);

    $hidden_forums=”*”;

    But on accessing the front page I get;

    Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/letsdoo/public_html/MB/my-plugins/hidden-forums/hidden-forums.php on line 37

    Have I misunderstood the instructions..?

    [edit]

    I disabled it, and re-enabled Private Forums, and the latter came back with all settings intact and works fine. Hmm…

    #73924
    john500
    Member

    The issue has been resolved and no problem with BBPress Latest Discussion. Only issue is with the Reputation plugin. Can’t get to work in adding and deleting reputation points and developers don’t seem to know how to change so that it does not add reputation points for merely making a posting.

    #73142
    johnhiler
    Member

    This plugin gives registrants a math test before they sign up:

    https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/human-test/

    This lets you easily delete spammy signups (you should back up database first, of course!):

    https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/mass-delete-users/

    This is a bit hardcore, but you can actually hold new registrations for approval:

    https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/approve-user-registration/

    Hopefully one of those will do the trick!

    #71806
    michael3185
    Member

    I’ve turned Bad Behaviour off today, so that may explain why IE6 was ok..?

    The plugins I have enabled now are (just in admin order);

    Enhanced Registration

    Moderation Suite

    Auto Add Favorites

    Terms of Service

    Related Topics

    bbPM

    Tweaks (incl. _ck_’s IE8 fix)

    Approve User Registration

    Admin add user

    Private Forums

    Avatar Upload

    Human Test for bbPress

    Web Compression gzip

    My Views module – Started/Participated Topics

    Year Long Cookies

    Post Notification

    bb-chunk

    Moderation Notify

    I did have Akismet, Skip Akismet for admins, and Bad Behaviour too, but have now removed these. Interestingly enough, Private Forums now works perfectly, even when I disable and re-enable other plugins or change their settings.

    These plugins give me the essential functionality I need (apart from user roles which would be neat) so I think I’ll go with Human Test and watch for spam. If things do get silly spam-wise then I’ll have to invest some more time in stopping it, but for now I have a lot of other things to do to get it all up and running. Many thanks for checking it for me.

    #59347

    In reply to: Adding a new User Type

    michael3185
    Member

    I like the idea of roles, but am using the latest stable release 0.9.0.4 Nobody’s said here which version this attempt at role creation is for..?

    #73923
    Atsutane
    Member

    @johnhiler

    I want to correct something here. Bbpress latests discussion is a wordpress plugin, not a bbpress plugin. It should not conflict with any bbpress function. :-)

    #73921
    johnhiler
    Member

    Two questions:

    1) Do you still get that error if you deactivate the bbPress Latest Discussion plugin?

    2) Did you try upgrading the bbPress Latest Discussion plugin to the latest version?

    #73920
    john500
    Member

    <bbPress database error: [You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ‘t posted was that when is Rugby Canada going to have a stadium policy. Are we go’ at line 1]

    INSERT INTO bb3_posts (topic_id,post_text,post_time,poster_id,poster_ip,post_status,post_position,forum_id) VALUES (’57’,”,’2009-06-01 05:18:02′,’13’,’24.80.235.218′,’0′,’4′,’2′)

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/a/l/e/alexander9999/html/forums/bb-includes/db-mysql.php:130) in /home/content/a/l/e/alexander9999/html/forums/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 232>

    Here is message minus the post. The forum is on this site Canadianrugby.ca

    there doesn’t seem to be a problem with latest discussions but with postings on the Forum it seems that a long message and perhaps punctuation such as , or apostrophe can cause the error and the post not posting

    #73919
    johnhiler
    Member

    Just noticed – according to the developer notes on the bbPress Latest Discussion plugin, earlier versions of the plugin were using the “wrong table name for 9.0.4”:

    https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/bbpress-latest-discussion-for-wp/other_notes/

    This has been fixed in the latest version of the plugin (1.3.9). I noticed you mentioned you were using version 1.3 along with bbPress 9.0.4, which would create a problem… I’m guessing that upgrading to the latest version of the plugin might resolve the issue?

    #73918
    johnhiler
    Member

    If you deactivate the bbPress Latest Discussion plugin, does the error go away?

    #73916
    johnhiler
    Member

    Just trying to get my head wrapped around the issue: so bbPress is working fine for you… it’s just that when you activate the bbPress Latest Discussion plugin, you get the error you mentioned?

    #14870
    #73971

    In reply to: Discussion Boards

    michael3185
    Member

    Ouch. I’m pretty savvy at some computer stuff, but not php or css. I’ve been working on two forums for community groups, one of which may grow quite large if it works out as hoped. So, I tested just about every forum package out there. I settled on Vanilla, but had problems with plugins crashing it, and having to hack around for days to try and get something working. Their support is good from a few community members, but there isn’t enough and it often isn’t timely.

    I’ve settled with bbPress because I found it very simple to install and set up. My problems were minor, forum members have helped me very quickly indeed, and in a non-geeky manner. I’ve read lots of other posts where people have had WP integration issues, and the help given has been quite extensive. One other thing that I like is the fact that they use it with 100,000 members and 500,000 posts, and it’s still zippy. Also, modifying themes isn’t so bad if you delve into just a few files and play around. I love simplicity as well as my user group, so I created a vanilla clone(ish), which you can get at https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/new-minimalist-theme-available. (Check the posts at the bottom).

    If you have some spare time and a nice cup of tea/coffee, click ‘integration’ in the front page tag list and have a good read. I don’t use WP, but I get the impression that many haven’t found it too difficult with a little assistance. There’s an integration plugin too. PS. Read some of your blog; just a body? Nooo…

    #14867
    michael3185
    Member

    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.

    #73940
    michael3185
    Member

    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..?

    #71802
    michael3185
    Member

    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?

    #71801
    michael3185
    Member

    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.

    #73819
    jstevenson
    Member

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

    #14859
    lemon001
    Member

    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..?

    #73896
    aetorre
    Member

    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
    Member

    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.

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