[adv_user]

“if WP and BBPress are sharing the same database”

And if WordPress is diferent database of the BBPress?

[_ck_]

Mods don’t have the ability to delete users here, only admin.

Sometimes people reply several times if they are getting flagged as spam because they never see their message and don’t know what is going on. They also may be set to bozo mode accidentally and not know it.

Sometimes there is also server lag because of how Automattic does mysql replication. You may post to one server and then the page refresh comes back from another server that has not gotten the posts yet in it’s mysql table.

ashwaag was a strange user indeed, probably a bot in testing, the posts were copies of other people’s posts. One of them was even a post of mine that they just copied. Weird.

[richbrown]

2,71 and the latest stabel version of bbPress.

[pierrottorreip]

Thanks for the reply!

Alpha 6

Here are some variables that might help…

– I updated recently from 0.9.0.4 (although I also updated my other site and it’s fine)

– I integrated cookies with WordPress

– not limited to Keymaster accounts

– works fine with Safari but not with the latest Firefox

I hadn’t integrated the database yet as I am running three installations on one site and was looking for the best way to do so (I’ve since decided that I’m going to keep them seperate).

My site is new so I’m not too bothered by the thought of starting the database over unless there is a quick fix for this…

[_ck_]

Well it’s been six month now so we’re long overdue

for another (completely unofficial) TOP 100 report!

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

Top 1000 requires free registration/login:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000

New this year is the ability to vote on sites, based on quality/content, so even if a site is not in the regular Top 100 list, be sure to “vote it up” and I will post another list soon with the highest votes. There are some really nice looking forums running bbPress out there that deserve some votes. You must be a member to vote but registration is free of course. The Top 1000 list can also be searched when you are logged in, as well as an experimental Tag Cloud

When we last left the list, it had just topped over 4000 websites.

In the newest list, despite roughly 1000 sites disappearing (small test installs, etc.) the list is now over 6000 strong! This means an average of 15 sites per day are installing and sticking with bbPress. About 10% of these forums are running the new 1.0 alpha (and half of those have not upgraded to the newest 1.0a6, so they need to keep up with the releases).

At this rate, next time I am going to have to make it the Top 10,000 list.

However I am sad to report a dark side has emerged in bbPress’s growth. Because of how much easier bbPress is to control and manipulate with just a basic knowledge of PHP/MySQL compared to other forum software, some “black hats” have latched onto bbPress in order to create a big content spamming network, nearly 200 sites strong. They aim these sites at search engines with topics such as gambling, lottery and foreign currency exchanges. You can see them at the very end of the Top 1000 list, where they sit demoted. This really doesn’t affect the average forum operator in any way, it’s just unfortunate to see. WordPress went through this kind of event too, I just hate to see it happen.

ps. This list also marks the first inclusion of a TalkPress powered site and while it only has a couple dozen posts because it’s brand new, it has the easy access of 7.5million WordPress.com members so it’s bound to grow quickly!

[swaymedia]

Last year I put the gravatar of the latest poster there instead of the poster name, it looked good, but i dont know if it would with your theme, unless you make them really small like a digg.com avatar. just my thoughts. might look good, good luck

[_ck_]

Very nice clean layout, I like it alot.

The poll puts itself by default wherever the topicmeta is, however you can change that. Just a guess, untested, try putting this near the top of your topic.php template:

<?php  remove_action('topicmeta','bb_polls_pre_poll',200); bb_polls_pre_poll(); ?>

[Dave]

That’s the latest stable version – 0.9.0.4

Thanks for the feedback! I downloaded the “blank themes” from refueled.net and tweaked them here and there. I wanted a clean look.

I’m thinking about taking out the “last poster” column until we get more people posting – what do you think? I think it looks kind of stupid with my name showing up for nearly every post.

[_ck_]

Unfortunately all Graham/Bayesian algorithms are doomed to fail, spammers have learned how to defeat even the best of them.

The best way to detect is counting the number of links in a post (in html or plain text) and holding any messages with more than 3. Of course they will adopt after many sites start doing that.

I am working on an advanced module for Human Test that will also check these databases, though some require membership:

fSpamlist

StopForumSpam

Sorbs

Spamhaus

SpamCop

ProjectHoneyPot

Bot Scout

DroneBL

It’s too “expensive” (in time and connections) however to check all of them on an active site for each post, so I’ll probably limit it to just registration, and maybe the first few posts a member makes.

[chrishajer]

svn is short for “subversion” a version control system:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software)

“The latest SVN” means checking out the latest version of the code using the software called subversion. You can do that instead of downloading and unzipping, and it makes upgrades and modifications easier as well.

[bikemccall]

@Trent. Thanks for the reply. Hmm, I hadn’t thought about it being an issue with the theme. I didn’t give gravatars a try on the default theme, so I can’t confirm. And not easy to test with the site in the wild now. I think next steps is for me to research the theme and see where that takes me. BTW, is “SVN” software version number? Thanks!

[Trent Adams]

I can’t replicate this with the latest SVN and the default theme as gravatars show up. I see what you mean though. Does it work with the default theme for you? That theme you are using might not support gravatars?

[_ck_]

I have now fixed the Approve Registration plugin for bbPress 1.0a

as well as another bug it had with resetting passwords upon approval.

(it might also now work again with bbPress 0.9.0.4, untested)

http://bbshowcase.org/plugins/approve-user-registration_ck_mod.zip

[bikemccall]

Hi,

I’m about ready to launch a BBpress forum version 1.0 alpha 6, that’s integrated with WP 2.7. Everything is looking good, but I’m not able to get Avatars (specifically Gravatars) to display on the BBPress side. They’re showing up perfectly on the WP 2.7 portion of the site.

I’ve tested a bunch of different combinations in the BBPress admin just to make sure that a bit wasn’t flipped the wrong way. I’ve tried all different levels of Maximum Ratings, Show Gravatars (checked/unchecked) and even played with the default images. No luck.

Anyone have any suggestions? Is this a known issue with V1.a.6 by chance?

Thanks.

[Johanhorak]

Hi I am using wp 2.7.0 trunk (2.7.1) bbpress Version 1.0-alpha-6 Buddypress Core: 1.0-RC1 And I have the same problem. To try and resolve the issues I will show you the cookies for buddypress/wp and bbpress but instead of sharing the cookie I will call it “cookiestring”:

At bp/wp I have:

2x worpdress_logged_in_cookiestring at /

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-plugins

wordpress_cookie string at /forums/my-plugins

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-admin

wordpress_cookiestring at /wp-admin

wordpress_cookiestring at /wp-content/plugins

wordpress_test_cookie at /

PHPSESSID at /

_utma at /

_utmb at /

_utmc at /

_utmz at /

at bbpress the I have the following cookies

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-plugins

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/my-plugins

wordpress_cookiestring at /forums/bb-admin

wordpress_cookiestring at /wp-admin

wordpress_cookie string at /wp-content/plugins

As you can see I have the same cookie string but I have a few extra cookies at buddypress.

Thanks for sharing your experience with me.

Johan

[_ck_]

Merlin that code looks vaguely familiar

[deadlyhifi]

…it does keep the paging intact but counts for all the forums (fora?), even the excluded one(s).

To get round this requires amending the function bb_latest_topics_pages() in functions.bb-template.php.

$bb_latest_topics_count = $bbdb->get_var('SELECT COUNT('topic_id') FROM '' . $bbdb->topics . '' WHERE 'topic_open' = 1 AND 'topic_status' = 0 AND 'topic_sticky' != 2 AND 'forum_id' != 3;');

//  AND 'forum_id' != 3 - filters out forum 3 on front page paging count.

[zeronix]

Is there a wayy to get this Tool you talked about in your Tutorial?

I´d also love to integrate my WP theme to my forum but the link you posted is down

PS:

I run WPmu and the latest bbPress release

I hope this tool will work with it (if you could send me).

Best regards, Sebastian

[Tecca]

From ctsttom:

Can we see your front-page.php code as its possibly part of the html as mine uses a different template and it only has one dash.

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>



<?php if ( $forums ) : ?>



<div id="contentleft">



<div id="login">

<?php login_form(); ?>

</div>



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

<table id="forumlist">



<tr>

<th><?php _e('Forum Categories'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Topics'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Posts'); ?></th>

</tr>



<?php foreach ( $forums as $forum ) : ?>

<tr<?php alt_class('forum'); ?>>

<td><a href="<?php forum_link(); ?>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a> — <small><?php forum_description(' '); ?></small></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_topics(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</table>



<?php if ( $bb_current_user->ID ) : ?>



<?php endif; else : // $forums ?>



<div id="contentleft">



<h3 class="bbcrumb"><a href="<?php bb_option('uri'); ?>"><?php bb_option('name'); ?></a></h3>



<?php post_form(); ?>



<?php endif; ?></div>



<div id="discussions">



<?php if ( $topics || $super_stickies ) : ?>



<h2><?php _e('Latest Discussions'); ?></h2>



<table id="latest">

<tr>

<th><?php _e('Topic'); ?> — <?php new_topic(); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Posts'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Last Poster'); ?></th>

<th><?php _e('Freshness'); ?></th>

</tr>



<?php if ( $super_stickies ) : foreach ( $super_stickies as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><?php _e('Sticky:'); ?> <big><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></big></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>



<?php if ( $topics ) : foreach ( $topics as $topic ) : ?>

<tr<?php topic_class(); ?>>

<td><a href="<?php topic_link(); ?>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></td>

<td class="num"><small><?php topic_time(); ?></small></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; ?>

</table>

<?php endif; ?>



<div id="search">

<?php search_form( $q ); ?>

</div>



<br />

<img src="http://teccahigh.com/wp-content/themes/revolution/images/divide.png"><br />

<h2>Members Online</h2>

<small>Online now:

<?php do_action('members_online_now',''); ?></small><br />

<small>Online today:

<?php do_action('members_online_today',''); ?></small>



</div>



<?php include 'sidebar.php'; ?>



<div style="clear:both;"></div>



<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

[chrishajer]

How about taking the latest topic RSS feed and using an RSS widget or plugin in WordPress to display those topics?

I think I saw another topic about the avatars so I will look for that rather than address this here.

0.9.0.4 is recommended for live sites.

[agitainment]

Thanks, _ck_. I appreciate the feedback.

By the way, I’m running several of your plugins, including Human Test, bbCode, Subscribe to Topic and more.

For anyone wanting to extend your bbPress site, I suggest looking first at _ck_’s plugins under the Extend tab. Really great stuff.

[mypop]

I’m planning (/ trying !!**!!) to run WPMU branch 2.7.1r1715, bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6, latest BuddyPress, r1324.

My Hosting provider won’t allow RPC calls on the same server, so I have to mount bbPress on a different domain and server.

Will it work?

Assuming, it will:

Is it better to put bbPress in the root, or in a folder (usually root/forums )?

What (apart from the cookie hash) are the issues that I’m going to face?

How would I configure the cookies?

[mypop]

Usually if you delete the bb-config.php file, and then go to you main forum directory, it will go through the install process again and create you a new admin login without deleting the existing tables.

If you were using integration and hadn’t set up the correct user as keymaster, and your keymaster still exists, it is likely that you are looking at the wrong user tables. (wp_user vs bb_user)

If you are trying to integrate with buddypress / wpmu, then deleting the bb-config.php

and following the https://trac.buddypress.org/browser/trunk/bp-forums/installation-readme.txt

file will get you up and running with user sharing.

To do the integration you MUST be running the latest WPMU 2.7.1 branahc and BuddyPress trunk and NOTHING more that 1.0 Alpha 6 of bbPress – see here: https://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=471

After that, you’ve got the usual cookie integration to do if you want to, see here:

http://umwblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Integrating_WPMu%2C_BuddyPress%2C_and_bbPress

Having been round this loop many times, I know how frustrating it can be.

Hope that helps.

[mypop]

I have a thread going on over at the BuddyPress forums, ( http://buddypress.org/forums/topic.php?id=2027&replies=14#post-10855 ) I’m posting the summary here in case anyone can help.

“I’m running latest WPMU branch 2.7.1r1715, bbPress 1.0-Alpha-6, latest BuddyPress, r1324

I an on a shared hosting service with HeartInternet.co.uk

WPMU works fine on its own, bbPress works fine on its own, BuddyPress works fine, however:

When I update groups to “Enable discussion forum” the forum isn’t created.

Users are shared fine, cookies shared, even admin login to bbPress works properly.”

Having gone through everything (many times…), I ran the xml-rpc test scripts and get the following error:

-32300 >> transport error – could not open socket: 111 Connection refused

Has anyone got any ideas how to fix this?

Thx.

[Filipe Deschamps]

Ipstenu, thanks for your help.

Looks like the nonce field is very important to prevent spam posting.

Form submitting doens’t work if you specify a wrong nonce. Take a look at my searchings:

post_form’s _wponce, what is it?

http://phpdoc.ftwr.co.uk/bbpress/bbPress/_bb-includes—functions.bb-pluggable.php.html

http://svn.automattic.com/bbpress/trunk/bb-includes/functions.bb-pluggable.php

You can create a nonce key with this funcion:

bb_create_nonce();

I will continue with the searching and testings.