[_ck_]

For those that don’t want to install IE8 permanently to just test their sites, this version will run in it’s own virtual box so it doesn’t affect the rest of your system:

http://start-o.xenocode.com/layers/ie8/8-0-0-0__2/ie8.exe

[Postmatic]

I’m using WordPress 2.7.1 and just installed the latest alpha of bbpress. Looking around I see lots of very old chatter about Themepress being the best solution for sharing a theme between the two products.. but it doesn’t seem to be available/work anymore.

So what’s the latest? I’m going to make the assumption that someone picked up on themepress’s work and has come up with a solution to integrate WordPress and Bbpress themes. What’s the latest and greatest?

Best,

Jason

[bobbyh]

I put this into Google Translate: “Simplified Chinese test, enjoy. Hope that regulators continue to come on and support you.”

[chrishajer]

To integrate 0.9.* with WordPress 2.5 and later, you should read this:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpress-and-bbpress-integration-101#post-17409

That post has a lot of good information. I agree the documentation needs to be better.

[deadlyhifi]

the latest bleeding edge release (from subversion) adds paging to the ‘Latest Discussions’. But if any of the arguments are used in ‘get_latest_topics’ the paging doesn’t work.

from functions.bb-topics.php

function get_latest_topics( $args = null ) {

$defaults = array( 'forum' => false, 'page' => 1, 'exclude' => false, 'number' => false );

so I’ve tried it with

$topics = get_latest_topics('forum=-3');

and

$topics = get_latest_topics('exclude=3');

both have same results but no paging.

[kevinjohngallagher]

My latest plugin has hit a snag.

I cannot seem to overwrite bb_get_header() using add_filter(‘bb_get_header’, ‘function_i_want_to_run_instead’);.

I’ve tried variations, adding priorities, spelling – y’know the usual, but nothing i can do seems to overwrite that function. I’d appreciate any help. Thanks

[xbsteve]

For those of you who are having this problem, which appears to be a large amount… the answer is simple bbPress 0.9 DOES NOT SUPPORT all those new keys past WordPress 2.5. If you are trying to install, apparently you have to use the beta bbPress 1.0.

[xbsteve]

I am running WordPress 2.7.1

I just downloaded the latest bbPress from this website.

According to the screencast I should be seeing a request for AUTH, SECURE_AUTH, LOGGED_IN, and NONCE keys. However, the latest installer seems to be asking for the old SECRET_KEY and nothing else.

Why is this? Is this a reversion error? If this is not an error, you need disambiguation comments in many places, including on the website, in the screencast, and in the installer.

[phipps]

I tried integrating bbPress (alpha 6) with 2.7 WP MU and ran into problems. The web-based installation failed if I selected integration (I left the “Add cookie integration settings” unchecked, only tried user database integration) – it threw up an error during the last step, and said Installation Halted! (although all previous tests and validations seemed to go through fine).

I dropped the bb_ tables, then installed bbPress without the integration options and it worked. Is it possible to modify a working bbpress installation to integrate with WP MU after installation? Has anyone done this before – and might have instructions online somewhere?

All on dreamhost.com server.

[robbert12]

Sorry to bump this topic, but I’m new to BBpress and after a long search on Google and in these forums, I arrived here.

I want to do the same as on this picture: this picture.

Unfortunately, I can’t get it to work on my forum. I posted the code of front-page.php below and emphasized the problem point (I think). I hope somebody can help me

<?php bb_get_header(); ?>



<div id="forums"><!-- Forums -->

<?php if ( $forums ) : ?>

<div id="sidebar"><!-- Sidebar -->



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

<table id="forumlist">

<thead>

<tr>

<th class="title"><?php _e('Forums'); ?></th>

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

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

</tr>

</thead>



<tbody>

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

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

<td  class="title"><?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a> <span><?php forum_description(); ?></span><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>

<!--td><?php forum_topics(); ?></td-->

<td><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</tbody>

</table>

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



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

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

<div class="sbox">

<ul id="views">

<?php foreach ( bb_get_views() as $the_view => $title ) : ?>

<li class="view"><a>"><?php view_name( $the_view ); ?></a>

<?php endforeach; ?>



</div>

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



</div><!-- //sb -->



<div id="content"><!-- Content -->

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

<table id="sticky">



<thead>

<tr>

<th class="title"><?php _e('Sticky'); ?></th>

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

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

</tr>

</thead>



<tbody>

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

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

<td class="title"><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <big><a>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></big></td>

<td><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>



<td><a>"><?php topic_time(); ?></a></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php else : ?>

<tr>

<td class="title">Er zijn geen belangrijke berichten beschikbaar</td>

<td></td>

<td></td>

</tr>



</tbody>

</table>

<?php endif; ?>



<table id="lastest">

<thead>

<tr>

<th  class="title"><?php _e('Latest Discussions'); ?> — <?php new_topic(); ?></th>

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

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

</tr>

</thead>



<tbody>

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

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

<td  class="title"><?php bb_topic_labels(); ?> <a>"><?php topic_title(); ?></a></td>

<td><?php topic_posts(); ?></td>

<td><a>"><?php topic_time(); ?></a></td>

</tr>

<?php endforeach; endif; // $topics ?>

</tbody>

</table>

<?php endif; // $topics or $super_stickies ?>

</div><!-- //c -->

<?php else : // $forums ?>



<?php post_form(); endif; // $forums ?>



</div><!-- //f -->



<?php bb_get_footer(); ?>

And this piece of code is wrong, I think;

<table id="forumlist">

<thead>

<tr>

<th class="title"><?php _e('Forums'); ?></th>

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

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

</tr>

</thead>



<tbody>

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

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

<td  class="title"><?php bb_forum_pad( '<div class="nest">' ); ?><a>"><?php forum_name(); ?></a> <span><?php forum_description(); ?></span><?php bb_forum_pad( '</div>' ); ?></td>

<!--td><?php forum_topics(); ?></td-->

<td><?php forum_posts(); ?></td>

</tr>

<?php endwhile; ?>

</tbody>

</table>

I hope somebody can help me.

Thanks in advance..

[citizenkeith]

You’ll need to change this one:

#latest tr, #forumlist tr, #favorites tr {behavior:url("/forums/my-templates/kakumei-too/images/hoverlite.htc");}

[diabolikal]

As you may be able to tell, it asks for a log-in and I have to use my FTP account to log into it for some reason, and I have the latest BBPRESS and WORDPRESS (2.7).

[johnhiler]

Hey biodrama – you may want to check that you have the latest version of Human Test!. Some spammers found a workaround to an older version, but an updated version has proved more resilient… once I dl’d the latest version, the spammers disappeared!

[biodrama]

Thanks, Chris. Since I am getting registration emails to moderate, I am guessing register.php is the more likely route, but I am not a coder, and really appreciate your suggestions. Also, I just checked, and I was already running the Human Test plugin.

[chrishajer]

Yes.

Or just replace register.php with

<?php

// silence is golden

?>

You should look in your logs though to see where they are coming in. Sometimes they go right to bb-login.php as well. Anything related to login really. They’re not sitting there browsing the forum and clicking the [login] button.

You can also install _ck_’s Human Test plugin to prevent most of the registrations:

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

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

Hello Kevin!

Thanks for your reply!

I did a clean install of WP 2.7 and then I activated Ann’s plugin.

Then I added the code those three lines in wp-config.php and lost access to dashboard.

Redirect Loop

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.

* Have you disabled or blocked cookies required by this site?

* NOTE: If accepting the site’s cookies does not resolve the problem, it is likely a server configuration issue and not your computer.

I am currently testing on localhost (XAMPP). Any idea what is causing this loop? May be I need to edit those lines but I dont know how to.

I had to delete the plugin from the plugin directory to access dashboard again.

I would not think of going beyond WP 2.7 unless I am unable to achieve the sync. And regarding the Open ID integration, I would like to keep myself away from it as I need to allow only registered users to login.

[deadlyhifi]

Modified: trunk/bb-admin/admin-ajax.php (2016 => 2017)

Fix adding of existing tags to a post via AJAX. Tags used to be added but didn’t have any UI response.

Perhaps this was the issue and not my mod (see above post). Not tested it out yet…

[noah-graff]

Thanks, but is this going to count every post that is put on? or just count posts of the most avid posters? Not sure this totally solves the problem?

I know that it sounds like a lot of money. At this point we just really need to build up traffic. We are a magazine about the Precision Machining Industry and we want to create a community of people sharing perspectives and technical advice.

We are doing email blasts with a contest to get people to come to the site. If you have any good ideas on how to build up traffic or make it better I’m all ears. The URL is http://www.shopdocforum.com. We really need to change our appearance first off, but we were trying to have a bit of continuity with our blog and website.

In any case, thanks for the tip. But if you’re bored…

Noah

[cldnails]

I use CARP RSS to insert the latest posts from my blog within my bbPress forum. Also, as mentioned, make sure you are editing the header file from within the specific theme you are using. It’s not one header file fits all.

[cloudhopper]

The 101 referred to doesn’t cater for the fact that the names for the various keys seems to have changed.

The route I followed (using the “freshly baked cookies” plugin, and using 0.9.0.4) calls for a “secret key”, but the latest version of wordpress doesn’t refer to such a beast. I opted for the AUTH key, guys, figuring that if it was wrong, the bbPress install would let me know. It worked.

Perhaps a minor tweak to the 101 would help in this respect?

As it happens, I went on to experience “fatal errors” when I tried to activate said plugin, so I clearly haven’t finished with the integration efforts myself! :o)

[Txanny]

I tested both.

1.0-alpha integrates better but is more unstable and there are lots of errors. I would no use it on a live site.

0.9.0.4 is much stable, and runs fine. I used this plugin https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/freshly-baked-cookies/ and then forced always to login/logout from WordPress. That works perfect. Login/out from bbPress does not run correctly in this situation, so I preferred to force to login/logout from wordpress.

In my case I was talking for a project 6-9 months vista, to be finished later this year. This makes things a bit different as I hope then bbPress 1.0 will be more mature.

Also consider that you always can upgrade from 0.9 to 1.0… but you can NOT to downgrade from 1.0 to 0.9. So, perhaps I would start from the stable version.

Regards,

Txanny.

[Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)]

@ _ck_

I am also going to use bbPress alpha for a live site. I don’t want to use any plugins. Just what bbPress is offering at the moment is required (more functionality is not a pain though). Should I go for it as I have tested with WP 2.7 for login syncs (partly – the way i want with my custom user panels). Would like to know your opinion. Thanks!

[jrock87]

I am trying to install the latest stable version 0.9.0.4. Is this the proper version that i should be using for integrating with WordPress 2.7.1?

[_ck_]

HttpOnly cookies are a security advancement that is finally supported now by all major browsers (Firefox eventually got it right in 3.1, while IE 7 still has a bug but it generally works).

HttpOnly means a cookie cannot be read by javascript in the browser, only by the server (via PHP, etc.) This practically stops XSS exploits and makes it much harder if not impossible in most cases.

HttpOnly may “save your bacon” when a plugin has a security hole (like Private Messaging and bb-Reputation 0.0.5) and prevent a malicious script from forwarding your keymaster cookie to someone else via a XSS script.

I manged to get them to include HttpOnly in WordPress 2.7 and bbPress 1.0 but it’s still not in older WordPress or bbPress 0.9 because they worried about backward compatibility with some WordPress plugins that try to directly read the cookie (bad technique) instead of using server-side helpers.

However there are NO bbPress plugins that direct read the auth cookie and very few WordPress plugins still do this. I am not 100% positive how it will affect ajax but it shouldn’t because it’s still authorized on the server-side via PHP.

So if you’d like to try out HttpOnly on your bbPress 0.9, here’s how, it’s as simple as a mini-plugin. Note that if you are already using a cookie replacement plugin like my “Freshly Baked Cookies” or “Year Long Cookies” you will need to edit them instead of using the following (you can only use one cookie replacement plugin at a time).

I’d appreciate any feedback or experiences with this, especially if it causes problems:

Save this as _HttpOnly.php and upload into your my-plugins/ directory:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: HttpOnly Auth Cookie

*/



function wp_set_auth_cookie($user_id, $remember = false) {

global $bb;



if ( $remember ) {

$expiration = $expire = time() + 1209600;

} else {

$expiration = time() + 172800;

$expire = 0;

}



$cookie = wp_generate_auth_cookie($user_id, $expiration);

do_action('set_auth_cookie', $cookie, $expire);



setcookie($bb->authcookie, $cookie, $expire, $bb->cookiepath, $bb->cookiedomain. '; HttpOnly' );

if ( $bb->cookiepath != $bb->sitecookiepath )

setcookie($bb->authcookie, $cookie, $expire, $bb->sitecookiepath, $bb->cookiedomain. '; HttpOnly' );

}

?>

To prove it’s working, you CANNOT use the Firefox webdeveloper plugin because that looks at the cookie in Firefox’s chrome, not at the user level. What you have to do is

1. prove you can see your bbpress/wordpress cookie by typing or copying this to your browser address bar javascript:alert(document.cookie);

2. install the plugin

3. log out and then log in

4. again type or copy this to your browser address bar javascript:alert(document.cookie);

5. if it’s working, you should NOT see your wordpress/bbpress cookie in the alert

Currently the only plugin I am aware of that tries to read the cookie directly in WordPress is the WP-UserOnline plugin from GamerZ, and he may have even fixed that by now in the newest versions. However there may be others, so test your setup.

[andrew-stacey]

I’ve had a go at adapting one of the WordPress plugins (easy LaTeX) for bbPress. It works for me, but there are probably a few things a little too specific to my set-up for it to be released “in the wild” – for example, I’m using both WordPress and bbPress so there’s a little cross-over information which wouldn’t be available on a bbPress-only site (putting in some options for that would probably be a good idea).

However, it might be suitable for beta-testing. I’ve put a copy here if anyone’s interested in taking a look and tweaking it.

A few details:

It uses a public server so no need for LaTeX to be installed locally.
It uses a cache (needs to be writable by the server) to save on server load.
It has a two-step parsing (not in the original) since forum posts are saved in their original format. This makes it more robust since the plugin allows for changing the tags that surround the mathematics. The saved format uses <math> tags which has the added advantage of avoiding markdown processing.
Due to being a rather limited programmer, I ended up copying stuff from other plugins to get it to work without really understanding what I was doing (particularly with add_filter and the like) so if some kind soul wishes to take pity on me and clean up my code I’d be very grateful.