[Daniel Juhl]

Hi,

I’ve just tested an upgrade of my bbPress 0.8.2.1 forum. The upgrade goes to bbPress 0.9.0.4, but after the upgrade has finished and the upgrade/installation script has asked, and been given permission, to upgrade the database, it seems like theres some problems with special characters. The forum is in danish, and therefore æ, ø and å is very common, but after the upgrade they just show up as their respective UTF8 codes. I can’t figure out, and but the header and my browser is set to UTF8.

I can tell, that the forum was and still are in UTF8, but the collation on the database tables is latin1_swedish_ci

Anyone with an idea of the problem?

[ganzua]

What function of myviews plugin do you need to put in front-page.php to have a paginated list of the latest topics?

[Sam Bauers]

So, the nightly builds seem to be stuck on an old version!!!

You can get the latest trunk from here (zip link at the bottom):

https://trac.bbpress.org/browser/trunk

You will have to manually add BackPress files from here into a directory at bb-includes/backpress (zip link an the bottom):

http://backpress.automattic.com/browser/trunk/includes

[Ganzuelo]

I have WP and bbpress (lastest release) When I click on Admin while coming from WP I cannot access. I click on the admin link and it goes nowhere.,. I then log out and then back in and it works (while in bbpress side)

[John James Jacoby]

@the both of yous

Sambauers is the main programmer responsible for updating and maintaining bbPress, the rest of us seem to serve more as bug testers and trac reporters. You’re both correct to assume that the goal is to have it work both ways, with a registration at one platform to assign a role to the other.

@globalkris

You’re lucky, I haven’t been able to get either/or to automatically tell the other what roles to assign, despite my efforts. To be honest, it can’t be happening anywhere on the WordPress side of things, because WordPress has no idea that bbPress exists. It’s just doing what it always did. bbPress needs to look for capabilities, and assign them according to the WordPress role map provided it has been set.

It seems like a good idea to have the role-map setup as part of the installation process, if choosing to integrate that is.

The other side of this, which I’ve said before in different topics, is that automated integration of bbPress is difficult to predict, because there are several configurations that anyone could or would use, and it isn’t just WordPress that bbPress is intended to work with. There’s BuddyPress too, which is a whole other assortment of configurations. You can see how having bbPress automatically assign a role to a user that doesn’t have a role at all can be a strange situation, since there are times where WP users might not have roles either. There are about 250 different types of arrangements that users can have that must be trapped when I think about it, considering registrations on either side, the role map, and what the results of each situation would be.

Maybe when they register through WordPress, I don’t want them automatically given access to the forums, or vice versa. Even though they are integrated, maybe I don’t want them to have a role at all. What if WordPress registrations are closed but bbPress ones are open? I mean when you think of all of the possibilities, it’s a wonder/miracle that it works at all. Ha!

Long story short, Sam is working really hard on getting this integration up and running for us, and I suspect there will be an alpha6 coming shortly.

[hotforwords]

I am running 2.7 and alpha 5 with the same problem and can’t get the roles to work either. I did everything the way it was described to do.. even did a clean install of a website and bbpress to test it out and it didn’t assign roles there either.

I used the bbpress integration plugin as well.

I have 44,000 members, so this is a bit of an issue for me. I had to manually go in and assign roles to about 15,000 members and have to manually assign roles for all new members, which is about 100 a day, and a real pain.

[deadlyhifi]

thanks all. I’ll be doing some tests on it all sometime this week and will report back.

[Sam Bauers]

This poll is intended to gauge usage levels of older versions of PHP, with a view to maybe bumping the lowest supported version in bbPress up to PHP 4.4.9 (from PHP 4.3.0).

The two options below are the latest stable versions of PHP 4 and 5. If you are using another version, please be specific when entering it’s version number.

[polldaddy poll=1247862]

[wordpressfan]

I created a new directory and copied the files from bbpress-latest.zip to it. I was able to install bbpress 1.0-alpha 4.

However, there was no screen about creating a user or your first forum or any integration.

[wordpressfan]

The nightly build/bbpress-latest.zip has the MBCS warning screens after step 1 of the installation.

[_ck_]

Do not use the Private Forums plugin, it has not been updated in awhile and has bugs.

Use my Hidden Forums plugin instead. The code above is not sufficient in itself.

[walkerevans]

I was looking to do #3 as well. This solution works like a champ. Thanks!

[Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)]

I’d say try the nightly build ( https://bbpress.org/nightly-builds/bbpress-latest.zip ) but I’m not really sure when that’s updated anymore…

The SVN is open to be downloaded by anyone.

[patrick10128]

Hello all,

I run a small website called the Youth Bloggers Network (http://youthbloggers.net/) which is currently using WordPress and the Simple:Press forum plugin to run the forum. I’ve received some advice to switch to a “dedicated” forum software such as bbPress or phpBB to increase loading time and optimize the site structure (splitting up the forum and cms backend). If I were to switch, bbPress is the definite option for me seeing as I need my WordPress users to be members of the forum as well. I was able to install the latest bbPress version (1.0 alpha I believe) and integrate it perfectly with my WordPress install (cookies, users and everything). That was wonderful. The only two things holding me back from making the switch are:

1) Simple:Press is so easy to integrate into any page, just plug and play

2) I need a bbPress theme that matches my current WordPress theme

The problem is that I would like my forum to look and feel like just another page on the site. With Simple:Press this is easy (even when switching themes). With bbPress I need a new theme.

So here is what I would like to know:

Is it worth switching to bbPress even if it means a little extra work and designing?

And where can I find someone who could create a bbPress theme for me that fits my current design for a *low* price?

Please visit the site: http://youthbloggers.net/ and give me your advice and suggestions.

Thanks very much,

Patrick

[_ck_]

This seems a great time to mention a new hidden feature in bbPress 1.0 based on a suggestion I made: “Safe Mode”

When you don’t know why something isn’t working, one quick and easy way to prove if it’s a plugin gone wrong or not is to temporarily try “Safe Mode”

The way to activate safe mode is to edit bb-config.php and insert

$bb->safemode = true;

Then your forum will temporarily switch to the default theme (which you should never have tampered with) and disable all plugins, temporarily.

When you are done testing, remove the line from bb-config.php

This is far easier than deactivating 20+ plugins, one at a time and then having to activate them again.

[Sam Bauers]

There are issues with the latest versions. A new fixed version is imminent.

[_ck_]

Confirmed working in 0.9.0.4 with apparent speed boost.

Those using my mini-plugin, you MUST delete it when using 0.9.0.4 or 1.0-alpha-5 or you’ll find that all topics disappear.

[marky]

Thanks for the speedy reply. I just installed the Human Test plugin today, thankfully. I wish I knew about it sooner; perhaps I wouldn’t have this mess to clean up now.

At any rate, I’m not integrated—it’s a stand-alone forum. I’m running MySQL 4.1.16, according to phpMyAdmin.

[chrishajer]

Hopefully, you’ve added the Human Test plugin to prevent spam registrations.

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

I don’t know of a way to mass moderate users in bbPress. If you’re integrated with WordPress, I believe there is a mass edit for users available there.

If you’re not integrated, I think you need to use some SQL with the database directly. If you need that, please post the MySQL version you are using (since subqueries were added in MySQL 4.1, and the solution would be different if you’re using MySQL prior to 4.1)

I’ve been playing with the SQL to do this, but my MySQL version is 4.0.27, which does not support subqueries.

[Ben L.]

I’m on the current trunk as of writing this post. (1903) I’ll try testing the live forum.

Edit: Using the default theme made the problem go away, but the line of code that shows the edit/delete/undelete links is exactly the same as Kakumei’s and there’s no functions.php file.

[chrishajer]

Rather than trying your theme and plugins on another installation, how about turning off the plugins and trying the default theme on your live forums? Testing the other way is not a 100% test.

Do you know what revision of trunk you’re using? I installed trunk two years ago, but it was a much different version then.

[John James Jacoby]

Yes I do have the role map setup in the bbPress admin area. I also installed the additional role map plugin you made just to see what it was for, and retried these steps with and without it active.

I think this evening I’m going to retest this on stock installs of both to see if any of my plugins are conflicting. I am using the Register Plus plugin on the WP side, so I suppose it’s possible it could conflict (as far as I know it uses the stock WP registration and user activation methods to create them though.)

[virginiagirl]

I am comparing the two right now to see if I deleted something important. Do you know which php file I should be looking in? I did not integrate the forum with WordPress and am using the latest version of bbPress (I just installed it a few days ago). The only plugins I am using is the Akismet plugin. I guess I must have deleted something although I’m not sure what!

[-skipper-]

Based on Scoun theme from Mike Lothar.

Plugins used:

– Akismet

– Human Test for bbPress

– bbpress SEO tools

– Allow Images

http://marinerodeaguadulce.com/foro/

[John James Jacoby]

Also, when I register a new user through WordPress as per normal, that user is still not assigned a role in bbPress. Not when they login, not when they hit the forum for the first time. Not ever.

My Steps:

1. I used a Chrome browser window to register a new user through WordPress
2. Logged in via WordPress
3. Hit the forum
4. User could not post, looks like has no role
5. Logged out via WordPress
6. Used FireFox to login as admin to check new user role
7. No Role Assigned
8. Used Chrome to login through bbPress
9. Hit the forum
10. User could not post, looks like has no role
11. Used Firefox admin to edit Test user
12. Received typical error message (noted below)

Warning: array_key_exists() [function.array-key-exists]: The second argument should be either an array or an object in /forums/bb-includes/functions.bb-template.php on line 2009

Basically it looks like the exact same error message as before, with the same circumstances.

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Round two using alpha 5 trunk from the SVN went exactly the same way, only this time when I logged in via bbPress, the above Warning went away, but that user is still marked as Inactive by default when they should be a Member according to the role map.

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When registering through bbPress, the new user still is not assigned a Role on the WordPress side either.

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Sam, can you explain to me what was supposed to be different in alpha5? Maybe I misunderstood…