Well, I wouldn’t be so harsh… It’s not even 1.0 software yet and I’m looking to integrate two applications from SVN trunk, ideally using a third-party LDAP plugin 
I didn’t really expect it to work but hopefully reporting my findings might help us along the way…
I’ve spent enough time on it for now, but will watch for progress and help test with interest.
Sounds awesome, will test it one of the next days. We have nearly 200.000 posts – will be interesting to test, and surely on my own dedicated server 😮
Any concerns regarding subforums or “hidden” forums, that i should be warned about?
I’ve been tryin them out on my test site, but I get the same cookie problems. Just wait it out until they’re final. mu2.7 is kinda buggy right now.
I’m actually testing this as we speak. The plug-in itself is written rather poorly and is ultimately just a WordPress widget. I will report back once I have more experience with it.
This topic has been marked [resolved] when it isn;t for me (with the greatest of respect for the forum administrator) so has continued the discussion on another thred about the same topic. Thanks.
I just disagree with promoting a product before it’s even usable.
bbPress is very usable, just not finished. But it’s certainly *not* being promoted. All we have is this support forum. If it was being promoted, it would be listed on WordPress.org/WordPress.com and there would be hundreds of thousands of users. bbPress currently has less than 10,000 active installs. That should change by this time next year.
bbPress was originally written by Matt to simply give a support forum for WordPress (WordPress.org). Everything from there was just Matt releasing the source. There never was a general plan after that until Matt started talking about TalkPress which is still very far away by my best guess.
bbPress’s greatest strength is it can be integrated in many websites easily and made to look like them easily. But it’s still a growing child and very young. If you are looking for a polished product, you need something with over half a decade of development like phpBB, vBulletin or SMF. The downside to them is they are very rigid and hard to develop for. bbPress is incredibly easy to develop for, I only learned PHP a few years ago and look what I’ve managed to do. Just imagine what a person who knew what they were doing could do 
If you have your own server make sure you setup your mysql cache properly and even more importantly make sure you install some kind of PHP opcode cache (eaccelerator, xcache or APC). Even the fastest server will greatly benefit from an opcode cache.
The full template can be confusing to non-coders.
This concept has been covered several times around here, it’s quite simple.
Just replace
<?php topic_last_poster(); ?>
with
<a href="<?php topic_last_post_link(); ?>"><?php topic_last_poster(); ?></a>
in the front-page.php, forum.php, view.php and tag.php templates
Sometimes forum topics are so interesting that they get many replies and bbPress v0.9.0.2 does not have any links to the latest reply when you go to a topic.
So I created one as you will see when you go to any of the topics in the Set Forever forum.
Here’s a link to the code update to the Kakumei theme for the topic.php file:
http://www.setforever.org/blog/2008/bbpress-v0902-how-to-add-a-link-to-the-latest-posted-reply-message-in-a-topic/
Have you tested it in Firefox on Windows?
The column float is not working correctly and pushes the middle down below the left.
I know what is SVN, man And use it every day, for bbpress tests too. But alphas are good for bug reports, help others and wordpress integration testing. We sould discuss one named pie of code. I love digits (rev numbers are digits too), it’s my job, but the people is normal guys collection.
Hi John,
That sound like a nice feature… two ways to use a sticky.
Unfortunately, that was not the problem. It wasn’t stuck to the front originally.
I did unstick at your suggestion and click “stick topic” and it shows up in the latest discussions and not in it’s forum.
I unstuck it again… click “to front” and it displays differently in the latest discussion section – The word stick appears next to it and the font is bigger and no it doesn’t display in the forum.
It appears the “to front” is functioning fine… but not the basic “stick topic”
We still have a problem.
Thanks
Ann
Ok, guis, WP 2.7 is here. Give us bbpess alpha 3 to test it.
Because of … there are only 59 active tickets
I’m new to using bbpress and installed version Version 1.0-alpha-2
In one of the forums, I did a post and made it sticky… I other forums the sticky is always the first post(s) with all the other post underneath.
The main forums is showing 1 topic and 1 post. When I click on the forum, it isn’t there…. The only place the post sticky shows is in the latest discussions and not in forum area.
Is there some way to make the sticky topic show up in its forum?
Thanks
Ann
I would like to only display 10 topics on my front page, but 40 when viewing each forums individually.
Is there an easy way (within the theme maybe?) to limit the front-page.php latest discussions to a smaller number than the items per page assignment in the admin panel?
It isn’t about it being a regular basis, it’s about it being possible.
In my testing and installing of bbPress, I usually bounce back and forth between a KeyMaster, an Admin, and a Member test account, and sometimes I am logged in and make a post under the wrong one.
It’s more for convenience and possibility sake than it is for daily use or practicality.
Forums with many users would just have a million entries in the drop down. Heck I dunno man I just thought of this idea!
I have it working ok with the plugin, but testing reveals it fails to work with multipage threads, eg:
http://domain.com/forums/test/your-first-topic/page/2
breaks and redirects to //
I had a look at the rewrites and similar but it seems ok (though I am not an expert), so I am at a loss. Is anyone else having this problem? Any ideas on a fix?
The approach Digg uses is very simple and would not need such an advanced plugin like “promote to front page”.
All you need to mimic Digg is allow voting on topics and then replace the part of your front page that shows the latest-discussions with the list of topics by highest rank.
In fact there is already a topic voting plugin that does that, you’d just have to edit your front-page layout. You could then go further like Digg does and restrict highest rated by date – 24 hours / 7 days / 30 days / all time
Looks good enough to me, although I haven’t checked the source to see exactly how you did it.
One plugin that I’ve been meaning to create for quite some time is a “promote to front page” tool where admin can mark a topic for special promotion, with their own custom summary that superceeds the title and first post and replaces (or suppliments) the Latest Discussions on the front page with the list. The list could then be re-ordered even further, independent of topic time.
I think such a plugin would change how bbPress is used in a positive way. Just can’t decide how to best interface it with how topics work and how to give the admin full access to existing formatting tools and other plugins within the summaries. It would probably be mostly like Wiki Post.
Let’s put that all together – this should work right inside any wordpress template:
<h2>Latest Forum Discussions</h2>
<ul>
<?php
global $wpdb;
$query="SELECT * FROM bb_topics WHERE topic_status=0 ORDER BY topic_time DESC LIMIT 10";
$results=$wpdb->get_results($query);
foreach ($results as $result) {
echo "<li><a href='/forums/topic.php?id=".$result->topic_id."'>".$result->topic_title."</a></li>";
}
?>
</ul>
Did you already figure this out?
They look very well matched.
Also, using Firefox 3, the page loads with the top of the page displayed, not the bottom where the named anchor would be, I suppose because the anchor is not there. When it’s working properly, it loads with your latest reply in view. When the reply is not there, the page loads with the top of the topic visible.
Same problem here, with an Apache server on Windows. Latest versions of all applications. I will try your solutions and see what happens.
