[Andrew]

I am currently running the following:

WP 2.3x (using due to theme limitations)

BBPress 0.8.3.1

I am planning to upgrade the theme to be compatible with the latest version of WordPress. Once I do this I need to upgrade BBpress. Given the availabiltiy of the Alpha and the 2.5 restriction of BBpress 0.9 I was looking for suggestions on how to go about things.

Option 1 – Is this a valid path?

1. Upgrade to WP2.5 & BBpress 0.9

2. Wait for stable 1.0 Beta of BBpress

3. Upgrade to WP 2.6x and BBpress 1.0

Option 2

1. Upgrade to WP2.6 & BBpress Alpha

Questions:

1. Is a 2.5 version of WP still being distributed?

I hope this was clear. Thanks.

[citizenkeith]

Where can I download the latest version?

[bmc_webdev]

I have an installation of bbpress 0.9 (installed independent from WordPress).

When I pull the rss feed, I get code that looks like this:

<item>

<title>Anonymous on "Hello"</title>

<link>http://forums.brynmawr.edu/topic.php?id=2#post-8</link>

<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:45:22 +0000</pubDate>

<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>

<guid isPermaLink="false">8@http://forums.brynmawr.edu/</guid>

<description><p>test

</p></description>

</item>

The <p> is a <p> tag that is entity-encoded (I presume so that <p> won’t be parsed as an XML tag by an XML parser).

This is causing an issue with the feed parser that I am using (lastRSS): the parser is passing the <description> contents through unchanged, and so I’m getting literal “<p>” and “<p/>” on the pages that use lastRSS.

I believe that the standard method of embedding HTML into an XML feed (or any XML document) is to use CDATA blocks:

<description><![CDATA[<p>test

</p>]]></description>

and this is the way feeds from wordpress, blogger, etc are formatted. bbpress should really do the same thing so that feed parsers like lastRSS will pass through correct HTML (in this example, text wrapped by a paragraph tag, rather than text with character entities that cause the browser to display the literal characters)

Can the feed generator code be changed to use CDATA blocks?

Thank you.

[benzilla069]

I’m just trying ghetto solutions at the moment just to see if I can actually get something to work.

$SQLtopic_id = 3;

$SQLtopic_title = 'Test';

$SQLtopic_slug = 'topic-test-slug';

$SQLtopic_poster = '1';

$SQLtopic_poster_name = 'admin';

$SQLtopic_last_poster = 1;

$SQLtopic_last_poster_name = 'admin';

$SQLtopic_start_time;

$SQLtopic_topic_time;

$SQLtopic_forum_id = 1;

$SQLtopic_topic_status = 0;

$SQLtopic_open = 1;

$SQLtopic_last_post_id = 1;

$SQLtopic_topic_sticky = 0;

$SQLtopic_posts = 1;

$SQLtopic_tag_count = 0;

//$SQLtopic_id, $SQLtopic_title, $SQLtopic_slug, $SQLtopic_poster, $SQLtopic_poster_name, $SQLtopic_last_poster, $SQLtopic_last_poster_name, $SQLtopic_start_time, $SQLtopic_topic_time, $SQLtopic_forum_id, $SQLtopic_topic_status, $SQLtopic_open, $SQLtopic_last_post_id, $SQLtopic_topic_sticky, $SQLtopic_posts, $SQLtopic_tag_count

// set database server access variables:

$host = “”;

$user = “”;

$pass = “”;

$db = “”;

// open connection

$connection = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass) or die (“Unable to connect!”);

// select database

mysql_select_db($db) or die (“Unable to select database!”);

mysql_query(“INSERT INTO bb_topics (topic_id, topic_title, topic_slug, topic_poster, topic_poster_name, topic_last_poster, topic_last_poster_name, topic_start_time, topic_time, forum_id, topic_status, topic_open, topic_last_post_id, topic_sticky, topic_posts, tag_count)

VALUES ($SQLtopic_id, $SQLtopic_title, $SQLtopic_slug, $SQLtopic_poster, $SQLtopic_poster_name, $SQLtopic_last_poster, $SQLtopic_last_poster_name, $SQLtopic_start_time, $SQLtopic_topic_time, $SQLtopic_forum_id, $SQLtopic_topic_status, $SQLtopic_open, $SQLtopic_last_post_id, $SQLtopic_topic_sticky, $SQLtopic_posts, $SQLtopic_tag_count)”);

mysql_close($connection);

Adds nothing to the database.

[leoleoleo]

OK! Super thanks x 2 times! _CK_

I like install and test plugins, but I know if install a lot plugins will make the forum slow.

If the bbPress can every page keep 5-10 queries is best of best of best.

[Sam Bauers]

If you upgrade to the latest bbPress trunk you will have access to the new BBXF exporter. There is also a standalone BBXF importer for phpBB, but I have not tested it yet. You will have to do some work to get it running at this early stage of development, this should be a lot easier as we move forward with this idea.

For more check here http://bbxf.org/

[Sam Bauers]

Check the new project here.

http://bbxf.org/

Thanks to GSoC student Dan Larkin for his work over the Summer.

BBXF is now available for review and testing in bbPress trunk and we plan to make it a bundled plugin in bbPress 1.0

[chrishajer]

> What do I get with bbPress?

Free forum software that is under active development

> Is it secure?

Yes.

> Will it get spammed to death?

No. It comes with Akismet to prevent spammers from posting, and you can use the Human Test plugin to prevent them from registering in the first place.

> Is it stable?

Yes. Even the latest Alpha version has been stable for me.

> Is it designed for personal sites or can businesses

> use it with confidence?

It’s designed for people who need forums. Businesses and individuals alike use it. Check out these people using bbPress.

[meitershaker]

see at <h2><?php _e(‘Latest Discussions’); ?></h2> section :p

in front-page.php of the theme

[keppy]

Take a look at https://bbpress.org/documentation/themes/#templates

That is a list of all the template files and when each of them is called. You’ll have to edit each applicable file to hide the things you want to hide.

[chequers]

To answer my own question. You can comment stuff out from front-page.php to remove them.

I would still like help totally hiding tag stuff though, like in new post forms.

[chequers]

Hello, as per post title, is it possible to remove this section from the forum frontpage? I’m using 1.0 alpha.

I’m also hoping to remove / disable / hide the following areas:

o ‘Views’ section on the front page

o tag clouds

Thanks for any assistance! This seems like a very powerful and scalable forum – wordpress integration is just icing on the cake. I’ll be poking this more over the coming weeks.

[_ck_]

You’d need to add a filter, something like this (untested)

function edit_link_icon($r,$post_id) {return "<img src='/images/edit_link_icon.png'>".$r;}

add_filter('bb_get_post_edit_link', 'edit_link_icon',10,2);

[lstelie]

Hello,

I didn’t search enough.

In case it could help, this plugin :

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

Works like a charm

Luc

[lstelie]

Hello, is there a plug in that allow to display in WP sidebar latest BBpress messages ?

Thnks in advance

[kannued]

CK, if the password/cookie in 1.0 is the most secure, than that means I wouldn’t need the miniplug for the private area to restrict from Google and other search engines like Alexa?

I have installed Human Test. Now, to the task of deleting all those bozos.

The miniplug, do I put that into my template header.php? Or does it go into the directory/folder that I want as strictly private?

[_ck_]

There’s no hacking involved in that process.

It’s just a simple workaround.

The foolish forum operators are allowing anyone with the user-agent of “GoogleBot” into their private forums. And/or they are allowing Google to cache their private forums. The reason why they do this is they want Google to send them traffic and the only way they can do that is to let google see the content of the hidden forums.

bbPress doesn’t do this by default and no known plugin does it either, certainly not my “hidden forums” plugin.

My Mini-Track plugin can tell you the difference between real Google and people pretending to be Google. It’s very easy, you just do a rDNS on the ip and see if it goes to a google owned ip block. rDNS is very slow (1-5 seconds) so people don’t normally do it by default.

You wouldn’t have to delete the spammer profiles if you didn’t let them on in the first place. Install my “Human Test” plugin and 99.9% of them will never register.

[_ck_]

Shouldn’t require it but there might very well be a bug given the developers only test it on PHP 5. I take it fel64 knows the work-around.

Remember, 1.0 is ALPHA. Meaning BUGGY.

[meitershaker]

no, no.

i try to explain more:

– with your mod, CODE tags are generated at the beginning and the end of text, no?

– so i want there is to more code generated

– in my example, “test test” is the text

– i would like, when i write “test test”, that the dl/dd are generated too

-simply example: i would like to add a class at the code tag, in your mod, how to do that?

thanks

i hope that i’ts more clear :p

bye!

[_ck_]

This mini-plugin will fix your layout/graphics

for visitors that insist on using IE 8.0

function fix_ie8() {if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'],"MSIE 8")) {header("X-UA-Compatible: IE=7");}}

add_action('bb_send_headers','fix_ie8');  // for bbPress

add_action('send_headers','fix_ie8');    // for WordPress

Essentially it makes IE8 render like IE7 by sending a special (invisible) header only to IE8 users.

Problem solved.

It blows my mind that a page that can render perfectly in Opera – which is THE standards browser – can be messed up by Microsoft attempting to conform to standards. What a (continued) waste of everyone’s time.

ps. 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

[lstelie]

Hello,

I updated my test install with svn and get

Warning: Missing argument 1 for __construct() in /foo/bar/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.bp-roles.php on line 11

and trying to post a messages issues :

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /foo/bar/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.bp-roles.php:11) in /foo/bar/bbpress/bb-includes/pluggable.php on line 213

[chrishajer]

How about this for the Latest Discussions on the front page:

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/front-page-topics/page/2/#post-1707

Not sure if that affects the number of topics shown in the forums or not. I suspect a quick look through the plugin would tell you.

[nsireland]

Thanks so much for the tag code!

Is there a way to change the number of ‘Latest Discussions’ without changing the number of shown topics in the forums?

[nsireland]

I loved bbPress to start with, but it’s become a pain now. bbPress is a lightweight piece of software, although there are some functions that should come with the installation that can be enabled/disabled via the admin panel.

There are just so many add-ons that most forumers want, and I think that bbPress has gone a bit extreme on the lightness, although I love it, other (annoying) forumers don’t, so now I’m stuck between moving to phpBB3 or just opening a guestbook lol.

Three of the main things that should change is being able to simply modify the number of tags in the sidebar. On the same page, it’d be nice to be able to have seperate options for the numbers of latest discussions and actual forum topics shown. People just don’t see the forums with the ‘Latest Discussions’ in the way.

Thirdly, it would be nice to see icons beside each forum, indicating new posts etc.

[_ck_]

You tried the second method and it does that?

It works for me, just tested it on 0.9

function delete_own_post($retvalue, $capability, $args) {

if ($capability=="delete_post") {return bb_current_user_can( 'edit_post', $args[1]);}

return $retvalue;

}

add_filter('bb_current_user_can', 'delete_own_post',10,3);

.

Note that the delete ability times out with the edit ability (1 hour in default install).