[_ck_]

But WP 2.4 should be out in March perhaps?

So it would be a nice co-release at that time.

I’ve got the two trunks purring along together, though I had to smack WP into submission to reduce the default mysql queries per page (27 for the default install with a single test post is a little high, wouldn’t you say?) Still trying to figure out if I can disable the new tag system in WP to reduce the load further.

[Sam Bauers]

Also, BackPress may or may-not be incorporated into WordPress. bbPress is a testing ground for the concept. If it doesn’t get incorporated into WordPress it doesn’t really matter, hopefully we’ll at least have a better structured core in bbPress as a result.

[edwinfoo]

The 2 key issues are server uptime and email reliability.

In the short 4 months that my forum has been running, I’ve had so many incidences of users registering 2 usernames. I’ve come to learn that the 2nd one is out of frustration that the email containing the password did not arrive.

This weekend, I have had no outbound email and sick of spending money on AdWords to bring in people that can’t sign up.

Apart from the registration email, I am using both Auto Favorite & Post Notification plugins. Therefore, reliable email is very important to maintain posting activity.

I’ve read alot about concerns that bbPress isn’t sending email. After extensive testing and in my situation, the problem is with the host.

I’m looking to avoid dedicated hosting at this time because my day job is funding this venture already. Can anyone recommend a hosting service that offers good reliability in both uptime and email?

[howtogeek]

Here’s a function that changes the last poster to a link to the last post:

function geek_addlatest_link()

{

global $topic;

echo ‘ topic_id) . ‘”>’.get_topic_last_poster($topic->topic_id).’‘;

}

Just needs to be added into a theme like this:

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

<td class=”num”><?php geek_addlatest_link(); ?></td>

[salman1485]

problem solved..

instead of localhost i had to enter the other thing which dreamhost told me …

but now another problem

the forum is working fine http://test.nofullstop.com/bbpress/

but the slugs arnt??

what went wrong now??

[_ck_]

I have now updated “My-Views” to support pagination (multi-page) views for all the standard style views.

version 0.09 should be in the plugin browser shortly…

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/67

you can see a demonstration of the feature here:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/latest-discussions

[salman1485]

i use different database for my wordpress blogs and i created new database for my test forum

database name: testforum

user: testforum

password is also correct

I doubt what I need to enter in host..currently it is localhost and i am using dreamhost to host my account… but i am sure i do not need to enter that in place of localhost..!!

so what could be the problem?

and in that BBLANG i have written en even though i dont have any MO file..

confused …please help me

[salman1485]

I am not sure what is wrong with my config.php file..

this is a test forum which i am not finalising so i created a new database with new password and new user and updated the config.php file with the details…please tell me what is the problem..am copying the file here (pwd, akismet key, email have been removed)

______________________________________________

<?php

// ** MySQL settings ** //

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘testforum’); // The name of the database

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘testforum’); // Your MySQL username

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change these last few

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); // If you are *upgrading*, and your old config.php does

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ”); // not have these two contstants in them, DO NOT define them

// If you are installing for the first time, leave them here

// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple forums in a single database.

$bb_table_prefix = ‘bb_’; // Only letters, numbers and underscores please!

// The full URL of your bbPress install

$bb->uri = ‘http://test.nofullstop.com/&#8217;;

// What are you going to call me?

$bb->name = ‘test forum’;

// This must be set before you run the install script.

$bb->admin_email = ‘something@gmail.com’;

// Set to true if you want pretty permalinks, set to ‘slugs’ if you want to use slug based pretty permalinks.

$bb->mod_rewrite = slugs;

// The number of topics that show on each page.

$bb->page_topics = 15;

// A user can edit a post for this many minutes after submitting.

$bb->edit_lock = 1;

// Your timezone offset. Example: -7 for Pacific Daylight Time.

$bb->gmt_offset = 0;

// Change this to localize bbPress. A corresponding MO file for the

// chosen language must be installed to bb-includes/languages.

// For example, install de.mo to bb-includes/languages and set BBLANG to ‘de’

// to enable German language support.

define(‘BBLANG’, ‘en’);

// Your Akismet Key. You do not need a key to run bbPress, but if you want to take advantage

// of Akismet’s powerful spam blocking, you’ll need one. You can get an Akismet key at

// http://wordpress.com/api-keys/

$bb->akismet_key = ”; // Example: ‘0123456789ab’

// The rest is only useful if you are integrating bbPress with WordPress.

// If you’re not, just leave it as it is.

$bb->wp_table_prefix = ”; // WordPress table prefix. Example: ‘wp_’;

$bb->wp_home = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: Blog address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

$bb->wp_siteurl = ”; // WordPress – Options->General: WordPress address (URL) // Example: ‘http://example.com&#8217;

/* Stop editing */

if ( !defined(‘BBPATH’) )

define(‘BBPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’ );

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

?>

______________________________________________

please help me ..

[chrishajer]

“Put in a plugin” means:

1. create a new file with a text editor.

2. give it a name like “bb-restrict-new-topic.php”

3. create a header in the file that tells bbPress this file is a plugin, like this:

<?php

/*

Plugin Name: Restrict New Topic

Description: Restrict new topic creation by members

Version: 0.1

*/

4. put the text from that other page into the rest of the file.

5. be sure to close the file with a ?>

6. put that new file in your bb-plugins folder.

7. activate the plugin in your admin panel

8. test test test

I think the plugin file will look like this when you’re done.

http://pastebin.com/f488c97d5

[Graeme]

Has anyone experience an issue with the rss forum feed of recent posts being empty? I’ve checked my php logs and no errors are showing up. I’m running the latest version of bbPress installed in the /forums/ directory.

[chrishajer]

1. Looks like this is the correct URL:

http://test.nofullstop.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php

2. Looks like the database connection details in config.php are incorrect:

Cannot select DB.

[tmeister]

umm..

The rigth address is:

http://test.nofullstop.com/bbpress/bb-admin/install.php

Cheers

[tmeister]

hi.

thanks

_ck_ no, i can´t make it publicly because i use a licenced theme for joomla that i modified for WP, but i can´t redistribute it, Sorry

agentmaxi, i will test it in safari

thanks again

See ya

[salman1485]

Hi

I owe the domain nofullstop.com and I started a domain test.nofullstop.com

Then I set up a MySql database on the URL testforum.test.nofullstop.com

After this I changed the config-sample.php file to config.php and entered the required information in that file.

Now when I load http://test.nofullstop.com/bb-admin/install.php it shows a 404 error..??

what did I miss??

I upload the bbpress files to my root folder test.nofullstop.com/

please help quick…please

thank you

[chrishajer]

Is there any interest in doing something like this for bbPress?

http://install4free.wordpress.net/

There are quite a few gotchas in getting bbPress up and running these days. The latest development trunk doesn’t work, and the 0.8.3.1 release doesn’t work for a lot of people either. So, people are forced to edit files, apply patches or download an interim revision. What if we did something like http://install4free.wordpress.net/ but for bbPress?

I have offered to help people off list before, but some are hesitant. Having something like this would add legitimacy to anyone offering to help. In fact, it flips it around. Someone wanting help requests it at that site, and then a volunteer from the project contacts them. Not as much chance of a random dude trying to mess with their server.

[Graeme]

A great looking theme! I noticed that the font resizing buttons do not work in Safari browser. There is a windows version of safari is available if you want to test on that platform.

Link to download page: Safari Download.

[Sam Bauers]

See this post for a solution.

PHP Error Messages

This was a problem before this version, but is fixed in the latest builds.

[purus]

By the way, assuming I can get these functions to run, what would be the function for getting the current users’s id?

I got lost somewhere in bb_get_current_user() and bb_get_user() without really being able to figure out what returns what. If I can get them running though, then I can test them, so I should be able to figure it out…

[fel64]

Upgrade your version of bb to the latest official build (and the same for wp if you haven’t yet). In general you should always upgrade, particularly before asking for help.

[chrishajer]

> I can’t see a good reason why I should spend

> money to upgrade because it’s not something that I can do.

bbPress == Free Software.

And actually, spending money when you can’t do something yourself is pretty much how it works. If I can’t rebuild the engine on my car, I pay someone to do it. I don’t think anyone was suggesting you spend more money: upgrading to the latest release is good advice when the software is in BETA. It makes troubleshooting things easier to know you have the latest release. In this case though, I don’t think upgrading will have any effect on this problem. It can be solved with CSS, not new functions or bug fixes from the latest bbPress.

[mpm]

I have this error after upgrading to latest wpmu.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare update_user_status() (previously declared in /xxx/xxx/public_html/wp-admin/includes/mu.php:303) in /xxx/xxx/public_html/community/bb-includes/functions.php on line 817

what does it mean?

I get it when publishing and/or editing a post from wp-admin and I also get it when using the bbsync functions on the profile tab.

[_ck_]

Okay I have created a new plugin “Human Test” which will do some tests during registration to try to slow down the bots.

Eventually will do more tricky things like captcha and variable math but for version 0.01 it simply asks what the answer to 2+2 is.

I need to know if this still works with older versions and weird themes:

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2008/01/human-test.txt

Awaiting inclusion in the bbPress plugin depository for newer versions.

[_ck_]

I just noticed that over the past few months there are at least 50 fake signups on bbShowcase (out of 250).

Has anyone made a captcha or turing test plugin for the bbPress signup yet? I can’t seem to find one.

[Sam Bauers]

@ _ck_

I suggest you try a new test install of both bbPress and WordPress integrated to see the way the auth and secrets are supposed to match up in a “clean” environment. You should be able to adjust things in your existing installation as a result.

[chrishajer]

Sam, I think this should be made sticky. For a while, the conventional wisdom was to tell people to grab the latest trunk to fix the underscore plugin issue and the mysqli issue, but that’s no longer true. There is no good reason for a non-developer to use trunk at this point, I don’t think. Is the best advice for people who just want to install a working version of bbPress to use r980, as you posted about a month ago, or has that advice changed?

Thanks,

Chris