[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

[chrishajer]

I don’t think the trunk release is reliable for installations at this point.

Changeset 1076 (aka “this will break everything”)

You should probably install an .8.3.1 release or possibly a revision after .8.3.1 but not the latest trunk. There was a post from sambauers regarding which revision would be best to check out, I think it was revision r980.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/broken-profiles-for-users-with-spaces-in-the-names?replies=5#post-12769

[Olaf Lederer]

Hello,

just updated my forum to the latest version (0.831) and found this new function in several template files:

bb_topic_labels();

after uploading the file I can’t see what’s changed, what is this for a function?

Olaf

[_ck_]

Installed on bbShowcase as a demo:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/?bbtheme=MistyMorning-bbpress

However you need to test+fix it in Firefox.

While it looks okay in IE, there’s a float/clear problem in Firefox and Opera.

There’s also a overflow/width issue in Safari that I can’t quickly identify.

[Sam Bauers]

You are right, 1075 is probably the most stable release for “cutting-edge” users, but we would appreciate testing of trunk during integration of BackPress.

We do intend to experiment with PingBacks and TrackBacks in topics via XML-RPC, and you could be right about spam, but we won’t know until we try. We will build out the spam tools provided by Akismet to try and meet the challenge of spam at the same time. There are also other ways in which we can utilise XML-RPC besides those two features which you may not have considered, we already have some cool ideas about user integration and content aggregation that should be driven by the needs of the hosted project. I hope you don’t leave us just for giving it a whirl

The “Press” names are mostly about branding and the they need not be taken literally. We can leverage a lot of good-will by associating with WordPress, and we intend to create better ways to integrate the two projects, regardless of where they are installed or hosted.

[_ck_]

Thanks for taking the time to write that up.

I guess my biggest question for now is if build 1075 should be treated as the most relatively stable build for alpha users.

I’ll say this to the day I abandon bbpress – adding trackbacks/pingbacks to it is the biggest waste of limited time and resources and will make the program the spammers target of choice while leaving it with the worst reputation.

ps. if Matt held some kind of contest I am sure a better name could be come up with than “TalkPress”. The problem is he wants to stick to that “press” suffix which implies a one-way communication for a something that is specifically for two-way interaction.

[Sam Bauers]

Things may be a bit confusing at the moment with two new and different names flying around. I’ll do my best to clarify things and we can use this topic for everyone to ask questions on the subject and provide input.

For those who are interested, the first thing to do is read this post (and the articles it links to) in the blog:

The future for bbPress

That post is pretty vague about things. So let me be more specific here. First, I’d like to make it clear that bbPress is not being replaced or abandoned or drastically changing direction. As for the two new names that have been mentioned, I’ll cover them below.

BackPress:

bbPress has a lot of shared code with WordPress. BackPress is the name of a new project which is attempting to normalise this shared code into a set of generic files that will simply plug in to both projects (and potentially others). This allows us to leverage the testing and improvements made to this shared code without the overheads of manually merging changes. This way we can spend more time on bbPress’ unique code and extending new functionality.

TalkPress:

It has been public for a while that Automattic intends to create a hosted forums service based on the bbPress project code. The intention is to make this work much like the existing WordPress.com hosted service for blogs. Matt Mullenweg let it slip that the working name for the project (and not necessarily the service) is TalkPress. We probably won’t talk much about it here, but I can say that the majority of the code written to create this new project will be released as open source. Regardless of the name of that service when it launches, the name of this project, “bbPress”, will not change.

As for the upcoming work for bbPress, I’m happy to elabrorate here:

bbPress code:

Along with the inclusion of BackPress into trunk, there are other things going on. We are in the process of implementing a new taxonomy structure for tags. Improving bbPress’ object cache to make it compatible with various WordPress object cache plugins. Replacing the fairly ordinary “favourites” system with a much more flexible and useful topic aggregation tool, and later on we will be incorporating a set of functionality based around the XML-RPC tools available in WordPress such as pingbacks and trackbacks.

bbPress.org website

The bbPress.org website is due for a clean up. Most importantly, the extend area will be upgraded to include a plugin repository similar in functionality to the one that exists on the WordPress.org website. There is a possibility that we will also launch a theme repository based on the same system. A little later on, we plan to re-design the whole site.

I hope this clears things up a little and I’m happy to answer any questions here. I can’t think of anything, but it’s possible that there may be some things that I can’t say about the hosted service project. Feel free to ask though.

[sydspinnin]

I installed bbPress into my WP directory such that its index.php lives here: http://stlrevolution.com/teamrev/forums/

The admin tool seems to work fine. I am able to create topics and whatnot, see users, and all that. BUT, when I click on a topic, I receive file not found message.

For example, I went to add a new test topic:

http://stlrevolution.com/teamrev/forums/?new=1

And when I clicked [Send Post], instead of seeing the post or some other page displayed, I received an error for this url:

http://stlrevolution.com/teamrev/forums/topic/3?replies=1#post-3

When I look in the forums folder, there is no “topic” folder, so I’m wondering what exactly I messed up during installation. Please advise. Thank you.

[healthstatus]

made the

Try this: $bb->mod_rewrite = false;

change, deleted the .htaccess file, same result

http://www.healthstatus.com/health_blog/forums/forum.php?id=1

results in

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_header() in /usr/local/www/vhosts/healthstatus.com/htdocs/health_blog/forums/forum.php on line 1

I also tried to delete a test post and it won’t delete.

[healthstatus]

using bbpress .8.3 I can view my main page (http://www.healthstatus.com/health_blog/forums), I can view a latest discussion by clicking on it, but when I click on a forum, I get the message:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function bb_get_header() in /…../forums/forum.php on line 1

Second, when I try and add a forum (from the admin screen) it just flashes at me but doesn’t add the new forum.

[chrishajer]

The bug you have run into is fixed in the latest trunk release, or you can see this thread and this post specifically about the change to make:

PHP Error Messages

It’s been discussed before as well:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/warning-invalid-argument-supplied-for-foreach-in-bb-settingsphp-on-line-173

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/installation-problem-cannot-modify-header-information

It’s just a php warning, and your server is configured to show warnings, so you see it. It does point to a problem with the code, but even with the warning, everything still works fine.

[mn8n]

I am logged in as admin synced with WP but cannot click the links to profile or logout

Latest WP and bbP

Here is the only location that appears relevant to me…. (not a php guy)

<p class="login">

<?php printf(__('Welcome, %1$s!'), bb_get_current_user_info( 'name' ));?> <?php bb_profile_link(); ?>

<small>(<?php bb_admin_link( 'after= | ' );?><?php bb_logout_link(); ?>)</small>

</p>

Whatever that’s doing, it’s not writing any links for View profile, (Admin | Log out)

see it here http://www.homeinteriorart.com/hia/forum/ – unclickable

It IS writing the link as viewing the source shows…. but it’s unusable

[starnet]

Thanks chrishajer and Trent. That was what I was leaning towards doing. I thought maybe there’s a way to incorporate bbPress’s loop inside WP’s.

Now back to the drawing board creating the site’s common theme for bbP and WP.

[Trent Adams]

If you search in https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ there is actually a plugin to do this for wordpress if I am not mistaken as well, but I use the way that chrishajer suggests myself as RSS feeds are easy to change and doesn’t require bbPress be in the same database

Trent

[Trent Adams]

Do you have a link to your forum for a little testing?

Trent