[Sam Bauers]

The last release of bbPress (0.8.2.1) is incompatible with WordPress 2.3

You can either upgrade to the latest trunk now, or wait a few days when a new bbPress should be released that is compatible.

See here: https://bbpress.org/blog/2007/09/wordpress-23-is-out/

[neyoung]

Kahil, your method works well if your users use their login name as their display name. However if a user who’s login is user23 changes his display name to John Doe then your code looks for this image. /forum/avatars/John Doe.jpg instead of the correct avatar image which would be /forum/avatars/user23.jpg. I couldn’t figure out a clean way to fix this (I’m using wpmu, not wordpress). But here’s a dirty hack.

<?php

$comment_author_dn = get_comment_author();

$comment_author = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT <code>user_login</code> FROM <code>wp_users</code> WHERE <code>display_name</code> = '$comment_author_dn'");

echo '<img id="comment-avatar" height="50" width="50" src="/forums/avatars/' . (empty($comment_author->user_login) ? "default" : $comment_author->user_login) . '" alt="avatar" />';

?>

That code should find images for a user if they use a display name or not.

/shrug

I haven’t fully tested it, but it seems to work ok.

[warmechoco]

In order to get the forum running, I removed the forums where testing posts have been in. Now I have put new forums in the admin section.. But there are none of them showing!!

Not a single forum help me

[5l4m]

Hi, Everyone – My stylesheet loads in browsers using Mozilla’s Gecko engine (FF, Camino) and also in Opera and Safari 3.0.3 beta for Mac, but it is not loading using OmniWeb (latest) or Safari 2.0.4 which use Apple’s WebKit.

Also, W3C Validator comes up with a 404 when trying to validate the forums.

These forums are integrated with a WP installation with no other apparent issues.

http://1tk.org/forums/

Thanks!

[kineda]

After giving up on bbpress over half a year ago, I decided to give it another shot. The software seems to have matured a bit, and after testing some other routes, I figured it’d still probably be the best bet for integration.

Let me know what your thoughts:

http://www.kineda.com/forums/

[kanni]

Hej guys

I removed the parent category, that’s why you dont see anything. using the newest version (0.8.2.1 ). you can try it yourself, just rebuild the structure in the images above and you will see it doesn’t work…

I noticed that the category in the admin menu jumps back when i refresh the page.

thats what it should look like:

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/4117/richtigrv0.jpg

and that is what it looks like after refreshing:

http://www.monstrs.de/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/falsch.jpg

changing ex to em didn’t change anything

thanks for your help so far, all!

e: here is a link to a completely new installation. same problem.

http://monstrs.de/test/

[LMD]

Thumbnails are now an undocumented feature in version 0.8.3.

It’s undocumented because I think it ought to be road tested first. To use thumbnails you have to enable the feature in the plugin file itself, it is not configurable in the admin options page.

1. Open up bb-avatar-upload.php and in the configuration settings class, scroll down to the following section:

// Use a thumbnail image (hidden feature for now). 1 = yes / 0 = no (default)

$this->use_thumbnail = 0;

$this->thumb_width = 25;

$this->thumb_height = 25;

Set $this->use_thumbnail to 1 to enable and change the dimensions if desired.

When enabled, whenever a user uploads an avatar a smaller copy is created with the prefix ‘thumb.‘ So the avatar username.jpg will have a thumbnail called thumb.username.jpg (the file type changes with the avatar file type, so PNG avatars produce PNG thumbnails etc).

2. You can access the thumbnail image with the following function call:

echo avatarupload_displaythumb($user->ID);

An image tag is returned with the class name avatar_thumb.

<img src="thumb.username.jpg" width="25" height="25" alt="Username" class="avatar_thumb">

I think that covers everything, let me know if you have any problems.

[Cal]

Hello

I’m testing out some things and trying to synchronize WordPress, BBPress and Amember Subscription software. I have pretty much everything worked out, but need a little cookie help if it’s out there.

I’ve read this post, which outlines cookie settings

http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/wordpressbbpress-single-sign-on?replies=22#post-9010

The problem is that I don’t want to install the cookie plugin for WP because I already have this in my Wp-config file

define(‘COOKIEPATH’,’/’);

define(‘SITECOOKIEPATH’, ‘/’);

define(‘COOKIEHASH’, md5($_SERVER[HTTP_HOST]));

I guess my question is, what do I put into my BB config file for cookies?

I realize this may not be a direct BBPress issue, but I thought maybe one of you had an idea.

Thanks

[kannued]

I added GiantFan’s additional filters, but my “tester” can still post to all forums. Using 8.2.1

[kannued]

Hello

I have three bbpress installs on my website, for three very different forums, example: bbpress/a

bbpress/b

bbpress/c

I am just installing the third one, all are on 8.2.1. I noticed a problem when setting up a test profile. On the third forum, bbpress/c, the profile ID was 2. It took the Profile ID from bbpress/b, the second forum, which has nothing to do with third forum. Now, I am afraid of deleting profile ID 2 from bbpress/c because it may delete profile ID 2 from bbpress/b. So now it appears that even with different names for my installs with different names within the config.php files, that the profile IDS are not differentiantiated. This is a major problem.

[henrybb]

Hey.

I asked my friend Steinn to have a look at the code with a fresh pair of eyes, cause he’s more of a php coder than me. He simplified the thing quite a bit as per your ideas.

I then changed it to use the bb_dbDelta() function following the instructions from that link you gave me. So now I have version 0.4.

I hope someone can test it for me.

http://henry.odg.cc/bb_unread_topics/

[airdrawndagger]

They’re not marked as bozos.

Something else happened to a few posts now. The posts themselves don’t show up but the user shows up as “latest poster”. When I click on the latest poster link it goes to the last page of the topic but not the latest post as it’s not there.

I installed the fix-bbpress plugin but it still doesn’t work.

[burtton]

Which edition of WP do you use? 2.0.4 or 2.1? The newest edition allows you to display latest post from wordpress.Just update your WP However, I have a problem too.How could I make a pluging of Audio Player into my blog? I’ve tried several times,but it said: fail to link!

[Heliotropen]

That is my logik too, but have you tried it? ; on the web-site they write:

“This extension is tested with Mediawiki 1.6.9 (the latest release for PHP4) and wordpress 2.1. It will not work (yet) for Mediawiki > 1.6.9 (because of PHP5) but the next version will be PHP5 ready.”

[henrybb]

Hi guys.

I haven’t been running bbPress long, but I’ve had this one problem with Akismet so far, that freaked me out. In that I have no idea why it happens.

I had a user last night sign up, go straight to a thread where users post their myspace pages, and post his. And bam, Akismet said spam, and bbpress said “bozo”.

Every subsequent post by this guy was held back as spam. I finally had the presence of mind to edit his profile and saw he was marked as a bozo. I changed the 1 to 0, thinking naturally that it was a logical flag, which indeed it is, but still every new post by this guy was getting marked as spam. I went into mysql and queried bb_usermeta with his user_id, and saw there was an is_bozo = 0 in there. I deleted that row, but still, all new posts by him were getting marked as spam. And the bozo thing wasn’t returning.

Eventually I disabled Akismet. Now, naturally, there are no posts getting marked as spam. But I had to re-enable Akismet because there were still a couple of posts I hadn’t marked as “not spam”, and when Akismet isn’t installed, you can’t mark things as spam/not spam.

I’m running my forum with a few people (around 10) in it at the moment, just to test it out before I start advertising it more. So it’s not a huge problem, but the point is it really freaked me out that this could happen on a daily basis to alot of users if I had Akismet turned on and a bunch of new registrations.

Anyone have any ideas?

[chrishajer]

Test – lets see…

[_ck_]

I am pleased to have something to finally show for all my searching efforts.

This list is obviously unofficial and just in beta test, I am still adding features and making corrections:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top100

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/view/top1000

There are roughly 1,000 sites listed, with the top 100 to showcase either sheer number of members/posts or user votes for style, etc.

Right now they are listed in order of total members (but you can sort). I will have it eventually list by a weight between members, posts and votes for style.

Also there will be user voting and preview thumbnails of the sites. (I was trying to use snap previews but it suddenly stopped working for me, so they might not have liked hundreds of links on a page, LOL – they are slow anyway and I want to learn to do snapshots via crawling code anyway)

Some interesting observations/conclusions from all my work on this (whew):

1. There are roughly 1000 public bbpress sites in existance

2. A great deal (>~80%) of these sites have less than double-digit members, hence I consider them “micro forums”

3. bbPress is being adopted worldwide in an impressive variety of countries and languages

4. SEO’er/search engine spammers/made-for-adsense makers seem to have found and love bbPress (unfortunately)

5. There are some really amazing designs out there

6. Apparently the people that participate on bbpress.org are a very small fraction of the people using bbPress!

7. At least several dozen sites had installed bbPress and uninstalled it a few weeks later

[baptiste]

Not much traffic – but I’ve got Refresh going for my plugin blog and forums. Matches quite nicely – I mucked with the themes a bit but the ports were done by others thankfully. Getting the integration and WP sidebar on the forums took some fun mucking in the code…

http://plugins.baptiste.us/

http://plugins.baptiste.us/forums/

One of these days I’ll diff the changes I made to the Refresh port to get it to match the WP theme and have everything line up properly…

This site is still under development:

http://onthepitch.org/talk/

Still need to tweak the theme some, but I’ve made a variety of navigational changes. Click any topic and look at the meta section. Click on a forum and note the navigation links. Click on a subforum and note the breadcrumb trail. On the front page – I like having the latest posts first, but added a ‘Forums’ column to indicate where they were and make it easier for folks to jump into a forum (no scrolling down for active forums)

Still a bit to do, but it’s working better each day. The theme will eventually be green – thus the green ads. I keep trying to convince myself NOT to shoehorn in AJAX posting – but I really miss it – something that made bbPress ‘cool’

[baptiste]

I put together a plugin that will allow you to include navigation links to flip forward or backward through forums and/or topics within a forum.

http://plugins.baptiste.us/plugins/nav-links-for-bbpress/

This is a first stab. No online config, etc. yet – just the main code to get the right links and forum/topic IDs. I hope to add some things to it and improve the API a bit to let templates get individual ‘next’ or ‘previous’ links.

I ended up having to do direct DB queries – I couldn’t find a way in the main bbPress code to get me the info I needed, but I’m not super familiar with the core code either so I may have missed something. But no functions or class methods jumped out at me.

I’ll post the bbPress plugin URL for it once it’s approved, but you can download it from the link above.

Here’s a look at what it does on a forum I’m still setting up/messing with.

Topic Nav – look in the meta section under the RSS link:

http://onthepitch.org/talk/topic/test-topic-2

Forum Nav – look under the list of topics:

http://onthepitch.org/talk/forum/soccer-parents

Yes – I know the forum navigation disappears in forums with no posts – side effect of the action hook I used to insert (it seems to return without applying filters when there are no posts – which I guess makes sense if you’re figuring there’s nothing to ‘filter’. But many filers append )

This definitely makes navigation for my setup much easier.

[roniabirk]

Sure: http://www.fandom-rocks.com/forum-feeds/

Looking more closely at the rss.php file, I figured out that the number I change does not affect the number of topics shown in a specific forum, but rather the number of topics in the forum overall, so I guess the question really becomes how do I modify the number of posts shown when I am passing a forum ID?

[_ck_]

I couldn’t find anyone who made a bbPress theme switcher (not a style switch, but the entire template) so I modified (somewhat deeply) one from WordPress last night. Took some research and testing!

I’ve added it here, you can see the dropdown at the very bottom right:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

(if you are willing to edit all your themes you can put the dropdown anywhere, otherwise it will default to that location on each theme automagically – a new feature!)

So give me your themes and I’ll add them to the list to see if I can find the bbPress breaking point…

[bordercollie]

Hey,

i’m using my bbpress with the mysty theme.i’ve been trying to customize it so it can fit the screen of a Playstation Portable without scrolling.

Heres the forum:

http://bordercollie.kilu3.de/forums/bbpress/

the latest disccusion thing is next to the login form.

what do i have to do so the latest disscoussion thing is below?

i guess i’ll hjave to put a <p> tag somewhere but i don’t know.

thanks a lot

alex

[Sam Bauers]

Yep, it’s here…

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/57

[neyoung]

looks like I’m about 1 month late to this discussion… did the plugin ever get released?

[mbwebdesign]

I’ve just launched a new BBPress theme for public testing via my website:

BBPress

It’s available in 4 colours. Feedback, bug reports etc would be greatly appreciated.