[_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.

[Null]

Looks nice just 2 comments:

– The background mouseover is still green, would change that to some blue-ish

– The bold black titles (like latest discussions, views etc) are kinda too hard black for the theme. I would soften these or give them the color that ADD NEW haas now (ofcourse the add new would get a new color too then) I think it would blend in better then the hard black.

_Null

[_ck_]

Ugh sorry.

I will have to create a bunch of fake posts to try to test a similar environment.

Because of the way bbpress calculates those pages, this is a very tricky process (also a very annoying process).

If all you are trying to affect is just the front page, there is a direct hack for the core you can do which should not affect any other page and allow all other plugins to work properly.

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/3?replies=15#post-346

In theory it will work better than any other plugin method.

I’ve got my hands full right now working on an advanced user tracking program to replace simple onlinelist that works across wordpress+bbpress.

[mciarlo]

Thank you–I will test this out at the earliest.

[_ck_]

Okay I think I have a workaround.

Try this.

http://ckon.wordpress.com/files/2007/08/change_topics_per_page.txt?v002

Don’t really have a way to test, so you’ll have to let me know. You’ll have to re-edit the limits at the top, sorry.

[Null]

“We’re pleased to announce the latest release of jQuery: jQuery 1.1.4. Barring any horrible mistakes, this release will be the last of the 1.1.x branch – leading us up to the release of jQuery 1.2 in September.”

New trac made for updating jQuery

[chrishajer]

roniabirk: do you have a URL where this is happening?

[roniabirk]

I modified rss.php trying to reduce the number of topics returned in the feed, but it still returns all of them. Am I missing a step somewhere?

[w3creativa]

Hi Ganzua, Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me. I believe, as you say, that it is not the best solution but, apparently, the only one at the moment (?).

I wonder how did other users managed to translate their integrated bbpress.

Thanks again!

[ganzua]

“hi, I have the same problem. Has anyone found a way to integrate and change the language without errors?”

I managed to translate a wp-bb integration but I don’t know if you are going to like my workaround;

1. edit bbpress config.php and in define language section point to your wp language file with this code; ‘ define(‘BBLANGDIR’, ‘wp-includes/languages/es_ES.mo’); ‘ (change es_ES.mo for the name of your language .mo file)

2. edit wp language .po file and insert there your bbpress .po file. In other words, copy/paste all bbpress entries at the end of wp .mo file

3. Open with poedit and try to save this modifed file. You’re going to have +-100 duplicated entries in an error log. Delete all duplicated entries, one by one, so you can save.

4. When you save with poedit you produce 2 files; .po file and a .mo file. This .mo file is the one you want. Now you have translated both; wp and bbpress with just one .mo file.

I do know that this workaround implies a lot of future problems and I don’t like it at all but I didn’t find any other way.

I hope someday bbpress will appear as a plugin for wordpress.

[amethystdragon]

The myavatar plugin supports Gravatar but I need to do some more work to update it to the latest code – Give me a few days

[Anne-Lise]

I have more or less the same problem. My forum is only accessible to WordPress users of the blog the forum is linked to. They cannot register themselves. Therefore registration is not possible on the forum either. All user names consist of two words. When I, or another user, is logged in in WP and then switches to the forum, he or she has to login again. When user name and password are filled in correctly and the login button is clicked, the user is redirected to a page where it says that the login failed and that he or she has to try again. But this time the space between the words of which the username consists is deleted (‘tester twee’ becomes ‘testertwee’). Logging in with the newly formed username doesn’t work either, of course. Logging in with a username that is made up of one word is no problem (for example ‘admin’).

This problem didn’t exist in the previous version of BBpress and it doesn’t have anything to do with the browser either since I tested this with Firefox as well as with IE. I also tried deactivating all plugins, but wasn’t the solution either.

I hope there is anyone who can help me fix this, because it’s really annoying. I was so glad I finally found a rather simple forum that could be integrated with WP.

[w3creativa]

hi, I have the same problem. Has anyone found a way to integrate and change the language without errors?

[rosebud]

I am having problems with the character encoding of my bbpress install. I have it integrated with wordpress and when I use the “Latest bbpress discussions” plugin I see the weird characters you get when you mix collations and charsets.

I have wordpress in utf-8 thanks to this plugin: utf8 dtaabase converter.

Before it I had it set to utf but still, the database was showing weird characters (the collation was alright though). So this is probably a MySQL problem somewhere.

Should I try to adapt the wordpress utf8 converter for bbpress?

[ronjroy]

Just down loaded latest version and it says copy the confi.example.php to the config.php and I don’t see a document called config.php. What do they mean?

[_ck_]

Yeah all the “users online” and user tracking can only come after I release a user tracking plugin

[crazybatca]

Try this:

.post { display: block; width: 100%; overflow: auto; overflow-x: auto; overflow-y: hidden; }

Tested in IE 6, Opera 9.23 and Firefox 2.0.0.6 on the PC

Didn’t test it on IE 7 though, so you might want to look at that…

cb