fel64. Thanks for the input on the HTML!
Created a test account for people to see the Account and problems.
username=demo
psswrd=demo
mysoberlife dot com
I added div id=wrap, div id=header, & div id=right to my bbpress template. That solved all position issues in Mozilla. However IE is even more of a mess now.
OK, so I have a WP/bbP integrated blog/forum that also uses bbPress instead of comments. It works really well, with the only problem being that the “Latest Discussion” is almost always just a list of the last 10 blog posts since we don’t get a whole lot of comments. To fix this, I worked up a plugin that grabs the last “X” topics that have 2 or more posts and displays them in a table just like the Latest Discussion table.
You can see exactly what I am talking about here.
And, no, it doesn’t play nice with my bb-Topic-Views plugin. It sucks, I know. Maybe I’ll figure out how to fix this later…
Would anyone else be interested in a plugin like this? If so, I’ll spend the time writing up the documentation, etc. so it can be released as an official plugin. If I don’t hear from anyone, I will probably not waste any more time on it since it is already working as I want it to on my site.
Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
#1: There are no style rules to tell the forum to go into the column. It’s just made of unstyled divs inside the body element. I don’t know how comfortable you are with HTML, but they should go inside the div with id wrap. That would really fix the greatest issue. You don’t need CSS to do that, since the wrap element would already do that (and the forum could actually be next to the sidebar).
#2: Please create a test account for us to see the HTML that’s causing a problem, or log in and copy the HTML to a pastebin and link to it here. My clue would be that there’s something wrong with the HTML, by the way. Is this an IE7 exclusive problem?
Oh great! Thx, it’s just what I needed.
cweb: I think this is fixed in the latest trac version and will be in 1.0:
https://trac.bbpress.org/ticket/599
How about this for including the latest bbPress posts in your WordPress sidebar?
https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/359?replies=30
I have a question related to this.
If I can use a RSS feed on my WP Home Page, is there maybe a “Latest Discussions” feed from my bbPress forum that I could use?
bbx
Hi
I would put in my sidebar the latest discussions of the forum (exactly the same as the one on bbpress homepage).
As I was unable to enable BB functions in WP (and vice versa), I was wondering if there was another way to do that.
If not, could you help me with enabling BB functions in WP?
Thx.
bbx
“Another way to do .. parse your forum rss feed.”
Exactly what I was going to suggest. If the WP theme is widgetized, its user should have the RSS widget available, so he/she can just plug in the link to your bbPress install’s RSS feed. If not, he/she can use any number of RSS-in-sidebar plugins to accomplish this. (Or if they’re like me, do it by hand and use a plain RSS-to-PHP script.)
Here’s a plugin for this.
http://www.network.net.au/bbpress/plugins/post-count-titles/post-count-titles.latest.zip
However, my hosts DNS servers are having some issues so it may timeout on some people. It should be added to the official plugin browser soon.
I have 2 bbpress instalation.
First is public and use akismet.
Second is for testing and doesn’t use akismet.
I don’t know if it is a bug, but on public forum every my post treaten like a spam even when i’m logged in.
On second forum, it doesn’t post unless I press “Undelete entire topic”.
What I need:
If someone post topic or reply it automaticaly show to public, and if akismet says it could be a spam it should only warn on special page, not block post.
Hey Guys.
I got the forum installed and all. Added the blurb above the config, added a .htaccess to bbpress/ root, and all the other steps suggested….
But can’t seem to get the links to work on the main page?
Was using firefox, switched to IE and the theme appears to work in IE not firefox…. that was one thing I noticed… not as important…
When I click to start a post, i get the forum, and when i post I get “The page isn’t redirecting properly” in Firefox, and in IE it tries to load forever.
Then wehn I go back to the main forum page…. there the new post is…
When I click on the post title or forum title, it tries to access in firefox, then i get the same error.
Now i’m testing all this on my local pc, using Xampp which is basically Apache as it’s server. I recently created a .htaccess file for my wordpress root, but it’s currently blank, does it need something? I’d like to get pretty permalinks working, but at the moment, that is the least of my worries.
Any assistance for this?
It is greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
Omar
MMember
Wow, so much hate… I’m not trying to insult anyone’s sense of intelligence by making this appear easier than it is. It’s just dead simple. I see no great complexity in it. It’s still a “basic MySQL query.”
Why muck around in the usermeta? That’s far too much work if you ask me.
Perhaps I’m wrong.
function get_user_title( $id ) {
global $bbdb;
$pc_query = "SELECT COUNT(post_id)
FROM $bbdb->posts
WHERE poster_id = $id
AND post_status = 0";
$post_count = $bbdb->query( $pc_query );
if( $post_count <= 10 ) {
$title = "Noob";
} elseif( $post_count <= 20 ) {
$title = "Might stick around";
} elseif( $post_count <= 30 ) {
$title = "Title for 30";
} elseif( $post_count <= 40 ) {
$title = "Over the hill";
.
.
.
} elseif( $post_count <= 90 ) {
$title = "Post whore";
} elseif( $post_count > 100 ) {
$title = "Regular";
} else {
$title = "Error";
}
return $title;
}
This way you don’t have to mess around with updating anything… it’s generated on the fly.
Do take note that I haven’t tested the code. I wrote it in about 5 minutes, so I didn’t get around to testing. It’s the concept I’m talking about though.
I am running the latest alpha…it was switched to commas? Can it be switched back? Spaces I think are much more common a tag method than commas (or can it be hacked to acccept both?)
Yes, that’s an interesting oversight; it seems that the tag-adding field when making a new post is comma-delimited in version 1.0-alpha. If of course you’re still running 0.81, I have no idea but it might be worth to test the comma delimiting.
I just downloaded this plugin and used with the current version 0.8.1 and it seems to work for me. At first I was marked with 1 but after using this plugin and saving myself as 0 and creating some test accounts no new accounts seem to be marked as “1” anymore. So, It seems to have work for me. Thanks for releasing this.
Anaon, delete the old files from this plugin, download the plugin again and put the files back where they belong. Hopefully that will work. If not, download the latest version of bb and replaces the files on your server with new ones. It’s a strange error which seems to indicate to me that loading bb-load.php did not succeed fully.
If a required file requires another file and that fails, does the original requirement also fail or generate a warning/error?
The crazy thing about it is: If i synchronize XAMPP with my Laptop and test bbPress on it with Firefox, it works fine. Back on my PC. I have the same trouble as before.
Nothing off the top of my head. Do you have a URL to test on?
Trent
Actually, when I just try to add a new identity for testing, it seems to have automatically been set as a moderator.
That’s a bit worrying! What happens if every user becomes a mod?
Also remember WP is in version 2.1, while bb is still before official release at version 0.8. 
Actually, when I just try to add a new identity for testing, it seems to have automatically been set as a moderator.
ohhh i really wish i could do that . I am no where close to programming in php . Is it not possible for me to request such kind of plugin as normally if you see its a feature in most of the sites as they show the lastest joined users and also online users with avatars 
fel64 – Thanks for the rundown. Unfortunately, I know very little about coding, so I’ll leave it up to somebody else. And that somebody may be dyaddydad!
dyaddydad, I’d love to check out the plugin. Can you send it over to me so I can test it? kamera at gmail dot com. Thanks!
It is possible but I don’t know of any plugins to do it. You can probably do it yourself fairly easily though . You need to make a WordPress plugin that will call the data and display it. You can get the data by using something like
global $wpdb;
$latestusers = $wpdb->get_results("MySQL query");
but the wordpress wpdb reference and plugin writing reference will be of more help.
