[so1o]

Spencer

two ways..

1) edit /index.php

change line 12 to

$topics = get_latest_topics(0,1,'x');

where x is the forum id of the ‘Blog Article Discussions’ forum

2) plugin

create a file named my-own-blog-forum-filter.php plugin in the my-plugins directory.. or any name you want.. and have the following code in it

<?php

function my_frontpage_forum_filter($where) {

$where .= " AND forum_id NOT IN ('x') ";

}

add_filter('get_latest_topics_where', 'my_frontpage_forum_filter');

?>

again replace x with the forum id that you need

[spencerp]

ardentfrost, maybe you can help me..? I’m using the bbPress Post (0.02) by mByte, and with his plugin.. I had made a forum for the blog posts to show up, however.. I would like to make the blog posts, stay ONLY IN the “Blog Article Discussions” forum..

Instead of them showing up in the “Latest Discussions” part of the forums index page.. And just have ONLY the threads made in the forums, show in the “Latest Discussions” section of the forum.. Is there maybe something that could be done for this?

I’m basically asking to exclude one of the forums, from the “Latest Discussions” section. Thanks in advanced..

spencerp

[so1o]

double check the $bb->domain and $bb->path variables..

make sure you have the latest code..

disable any plugins you have… specially if they have a filter applied to bb_tags.php

also do you have custom templates or have you modified templates..

[Michael Adams (mdawaffe)]

Did you install that pluign in bbPress’ my-plugins folder?

What is your Display name set to? (In your WordPress profile)

[richardjeanderson]

I’ve just installed bbforum to test and play around with, but have hit a niggling problem – I hope people can help.

In the breadcrumb navigation for tags, urls of this forum work:

http://www.learning2goblog.org/bbforum/tags.php?tag=bbpress

but if I click onto the “Tags” link in the breadcrumb navigation (i.e. I open

http://www.learning2goblog.org/bbforum/tags.php), the page does not load, and in Firefox I get the message

---

The page isn’t redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.

---

Has anyone else experienced this problem? I’m using the latest version of bbforum, no permalinks.

Thanks for any help you can give.

[ardentfrost]

I wanted a way to let the topics listed under “Latest Discussion” expire after a while (eg., no longer show up if there has been no activity after a week), so I wrote this little plugin which works alright, except it messes up the forums. Each forum, when clicked, shows all posts no matter what forum they’re in.

Any help would be appreciated. This is a simple script, I just copied the $where code from functions.php and added the filter, then added my “expire after 7 days” addition. Any help would be appreciated, I’m probably just not seeing something simple.

function get_where_plugin() {

$forum = (int) $forum;

$where = 'WHERE topic_status = 0';

if ( $forum )

$where .= " AND forum_id = $forum ";

if ( !empty( $exclude ) )

$where .= " AND forum_id NOT IN ('$exclude') ";

if ( is_front() )

$where .= " AND topic_sticky <> 2 AND SUBDATE(NOW(), INTERVAL 7 DAY) < topic_time "; // 2nd part is my addition

elseif ( is_forum() || is_view() )

$where .= " AND topic_sticky = 0 ";

return $where;

}

add_filter ( 'get_latest_topics_where', 'get_where_plugin' );

To see how it’s misbehaving, you can go to http://www.rayd.org/forums/ and just click on either forum (General Chat or New Forum Discussion) and see that both contain the same data. However, it’s working great on the front page.

[Trent Adams]

First off, which plugin are you using with WP for LDAP authentication?

My understanding of some of the plugins is that the user has to be created in WP first. Not sure if they automate this process or not. All that changes is the authentication process, the password from the LDAP server and maybe the cookie.

Standard WP and bbPress integration works with sharing the WP users. If the LDAP plugin doesn’t use the WP user password, not sure if this information would move over to bbPress.

Short of testing it, I would imagine it would depend on whether the password is updated in the WP users table of the database. Maybe ask the plugin author if he/she thinks this would be possible?

Another thing, there is a plugin that pulls the users out of WP into bbPress. That being said, if the username and password are stored in WP, then there shouldn’t be a problem integrating even with using LDAP.

Of course, if someone else knows something that could be added to this discussion, please do!

Trent

[YellowSwordfish]

I’m not sure how to tell whether it’s readable? If, for example, I drop a phpinfo script into the ‘forum’ folder then I can display that OK – as I can the image in the forum/bb-images folder.

And yes – I am attempting to run the /forum/bb-admin/install/php script. For the record, trying index.php gives the same blank screen.

Puzzling! As I say my WP test site has been running successfully for a long time as has a local copy of Gallery2.

[YellowSwordfish]

I am trying to install bbPress to my local Mac into a subfolder of my test WP installation which has been set up and working for over a year now.

This means my url is not an ‘www.example.com’ address but a 127.0.0.1 (or, in my case, my local network IP which works just as well). So I have set up config.php with this address. and the path as ‘/forum/’.

When then trying to run the install script however, it just takes me to a comletely blank page. (A similar problem was raised here: http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/143?replies=1 but received no reply).

Does anyone have any ideas what this points to?

[Trent Adams]

Good thinking. Using the logged in status natural to bbPress to do this. Just looking at the code it would work, but I will test this out on my dev forum and report back as well. I could see this expanded into a plugin very easily….

Trent

[papercuts3]

I needed desperately a script that would restrict all access to unregistered users so I wrote one. But I am an absolute beginner so don’t know no nothin’ about elegance or whatnot but I just tested it in my installation and it works.

The thing is naturally bb_press has authentication scripts. but to make all you website protected you need to put this in your header.php. However bb-login.php, which your users need to login also use the header.php, so I had to make sure that this small script runs on all pages EXCEPT the login page.

Here’s the script:

<?php

$login_page = $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’;

if ($_SERVER != $login_page) {

if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {

header(‘Location: ‘ . $bb->domain . $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’);

} else { }

}

else { }

?>

How to Use it:

1. Copy paste the above code to your my-templates/header.php AT THE VERY TOP of the file. Make sure you leave no empty space before the <?php line (use something like TextPad – it’s free). So you header should look like:

<?php

$login_page = $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’;

if ($_SERVER != $login_page) {

if ( !bb_is_user_logged_in() ) {

header(‘Location: ‘ . $bb->domain . $bb->path . ‘bb-login.php’);

} else { }

}

else { }

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN” ….

That’s it. Since I use the values you provided in you BBPRESS setup all the paths should be correct.

Like I said I am complete newbie, so use at your own risk. BACKUP your header.php, or if something goes wrong just delete the script you just added.

Hope it works for you,

Caner

[spencerp]

Seems to have installed just fine! I’ll run around and check for any errors and report back here.. I installed that right along with my 2.1 alpha3 test blog, click the link below to see it..

http://21.spencerp.net/

spencerp

[spencerp]

Oh wait, slaps self.. I just noticed this: “We’ve only tested bbPress integration with the most recent stable release of WordPress, 2.0.5.”

Alright, hmm.. maybe I’ll give it a shot then once.. maybe, I will have to cross the fingers though lol.. Wish me luck peoples!

spencerp

[thomasklaiber]

When you go to your profile preferences there should be a new section… look here:

http://la-school.com/bbpress/profile.php?id=2&tab=edit (Login: Test / test )

[circuit]

even after installing the plugin to get display names showing, the top of any forum topic still says

# Started 1 minute ago by admin

# Latest reply from admin

how can i fix this?

[ear1grey]

Hi Null, to do that you need to change your template a bit and create a new hook, which is dead easy, and a testament to the flexibility of the event model that underpins both WP&bb.

1. Copy topic.php from bb-templates into my-templates (you may need to create this folder).
2. Find the for loop near line 29 – it will read something like this: <?php foreach ($posts as $bb_post) : $del_class = post_del_class(); ?>
3. Immediately before it (outside the loop, but inside the <?php) add the line $need_to_show_ad=true;
4. Then change the line <?php bb_post_template(); ?> to read <?php bb_post_template(); if ($need_to_show_ad) { do_action('showadvert'); $need_to_show_ad=false; } ?>
5. Finally, change the action in the plugin so it fires on your newly created hook add_action('showadvert', array('bb_adsense','wide_advert'));

… and an admin page? Maybe when bbPress matures!

[sidzzz]

I know, I wanna wait too… coz this is neat and fast. And plus since I love WP so damn much and have practically been using it like a CMS and dont call it a blogging SW anymore….

I tested vanilla on another site.. it looks very cool… feels so damn web 2.0, but it is very slow….

Any idea when an img plugin might be up? I wouldnt like to go in with a JavaScript option… wish I knew some programming!

[yottabite]

Is there anyway to post via a URL?

I.e.; http://forum.blandname.com/?new=1&topic=1&subject=test&post=”this is a test”

If this is not possible, is there a way to port the WordPress bookmarklet to bbPress?

[yottabite]

Is there any way to make a function, say: “get_latest_topic”, or simply limit the “get_latest_topics” function to display only the latest topic, but also include the full post?

If not, there may be some other way that I am missing in order to add the content of the latest post to the frontpage, without going all-out and using Worpress for this view.

Thanks in advance!

[worrypascanada]

I have resolved my bbPress/WordPress user name and password issue! I was using the WP prefix found in «The name of the database» to configure «WordPress table prefix» in the bbPress config.php. While researching phpMyAdmin, I realize that _usermeta and _users were in double; one pair with _wp and one pair with prefix xxxxxxxx_.

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

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

I’m learning by trial and error and mostly by your patience and support.

I’ve tested fully WordPress and bbPress integration; bbpress-integration.php is normal and working as expected.

While login as bbPress Admin, there’s no Admin panel available within bbPress, I assume that this is normal for reason all Admin work is done within WordPress. Am I right?

[worrypascanada]

Tested by creating a new member within bbPress. Then, still login bbPress, I attempt to connect with WordPress, but I get the message «Session has expired». My username automatically fills in the login username space within WordPress. In addition, this new member is not listed under WordPress members.

[Null]

Hi,

Well at the main page of the forum you have: Latest Discussions and underneeth it: Forums. My question is about this last part. The main themes are all in each row underneeth each other like:

Forum 1 – bla bla

Forum 2 – bla bla

Farum 3 – bla bla

Is it possible to let these appear in 2 columns like in a news paper? Like:

Forum 1 – bla bla Forum 2 – bla bla

Forum 3 – bla bla

And this goes automaticly ofcourse… I know they work on this with css 3 but it will take years when thats is finished. So how to get this done now?

Thx

[worrypascanada]

In addition, I tested registeration within bbpress, but it didn’t registered within my integrated WordPress. What’s wrong?

[thomasklaiber]

Hi.

I really missed an onlinelist in bbpress, so i made a simple one myself. Dont expect anything special, it just tells who was online over the past 5 minutes.

Download it here.

See a demo here. (Login use: Test / test)

To Display the online list simply add show_online_users(); wherever you want it in your template.

Additional Features:

– Last online time on profile page: profile_last_online();

– Current online users as number: total_online_users();

[ardentfrost]

So, I just started using bbpress 3 days ago mostly because phpbb is God awful when it comes to spammers (akismet is pretty awesome on my homepage, so I assumed it would also be awesome in forums).

At any rate, I installed a copy as a test and have been playing with it, got kinda sad that avatars weren’t supported (and didn’t want to make people get gravatars just to have an avatar, esp since gravatar service was down the other night). So I wrote my own avatar functions.

I have everything I did on my forums, or you can just go check it out at http://www.rayd.org/forums2/

My question is, can what I did be done in a plug-in? I know I can put my two ground-up functions in a plug-in file, but the one I don’t know how to do is the way I added a spot for a link to an avatar in profile pages. Here’s the link to me describing what I did, and the quote from what I’m talking about:

http://www.rayd.org/forums2/topic/6?replies=1

bb-includes/functions.php line 1388: Added avatar info to the array in function get_profile_info_keys(). Looks like this:

array(‘user_email’ => array(1, __(‘Email’)), ‘user_url’ => array(0, __(‘Website’)), ‘from’ => array(0, __(‘Location’)), ‘occ’ => array(0, __(‘Occupation’)), ‘interest’ => array(0, __(‘Interests’)), ‘avatar_loc’ => array(0,__(‘Avatar URL’)))

As you can see, adding that little avatar stuff at the end of that array definition not only easily added the spot to the page, but put it in the database and allowed me easy access to it in my other functions.

I’d love to make this into a plug-in, I just don’t know how to do that. Any advice would be great