[nidhig]

Hi,

Installed a bbPress the permalink is http://www.mudomain.com/topics/topctitle1 is fine but if i am changing topictitle1 : to topictitle2 url is same http://www.mudomain.com/topics/topctitle1 no change in url

I found the bug reason its taking link title of topic which is considered as revision.And title is updated as per the post id and not in the revesion.

Is any solution for this?

[John James Jacoby]

The .pot file needs to be updated. I’ll make sure it’s done in 2.1 by the time it’s released.

[Marcoz]

Hi all!

I’ve searched the forums and don’t find any current feature that allows my users to track their unread posts since the last visit. I see a BudyPress plugin that hasn’t been updated in 1,5 years, and whose compatibility is probably way off the mark by now. But nothing current.

Am I missing something, or how can I accomplish this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Marco

[Marcoz]

For accessibility, a mixture of the two approaches tables vs. lists would have been the optimum. And maybe that’s still pssible to do?

My suggestion would be this:

1. On the forums overview page, where there are forums, topics in each forum, etc., a table is the appropriate form to use. It has column headers, and each row consists of a data record AKA a single forum. For this, a data table, wsemantically a table with appropriate tags, is indeed the correct way to go! Not all tables are bad per se!

2. Same goes for the listings of topics within each forum. These have column headers, too, and each row tells the story about each topic. A perfectly legal and sanctioned use of tables!

3. The only part where a table is not appropriate for usage is when displaying a single topic with its replies. The TwentyTen bbPress theme definitely uses a data table semantics for layout purposes here, e. g. grouping a reply header, content, and footer together in a way that is clearly meant for layout. There are no column headers, and not every row tells a story about a single post. Instead, a post spans multiple rows, each with different information. This is what accessibility folks call layout tables, and these are banned by the W3C and hated passionately by each screen reader user on this planet. Topics and replies lump together in a big spaghetti-like table without a real distinction where one post ends and the next begins.

Converting this to more appropriate markup was the right thing to do. Converting the forums and topics listings, was not. A list item is a list item, and not a column header or table cell. In data tables, browsers’ accessibility APIs can create correct linkage between a column header and the relating cell down in the table. The user can therefore hear if the number they’re hearing is the number of voices, replies, the title or what. If these are done by lists as it is now, there is no way on this planet that this kind of essential linkage can be provided. There is simply no technique to do this.

I would like to strongly request, and I will also put this in a Trac ticket, that the bbt-compat files be adjusted so that forum listings and topic listings use a regular data table as they do in TwentyTen, and that the single reply and topic page be kept as the updated version that’s there now.

In fact, this very support forum uses the exact right combination of things! Why it differs from what will be in 2.1 if things aren’t changed, I don’t know.

This is an urgent plea to consider making these changes for better accessibility of 2.1!

Marco

[thefairystamp]

/push – it is very important for me to solve this problem, but I’m absolutely clueless. I updated today from RC1 to RC3 and still have the same problem.

[eric_holmes]

Hello Everyone,

We have a WordPress install on our internal server. Let’s say this is the address:

http://192.168.0.5/wordpress/

When either logging in, or out, it duplicates the subfolder in the web address to this:

http://192.168.0.5/wordpress/wordpress/wp-admin/options-general.php?settings-updated=true

I have double checked the URIs in General settings, both are correctly set to http://192.168.0.5/wordpress/. All page navigation works fine.

I have confirmed that this is a plugin issue, because I disabled bbPress, and the login redirection works fine. There must be something wrong with the login redirection script that is duplicating the subfolders.

Any idea of whether this only affects localhost servers, or if it will prove to cause problems when hosted on a live site?

Thanks in advance

[kirby23]

I just spent about 8 frustrating hours failing to accomplish a very basic task with bbpress.

I want my forums & their descriptions grouped grouped by category on the index page. A long jumble of forums on different topics, only ever displayed in “most recently updated” order, or alternatively without displaying the forum descriptions, is totally unusable. I don’t want people to have to hunt through subpages to find which forum is correct to post in for an issue.

I just want an index page that shows ALL the information: Forum titles, Categories, and Descriptions, for all forums, on a page. In some sort of order that isn’t going to leave the users scratching their heads as to where to find what they want. Is that really too advanced to expect bb software to do?

Some sort of organization, on the index page, or at least headings, is really a basic feature of, uh, every single forum I’ve ever seen. Organizing information into sensible sections been a fundamental part of information design since… the printing press? The written word? Hieroglyphics? I don’t know. But bbpress’s index page is an unfriendly, unusable mess, and the only feature you provide for grouping forums makes the situation worse, not better.

I went with a plugin based solution because I didn’t want to sit and code a solution myself. After spending all day on this problem, I am aware that there are complicated, far-over-my-head solutions which may or may not work, telling me I must do things I don’t understand, and which sound to me like they may be wiped out and need to be re-entered every time a theme or plugin is updated.

I can’t put any more time into this simple need. We have multiple users in my group who are going to be able to create new categories and forums, and it needs to _just_work_ , and display an index that makes sense to users, without hours upon hours of troubleshooting and administration.

[Jeaz]

I’m at the 2.1 (but haven’t updated from the trunk in a week maybe) but 3.3 release version of WP and then I enter the same thing into settings and nothing happens, unless I add the css you suggested.

EDIT: It could be that my theme is causing some havoc as well. I had quite a lot of problems with it since it was designed for bbPress 2.0 table layout and not really ready 2.1 list layout.

[simtic]

Hello sxalexander,

Yes, this is a much better way to do that.

And it keeps the bbpress plugin unchanged, so it can safely be updated.

Thanks !

[Lynq]

Have you made sure akismet is updated to the latest version?

[stuartmchugh]

ha, silly me – since you asked the question I went back to check, and found there was a new version of Askimet. Updated it and the crash has gone! Thanks for the hint.

[Jared Atchison]

This list needs to be updated, but some are here:

https://codex.bbpress.org/showcase/

[Milan Petrovic]

Plugin has been updated many times, and latest version is 1.8:

http://www.dev4press.com/2012/blog/plugins-news/gd-bbpress-attachments-1-8/

Milan

[Sniper Kitten]

In /bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-topic-template.php

Remove the following lines:

// Topic has no replies

} else {

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This topic has %1$s, contains %2$s.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $voice_count, $reply_count );

}

And these lines:

// Topic has replies

if ( $last_reply = bbp_get_topic_last_active_id( $topic_id ) ) {

$last_updated_by = bbp_get_author_link( array( ‘post_id’ => $last_reply, ‘size’ => $size ) );

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This topic has %1$s, contains %2$s, and was last updated by %3$s %4$s ago.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $voice_count, $reply_count, $last_updated_by, $time_since );

And also these lines:

‘before’ => ‘<div class=”bbp-template-notice info”><p class=”bbp-topic-description”>’,

You didn’t need to remove anything in bbpress.css, as the style it’s using is also used by the others.

This should do the job.

[Sniper Kitten]

You can find it in /bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-forum-template.php (I’m using bbPress 2.02)

Remove the following lines:

// Forum

else

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This forum contains %1$s and %2$s, and was last updated by %3$s %4$s ago.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $topic_count, $reply_count, $last_updated_by, $time_since );

and these lines:

// Forum

else

$retstr = sprintf( __( ‘This forum contains %1$s and %2$s.’, ‘bbpress’ ), $topic_count, $reply_count );

and also these lines:

‘before’ => ‘<div class=”bbp-template-notice info”><p class=”bbp-forum-description”>’,

You’ll need to remove those lines in bbpress.css (Assume I’m using bbp-twentyten, so the location is /bbpress/bbp-themes/bbp-twentyten/css/bbpress.css):

div.bbp-template-notice.info {

border: #cee1ef 1px solid;

background-color: #f0f8ff;

}

This should remove the “this forum contains … topics… replies … ” while you still can see the “this topic contains … voices … replies… ” in each topic (Do you want to remove that too?)

Keep in mind that this is not a recommended way of changing the bbPress, as you’ll lose the setting when you perform an update (so you have to keep changing after each update), although there’s nobody to make such plugin to do that.

[baldg0at]

@jaredatch

Unfortunately, the site is in a production environment. I’d be nervous about using 2.1 before it’s ready.

Here’s another site I use bbpress on — http://hawkcentral.com/forums/

Right now, the “Week 5 picks” and “Thoughts From Week 2 in College Football” topics show a freshness of 19 hours and 20 hours respectively. The users showing on the home page are obviously spam users (that I’ve since been blocked) and their posts have already been marked as spam by Akismet.

I’ve dug into the code and I can see where the last active time is getting updated. I’m going to put some logging code in and see if I can discover what’s happening.

I’ll report back.

[SK]

Jared, Thanks! I will check this solution out.

Regarding configurations: I don’t know if 347374 is an actual number or if you use it just to make a point, which I do get. If bbPress included everything in configurations, then there will be way too many configurations, and would delay next releases a lot. That’s fair enough.

But let’s look at it from the perspective of added value and break from forum convention.

bbPress is billed as a lightweight forum. Hence, when it breaks from forum convention to make it lighter (have fewer functions), that is at least understandable. e.g.

– No signatures in core (plugin exists)

– No icons (e.g. http://www.phpbb.com/community/styles/prosilver/imageset/forum_read_subforum.gif ) by forums and posts showing useful information (ripe for plugin)

– No emoticons in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No attachments in posts (ripe for plugin)

– No “topic started” date in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page)

– No “read count” for topics (ripe for plugin)

– No forum specific search (plugin exists)

– No post count for posters

etc

However, when bbPress breaks with forum convention to add something without evident added value, that is a bummer. e.g.

– Freshness instead of Last post in list of topics (e.g. on forums page or topics archive page). I don’t understand the reasoning behind this. bbPress is making an additional calculation, bending over backwards, just to calculate how many seconds, minutes or days have passed since last post. Why? Why not simply display the date-time of last post like most major forum software do? I don’t see the reason and I don’t like it this way, but if it is like this then I assume that there are other bbPress users who do. Hence I say…perhaps this should be configurable.

– The notification This forum contains 5 topics and 7 replies, and was last updated by some-author 5 days ago. Why? What is the thinking behind this? What purpose does this serve? I mean, on the same page, topics are listed, there is pagination (and total number of topics) above and below the list of topics, the user can see which post is on top and who last updated it, so why is this notification important to have? I don’t get it. But since it’s there, I assume somebody does, and hence I request that it be a configuration.

– Similarly, I wonder if a lot is achieved performance-wise by not showing the name of OP in lists of topics, considering that date-time of original post is being retrieved anyway.

– Formatting/styling of original post and replies is different by default on the topic page. From a user perspective, I don’t see why. You don’t have different styling for original post and replies on bbpress.org or wordpress.org What makes you think that everyone else would want it? Perhaps there is not much additional work is being put into it because replies have to be assigned a formatting anyway, and this way bbPress users know that this is possible. But if so, then even if styling of replies has to be defined separately, it should be same as that of original posts by default, and users should be able to see in documentation that it is possible for them to have different styling. If, on the other hand, you have discovered that a large number of bbPress users want to have different styling for original posts and replies, then I say make it configurable.

– In freshness, the number of days/hours/minutes is linked. How does that make sense? (yes it takes to the last post, but linking hours is odd…phpBB’s approach where they have a tiny icon next to the date-time is better) If it does to a lot of bbPress users, I say make it configurable.

(Through all this, remember: There aren’t that many bbPress-supporting themes, and most of bbPress users will end up using bbPress with their generic WordPress themes)

Lots of people use WordPress despite the performance hit (as opposed to say, Drupal) because it is so easy to use and customize without having to do (or even know) any coding. All bbPress users are WordPress users and so there is a similar expectation from bbPress.

I know it’s not fair to compare bbPress to WordPress, which has so many more developers and contributors, not to mention forum moderators.

On the other hand, it is a fair expectation, for bbPress is billed as a forum software from the makers of WordPress. If Matt wants this to take on phpBB, vBulletin and SMF, he needs to put some resources behind it, instead of making JJJ toil alone.

[SK]

I find the bbp-template-notice

This forum contains 5 topics and 7 replies, and was last updated by author 5 days ago.

quite annoying.

How do I remove such notices?

[marques_uk1]

Just to add to my previous post, I have created my own theme for WordPress. The forum works on it fine, it would just be nice to have the option for members to upload their own profile pictures.

Maybe this is something the BBPress team can add on their next update as I’m sure many people would like this option?

Hi MTPrower, I’m going to carry on looking for a solution, hopefully someone can help on here, but I’ll keep you updated with my progress. Could you let me know if you find a solution as well?

Many thanks

[wbbg]

Ok so I am new to BBPress. I was looking for a quick and easy solution for forums.

So far so good. Then I updated my permalinks structure in WordPress to be “post-name”

Now all the forum links come up as 404s.

Perhaps I am just having a dumb day but I have read the similar problems and cannot make head or tail of them.

I want my blog in general to use the post name permalink structure, as I like it for SEO purposes. I really could not care less for the Forum. I just want it to work.

What am I missing?

Thanks for your help!

[Laughing Cat]

Hi

I’m running WP3.3.1 and bbP 2.1

my forums are are not being listed in the front page archive or forum summary pages in the correct order; I double checked many times the ordering number, but no matter what, the forums will display in their own order which is neither alphabetical, cronological (date created/updated) or other. I can’t just figure it out. I’ve tried also re-arranging forums with simple page ordering plugin, no success.

How can I list forums correctly?

thank you

[acesup]

I want to remove these lines

This one bellow that is above forum in the site

---

This forum contains 6 topics and 0 replies, and was last updated by

Messages in one post are repeating

This reply was modified 6 hours ago by Picks24.

This reply was modified 6 hours ago by Picks24.

You can check these problems at http://www.picks24.com/forums/

[Laughing Cat]

I have recently transfered old bbpress 1.x standalone forums to the new bbpress 2.1 plugin platform

The moving was fine and I got back all my old forums.

However there’s something odd concerning the “freshness” of forums and discussions.

Normally freshness would display things like

Posted $years ago, or $months ago, or $days ago… and if very recent, hours, minutes, etc.

In my case, very old posts appear in the format “posted 674 days ago” or “posted 374 days ago” which is really not nice way to display

I’d like to display freshness as it was with 1.x forums. “Posted 1 year ago”, “posted 2 years ago”, that is. Alternatively I wouldn’t mind to get rid of freshness and replace it with standard last updated time (last updated on 2nd December 2009)

I’m running a localised version of WordPress (IT_it), however other dates are fine with other post types.

[Martin]

Brilliant!

The https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-bbpress/ works a treat.

Though apparently it does need to be updated for bbPress 2.1 so people should be aware of this.

For me, it works just how I’d have thought it should work as a total WordPress Search package. What’s the point of a site wide forum if people can’t search all content?

[BigRedNY84]

I’m using the latest version of WP now. It was giving me the same error befoe and after I updated WP.