[kevinjohngallagher]

Personally,

I’d leave this one to Paul when he has time.

We have so few people contributing as is, that it seems a bit daft to start hacking each others work. It’s not that I think Paul would mind, its just that we have limited resources as is to start ‘fixing’ front end output.

And on the whole if a plugin hasn’t been updated in 2 years then the chances of “updating” it are slim. It’ll probably need a major rewrite, and if there’s been no market/demand for it for 2 years, its probably not worth it sadly. There has been a huge number of changes between bbPress0.8 >>> bbPress0.9 >>> bbPress 1.0.2; and um… _ck_ had a particular way of coding (it is obviously really effective as her work is brilliant, but it’s a bit of a nightmare to edit and refactor for 1.0.2)

[Alex Luft]

@zaerl Wait, which plugin are you referring to?

If you mean this one – https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/topic-icons/ – it hasn’t been updated for almost two years – so a modification/update would be nice either way

But if you’re referring to the plugin on this page, then it’s still a needed thing, and creating a mod/update would be welcomed. I’m sure @paulhawke wouldn’t mind… would he?

[Al]

I’m on an old, but continually updated, WP install with a fresh 1.0.2 BBPress install. I could always make a brand new WP 2.9 integrate with BBPress, but could never make the live site (the updated WP) work. I’d always known it to be something to do with the older WP, but had not found what. Still don’t know exactly what, but the shorter keys make it work.

[Kevin Muldoon]

Hi jakshi,

I’m surprised you had this problem as I did the integration process several times and never had a problem with this. Not sure if this is something that is caused my a setting on a websites host or something similar. I’ve updated the article with your suggestion though so that others will know to try this solution

Kevin

[Shivanand Sharma]

Sorry to rush you the info. I must admit that I’m the developer of Character Theme. The site was still being updated and the promos are still being setup as the release was done on 12th April. I’ve included the Demo link on the site so you can find out more about it yourself.

{I also develop open source but may be Matt is going to ban me for developing Character. Ready to check out the theme now? }

[deadlyhifi]

There’s a plugin to get the buddybar into bbP – https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/buddybar-in-bbpress/

I updated it to work with buddypress 1.2

https://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddybar-for-bbpress/page/5#post-40993

It requires deep integration.

[robalan]

Version 2.9.2, and yes all keys are defined in both files, with BB_ prepending the bb-config items.

@gerikg – thanks, I have updated wp-config.

Still no shared cookie, still no users showing up in bbPress.

[mr_pelle]

I sent an email to Ashish Mohta asking for his thoughts about the updated plugin: if I won’t get an answer soon, I’ll create the missing documentation and upload the plugin.

[bramruiter1]

I’ve updated the layout of my forum last night and I ran into a few problems. I didn’t update bbPress from 0.9.0.2 because the Unread Posts plugin wouldn’t work. I have not changed anything internally, I have not updated the Unread Posts plugin, but even when I turn on my old template, it doesn’t seem to show that I have already read the topic in particular. It stays bold. And it also goes bold when I post in it myself.

Now I have read the plugin page, where someone said something about changing the login code because a certain code wasn’t called for, but that doesn’t seem to do the trick. I’m really lost here and since _ck_ has gone, no one seem to figure out how this thing works.

Other plugins that do the same just don’t seem to work either.

Please help.

[mr_pelle]

Hi! I’ve worked all day on the plugin, but now it finally works as it should!

I’ve also implemented 2 functions that grab both “plugin activated” and “plugin deactivated” events in order to swap .htaccess and the new file. Unfortunately you still have to change .htaccess permissions if you want the plugin to update it, but the only other way is manual edit…

I’ve embedded them in the plugin by Ashish Mohta and Mark Robert Henderson, but I don’t know how to proceed: what do you think would be the better way to publish the updated plugin?

[56alifar]

Hi there,

Google has updated his pagerank yesterday…

My new BBpress went from PR0 to PR4

Whats yours?

[johnhiler]

Ah neat!

Adding stuff to the standard registration would probably mean the trick wouldn’t work for too long – Invisible Defender used a similar trick but eventually spammers updated their software to bypass the extra fields:

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/invisible-defender/

Would love to see this code as a plugin!!

[chrishajer]

gerikg, I just committed the patch to fix this. I believe bbpress.org is running trunk and it updates on some sort of schedule/cron, so that fix will be present here tomorrow probably. Could you test again tomorrow?

I don’t know when or how the code gets updated here, but I am seeing my changes here a day or two after committing to trac.

Thanks

[56alifar]

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[kevinjohngallagher]

Thankfully, i came up with a cunning solution.

It’s a new thing some of the kids are using, called Google. I know, it might never catch on, but it’s worth a shot…

New bbPress Theme: Black-Letterhead

http://ulyssesonline.com/blackletterhead/

BBPress Theme

Now it appears that the theme has been removed entirely, but i’d suggest contacting the Author via his website. It’s a 2 year old theme that really just changes a few colours, so they’ve probably just forgotten about it.

That said, the theme has been updated for WordPress so there is every chance that the code you need has just been rolled into one.

Either way, it’s a good place to start

Good Luck

[cloner]

John,

It’s rather an odd situation, as I just took over administration of this board, so I’m not really familiar with the interactions of bbPress and WordPress. The WordPress installation had only one user (the original admin), and as part of the transition we intended to upgrade both utilities to their latest, greatest versions to leave me with a “clean slate” to work from. Our intended first step was to upgrade WordPress, which the original admin hadn’t updated in some time. I had, and still have, no credentials in WordPress.

Our intent was to simply delete the original install of WordPress and install the latest version. I took care of the file end, but upon install the program told me that there was already an installation in place that had to be deleted first. The previous admin then wiped the WP database. I believe this began our problem. Upon installing the latest verison of bbP, I discovered that bbP stores it’s user info in the WP database, so I think that killed us. I think that if the orignial admin restores that db we should be able to salvage our installs.

I don’t know the release of the original WP install, but if you’ll tell me where to look I have a local backup of the original site on my harddrive. Ditto bbP, though I think it was 0.8.3.

Yes, http://www.mh900e.org

The discussion forums (the only really relevant part of the site, to my way of thinking) is at http://www.mh900e.org/parlare. I’ve installed 1.1.11 at the root (I was thinking about removing WP, anyway) and put up a single message telling users that we’re working on resolving other issues.

[chrishajer]

It should be updated. I would do it myself if I ever got around to testing integration and found out which procedure worked best.

[Kevin Ryman]

Thanks Gautam! I haven’t try this plugin yet but I’ll keep updated.

[Ken Duret]

My guess is you are running Firefox for your browser. I’ve noticed when Firefox updated this last time that many times I need to fill out forms and submit them a second time. Very irritating.

* Edit * I needed to submit this reply twice!

[bforeste]

Just when I was ready to throw in the towel for the weekend!

I just attempted to do a perfectly clean upgrade: still getting the db connection issue after bb upgrade tells me I need to upgrade my DB. These are my only instructions: https://bbpress.org/documentation/upgrading/

Chris – I do have a solid / tested 0.9 backup. That’s where I was headed before checking the boards one last time. I’m installing this on a test sub-domain of my production website – so no LAMP. I use the Media Temple Grid Server (poor man’s server) and have scoured the other Media Temple quirkiness posts here. I tried hard-coding the db host https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/mysql_connect-cant-connect-through-socket with no luck.

Regarding the 0.9 bb-config…I did find some remnants of a WP integration attempt (keys and whatnot). But, because my 1.0.2 upgrade ‘overlays’ the old bb-config – I’m starting with a new, clean (non integrated) bb-config doc. My problem is that, I can’t get to Step #2 of the install – that’s where I hit the db connection issue every time.

I’ve gone through the bb-config doc, and the DB host / user / pw settings a million times. I’ve updated all my schemas to UTF8 and the UTF8 charset – and I’m applying those config settings into my bb-config. Nothing works.

I’d like to blast my tables too…but that feels pretty invasive to me. A real test of my backup / recover abilities. I may not have the legs to get it done today.

Thanks as always for any help.

[bforeste]

Okay – not resolved. I feel like this is my diary, and I’m on a deserted island…

My ‘upgrade DB’ prompt still generates the ‘BackPress Error’ ERROR: Could not establish a database connection

I’ve updated all my CHARSETs and COLLATEs to UTF8…and I’m still getting the db connection problem.

I’m thinking of backing up the db, wiping out, re-installing fresh 1.0.2 and then importing the backup.

Anyone see any problems with this? I’m sure I’ll get a slew of responses in the next 3 hours…

[deejaywoody]

Just installed WP 2.92 and Buddypress 1.2.1 on my dedicated Linux host @ 1and1.com. I literally:

installed

upgraded to 2.92

updated permalinks to non-default settings

downloaded/activated BuddyPress

Activated BuddyPress Theme/Uploaded Header

Initiated Forums (bbpress) Installation (went smoothly)

When I visit either http://www.kdjn.net/forums or http://www.kdjn.net/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums , I get a blank page and nothing else. No errors, no administration page, no login prompt.. just the white page. Can anyone throw me a bone?

Thanks in advance-

Eric

[Moominmama]

Figured it out!

It was the bbPress Sitemaps plugin!

http://premium.wpmudev.org/project/bbpress-sitemaps

It hasn’t been updated lately and that was the issue. Thank goodness it was something easy! I was reading it as a BuddyPress plugin, which is why I didn’t disable it first. Doh!

[thelobbyist]

Just doing some searching and see that RSS feeds for forums were broken. I discovered this myself when I tried to load my forum feeds for my new site into Google Reader today and it couldn’t find the feed. I have updated my code with the patch update and feed validator says my feed is fine, but it still won’t load in Google Reader.

From what I’ve read on the forums there was a wide spread problem, but I can’t seem to locate if there was ever a definite solution. I am running the latest WP with BBpress 1.0.2 with deep integration.

Anything I can do to fix this? RSS feeds for my forums are pretty vital because this particular site won’t have posts, just pages for research content, and forums for feedback and discussion.

Thanks

[johnhiler]

It’s been there for a while: “Last Updated: 2010-1-13” and says, “Don’t download me yet. I’m in the beginning stages of development.”