I decided last night after seeing some bug reports from people testing my plugins that I needed a more conventional bbpress install that I could test my plugins as well as other people’s.

So I started this little site:

http://bbpress.nfshost.com/forums/

I purposedly used low end (slow) hosting since my other sites are on high end setups. This way I can get a feel if anything is slowing bbpress down.

On the site you can preview my

bbPress Signatures and bbPress Polls plugins

by making a test account.

I’ve also activated “My Views” (which only works on 0.8.2.x for now)

The goal was to stay as close to bbpress’s default template as possible but after a few hours the bright white was burning my eyes so I had to tone it down. I’ll probably have to revisit that and work on the colours a bit, it’s far too flat right now, sorry.

Since this host has no web compression options, I’ll be releasing another mini plugin today after some more testing: bbpress gzip. It will let you compress bbpress pages via php and save on bandwidth, even if your host doesn’t have mod_gzip or other options available.

[@_ck_ Participant 17 years, 2 months ago]

New (permanent) home for the showcase:

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/

In other news I’ll be returning to work on the showcase later this week/month and finally updating the list as well as releasing some more plugins/themes.