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With the most recent botnet attack on WordPress powered websites, I’m (once again) reviewing the measures I take to secure my WP installations.

Most WP admins understand the importance of not using the default “admin” username when setting up a site. Many WP admins do not realize that simply using a different main admin username is not enough. That username should be “obscure” (not easily guessed) and it certainly should not be the same as the publicly displayed “nickname” that is associated with the user account. Those need to be different – this helps to prevent bots and bad people from getting the first part of your login credentials = your username.

While I been taking action to ensure this is the case on the WP sites I manage, I’ve noticed a problem with the way that bbpress displays username information. Even if a user has a “nickname” that is different from the actual username – when you hover over a link to the user’s profile the URL will show the actual username (the one you are trying to hide through obscurity).

There is an older thread on the WP forums that seems to suggest that this is not a WP core issue, but rather a plugin/theme coding issue. I don’t know if that is correct, or not. But, it is an issue in any case and needs to be addressed.

I have archive-topic.php in my theme and in that way I can have full control of how topic archive is shown. When using bbPress 2.2.4 this works like a charm but when I update to version 2.3 I basically don’t have that archive anymore.

Any pointers which way to look?

Hi,

I’ve been trying numerous times to convert from vBulletin 3.8.1 to bbPress 2.3.

I get most of it converted until I get this message:
***** = database username

`WordPress database error: [Table ‘******.tagcontent’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT convert(tagcontent.contentid USING “utf8”) AS contentid,convert(tagcontent.tagid USING “utf8”) AS tagid,convert(tag.tagtext USING “utf8”) AS tagtext FROM tagcontent AS tagcontent INNER JOIN tag AS tag USING (tagid) LIMIT 0, 100`

Any ideas what it means and how to fix? I can’t get pass this step and it screws the forum up, even if I repair the forum.

and as a result, it won’t allow the users replies to transfer either.

Hi,

I thought this topic might help me.

I am trying to export a forum from an existing WordPress that has been running just as a forum and import it into our main site (which is a news site). So everything will be hosted in the one spot.

Everytime I try the built wordpress export / import I get Forums and Replies but I don’t see any of the topics. Any ideas? Or possible work arounds? Happy to do it all in mySQL if that is a solution.

2.3 versin add picture button ??

my 2.3 bbpress can’t fully responsive in mobile -> editor problem

help me

See title. Because it is completely idiosyncratic and bbpress isn’t widely adopted enough yet that it’s idiosyncrasies are common knowledge, it always sounds as if the forum owner chose the name “Key Master”. Because the name calls up images of Ghostbusters or D&D exclusively, it sounds like the forum owner chose a name with very specific cultural connotations which sound dumb out of their own (enjoyable) context. In short, it makes me feel like I’m starting all of my support interactions with people who are putting a lot of trust in me and my product by saying “I put on my robe and wizard hat”. I don’t really want to install and maintain an entire plugin or a second account to deal with this.

I don’t care what it’s called on the backend or admin side, but it would be very decent to bbpress users to give “Key Master” an alternate display string in the forum where it faces other forum users if they want that, and maintain that feature as part of trunk.

Getting above error for ANY user except keymasters.

Have tried resetting most things via tools => forums but to no avail. Also tried resetting permalinks for the forums and for the whole site but no change.

All my forum users seem to have to be at least authors and participants to be allowed to write anything, right?

I’d love to be able to make them all subscribers only since the forums are the main part of the site, but that doesn’t seem to work.

Any idea where to start looking and what to check?

I’m not a website developer. I’m just a user of WP for two sites. I have a third site that I had a developer set up which is a forum and it is run with phpbb (he said this is what I should use).

What frustrates me is the huge DIFFICULTY in installing a “mod.” I don’t want to have to contact my web developer to install a mod every time I need one. That’s why ALL my websites (except this forum one) are run on wordpress – I can install/change just about anything on it myself within seconds.

What I’m wondering is, if I switch to bbpress is the installation of plugins just like wordpress? I don’t have any problem with that because it’s just click on a couple of buttons. Phpbb on the other hand, requires me to edit files and write code for a “mod” installation. It’s time-consuming and drives me nuts.

My forum is www.ForumJudo.com if that matters to your recommendations. I just basically want a site where users can send/receive private messages, vote on posts, post video/audio files, start topics, mods can delete posts & ban users, etc., and possibly a chat feature in the future.

I just know that phpbb is too difficult to install “mods.” I don’t want to learn code.

Thanks for any advice on this!

Hi,

My website recently went live, and despite experiencing problems with bbpress in the past, I decided to use it to host my forums.

Everything’s working out so far (knock on wood), except that the unique post anchors (http://website.com/forums/topic/topic-title/#post-1234) that show up, for example, in the ‘recent replies’ widget are giving the following error:

`Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/content/74/10646774/html/index.php:1) in /home/content/74/10646774/html/renewal/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 876`

Caveat: I have permalinks set to numeric and have installed WP in a subdirectory (in this case, “renewal”) which I now use as the wordpress URL while keeping the site URL as http://domain.com so that I didn’t have to move the wordpress directory.

All forums work fine, and navigating topics isn’t an issue–it’s only these unique post IDs that are throwing the error (and rendering the above-mentioned bbpress widget useless).

Any suggestions?

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