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Problem with Spammers

Published on March 30th, 2011 by hjennings

Hello-

I have dozens of spammers signing up on my forum: http://dowdycornerscookbookclub.com/dccc_forums/

Although there do not appear to be any new posts added when looking about on the user interface, spam topics appear in the admin dashboard under “Recently Moderated Items”.

When I click on an item under “Recently Moderated Items,” and then scroll down and click “Close topic,” I get this message: “There is a problem with that topic, pardner.”

I have Askimet installed. Is this something else I can install to block spammers from signing up?

And once these spammers have signed up, what is the best way of dealing with them? Should I delete them one by one or block them? Also, is there a way to select several at once to either delete them or block them? The only thing I can figure out to do so far is to open each spammer’s member profile and delete/block from there, which is taking FOREVER.

Thanks very much for your help.

-the host of the Dowdy Corners Cookbook Club

Problems with PHP

Published on March 30th, 2011 by Joe

Hello,

I’ve recently just installed a bbPress instance on my server, but I’m running into a fair amount of issues with PHP.

Take, for example, the homepage ( http://greenerclassrooms.org.uk/bbpress/ ) which has all the PHP errors in the header.

Can you help at all?

I’m running the PHP5.3.5 and MySQL 5.1

Also, if I try to login, it goes to a white page with the following text:

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/cattery/public_html/greenerclassrooms/bbpress/bb-settings.php on line 186

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/cattery/public_html/greenerclassrooms/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/functions.wp-object-cache.php on line 108

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/cattery/public_html/greenerclassrooms/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/pomo/mo.php on line 171

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/cattery/public_html/greenerclassrooms/bbpress/bb-includes/functions.bb-l10n.php on line 484

Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in /home/cattery/public_html/greenerclassrooms/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-taxonomy.php on line 581

Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /home/cattery/public_html/greenerclassrooms/bbpress/bb-settings.php:186) in /home/cattery/public_html/greenerclassrooms/bbpress/bb-includes/backpress/class.wp-auth.php on line 273

Problems with WP-Super-Cache plugin and bbPress Deep Integration

Published on March 30th, 2011 by arthurfreitas

Hi comm,

First of all, excuse the English. I’m better with French.

OK, I have WordPress installed on my machine and a bbPress deeply integrated (theme, cookies, users, etc…)

Everything worked fine until I activate the WP-Super-Cache, which made my bbPress “disappear”. When I access the forum system, only appears a blank screen, inclusive in the administrative panels.

I noticed that this only happens when the WP-Super-Cache is enabled and integrated with my theme of WordPress is selected. When one of them is disabled, both systems funscionam normally.

Is there any way to enable the WP-Super-Cache does not destroy my deep integration with bbPress?

Att,

Arthur Freitas.

Integration issues

Published on March 30th, 2011 by jnw

Hi all,

I’m sure this has been covered a few times, but here goes.

Cookies obviously aren’t working, because I’m getting booted out of wp-admin when logged into bbpress and visa versa.

Have installed the bbPress integration plugin with settings in wp-admin like so:

bbPress URL: http://website.com/forum/

Your Plugins URL: http//website.com/forum/bb-admin/plugins.php

WordPress type: WordPress

Added this code to the very bottom of wp-config.php

define( ‘COOKIEPATH’, ‘/’ );

In bb-admin, I’ve got:

WordPress address: http://website.com

Blog address: http://website.com

WordPress “auth” cookie salt: (auth_salt wasn’t present in the wp admin page, anyway I took the code from wp-config.php)

WordPress “secure auth” cookie salt: (as above)

WordPress “logged in” cookie salt: (as above)

Manually entered codes so the following match

AUTH_KEY / BB_AUTH_KEY

SECURE_AUTH_KEY / BB_SECURE_AUTH_KEY

LOGGED_IN_KEY / BB_LOGGED_IN_KEY

And that’s where I’m at. Can someone tell me what I’m missing?

I’m not going to worry about database sharing right now – is that advisable? Or is it highly recommended?

Also what should I have the wordpress roles set to for each one of these?

WordPress Administrator

WordPress Editor

WordPress Author

WordPress Contributor

WordPress Subscriber

Thanks for the help!

here's how to solve the "path disclosure" bug in bbPress

Published on March 29th, 2011 by _ck_

There is a security bulletin being circulated this week about a “path disclosure” bug in bbPress 1.0.3 – it actually affects all versions.

It’s not a super-serious security bug in itself but it can be used to gain leverage.

Basically someone can discover the real path your files are in by causing a PHP error by trying to access a template file directly, where there is an error in the template because bbPress is not loaded at that time.

Here is a simple workaround for users on Apache (vast majority of users).

Make a file called .htaccess (note the dot at the start)

in it, put this line

php_flag display_errors off

Then upload that file to bb-templates and my-templates

The reason why we don’t put that in the master .htaccess file for all of bbPress is because you may need to see any regular errors in the future. However for the template subdirectories, there is no need because those files are never (supposed to be) loaded directly by the browser.

WordPress integration – Cookies

Published on March 29th, 2011 by jakobs

Hi!

I have a smaller blog network (WordPress 3.1 Multisite) and bbPress 1.03.

Right now the integration works, but not fully. I can login on the forum with my wordpress user accounts but there’s some problem with cookies. I still need to login/log out one time at each site (forum/blog).

I’ve copied this from wp-config.php:

define(‘AUTH_KEY’, ”);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ”);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ”);

define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ”);

define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ”);

define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ”);

define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ”);

define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ”);

And of course included the salts + added BB_ suffix in bb-config.php.

I have a separate database for bbpress and the “Separate user database settings”-settings in options-wordpress seems to be right.

The URL:s under cookies is also correct (http://domain.net – as my blog).

Do you have any idea what the problem is?

Would be grateful for a solution. Thanks.

Review my website

Published on March 29th, 2011 by jasminreo

I have launched a website http://www.theglobehunters.com , please review my website and provide me some suggessions to increase traffic and revenue.

Easy post on main page Theme!

Published on March 28th, 2011 by memnunfor

Hi,i need a easy message posting on main page like this site http://aboutconsumer.com/

Is there a plugin or theme like this?

Top/standard 3-6 plugins for a new install?

Published on March 28th, 2011 by dhcrusoe

Greetings all,

Just installing bb for the first time, and I’d love to learn what the community suggests are the top 3-6 essential plugins for a stable install.

The kinds of things we’re looking for are:

* Anti-spam

* User management (creation, removal, etc – doesn’t seem like this exists?)

* File or picture attachments (what’s the best way to accomplish this?)

* Quote functionality

* Anything else that seems really essential to the smooth operation of bb

What kinds of things do y’all suggest?

Thanks!

–Dave

"Access to the webpage was denied" error when installing bbpress

Published on March 27th, 2011 by cbowers428

Hey so I’ve been trying everything to get bbpress up and running on my site and I finally thought I had it but when I visit the forums I see the login screen and when I do it says

Access to the webpage was denied

You are not authorized to access the webpage at http://chubshub.com/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-forums/bbpress/bb-login.php. You may need to sign in.

Does anyone know why this happens? I’ve made a mySQL database and username and it doesn’t work. I’m not really sure whats going on I’m pretty new. Thanks!

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