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Hi everyone!

Ive been playing with some forum software/scripts and i would like to ask the bbpress/wordpress coummunity some questions/opinions on this.

I’ve tested bbpress and so far i can see its a very lightweight forum system, it integrates nicely with wordpress, it doesnt have many functions the competition has but in my opinion most of them are really not needed and make the forum heavy on server resources.

Having said this here’s the questions?

1- Spammers – How’s the protection/management on this, is there a way of bulk deleting spammers or keeping them “at bay”?

2- Translation – i’ve been trying to translate bbpress but the info on how to do it is mostly wordpress as the process is very similar…so i looked in to online translation tools but none of them have bbpress as a project…not even Glotpress itself…i know there are desktop tools but for example i tried poedit and i only want to translate what the user sees not the admin panel, but it seems i have to copy every line to the translated section…there isnt a method to copy all strings and then edit the ones i want, i would take me a while doing it one by one and my professional life doesnt allow me, im sure more are interested in this and adding bbpress to glotpress would be a good idea as “everyone” could “chip in”.

3- search engines – some of the traffic to forums are made by search engines but unlike the competition bbpress doesnt have a method to manage them, the last forum script i tried was mybb and it has a whole section dedicated to bots and their permissions. Can this be overcomed in bbpress with a simple sitemap? the way i see it a sitemap only has urls not the content… if i keep the forum readble to everyone will the sitemap be enough, the way i see it the bot finds the url in the sitemap and then crawls the pages for content, i think this is enough.

4- Besides bbpress what other forum scripts would you recommend, personnaly mybb and fluxbb caught my eye and seem very lightweight, also i noticed the wp-foum pluggin as been forked into the WP Forum Server, one of the things i like on a forum is the ability to have a name based permalink like wordpress and bbpress, i find this feature very usefull as people can see by the words on the url (hovering mouse above link) what the link is about.

I know its a lot of questions but any info even if little is apreciated.

Thanks

Hello everyone.

I just uploaded the Bavatars plugin for my bbPress forum. I uploaded it to the my-plugins directory, as instructed. But when I tried to activate the plugin, I got the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /home/content/b/r/a/brandonreptile/html/forum/my-plugins/bavatars/bavatars-wp.php on line 28

I searched the support forum for a similar thread on this particular error, but couldn’t find anything.

Any insight would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

-Brandon

Hi everyone!

I´ve just installed bbpress and the nicer permalink pluggin (https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/nicer-permalinks/), it works but it kind of messes up the sitemap, ive tried 2 sitemap pluggins and same result

for example the topic url is:

mydomain/forum/mytopic.html

but the sitemap url is:

mydomain/forum//mytopic.html (double // before the individual topic permalink)

Can anyone tell me if im doing something wrong or check if its the pluggin fault?

i deactivated the nicer permalink plugin, added a dummy post to refresh the sitemap and voilá the url is correct without “//”, i guess its the pluggin fault here.

think i might have found something in the nice-filters.php file, altough im no expert it seems the error comes from here, but i think its a fix from someone, so removing the “/” will break something..

function get_forum_nicer_link( $link ) {

global $bb;

// Remove redundant "forum" word from forum link and append '/'. Mandatory! Props: Mohta

return str_replace( $bb->uri . 'forum/', $bb->uri, $link ) . '/';

heres my forum (test) url: http://www.ricardouk.com/forums/

and my sitemap url: http://www.ricardouk.com/forums/sitemap.xml

Thank you

Original post started here: (someone should take a look at the registrations here as i’ve been unable to register, so far i tried 3 times until CK told me i could use the wordpress.org forums account over here)

http://bbshowcase.org/forums/topic/nicer-permalinks-plugins-messes-up-the-forum-sitemap

Hi _ck_

I hope you’ll be fine. I always praise your work that’s why I was really happy when you came back to bbPress.

I know this question is not related to bbPress. But I need your co-operate.

I am looking the Simple Math Captcha Plugin for My WordPress.

Yes there are lot of captcha plugins, like Sabre, Register Plus.

But they are really complicated. I need simple solution, like Human Test for bbPress.

Humble Request: Can You please convert this plugin for WordPress.

I hope, Once again you’ll give me a chance to praise your work.

Thanks, and God Bless You Always and All The Ways.

bb-Lover

Someone just contacted me and said they tried a few times but cannot register here.

I’m sending them over to http://wordpress.org to try registering there first but I wanted to see if there have been any new registration here or maybe it’s akismet blocking them.

There’s no way to tell if there have been any new registrations lately via admin here so I figured I’d ask if anyone noticed we are missing new users.

I recently installed bbpress and completed deep integration using the:

bbpress integration 1.0 wordpress plugin and the zaerl wordpress 3 fix plugn.

everything appears to be running ok,

when i’m in the admin panel on the dashboard screen, it’s posting the following errors at the top:

Warning: Division by zero in /support/bb-includes/functions.bb-statistics.php on line 214



Warning: Division by zero in /support/bb-includes/functions.bb-statistics.php on line 194



Warning: Division by zero in /support/bb-includes/functions.bb-statistics.php on line 174



Warning: Division by zero in /support/bb-includes/functions.bb-statistics.php on line 244

i’m not sure what caused this, and i’m not sure how to get rid of it or if it’s even affecting anything?

anyone seen this before or have any ideas?

I don’t know if I’m missing something. This seems to be important yet I cannot find anything about this subject in any forum about bbPress.

When you press Enter twice in a reply in this forum, it brings you down to start a new paragraph. I’m assuming it also automatically adds a <br> tag in the post. My forums, however, do not do this.

http://raremob.com/forums/

How do I make it so when there is a gap between paragraphs on my forum replies that it automatically adds the <br> tag? Currently, I have to manually edit everyone’s posts who make any sort of separations between paragraphs by typing this tag in between them. I know it has nothing to do with my plugins because it was having the same problem from the start.

Hello.

Is there a way in which I can adapt this plugin to bbpress?

The plugin contains three files:

wp_tooltip_plugin.php

wp_tooltip_script.js

wp_tooltip_style.css

Now, I think that the .js and .css do not need any tempering with, only the .php.

I would like to attempt the conversion on my own, but I need some information though. On top of that, the plugin is written in Spanish, not that it should matter that much I guess.

This is what I would like to know:

1. The bbpress equivalents for these variables (I’m translating them with Google):$post_content, $Instance, $toothpick (??). I think I can figure out the rest.

2. Filters: for wp the_content

3. Action: for wp head.

4. Function: get_option(“siteurl”).

At the moment the plugin gives me no error, but also no facility.

Regards,

Bob

Hello.

I’m using _ck_’s plugin for showing unread posts, but I’m trying to attach an icon for the status as well.

I have the two pictures that I want (last_login.png and unread_posts.png) in a folder called “icons” inside the folder of the plugin.

I’m highlighting the new forums with posts and the unread posts since last login here:

$unread_posts['indicate_forums']=true;

$unread_posts['indicate_last_login']=true;

I’m also using the entire row class instead of the title cell, since without this option I cannot get the forum to show the new posts at all.

$unread_posts['use_row_class']=true;

Here is my attempt to attach the pictures:

$unread_posts['style']=".unread_posts {color:#FF0000; padding-left: 20px; background: url(".$unread_posts['icons']."unread_posts.png) 1px 0px no-repeat;}"

.".unread_login  {color:#FF4500; padding-left: 20px; background: url(".$unread_posts['icons']."last_login.png) 1px 0px no-repeat;}"

.".unread_posts_row a {color:#FF0000; padding-left: 20px; background: url(".$unread_posts['icons']."unread_posts.png) 1px 0px no-repeat;}"

.".unread_login_row a {color:#FF4500; padding-left: 20px; background: url(".$unread_posts['icons']."last_login.png) 1px 0px no-repeat;}";

I’ve also posted here, on _ck_’s forum, but I haven’t received a reply yet.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Bob

Will the new bbPress be able to support co-authors?

Apparently this here is the most commonly used co-authoring plugin, and it reportedly works with 3.0. I’ll test it myself soon.

https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/co-authors-plus/