I’m currently using PHPBB for my forum software but I get SO MUCH spam. I’m considering either putting a recaptcha code on there for each post, or I’m looking into other software like bbPress. I love WordPress and so I would really like to use bbPress but I see there is no code that must be entered before posting so I wonder if spam will again be a problem.
What are your thoughts people? How do you control spam in your forums? I’ve had to lock my forums until I get a good solution.
I noticed that plain text urls ( http://www.example.org ) are automatically parsed into hyperlinks in my 1.0.2 installation.
Do you know if it’s possibile to turn off this feature or control priority somewhere?
Tonight I tried to install bbPress, following the detailed instructions from the following screencast: https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/basic-integration-screencast. I’m running the newest version of wordpress and downloaded the newest version of bbpress as well.
I set all the database options based on the settings in my wp-config file and then ran into a snag. I couldn’t figure out if I needed to rename the default “bb_” database prefix to what my database prefix was “wp_” or leave it as the default “bb_”. I was planning to complete the integration route, so I changed the prefix to “wp_” thinking it would just add a few tables to my current SQL datbase. I also had a weird hostname, ” $_ENV{DATABASE_SERVER}” so I added that in the bbPress config hostname space.
I then went through all the other screens and bbpress said it installed with a “minor errors.” message. Unfortunately, I closed the screen in error and didn’t note the specific error.
Once I closed, I went to the site and while the article names we there, clicking on them resulted in a 404 error. In addition, I couldn’t log-in to my admin (said I didn’t have permission.) At this point, I assumed I did something wrong and deleted the “forums” folder, and restored my database.
I’d really like to use bbPress instead of Simple:Press because I heard it’s faster and fairly easy to customize. Any ideas on what went wrong? Is there a better set of instructions someplace?
Also, should I keep the prefix bb_ or change it to wp_?
Any help is appreciated. I’m pretty new at all this!
Jerry
I installed bbpress fine but then when i went to plugins i did not see bbpress on their. So i try reinstalling it FAILED.. I think i did something wrong can someone help me.. If anyone needs anymore info just ask.
-Thanks
Jesse
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not sure how you call it, but its the page title on top left in the browser, it supposed to be a [post title – name of site] , instead, it shows “page not found”
Can anyone help..
also, the forum is not indexed on google, why
Hi everyone,
I’ve written a WordPress plugin which allows you to integrate your WordPress theme, widgets and many plugins into your bbPress theme. This is an alpha launch, so it’s probably buggy. Please file bug reports in the comments of the blog post please.
http://pixopoint.com/theme-integrator-alpha-launch/
This system DOES NOT require deep integration and does not suffer the performance hits that deep integration normally applies. This simply copies your HTML markup over after you set a bunch of things in each theme. If you don’t know how to do a 100% perfect integration of your theme already the old fashioned way (copying HTML and CSS across), this new system will not help you at all as you need to set that up already. Once it is setup however, the changes you make in your WordPress theme will be automagically applied to your bbPress site, along with changes such as plugins, widgets etc.
I’m not providing free support for this. Doing these types of integrations is very time consuming and I can’t afford to spare that much time to help you all integrate your themes sorry. I am keen to see bug reports etc though and will try to get them sorted as soon as possible.
The system works across a range of different softwares, not just bbPress. You can see a demo of it in my own support forum which uses SMF … http://pixopoint.com/forum/index.php?topic=1385.0
The subject pretty well says it but this is something that I have been asked for by my forum members. What they would like (since they use to have it on the old SMF forums I converted from) is a link button that when clicked will open up a single page (or possibly multipage) with the unread posts since their last visit.
If anyone is willing to give this a shot I’d be more than willing to be a tester for it.
Hi,
I’m currently running WP 2.9.1 and integrated with bbPress 1.0.2 successfully.
WP URL is installed at URL: http://www.example.com/
BBpress is installed at URL: http://www.example.com/forums/
I have a problem when I enabled HTTPS login in bbPress via
define(‘BB_FORCE_SSL_USER_FORMS’,true);
When a user SUCCESSFULLY login into bbPress via HTTPS, it redirects the page to:
http://www.example.com/forums/forums
which means 404 not-found page because bbPress is installed at URL http://www.example.com/forums NOT http://www.example.com/forums/forums
User can login SUCCESSFULLY when define(‘BB_FORCE_SSL_USER_FORMS’,true); is DISABLED
I have searched/read several posts about bbPress HTTPS login from this forum, but could not find any solution.
Any help will be appreciated.
What happened to it? I found the WordPress theme and liked it but I can’t find the matching forum theme now because bbShowcase was shut down. Does anybody still have the original zip file? I also looked through this topic but had no luck.
Sorry to sound impatient, but I’ve had my forums on hold for months betting that some of the little bugs would get worked out and it seems like things are just a big stall at the moment. I can’t really tell from the dev sites if anything’s going on. Does anyone have a real idea as to when bbpress (plugin or not) is going to make its next phase? I’m kinda tempted to go back to the drawing board with phpbb or something like that unless something is imminent…
