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Force change password 1st login

Published on January 20th, 2009 by

How can I force a user to change their password at first login?

How to stop sessions being killed

Published on January 20th, 2009 by Ryan Hellyer

Hi,

I’m trying to setup a demo forum of bbPress (Version 1.0-alpha-6 ) to allow users to create their own bbPress themes. The template generator itself is powered by WordPress, and bar the occasional bug seems to work fine. The bbPress themes it exports seem to be working okay too bar a few code gremlins which I intend to iron out once I get the system up and running.

What should happen, is that you should be able to go to the following URL, make as many modifications as you want, click submit and bam! a new design for your bbPress forum should be shown. However for some reason, whenever the bbPress forum loads it kills the session variables which store all of the data relating to the current design :(

http://pixopoint.com/demo/bbpress/?generator=on

When you go back to the WordPress version (http://pixopoint.com/?generator=on) the original design is gone and it reverts back to the default :(

Any ideas?

As a temporary measure I plan to create a WordPress Page with the same HTML as would be in the bbPress forum so that users can see their design as they’re modifying it. But it would make a lot more sense if they could modify it within a real live bbPress forum.

Adding a right sidebar to kakumei

Published on January 20th, 2009 by mzimmers

Hi, all –

I’d like to look into adding a right sidebar to my kakumei. My intent is to just copy the right sidebar code from my blog, but…it’s not clear where I should insert it. The taxonomy of kakumei appears somewhat different than the theme for my blog, in that there’s no “index.php” that does all the includes for the pieces of the page.

Can someone point me in the right direction? I don’t imagine that I’m the first one to tackle this.

Oh, and…thanks to all those who created and manage bbpress. This is quite a nice tool.

Why was the bbpress wikipedia page deleted?

Published on January 20th, 2009 by eclipsenow

Did something political happen? Why was the bbpress wiki deleted? That’s not fair! I use wikipedia all the time, and was hoping to get some user and community stats on bbpress. I’m thinking of converting, but am scared. ;-)

No Setting Screen

Published on January 19th, 2009 by karlheinz

Hi,

i have installes the latest 1.0-Alpha-6. When i login as admin i cannot see the Settings Menu. I have full administrator rights.

All is see is Users and Manage

Any idea?

Best,

Karl

How do I exclude a forum category from latest discussions?

Published on January 19th, 2009 by deadlyhifi

I managed to do it with

if ($topic->forum_id != 3)

but then it’s still counting them as part of the loop therefore it ends up with ‘Number of Discussions to display – Number of discussions in that forum’.

How can I do it so it just leaves them out but leaves the latest discussion length intact?

Installation involves database management and I suck at that

Published on January 19th, 2009 by eclipsenow

The “quick guide” to installation does not have a video on how to use Cpanel or phpmyadmin or whatever on how to set up the database.

It just says the following, but where’s the advice on how to run all the back-end server stuff? I’ve never done server tutorials in my life. Getting instructions that SOUND easy but then turn out to be a nightmare really stresses me.

With Joomla’s Agora, this is what you do. 1. Fantastico does quick 40 second install of Joomla. 2. Upload Agora forum into Joomla’s extensions… no database stuff at all. Done. Begin CSS and template modification.

1. Download bbPress from the download page

2. Upload the uncompressed files your server

3. Optionally upload language files to bb-includes/languages/ – You will have to create this directory

4. Visit the intended URL of the bbPress site

5. You will be greeted with the bbPress installer

6. Follow the instructions in the installer

7. Visit “Settings” in the admin area to customise your installation

8. If you have any questions, ask in the forums

How long?

Published on January 19th, 2009 by

Out of curiosity, I’m waiting for the bbpress version 1 to start a forum since late November 2008. Is there anyone have any idea how long or when (ETA on release) Satiable Version 1 would be available?

or

Do you think it’s Best to start off with 0.9x?

Thanks

j

Can’t Update Profiles

Published on January 18th, 2009 by

I already read several threads on this, but still can’t figure out a solution. I’m attempting to do several things, none of which are working:

1) Add a website to a profile

2) Change user status (to moderator from inactive)

3) Change details

I’m using Firefox, but I have tried in IE7 with similar results. Any ideas? Somebody help me out here.

my site is http://www.revolutionbrigade.com/forum

It’s got religious content, so if anybody is offended by Christian stuff please avoid it.

Confused about filter bb_current_user_can

Published on January 18th, 2009 by Burt Adsit

It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last. I’m confused.

I’m trying to add forum moderator capabilities to the currently logged in user in a specific forum only. I don’t want to give them the moderator role. I just need to give them additional caps in a specific forum. When the user is tooling ’round in the forum I want to give mod rights to, assign them dynamicly. When they are no longer in that forum, take ’em away on the fly.

If found a couple of things to guide me. One was forum-moderators.php by Aditya Naik. This give specific users a forum moderator role thru the bbpress backend. That stores the rights to those caps as a meta value and assigns them when the user is on the forums. Great. There’s a fn in there that determines what forum the user is in and responds to a filter called ‘bb_user_has_cap’. I can’t find neither hide nor hair of using this filter anywhere except in a couple of plugins by sambauers. http-authentication and ldap-authentication.

So, I found the filter ‘bb_current_user_can’. It looks to me like everyone on the planet is using this filter. The comment in the fn bb_currrent_user_can() says use ‘bb_user_has_cap’. Well, nothing is using that as far as I can determine.

Anyway, my confusion comes in when I try to implement my filter. I’m gonna give the user the following caps:

$forum_mod_caps = array(
'manage_topics' ,
'edit_closed' ,
'edit_deleted' ,
'browse_deleted' ,
'edit_others_tags' ,
'edit_others_topics' ,
'manage_posts' ,
'ignore_edit_lock' ,
'edit_others_posts'
);

For me, reading the code for bb_current_user_can() is like the time I got curious about implementing tcp/ip for the Atari ST. I got a headache. My skill level is not up to understanding what is going on down there. Some guidance would be appreciated.

We have 3 args to this filter:

$retvalue, $capability, $args

Looks like $retvalue is being passed up the filter chain. If I don’t want to touch the call I just pass $retvalue back.

I was digging ’round and looks like $capabilities is the cap being queried. $args is specific to each call and may vary depending on what cap is queried.

These are questions in case you haven’t noticed. My understanding breaks down when I get to what I’m being passed and what I’m supposed to do with them other than return ‘true’ if it’s a cap I want to let the user have.

I should just return true if it’s a cap I want the user to have. It’s up to me to determine if it’s appropriate at their location in the universe. Yes?

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