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Will the WP plugin “Google XML Sitemaps” work with bbPress? If not, do we have an equivalent? I searched for “google” in the plugins and didn’t see anything too promising.

Thanks.

Hi –

After a few false starts, I got the alpha version of bbPress installed and sharing user data with WP (yay!), so now, I’m thinking about making bbPress look more seamless.

Specifically, I’m thinking of stuff like:

– adding a banner to bbpress like that of my WP

– changing the logo (I know, this should be simple)

– containing bb within the main area of my WP pages

– adding a navigation button to return to my WP pages from bb

Reading through the sticky on the subject has me wondering whether I should bother to try to do any of this, or wait until the bb product is a bit more mature.

Any sage words of advice on what I should and shouldn’t try to tackle?

I recently upgraded my old 0.8.3.1 bbPress to version 0.9.0.2. For the most part, the upgrade went great!

However, during the upgrade, all forum slugs were “recalculated”, so if I had manually edited my forum slugs, they were overwritten.

By way of example, say I ran this forum and I created a forum named “Super Troubleshooting”. If I had activated pretty permalinks, the URL for this forum would be: https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/super-troubleshooting.

Then, say I manually went in and changed the “forum slug” to be “superdupertroubleshooting” (for SEO reasons). So now the URL for that forum would be: https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/superdupertroubleshooting.

When I upgraded from 0.8.3.1 to 0.9.0.1, the upgrade function “recalculated” the forum slug using the forum title. In our example, this would change the URL from https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/superdupertroubleshooting to https://bbpress.org/forums/forum/super-troubleshooting.

I looked in the code, and this is all controlled by function bb_upgrade_process_all_slugs() in /bb-admin/upgrade-functions.php. Reading the code, it seems like the code also “recalculates” slugs for topics too!

“Recalculating” the slugs for all forums and topics seems like an odd design decision to me, because it changes URLs so the webmaster loses Google juice. I was going to create a ticket in Trac, but maybe I’m missing something. Is there a good reason to “recalculate” slugs when upgrading a bbPress installation?

I am a budding new Internet Marketer and I have no money.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t help… My forum is just in it’s infancy but you can see how I am helping bbPress.org round up some money to continue it’s work.

http://forums.seocoalition.com

I have included in the left hand side a ChipIn.com widget. I will try to raise $500 dollars for bbPress.org and see if we can get _ck_ some extra cash to keep the process going.

I don’t know if this is going to work but I am willing to try. I think that anyone using this free product should give something back.

I am putting the code for the widget below and you can use it on your sites or what have you to help out. If you need different sizes, let me know and I will see what I can do.

<object width="120" height="240"><param name="movie" value="http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/c7cf54857a3ba44d"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="event_title" value="Help%20bbPress"></param><param name="event_desc" value="bbPress.org%20is%20powered%20by%20the%20same%20poeple%20that%20power%20WordPress.%20The%20forum%20you%20see%20here%20is%20powered%20by%20bbPress.%20They%20need%20your%20help%2C%20please%20give%21"></param><embed src="http://widget.chipin.com/widget/id/c7cf54857a3ba44d" flashVars="event_title=Help%20bbPress&event_desc=bbPress.org%20is%20powered%20by%20the%20same%20poeple%20that%20power%20WordPress.%20The%20forum%20you%20see%20here%20is%20powered%20by%20bbPress.%20They%20need%20your%20help%2C%20please%20give%21" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent" width="120" height="240"></embed></object>

Alternatively if you don’t trust me, go to ChipIn.com and create your own widget to help out the cause!

I have been dowloading the plugins from the forums and now in several readme.txt files the creators keep refering to the plugins location at /my-plugins/.

Now in WP I know that plugins is located under w-content/plugins/ so I had assumed that bb-plugins was the correct folder.

is /my-plugins/ just a verbage for a standard plugin folder or do you have to create a new folder?

PS I know what they say about assuming… makes an ASS out of U and ME.

I am hoping that someone can help me understand why www.typhoonswimming.com/forum is working for the main page, but am getting an error when I dig deeper? I am feeling ridiculously dumb on this one so I apologize if it is an easy fix!

Hi –

I’m trying to install the current alpha version of bbpress. In step 2, I’ve selection the option to add cookie integration settings (since I’d like shared login with my WordPress site (version 2.6.3 of WP).

The installer is asking for “salts”; the explanation is:

<i>This must match the value of the WordPress setting named “auth_salt” in your WordPress installation. Look for the option labeled “auth_salt” in this WordPress admin page. If you leave this blank the installer will try to fetch the value based on your WordPress database integration settings.</i>

I have no idea what this auth_salt is. A text search of my WP directory reveals a reference to it, but no definition. And, I’m not sure what the directions mean by “WordPress admin page,” but I can’t find anything in there about this either.

Any idea what’s going on? Thanks.

how can I make my posts in my blog available in case anyone will search about any title in google

also do you know any blog designer that can help me I kept searching I need to do some modifications so do you know anyone who can help me and I am ready to pay for this service, because I need to do some important modifications

Hi –

I just attempted to install a .9 release of bbPress, then realized it’s not compatible with WP 2.6.3. How can I uninstall bbPress before giving the alpha version a go?

Thanks…

Hi, I have a weblog that powered by wordpress in these address http://www.caspiantools.ir, add I install bbpress in these address http://www.forum.caspiantools.ir successfully. Can you see me a plugin that show my 10 or 15 last forum posts in side bar on my blog theme? I use Persian language in my forum, and it must to be right to left, what can I do for RTLing?