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forum url:

http://www.GasZappers.com/forums/

The Gas Zappers forum documents the entire creation process from brainstorming to finishing of the GAS ZAPPERS- an online game about Climate Change/ Global Warming. You can check out the site at http://www.GasZappers.com

We want to make this game totally open-source- not only technically but also creatively. We need your input to make this game totally kick ass. This is a communal project and thats the sole purpose why this forum exists. So please go nuts with your creativity! You can basically post any ideas here! Open dialogues close misconceptions

GAS ZAPPERS is NOT-FOR-PROFIT. We want to make a game that will help people understand the big freaking fuss of Global Warming, and in the same time, create a game that is action-packed, challenging and fun to play with.

Alrighty, Thnx for checkin. Peace Yo!

Kenneth Hung

Can you install BBPress using an IP Subdomain (example: http://111.111.111~directory)? I’m working for a client who wants to get their new site set-up before switching over their existing domain name. I’m wondering: can I install BBPress using the IP address or should I wait for the domain transfer? If I can install now using the IP subdomain, what are the implications for the install when the domain transfer goes through?

I’m planning a BBPress integration with WordPress, which I have installed and customized nicely and don’t want to mess-up at this point or else I’d go for it with BBPress and see what happens. Does anyone have experience with this issue they can share?

Thanks.

Hi,

Does somebody know a way to work with a single forum and have the page-function working on the frontpage?

I need a way without redirecting to forum.php

Hello!

I’ve been working on my first plugin for a while, and I don’t even know if it’s useful! It deals with users with websites to promote for fun or for profit. The concept is this: users can specify tags in their profiles possibly related to their website. Then, in the topics they start, everytime another user use one of those words in their posts inside the topic, these words are wrapped in a link to the topic poster’s website.

Am I clear? Now you too can have annoying intellitxt’s on your forums without the thousands of visitors! And you’re not referring to big advertising companies but to your dudes with a web presence. It is a give and take thing. Cause you might raise their pagerank like this, but they have to come to your site and post good topics and take care the discussion goes along etc. It might even be a socializing exercise in tricking the posters to type the tags you’ve specified! Cause they are not visible to the public.

And here comes the reality check part. I’ve been just “hacking around ” with this thing and I’m aware things should look prittier than they are now. First things first, it requires the ra_custom_profile_keys plugin as an easy way to add a field in the registration. Which is not a so bad thing after all. Good plugin. But more importantly I needed a way to hide the tags field in the profile view and I only managed to do it by modifying one of the template-functions, which I know is absolutely an ugly thing to do, even if I just added a line.

It’s all in the code

and you can see it in function here. (I was hunting for a marketable domain name, sue me).

Btw, if you happen to try it out and things go wrong… I really hope I could help you about it but don’t hold your breath.

Ciao

Hello!

I use currently vBulletin 3.6.5 and would like to switch to bbpress. 2 questions:

1) Is there an importer? For threads / forums / users?

2) How does it look like with performance? Is it comparable? Especially with larger boards (300-500 users online)?

Thanks!!!

“bbPress will not have access to WordPress’ functions unless you manually tell bbPress to load WordPress first. In order to do that, you need to put require_once(‘path/to/wp-blog-header.php’); in bbPress’ config.php (wp-blog-header is in the same directory as WordPress’ wp-config.php file).”

Just uploaded bbpress and tried doing this on http://www.ceciliabjerling.com/wordpress/forum/

You can see the error message there and perhaps tell me what I’m doing wrong.

I changed

require_once( BBPATH . ‘bb-settings.php’ );

to the path where my wp-blog-header.php is

On my forum I have pretty permalinks working but for profile pages I’d like to use the username rather then the user id. For example I’d like the url to be example.com/profile/username instead of example.com/profile/1.

I’ve looked around and tried to do this myself with no success (my php knowledge is pretty minimal). I could really use the help. Thanks.

Hello, trying to get a plugin working hammering here and there… what is the right way to refer to the current topic? I’ve seen around declaring global $topic and then using it as $topic->topic_id but no go. Any help? I’m trying to inizialize a variable with the id of the topic poster.

Anyone see the CLI theme for WordPress?

testing here: http://fearandloathingbbs.com/wordpress/

My dream would be a theme like this for bbpress that would turn it into an old school BBS a la WWIV, VBBS or teleguard. I’ve been trying, but I suck.

No really. how cool could that be?

Hi there,

nowadays everybody is using twitter for everything – so why don’t use it for something useful?

I think it would be nice to announce a new topic to a specific twitter-account so that people will know when to visit the forums.