bbpress customization questions

hi there.

– installed and integrated bbpress with my wpmu installation

– installed the bbpress edublogs theme, will need to further customize it.

– my integration worked perfect, except for one thing: bbpress sees all my registered users, but claims they have no role. I’d realy hate to have to manually edit all users and give them memebr privileges. I googled around and all I found was this advice to isnert these lines:

$bb->custom_user_table = ‘wp_users’;

$bb->custom_user_meta_table = ‘wp_usermeta’;

into bb-config.php – can anyone confirm? has anyone got an idea what could have gone wrong?

– what plugins are you guys using with your bbpress isntallations? I wouldn’t want to go through all of them and test which ones are working, so just share which ones work for you

– what are you using for spam protection? or is it enough to only allow loggd in users to post?

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    one more question:

    my customization of the edublogs bbpress template is progresssing, but I was wondering how to enable the mu-admin bar http://wpmudev.org/project/MU-Admin-Bar on forum pages.

    The header.php contains <?php wp_head(); ?> but it doesn’t seem to trigger. in my bb-config.php I have

    if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’:wink: & !defined(‘XMLRPC_REQUEST’:wink:) {

    define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, false);

    include_once( ‘/var/www/clients/client1/web9/web/wp-blog-header.php’ );

    header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK":wink:;

    header("Status: 200 All rosy":wink:;

    }

  • Andrew
    • Champion of Loops

    Hiya,

    I’d realy hate to have to manually edit all users and give them memebr privileges

    Did you setup the role mapping in the bbPress admin panel. It should be on the WP integration page.

    what plugins are you guys using with your bbpress isntallations?

    What additional functionality do you need?

    what are you using for spam protection? or is it enough to only allow loggd in users to post?

    For the most part there isn’t a great need for spam protection. Other than the wp.org forums I really haven’t seen a bbPress install get a ton of spam.

    but I was wondering how to enable the mu-admin bar http://wpmudev.org/project/MU-Admin-Bar on forum pages.

    You could try editing the plugin and swaping out the WP/WPMU hooks for the bbPress equivalents. Other than that though I’m afraid we can’t help much with that one. You may want to contact the developer and see if they’ll add bbPress compatibility.

    Thanks,

    Andrew

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    Hiya,

    I’d realy hate to have to manually edit all users and give them memebr privileges

    Did you setup the role mapping in the bbPress admin panel. It should be on the WP integration page.

    Yes the role mapping is set up, but that is only for new members and for those it works.

    What additional functionality do you need?

    Ok, I had that coming :slight_frown: will wait for plugins to become 1.0 compatible anyway…

    but I was wondering how to enable the mu-admin bar http://wpmudev.org/project/MU-Admin-Bar on forum pages.

    You could try editing the plugin and swaping out the WP/WPMU hooks for the bbPress equivalents. Other than that though I’m afraid we can’t help much with that one. You may want to contact the developer and see if they’ll add bbPress compatibility.

    Ok, thx. the thing is: wp_head doesn’t seem to be firing, but I manually inserted the functions that should have been triggered by the wp_head part into the right spots in my template and all is good…

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    one more:

    how can I disable registration with bbpress?

    I am using it as a forum for my wpmu install, so I only want people who have a blog with me able to log in, I don’t want people signing up with bbpress.

    anyway, being deep integrated, what would happen if someone signs up on bbpress? would he get any rights on wpmu? subscriber to main blog? anything?

  • Ovidiu
    • Code Wrangler

    :slight_smile: yeah the format you gave, works fine indeed, but the links I gave are auto generated by bbpress.

    test it live here, scroll up on this page, underneath the topic title you’ll find the rss feed for all topics and it has the ‘topic’ portion in the url…

    maybe I should report this on the bbpress forums too?